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Given by:
 Redd Summers
Takers:
 N/A
Requirements:

- B/S ship fic.
- Setting Season 5.
- Spikes smoldering blanket.
- Tara trying a spell and getting it wrong (it affects someone in the gang).
- Someone other than Xander makes a Babylon 5 reference in a serious situation.
- Glory, but the plot/fight must consist with actual Buffy Timeline (ie. no changing around already written episodes)
- A Summers girl has to be seriously injured (I'm talking, like, broken, bloody, coma-induced and near death's door. She cannot die, though). Buffy, Dawn, or Joyce - you pick.
- Major angst-fest from Spike for whoever ends up injured.
- "Cigarettes and Orange Juice?"
- "Breakfast o' Champions, love."
- Happy or sad ending is your choice.
Extra:
 - Anya getting scammed by someone while working at the Magic Box, but she ends up scamming him/her out of their money.
- Willow working on folding dimensions with magick.
- One of the scoobies watches the episode "Into the Labyrinth" (of Andromeda) and comments on James' character Charlemagne Bolivar.
- Scoobies killing time by listing the demons they've fought in order of importance with Spike being listed as the least dangerous - even under Angel - and Spike getting upset with them.
- Dawn working some kind of magick, even if just a tiny spell.
- Extra slayage points for those who can write this and make it both happy and sad.
   
Given by:
 Redd Summers
Takers:
 N/A
Requirements:
 - Spike centric fic, a minimum rating of R.
- Takes place in Season 6, mostly in Spike's mind.
- Tara is practicing a spell which backfires on Spike causing him to withdraw into his mind.
- Some how, Tara has to send Buffy into his mind to get him back (you decide how and why, but make it good).
- His mind is dark and violent, with touches to show he's trying to change. The darker, the better.
- Buffy is attacked whenever she gets close to Spike (mental defences of a demon).
- Show different persona's of Spike (ala: sincere, helpful, demonic, violent, etc).
- Manifestation of William helps her out at times, but cannot do anything directly himself.
- Sceneary changes dramatically (think of Willow going into Buffy's mind in Weight of the World).
- Different sceneary may include: The Crypt, Buffy's House, Hell, Prague, Angelus' mansion, the Factory, Victorian England.
- Buffy has to confront her own real fears as well as Spike's to get them out.
Extra:
 - His defences are of people she knows (Dru, Dawn, Angelus, etc) that try to either attack or trick her.
- Buffy might go through trials. Blood, Ice, Fire, that sort of thing.
- Buffy is disturbed by how his mind works, but by the end comes to understand how evil he really isn't.
- Buffy has to find the balance of the Monster and the Man, making them one person.
- His mind might be like a labrynth, his old poems are changed to rhyming clues for Buffy to find her way.
- Buffy must be hurt, badly, but she forces herself to go on.
   
Given by:
 Redd Summers
Takers:
 N/A
Requirements:
 - Spike/Dawn Friendship Fic
- Setting must be post Season 5 (Summer between season 5 and 6 or season 6, I don't care)
- Main story is centered on Spike and Dawn having a movie night.
- Settings must include a video rental place, gas station, Summers' home, and The Magic Box.
- Movies that need to be included in some way: Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail, Tomb Raider, X-Men, Dracula 2000, House on Haunted Hill, Star Wars (any), 8 Monkeys, Blade, and Harriet the Spy
- Three of the above movies have to be rented (one MUST be Monty Python, the others are your choice)
- Lots of dialogue about "Real Good Movies" (Spike and Dawn obviously have different tastes here)
- Xander and Willow make guest appearences, but don't stay around for very long.
- Spike tries to smoke in the house, but Dawn cuts the lit end off with scissors.
- Dawn burns the microwave popcorn.
Extra:
 - Spike falls asleep durring one movie and Dawn draws on him.
- Spike makes annoyed comments about American actors with phony British accents (i.e. Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider)
- Dawn comments about cute boys to the annoyance of Spike (and Xander if he's around).
- Extra points if she comments on James Marsters' character in House on Haunted Hill in front of Xander (I love his jelousy).
- Dawn makes vanilla sundaes, one with blood the other with strawberry topping, and can't remember which is which.
- Demon/Vampire attacks giving the story a fight scene.
- Spike defends the comedy of Monty Python to someone else because it's "Damn funny. Even Sir Broods-a-Lot would laugh at it."
   
Given by:
 Redd Summers
Takers:
 N/A
Requirements:

- Spike centric w/ Drusilla.
- NC-17 rating for graphic violence and possibly sexual content.
- The darker, the better!
- Set in 1880-1900 timeframe in London (use Fool for Love for references)
- Explaining in graphic detail how William the Bloody got the nickname "Spike."
- Must include at least the deaths of three people who intimidated William at the party. Torture is a must!
- Drusilla must say these lyrics in some manner and have it relate somehow to future events of the story:

In a haunted castle
Lived a little boy;
Snip, snip, snip
Off goes their heads...
Bright red...
Bright red...
Extra:
 - William and Drusilla have sex by the corpse(s) of "Spike's" victims.
- Showing William changing his name to Spike.
- Angelus punishes William/Spike for something.
- Darla makes Drusilla upset/Spike attacks Darla/Angelus attacks Spike.
- Show how badly Angelus treated William to make him hate him so much over time.