Fiction Index

This is a complete and detailed listing of all the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fan fiction by Peasant. The stories are mostly set in the nineteenth century and are about the fanged four, concentrating mainly on Spike or rather William the Bloody as he was known to his enemies, Will to his family. I write about his relationship with Angelus, Darla, and Dru; a motley crew of minions; various other people, demons and vampires he met; and how he learnt to be a vampire in Victorian England.

Butterfly Catchers

I had wanted for a long time to write a story about Angelus hunting, but also about his relationship with the church. This is the result.

This story is available as either a single file or in individual parts.

  1. Part I: The Butterfly
  2. Part II: The Moth
  3. Part III: Angelus’s Study
  4. Part IV: Grayling
  5. Part V: The Mill
  6. Part VI: Sketching
  7. Part VII: The Impresario
  8. Part VIII: Camberwell Beauty
  9. Part IX: Manoeuvres
  10. Part X: Boar Hunt
  11. Part XI: Evivva Il Coltello!
  12. Part XII: Pianoforte
  13. Part XIII: Pig in the Middle
  14. Part XIV: Check
  15. Part XV: The Schoolroom
  16. Part XVI: The Soaring Perpendicular
  17. Part XVII: Mr Denman’s Instruction
  18. Part XVIII: The Practice Room
  19. Part XIX: Coda
Summary
A story about obsession, about love and what it means to be a father, a mentor, a teacher. And about music.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1884
Written
March 2007
Word Count
37,605 words
Rating
Mature Teen
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Dru, Will
Content
Themes involving the exploitation of a child, but nothing explicit. Violence.
Footnotes
6 footnotes

Chevachee

I wrote this because I wanted a good adventure story about why Angelus was called the Scourge of Europe; but also because I have always felt that being a vampire must be harder than Joss sometimes makes it seem. Of course I then saw Fool for Love for the first time whilst halfway through writing it.

Summary
Angelus takes Spike on a little trip.
Spoilers
School Hard, Fool for Love, Darla,
Period
1884
Written
August 2001
Word Count
9,641 words
Rating
Mature Teen
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Dru, Master, Will
Content
Rape, but not graphic; violence; strong language.
Footnotes
2 footnotes

Cockchafer

A drabble.

Summary
Focus on something small.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1885
Written
January 2004
Word Count
100 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Dru, Will
Content
Violence, some involving a child.

The Cruellest Cut

This is a short bit of nonsense involving one of the oldest conundrums about vampires.

Summary
A short bit of nonsense involving one of the oldest conundrums about vampires - will he, won't he?
Spoilers
None.
Period
1880
Written
August 2001
Word Count
365 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will

An Explanation

As usual I expect you to have been concentrating. If certain other people had then this wouldn’t be necessary. And, as far as I can check the relative changes, this does actually work.

Summary
It's all about an explanation...
Spoilers
In The Dark, Fool for Love
Period
1999
Written
October 2001
Word Count
1,996 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
D’Hoffryn, Spike
Content
A bit of violence mentioned.
Footnotes
1 footnote

Felix Culpa

From time to time I just get very silly and write something daft. This seems to be one of those times. Mildly inspired by the quite extraordinary amount of clutter the Victorians kept in their drawing-rooms.

Summary
Four vampires, one kitten, and what can only be described as a lot of highly improbable fortuities.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1886
Written
February 2004
Word Count
5,449 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Dru, Will
Content
Some rough and tumble violence, and bad language, involving a kitten.

Giving Him The Moon

This is all because I started to wonder how a race whose conversation mainly consisted of ‘Like to crush. Crush now,’ had the words to allow Giles to say things like ‘You’re just a little overwrought,’ and ‘it’s perfectly serviceable.’ Mind you, I have never known a language, however barbaric, that the person trying to get you to like it didn’t claim was the most beautiful and poetic tongue on the planet.

Summary
Spike said that he happened to speak Fyarl, he never said he spoke it well.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1887
Written
January 2002
Word Count
10,418 words
Rating
Adult
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Will
Content
Explicit sexual activity; violence; strong language.

Good Fairy

Victorian stories have something of an obsession with people drinking absinthe. Ah, absinthe! La Fée Verte – the green fairy, the opalescent liquor, the verdant demon, a swirling fog of mesmeric imagery leading us into a whirlpool of decadence. Except that in England the average man was far more likely to feel the wrath of the temperance movement, or Blue Ribboners as they were derisively known, just for taking a few glasses of beer, than to ever come across absinthe. But who am I to buck a trend?

Summary
As everyone learns at Nanny's knee, you should never, ever mix your drinks.
Spoilers
Crush
Period
1895
Written
June 2003
Word Count
8,327 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Will
Content
Implied violence, including some against children; strong language; the imbibing of intoxicating liquor. And cake.
Footnotes
1 footnote

The Greatest of These New

For years I have had this image in my mind of a small girl being escorted to take up her first post in the vampires’ household, because it was such an obvious and simple way to hunt. Millie never quite made it properly onto the page though because I always found Darla so hard to write. Until one day I began to realize that for many Victorian women the key to an autonomous and meaningful existence was charity, and the opportunities for independent action that it gave them.

Dedication
Written for Shapinglight’s Darla Ficathon. Many thanks to her for organising the ficathon and then performing an excellent beta job.
Summary
Darla engages in a routine piece of hunting.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1883
Written
October 2009
Word Count
5,920 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Darla
Content
Events involve a small child and vampires, but nothing graphic is described.
Footnotes
2 footnotes

Have You Any Idea

This is a short prose piece written to let me play out some of my ideas about Angelus.

Summary
How hard was it to train Spike?
Spoilers
None.
Period
1882
Written
August 2001
Word Count
720 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will

He Needs To Learn

Another prose piece playing out some of my ideas about Angelus. Companion piece to Have You Any Idea.

Summary
How hard was it to train Spike?
Spoilers
None.
Period
1880
Written
August 2001
Word Count
500 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will

Hougoumont

This story was inspired by the challenge banner created by Little Miss Bossy for the Writercon UK Midimeet 2007 Artwork/Fiction challenge, she wanted to see Angelus meeting with Captain John Wyndham-Price at the Battle of Waterloo.

Summary
On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo a young officer and a vampire must prepare themselves for what is to come.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1815
Written
August 2007
Word Count
5,129 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, John Wyndham-Price
Content
Some descriptions of violence and the effects of battle.
Footnotes
2 footnotes

If

Solvet Saeclum In Favilla. From the Requiem Mass: ‘When the world dissolves into ashes.’

Dedication
For my uncle.
Summary
If the world dissolved into ashes. A meditation on grief.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1886
Written
December 2003
Word Count
1,473 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Will
Content
Character death. Brief descriptions of violence, including torture.

In-Between

This arose from an image I have had in my mind for a very long time, and from a fascinating e-mail about vampire feeding sent to me by Dave Jacoby. I put the two thoughts together and this resulted.

Summary
Two windows, high up, and what happens between the light and the dark.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1883
Written
June 2004
Word Count
788 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will
Content
A small bit of cruelty to a rat, quite a lot of cruelty to Will.

Just Rewards

Something inspired by a tiny moment in Just Rewards.

Summary
Will being taught a short lesson in demonology.
Spoilers
Just Rewards
Period
1884
Written
February 2004
Word Count
2,015 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will
Content
Violence.

Just William

This just turned up in my head – something from when Will was still very young and just learning the ropes. A passing tale about one evening in a young vampire’s harum-scarum life.

Summary
Will just being… Will.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1881
Written
December 2007
Word Count
17,548 words
Rating
Mature Teen
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Dru, Will
Content
Some violence, not graphic.

Little Brother

This one started out to try and explore the character of Dru a little better, but then an entire plot line snuck in more or less of its own accord, until it ended up being mostly about Spike as usual. And every time I rewrote it Angelus got meaner and meaner.

Summary
Sometimes siblings just have to squabble for attention.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1881
Written
August 2001
Word Count
8,581 words
Rating
Mature Teen
Characters
Angelus, Dru, Will
Content
Implied violence; strong language.
Footnotes
1 footnote

The Mentor

This was my first ever fan fiction. I started out with a minor character because I thought I would be less liable to make an ass of myself. I’ve never been entirely happy with it, but some people like it apparently.

Dedication
For Zafra.
Summary
Penn meets the newest member of his old family.
Spoilers
Somnambulist
Period
1881
Written
May 2001
Word Count
5,208 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Penn, Will
Content
Very mildly implied sexual situations and violence.

Prelude and Fugue

It is said that listening to music while writing can stimulate the creative process – this is what happened when I tried the theory out. (J. S. Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier: 48 Preludes and Fugues.)

Dedication
For Coquette.
Summary
An introduction, a flight, and the interplay of two characters in a world where neither quite belongs.
Spoilers
None.
Period
1893
Written
January 2003
Word Count
4,212 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Will
Content
Violence implied; accidental cruelty to animals.
Footnotes
1 footnote

Schoolboy

I wrote this on Midsummer Day, which was a beautiful sunny day and I got up, thought that I couldn’t be bothered to do any proper work, wandered out into the garden, and wrote this in one sitting. It sometimes scares me that this is what I write when I’m in a good mood.

Summary
Spike learns a lesson from Angelus.
Sequel
Thank You
Spoilers
None.
Period
1882
Written
June 2001
Word Count
2,904 words
Rating
Adult
Characters
Angelus, Dru, Will
Content
Fairly graphic descriptions of violence; strong language.
Footnotes
1 footnote

Shards

Meditations on a brother and sister. A drabble.

Summary
Observation
Spoilers
None.
Period
1884
Written
May 2004
Word Count
100 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Dru, Will

The Sheet Anchor

This was written in response to several of the things that really annoy me in historical fan fiction. I also didn’t see why, just because I saw The Initiative long before I wrote any fic, I shouldn’t be allowed to write the old canon Spike. You know the sort of thing: where you don’t have to be sending Dru up to bed without any supper all the time, just so he and Angelus can have some quality time together. You can have fun spotting all my anachronisms.

Summary
It's the Napoleonic wars and Spike runs away to sea (sort of).
Spoilers
absolutely none, whatsoever, under any circumstances.
Period
1812
Written
September 2001
Word Count
8,642 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will
Content
Implied sexual activity; mild violence; salty language.
Footnotes
8 footnotes

Storeroom

Something a bit different because it's not about any of the Fanged Four. Simply a small idea that arose from nowhere in particular. Set sometime early in Angel Season 5.

Summary
Wes remembers.
Spoilers
Home
Period
2003
Written
January 2004
Word Count
397 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Wesley

Sweet William

This is the big one, the one I suppose I wanted to write as soon as I saw Fool for Love, to try and reconcile William and Spike. It came out a little longer than I was expecting, though.

This story is available as either a single file or in individual parts.

  1. Part I: How it all began.
  2. Part II: Discoveries and developments.
  3. Part III: One thing leading to another.
  4. Part IV: The North Country and what happened there.
  5. Part V: Settling down into a new way of life.
  6. Part VI: Choices and how they are made.
Summary
A young man called William, England, 1880.
Spoilers
Fool for Love, Darla
Period
1880
Written
February 2002
Word Count
32,767 words
Rating
Adult
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Dru, Will
Content
Explicit sexual activity. Violence, including torture. Industrial strength angst. Increasingly strong language. Cruelty to animals (I mean that). In other words, the whole darn shooting match.
Footnotes
6 footnotes

Thank You

After I wrote Schoolboy, Hannalee wanted to read Spike remembering to thank Angelus; myself, I’d always considered the gem of Amarra incident as that, but if a beta reader commands… This was the only way I could think of for him to do so. Blame her and all the other people who demanded a sequel.

Summary
Spike thanks Angel for the lesson he learnt in 'Schoolboy'. (Sequel to 'Schoolboy' by Peasant.)
Prequel
Schoolboy
Spoilers
The Wish
Period
1997
Written
January 2002
Word Count
2,769 words
Rating
Adult
Characters
Angel, Master, Spike
Content
Violence; strong language.

Wait

A little bit of suspense. A drabble.

Summary
Suspense
Spoilers
None.
Period
1888
Written
April 2004
Word Count
100 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will

Wild Demonic Fauna

This was written to thank Noone for all her hard work on Sweet William, and also to finally get out of my head some of my mad theories about vamp ecology. (Please note that there is one deliberate anachronism in this story, so all praise for anyone who spots it. And as always I will be grateful to anyone who points out any unintentional mistakes to me. It is left to the reader to sort out which is which.)

This story is available as either a single file or in individual parts.

  1. Part I: Elementary hunting methods and environmental constraints on nutrition
  2. Part II: Geographical distribution: an overview
  3. Part III: Domesticated behavioural patterns
  4. Part IV: Examples of both conventional and less common behaviour
Summary
It's cold, it's wet, and Will has been dead for three whole years.
Spoilers
Fool for Love, Darla
Period
1883
Written
May 2002
Word Count
32,767 words
Rating
Adult
Characters
Angelus, Darla, Dru, Will
Content
Explicit sexual activity; some violence, including implied torture; gratuitous historical detail; several bad jokes; and it’s actually quite fluffy (for once).
Footnotes
2 footnotes

Disclaimer

Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, and all the characters in them, are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Twentieth Century Fox, the WB, UPN, and just about everybody else on the planet except me. I acknowledge this fully; and I promise I’m only playing with them without hope of profit. I will put them back in the box carefully when I’m done and apologise if they got a bit hurt while I was using them. But come on, they are vampires, they can probably take it.

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