Chapter 14 of Edge of Sorrow, Heart of Truth (Buffy/Spike, Dawn, Buffybot, OC, PG)
Title: Chapter 14. The Pale Cast of Thought
Author: feliciacraft
Chapter Rating: PG
Characters (for this chapter): Buffy/Spike, Dawn, Buffybot
Summary: AU S6, morning after the resurrection.
Betas: The absolutely brilliant EffulgentlyDani and All4Spike.
Length: 3,600 words
Feedback: Yes, please!!
Title, as you might've noticed, is taken from the most famous soliloquy in the world from Hamlet by Shakespeare.
[Previously on Edge of Sorrow (click to open...)]
Previously on Edge of Sorrow: Willow’s spell at the Magic Box resurrects Buffy and renders the spell-casting Scoobies (Willow, Tara, Xander, and Anya) unconscious. A suspicious Spike aborts an out-of-town errand for Anya and with fortuitous timing, encounters a just-resurrected Buffy at her grave and brings her home. Interrupting Dawn’s sleep-over at Janice’s, Spike orchestrates a teary reunion between Buffy and Dawn. Afterwards, Spike recalls the hour spent alone with Buffy, including helping her with a shower (while demonstrating, perhaps to the reader’s disappointment, remarkable self-control), and in the privacy of his basement (and I think rather to the reader’s delight) finally allowing himself a bit of relief and release.
Chapter 14. The Pale Cast of Thought
They gazed at each other, Buffy and her mirror image, in identical battle stance, from across the landscape. It was all supernaturally misty and dissolving into nothingness around the edges. Buffy directed an eyeroll skyward. Typical. Whoever was writing her TV movie-of-the-week life had better scale way back on the melodrama. All that was missing from achieving a complete over-the-top cheesy horror movie setup was the spooky soundtrack.
By Slayer instinct or years of fighting experience, they drew closer, circling each other in the pre-battle tension.
Continue reading on AO3 (public), or at Elysian Fields (members only).
Author: feliciacraft
Chapter Rating: PG
Characters (for this chapter): Buffy/Spike, Dawn, Buffybot
Summary: AU S6, morning after the resurrection.
Betas: The absolutely brilliant EffulgentlyDani and All4Spike.
Length: 3,600 words
Feedback: Yes, please!!
Title, as you might've noticed, is taken from the most famous soliloquy in the world from Hamlet by Shakespeare.
[Previously on Edge of Sorrow (click to open...)]
Previously on Edge of Sorrow: Willow’s spell at the Magic Box resurrects Buffy and renders the spell-casting Scoobies (Willow, Tara, Xander, and Anya) unconscious. A suspicious Spike aborts an out-of-town errand for Anya and with fortuitous timing, encounters a just-resurrected Buffy at her grave and brings her home. Interrupting Dawn’s sleep-over at Janice’s, Spike orchestrates a teary reunion between Buffy and Dawn. Afterwards, Spike recalls the hour spent alone with Buffy, including helping her with a shower (while demonstrating, perhaps to the reader’s disappointment, remarkable self-control), and in the privacy of his basement (and I think rather to the reader’s delight) finally allowing himself a bit of relief and release.
Chapter 14. The Pale Cast of Thought
They gazed at each other, Buffy and her mirror image, in identical battle stance, from across the landscape. It was all supernaturally misty and dissolving into nothingness around the edges. Buffy directed an eyeroll skyward. Typical. Whoever was writing her TV movie-of-the-week life had better scale way back on the melodrama. All that was missing from achieving a complete over-the-top cheesy horror movie setup was the spooky soundtrack.
By Slayer instinct or years of fighting experience, they drew closer, circling each other in the pre-battle tension.
Continue reading on AO3 (public), or at Elysian Fields (members only).