A while ago I asked for Spuffy fanfic recommendations, preferably fix-its, and many of you suggested HollyDB's (@elysianholly) works, which are all ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
Seriously, she has a ton of fics, I'm going through all of them like my life depends on it and they are all INCREDIBLE!! I don't even know how it's possible.
She understands and knows how to write Spike and Spuffy better than anyone I've ever seen, it's Spuffy heaven!
Anyway, this is all to say I just started The Writing on the Wall and I'm wondering if anyone else has read it because I don't think I can do it alone.
It's set after Buffy sacrifices herself at the end of season 5 but this time she ends up in a hell dimension and Spike goes to rescue her, and let me tell you, it is BRUTAL.
He has to go through trials to get to her and one of them involves him staying by himself in an empty cave, completely tied up, with no food for the equivalent to 3 Earth days.
And at first you think, yeah, sure, that's not exactly easy but of course Spike can do it.
So, the 72 hours go by but, for some reason, he doesn't get to move on. Years seemingly go by with no end in sight until, finally, this demon who's responsible for his trials lets him know he's made it through the first day.
One day on Earth means 100 years in hell...and he still has 2 more days to go.
This is where I'm at right now, so, there are still 200 years ahead.
She's a HEA writer so I know things will end ok no matter how much pain there is until then but JFC I was not expecting that!
Anyway, I just needed to share the angst and recommend her work to anyone else who is interested. I now consider pretty much all of her fics as official canon and I just alternate among them in my head depending on my mood cause they're all so good.
