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Best Spuffy Vampires Fanfics

The best vampires Spuffy (Spike/Buffy Summers) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The vampire is fiction's most flexible metaphor — desire, addiction, otherness, eternity — and every fandom generation reinvents it in its own image.

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1

Room Service

Vampires

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.

1,741 kudos 7,798 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
2

Bake Me a Bloody Cake

Vampires

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

1,571 kudos 12,950 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
3

(love me) as much as your heart can stand

Vampires

by 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

1,450 kudos 50,956 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
4

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

3,833 kudos 204,676 words 49/49 chapters Mature
5

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.)

3,406 kudos 86,855 words 7/7 chapters Explicit
6

wouldn't it be nice? (in the kind of world where we belonged)

by 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

2,757 kudos 50,628 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
7

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

2,519 kudos 61,099 words 7/7 chapters Explicit
8

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.

2,301 kudos 169,377 words 51/51 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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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.

1,969 kudos 29,173 words 1/1 chapters Mature
10

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

1,882 kudos 134,962 words 34/34 chapters Explicit
11

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.

1,686 kudos 58,088 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
12

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.

1,530 kudos 13,355 words 4/4 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
13

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

1,521 kudos 148,698 words 40/40 chapters Explicit
14

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.

1,513 kudos 54,131 words 11/11 chapters Explicit
15

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.

1,480 kudos 407,140 words 98/? chapters Explicit
16

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.

1,369 kudos 72,971 words 22/22 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
17

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.

1,337 kudos 254,664 words 386/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
18

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

1,337 kudos 34,517 words 25/25 chapters Mature
19

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

1,335 kudos 71,934 words 30/30 chapters Mature
20

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

1,277 kudos 207,138 words 43/43 chapters Mature

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Why Vampires 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.

Vampires — Creatures of hunger and immortality, whether canon provides them or the writer turns the cast. Vampire fic spans gothic horror, aching romance across mortal lifespans, and domestic comedies about blood-bag logistics.

No ship argues harder about whether love can redeem a monster; fans relish the mess, the banter, and the earned soul. The vampire is fiction's most flexible metaphor — desire, addiction, otherness, eternity — and every fandom generation reinvents it in its own image. That's why vampires Spuffy fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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