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#9 [one step beyond]

• Definitions of the Gross and the Sacred, From the Mind of a Mad Woman-Child by inlovewithnight (River, Firefly): Each of them has a noun, a designation that she can picture as written on their hearts, a role to play. They are defined, classified, categorized. Captain, preacher, pilot, mechanic; mercenary and soldier and whore. Even Simon carries his role in a word- doctor.
  
  River is undefined.
• Touch.Feel.Lose by sathinks (Angel): Angel knows he is insane.
• Once in a Lullaby by doyle_sb4 (Buffy): Buffy's imaginary world has a plothole.
• The Bright Obvious by voleuse (Angel): His own blood, borrowed, slows and slows more, until it sloshes like the tides in his veins.
  
  And he dreams.
  


• (ab)normal iteration (the water metaphor remix) by jennyo (River, Firefly): I rise and fall on sanity's moody seas. And he is always watching me, so I watch back, looking at how Serenity's lights change the angles of his face and smile.
• Mercy Street by gwyn_r (Dana, Spike): There was nothing Spike could say to that except the obvious -- that she'd cut off his fucking hands and had been well on her way to cutting off his head. But that didn't seem to matter.
  
  Angel said, quietly, "Once upon a time, Spike."
• All in a Row by voleuse (Drusilla): rusilla trails her hand over the girl's shoulder, down her arm. Whispers in her ear. "Death."
  
  She shivers. "When do I die?"
  
  Drusilla changes, feels Spike shift beside her. "Now."
• Never Lies by theantijoss (Dawn/Dana): Broken. Disordered. They have a hundred names for how she's damaged, but with everything else inside her, she just doesn't have room for anything more.
• Losing My Religion by kita0610 (Angel, Wes): Angel dreams that his teeth are gone. All of them, his human teeth, ripped out of his head while he slept in the blue-black, in the tomb that doesn't quite fit.
• Will My Eyes Be Closed Or Open by luna (Buffy): I won't cry. I'll just take a deep breath and shut my eyes, and then I'll open them.
  
  When I open them, I'll be myself again.