Top Tillow Fix-It Fic Recs
7 fix-it Tillow fics matched, followed by other top-rated Tillow stories.
Till the End of the World
Fix-Itby 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.
Before He Screwed It Up
Fix-Itby 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
Goodbye to Everything That I Knew
Fix-Itby 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
Pavlov's Spell
Fix-Itby 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.
Skipping the Stone
Fix-Itby 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,
maybe i’m ready to love you
Fix-Itby 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
Reweaving Time
Fix-Itby 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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Spark
by haintblue
It’s 3 a.m. on a random Thursday when Stiles meets the witch.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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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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