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2025-07-25
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2026-07-28
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Finality

Summary:

It's their final showdown, their final fight. Buffy stakes Spike, and that's it; he's done, he's gone.

And then they both wake up the next day...

Notes:

I actually totally forgot that I was planning to work on and post this for drabblemania, doh. So I'm starting a little late and have no idea how much I'll get posted before the end of the month, but welp, gonna see what happens!

The plan is for these to actually be traditional 100 word drabbles or maybe some double or triple drabbles? But also I'm not gonna worry if they're not, and given the site's dodgy word counter, I dare say even if they are in my word processor, they might not be here ?

Character death for obvious reasons but it's all temporary.

Tentatively set sometime after Spike is chipped, but before he realises he's in love with her, in an AU where he discovers his chip doesn't work on Buffy. I might pin it down better than that at some point, but for now, it's just vaguely S4/early S5.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: past & future

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foreground is spike on the left Buffy in the right both looking forwards. In the background we see Buffy and spike fighting with weapons to each others necks, spike Jas a knife and Buffy a stake


Okay, if Buffy's honest, it's kind of a let down? Somehow she expected their final fight to feel more... final. To be a bit more spectacular.

She and Spike always sparred and fought and hit hard, it's always been close, she's never felt confident she knows who has the advantage.

It bothers her more than she's comfortable with. Shouldn't she be more grateful it was easy? That she got shot of that bleach blond pain in the ass without too much difficulty?

But she'll never get to fight him again, and the feeling of disappointment stays with her all day.