Title: As Time Goes By
Author: Yahtzee
Pairing: Buffy/Angel, Angel/Cordelia, Wes/Fred
Spoilers: early S3
Summary: The world has gone to hell, and a disillusioned Cordelia may just hold the key to saving it, but whose side is she on?
Link: As Time Goes By
Why: You know those fics where someone takes the plot of a classic movie and rewrites it using characters and settings from another fandom? Yeah. This is one of those. Quite possibly the best one ever written--a post-demon-apocalyptic version of Casablanca with Cordy in Rick's shoes.

Title: Destination Unknown
Author: Yahtzee
Pairing: Buffy/Giles, Angel/Cordelia
Spoilers: S6, possibly 7
Summary: When Buffy comes to England, ostensibly to get Giles' input on a mysterious crystal, the two are forced to confront some difficult truths about their relationship.
Link: Destination Unknown
Why: Because this is quite literally the ONLY Buffy/Giles fic I've ever read that made the pairing work for me, and considering how much I generally don't like them as a couple, that says a lot about the fic.

Title: Darn Dustbunnies
Author: Maidenjedi
Pairing: Xander/Anya
Spoilers: nothing past "Hell's Bells"
Summary: Anya discovers a new species of bunny.
Link: Darn Dustbunnies
Why: Shouldn't the premise alone be enough to answer that? A hilarious little 155-er. *grin*

Title: Five Ways the World Won't End (And One Way It Could)
Author: CL Kamnikar
Pairing: mostly-ignorable hints of Buffy/Spike, Willow/Xander, Xander/Anya, Willow/Wesley, Giles/Anya, Angel/Cordelia, others
Spoilers: Buffy--up through "The Killer in Me" then just speculation; Fray--issue 6 (but you don't need to read Fray to understand it, I don't *g*)
Summary: See title.
Link: Five Ways the World Won't End (And One Way It Could)
Why: Bittersweet little alternate endings to "The Gift" and season 7, proving that the end of the world doesn't always have to mean the apocalypse, or even be something that everyone in the world would even notice.

Title: Runaway Trains at 3AM/Lines of Communication
Author: CL Kamnikar
Pairing: sorta Clark/Dawn but not really
Spoilers: nothing recent
Summary: Two runaways help each other shoulder the burden of their not-quite-human existences.
Link:
Runaway Trains at 3AM
Lines of Communication
Why: Probably the most inventive Buffy/Smallville crossover ever written, by one of my favorite authors in several fandoms. :-)

ETA: Links current as of 10/13/06

Title: Smoke and Flame
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Pairing: none
Spoilers: BtVS--"Chosen"; Angel--"Not Fade Away"; SG-1--"Origin"
Summary: The Powers That Be warn their champions about a new threat.
Link:
Where There's Smoke
Harbinger
Something Worse
Why: Because really, SG-1's going to need all the help they can get, and the idea behind this series is just cool. ;-) Heavier on the Buffyverse side, but you still need to have seen SG-1 S9 to "get" it.

Title: Retribution
Author: Emmy
Pairing: Harry/Ginny implied
Spoilers: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, future speculation
Link: Retribution
Why: I never really paid much attention to Ginny Weasley, but this dark, vengeful Ginny is deliciously chilling.

Title: Inherited Business
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Pairing: none
Spoilers: BB--the movie; BtVS--through "Chosen"
Summary: So who *does* one hire to construct a super-secret superhero hideaway?
Link: Inherited Business
Why: Jedi is one of my favorite crossover authors, and the reason is because she always comes up with the most unique ideas, like this one.

Title: Living History
Author: Lizbeth Marcs
Pairing: sorta...simultaneously pre- and post-Xander/Faith (you'll understand once you read it)
Spoilers: all the way through "Chosen" and slight ones for Angel S5
Summary:
Link: Living History
Why: I saw this on crack_van and got so engrossed I was up all night reading it (seriously--I finally forced myself to stop at Chapter 50 at 6AM and pick back up after work), which is pretty darned remarkable for a post-"Chosen" fic in which ( spoiler ) really happened!

Title: The Scarab
Author: BK the Irregular
Pairing: Buffy/Riley, almost negligible Sam/Jack
Spoilers: Buffy S4, Stargate season...um...5 or earlier
Summary: A Goa'uld gets loose in Sunnydale.
Link: The Scarab
Why: A Buffy/Stargate crossover that actually *works*--hey, that's rarer than you'd think! ;-)

Title: Grave Survivors
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Pairing: none
Spoilers: Buffy season 6, CSI current season
Summary: First contact between two survivors.
Link: Grave Survivors
Why: Even though I missed the CSI season finale, this rings true.

ETA: Link fixed.