Buffy falls first, Spike is resistant

Hello,

I was wondering if there are any fics where Buffy is the first to fall for Spike, and he resists her? As opposed to the cannon 'Spike falls for Buffy first'?

I'm looking for something not spell-related, just a natural progression of Buffy's feelings.

Thanks so much,
J.

I have a great WIP where Buffy doesn't fall first but once Spike loses interest she changes her mind and, in a completely non-spell induced way, pines for him and really tries to get him to change his mind but he could not be less interested. It's a natural progression, it's just that it happens after Buffy rejects Spike for a period of time.

Irony Becomes Her by starmouse

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/916876/1/Irony_Becomes_Her



And there is a brilliant post-Chosen fic where Buffy finds Spike 'resurrected' so to speak and living his new human life without her and he is completely uninterested in her but she perseveres because she knows what she wants now. It's a great story:

My Life Closed Twice by anaross

http://www.athenewolfe.com/justrewards/viewstory.php?sid=577

There are of course many all human fics with these parameters, but since you are asking for recs I assume that you are not seeking all human ones. The canon ones are much rarer.

There is an absolutely wonderful story called And the Dream Will Set You Free by randi. It can be found at Elysian Fields.

Summary: What if, at the end of Out of My Mind, it was Buffy who woke up from a dream?

The only bummer about this story is that it hasn't been updated for a couple years. I know I'm particularly adverse to starting a story that hasn't been updated in that long, but it was still really good and worth reading. Hopefully the author will come back to it some day. Or maybe there is a finished copy of it out there somewhere that I wasn't able to find. That would be awesome.