Link:

West of the Moon, East of the Sun by KnifeEdge


http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=3071&warning=NC-17

Sideways by GoldenUsagi at Elysian Fields

Alternate reality. Buffy starts as a normal college girl. But her life is slowly turned upside down beginning with the day she's unexpectedly in danger. Hired by chance to protect her is Spike, a vampire with a reputation for doing business with anyone for enough money. She's less than thrilled, but finds herself drawn to him even as she realizes he's more than he seems. But humans aren't the only ones after her, and when she's called as the Slayer, her whole world changes. Things with Spike, who she's discovered some realities about, are no longer as simple as they seemed. But being sent to the Hellmouth and realizing the high death rate of her calling, Buffy hires Spike as backup with the only thing she has left—Slayer blood.

Link:

Sideways by GoldenUsagi at Elysian Fields

http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=2123

No Such Thing as Coincidences by All4Spike on this site.
there are four stories in the series so far, every one is amazing and not one is under 100 000 words.

http://spikeluver.com/SpuffyRealm/viewstory.php?sid=21920&warning=NC-17

Fix You By Enigmatic Blue
http://www.athenewolfe.com/justrewards/viewstory.php?sid=946

In Harm's Way by DawnofMe
http://spikeluver.com/SpuffyRealm/viewstory.php?sid=30998

Spike'sKat at Seductive Embrace has at least half a dozen long stories/series.
http://spikeskat.rogue-poet.com/seductive_fiction.htm

There is an epilogue to Winters Storm that is not at Sinister Attraction. It is on another site though. So, my rec for Winters Storm is:

Winters Storm By greyangel

http://www.sinister-attraction.net/attract.htm

or, complete with it's epilogue, chapter '71', A Winter's Wedding, at

http://dddsdv.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/winters-storm-1-gone/

Summary: Angel and Spike are members of a gangster type family ruled over by Masters (in NY) Angel runs the LA branch of the 'family' and after an affair with Buffy he disappears. Masters is furious and is determined to bring his wayward child back to be punished. Spike and Dru are lovers and have been living in NY working for Masters but when Angel vanished he took Drusilla with him...Spike is enraged and seeking revenge...then he discovers Angel's one true love (Buffy) and the perfect revenge is within his grasp...this is a Spike and Buffy story...how hate and revenge turn into lust and desire and finally into trust and love...

At Sinister Attraction it is 'complete' in the sense that it 'ends' with an 'epilogue to follow'. But the epilogue is actually A Winters Wedding, which has it's own title and is not on Sinister Attraction. But the sequel, A Winter's Tale, is on Sinister Attraction, so go figure. Hope this is clear to everyone. The reason I still like using Sinister Attraction's version is that several chapters are combined together for those who want to make a copy of it while at the second site it is seventy chapters each on their own page and it's just more work to copy there. But that is where the epilogue is, so.... Clear as mud, right?

A Winter's Wedding

http://dddsdv.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/winters-storm-epilogue-a-winters-wedding/

Because I've read the news today in her LJ that the author is still working at her story:

Long Time Gone by bitternessfic

(Status: Currently being re-written. Thirty-six chapters posted. Looking at 40+.)

AU all-human. When Buffy and Spike were in high school, everything was nearly perfect for them-- until she mysteriously disappeared. Now, five years later, Buffy's returned for her mother's funeral, and to take over caring for her sister, Dawn. Can Dawn and Spike ever forgive her for running away? Especially when she won't tell them why?

*quote*:
There will be 45 chapters and an epilogue to this story. (Chapter 43 if finished.) The rest will be posted when it's completely done 36 are posted at the moment. But they are long ones.

Hi!

I have to recommend Clocks of the Long Now by lostboy (It's been finished!)

Summary: This story begins post-Chosen, then rockets into an angsty, dystopian post-NFA future that finds Buffy questioning the loyalties of her closest allies.
Four years after the gang helped Sunnydale perform its swan dive into Hell, a terrifying new enemy emerges from an unexpected quarter. As secrets are revealed and old friends are reunited, the greatest Apocalypse of all looms ever closer. Will they manage to save the day one last time?

http://spikeluver.com/SpuffyRealm/viewstory.php?sid=24528

*The author described it as: "Spuffy-friendly Ensemble Future Fic"
It's incredibly well written... a pleasure to read.

Wow. More recs. Thanks! Haven't quite finished all the other ones, but I'll get there.

Just realized no one listed some of the older very best stories out there. You have probably read them but just in case you haven't here are the links:

Imitation of a Man ---- by: Darkapple

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=darkapple&keyword=Imitation+of+a+M an&filter=all

The events of "Dead Things" plunge Buffy and Spike into Spike's human past in an
experience that transforms their relationship. The action begins with Buffy's return
to the police station alley where, minutes before, she left Spike beaten and bloody.
WORD COUNT: 327,649


The Butterfly Effect -----by cousinjean

http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=421&warning=NC-17

THIS IS THE VERY BEST SPUFFY STORY EVER.
Summary: Five months after the events of "Chosen," a still grieving Buffy must follow a time-travelling demon back to 1997 (circa Season 2) Sunnydale to prevent him from destroying the timeline--and try not to destroy it herself in the process.


DANCING LESSONS---by: COUSINJEAN and the Redemptionistas

http://community.livejournal.com/dl_archive/2005/08/13/

This is a huge three book story. Continuity notes: This story begins immediately following the events of the Season 5 episode, "The Body." Spoilers for S5 follow, except for the episode "I Was Made To Love You." We're pretending that one never happened.


NORMAL AGAIN --- BY: RICHARD BACHMAN

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/784245/1/Normal_Again
it is also on the CRYPT site.

Instead of Buffy, Spike gets a dose of demonic goodness inserted into his system. As his consciousness is transported to an AU where he finds Sunnydale is no longer the good old Sunnyhell he despises and knows so well, things are getting a bit surreal for the poor bleached wonder.
WARNING: This fic is dark and ansty but I suppose that we kinda got used to it after watching whole bleedin S6.

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This is another long involved series with a very guilt ridden Spike.
THE OLD BLOOD SERIES --- by Nan Dibble

OLD BLOOD
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=506
While controlled by the First, Spike sired a number of fledgling vampires, something he'd specifically refused to do ever before. Recovered by Buffy from the First, Spike sets out, with Dawn's help, to assassinate those fledges, while assisting Buffy with training the SITs and trying to avoid resuming their destructive sexual patterns of Season 6.
Post-Showtime, Rated R, Spike & Dawn, Spike/Buffy, 57000 words.

BLOOD KIN
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=536

Follows from Old Blood. Roving Turok-han are decimating Sunnydale's vamps. Willing to fight but needing a leader, the vamps fix on an unwilling Spike, who summons Angel—who's in a position to take over everything Spike cares about—to form a fighting partnership between Sunnydale's vampires and Buffy and the SITs. Also Dawn returns to her Key state and Spike attempts to recover her.

THE BLOOD IS LIFE
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=740

Follows directly from the end of Blood Kin. Now AU. The Hellmouth is shut, the First defeated. Spike, Buffy, Dawn, and the remaining SITs must deal with new challenges--Buffy, about her role as Slayer and partnership with Spike; Spike, about the horrible (to him) prospect of becoming a champion of the PTB and about whether to claim the role of the active Master Vampire of Sunnydale; Dawn, about whether and how to grow up and handle an intense but angsty romance (sort of) with vampire Michael. S/B, Spike-Dawn friendship. Rating R, chiefly for violence and profanity.

BLOOD RITES
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=1020

AU, continues from The Blood Is the Life. As Spike and Buffy try to hold onto their partnership and their love, recently unsouled Spike tries to secure his position as self-proclaimed Master Vampire of Sunnydale...against the wishes of The Powers That Be and the Slayer's ancient mandate. Magic, new arrivals, old friends (and enemies), dreams, visions, e-Bay, tribute blood, and cookies all play a part in the tense give and take between vampire priorities and human necessities.

There may be another book in this series, I'm not sure, but I don't have the name or link.

When We Dance ----- by Pepperlandgirl

http://www.nocturnal-light.net/fanfiction/story/178/1/When_We_Dance

Summary: Spike returns to Sunnydale five years after he left to get his soul. Buffy's with Angel and he has a new love of his own---but some things never change. And oh yeah, the world's ending (again).


HERE IS GONE ---- by: TERRI BOTTA

http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=1063

Spike gets a chance to do a few things over again.


Forward to Time Past ------by Unbridled Brunette

http://spikeluver.com/SpuffyRealm/viewstory.php?sid=23957

Summary: The victim of a spell gone awry, Buffy finds herself trapped in Victorian London, where she meets a man surprisingly familiar to her.

THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW ----by: ANGEARIA---this is a WIP with over 100,000 words

http://angearia.livejournal.com/53356.html

Spike writes a letter to Buffy before the final battle in Not Fade Away. What happens when Buffy finally discovers Spike is back from the great beyond?

here is a link for the fifth book in the nan dibble series but it appears to be unfinished

http://www.soulfulspike.com/bloodprice/bloodpricetale.htm

Re: Nan's fic

Sadly, this will remain WIP. Nan passed away on March 7, 2006.

Oh, no. I didn't know that -- that's awful. (not that the story is a WIP, that she passed away.) Thank you for letting us know.

No problem. I'm glad that people are talking and reading her fics even now. Nan was very sweet and kind, and I miss her dearly.

If you'd like to leave a comment to Nan, her friends still post a comment in her livejournal. Her username is nandibble.

She posted a chapter 9 on her livejournal, and that was her last livejouranl entry.