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1. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck... by zinjadu

   Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, F/M, F/F, M/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Spike & Buffy Summers
   • Willow Rosenberg & Buffy Summers
   • Xander Harris & Buffy Summers
   • Rupert Giles & Buffy Summers
   • Xander Harris & Willow Rosenberg
   • Xander Harris/Anya Jenkins
   • Scoobies & Spike (BtVS)
   • Buffy Summers & Joyce Summers
   • Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg
   • Spike & Joyce Summers
   • Spike/Buffy Summers
   • past Angel/Buffy
   • Rupert Giles/Ethan Rayne
   • Spike (BtVS)
   • Buffy Summers
   • Willow Rosenberg
   • Xander Harris
   • Rupert Giles
   • Anya Jenkins
   • Joyce Summers
   • Tara Maclay
   • Riley Finn
   • Maggie Walsh
   • Francis Angleman
   • Faith Lehane
   • Angel (BtVS)
   • Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
   • Ethan Rayne
   • Daniel "Oz" Osbourne
   • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) Season 4
   • Post-Episode: s04e09 Something Blue
   • More magic is more fun
   • character turned into an animal
   • It's Spike
   • Crack Treated Seriously
   • no betas we die like buffy
   • The Initative is Evil
   • the Briley is fake
   • Demons are people too
   • the author did not intend for plot but plot happened
   • Telepathic Bond
   • Character Development
   • Spike the cancer sniffing vampire
   • Pining
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • and they used that bed but good
   • Philosophy
   • Buffy dressing Spike
   • Sex In A Crypt
   • Anal Fingering
   • Anal Sex
   • Spike tries to have plans
   • sex toy shopping
   • Pegging
   • Action/Adventure
   • Idiots in Love
   • Love Confessions
   • Happy Ending
   • Quackfic
   • Quack taken seriously
   • Spuckling

   Summary

   ... It's a duck.

   There's just a tiny bit of magic floating around after Willow ends the Will be Done spell, and it turns the resident captive vampire into a duckling. And he's so adorably angry about it. Question is now... who's going to take care of duckling!Spike? Oh, it's Buffy, of course.

   But Spike being a duck doesn't mean everything else goes away. He's got a new perspective, and over time, so does Buffy. Changes to Season 4 grow as time goes on.

   I'm sure someone's written something like this before, but I got the idea and here we are. The plot also started to happen, and now I can't stop it.

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