Whoops, I keep forgetting to cross-post. So here are three consecutive tales from what has evidently become another Spuffy verse from me... Sigh. Like I needed another of those...
Title Devil's Bargain
Author Brutti ma buoni
Rating PG13 (warning: reference to multiple character deaths predating this story)
Words 1000
Prompt What if Spike had stuck to his agreement and never come back to Sunnydale after Becoming?
Setting Technically, this must be the time of season 5, but it's a violently AU world branching off in season 4, without s5 elements. And it's in Cleveland.
A/N So, if Spike didn't come back to Sunnydale, what changed? Buffy and friends didn't get to find out about the Initiative except via Riley and Professor Walsh, that's what. They weren't hiding a fugitive from the Initiative. They'd have taken it at face value, at least for a while. And that might not have gone well. (Oh, and psst! Did you really believe that the Sunnydale Initiative was the only branch? *shakes head* So naive...)
( Read more... )Title Team Slayer
Author Brutti ma buoni
Rating PG13, fleeting torture reference
Words1000
Setting technically BtVS s5
Prompt Pancakes
A/N Set in the same verse as
Devil's Bargain, an AU branching from season 4, where Spike never came back to Sunnydale, and the Initiative has a backup arm in Cleveland.
( Read more... )Title Plan A
Author Brutti ma buoni
Rating PG13
Words 1000
Prompt Breakfast in bed
Setting Alternate season 5, branching off from season 4
A/N Follows
Devil's Bargain and
Team Slayer, which set up this AU
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