Sublime Archive
This is a collection of Buffy/Angel stories originally hosted by Chrislee on her website Octaves of the Heart. In her description of the Sublime Archive, Chrislee said she featured stories that she found "particularly beautiful, or awe-inspiring (which is the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of sublime)."
Octaves of the Heart is moderated and open to new works that must be approved by moderators MrsGordo, GraceNM, and Chrislee.
The import of this archive to the AO3 was approved by the OTW Open Doors Committee on August 23, 2020, and began January 2021. Import of this archive was completed September 2021.
(Open, Moderated)
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He loved to listen to her breath change as he hit her.
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Love and Bruises by octavesoftheheart_archivist
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel: the Series
25 Apr 2005
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By Sienna
Meetings in the dark.
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By Ligeia
Naked bulbs give way to safety lights, their sickly yellow-green reflecting off leprous walls as we search the passageways under the old power station. I glance over at Xander and he mistakes my interest for hunger. He doesn't trust me. Smart boy.
The jaundiced lights flick by faster as we turn east towards the school and pick up the pace. Fragments of recent memories flare up and die away slowly like searing after-images as my mind struggles to make sense of the past few months. I feel like I'm running through my life, from dark to deeper darkness.
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Scars of Our Youth by octavesoftheheart_archivist
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Angel: the Series
26 Apr 2005
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By Tesla
Buffy had a lot of time to think, on the jet to Los Angeles. She'd read her magazines, or rather, stared unseeingly at them. Finally, she'd plugged in her earphones and pretended to sleep. She had to say that the new and improved Watchers Council, under Giles, didn't stint at paying the expenses for the One and Only Original Slayer. First among equals, that was her.
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One life. Her life. As a tumour looms, Buffy looks back on what was, what might have been, and what is. Memories beneath salt water, but burned along her nerves.
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Five Ways to Kiss the One You Love: A Valentine by seraphcelene
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
28 Mar 2021
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"My heart has made its mind up and I'm afraid it's you." Buffy and Angel from beginning to end, and at all points in-between. A Valentine.
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Buffybot does Spike's bidding and puts Angel in an uncomfortable position.
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I-55 by Yahtzee [archived by glassonion_archivist]
Fandoms: Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
07 Apr 2002
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Betrayals come in many forms.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Everything in life leaves a mark of some kind.