Beauty, Vision, Midnight, Prologue

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Prologue
Los Angeles, Midsummer's Day, 2000

Alex held her small body as closely as he could, pulling her against his kneeling lap. Balancing as best he could against the weight she held in her arms, against the furl of her body around the person in whose hair her face was buried. Against the way she was rocking them both.

His hands trembling, he

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I'm so glad you see it that way, not least because it's an affirmation of my way of thinking/feeling my characters; I hope some other readers agree. There were always times, even when I still thought this was a Spuffy, that I'd get either irritated or alarmed by people asking for more romance or when they were going to get involved. I thought, Man, this is sucking- the characters and their lives just aren't interesting enough...

Which isn't fair, because I find the romance very appealing; there are several extremely romantic scenes already written, all of which I'll use- and which I wrote, no doubt, because of my own desire to see these characters come together. Still, though, I always felt my desire was different. There're tons of Spuffy fics out there that would've given impatient readers all the Spuffy they liked. These two characters, though, so very different in my head from S/B even then, had no love story except for the one I wrote for them. So unlike everyone else, I had no place else to get my 'fix', I suppose.

At any rate, both Callie and Keen have a lot going on in their lives, and most of the time romance is the least of their worries. So I'm glad that helps them come across as real people.

And I'm glad you like Ran; I do know what you mean about Will, but Ran's name actually does fit him better (I see you checked the meaning, so you'll understand what I mean faster than most others will).

More as time goes by, LL...