Hunger
is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic by Sunalso.
The story is an Alternate Universe Fic in which Buffy is a pregnant teen living alone in Seattle struggling to make ends meet, when one night she's pulled into an alley by a vampire looking for an easy meal. Things take an unusual turn when the vampire realizes she's pregnant and instead of killing her, chooses to chew her out for being irresponsible enough to walk alone at night.
Then the vampire moves himself in with her. Which is problematic because he's hot and she's horny.
The pairing is Spuffy, and the rating is NC-17/Explicit for sexual content.
This work contains examples of the following tropes:
- Alternate Universe Fic: The story takes place in a universe where Buffy is a pregnant teen living in Seattle who is only a Potential Slayer, and Spike finds her after killing the Slayer who killed Drusilla.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Buffy tells Spike she loves him…right before telling him to leave, because he's a vampire who kills people and she doesn't want that kind of influence around her babies.
- Babies Ever After: The story ends with Buffy giving birth to the twins and raising them together with Spike. The last chapter also shows that Xander and Anya have a son and Wesley and Fred have a daughter.
- Battle Couple: Buffy and Spike become one.
- Beast and Beauty: More so than their canon counterparts; Spike's demon is extremely protective of Buffy and the twins.
- Boy Meets Ghoul: Gender inversion. Buffy is just a regular girl when she meets Spike, a vampire, though she's revealed to be a Potential Slayer and becomes a Slayer in the climax of the story.
- Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Realizing that Spike is killing to feed, Buffy tells him to leave because she doesn't want him around her babies. Spike decides to give up killing so he can be with her, and they get back together after only a couple of chapters.
- Bridal Carry: Spike carries Buffy like this many times throughout the story.
- Broken Bird: Buffy. She was kicked out of her home when she was fifteen because of an incident at school that wasn't even her fault, was forced to live on the streets until she could find work, and had a line of boyfriends who treated her terribly. The last one, Riley, made Buffy feel insecure about her body and sexual preferences, and after getting her pregnant because of his refusal to use condoms, he blames her and kicks her out. By the time Spike meets her, she can barely afford to feed herself and her unborn children.
- Cinderella Plot: Buffy starts off the story alone and barely able to afford feeding herself and her unborn children. Then she meets Spike who helps her get back on her feet, and through his help, help from her friends and her own skills, by the end of the story she's become the head of Seattle's demon community with all the wealth and privileges that go with it.
- Daddy's Girl: Both Dawn and Anne have this relationship with Spike, but Anne is especially this.
- Damsel out of Distress: Buffy is thrown into an arena against a deadly opponent by Mr. Trick. She ends up getting called as the next Slayer during the fight, allowing her to not only finish off her opponent but to also kill her captor.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: When Buffy returns home after three years with Spike, her father attempts to punch the vampire for being with Buffy. Spike dodges the attack and points out that Buffy wouldn't be in her current situation if Hank hadn't thrown her out.
- Declaration of Protection: Spike, who's been desperately lonely since losing Drusilla, vows to look after Buffy and her unborn children.
- Desperately Craves Affection: Spike is extremely co-dependant and needs to look after someone, which leaves him devastated when Drusilla dies. He believes that Buffy saved him as much as he saved her.
- Differing Priorities Breakup: Buffy asks Spike to leave because he's killing people to feed. She doesn't ask him to change because she feels she doesn't have the right to ask him to change a vital part of himself. Spike chooses to change anyway, and they get back together again.
- Disappeared Dad: Riley, the father of Buffy's unborn children, kicked her out after she became pregnant and took off. He returns later in the story married to someone else and reveals that he'd actually believed Buffy had lied about being pregnant, and is shocked to see she was telling the truth. Spike blackmails him into relinquishing all custody rights to the children.
- Forced to Watch: Mr. Trick televises Buffy's arena fight, basically making it a public execution. Buffy's friends can do nothing but watch helplessly.
- Grew a Spine: Joyce in the end. She let her husband kick Buffy out. Upon seeing Buffy again, she realizes that was a mistake and divorces him.
- Happily Adopted: Spike formerly adopts the twins. Even before they're born, Buffy considers him to be their father in every way that counts.
- Happily Ever After: The twins are born safely, and Buffy and her family and friends no longer have to worry about money.
- Heel–Face Turn: Spike gives up killing in order to be with Buffy.
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: Buffy gets kidnapped by Mr. Trick and is forced to fight in an arena against a deadly opponent as a form of execution. Thankfully she's called as the Slayer during the fight and frees herself.
- Instant Birth: Just Add Labour!: While not as fast as some media portrays it, Buffy ends up giving birth to the twins quite quickly.
- Interspecies Romance: Buffy and Spike, a human (later Slayer) and a vampire.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Buffy asks Spike to leave because she doesn't think she has the right to ask him to change his behaviour for her, and that he wouldn't be happy if she forced him to. Spike ends up making the change anyway, and is happy to do so, because being with her makes him happier.
- Love Across Battlelines: Buffy and Spike, a vampire and a Potential Slayer on opposite sides of the battle between good and evil.
- Love Redeems: Spike chooses to stop killing so he can be with Buffy.
- Mama Bear: Buffy. She tells off Spike the first night they meet, later tells him to leave for the sake of her unborn children and after being pitted against a monster in an arena, she kills it (and the vampire who captured her) to protect her children.
- Monster/Slayer Romance: Buffy and Spike, though she doesn't become a full Slayer until the last chapters of the story.
- Not Good with Rejection: When Buffy asks Spike to leave, he says some nasty things to her in his anger that he doesn't mean and later comes to deeply regret.
- Original Character: Many. The butcher and his vampire daughter, Jorge the police officer, etc.
- Papa Wolf: Spike is insanely protective of the twins and Buffy.
- Pregnant Badass: Buffy. Especially after she becomes the Slayer.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Buffy tells off Joyce for standing by and doing nothing when Hank kicked her out of the house. Spike tells off Hank for acting like he cares about who Buffy's dating when he was the one who tossed her out onto the street in the first place.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: Dawn is one of Buffy's twin daughters, instead of her younger sister.
- Struggling Single Mother: Buffy is preparing to be one at the beginning of the story, before she meets Spike.
- Teen Pregnancy: Buffy is eighteen when she becomes pregnant.
- There Is Only One Bed: Buffy's apartment only has one bed, which Spike insists upon sharing with her.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Dawn and Anne in the last couple of chapters, with Dawn as the Tomboy and Anne as the Girly Girl.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Buffy, especially after she becomes the Slayer. She protects Spike from Giles, Cordelia, Oz and Angel, who tracked him down to kill him in revenge for killing the Sunnydale Slayer. Spike himself is a gender-inversion.
- Would Hurt a Child: Mr. Trick and his lackeys.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The story happens because Spike attempts to feed from Buffy but then refuses to kill her upon realizing she's pregnant.
- Wrong Guy First: Buffy thought Riley was going to marry her. Then she fell pregnant and he kicked her out.
