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• Road to Forever by twiddle3

  Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel: the Series  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  01 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Angel/Buffy Summers
  • Faith Lehane/Spike
  • Rupert Giles & Xander Harris & Willow Rosenberg & Buffy Summers
  • Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Buffy Summers
  • Willow Rosenberg
  • Rupert Giles
  • Xander Harris
  • Whistler (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Faith Lehane
  • Riley Finn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Cordelia Chase
  • Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
  • The Oracles (Angel: the Series)
  • Watchers Council (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Canonical Character Death
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Heartbreak
  • Love
  • Reunion
  • Angst
  • Fluff

  Summary

  What if Buffy had died sooner than she did? No Glory, no Dawn, just one routine patrol gone bad. Riley is still there, so is Spike.

  What if Angel had received the news when he was already self-destructive and at his lowest with Darla and W&H, having fired all his friends (but before having sex with Darla)?

  What if the Powers that Be intervened?

  Tags and characters will be updated as the story develops.

  Language:

  English

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