Title: Ordinary Day
Author: lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Gen/G
Word Count: 18,664
Summary: Willie goes about his chores and wonders if this is as good as it gets. And then bad things happen.
A/N: This is a stream of consciousness story, and up to that point that I wrote it, no one had written a first person Willie POV story, so I took it upon myself ( Read more... )

Title: The Willie and Barnabas Diversion
Author: lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Gen/PG
Word Count: 5,539
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Summary: Willie can’t remember why he used to be afraid of his boss. But, once he sees Barnabas attack Adam, it starts to come to him, and no matter how far Willie runs, the memories are going to catch up to him.
A/N: This is one of ( Read more... )

Title: Breath of Heaven
Author: Lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Gen/PG
Word Count: 11,636
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Summary: Willie buys the wrong kind of paint, and has to go back to the paint store. Along the way he runs into trouble, and ends up in the hospital. This sets Barnabas off because he doesn’t like modern doctors poking into his business.
A/N: When I ( Read more... )

She shook her head. "And after I had asked him to be kinder to you." With her face set in straight lines, she looked at the playing piece as it lay in the palm of her hand. "Willie, you know I don't like to interfere when it's none of my business, but I think that you should-"

"No, Vicki, don't." His head snapped up, shocked that she'd said ( Read more... )

There was protest in Willie's eyes, a small flicker that he took no pains to hide. He was even shaking his head no as his eyes closed slowly shut. Barnabas grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and jerked him forward, ignoring the sharp sound of Willie's breath as it caught in his throat.

"If you do not give me your belt, I will get my cane and ( Read more... )

Willie parked along the street next to the Blue Whale and locked up the truck, standing in the wind, as it whistled up the street, to pat his pocket, making sure he had his keys before he shut the door. In his other pocket was five dollars, an unexplainable amount of money suddenly given to him for no apparent reason. Not Barnabas in a good mood, ( Read more... )

Title: State of Grace
Author: Lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Pairing: Willie/Barnabas
Word Count: 29,985
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Verse: Splinter Verse (#4)
Summary: Willie attempts to do what he’s supposed to do, but it’s awfully hard, seeing as how delicious the rewards can be when he screws up. This is becoming more complicated, as is Willie’s newfound ( Read more... )

Willie didn't say anything in response to this benign statement, only rolled back a little to look up at him, his hair curling moist against his forehead.

"Did-did she take it?"

He didn't need to question what Willie meant, but he was somewhat surprised that his servant would ask. Surely he didn't care?

"Yes," he said, finally, "in the end."

"H-how ( Read more... )

Then Willie looked up again, and Barnabas looked down at him, at the washed whiteness of his face, and those eyes, blue like a summer's day over the shoreline, and he felt something break off inside of him. Now the fury came, as he knew it would, swamping through him like fire, and he raised the switch and brought it down across Willie's arm. Now ( Read more... )

Title: Piece of Sky
Author: Lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Pairing: Willie/Barnabas
Word Count: 17,626
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Verse: Splinter Verse (#3)
Summary: Barnabas has sent Willie to pick up a present for Miss Winters. Willie ruins everything, and must be punished. However, in doing so, Barnabas comes up against his servant’s odd proclivities to ( Read more... )