OK!

So This Is How They Are. (I *adore* this. Short, but perfect.)

Slow Motion and Sequel.

Does It Have To Mean Something? (Long, but excellent.)

The big post of Spuffy fic by _jems_. (TONS of stuff.)

(There is also my own Maybe Someday, although if you feel like embarking - it is LOOONG - you should really read The Summer After first... I'll be going now.)

OMG icon! *melts*

And I'm already thinking of more fics to rec, but I figure that other people will come up with tons of stuff - these were the ones I had links to that were handy. (And I don't have time to go digging stuff up. Stupid RL.)

If you enjoy long fics, then I think mine will just up your street. And definitely read the prequel, there's stuff that won't make much sense otherwise. (I mean, it didn't start off as a prequel, it just spawned a Spuffy centric sequel. And one day 'Maybe Someday' will have a monster of a sequel itself... *points to icon* I am incapable of doing short. *cries*)

ETA: Having just skimmed a few chapter, I feel the need to say that my writing has improved since then. Not that it's *bad*, just... Darn, old fic just does that I suppose. I was young!

Edited at 2009-05-06 08:57 pm (UTC)

Just so you know, I went on to read Slow Motion and the Sequel called Roman Holiday (both are awesome) and found out there's another story too.

The Next Best Thing

Dang, elisi gives good fic recs!

You are fab. Thanks so much for the recs! :)

I'll keep it in mind. :)

Obstacles is excellent!

Have you read Lirazel's "Kaleidoscope"? http://penny-lane-42.livejournal.com/35486.html

Two of my favorite stoies during your time window:

Beg the Liquid Red by Eurydice Twisty, complex, fascinating - Magic clocks and time travel.
There are was so much masked pain in his voice that it took Buffy’s breath away. spuffy, too.

Unspoken by Anaross Lovely lovely. Buffy is mailed a key to a ‘magical’ garden.

Also check spuffy_lovin for more post NFA stories.

Edited at 2009-05-06 06:57 pm (UTC)

Hurrah! After that last post, I started wishing I knew of some more mid- or post-Ats S5 Spuffy. Here's what I can point you to:

The Big Easy, by Lady Wenham - post-NFA, Spike and Buffy end up trapped by a hurricane and work out their issues
The Unmasking, by thisficklemob - mid-S5 (She also has a fabulous AU, Tekubi, in which Spike didn't get his arms back post-Damaged, but alas it seems to be a work not in progess)
Armadillo, by stultiloquentia - post-NFA Spuffy in the sunlight with bonus Oz appearance.
Anaross has done a number of post-NFA Spuffy fics. My favorites are Baby Blue (Spuffy, but with a Spike/Illyria baby) and Nevertime (post-NFA; Spike, Angel, and Illyria in the Arctic).

And here, have some bonus non-Spuffy fic:
Masks - attempts to explain some of the Ats S5 Spike characterization
The Last Hurrah of the Golden... Handshake? - a perfectly silly NFA AU drabble that make me giggle every time.

I enjoyed st_salieri's Use of Memory which starts post-TGiQ: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=st_salieri&keyword=Fic:+The+Use+of+Memory&filter=all.

There's a sequel (Ring the Bell Backwards) which I haven't read as well, but Use of Memory works very well as a stand-alone.

Dunno if you'd be interested in Vampire Winter, as it contains not only Spuffy, but Bangel and offscreen Spangel, but it's post NFA, so you might want to give it a look.

It's Shapinglight, btw. I'm signed in on my other LJ

There's Devilpiglet's "Prayers to Broken Stone" http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=824

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=wisteria_&keyword=Correspondents&filter=all

Canon AtS Season 5, written during airing