Top 7 Epic Bangel Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. These are reader-favorite long-form Bangel fics — save them for offline reading.
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.
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
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
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Epic-length Bangel fanfics — over 100,000 words — are the format of choice for readers who want full novelistic immersion. These are the works people talk about for years, the ones with their own subreddits and tag clusters on AO3.
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This list of 7epic Bangel fanfics spans 1,375,277 total words. Kudos range from 396 on the newest entries to 1,480 on the most established. Nearly all (86%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (3 of 7 fics).
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