“I think there is a general misconception that you write poems because you “have something to say.” I think, actually, that you write poems because you have something echoing around in the bone-dome of your skull that you cannot say. Poetry allows us to hold many related tangential notions in very close orbit around each other at the same time. The “unsayable” thing at the center of the poem becomes visible to the poet and reader in the same way that dark matter becomes visible to the astrophysicist. You can’t see it, but by measure of its effect on the visible, it can become so precise a silhouette you can almost know it.”

- Nikita Gill, Every Woman I Have Ever Loved

• Reformation by OffYourBird [R]

When a Buffy from another dimension rescues Spike after he’s left beaten in Dead Things, his and Buffy’s world is irrevocably turned upside down.

• Choices by lafillesauvage [NC-17]

After the big showdown in L.A., the Powers That Be decide to make each of their three Champions (Buffy, Angel, and Spike) a deal, which they may or may not choose to accept. This story follows what happened after they made those choices, how their lives played out in the years that followed, and how Buffy and Spike eventually found their way back to each other.

• Christmas Date by bewildered [NC-17]

Christmas Eve in Cleveland, 2004.

• Down the Road I Go by Megan_Tam [NC-17]

A Slayer. A vampire. A 1959 DeSoto. Spike kidnaps Buffy and heads back to Brazil in a misguided attempt to appease Drusilla. What starts out as revenge turns into an experience neither will forget. If they don’t kill each other first.

• Midnight in Rome by Dusty [R]

It’ll take more than death and a fiery apocalypse to keep them apart now. (Sequel to Meet Me at Midnight)

• We Will Remember Them… by Lilachigh [NC-17]

In 1943, to save Dru, Spike agrees to go to France to save the Slayer who is held captive by the Germans. In 2000 Sunnydale, Buffy - newly returned from the grave and in a relationship with Spike - agrees to time travel back to France to save a Slayer and kill a vampire.

• The Writing on the Wall by Holly [NC-17]

There was no body to bury. There was no funeral. There was nothing but the three rules and the knowledge that a thousand years of torment was nothing compared to a world without her in it. Spike embarks on a journey through the Gates of Hell to rescue the one he loves, but in order to save her, he must risk losing himself.

• Hunger by Sunalso [NC-17]

AU. Spike killed his third Slayer, but Dru was already dust. He’s been lost, but when his supper turns out to be more than he bargained for, it leaves him hungry for something else instead. And Buffy? She’s just hungry.

SHERLOCK HOLMES ( 2009 )

dir. Guy Ritchie 

So you’re a man who has everything…and nothing.