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Drive it Home - (One-shot)

Jul 10, 2007 01:36

Title: Drive it Home
Author: ClawofCat
Timing: Season 5
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Spike/Buffy
Warnings: Sexual content, bondage, non-con, some torture, violence
Summary: Set immediately after “Crush.” Buffy, livid over Spike’s behavior, decides that she has to teach him a lesson once and for all. Hoping to knock some sense into him, they confront each ( Read more... )

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kellykcmom July 11 2007, 08:19:08 UTC

Hey ~ Awwwwww geeezzzz......that was almost too much! *I* started squirming in my seat midway! lol Ya know, I knew that Spike loved her *so* much that he *literaly* would let her do anything to him. It was a game to him "a bit of excitement ( ... )

clawofcat July 11 2007, 16:26:38 UTC

Wow, wonderful f/b. Lots of things to address here. I'm very pleased that this story had a lot of layers for you and other readers because I struggled a lot with that on this fic. I don't write torture fics (as you know), so the motivation behind this encounter was a bit elusive to me. That having been said, a few points:

Spike does love her (in his sick way, remember this is s5), but he doesn't let her just do anything to him. He's not exactly passive during the torture and the first chance he has to get free he does and then fights her. And while Buffy definately takes things way too far, Spike is not an innocent, blameless party in this. Buffy chains him up with every intention of just leaving him, but then he wakes up and increasingly taunts her, looking for a reaction. She asks him to stop on more than one occasion, but he keeps going and sort of dredges up all her frustration ( ... )

kellykcmom July 11 2007, 19:34:14 UTC

Now you listen here Missy.....ClawofCat! *shackin' finger* Don't you even think for one milimeter of a second that I don't completely *LOVE* your work because you are ...Daaa Bomb! This particular style just has me scrathin' my head is all! YOU are STILL my Spuffy writer eXtroidinaiRe!! I'm waiting on pins and needles for your next story!!
With great love and respect,
~ Kelly :)

clawofcat July 12 2007, 14:12:48 UTC

lol, Missy ClawofCat. I don't think I've ever introudced myself. You can call me Cat, or Lauren if you'd like =)

I wasn't doubting you enjoyed the story, at all. So, no worries there. I just was explaining from my POV some of the things you noticed and were considering in the fic. F/b like yours is great b/c if I know how readers react to certain elements of a story, I can be sure to either repeat or avoid them in new chapters or fics.

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only_passenger July 11 2007, 17:57:52 UTC

oh, l. you're on a roll.

this was spectacular. you pulled off perfectly several concepts i've seen countles decent fic writers fuck up, beginning with dom buffy. you've written her dialouge so impressivly, particularly lines like the ones in this exchange:

“Is everything one big innuendo to you, Spike? What was that line you fed me about being a ‘changed’ man ( ... )

clawofcat July 12 2007, 14:26:51 UTC

*picks up S and twirls her around* I heart you like whoa. Thanks for the detailed f/b. I am really glad that you mentioned Buffy's ooc actions. No one else has mentioned that (perhaps for fear of offending me?), but I thought it was ooc too and really grappled with a way to make it believable. What I tried to do was make it seem sort of spontaneous, like she reacts on impulse alone. Of course, that's what Spike was hoping for too. He really drives her to it and sets her up to lash out ( ... )

danaid_luv September 28 2007, 22:23:22 UTC

*falls over* GOod. Lo*rd. You surely don't write them 'neat & tidy' together, but GUH.

Spike panted and quivered, the sort of edge play in which she was unknowingly engaging bringing him to the brink of his control. He could feel himself careening toward the tipping point, instinct driving his desires. This killed me ded. Completely.

clawofcat September 28 2007, 23:15:19 UTC

Hee! I'm glad you're enjoying these. I don't really write them 'neat and tidy,' no, because it takes away all that explosive physicality and emotion that drives them. I play with a Buffy and Spike that are animals, and even in my lighter fics, like Heart of Her, there are dark undercurrents to the sweetness. So much of their relationship was forged in pain, and I like working them through that trauma so that they can achieve a modicum of healing.