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quinara

Fic: 'I love you' is a thing you say to people who are dying (8/16); hard R

Aug 07, 2015 20:31

[start of fic and notes]

'I love you' is a thing you say to people who are dying
by Quinara

Season 7. Buffy/Spike. Some Watchers survived, because sometimes people do.

[breakfasts II]

( breakfasts III )

ily is a thing, fic

Comments 4

the_moonmoth August 16 2015, 10:15:30 UTC

Staring into the face of her, Spike was lost for words. This bridge, it felt like, was entirely burned, all the ashes long washed downstream. In some ways it didn’t seem like a catastrophe of the year before, but a catastrophe of this one. It ached inside of him.

Spike :( the angst, it is strong with this one. And it's awesome.

Every part of him yearned to be the way she saw when she looked at him, but it was difficult not to feel like he wasn’t using her - like he wasn’t wasting her.

Unf, such quality word porn.

quinara August 16 2015, 11:17:46 UTC

Aaaaaaangst; I loves it. And I know there's only about three minutes of them together after Beneath You, but I sort of love Spike and Dawn's relationship as much as I love Buffy and him yelling at each other. I slightly thrive on discord.

Thank you!!!

shapinglight August 19 2015, 15:48:48 UTC

I think maybe, just maybe, you're going to make that awful Guardian character make sense in the story. If so, kudos.

In fact, kudos anyway, because this is just so good. I loved every scene of it (even if Dawn's reaction to seeing the lipgloss on Spike's face was rather hurtful).

quinara August 19 2015, 17:32:56 UTC

Hahahaha - erk, I hope it's not a spoiler, but I completely forgot the Guardian for basically the duration of this fic. I generally like to think that EoD and Chosen never actually happened the way they did, so, er, things is different...

And yay, thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it! Poor Dawn has a rocky road in this fic, but I wanted to keep her as a teenager (if only for reasons of dramatic tension!), because she may be wise beyond her years, but she's also pretty messed up. :( I ain't having her and Spike play out easy! I have sympathy for her, really, because I also know how to play out a grudge, and believe in the power of being unpragmatic about it sometimes (though I also strongly believe in pragmatic approaches to emotional conflict, which is why I don't really think Buffy's wrong and still so buy S7 Spuffy).