Top 25 Short Buffy Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Buffy fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
You Don't Know Where He's Been
by sifshadowheart
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
Till the End of the World
by someryn
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.
Living Dead Girl
by DisasterXL
“You’ll wait a while.” Buffy replies, the unending hostility is wearing Faith down. She gets it, she really does. She’s the bad guy to them. She did some real fucked up shit to all of them—Buffy most of all. It’s fresh for them but it isn’t for her. She hadn’t realized just how long it has been, not
Bake Me a Bloody Cake
by Abelina
Buffy has reluctantly agreed to vampsit while Giles is out for the evening, and is desperate for something to distract her from the annoyingly perceptive vampire and the memories of their brief engagement. Set about a week after the events of Something Blue but before the beginning of Hush. Respon
The Truth Will Set You Free
by enigmaticblue
Set in S4, after Something Blue. Giles does that truth spell on Spike after all, but what happens when it gets stuck? The truth is sometimes a very uncomfortable thing.
Moonshot
by aliceinwonderbra
When she finds herself with a shiny new case of telepathy, Buffy knows she needs to use this to her strategic advantage. They need info on the ascension, and Faith has it. She isn't prepared for how the aspect of the demon will interact with the slayer connection or what she learns from Faith's mind
2001
by morningsound15
Buffy and Faith are regular girls who meet for the first time at college. They flirt, they spar, they argue, they make out.Oh boy do they make out.
Before He Screwed It Up
by Hello_Spikey
Spike inadvertently makes a wish to "go back before he screwed it all up" --sending Angel Season 5 Spike back to the morning after Buffy Season Six Spike first gets it on with Buffy.Can he use his knowledge of the future to fix things? In the world at large, sure, but particularly his relationship
Pavlov's Spell
by ret_wat
Canon divergent after Something Blue, where Spike and Buffy somehow become friends and everyone's really weirded out by it.And sometimes they do the graveyard smash.
Contrition
by AeschylusRex
Buffy is sick, five young slayers are dead, and fanatical vampires roam the frozen streets of Cleveland. With his troops stretched thin, Giles is forced to call in reinforcements, but Buffy isn't particularly happy to see her old rival state-side again.
Aeipathy
by aliceinwonderbra
“When Angel came to give me the amulet, we talked a little,” Buffy says, “about the future. About our relationship.”“I guess his arm isn’t tired yet from carrying that torch,” Faith mutters darkly.---They saved the world. Again. Buffy starts thinking about what comes next. Part of my Ten Roads Serie
Do you even go here? (no, i just have a lot of feelings)
by nessie_lives
“Why don’t you come out here where it’s nice and sunny,” the blonde woman interrupts. Quite rudely, Astarion thinks.Trepidation returns at the thought of making himself leave the relative safety of his tree-shade.What Astarion would like to say is ‘go away’.What he actually says is, “Of course! Now
Un/Broken
by skargasm
Void is gone but Stiles is left with the guilt of everything that he did whilst possessed. Unable to pull himself out of it, and unwilling to inflict how he feels on his friends, he begins to pull away from the Pack. Making a list of things he needs to accomplish before he’s allowed to relieve every
Reweaving Time
by Joan963z
Buffy woke up alone and sore, on the bare, hard-packed ground, in a post-apocalyptic world. “Hey Whistler,” she exhaled, it was barely a whisper, she hadn’t enough emotional strength left in her for anything more. “Champion of the people here, the thing is there are no people, no missions, the world
Infinite Earths
by hashtagyourshirt
Kara Danvers, our very own Supergirl, is bummed after her break up even though she's better for it. She decides to visit her friend, Barry on Earth 1, but is knocked off course on a new adventure that forces her to see herself, and her friends, in ways she's only ever imagined before.
i now pronounce you
by chasingfictions
in which I choose violence and set “Something Blue” during Season 3 ❤️- Dawn asks, “Wait, so does this mean the wedding’s off?”The entire group of them says at once: “Yes.”Dawn pouts. “But Spike was gonna make me his best man! I was gonna get to go tuxedo shopping!”
Past Is Prologue
by LLN3dseestheLight
Xander makes a deal with the Powers That Be. He gets send back in time but some changes are made...It's not so much about changing the events of the past, Xander will find, but letting the past change you.
Past Tense
by LLN3dseestheLight
Xander made a deal with the PTB's and he got send back in time but some changes are made...It's not so much about changing the events of the past, Xander will find, but letting the past change you...And that to every rule, there is that one exception to it.
Hurricane Season
by girlpire
After sustaining a serious injury, Angelus must rely on the slayer for help while he heals. He just can't let her find out about the whole missing-a-soul thing. It's an uneasy feeling, the way he imagines it would feel to be drowning in the ocean but get saved by a shark. Your only choice is to le
sometimes enough
by taxicab12
“Tell me everything,” Willow said, not sounding particularly like she’d been asleep. “Are his friends cool?”Buffy blinked. “Some of them. There was this one British guy—”“Ooh, accents, hot.”“—who wouldn’t stop staring at my boobs,” she finished.“Ew, men, gross.”“Spike,” Buffy said with a scoff. “Wha
Angel Doesn’t Know
by My_Barbaric_Yawp
"I was 16, Spike,” she said softly. “I had the impulse control of a hormonal ferret, and I was desperate to be loved—you think I woulda said no to a hot, devoted British guy who wasn't trying to kill me just for kicks? Just how dumb are you?" ~ Buffy in Ch 13 of Goodbye to Everything That I KnewIn w
Greatest Love Story - Prelude
by FalseGinger
London, 1879.William Pratt prides himself on restraint—of tongue, of heart, of desire.Angelus does not believe in restraint at all.What begins as a charged encounter between a guarded scholar and a man with far too many secrets quickly becomes something darker and more dangerous. As lines are crosse
Ashes to Amber
by Aya1600
Two people. And an encounter that will change everything…
Subject to Change
by RayneJelly
Set years after the fall of Sunnydale and the collapse of Wolfram and Hart, Xander finds himself back in California with no money, no plans, and his age-old knack for being bonked over the head and laid out for dinner still very much intact. Fortunately for him, there are still remnants of his old l
Such A Shame
by SatinAndSin
What happens when Spike finally gets sick of Angel playing lovesick puppy, grovelling at the Slayer’s feet?What happens when Spike’s at death’s door and the only thing that can save him is Sire’s blood?Yes, we all know Drusilla sired him. But given her current mental state... is she really the best
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This list of 25short Buffy fanfics spans 721,447 total words. Kudos range from 27 on the newest entries to 2,286 on the most established. 72% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (11 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Angst with a Happy Ending · Hurt/Comfort · Fix-It.
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