B:TVS Ficlet: Bookends
Title: Bookends
Author: kangeiko
Fandom: Buffy
Set pre-Season 4.
That Oz doesn't say as much as other people isn't really a big secret. They sort of even out, him and Willow, speech-wise. He likes that. There's a sort of Zen to that kind of balance. They're pretty similar, actually, in that they both have plenty to say, and they're both pretty anxious to say it just right. But whereas Willow says everything that occurs in a rush of consciousness, Oz lets the stream wash over him and picks out the bits that stick, like rocks in the water. The flotsam of his thoughts is what finally gets given voice, and he's okay with the irony of speaking rubbish.
"I talk nonsense sometimes," he tells Willow one day, very seriously. "It's not that I want to be uniform."
She smiles; sunlight and a rush of life flowing through him. "You could never be uniform." And that's all she says; all that could ever occur to her.
Oz, the river, watches from the banks of his thoughts and smiles.
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Author: kangeiko
Fandom: Buffy
Set pre-Season 4.
That Oz doesn't say as much as other people isn't really a big secret. They sort of even out, him and Willow, speech-wise. He likes that. There's a sort of Zen to that kind of balance. They're pretty similar, actually, in that they both have plenty to say, and they're both pretty anxious to say it just right. But whereas Willow says everything that occurs in a rush of consciousness, Oz lets the stream wash over him and picks out the bits that stick, like rocks in the water. The flotsam of his thoughts is what finally gets given voice, and he's okay with the irony of speaking rubbish.
"I talk nonsense sometimes," he tells Willow one day, very seriously. "It's not that I want to be uniform."
She smiles; sunlight and a rush of life flowing through him. "You could never be uniform." And that's all she says; all that could ever occur to her.
Oz, the river, watches from the banks of his thoughts and smiles.
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fin