Non-Comic Pieces

This section deals with my fanfictions that don't center on comedy as their main focus. That doesn't necessarily mean these end tragically or are angsty or dark, although there are some of those in here. Some of them even, hopefully, have funny moments.

Absolution

Rating: PG
A Drusilla piece set around 1900. Rather melancholy.

Across the Void

Rating: FRT
Wesley has sent Giles a most interesting set of books. Crossover with Firefly and Serenity.

Aftermath

Rating: G
Set after The Body. Angel arrives to help Buffy and Dawn.

Alfresco

Rating: PG
Willow and Xander’s betrayal has left Oz feeling hollow. Giles won’t stand for it.

All That Glitters

Rating: G
Thirteenth in the Jewel Box series. Dawn reflects on why she started stealing and why she's doing it again in season six.

Aloft

Rating: G
Willow returns to a place from her childhood to help her through a time of grief. Set after The Gift.

The Alto: Abbie, 1594, London, England

Rating: R (for the series)
The second in The Quartet. Abigail's life has not turned out as her father planned.

The Alto: Abelard, 1600, London, England

Rating: R (for the series)
The third in The Quartet. A look at what happened after the Worthshires.

The Alto: Abigail, 1584, Devonshire, England

Rating: R (for the series)
The first in The Quartet. The story begins.

The Alto: Isabelle, 1606-1608, London, England

Rating: R (for the series)
The fifth in the Quartet. One trap can lead to another.

The Alto: Sarah, 1608-1610, Jamestown, Virginia

Rating: R (for the series)
Sixth in The Quartet. The New World is the setting of a completely new life for Sarah, but not the one she envisioned. Things will never be the same.

The Alto: Venus, 1601, London, England

Rating: R (for the series)
The fourth in the Quartet. Venus must live with the consequences of her choice.

The Alto: Virginia, 1610, London, England

Rating: R (for the series)
The seventh in the Quartet. Returning to England as a vampire, the tables have turned for the girl who was once Sarah.

Amateur Night

Rating: FRM
Doyle hadn't really wanted to stop in Oxnard, but by the time he left, he was glad he had.

Beneath the Pillow

Rating: G
Giles explores the Mayor’s home in the aftermath of Graduation Day.

Beyond Price

Rating: G
Seventh in the Jewel Box series. An impoverished William ponders what he can give his beloved.

Black and white

Rating: PG
Drusilla is trapped, but she doesn’t know where or by whom.

Cleaning House

Rating: G
Eleventh in the Jewel Box series. Lilah has angered the Senior Partners and awaits her punishment.

Come into My Parlor

Rating: FRT
Before she leaves for the University of Sunnydale, Tara stops to see a fortune teller but learns more than she bargained for.

Comeuppance

Rating: PG
I don't like Hank. After the events of season five, I'm betting Angel doesn't either.

Consequences

Rating: PG-13
It's 1885 in Venice. William, tired of Angelus and his rules, rebels. The repercussions last far longer than anyone could have expected.

Consolation

Rating: soft R
During season 2 of Angel, one of Cordelia’s shopping excursion ends in a way she did not expect.

Crossroads

Rating: G
A 500-word look at Gunn's current moral plight in season 5. There's something unusual about this fic...

Darkness of Departure

Rating: FRT
In the aftermath of Angelus’s departure, Drusilla fall to pieces.

Debris

Rating: PG
After Empty Places in season seven, Buffy is left with nothing but one ally.

Dirty Laundry

Rating: FRT
The Mayor needs to clean up a little accident and bumps into the new Englishman in town.

Drying Tears

Rating: G
In all the sadness from Illyria's arrival, someone has been left behind. He's not forgotten, though.

Duty

Rating: G
Fifth in the Jewel Box series. A young Wesley is confronted with what his life will be like.

E-Flat Diminshed Ninth

Rating: G
Eighteenth in the Jewel Box series. Set just after the events of "Doppelgangerland," Oz finds his voice.

The End of the World As We Know It

Rating: FRT In the aftermath of “Not Fade Away,” Angel is left reeling. His steadying force comes from the last person he expected.

The Enemy Within

Rating: R
After the events of “Not Fade Away,” Spike is sent to England to take care of Dawn, but not in the way he once did.

A Familiar Face

Rating: PG
Buffy and Angel meet again... finally.

Forbidden Fruit

Rating: PG
Draco visits his father's menagerie. BtVS/Harry Potter crossover.

Four Hours

Rating: PG
After the Deeper Well, Spike and Angel still face a long plane flight back to L.A.

Free Falling

Rating: PG
Ninth in the Jewel Box series. Before Sunnydale, Faith experiences a moment of balance and power.

From the Dark

Rating: PG-13
As Lindsey drives away from L.A., he knows he will be drawn back again. Angel/Lindsey

Good Riddance

Rating: G
Fourteenth in the Jewel Box series. After Xander takes back his necklace in "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," Cordelia decides she never like it.

Handsome Man

Rating: G
Seventeenth in the Jewel Box series. In the summer after season two, Fred's fears of Pylea haunt her.

Happy Anniversary

Rating: PG
A year after the events of "Chosen," there have been a lot of changes, but some things remain the same.

Healing

Rating: PG
Willow goes through a wrenching loss, and, surprisingly, Spike is the one to help her through it.

Hell Froze Over

Rating: R
Angel reacts to the return of Spike. A/S slash... which could be a sign of an apocolypse coming from me.

Home Sweet Limbo

Rating: G
A sequel to "The Other Side," of sorts. Spike has helped save the world and has earned a bit of rest, but it seems that other plans are in store for him.

Husband and Father

Rating: G
The Mayor recalls who he cares about the most.

I Do

Rating: PG
Sixteenth in the Jewel Box series. As a special day rolls around, the Mayor spends time with an old companion.

Icon Fics 2

Rating: PG
"Longing," a Firefly Simon/Kaylee ficlet, and "The Moment I Forgot about Kermit," a Miss Piggy/Puppet!Angel ficlet, both inspired by Livejournal icons.

In the Stacks

Rating: R
Owen meets a fellow booklover after Buffy dumps him.

Istanbul

Rating: FRT
Five years after Sunnydale, Willow sees a familiar face.

It's a Willowful Life

Rating: PG
Willow's magic backfires yet again, and this time she decides it would be better if she left Sunnydale. Someone else has other ideas. Eight chapters and complete.

Jailed Inside

Rating: PG
Twenty-fifth in the Jewel Box series. Kate experiences the guilt and grief of the death of her dreams. Kate, jewelry, haunted.

Joined

Rating: PG
In a room in the future, minds drift and meld, false is true, and things are never what they seem. Crossover with Firefly.

Kept Hidden

Rating: PG
Twenty-third in the Jewel Box series. Willow treasures a secret birthday gift from season four.

Last One Standing

Rating: G
Human grow old, die, and move on, but vampires remain. A portrait of Spike many years from now. Warning: character death.

Last Will and Testament

Rating: PG
Cordelia comes to Faith to tell her that Buffy has died and to bring her a parting gift.

Lighting the Way

Rating: G
Willow's spell in Chosen left a few unanswered questions. What was actually happening there?

Loners

Rating: FRT
Gunn survives with the help of someone like him. Gunn/Oz.

Lost

Rating: G
When someone is lost, finding him again can prove to be very dangerous for the seeker.

Memento Mori

Rating: G
Third in the Jewel Box series. Giles remembers a lost love.

Mirror Images

Rating: PG
Drusilla and Spike take a trip abroad to a most unusual place where Drusilla sees the outcome of not one romance, but two. Crossover with Labyrinth.

Misfits

Rating: PG
It's Christmas Eve in London, 1859. Two outcasts wind up spending the evening together.

Name Calling

Rating: G
Eight in the Jewel Box series. This fic attempts to explain Riley's rather unusual moniker. Caution: Not a bashing fic.

Night Blooming

Rating: G
Angel has just moved into the Hyperion and spends some time in the courtyard, remembering what it's like to be loved. This is my take on why there's jasmine in his garden.

No Place Like It

Rating: PG-13
After Oz leaves Sunnydale for the second time, his path crosses with an unlikely traveler.

No Special Reason

Rating: PG
Willow takes time to remember Tara on a very ordinary day.

Nurture

Rating: PG
Takes place immediately following the events of Intervention. I didn't like the idea of Spike being left alone and hurt after what he'd done, so someone comes to help him.

Obsolescence

Rating: PG
Drusilla returns to London feeling alone, outdated, and obsolete.

Occupational Therapy

Rating: PG
Twelfth in the Jewel Box series. Lindsey faces yet another obstacle to achieving what he wants.

Orphans

Rating: PG-13
When he falls into Drusilla's snare, Steven's life will never be the same again.

Out of the Blue

Rating: PG
Fred is attempting to give Spike a corporeal body in season 5 of Angel, but things go extremely wrong… or is it extremely right?

Prezzies

Rating: PG
Fourth in the Jewel Box series. Drusilla waits to receive a gift from Angelus.

Proxy

Rating: soft R
Lindsey needs a little help, and Wesley has a problem on his hands.

The Questionairre

Rating: PG-13
Darla, Spike, Angel, and Drusilla answer a few questions about themselves.

Quiet Strength

Rating: G
Sixth in the Jewel Box series. Tara is on her way to UC Sunnydale and reflects on her life.

Return of the Prodigal

Rating: R
After “Crush,” Spike has a change of heart and goes to L.A. to rejoin his old family.

Revelations over Breakfast

Rating: G
After Buffy’s flight from Sunnydale at the end of season 2, she finds herself working as a waitress, but the fate that awaits is still lurking in the background.

Righting Wrongs

Rating: PG
Angel receives a letter from the last person he'd ever expect.

Ruby Red

Rating: PG-13
Fifteenth in the Jewel Box series. Set around 1910, Darla's life has changed, but the past still calls to her.

Setting Is Everything

Rating: PG-13
Angel is struck by how fitting the dominant setting of his life has been.

Seventy Questions for Angelus

Rating: R, for general creepiness
Angelus answers a few questions for the Watchers Council.

Seventy Questions for Drusilla

Rating: PG-13
Drusilla answers a few questions about her life.

Seventy Questions for Spike

Rating: PG-13
Spike lets the new Watchers Council in on some of what makes him tick.

Simply Infuriating

Rating: PG
Giles is hovering on the brink of a precipice he wants to fall into. Cordy give him a shove.

Sitting

Rating: PG
Takes place following Help. Spike asked someone to site with him. This is my take on what might happen. Seven chapters and complete.

Sometimes Cupid Has Fangs

Rating: PG
Poor William always had trouble with the ladies. A Spike/Dru fic, quite on the mushy side.

Subtle Serpent

Rating: PG
Willow’s recuperation in England doesn’t go according to plan when she begins to hear voices.

Sudden Reminder

Rating: PG
First in the Jewel Box series. When Xander is least expecting it, he is reminded of what was and what might have been.

A Sunnydale Christmas

Rating: G
In season five, Spike finally gets the chance to smash the Scooby gang once and for all. Will he? If you said yes, get some freaking holiday spirit already!

Sudden Reminder

Rating: G
Twenty-first in the Jewel Box series. Lorne gets ready for another happy, lovable day as himself... or does he?

The Other Side

Rating: PG-13
Buffy jumped through the portal and died, but what happened to her next? Twenty-one chapters and complete.

Pleasant Thoughts

Rating: R
Drusilla and Spike have set up their happy little home in the Swiss Alps, but an evening stroll leads to an unforgettable evening of murder, nudity, and other vampiric delights.

The Plumber's Friend

Rating: G
Joyce is a lady in distress. Her knight just happens to be armed with a plunger.

There and Back Again: A Vampire's Holiday

Rating: FRM
Spike get a lot more than he bargained for with the amulet. xover with Lord of the Rings, Spike/Legolas

Triptych

Rating: PG-13
This is a multi-character reflection on the last scene from End of Days.

Tutelage

Rating: PG
River still needs guidance after the events of Serenity, so Simon takes her to see a specialist.

Under African Stars

Rating: PG
In the aftermath of his soul's restoration, William is guilt-ridden. How will he cope?

Unexpected Song

Rating: FRT A pairing and a crisis draw together two souls in turmoil. Angel/Oz.

Unmatched

Rating: PG
Twenty-second in the Jewel Box series. Buffy reflects on the many different ways her life has been pierced.

Valentine's Day

Rating: PG
Second in the Jewel Box series. Spike finally finds the perfect gift for his princess.

Waiting

Rating: G
Tenth in the Jewel Box series. In the summer between seasons two and three, Joyce is left alone with her guilt.

What She Wanted

Rating: PG
Buffy's attitude towards Spike is given a major jolt when she receives a parcel that makes her confront her worst fears about him.

Within

Rating: PG
When Drusilla killed Kendra, what did the Slayer see in those eyes?

Xander's Girl

Rating: PG
Twentieth in the Jewel Box series. Anya can't sleep, and she remembers what her life once was.

Yesteryear's Pleasures

Rating: Nothing too objectionable
Twenty-sixth and final in the Jewel Box series. At the end of the nineteenth century, Angelus enjoys an evening in Paris.

Zealot

Rating: G
Twenty-fourth in the Jewel Box series. Kendra has some unforeseen and unsettling experiences in Sunnysale.

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