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Fic-Should Have Seen it Coming

May 18, 2011 23:55

Author- smellslikecorruption
Title- Should Have Seen it Coming
Rating- PG-13/R
Setting- S6, during and right after OAFA
Prompts- All card suites and the Joker

AN: *This story involves reading playing cards. I don't actually know how to do that, so all the information comes from the internet.*

Every card I use is listed along with it's meaning. Except ( Read more... )

medium: fic, creator: smells_corrupt, setting: b6

Comments 27

gryfndor_godess May 19 2011, 07:27:49 UTC

This is brilliant! The beginning, how certain things will always remind him of Dru, is so true to real life and exes, and the language is beautiful:

She relied on tradition and ceremony, the closest thing she had to a religion after Angel destroyed hers on a bleeding pile of nuns.

I love the idea of him reading fortunes on poker night!

(although it would be even nicer if she’d let him slip his hand into her pants and get her off right under the scoobies’ noses).

I like that even in a story that sympathizes with Spike, you remind us how morally ambiguous he is.

He doesn’t ask, just drops the cards and, reaches for his fly with one hand, her with the other.

Ack, very poignant.

The jester’s cap is a knife to the gut. How could he have forgotten?

She’s a wild card, and he’s a fool.

Wonderful ending!!

smells_corrupt May 19 2011, 22:56:56 UTC

Thank you!

I like that even in a story that sympathizes with Spike, you remind us how morally ambiguous he is. Thanks! I think it's entirely to easy to sympathize with Spike in S6, and forget just how at fault he was too.

tennyo_elf May 19 2011, 08:46:04 UTC

Awesome and very sad. I really feel for Spike, he is such a fool, a fool in love.

smells_corrupt May 19 2011, 22:57:43 UTC

Thank you! Or is he a Fool for Love? sorry. I had to.

tennyo_elf May 19 2011, 23:56:42 UTC

No, you're totally right! He is a complete Fool for Love. That's why we love him to pieces.

readerjane May 19 2011, 10:12:38 UTC

(She’s never promised to come back before, and his heart leaps. Maybe, maybe, maybe…)

Ouch. That's our guy all over.

Beautifully sad.

smells_corrupt May 19 2011, 22:58:03 UTC

Thank you!

shapinglight May 19 2011, 13:30:19 UTC

Wonderful stuff, and terrific use of the prompt. Poor Spike!

smells_corrupt May 19 2011, 22:58:31 UTC

Thank you!

treadingthedark May 19 2011, 14:02:49 UTC

Excellent!

smells_corrupt May 19 2011, 22:58:44 UTC

Thanks!