Dark Penumbra

Drabbles (and Shorter)

 

Drabbles (and shorter)

 

1. Chunky Monkey (Kallysten's Ice Cream Drabble Challenge, Spike/Buffy, Season Seven BtVS, Post-Showtime)

There are other uses for a cold tongue

 

2.Turbulence (Season 2 BtVS, Spike/Drusilla, Spike_fics drabble challenge #1)

The nightmares of a nightmare

 

3. Second Chance (Based on ideas from Kallysten’s Ice Cream Drabble Challenge, Spike/Buffy, BtVS future)

Quiz: If your man were an ice cream, what would he be?

 

4. The Love Teachings of the Karamel Sutra

(Another based on Kallysten’s Ice Cream Drabble Challenge, Spike/Buffy, Season Six BtVS)

Careful where you put that, Spike...

 

5. Strange Blue Doll (Spike/Illyria, AtS Post-Not Fade Away)

Spike and a Goddess, who'd have thought?

 

6. Bloodstained Leather (Spike/Illyria. Season Five AtS)

Two killers find some common ground

 

7. Games to Make the Journey go Faster (Spuffyish, BtVS, Post-Chosen? Another Ice Cream Drabble Challenge drabble)

Long road trips can be very dull.

 

8. Snow Blindness (Illyria, AtS, the end of the world - the first time)

The only constant is change...

 

9. Divided (Spike/Illyria, AtS, Season 5)

The push/pull of attraction

 

10. The Stain Was Still There (Buffy, BtVS, Season Six, Post-Dead Things)

Buffy as Lady Macbeth

 

11. Waiting for Someone? (Spike/Willow, BtVS, Season Six)

Willow gets a not-so-nasty shock

 

12. Strong (Spike and Dawn, BtVS, that black summer after Buffy's death)

Somedays it's up to Dawn to be the strong one.

 

13. Enough is Enough (Buffy/Spike, no particular timeline, WARNING. Dark themes, character death.)

Even love has it's limits.

 

14. Cobalt (Spike/Illyria (in her original form), AtS Post Not Fade Away. Inspired by a challenge from

soundingsea. WARNING. Adult Themes)

Some people will try anything once...

 

15. Spikebusters (Spike and Angel 'friendship' drabble for Hieispike, Post Just Rewards).

Angel does have a sense of humour!

 

16. From Dinner to Dust (Spike/Illyria & Other, AtS, Post-Not Fade Away)

Having kids will kill you.

 

17. What the Plants have to Say (Illyria, AtS Season Five, Post Shells)

It's amazing what the hydrangea could tell you.

 

18. Screaming Blue Murder (Spike  & Illyria & Wesley, AtS Season Five, Post Shells)

Illyria once had great arm...ies.

 

19. Overheard (Buffy/Spike, BtVS, Season Six. Not quite canon, never mind)

Willow picks the wrong moment, again.

 

20. Gunpowder (Buffy on Guy Fawkes Night, set in the Working My Way Back to You universe)

"Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and... a load of who cares?"

 

21. Is Anybody There? (William takes his mother to a medium)

Hellloooo!! Does anyone here know someone who's passed on called John?

 

22. Electrical Phenomena (Willow/Illyria, naughty drabble but not particularly graphic. WARNING: Mild Femslash)

Willow ditches Kennedy for someone with some real power.

 

23. Let's do Lunch (Spike and Illyria, AtS, Season Five, post Shells)

A God King is hungry...

 

24. Boom (Spike/Illyria, AtS, 11th December 2005, written for the famous Buncefield Oil Depot Fire)

Stand well back...

 

25. Mourning Glory (Illyria, AtS, Season Five, Post Hole in the World)

The world has changed and so has she.

 

26. Not This Time (BtVS, Spike/Harmony, just prior to Crush (let's ignore the fact Crush was aired on the 13th of Feb, shall we?))

Harmony should know better than to expect too much...

 

27. We Will Never Have Paris (BtVS, Spike/Harmony, prior to Harsh Light of Day. For lillianmorgan)

A girl can dream...

 

28. Digging for Clues (BtVS, Spike/Buffy. Season 6 post Gone sometime. Written for thedeadyhook because I thought her idea of Spike turning human and really helping people would be really funny if he joined Oxfam.

Don't go...

 

29. The Knockers (BtVS, Spike/Drusilla. BtVS, Pre-series some-when. A tin mine Cornwall)

From http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/ : Knockers are Cornish minespirits, which are said to knock at the richest lodes. The knockers were mainly benevolent, but if ignored and neglected they could turn malicious. Mine are the malicious type. :D
Even a vampire can fear the dark...

30. Fate and Fortune (BtVS, Drusilla, Pre-Series)

Do you dare come inside...?

 

31. Doomed Destiny (BtVS, between Seasons 3 and 4, Spike/Harmony)

You look good on the dancefloor...

 

32. Counting... (Another anti-Valentine)

Spike gets stood up on Valentines Day

 

33. Maps (BtVS, Post-Series. Spike/Buffy)

She has a map where she marks all the places they go...

 

34. Just Deal (BtVS, Season Six, during the night in Older And Far Away before everyone wakes to watch cartoons. Spike/Buffy)

Someone might see...

 

35. Tight (AtS, Season Five. Spike/Angel)

It'll happen if they work together

 

36. Paris Sucks (AtS, Post-Not Fade Away. Harmony)

Reality doesn't live up to the fantasy

 

37. A Thousand Faces (BtVS. Post-Grave. Spike)

Who is he really?

 

38. Willow Pattern (BtVS, Season 5. Tara)

Resolve, and the Pain it Brings

 

 

Responses to the DS9 title/BtVS fic challenge set by Miggy over on her Live Journal. All very short:

 

1. Penumbra (Season Five AtS, Angel) 

Angel contemplates sunlight and shadow.

 

2. Fascination (Season Six?, BtVS, Willow/Tara)

A moment from memory.

 

3. Dramatis Personae (Post-Chosen, BtVS, Buffy)

Those we leave behind are never really forgotten.