Best Buffy Summers Grief & Mourning Fanfics
The best grief & mourning fanfiction featuring Buffy Summers (Buffy) on AO3, curated by popularity. Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive.
Top Buffy Summers Grief & Mourning Fic Recs
2 grief & mourning fics featuring Buffy Summers, followed by other top-rated stories.
heaven, make me an offer
Grief & Mourningby SummerFrost · Spuffy
Buffy says, "The girl you loved didn't make it out of the ground." Or: Buffy crawls out of her grave and remembers loving Spike. They just have to get back to where they were.
To Live In The World
Grief & Mourningby IvorySteel92 · Spuffy
2001. Buffy Summers is dead, and Faith is the only Slayer left in the world. After dreaming of Buffy's final words, Faith takes her advice to heart and returns to Sunnydale, to shake off her past and be the hero she wasn't before.Then everything gets harder when Buffy climbs out of her grave. Becaus
Every Letter That You Write Me
by othellia · Spuffy
In a world where soulmates have the ability to write on each other's skin, Spike finds himself shackled to a five-year-old Buffy, who (for once) listens to her mother's advice about not handing out personal information. With no way of tracking the annoyance down, Spike is forced to endure a decade o
don't look much like a lover (doesn't mean I won't try)
by SummerFrost · Spuffy
Buffy is ashamed of him, Spike knows. But when no one else is around, she touches him like she could love him.(In which Spike makes a damn good cup of coffee, watches a sunrise or two, and plays confidant to a Slayer who thinks dying to save the world would've been easier than this.)
wouldn't it be nice? (in the kind of world where we belonged)
by SummerFrost · Spuffy
Spike is still beneath her, so hard he's vibrating, and a second ago she was living in this amazing, perfect, fresh piece of Dubble Bubble bubblegum world. A second ago, she loved him. Or: The thing about Willow's will-be-done spell is that, yeah, obviously it sucks that it happened with Spike. But
unorphaned (in our northern lights)
by morningsound15 · Fuffy
Faith doesn’t notice anything strange until the next morning, when they wake up in bed together. In another time. In another world. In a world where they’re married and living together and raising Buffy’s little sis and everyone’s walking around treating the situation like it’s fine and good and nor
nothing safe is worth the drive (follow you home)
by SummerFrost · Spuffy
Here's the deal: Buffy's got no idea how to beat Glory, or how they're gonna book it across the country in a moldy RV without anyone killing each other, especially now that someone broke one of the beds—and the thought of going home again kinda makes her wanna cry. The one thing she knows is that Sp
Fix You
by enigmaticblue · Spuffy
Desperate times call for desperate measures where the First is involved. In order to prevent the end of the world, Buffy asks Willow to do a spell that’s supposed to fix everything, and Spike goes along for the ride.
You Don't Know Where He's Been
by sifshadowheart · Fuffy
Death offers his Master a way to escape from the forces controlling him in the wizarding world.Harry probably should've asked for a better explanation on just what Death was going to do to him in the process.Or where Death planned to send him...Chapters flagged with individual warnings for mature, v
Strings
by aliceinwonderbra · Fuffy
Buffy stumbles into a student group and a sexual identity crisis. When she turns to Faith for advice, things spiral.Starts after 'The Freshman' in a modified Season 4 where Faith never swapped sides in S3 and has remained in Sunnydale.
The Moral Failings Of Melvil Dewey and Other Previously Unremarked Upon Facts
by aliceinwonderbra · Fuffy
“You knew, too?!” Buffy accuses, before flopping back against the mat. “How is this possible?” She mutters under her breath. “How does everyone else know about this?” ---The one where everyone knows how Faith feels except sweet, clueless Buffy.
Till the End of the World
by someryn · Spuffy
Spike gets his soul back after Buffy sacrifices herself for Dawn. What ramifications does an ensouled Spike have on the Scoobies, and on his relationship with the Slayer? AU canon re-write of the Season Six storyline. Buffy/Spike, Willow/Tara and Xander/Anya. Contains both angst and fluff.
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Buffy Summers in Grief & Mourning Fanfiction
Buffy Summers — The Chosen One of her generation, a California girl balancing apocalypses, dead boyfriends, and a part-time job at the Doublemeat Palace. She died twice, came back wrong once, and still saved the world a lot.
Grief & Mourning — Stories that sit with loss: characters mourning a death canon rushed past, or grieving losses that aren't deaths at all — homes, futures, versions of themselves. Grief fic ranges from raw immediate aftermath to the strange long tail of missing someone for years.
Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive. Buffy Summers's (also known as The Slayer, Buffy Anne Summers) role in Buffy makes them a natural fit for grief & mourning storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in Buffy fanfiction.
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