Four new chapters added to bring the story here up to Chapter 52. Links here now lead to a Chapter Index rather than to the latest chapter. Another 20 chapters await html coding - sorry for the enormous delay, but html coding is not one of my strengths.
‘Tabula Avatar’ won the ‘Best Non-Jossverse Crossover’ section in Round 2 of the Spark and Burn Awards.
Summary: Crossover of the Buffyverse characters with the ‘Baldur’s Gate’ series of computer games set in the Forgotten Realms of Faerûn. Rating up to NC-17. The Trio get their hands on the ‘Tabula Avatar’ memory crystal and download the stored memories into ‘Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn’. Trapped in a strange and lethal new world Buffy and the Scoobies find friends, romance, and deadly peril. Meanwhile, back in Sunnydale, Randy, Joan, Umad and the other memory-less Scoobies cope surprisingly well…
Summary: Sequel to Ten Years After. A trip to Prague, combining research into the nature of the Key with a light-hearted romantic holiday, plunges Dawn and Spike into unexpected deadly peril. Enemies old and new are on their trail and willing to kill without mercy to achieve their objectives. Spike and Dawn face evil magicians, brutal gangsters, and the awesomely lethal assassin known as the Sword of God. Warning; although this story features plenty of the romantic elements (and hot sex) seen in ‘Ten Years After’ it also contains levels of violence far beyond anything ever featured in the TV show. Rating NC-17 for violence and sexual content. Prologue and Chapters 1 to 5 now up, another 12 chapters awaiting html coding.
One of a series inspired by a challenge at Twisting The Hellmouth in which the idea is that Willow's spell to banish Olaf the Troll from Sunnydale at the end of 'Triangle' goes awry and sends him into a crossover universe rather than to the Land of the Trolls. I have written a whole series of these stories; in this one Willow’s misfiring spell sends Olaf to the Hyborian Age. There he meets Conan the Barbarian and gets involved in the affairs of a small city-state with a dying king, two rival temples, and two beautiful princesses. Rating R. This is a crossover with the original Robert E. Howard ‘Conan’ stories rather than with the Schwarzenegger movies.
There are a lot of other updates, including 9 chapters of 'Tabula Avatar', waiting to be put into html and posted here. Sorry about that; the coding is much harder (or at least more tedious) than the writing. I'll try to do some catching up in the next few days.
NOW COMPLETE! The ultimate Crack!Fic. Inspired by a discussion on Barb Cummings’ LiveJournal about Canon, fanon, and the mutability of character. Barb said I tend to think of canon-based AUs as something different from ‘All the characters are ninjas in 17th-century Japan’ fics. Shadowscast (a wonderful writer!) mentioned my AU parodies and commented that she saw potential for a fun story along those lines. I decided that a ‘ninjas in 17th-century Japan’ fic is exactly what I would write. At first it was just a 250-word drabble but, as they do, the tale grew in the telling. It ended up as 20 chapters and 44,000 words.
All-human (or nearly all!) but there are demons. Gilbert and Sullivan operetta meets Samurai movies, hentai, bad haiku, and blithe disregard for historical reality. Loosely – very loosely – based on BtVS Season 2. A wandering minstrel known as ‘Chopstick’, who is also a ninja warrior, comes to the Shogunate of Sunnydale and comes into conflict with Shogun Giles and his ninja bodyguard Buffy Summers. Definitely not to be taken seriously even though there is character death. Rating R. Thanks to Kris, alias Spikeshunny, for the beautiful banner.
The sequel to The Lonely Goatherd. The 25th of May is a special day to fans of Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ series. A day to remember, and a day to wear lilac; and a date close enough to that of ‘Not Fade Away’ that it could well have been the night that everything went down. This story is based upon the premise that it was indeed upon the night of the ‘Glorious 25th’ that Angel led his team out into that rain-soaked alleyway. Two years later the survivors, and some of the Buffyverse characters, gather in the alley to remember the fallen.
The title ‘How Do They Rise Up’ is a quote from ‘Night Watch’ by Terry Pratchett, and the absence of a question mark is not a typo. This is not a comedy, and it’s not high on plot; just a vignette. 3,175 words. Rating R. Warning; character deaths.
A humorous ficlet set during AtS S5 ‘Time Bomb’. Illyria makes use of her time-travel powers to rescue someone from the collapsing rubble of Sunnydale. Wesley has a little accident with Fred's stuffed toy Feigenbaum. And that's just the start of one of the strangest days that Wolfram & Hart Los Angeles will ever have...
3,600 words, rating PG-13.
Written for the Watchers’ Diaries’ community on LiveJournal as part of their 2006 ‘Witches’ ficathon. A prequel to Deid Canny.
Summary: set in the Borders between England and Scotland in the year 1580. Every girl dreams of a handsome hero to save her from the villains, they say; but there's never such a hero around when you need one, and Anne Collingwood's hopes must rest on a disfigured murderer with a death wish. And on her little bit of Shadow magic. It's not much, against seventeen ruthless killers, but it's all she has.
7,225 words, rating PG-13.
Summary: The first story in the ‘World Without Spike’ series. Inspired by a conversation on LiveJournal about the Mutant Enemy writers putting Americanisms into the mouths of English characters. The party scene shown in the ‘Fool For Love’ flashback goes rather differently and results in a very different version of ‘School Hard’ a hundred and twenty years later. Character death – but it’s extremely AU and not to be taken seriously.
Exactly 500 words, rating PG-13.
Summary: The second and final part of the ‘World Without Spike’ series. After the shocking events of 'Just Not Cricket' Sunnydale seems to lie at the mercy of George the Terrible. When a Peruvian girl with a deadly secret arrives it seems that things can only get worse. Drusilla, however, has a bad feeling about this...
Exactly 5,000 words, rating PG-13.
I have a lot of material written - 200,000 words in total - but I am way behind in updating the website. My html skills can't keep pace with my output. I'll get some of it up on the website when I get a chance but for now it can only be found on my LiveJournal.
Winner of the ‘I Like the Quiet’ award and Runner-up for the ‘Mbuna Fish’ award at the White Knight Awards for Xander-centric fiction.
I wrote this story for Ludditerobot’s Scatterlings and Orphanages ‘Africander’ ficathon on LiveJournal. The ficathon is for post-NFA Xander-in-Africa stories, covering every single one of Africa’s 55 countries. My country is Malawi, where I lived for six years, and I’ve stood on every inch of ground that Xander stands on in the story. Don’t expect my usual overt humor, by the way. This isn’t a comedy. Oh, and don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that I’ve given up writing about Spike.
Summary:
January 2006, and Xander is staying at a camp site on Zomba Plateau in Malawi and taking in the view. There’s a little more to his trip than rest and recreation, however…
Summary: This story was written for the LiveJournal community ‘12 months of BtVS’, and is set during Season 2. It starts during ‘Passions’. Rating: PG-13. 25,800 words in seven chapters.
After an act of petty vindictiveness by Angelus deprives wheelchair-bound Spike of his treasured collection of punk rock music he listens to a Kate Bush album; and in so doing he triggers a chain of events that alters everything…
Summary: The third part of the Nirvana Quartet, a sequel to Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are. Giles meets Ilona Costa Bianchi, formerly the CEO of Wolfram and Hart Rome office but now running it as a separate company, and discovers that he has more in common with her than he would have thought.
Rating R, exactly 5,000 words.
Summary: An interlude in Curious Wombat's Ten Years After universe. Somewhere between “Chosen” and “Ten Years After”, Xander reflects on his life since the destruction of Sunnydale.
Rating 15 for mild sexual content. 2,200 words. Xander.
Summary: Barb C (author of ‘A Raising in the Sun', ‘Necessary Evils', and ‘Parliament of Monsters') was discussing on her LiveJournal the issue of ‘character-bashing' in fics. She said ‘but there's no reason to make Riley a wife-beater, Giles a drunk, Willow an evil mastermind, Xander a moron, Spike a malicious idiot, Angel a Neanderthal, Buffy a stone bitch who glories in her bitchness, or whatever.'. I threatened to write a fic in which all those qualities appeared, she triple-dog-dared me, and this is the result.
Rating R; there's only mild swearing, and no explicit sex, but there's a lot of innuendo.
Summary: My contribution to Enigmatic Blue's Christmas 2005 Holiday Ficathon. Angel Season 5; Wolfram & Hart have no seasonal celebrations, and so Fred and Harmony organize their own New Year party. Things get complicated when a Vengeance Demon overhears their conversation and the party escalates to include some old friends from Sunnydale
Shameless fluff, rating PG-13 for innuendo, 11,250 words. There are romantic pairings but the core of the story is Harmony/Fred friendship.
Summary: Curious Wombat's Christmas story; a prequel to Ten Years After. Christmas Eve 2004, and Willow receives a ghostly visitation.
Rating 15 for sexual content. 3,250 words. Willow/Tara.
A Halloween story featuring the Trio, written for the “12 Months of BtVS” community on LiveJournal. 3,800 words. Rating PG-13.
Season 6, during ‘All The Way': Jonathan rediscovers the spell that Ethan Rayne once used to turn people into their Halloween costumes, and the Trio choose their characters with care. Of course, things don't turn out quite the way they intend…
A ‘What if?' story kicking off from ‘Dead Things' and going AU. Willow encounters Clem helping Spike home following the beating by Buffy and decides to help out. Her relationship with Spike takes a new turn; and the rest of Season 6 develops rather differently as she learns valuable lessons about life, death, friendship, love, good, and evil.
85,770 words. Rating R, possibly even into the milder end of NC-17. Contains character death.
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Two little ficlets, rating G (UK U). Probably the world's first Buffy/Bagpuss crossovers! Only UK readers will be familiar with Bagpuss; for the information of others, it was voted the favourite childrens' television programme of all time in a UK poll a couple of years ago, and all the characters are toys - except Emily. To find out more, or to gaze lovingly at the pictures, try this link: Bagpuss
and, also by Curious Wombat:
Ten years after “Chosen”, Dawn begins to realize that her status as “The Key” is still having an effect upon her life. Uncertain of her place in the world, she decides that Spike is the one best qualified to help her come to terms with her discoveries. But none of the Scoobies have seen Spike in years…
Warning: there is some pretty explicit sex in this one, maybe up to NC-17 rating.
Summary: What if Tara was a Vampire Slayer? And straight?
It's been 9 months since this Spike/Tara S4 rewrite was last updated. Sorry for the delay, I was struggling with a plot point, but hopefully I'm back on track now. I posted a version of this chapter on September 17 that I'd tried to cut corners on, with a major plot point omitted to save time, and some parts of the action very much condensed; but I wasn't happy about it, took it down, and rewrote. This is the full version, much longer than that first posted, and with a totally different last section. Now 10,420 words.
Rating will probably be R by the time that it's finished, but it's still in the PG-13 region at the moment.
There has been a recent craze on LiveJournal for stories in which Spike is a fairy. Recently my LiveJournal friend Trepkos challenged me to write a Fairy!Spike/Rupert the Bear crossover. And I've done it, although I've broken with the tradition of Fairy Spike stories being Slash; this is strictly Het.
Rupert Bear is a children's cartoon strip that has been running in the ‘Daily Express' newspaper since the 1920s. I don't know if it's currently running, but it certainly was as recently as 2003, and it's hardly changed at all in all those years. Traditionally the story is told in rhyming couplets accompanying the picture frames, with a section of conventional prose following each set of pictures. I've followed the same style, although of course without the pictures, and I make no apologies for the quality of my couplets because they were pretty dire in the originals. Those not familiar with the cartoon strip itself may have seen Paul McCartney's video “The Frog Song” (aka “Rupert and the Frog Chorus”).
3,600 words; rating at least R. Maybe NC-17, although I don't think so.
This story is another one that was inspired by a comment on Barb C's LiveJournal. She was talking about “all-human AUs”, and said “I don't like Spike as a Lithuanian goatherd”. I resolved to write a “Spike is a Lithuanian Goatherd” story that (hopefully) she would like, and this is the result. It is not an all-human AU at all; it is canon-compatible. Post “Not Fade Away”. August 2005, and Spike was the sole survivor of the events in Los Angeles. The past year and a quarter has not been easy for him…
Rating probably PG-13, but Spike does swear quite a lot and so it may shade into R. 7,777 words.
My first ever all-human AU. No vampires or Slayers. Buffy is the Prime Minister of Iceland. Spike is a Jivaro head-hunter in the Amazon rain-forest. Can they get together despite all odds? In case you haven't guessed, this one isn't entirely serious. Rating PG-13.
“Savage Beauty” won the Runner Up award in the “AU/Fantasy Fiction” category in Round 6 of the Lovebite Awards.
It has won “Best Fantasy/AU” in the Raison d'Etre Awards, and now has also won “Best Comedy” in the Love's Last Glimpse Awards.
A little ficlet of exactly 666 words; somehow that seemed appropriate. Humorous, but contains character death. Rating PG.
A strange little ficlet that takes off from the ending of "Once More With Feeling". What if Sweet had decided not to pass? 600 words; rating perhaps R for innuendo.
Summary: a historical story, long before the time of Buffy. It was originally written for the “Watchers' Diaries” ficathon on LiveJournal, where it was very well received. It stands alone, but can be read as a prequel to the “Roxyverse” stories. Slightly dark humour, rating probably around R. All original characters, of course.
1613. The Baltic States during the ‘Ingermanland War' between Sweden and Russia. An English mercenary in the service of the Swedes discovers that becoming a vampire is less of a change than you might think.
Winner of the “Fuzzy Bunny Slipper” Award for best Comedy/Fluff fiction at the 7th round of the Bedtime Story Awards
Summary: a little scene between Spike and Giles. It could be taking place during “Life in Shadow”, or it could be on the show some time between mid Season 4 and the start of Season 5. Rating PG; length 777 words.
AU: Tara as a Slayer, and straight. Chapter 6 has just been posted on 17th September 2005.
Three of the four parts are complete and stand alone without Part Four.
A short story looking at a certain person's life in Rome following “The Girl In Question”. Dark. Rated NC-17. I mean, really NC-17. Don't read it if you would be upset by extremely explicit sexual references. Complete.
The sequel to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. Rated R. My serious version of a post Not Fade Away story. Contains character death, but still lighter in tone than the preceding story. Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel, at least for some. Complete.
Summary: The third part of the Nirvana Quartet, a sequel to Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are. Giles meets Ilona Costa Bianchi, formerly the CEO of Wolfram and Hart Rome office but now running it as a separate company, and discovers that he has more in common with her than he would have thought.
Rating R, exactly 5,000 words.
An occasional series of short fics starring the Adorable BuffyBot, set in Season 6 starting during “Bargaining”. Rating PG-13 or perhaps R. Up to Chapter 7. Unlikely to be updated before August 2005.
Summary: Glory proposes a Christmas truce. Rating R.
A piece of total insanity written for a "Tentacle" Ficathon. Definitely not to be taken seriously. AU, very much so. Season 3 around Graduation Day. NC-17.
A season 5 rewrite without Dawn - the Key is something very, very, different. PG-13.
An answer to Kantayra's “Practically Perfect in Every Way” Challenge, set in Season 6 starting during “As You Were”. Buffy makes a wish to change Spike into the perfect boyfriend; but there's always consequences. Rating PG-13 up to R. Title taken from the song by Fairground Attraction.
An alternative version of “Triangle”. The assumption is that Olaf the Troll took a somewhat different path through Sunnydale when he left the Magic Box. Rating R for some quite graphic sex. Fluffy, but not Spuffy. A rather unusual, possibly unique, pairing.
This is a crossover between Angel: The Series and The Saga of Noggin the Nog, a BBC Television children's animated series from the 1960s. Rating PG. The series was gentle story-telling for children but with an undercurrent of dry humour for adult viewers; I've tried to replicate the style as closely as possible. Complete.
Summary: During the alley battle at the end of "Not Fade Away" the Angel Investigations team are pulled through a magical portal and Spike finds himself in the world of Noggin the Nog. He soon finds he's not the only newcomer to that dimension…
An “Angel: the Series” story, post "Not Fade Away".
Written for the Watcher's Diaries LiveJournal community, where it was extremely well received. This is a historical fiction, not featuring any of the characters from the TV show.
Summary: The Isle of Man, 1014 AD, a mixed Celtic and Viking community. In the aftermath of the slaughter at the Battle of Clontarf, with the islanders mourning their dead and anxious for the missing, a new Slayer must face a horde of undead Vikings to free the island from a dreadful curse.
An adventure in the “Wishverse” from BtVS Season 3. Cordelia makes a wish that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale, and finds herself in a nightmare world ruled by The Master. But there are some faces missing from the Wishverse. Why is the Master's right-hand vampire Luke not there, for instance? Did Spike and Drusilla still come to Sunnydale? And might things have worked out a little differently for Cordelia if they had?
Rating PG for innuendo. Humour, although there is character death. Complete.
Written for a Spuffy Ficathon. Summary: Spike gets a legitimate job. PG.
Not to be taken too seriously. Updated irregularly. New Drabbles will be announced in the "Latest Additions" section as and when they appear.
The characters in these stories do not belong to me, but are being used for amusement only and all rights remain with Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, the writers of the original episodes/books, and the TV and production companies responsible for the original television shows. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ©2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer trademark is used without express permission from Fox. ANGEL ©2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The ANGEL trademark is used without express permission from Fox.