Fic: The Smiling Girl

[gabrielleabelle]

Title: The Smiling Girl
Pairing/Characters: Buffy/Spike, OC
Rating: PG
Warning: Character death
Summary: Snapshots of life; growing up the daughter of a Slayer and a vampire.
Word count: Six drabbles. You can do the math. :)

Author's note: I wasn't near as productive writing-wise this winter break as I should have been. But I have been working on

Comments

[deird1]

I really enjoyed this!

[gabrielleabelle]

Thanks! :)

[peroxidepirate]

Very sweet. As a teenager she reminds me a little bit of Dawn. And I especially like the last two: Number 5 is sweet and funny, with the irony of "I just met her and knew... Was it like that with you and Dad?" And number 6 is sweetly sad.

[gabrielleabelle]

As a teenager she reminds me a little bit of Dawn.

Big attitude and so not impressed with the Slayer thing? *g* Yep.

Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[fangfaceandrea]

Very sweet. I like a 'verse where Spike and Buffy don't hide the vampire slayer stuff from their children but they don't have to know everything about their parent's past.

[gabrielleabelle]

Thanks! :)

I can't imagine how Spike and Buffy could hide the vampire slayer stuff. I think that would get found out pretty early on. But this came about because I was playing around with the idea of kids not really thinking of their parents as people until they're older, and how this might play out with Buffy and Spike's hypothetical daughter.

[ladyofthelog]

I was playing around with the idea of kids not really thinking of their parents as people until they're older

This is such a great premise, and I think it's why I love this story as much as I do. I've read a lot of, you know, adorable Spuffy kidfic, but I think this one hits the mark in ways that I don't usually see. Yay! <3

[gabrielleabelle]

Thanks! :)

I think I strayed a bit from the initial premise because I couldn't figure out a way to do an explicit "revelation" without being overly saccharine and trite. I opted to go the more subtle route and just demonstrate some samplings of how little Anne knew about her parents and her regrets when Buffy dies.

[gigi_tastic]

... so wonderful. I love how you made some scenes about boring everyday life yet you gave then a buffy twist. I can so see her daughter jummping off a roof and I can see her having to do one of those lame assinments about how her parents met and having to lie about.. well.. everything! very nice. I know its lame but I wanted to ask uhh how in this small pice of greatness did buffy die? I have this weird thing of thinking about thisngs like stories way to long. like I think about the things that arn't mentioned and no one would care about like when say in this case Anne came out to her parents. did Willow help her? Was she raised around the Scoobies stupid stuff like that.. so yah

[gabrielleabelle]

Thanks! :)

I had to do one of those essays in school. Hell, I think I had to do two of them. Very stupid.

In my head, Buffy died fighting evil. Cause Buffy always goes out a hero in my head. True, she'd be in her 50s at that point, but I like to think she could still kick some ass if need-be.

Anne would definitely have been raised around the Scoobies. The drabble format forced brevity upon me so I didn't have the opportunity to expand too much in that area. But I think having her Aunt Willow in her life from an early age would have cut down on the coming out angst for her. :)

[gigi_tastic]

yah i assumed buffy went out fighting evil. of COURSE she could kick ass in her 50's! hmmm you you just got me thinking. and you know what? i think the i dont know if i have the words for.. the idea of buffy dieing in an unslayerish way would be very haunting. becuase she is the chosen one the one who fights mega evil and isnt tainted by real world stuff. her being killed by i don't know.. a car crash would be so very s6ish way to die. in the sence that this is the season where she confronts humen issues that the rest of us face. not in a depressed sort of way. you really make me think which is why i like you so much. not alot of people make me think...more then i have to. the curse of being smart? and you really make me LOOK at stuff. thank you. i think i am a better person for reading your stuff.

[gabrielleabelle]

:)

[mikuru_chan]

Aw, that was sweet. I like that Anne is frustrated about her parents and their past rather than thinking that it's awesome. It seems much more realistic.

[gabrielleabelle]

Thanks! :)