Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Length: 48,000+ words
Author on LJ: --
Author Website: Avalon's fanfiction Why this must be read:In season 5, soon after Spike had realized that he's in love with her, Buffy lost her sight in a battle. In hope to go down fighting, she goes alone against a horde of demons and is saved by Spike. He knows a place where she can find real help: she can enter a Trial and win her sight back. But when they arrive there things become really complicated.
Fans are always emotionally ahead of the canon and by season 5 many shippers dreamed of Buffy and Spike's love affair ASAP. Avalon creates a clever shortcut: extreme situation, Trial, hard choices, illumination. The events of
Love is Blind happen during three days. In canon, it took three years. Yet the shortcut works perfectly, because the chemistry was there from the very beginning. If Buffy and Spike's story were a movie,
Love is Blind would provide a perfect script for it. A script, full of shocks, twists and unexpected turns; a script with tight, high-octane action; a script with wonderful character voices.
( Excerpt )Love Is Blind