Penname: Eurydice
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Member Since: November 13, 2006
Last Active: September 15, 2023
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Stories by Eurydice
Past Featured Story
A Shower of Ash by Eurydice [PG-13] Likes: 28 Comments: 20
Summary: Just because you're not in the same country anymore doesn't mean you're not in the same place. An 800-word ficlet that takes place in the final minute of "Not Fade Away." Not a happy fic. - Complete
Rated PG-13

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: None
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 727 Hit Count: 2,069 ePub Downloads: 54
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
A Soul to Seduce by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 199 Comments: 170
Summary: Set immediately after AtS S5 episode, "Damage."
When Buffy finds out Spike's alive, she shows up in Los Angeles to demand answers, only to find herself immediately immersed in a web of deceit and betrayal. Who to trust becomes the million dollar question, and her life turns into a race to solve it.
Before it's too late for everyone.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Winners, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS)
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Faith Lehane, Original Characters, Other, Spike, Wesley
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: No Chapters: 23 Table of Contents
Word count: 78,661 Hit Count: 13,474 ePub Downloads: 266
Published: December 06, 2006 Updated: July 02, 2008
Past Featured Story
A Stone's Throw from Yesterday by Eurydice [R] Likes: 321 Comments: 94
Summary: Fall, 2006. The Sunnydale Hellmouth has been destroyed for over three years, and the Scooby gang has scattered to the four corners of the globe, continuing their fight against the dark evils of the world. In the Egyptian desert, a single man hears a tortured plea for help. It's just a shame he doesn't recognize his own voice...- Complete.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Word count: 41,393 Hit Count: 36,283 ePub Downloads: 519
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
A Symphony of Echoes by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 632 Comments: 188
Summary: Sequel to Legions of True Hearts. A confused Buffy is trying to get on with her life, but Spike's promise to stand by her haunts the Slayer. Her past collides with her future, forcing her to decide which---and who---she can trust. - Complete.
Winner for Outstanding Original Character (Havi) at the Spuffy Awards Round 8.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Alternate Reality, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 61 Table of Contents
Word count: 284,603 Hit Count: 65,325 ePub Downloads: 785
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 15, 2006
Past Featured Story
Beg the Liquid Red by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 956 Comments: 297
Summary: A night out to try and forget Angel's meddling in her life leads Buffy down a different path than the one she had planned. Old faces are like new again, and what's new is most definitely old. - WIP.
Rated NC-17
Winner at the Spark and Burn awards.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Alternate Reality, Time Travel, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 29 Table of Contents
Word count: 80,846 Hit Count: 82,774 ePub Downloads: 1,158
Published: November 15, 2006 Updated: November 15, 2006
Past Featured Story
Black Satin Voices by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 513 Comments: 190
Summary: When Willow is kidnapped by strangers with a mysterious agenda, Buffy is forced to chase after them to New Orleans, with a reluctant Spike along for the ride. Set S4-5.
Winner for Best General Saga (Readers' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 4.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Season 5, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 42 Table of Contents
Word count: 205,116 Hit Count: 65,117 ePub Downloads: 998
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
By Rook or By Crook by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 357 Comments: 60
Summary: Sometimes, no matter how fast you run, your past always manages to catch up to you. It's 1940, and the streets of Manhattan are the last place on earth ex-hitman William Rook ever expected to find himself again. But one last job has demanded he return, a job that pushes him directly into the path of a certain blonde chanteuse named Buffy Summers, and nothing will ever be the same again...for either of them.... All human AU.
Winner for Best Fantasy Angst (Judges' Choice), Best Fantasy Saga (Judges' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 5.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Alternate Reality, All Human, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 45 Table of Contents
Word count: 213,579 Hit Count: 19,353 ePub Downloads: 451
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
Charms of the Clarion by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 1,113 Comments: 431
Summary: When the Council approaches Buffy with an offer she can't refuse, she finds herself in another world, with Spike as her necessary partner. Set early Season 5.
Winner for Best General Saga at the Spuffy Awards Round 2. Winner for Outstanding Original Character (Readers' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 3.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Alternate Reality, Award Winners, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 52 Table of Contents
Word count: 222,806 Hit Count: 131,479 ePub Downloads: 1,571
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
Decking the Summers Hall by Eurydice [PG] Likes: 29 Comments: 13
Summary: This takes place in my Promise of Frost 'verse, one year later. That makes this an AU mid-season 5 where Giles has custody of Holly, Spike is her nanny, and all three of them are living with Joyce, while Buffy is going strong in college.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Holiday Fic, Season 4, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,431 Hit Count: 2,380 ePub Downloads: 183
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Diamond Studded Flunkies by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 162 Comments: 39
Summary: The world thinks Buffy Summers is dead. Only two men know differently, and neither one of them are talking. However, Ethan has learned that Spike is getting credit for killing Buffy and shifted his focus from destroying the Council to finding Spike and getting some answers. He followed him to Chicago, but Spike had already skipped town with a new friend in tow. Now, they're headed west again, because Spike's decided life's too boring not to have Buffy in it...
Winner at the Spark and Burn awards.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Alternate Reality, Award Winners
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 18 Table of Contents
Word count: 49,812 Hit Count: 11,255 ePub Downloads: 347
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
Legions of True Hearts by Eurydice [R] Likes: 725 Comments: 265
Summary: Post graduation, a restless Buffy goes to London to escape the memories of Angel, only to lose herself in unexpected dreams. But is William real, or is he a distraction? Is he, possibly...both? Buffy/William. - Complete
Winner for Best General Saga at the Spuffy Awards Round 6.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 3, Season 4, Alternate Reality, Time Travel, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 42 Table of Contents
Word count: 181,739 Hit Count: 102,531 ePub Downloads: 1,212
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
Promise of Frost by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 1,376 Comments: 319
Summary: When a snowstorm strands Buffy and Spike, they are forced to turn to each other for strength, especially when a missing Giles, mysterious visitors, and way too much magic threatens to turn it into a not so very merry Christmas. Set mid-S4. - Complete
Winner for Best General Long Fiction (Readers' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 5. Winner for Outstanding Original Character (Holly) at the Spuffy Awards Round 6. Winner for Best Spike Characterization at the Spuffy Awards Round 7.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Holiday Fic, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 55 Table of Contents
Word count: 212,541 Hit Count: 119,950 ePub Downloads: 1,261
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
Razing the Veil by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 374 Comments: 159
Summary: Written for the Elysian Fields 'Artistic Anniversary Challenge'. Banner 16 by RESPICE FINEM.
 
As far as Spike is concerned, life doesn't get better than being cock of the walk in the rising anarchy of 1980 New York City. Vampires are a growing threat, and he's the one to lead the underground rebellion in defeating them.
 
Except...maybe not. Because in a different world, one Spike died to save, a certain Slayer discovers his journey just might not be over yet after all.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Original Characters, Spike, Wesley, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Substance Use/Addiction, Sexual Situations, Violence
Event: Artistic Anniversary Challenge 2016
Completed: No Chapters: 11 Table of Contents
Word count: 34,438 Hit Count: 9,068 ePub Downloads: 155
Published: October 25, 2016 Updated: January 15, 2023
Rendezvous by Eurydice [PG-13] Likes: 117 Comments: 40
Summary: When Giles retrieves the amulet from the collapsed Hellmouth, he encounters the last person he ever would have imagined - a young boy who looks remarkably like a now-dead vampire. Written for the William Ficathon. Set immediately post-Chosen. - Complete. Rated PG

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William
Genres: Angst, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 10,225 Hit Count: 8,766 ePub Downloads: 224
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
Rhapsody in Oil by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 681 Comments: 232
Summary: A mysterious painting, a Slayer looking for something just a little bit different from Sunnydale, and a horny vampire...what could possibly go wrong? Set Season 4 between Something Blue and Hush.
Winner for Outstanding Original Character (Gino) at Spuffy Awards Round 1.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Alternate Reality, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 43 Table of Contents
Word count: 151,461 Hit Count: 48,916 ePub Downloads: 742
Published: November 13, 2006 Updated: November 13, 2006
Past Featured Story
The Beckoning of a Spanish Moon by Eurydice [R] Likes: 64 Comments: 21
Summary: Set in S6, a surprise request from Anya sends Buffy and Spike on a surreal quest, one that shows the Slayer just what her world has turned into, and what she needs to do to potentially fix it. - Complete.
Rated PG-13

 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 14,199 Hit Count: 6,796 ePub Downloads: 220
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
Past Featured Story
The Hunt by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 555 Comments: 163
Summary: Buffy is forced to seek asylum with Spike when a new enemy targets her. Set mid-Season 5, Joyce is still alive, and Spike hasn't told Buffy about his feelings yet.
Winner for Outstanding Original Character (Cortina) at the Spuffy Awards Round 2.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Award Winners
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
Warnings: Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 37 Table of Contents
Word count: 112,665 Hit Count: 71,671 ePub Downloads: 996
Published: November 13, 2006 Updated: November 13, 2006
The Road to Return by Eurydice [R] Likes: 33 Comments: 21
Summary: Post-Chosen, Xander chooses to go to Africa for a very specific reason...
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Xander
Genres: Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,286 Hit Count: 3,111 ePub Downloads: 131
Published: September 02, 2007 Updated: September 02, 2007
The Weight of a Dream by Eurydice [R] Likes: 175 Comments: 82
Summary: Set two weeks after the S5 finale.
After Buffy's sacrifice, everyone is grieving. But an old foe - and friend - has a plan to liven things up for those she left behind.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Between Seasons (any), Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Ethan Rayne, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Drama, HEA/HFN, Resurrection
Warnings: None
Event: Mystery Fic-a-Thon 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 17,373 Hit Count: 4,874 ePub Downloads: 72
Published: July 10, 2021 Updated: August 08, 2021
These Miles That Come Between Us by Eurydice [PG-13] Likes: 58 Comments: 21
Summary: When Buffy intercepts a call from Angel, the last thing she expects is to hear that surprise guests are about to end up on her doorstep.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Holiday Fic, Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Spike, William
Genres: Drama
Warnings: None
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2020
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,372 Hit Count: 1,452 ePub Downloads: 57
Published: December 31, 2020 Updated: December 31, 2020
Past Featured Story
This Wanton World by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 235 Comments: 79
Summary: Los Angeles, 2003. For the first time since she was Chosen, Buffy's back in town. She never planned to return, but someone else had a different idea. This time, though, she comes with purpose, and power, and an assassin hot on her heels. She just hopes that this time...she doesn't die. - Complete.
Rated NC-17

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Alternate Reality, Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Rape (Actual), Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 17 Table of Contents
Word count: 57,776 Hit Count: 10,826 ePub Downloads: 388
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006
What a Way to Ride by Eurydice [PG-13] Likes: 54 Comments: 24
Summary: When Oz goes missing, Buffy is forced to take a road trip with Spike to figure out what happened. Set after Something Blue but before Hush.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Devon MacLeish, Giles, Oz
Genres: Drama, Road Trip
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,480 Hit Count: 1,019 ePub Downloads: 52
Published: January 15, 2022 Updated: January 15, 2022
Past Featured Story
Zephyr Ghosts by Eurydice [NC-17] Likes: 158 Comments: 50
Summary: Sequel to the Hunt. Picking up a week after the cleansing ritual, Buffy and Spike are back in Sunnydale, but dreams are plaguing both of them, hers as prophecy, his as nightmares. - Complete
Rated NC-17

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Alternate Reality, Season 5
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 36 Table of Contents
Word count: 125,294 Hit Count: 20,104 ePub Downloads: 555
Published: November 14, 2006 Updated: November 14, 2006