FIC: Fin Amour (3/6)

[angearia]

Title: Fin Amour
Author: angearia
Summary: The monks’ spell to create the Key goes wonky.
Timeline: Season 5 AU
Rating: R for (highlight to view) language, graphic violence and character death.
Word Count: ~14,000

Author’s Note: The beginning dialogue in the prologue is lifted from the BtVS episode No Place Like Home and one line borrowed from Spiral-all the

Comments

[red_satin_doll]

So you've found a way to incorporate Joyce's hospitalization in here? Go you! (I loved early S5 in part because Joyce played a bigger part - I liked her character and missed her in S4 - and then OF COURSE Joss kills her off. For no good reason whatsoever other than to make Buffy suffer...and to make Buffy take over the "Mom" role, but whatever. Joyce could have stayed alive - Buffy has always been super-responsible anyway.)

Has Tara not been mind-wiped here? The few actions she takes indicates not; I would have loved some dialogue from her. I do love Anya's dialogue and Willow's retort.

Question: if everyone is in the living room when the Winnebago shows up, why the "Downstairs in five minutes line"? Did anyone head upstairs, and why? And downstairs to where? The living room is on the ground floor. (Also where does Tara get the plate from so quickly if they are in the living room? It's easier to visualize that happening in the dining room or kitchen. Sorry, I had to ask.)

To what do I owe the pleasure of your uptight,