Summary: Follows rewrites of seasons 4, 5, and 6 in which Buffy had been sent back in time post Chosen with the idea that she could do away with Glory (or Ben) before it got to the jumping off the tower point. The idea being that if she didn't die, and wasn't subsequently resurrected, the balance wouldn't be off and the First Evil would not become as powerful a threat as he had in her own time. Spike, meanwhile, once he'd become corporeal, was also sent back with the idea of preventing the same things. Neither knew about or was expecting the other, but once they were angrily facing each other in Season 4, they realized who they were and that they were there for the same reason.
Previous parts: I Would Still Have Loved You (season 4), All About the Mission (season 5), Almost Home (season 6), and now this one which will bring them back to where they came from. Time-wise, that is. What that world is going to be like now remains to be seen.  
Beta by all4spike

The third entry in the I Would Still Have Loved You series. Our time-traveling heroes are now in season six and working out how to deal with the events of that time.


For those who need a play list: OCs are Winston (sent back from the future after Buffy) who is a powerful magician, Max, their mysterious landlord who was Winston's teacher at one time and is a powerful sorcerer in his own right. Joyce is still around, thanks to Winston's abilities to destroy her tumor. Willow is still too full of herself and unpredictable. And Buffy and Spike are mated, the mutual claim having knocked off one Angel had put on an unconscious Buffy in season 3, but never told her about. She was a tad displeased and and they are not on good terms....

“Well," Spike told Buffy. "You didn’t seem real happy about finding Faith down here." Missing scene from Dirty Girls.

“Are you all right?” Spike asked.
“Perfectly normal,” Buffy said. “Spell’s all gone.”
“That wasn’t what I meant,” he said. “I meant... after what it made you.... After.”
Buffy and Spike talk just after the events of the episode Him.

Spike. Ensouled. Stuck in a basement. Alone. Scared. Mad. Tortured by guilt. “I don't have anywhere else to go.” Buffy already knows, that can't be true.

Spike and Buffy are being inventive: Buffy’s the head cheerleader, and William her seductive English tutor; Queen Fi pleasured by her enslaved eunuch; Will and Buff in an illicit tryst in a posh boarding school; the follower of Lucifer properly tormented for turning to the side of the devil. A lot of things can happen in five hours.
Starts fluffy, eventually gets kinda heavy, pretty much running the gamut of a lot of sexuality.

Ten years after their rush job of a wedding, Buffy and Spike try to find time to celebrate. It's harder than it sounds.

Semi-spicy domestic fluff. Contented Spike alert.

This is the next installment in the Ring On It series. Previous stories are With This Ring and Under My Skin. It's not necessary to read the previous installments, if you accept that things went AU from Chosen, and now Spike has a heartbeat.

To meet a prompt at sb_fag-ends - what if Spike had caught Buffy's eye in that club? (probably intended to be set in The Girl in Question, but I chose to set it in the Bronze season 2)  Not sure where this is going to go, if anywhere, but it could almost be a prequel for the Gentleman.... ficlets. Or, it could be the beginning of its own little Spuffy world...

ETA My apologies if your review got lost. I'd apparently posted twice (?) so I deleted the one I didn't know was  there.

This is how "Chosen" could have gone if Buffy made one slight change.

Buffy manages to choose a poem written by William for a class assignment, which leads to Spike finally confessing his feelings to her.

My other Seasonal Spuffy entry for this round:
A sequel to a short (6200+) off-canon Season Four fic – Even Demons Need Friends, but I don’t think you need to have read that story (although it’s kinda fun...). All you need to know is that this is a non-canon Season 5 in which Glory is there searching for her Key, Joyce is sick, Spike is unchipped and living in another city. At the end of the previous story, he’d asked Buffy to call him if she needed help.
They don’t have a relationship yet; they weren’t even much more than canon Season Four semi-enemies, with an unrecognized and unacknowledged sexual attraction, when Ethan’s spell to turn Giles into a Fyral demon wrought some important changes in a very short period of time. But not changes sufficient to make it likely that a slayer, with a human boyfriend and a firm belief in what’s right and acceptable, and an old vampire, who has just regained his ability to hunt and feed, are likely to see any kind of a future for them. In spite of some surprising revelations about how they may feel about each other.
You can assume that the rest of Season Four and some of Season Five have proceeded pretty much as in canon, but without Spike’s presence. That absence, and the reason for it, has changed things enough that I think it’s fair to call this an AU Season Five. Some things will be familiar, some things obviously will not, so don’t go looking for an identical timeline or identical events.

Takes place in the Bumpverse (Things That Go Bump in the Night), many years after all the other fics set in that verse. Spike and Buffy are still fighting the good fight, even though they have grown children and several grandchildren. Can they retire? Should they retire? What would they do with themselves?
(For those unfamiliar with the verse - all you really need to know is that after years as a ghost, Spike was brought back as a very human man, albeit one with superpowers. A male slayer of sorts. He and Buffy married and had a family.)

Season Four, what if Buffy had not gotten the Gem of Amara off Spike when they fought? How would the fight have gone, and how might she have gotten away?  What difference might that incident, as well as the Initiative's activities, have made in their relationship? Could/would a vampire and a slayer who hate each other make another truce to join forces against a common enemy? A what might a trip to Las Vegas have to do with anything?

Beta'd and bannered by Always-jbj.

Buffy is not too happy to the spend the most romantic evening of the year patrolling.  She's even less happy when her least favorite vampire shows up.  Spike x Buffy fluff