AtS fic: "Reborn"
Title: Reborn
Fandom: Angel
Characters/Pairings: Darla
Author: evil_little_dog
Words: 172
Rating: K+
Summary: She’s had two chances at life
Warnings: N/A
Disclaimer: If I owned any part of AtS/BtVS, there’d be lots more B/A smoochies.
Prompt: From likewinning, Angel, Darla, next time around
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She'd been human and died, and returned to another kind of life. A bloodthirsty one, full of decadence and mayhem and a revolution of her old self. But a pretty face did her in, and a power-hungry one helped destroy her.
But she came back.
She came back human again, and then died again at the hands of an old frenemy (such a peculiar, perfect word), and she raised Hell all over again, determined to win back the pretty face of her one-time love.
She did, but not the way she wanted to and, in the end, something changed her. A child, a miracle child, because two of the dead cannot produce a living, breathing child. And, to allow the child life, she killed herself.
There's an old saying, 'Three time's the charm'. She'd lived and died and been reborn as a monster twice. This third time, she was born a child, like the one she'd saved.
This time, her soul cleansed in its own way, maybe she wouldn't be a monster.
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Fandom: Angel
Characters/Pairings: Darla
Author: evil_little_dog
Words: 172
Rating: K+
Summary: She’s had two chances at life
Warnings: N/A
Disclaimer: If I owned any part of AtS/BtVS, there’d be lots more B/A smoochies.
Prompt: From likewinning, Angel, Darla, next time around
X X X
She'd been human and died, and returned to another kind of life. A bloodthirsty one, full of decadence and mayhem and a revolution of her old self. But a pretty face did her in, and a power-hungry one helped destroy her.
But she came back.
She came back human again, and then died again at the hands of an old frenemy (such a peculiar, perfect word), and she raised Hell all over again, determined to win back the pretty face of her one-time love.
She did, but not the way she wanted to and, in the end, something changed her. A child, a miracle child, because two of the dead cannot produce a living, breathing child. And, to allow the child life, she killed herself.
There's an old saying, 'Three time's the charm'. She'd lived and died and been reborn as a monster twice. This third time, she was born a child, like the one she'd saved.
This time, her soul cleansed in its own way, maybe she wouldn't be a monster.
X X X