Ficlet: Silk Shackles

[smells_corrupt]

 I'm a week behind on prompts, hope that's ok!

Title: Silk Shackles
Author: smells_corrupt
Rating: R
Prompt: Silk Handkerchiefs
Words: 545
Setting: Between Dead Things and Older and Far Away
AN: I can't stop writing angsty, season 6 sex stuff. I may have a problem.

Comments

[gryfndor_godess]

Oh, this is sad and lovely, which is not something I can usually say about an S6 ficlet.

As if, by avoiding looking at bites from a lifetime ago, she could forget about the bites that he’s left in far more intimate places, with far blunter teeth.

This is so evocative, as is the first paragraph. It captures her headspace so clearly, and then you have this line, which is also heartbreaking and so true, as we'll see in "As You Were":
And more than anything she wants to feel him loving her. Because one of them has to.

The last line is excellent!

[smells_corrupt]

Thank you! I love the idea of getting into her head between DT and OAFA. She knows that there's technically nothing wrong with her, but she keeps up the affair anyway and at some point she surely made a conscious decision about that. So it's nice to hear that I was able to capture her headspace!

[rebcake]

Good girls, human girls, don’t sneak around fucking monsters.

Hmmm. Pretty sure there's something wrong with her argument. An argument she's only having with herself.

Wonderfully done!

[smells_corrupt]

The argument certainly doesn't last long at any rate. Thank you!

[quinara]

Angsty S6 stuff is always good - and this is especially so! Between DT and OAFA seems somewhat unexplored as far as my memory goes, at least in terms of fics about Buffy's state of mind, rather than her bringing First Aid or whatever - and I really like what you've done here.

[smells_corrupt]

Thank you! I'm kind of surprised that there aren't more fics that explore her thoughts and actions in that period of time. Something changed between the alley and her birthday party, but what? I'm glad it worked for you!

[shapinglight]

Beautifully written. I love it.

[smells_corrupt]

Thank you!

[readerjane]

(Because one of them has to.)

Oh, beautiful.

[smells_corrupt]

Thank you!