It Started, Nexus

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Claim: BtVS: Xander Harris
Title: It Started
Author: Kate Bolin
Characters: Xander/Jesse/Willow
Prompt: Seduction
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: A gorgeous little AU that leaves you wanting more.
So it started with Jesse. It started with Darla, but when Jesse was found dead in the alley, and Xander and Willow cried for hours in each other's arms and attended the funeral holding hands tightly, it started with Jesse, because, before then, it had been hookers and vagrants and other low-lifes that showed up on the coroner's slab with neck wounds. And Jesse was the first student and Jesse was the first "normal" person and it started with Jesse because he was the one who woke up a night later and clawed his way out of his coffin.
Link to the story: It Started

Claim: BtVS: Xander Harris
Title: Nexus
Author: Raksha
Characters: Xander/Angel(us)
Prompt: Secrets
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Xander's kidnapping by Angelus, told in flashbacks. This story's like a romance novel, but more with the violence and BDSM and noncon. But there's True Love, like in a romance novel, and it requires that same suspension of disbelief to sell its premise; only instead of asking to believe that no, really, handsome Greek billionaires fall in love with secretaries all the time, this story asks you to believe that Angelus isn't completely lost to human emotions like love. I'm kind of a ridiculous sucker for this story, though, especially Chapter 15.
Link to the story: Nexus