Challenge:
Spike isn't just any vampire. He's also Angelus and Darla's son. But that's another story. This is the fallout after Buffy & the Scoobies find out. 

Must Haves:
1. Eventual Spike/Buffy.
2. The Fang Gang also discovering this long-held secret.
3. Giles and Wesley discovering a prophecy about a human child born to two vampires.

The order these appear and the rest of it, it's up to you. This can be any season but if you can somehow work it into BtVS Season 5 or 6, it'd be awesome.

Have fun!
 

Challenge: Since before he was turned, Spike has spoken to a Higher Power. Then, one night, this Higher Power makes him an offer he can't refuse.

These are the only rules
1. Spike must be and must remain a vampire
2. Spike/Buffy

The offer can be anything you wish and it can be offered whenever you wish. Or you can pick any of these:

A. Time-Travel AU/AR
               1  Spike is given the chance to fix everything. The catch is - no one except Buffy and/or Giles can see him.
               2. Spike is offered the chance to save Buffy's life by giving up his own life or killing Glory.
               - if he kills Glory, he has to do it by drinking her blood, which has to change him in some way.
               - if he chooses to give up his own life, Spike, like Buffy, ends up in Heaven only to have Willow bring him back from the dead.
               3. Spike is sent back to the night he rose as a vampire to stop Angelus from ever being cursed with a soul and preventing Buffy from ever falling in love with Angel.
B. AU/AR (no time travel)
            Spike is given the offer to become a Higher Power (yet still a vampire - think vampire-god) ....
             1. Just as he walks into the bathroom during Seeing Red.
             2. Just as he starts running up the stairs of Glory's Tower
             3. In the alleyway behind the Bronze after Buffy tells him he's beneath her.
             4. The first time he sees Buffy dancing at the Bronze
             5. After Buffy leaves him in the alley during Dead Things
             6. After Buffy and Riley blow up his crypt.
             7. After Buffy dies but before Willow brings her back from the dead.

You don't have to pick any of the options given. But if you wish to combine or mix these options up with your own ideas, feel free.

Enjoy!
 

This would be an AU/AR season 2 story. The challenge is - instead of Drusilla being sick, it's Spike who's dying.

Must Haves:
1. Spike/Buffy!!!
2. Angel caring about Spike and not being a complete bastard.
3. Drusilla coming to Angel and Buffy to tell them about Spike's illness. She has to mention that he was made for Buffy.
4. No immediate falling into each other's arms and bed for Spike and Buffy. Buffy can love the idea of having someone made for her, meant for only her, but she can't fall into his arms and declare her undying love. I want to see some angst over it.
5. Spike slowly getting sicker until it's obvious he's dying.

Can Have:
1. Joyce/Spike friendship.
2. Dawn 
3. Angel losing his soul and/or choosing to sacrifice Drusilla to save Spike's life. This should have unexpected consequences.
4. Souled!Spike (I've chosen to keep an open mind. Souled Spike wasn't really all that different from UnSouled Spike except he was a little less ambiguous  - and I don't think Spike really notices his soul very much).
5. A 'mating' claim between Spike and Buffy and a familial claim between them and Angel.
6. The rest of Spike and Angel's vampire family show up. (Penn, Lawson, James & Elizabeth, and anyone else you wish to make up) to try and save Spike. I would, as an aside, love to see Anyanka/Penn/Xander pairing, but it is by no means necessary.
7. Spike dying at the end. (And, as extra option, evolving into one of the Powers that Be).

Sick and tired of getting beaten on by Buffy (despite recently discovering he loves her) and the scoobies after getting smacked around again after trying to help them, Spike gets a spell done on himself so that any human that attempts to attack him will suffer the same pain he feels when the chip goes off. He does this mainly to try and teach Buffy to treat him decently (which she does eventually). The scoobies try and have the spell reversed despite Anya telling them that only the caster or the person who requested the spell can have this spell reversed.

Glory can make an appearance but that's not required.

Should take place pretty soon after Out of My Mind.

Must have's:

Dawn & Joyce exempted from the spell (maybe also Tara) as Spike likes and trusts them. (Maybe demonstrate this by having Dawn lightly smack Spike in front of the others without anything happening.)

Buffy returning home to find Spike with Joyce & Dawn and helping Dawn with her history homework.

Buffy punches Spike and discovers the spell that sends excruciating pain through her head and sends her to her knees. Spike tells her what he's done and he's not going to be her punching bag anymore.

Riley (or Xander or both) attempting to attack Spike and getting zapped by pain.

Riley leaving after Buffy breaks up with him after discovering he's been helping the army keep tabs on her and her family. (Spike can be her unknown informant.)

Buffy standing up for herself against her friends on her decision to date Spike.

Spuffy ending with Buffy, Anya, and Willow getting excluded from the spell as well. Xander and Giles I'll leave up to you.

Possibilities:-

Watchers Council pay a visit and some of them attempt to attack Spike.

Anya congratulating Spike on his inventive method of vengeance in front of everyone and saying that if she was still a Vengeance Demon she would have made an exception in his case to grant his wish.

Can't have's:-

Buffy/other love scenes or Spike/other love scenes.

Excessively out of character behaviour by the scoobies.

I don't want to restrict creativity so the challenge is pretty simple. Spike/Buffy (obviously) - that's a must. You can include Dawn if you wish (though how is up to you). SO - the challenge:

Spike is the Key. Now what?

Must Have:
 

1. Spike's original history as a vampire. Why or how - make it interesting.
2. Drusilla as a vessel for the Powers that Be.

Can Have (aka suggestions):

1. If you can make it so that Dawn was William's twin sister and a slayer before he turned her. Just remember that if Spike's the Key - William was the Key too, and sent to the Slayer (Dawn) for protection.
2. Drusilla was a potential who was next in line for the Slayer line but was turned before she could become the Slayer.

You don't have to do the can haves. In fact, I'd rather if you didn't - come up with something cleverer than those and I'll be happy.

While I realize it's tempting to do this one as a crack!fic (and I'll take one of those, too, if anyone's willing) I'd rather if it were a semi-serious story. Don't lose the humor - I like being amused. :)
 

Willow’s Secret Challenge

Several years past Chosen and NFA, Buffy is still not over Spike. Not knowing he’s actually alive, she’s just trying to get through each day with the weight of regrets about their relationship and the final loss. 

However, Willow has known Spike was alive for quite some time, and instead of telling her friend, moved away and lost contact, leaving Buffy feeling betrayed.

This is where things get interesting. Willow knows about Spike because Andrew told her. But the two of them are also keeping another (even bigger, maybe) secret, which came from the Powers That Be with strict instructions not to tell Buffy. 

Up to you what the secret is. I’ve had an idea myself, but I’m saving it for my own version. It has to be something to do with Buffy and Spike’s relationship. Come up with a plausible reason why Buffy can’t know.

Have Willow, Buffy, Andrew and Spike all as main characters.

Must have:

- Spike and Buffy meeting again, and it turning out W/A knew all along.

- Andrew/Willow pairing. Don’t be put off, it doesn’t necessarily have to be romantic, but at the least a deep friendship that’s come through sharing this secret together.

- Xander and Spike at one point united in their joint fury at Willow.

- Buffy having some kind of breakdown, either post Spike’s death or post Willow’s ‘betrayal’.

- Dawn older and more mature, but still squealing like an exited little sis when she sees Spike :)

- Cleveland Hellmouth. Or a Hellmouth somewhere else, but still set somewhere nice and Hellmouthy.

- Happy ending.

Can’t have:

- Willow bashing. She’s one of the good guys, after all.

- Explicit sexual stuff. Keep it PG-13 or below. R-rated is fine for other stuff, but no NC-17 fics please.

- Willow can’t tell the secret. They have to find out some other way.

- Too much Xander vs Spike. Xander’s more mature, and he’s also seen how much Buffy has missed Spike. He doesn’t have to like him, but be grateful that she’s happier.

- Angel. Not in this fic. He’s off saving the world somewhere else.

- Comic verse. It’s not fair because I haven’t read them yet, and I want to read any of these fics. Besides, I have no idea how this idea would fit.

Can have:

- Giles back being the father-figure to Buffy

- Buffy and/or Dawn slapping Spike for being such an idiot, followed by tearful hug.

- A prophecy. Always fun to write.

Must haves:

1. Buffy is beating Spike outside the police station and gets caught by Dawn & Tara.

2. Dawn is furious at what Buffy has done with Tara being greatly disturbed & upset.

3. Spike insisting Buffy's not at fault and tries to protect her by claiming he did something wrong. Dawn & Tara don't believe him and insist on taking him back to Buffy's. Buffy follows them, guilt-striken by her sister's and Tara's words, therefore not hearing Katrina's name mentioned by the police.

4. Katrina's name is issued in the newspaper and the group realise the Trio are behind the murder.

5. Trio get taken out as the group finally mention Warren's name to Spike and he tells them where to find him as he visited Warren's lair in Smashed.

6. Tara still reveals that Buffy didn't come back wrong & Buffy must face the consequences of her actions.

7. Buffy and Spike re-learn how to be friends whilst he is recovering in Buffy's house as Tara and Dawn won't leave him alone with Buffy.

8. Buffy asks Spike for forgiveness.

9. Xander gradually befriends Spike.

10. Buffy and Spike slowly restart their relationship, with no violence involved.

11. Someone lets slip to Angel that Spike is living with Buffy and he pays a visit (can bring some of his group along if you wish), catching them kissing on the back porch. Altercation follows (physical/verbal or both) with Buffy choosing Spike in front of everyone. Angel can make some remark about preferring Spike over Riley.

12. Happy Spuffy ending (of course) with Buffy saying "I love you" to Spike (and he accepting this, no Chosen responses please!!).

13. (this can be added in somewhere if you like) Spike gets his chip out, either through magic or it malfunctions early and Buffy gets the army in to remove it to show she does trust Spike.

CAN'T HAVE:

1. Severe out of character behaviour. Try to keep them as much in character as possible.

2. Buffy kissing Angel on the lips. BIG NO on this one!!

3. Evil Xander or Willow (i.e. scheming to make Spike disappear or abusing Spike in secret).

That's about it. I hope this interests someone out there. Good luck and I look forward to reading any stories that arise. Also feel free to use any ideas mentioned here in your own stories if you like them and you don't want to write one that uses all the challenge requirements.

Sarah

Sneaky Spike Challenge

Scenario:

The local vamps warned Spike that Buffy was beyond any other Slayer, and that it would take more than confrontation to kill her. Therefore, he decides to take a more subtle, planned tactic, and instead woos her. In the process, of course, he falls in love with her.

Must Have:

Spike thinking carefully about and taking steps to ensure Buffy doesn’t figure out he’s a vampire, e.g. protecting himself from the sun mystically.

Buffy finding out, either by accident or because he chooses to tell her the truth.

Drusilla playing a role.

A fight between Angel and Spike.

Spike/Buffy happy ending, obviously.

And some kind of complication, mystical or otherwise, that gets in the way of the easy ending and is your opportunity to make the story yours.

Giles being protective, but glad that she’s fallen for a human this time (until of course it’s revealed Spike is actually a vampire).

Can’t Have:

Any threesomes (or more), including S/B/A or D.

Buffy sleeping with Spike too early – this is second series, so she hasn’t even done it with Angel yet.

Too much Angel bashing – he’s allowed to be jealous and get in the way, so long as he’s not portrayed as some psycho who doesn’t care about Buffy’s own feelings. In the end he has to accept (however unwillingly) that it’s Spike she wants. (Unless, of course, the complication is that he becomes Angelus, in which case make him as psycho as you please.)

No graphic sexual content – keep it PG-13 or under unless it needs a higher rating for violence, sensitive topics etc.

Giles and Xander are allowed to be riled about Buffy seeing Spike, but don’t go over the top.

Repeats of series six.

Really naïve Buffy who never suspects Spike even if she never sees him in sunlight.

Can Have:

Angel becoming Angelus.

Joyce and Spike close friendship.

Please contact me if you wish to have a go, I would really like to read any responses.

“I wish we didn’t love them anymore”

So Spike wishes to Anya during the pity party during Entropy. Anya, being the good little vengeance demon that she is, grants the wish, making Spike and Anya fall out of love with Buffy and Xander (respectively)…and Xander and Buffy are not going to take it well.

Must Have

1. Though Spike has no problem calling Buffy out on her behaviour and while he won’t take it, he doesn’t outright hate her. In fact, make him be fairly friendly to her when she’s not being a bitch.
2. Anya does the same to Xander
3.  Since neither of them feel the need to bow down to the wishes of their partners, both Spike and Anya are more forceful about the way they’re treated within the Scoobies as a whole.
4. Buffy realizing that she does, after all, have feelings for Spike. Having him fall out of love with her is a wake up call, but now it’s up HER to try and woo Spike.
5. Supportive Scoobies!
6. Happy & healthy Spuffy ending!

Can Have

1. Spike/Anya starting something up (to what extent is up to you)- what better way for to Buffy to get out of denial than jealously?

2.Some Spike/Dawn friendship time, since season six didn’t have enough of it.

3. Xander and Anya can work things out and get back together (though, keep her a vengeance demon- she rocks that way).

Longer fic. Slow developing relationship.

Either in S6 or during the five months between S5 and S6, Dawn somehow travels back in time. She winds up in mid-S2 (so Angelus is already on the loose), when she doesn’t exist and no-one has any memory of her. Unable to find a way back home without some help, she goes to the Scoobies and… embellishes her story a little in order to get their help.

She’s Buffy’s daughter, from the future – because that’s more believable than “I’m your fourteen-year-old sister, but I don’t exist for another three years because I’m not really your sister, I’m a mystical Key made of swirly green energy”, now isn’t it?

Of course, Dawn’s not stupid. The way she sees it, she has a chance to change the future for the better. Fix things. And one of the things she’s planning on doing is making her sister happy – by setting her up with the guy she knows loves Buffy more than unlife itself. Of course, this is S2!Spike and S2!Buffy, so we’re talking some pretty explosive reactions when she claims that she’s Buffy and SPIKE’S future daughter.

Spike has to find out somehow (that Dawn is his “daughter”), and he has to believe it, too – maybe Spike made some kind of protective claim on Dawn in the future, so his vamp senses register her as “family”? Regardless, he’s got a daughter. He’s amazed, stunned, probably a little wigged because of who the mother is, but he wants to be a part of her life, even if he has no idea how to be a father.

There must be at least one father-daughter bonding date involving ice-cream and a serious conversation.

Spike and Buffy develop a kind of “we’re her parents, we have to get along” relationship. Then, slowly, as they spend more time together, as Buffy sees more and more of Spike-the-father and Spike-who-isn’t-determined-to-kill-her, trust and camaraderie builds. Slow burn/building relationship! Keep in mind this is S2 and Buffy’s still in love with Angel (or thinks she is, if that’s how you see it)!

Go nuts. Do what you want. It’ll probably have to be a longer fic, but it’s all up to you. Just stick to the basic idea. Also, future!Spike and/or future!Buffy turning up to retrieve Dawn and finding out what she’s told their past selves is optional. Maybe Dawn arriving in the past created a separate timeline instead of changing the future? All up to you!

My one pretty-pretty-pleaaaase is that Dawn is threatened/hurt/kidnapped by Angelus and Buffy and Spike go on a warpath about it. I want Spuffy teamwork and an alliance. Whether Angelus winds up staked is up to you – maybe Dawn tells them about the re-ensoulment spell? I want furious-master-vampire!Spike and Slayer-mode!Buffy joining forces because someone’s threatened their offspring - and doing something about it, come hell or highwater.

What if Angel never made that deal with Wolfram & Heart, and thus never got that amulet to give to Buffy at the Hellmouth?

That question popped into my head last night, and since I don’t really think I could do the idea justice, I’m putting it out to you guys. Basically, Buffy & Co lose, and The First and the Ubervamps take over the world. Buffy and Spike survive, and whoever else you want, and why they survive is up to you. So, the challenge is Spike and Buffy in this post- apocalyptic world. Do they keep fighting? Go into hiding? Something else?

Post Chosen/NFA Challenge

Title: Third time’s the charm.

Background:

We’re waaaaay into the future (at least 100 years)

Buffy’s ‘bright idea’ of Calling all the Potentials to be Slayers has had an unfortunate side-effect of bringing an end to the Slayer line. Slayers can’t have children after they’re Called (for the purposes of this fic, Nikki Wood had Robin while she was still only a Potential) and the only women strong enough to bear the baby girls who can become Slayers are Potentials who were never Chosen themselves – explains Joyce’s fierce protective streak and her handiness with that axe of hers….

After Willow’s spell, every Potential gets called as soon as they reach puberty so there are no new uncalled Potentials maturing to bear the next generation. It’s only a matter of time before the last Potential gets called and then when she dies – no more Slayers.

When this happens, Angel & Spike work with the New Council of Watchers to hold back the Tide of Evil until Angel shanshues – ages – dies, then Spike fights on, largely alone, completely trusted and totally relied upon by the New Council.

Until the prophecy is discovered. A new Big Bad is coming and only The Slayer can defeat it.

For years the New Council has been trying and failing to revive the line so they decide they need an experienced Slayer to fill the gap and to be on hand to fulfil the prophecy until they can finally figure it out. Much against Spike’s forcefully expressed wishes when the idea is first proposed, the New Council secretly decide to resurrect Buffy – the Greatest Slayer in History – and when they succeed they appoint an astonished and outraged Spike to be her Field Watcher as he’ll be the only living person with whom she’ll be familiar.

As the Council are unsure how much longer it’s going to take them to solve the problem of reviving the Slayer line, the spell to bring Buffy back again deliberately makes her immortal, something Buffy & Spike only discover some time later.

The characteristics of the Future Society, how/when Buffy died again, the fates of Dawn, Giles and the various Scoobies (and any descendents) since Sunnydale and the AI gang since NFA, the nature of the prophecy and the New Big Bad, all totally up to you – except PLEASE ignore the stupid comics (except the initial setting up of Slayer Central in Scotland and the part where it wasn’t Buffy but a decoy in Rome with the Immortal) as IMHO they have gone so way off the ethos of the Buffyverse they’re in a whole other dimension.

The only stipulation I have is that it ends up with a Happy (Immortal!) Spuffy Ending – the intensity and variety of drama, action, comedy, pathos, angst and/or romance etc. that lead up to that resolution, totally up to you.

Sorry, but it’s Yet Another Halloween Fic.

I want S2!Buffy to become her older self instead of the 1700’s girl – her PostChosen self. Buffy was stressing about how girls from “Angel’s time” were so pretty and not at all like her, but wasn’t the age difference also an issue? I seem to recall a certain souled vamp’ angsting over the “You’re sixteen, I’m two hundred and forty” deal. It’s not that big a leap for Buffy to, instead of wanting to be like a 1700s girl, want to be older/more mature/whatever for Angel.

It’s up to you whether PostChosen!Buffy leaves when the spell ends, or if she stays and changes the future, but… give our heroine some time with Spike.

Also, regardless of whether you get rid of PostChosen!Buffy when the spell breaks, memories would stay behind (at least for a little while. Remember Xander with his soldier memories?) so Buffy would have a chance to change the future. I don’t think she’d actually believe the memories until she’s shown some kind of proof (something happening that matches the memories), by which stage they’d be starting to fade – what she still remembers and what she’s forgotten is up to you.

How it happens is also up to you – did PostChosen!Buffy wish for a chance to change what happened? Maybe she did, and the Powers (or whoever grants the wish) set it up so that it’d happen this way – providing Ethan Rayne with some of future!Buffy’s clothes so that when he casts his chaos spell Buffy becomes her future self, making the change permanent or leaving residual memories, etc. 

If you can/desire:

* Spike and future!Buffy fighting, and future!Buffy thoroughly enjoying herself (laughing, knowing his techniques so well that it’s more a dance than a fight, etc)
* PC!Buffy making Angel promise not to have sex with her younger self, no matter what, in the hopes of avoiding the Angelus ordeal. Whether he keeps the promise or not is up to you.
* I'd prefer a longer fic, what with all the potential timeline changes, not just a oneshot or something. I wanna see how it affects canon.
* Please no Spike and Buffy jumping into bed together straight away. I mean, seriously. Make it believable.

After re-watching both ‘Smashed’ & ‘Wrecked’, I’m (not shockingly) in one of my anti-Buffy moods. All I could think during ‘Wrecked’ is how would you like being treated that way…and then this idea popped into my head.

There are a heck of a lot of time travel fics out there, and this is a twist on the whole idea. The whole thing starts off during Buffy’s uncaring, ice queen phase when dealing with the newly returned, souled Spike (think when she rather callously leaves him suffering in the basement despite knowing about the soul and the craziness). Somehow (vengeance wish, spell gone wrong, etc) Buffy gets sent back in time to season six…into Spike’s body, during one of Buffy’s ‘shining moments’ of the season (morning after ‘Wrecked’, beat down in ‘Dead Things’, breaking up in 'As You Were', take your pick-there are many to choose from).

Buffy get to see how she acted from the other side of the spectrum, and not only her behaviour towards Spike, but the others as well. She wants to get back to her own time and her own body, but since she’s Spike at the moment, no one is going to give her the time of day, let alone help (for whatever reason, she doesn’t want to say she’s future Buffy). In fact, I see a lot of ‘Get lost Spike, you’re not welcome here’s’ being expressed, probably a fair load of violence too. How she finally gets back is entirely up to you, but it’s not without a lot of pain to get there.

Musts:

Angst

Buffy horrified about the way she acted, thus taking real responsibility over her faults in the disaster that was the season six Spuffy relationship & getting past that ‘it’s all Spike’s fault’ mentality she seemed to sport.

Getting Spike out of that basement much sooner and helping take care of him/help him cope

Buffy apologizing to Spike, again with the owning up to the role she played

Buffy explaining some things to Dawn (how much is up to you) and thus letting the Spike/Dawn friendship be repaired.

Must Nots:

Don’t change things in the time line- all the events stay the same, and Buffy returns she gets back to the same ‘future’ as before.

Everything else is up to you. Have at it all!