Best Spuffy Enemies to Lovers Fanfics
The best enemies to lovers Spuffy (Spike/Buffy Summers) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The tension, the banter, the moment everything shifts - enemies to lovers delivers maximum drama and emotional payoff.
Top Spuffy Enemies to Lovers Fic Recs
2 enemies to lovers Spuffy fics matched, followed by other top-rated Spuffy stories.
wouldn't it be nice? (in the kind of world where we belonged)
Enemies to Loversby SummerFrost
Spike is still beneath her, so hard he's vibrating, and a second ago she was living in this amazing, perfect, fresh piece of Dubble Bubble bubblegum world. A second ago, she loved him. Or: The thing about Willow's will-be-done spell is that, yeah, obviously it sucks that it happened with Spike. But
(love me) as much as your heart can stand
Enemies to Loversby SummerFrost
Buffy Summers's foolproof plan for being large with the life again:1. Break up with Spike2. Spend more time with Willow and Dawnie3. No, seriously, break up with Spike4. Poetry?? Or: Still aimless after being pulled from Heaven and caught up in a dark sexual affair with Spike, Buffy forms an unlikel
Every Letter That You Write Me
by othellia
In a world where soulmates have the ability to write on each other's skin, Spike finds himself shackled to a five-year-old Buffy, who (for once) listens to her mother's advice about not handing out personal information. With no way of tracking the annoyance down, Spike is forced to endure a decade o
don't look much like a lover (doesn't mean I won't try)
by SummerFrost
Buffy is ashamed of him, Spike knows. But when no one else is around, she touches him like she could love him.(In which Spike makes a damn good cup of coffee, watches a sunrise or two, and plays confidant to a Slayer who thinks dying to save the world would've been easier than this.)
nothing safe is worth the drive (follow you home)
by SummerFrost
Here's the deal: Buffy's got no idea how to beat Glory, or how they're gonna book it across the country in a moldy RV without anyone killing each other, especially now that someone broke one of the beds—and the thought of going home again kinda makes her wanna cry. The one thing she knows is that Sp
Fix You
by enigmaticblue
Desperate times call for desperate measures where the First is involved. In order to prevent the end of the world, Buffy asks Willow to do a spell that’s supposed to fix everything, and Spike goes along for the ride.
Till the End of the World
by someryn
Spike gets his soul back after Buffy sacrifices herself for Dawn. What ramifications does an ensouled Spike have on the Scoobies, and on his relationship with the Slayer? AU canon re-write of the Season Six storyline. Buffy/Spike, Willow/Tara and Xander/Anya. Contains both angst and fluff.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by sunalso
Starts post NFA in 2004 and loops back to 1997 and a very AU Season 2. Having fallen into a deep depression following the destruction of her entire world, Buffy attempts to take her own life. In a desperate measure to save her, she is sent into the past. Only she doesn't go back entirely alone. Fac
Room Service
by sunalso
S2 AU. Buffy needs Spike's help, Spike needs Buffy's help. My take on the much used trope of Buffy having to get it on with a vampire to save her life. Fluffy, smutty, and it ends up in a happy place. Set sometime before 'I Only Have Eyes For You'.Beta'd by Gort. Archived at EF and AO3 ONLY.
heaven, make me an offer
by SummerFrost
Buffy says, "The girl you loved didn't make it out of the ground." Or: Buffy crawls out of her grave and remembers loving Spike. They just have to get back to where they were.
Bake Me a Bloody Cake
by Abelina
Buffy has reluctantly agreed to vampsit while Giles is out for the evening, and is desperate for something to distract her from the annoyingly perceptive vampire and the memories of their brief engagement. Set about a week after the events of Something Blue but before the beginning of Hush. Respon
The Truth Will Set You Free
by enigmaticblue
Set in S4, after Something Blue. Giles does that truth spell on Spike after all, but what happens when it gets stuck? The truth is sometimes a very uncomfortable thing.
Hunger
by sunalso
AU. Spike killed his third Slayer, but Dru was already dust. He's been lost, but when his supper turns out to be more than he bargained for, it leaves him hungry for something else instead. And Buffy? She's just hungry.Takes place in an alternate universe in which Buffy isn't the Slayer (yet), just
Someday
by sunalso
AU. The world is broken, but Buffy is given seven days to make it better. Does saving humanity mean letting go of the one thing she wants, or grabbing on to it with both hands? Based on a challenge at EF by javajunkie247.Beta'd by Gort.Archived at AO3 and EF ONLY. Updates posted first to EF.
hit rewind
by untiljanuary
He isn’t sure what it is, but since coming back, Buffy seems so much more… mature. Wiser. He isn’t exactly certain why. A time-traveling Buffy fic from everybody else’s point of view.
Et Lux In Tenebris Lucet
by enigmaticblue
Spike manages to save Dawn, but pays a steep price, which changes everything, including Buffy's feelings towards him.
Wished Away Series
by CSmalley
From Tumblr: A collection of snippits based around a prompt where Danny gets sold the Souls of different characters and adopts them.Written out of order.
Before He Screwed It Up
by Hello_Spikey
Spike inadvertently makes a wish to "go back before he screwed it all up" --sending Angel Season 5 Spike back to the morning after Buffy Season Six Spike first gets it on with Buffy.Can he use his knowledge of the future to fix things? In the world at large, sure, but particularly his relationship
Goodbye to Everything That I Knew
by My_Barbaric_Yawp
When Dawn’s future at Revello Drive is in jeopardy, Buffy goes looking for a way to convince social services that all is well in the state of Summers. Cue a new truce with Spike in which our heroes learn how to love, live, and parent together while staying one step ahead of Dawnie, the Scoobies, and
To Live In The World
by IvorySteel92
2001. Buffy Summers is dead, and Faith is the only Slayer left in the world. After dreaming of Buffy's final words, Faith takes her advice to heart and returns to Sunnydale, to shake off her past and be the hero she wasn't before.Then everything gets harder when Buffy climbs out of her grave. Becaus
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Why Enemies to Lovers Spuffy Fanfiction Works So Well
Spike/Buffy Summers — The slayer and the vampire who crawled back from soullessness for her — Spuffy is one of TV fandom's foundational dark romances, from the violent season six affair to Spike burning up saving the world with 'I love you' hanging in the air. Two decades on, it still drives Buffy fic.
Enemies to Lovers — Characters who start as adversaries and gradually develop romantic feelings for each other.
No ship argues harder about whether love can redeem a monster; fans relish the mess, the banter, and the earned soul. The tension, the banter, the moment everything shifts - enemies to lovers delivers maximum drama and emotional payoff. That's why enemies to lovers Spuffy fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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