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Notes from a Zombie Apocalypse (Bones/Angel) - Pinch-hit

Jul 19, 2009 17:37

Title: Notes from a Zombie Apocalypse
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beckyh2112 July 19 2009, 22:06:02 UTC

... I'm kind of in love.

Beautifully creepy piece of work, and the format it's told in only heightens the creepiness. I like how little we get of what's happened, and how that heightens the massive creepiness and horror of this.

Bones's reactions to Angel, the way she methodically treats the zombies as 'bodies' are just perfect. Hodgins's third-person narration of events adds some serious humor to events, which just makes the horror hit all the harder.

And in the end... Did Angel turn Sweets?

daffybroad July 19 2009, 22:21:10 UTC

Honestly, I don't know. The cut hand thing just sort of sprung up, unbidden, and wouldn't let me go - at the very least, there's something in Sweets that wasn't there before.

I'm actually not being coy - this never set out to be an Angel/Sweets story, it just sort of happened. The perils of pinch-hitting, I guess?

afteriwake July 20 2009, 05:55:12 UTC

A: I’m a vampire.

TB: Fuck you.

That line, right there, was my hands down favorite of an incredible fic. Absolutely wonderful job with this.

daffybroad July 22 2009, 19:48:32 UTC

Thank you so much! I originally had a whole laundry list of, you know, overly elaborate, Brennan-ey ways she could realize that apparently there is something she wouldn't believe, but they all felt really... written. So then I was like, "Lord, after all this, if there was ever a time that she would just flip the fuck out, I submit that time is now." And as soon as I wrote it, it became my favourite part too.

tielan July 20 2009, 13:04:04 UTC

I'm supposed to be in bed, damn you! I thought I'd stay up and read one more fic...

I'm glad it was this one. You've got the characters all down pat - even Hodges and the way his innate poeticism comes out in excess in this situation. Their endings - Booth's (Parker's!!), Cam's, Zack's, Ange's... Brennan's completely depersonalisation and the extremism of her behaviour, and the whole Angel/Sweets thing....

It's at once slightly creepy and terrifying, and yet oh so very well-written!

*in Nine's voice* Fantastic!

daffybroad July 22 2009, 19:54:43 UTC

Ohhh, thank you! And thanks again for the rec!

I'm actually really glad this made sense in any way, because I sort of wrote a stream of consciousness (I planned the format more than on the actual content) and then went back and discovered that, apropos of nothing, I'd written an Angel/Sweets story.

Like, what?

*in Ten's voice* ... what? What?

tielan July 22 2009, 20:13:03 UTC

Sometimes you know where the story is going, and sometimes they just leap out and bite you. :D

daffybroad July 22 2009, 20:35:44 UTC

Exactly that. I'm always really worried about, like, planning my stories really well before I write... apparently sometimes I just need to sit down, shut up and do the thing? *** The More You Know ***

incir July 20 2009, 16:57:59 UTC

Wow! What an unusual way to tell a story, but how incredibly effective. I love all the characterizations as well.

daffybroad July 22 2009, 19:55:13 UTC

Thanks so much! I wasn't sure the format would work, so I'm really glad it's been so well recieved.

sal101010 July 21 2009, 11:36:08 UTC

Ooh, I like, very much!

Love the ambiguous ending too!

daffybroad July 22 2009, 20:01:45 UTC

Thanks! I might end up writing more of this, which will sort of collapse the ambiguity but I'm getting weirdly into the Angel/Sweets thing every time I think about it more. :)

sal101010 July 23 2009, 18:31:23 UTC

It certainly has potential. I mean, the way you've written it, I think Angel has turned Sweets, but surely it's Souled!Angel and Sweets would be feeling a little more murderous if he'd been turned...

Yep, definitely write more!!