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Best Tillow Fix-It Fanfics

The best fix-it Tillow (Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios.

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Top Tillow Fix-It Fic Recs

7 fix-it Tillow fics matched, followed by other top-rated Tillow stories.

1

Till the End of the World

Fix-It

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.

1,969 kudos 29,173 words 1/1 chapters Mature
2

Before He Screwed It Up

Fix-It

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

1,337 kudos 34,517 words 25/25 chapters Mature
3

Goodbye to Everything That I Knew

Fix-It

by My_Barbaric_Yawp

When Dawn’s future at Revello Drive is in jeopardy, Buffy goes looking for a way to convince social services that all is well in the state of Summers. Cue a new truce with Spike in which our heroes learn how to love, live, and parent together while staying one step ahead of Dawnie, the Scoobies, and

1,335 kudos 71,934 words 30/30 chapters Mature
4

Pavlov's Spell

Fix-It

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.

1,061 kudos 35,230 words 6/6 chapters Explicit
5

Skipping the Stone

Fix-It

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,

872 kudos 207,373 words 66/66 chapters Mature
6

maybe i’m ready to love you

Fix-It

by chasingfictions

“Buffy?”He almost never used to call her Buffy. Did he? Always Slayer, or pet, or love. Or like, he’d use her name, but it always sounded odd, in his mouth. All tender, touchy. Like, like he was making eye contact with her, just by saying it."Spike."She wonders if it feels the same, for him. His nam

838 kudos 95,553 words 10/10 chapters Explicit
7

Reweaving Time

Fix-It

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

554 kudos 48,060 words 11/11 chapters Mature
8

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

2,286 kudos 40,092 words 7/? chapters Explicit
9

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.

1,493 kudos 191,366 words 22/22 chapters Not Rated
10

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.

1,480 kudos 407,140 words 98/? chapters Explicit
11

Et Lux In Tenebris Lucet

by enigmaticblue

Spike manages to save Dawn, but pays a steep price, which changes everything, including Buffy's feelings towards him.

1,369 kudos 72,971 words 22/22 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
12

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

1,277 kudos 207,138 words 43/43 chapters Mature
13

Impossibly Delightful Flesh

by Sadbhyl

In which the Scoobies have a small accident that leads to some major changes in their lives and has them questioning the deeper issues of sexuality, gender, and the heart.Set early Season 5, shortly after Family but before Shadow.

1,199 kudos 57,950 words 28/28 chapters Explicit
14

Buy Me Brunch

by haintblue

UC Sunnydale's dining hall on a Saturday morning probably contains more supernatural creatures than the entire magical population of Wyoming. That's certainly a statistic they hadn't advertised in the brochure.

843 kudos 5,440 words 2/2 chapters Not Rated
15

Spark

by haintblue

It’s 3 a.m. on a random Thursday when Stiles meets the witch.

706 kudos 2,220 words 2/2 chapters Not Rated
16

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

612 kudos 38,312 words 15/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
17

Vid: I Will Go Down With This Ship

by AceofWands

My tribute to some of fandom's most popular ships from the past few decades.

561 kudos 7 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
18

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

557 kudos 120,844 words 30/30 chapters Explicit
19

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.

553 kudos 26,026 words 9/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
20

The Demon in You

by Aspidities

Tara’s always had a hard time with her image of self as an alpha. Willow’s here to help with that.

532 kudos 3,189 words 1/1 chapters Explicit

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Why Fix-It Tillow Fanfiction Works So Well

Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg — Willow and Tara's romance, told first through spellcasting metaphor, was groundbreaking network television — and Tara's murder became the textbook case of the 'bury your gays' trope. Fandom has spent twenty years writing the resurrection the show never delivered.

Fix-It — Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.

Tender, formative, and stolen too soon; fix-it fic for Tara is practically its own genre of love letter. The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios. That's why fix-it Tillow fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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