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Angel/BtVS: It Matters Little (Or Not At All) [Spike/Dru]

Sep 22, 2011 00:12

Title: “It Matters Little (Or Not At All)”
Author: Shaitanah
Rating: PG
Timeline: post-Spike # 8 to BtVS Season 9 # 1
Summary: Leaving Drusilla in the asylum is the hardest decision Spike has ever made. [past Spike/Drusilla, past Spike/Buffy]
Disclaimer: Angel belongs to Joss Whedon. Spike series belongs to Brian Lynch, Franco Urru and IDW ( Read more... )

ch: drusilla, btvs/angel, het, ch: malposo, ch: spike, tv, fanfiction

Comments 9

syrraki September 21 2011, 22:38:16 UTC

i'm totally out of the loop since i only know until the end of buffy season seven, but i still thoroughly enjoyed this. you go drusilla spot on.

istne_pieklo September 22 2011, 07:25:01 UTC

I barely read any of the Buffy comics, but I did read a lot of Angel ones and of course I couldn't miss Spike's own mini-series. XD Hence, this story))
Thank you for reading! <3 Drusilla's tough to write...

rebcake September 21 2011, 23:33:09 UTC

Oh, heartbreaking. I do so worry about Dru, and can't help wondering what will become of her. Can something that's been broken for 150 years ever be fixed? Or made "better"?

Your language is lovely in this and you delve into so many of the deep questions about how her family came to this pass in an interesting way. Very nice!

istne_pieklo September 22 2011, 07:30:14 UTC

Thank you very much! :)
I'm worried about Dru too and I hope she'll appear in canon again. I think she could get better, but she's so fragile that it'd probably take all the time in the world...

harryosbornluvr October 20 2011, 17:00:05 UTC

This was seriously incredible! This has been my first fanfic that I've read in the Buffy-verse, and it was amazing!!! You understand Spike and Drusilla individually, and then capture their relationship perfectly. Can you please write more Spike and Dru fics?! :)

istne_pieklo October 20 2011, 17:42:00 UTC

Wow, thank you for such a flattering comment! <333
It was actually my first time writing Drusilla. She's not easy to write)) But I might try again some time))
Thanks for reading!

red_satin_doll December 8 2014, 13:46:53 UTC

“She made you want to be a better man,” Drusilla mutters, and asks her question: “Do you want me to be better?”

He can’t possibly ask anything of her. Not now. But maybe it’s the first step.

WOW.

(Sorry I'm completely lacking in the eloquence department right now. I came by to wish you a Happy birthday and couldn't help reading and JUST WOW. This is fantastically good. I have almost given up on Spike-centric fics, this is a gem.)

“She saved me,” he whispers. “Dru delivered me from mediocrity.” The words taste familiar. How-? Oh, right. Buffy. He said it to Buffy when he was about to stake Drusilla for her. A terrible gift she never could have accepted - he knows that now. He tried so hard to turn his love for Buffy into a duplicate of his feelings for Dru. No wonder she could not reciprocate.

Exactly.

MAJOR kudos for an interesting OC in Malposo who I actually would want to get to know better. (What is that called? Oh yeah, good writing.)

istne_pieklo December 8 2014, 14:34:13 UTC

Thank you! *blush*
As happy as I would be to take credit for Malposo, she's not my OC unfortunately, she's from the comic books, notably the Spike: Asylum series. I have a complicated relationship with the official Buffyverse comics, half the time I pretend they don't exist, but I do like some of the arcs (or bits of some arcs at least), and she's definitely an interesting character.
I have almost given up on Spike-centric fics I can relate :(( He is often written as some kind of a pining, personality-lacking Angel Junior. O_o I don't know what it is about Spike and Buffy/Spike that makes people think boring romance!

red_satin_doll December 8 2014, 15:17:17 UTC

I have a complicated relationship with the official Buffyverse comics, half the time I pretend they don't exist, but I do like some of the arcs (or bits of some arcs at least), and she's definitely an interesting character.

She's not the same psychologist who showed up in the original Slayer, Interrrupted arc, is she? (A reminaging of Buffy's time in the asylum, pre-SunnyD) Because that was a pretty awesome character too.

He is often written as some kind of a pining, personality-lacking Angel Junior. O_o I don't know what it is about Spike and Buffy/Spike that makes people think boring romance! I've noticed that Bangel fans and Spuffy fans tend to think they are so different to each other and want totally different things, and maybe that's true if we're strictly discussing canon, but when it comes to fanfiction? Bangel fans want the hot sex their pairing was denied, Spuffy fans want the romance their pairing was denied. aka, we all want the SAME stuff, basically ( ... )