Top 21 Epic Buffy Fanfics
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Every Letter That You Write Me
by othellia
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
Fix You
by enigmaticblue
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.
Strings
by aliceinwonderbra
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.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by sunalso
Starts post NFA in 2004 and loops back to 1997 and a very AU Season 2. Having fallen into a deep depression following the destruction of her entire world, Buffy attempts to take her own life. In a desperate measure to save her, she is sent into the past. Only she doesn't go back entirely alone. Fac
Hunger
by sunalso
AU. Spike killed his third Slayer, but Dru was already dust. He's been lost, but when his supper turns out to be more than he bargained for, it leaves him hungry for something else instead. And Buffy? She's just hungry.Takes place in an alternate universe in which Buffy isn't the Slayer (yet), just
shadow of the day
by sevensevan
Faith wakes up just three weeks after graduation. She skips town with a knife in her belt, a warrant out for her arrest, and an unshakeable feeling that someday, somehow, she'll find her way back to Buffy.
hit rewind
by untiljanuary
He isn’t sure what it is, but since coming back, Buffy seems so much more… mature. Wiser. He isn’t exactly certain why. A time-traveling Buffy fic from everybody else’s point of view.
Hypnopompia
by aliceinwonderbra
After a brief trip to an alternate dimension, courtesy of D'Hoffryn, Buffy's back home. She wants to make amends with Faith, but there's just the little problem of her coma getting in the way. Set in a modified Season 4.
Wished Away Series
by CSmalley
From Tumblr: A collection of snippits based around a prompt where Danny gets sold the Souls of different characters and adopts them.Written out of order.
To Live In The World
by IvorySteel92
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
to hold off the lightning
by cinnamonfiglatte
There’s no burst of dust, the way Faith expects. Only blood at her hands and blood at the stranger’s lips and the chilling sound of a death rattle fighting its way from his lungs.Or: Faith kills Allan Finch. The Scoobies offer her the literal crumbs of support she needs in order to not give in to da
surrender your power
by paperwasp
Three and a half years after closing the Hellmouth, Faith is doing good. She’s living in Cleveland, taking care of her dog, and showing a new Slayer the ropes. There’s just one tiny problem. Buffy moved back in five months ago. And now the feelings she’s been (semi) successfully tamping down for yea
Skipping the Stone
by sandy_s
Buffy finds out that Spike was dusted in the big battle with Wolfram and Hart. Angry, hurt, and determined, she finally agrees to take a daring risk with Dawn to go back in time and make sure Spike knows he’s loved even if it doesn’t change his fate. This is a story based on Javajunkie’s challenge,
New Worlds to See
by Scififan33
3rd in New World series. A look at the other lives Harry will live in order to get back to his Sam. Set after New World, Again but there shouldn't be any spoilers
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
by zinjadu
... 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 Sp
Alone Together
by AgentGrey
Season 3 rewrite. The only major change is that Buffy and Faith meet in LA at the start of the season. Some other tweaks along the way to fix things that irk me, but otherwise sticking to canon except for where the altered relationship between Buffy and Faith changes things. This will be part of
Otherwise
by TheSigyn
The Slayer Buffy Summers drowned at the hellmouth two years ago. The vampire Spike was dusted in Prague. So what are they both doing here?Written for the Elysian Fields 'Artistic Anniversary Challenge'. Banners and challenge by Javajunkie247
Bring Me to Death
by Alley_Cat
Circa Buffy S04E11, Angel S01E10, and goes AU from there. Buffy puts on a brave front as everyone around her abandoned her. Betrayed by her friends, she tries to figure out what The Initiative is doing in Sunnydale, and what is she going to do about them? Angel fights to stay away, but when Buffy's
Bring Me To Life : A Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel Crossover Event
by Jean_theGuardian
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel Crossover Event. Sunnydale's and L.A's heroes unite for the explosive final battle with Jasmine and the First Evil. Who will survive the End of Days? Set during Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7 / Angel Season 4.Redux of Angel Season 4, Episode 17 (Inside Out) and
serves you right
by socratesgirl
instead of going out of his mind, spike and buffy's life (and unlife) goes on as usual. only problem is... it only brings them closer. and they don't realize it.however long it takes before they realize what they're suppressing, well, it serves them right.
Scooby Gamers by MistOfRainbows
by orphan_account
The Scooby Gang from Sunnydale dress as characters from the Gamer webtoon for Halloween (yes this is Yet Another Halloween Fic) and get extremely exploitable Gamer powers.
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This list of 21epic Buffy fanfics spans 4,556,192 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 3,833 on the most established. 76% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (9 of 21 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Time Travel · Hurt/Comfort · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst · Romance.
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