Fanfic Recommendation Challenge

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Reconstruction/Restoration
Author: wordsmithslash
Characters: Spike/Xander
Prompt: Family
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: AU post "The Gift" - The Scooby Gang must rebuild their lives after the loss of Buffy.  Xander and Spike find themselves growing closer.  Both are very well-written stories full of action, love, and humor. The same story, yet different, each told from a different point of view.    
Link to the story: Xander: Reconstruction and Spike: Restoration
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: the little things
Author: buffyx
Characters: Spike/Fred
Prompt: Reccer's Choice
Rating: NC-17
Length: Short
Brief summary: He thinks he loves her for the little things. Spike and Fred, sometime in the future past Chosen. Not two champions, just two people trying to figure it all out.
Link to the story: the little things
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Truth or Dare
Author: byrne
Characters: Spike/Xander
Prompt: Fluff
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary:  Xander plays Truth or Dare with the Scooby gang and gets closer to Spike. Happy smut
Link to the story: Truth or Dare
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: After Dust
Author: emg
Characters: Spike/Buffy, Dawn
Prompt: Denial
Rating: R
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Spike gets staked! And that's just the beginning of his troubles.  A wonderful mix of angst and humor, with appearances from some old friends and old enemies.
Link to the story: After Dust
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Inscrutable
Author: jen_nsync_landl
Characters: Spike, Dawn
Prompt: Friendship
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short
Brief summary: The memories of Spike the monks gave Dawn for “Becoming,” “Lover’s Walk,” and “Something Blue,” plus some memories I gave her for S5 and post-“The Gift.” Set just before “Bargaining.” Dawn’s POV.
Link to the story: Inscrutable
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Tracks in Time
Author: Josey
Characters: Spike/Angel
Prompt: Time
Rating: PG-13
Length: Long
Brief summary: Angel made a deal - he becomes CEO and everyone forgets Connor ever existed.  Unfortunately for Angel he failed to read the fine print in this AU universe.  How do you replace those memories that involved Connor?  Lilah decides the best way to avoid any problems is to simply fill in the gap with someone else.  Spike.  Too bad things start to unravel once the Sunnydale crew learns Spike is back.
Link to the story: Tracks in Time
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Elysium
Author: danawoods
Characters: Spike, Tara, Faith, Dawn, Giles
Prompt: Fight
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: First in the After the Opera series:  AU post-The Gift.  A few months after the fight with Glory, a group of demons come to the Hellmouth for Willow's magic, despite her being dead. When Tara heads out to find a way to stop them, Spike goes after her.  Both find themselves changing in ways they never imagined.
Link to the story: Elysium
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Beautiful Broken
Author: lit_gal
Characters: Spike/Xander
Prompt: Dark
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Warning - dark fic: slavery, non-con, D/s, hurt/comfort, torture, bondage.   Xander is captured by demons and spends six months being brutally trained to be a slave.  Spike finds the seemingly broken man at an auction and buys him.  Slowly Spike helps Xander realize he is not as broken as everyone, including himself, thinks.  A well written fic that manages to keep both Xander and Spike in character as they try to deal with the new master/slave dynamic.
Link to the story: Beautiful Broken
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Adorned
Author: Mcee (mcee ) and Tara Blue(in_stead)
Characters: Spike/Xander
Prompt: Love
Rating: R
Length: Med
Brief summary: Xander has some things he wants to say.  He decides Spike's body makes a perfect canvas.
Link to the story: Adorned
 

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: This One Does
Author: uberaeryn
Characters: Spike/Giles
Prompt: AU
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: What if Spike and Giles became involved in Season 4?  Uberaeryn gives us a believable portrayal of the Watcher and vampire's relationship as it proceeds from season 4 through the end of AtS, Not Fade Away.
Link to the story: This One Does