Death Letter Blues [600-word Dead Letter Variation]
Spike leaves a letter for Harmony, a few hours after the final scene of Fool For Love.
Bad language and major character death (obviously) follow.
A previous reader has warned that this fic is quite disturbing. Thanks!
Harm,
DON’T TOUCH THE FUCKING EQUIPMENT.
I mean it. Really. DO NOT touch ANYTHING.
Right now, as you’re reading this, I’m on a table ( Read more... )
That's ok, no problem at all! I'm just glad you happened to stumble across this one - I didn't want to post it on all the communities I usually do as I only just finished the proper fic a few days ago.
I know what you mean, he did a very good job of keeping up a rebellious streak most of the time, but he was perhaps at his most fun when he first showed up in Season 2 as the bad guy. Although, he looked crap in vampire makeup! In fact, I think most vampires did, the only actors that ever looked half good with it in my eyes were David Boreanaz, Mercedes McNab and Julie Benz. And even they looked much better without it!
But I read an interesting interview with James Marsters the other day - he said that after Spike had been around for three episodes, Joss conciously tried to make the character less 'cool.' In the end it had the opposite effect, of course (thank God!), but it was a shame to put him in a wheelchair, then have him drunk and dumped, then chipped, then ensouled...
James' theory on why Joss did that was that having such a strong male character messed with the feminist message, that he was able to deal with Angel, but Spike would have been too much. Shame, that. Also got me thinking that maybe that's why Spike got so much more Spike when he moved to AtS, that he was freed from the oppressive chains of female empowerment. Lol. That came out wrong...
Thanks, I really liked those lines too! I think Spike threatens suicide far too often in fanfic, I wanted to have him laugh it off as a moment of madness that he'd never dream of repeating. And I'm really glad you liked the third one - I was worried that 'someone pretty' might have been better (I thought 'something pretty' might suggest wedding cake or something!), but it didn't quite sound right.
I guess wanting a way for Spike to get rid of the chip himself is just a response to a fear of mine really. I hate the idea of the chip, I hate reading about it, and I especially hate the few times authors have passed it off as a good/not-altogether-absolutely-totally-evil thing. It's just such a horrible thought - what would you do if that happened to you?! Obviously, perhaps not so important to humans, not many of us make habits of regular homicide after all, but anything in your brain controlling what your body can and can't do, I think that's a terrifying idea. So I wanted to think that if Spike was determined enough, and was willing to risk it, there was a way he could get rid of it.
Lol I hope that too, he's really being very trusting with her. I wasn't sure when to set this story, but this seemed about the only time Spike had the chip that there was anyone around who might care for him while he was out of action, without staking him immediately for what he was trying to do. Could have possibly tried it with Tara or Dawn I suppose, but that might be a little far off-canon for such a short fic where I can't be arsed to explain how they got together and all that!
Gotta say though, not sure I'd trust Harm in that situation, he's a very brave man!
Yeah, I posted one from the Doctor, after being very impressed with last night's episode, was also thinking about maybe an Illyria one (but I'm a bit stuck on who on Earth she'd write to!) and possibly a Luna Lovegood one. Not sure I could manage that last one though, haven't really thought about it yet.
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