Authors Note; As it says in my profile, I've got at least three-hundred story ideas for Buffy... not Buffy and Angel, just Buffy alone. It's insane, really, and I'll never get around to actually writing all of them myself, or I don't think I will, so I leave them here for you. They are very detailed, but remember that I planned to write them myself. If there is something you don't agree with, feel free to contact me and we can discuss is. This A/N goes for all future chapters.

Also, it's all in order. The first chapter will contain an All Human challenge and then the next will be another category and so on and so forth. When I've used up all of my categories, I'll simply start from the beginning and post another All Human challenge. Hope that doesn't sound too confusing :)

Read on!

Across The Ocean.

Buffy AH.

Pairings: Spike/Buffy. Xander/Cordelia. Willow/Tara.

William Nathaniel Pratt, or Spike, is native to the city of New York. He is a twenty-five-year-old man working on Manhattan. Then one day, while visiting family in Alabama, his whole world is turned upside down. As always, he makes the trip down to the south to visit his favorite aunt, along with his cousin who he shares an apartment with in New York City. Tara Maclay has such a wonderful relationship with her mother that her and Spike often visits. However, this time, while walking along the sandy beaches of Alabama, Spike finds a letter in a bottle.

Elizabeth Anne Summers, or Buffy, was born and raised in Sunnydale, California. She grew up with her single mother, Joyce Summers, and her younger half-sister, Dawn Summers. Buffy is twenty-three years old and working in Los Angeles, since graduating from college the year before. She lives in an apartment in the city with her close friend and former college roommate, Cordelia Chase. Sending the letter is a spontaneous decision on Buffy's part, after her longtime relationship with Riley Finn falls apart and he leaves her and the city. She never expects a reply.

Despite living on different ends of the country, the two begin a friendship over old-fashioned mail, both agreeing that it shouldn't have died out like it did. In fact, they agree on a lot of things, along with sharing many secrets with each other. Like the fact that Spike misses his biological mother, who passed away when he was ten. After a few years of depression, his father met a traveling American and fell in love, leading to the move to the States. Buffy also confesses that she isn't sure who her father is, because he left when she was tiny and her mother refuses to discuss his identity with her eldest daughter.

Six months seem to pass in a blur and the two decide to meet up, when Buffy has a work-related thing in Manhattan. They've yet to send pictures and thus have no idea what the other one looks like. Because of this, Buffy's best friend, Cordelia, insists on coming along for protection, in case this Spike guy isn't what he says he is. Of course, that doesn't end up being the case and the two friends stick around for two weeks, where Buffy and Spike fall madly in love even more than they did over the written word. Cordelia herself is happy to get to know Spike's best mate, Xander Harris.

Then it comes time for them to return to California, but it is not a bittersweet goodbye, as Spike and Xander are planning on visiting the girls during their next vacation, which is less than two months away. Unfortunately, no one foresaw what would happen. When the plane leaves, Buffy and Xander are on it, as the man had some business in California, and Cordelia stays a little longer in New York, for a fashion show on Manhattan. However, Buffy and Xander never make it to their destination, as the plane crashes over the ocean. According to officials, there are no survivors.

Buffy and Xander wash up on a deserted island, miles away from any other land and are forced to get by with what little food and water there is for them. Meanwhile, back on the mainland, Spike and Cordelia are losing their minds and forced to break the bad news to Joyce and Dawn, who didn't know that their precious Buffy was on that plane from the news. Everyone is wrapped up in a cloud of depression, as Spike bitterly considers the irony of finally finding his soulmate, only to lose her shortly after. He quits his job and goes home to spend some time with his family.

However, fate is about to intervene once more, as Buffy decides to send yet another letter in a bottle. With things found on the island, she is able to get a message scrawled out and then places it in one of the only unbroken bottles found in this desertion. Throwing it to the seas, she prays for a miracle. Several weeks later, while walking along the white, sandy beaches of her home, Willow Rosenberg finds something peculiar. It doesn't take long, after opening it and reading the letter, for her to attempt to track down the Summers family of Sunnydale, California. Thankfully it's a small town.

Soon a rescue mission is at hand, unfortunately they are on their own, as the police refuse to accept the letter as evidence of their survival. Now, Spike, Cordelia, Willow, Tara, Joyce and Dawn all set out on a journey to finding their lost loved ones. At the same time we also follow the slow but steady deterioration that is Buffy and Xander, as they slowly run out of food to eat and the sun's rays prove lethal, with each day spent under it. It soon becomes a race against time, as they try to stay alive, while their family weather the raging storm in order to bring them back home.

Epilogue will be Buffy's third and final letter in a bottle, telling her story and maybe who finds and reads it.