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Just reading through what I typed up earlier, and can I say I love writing Anya? I don't care if no one else finds it funny, I am sitting here laughing to myself like a loon :)
“You know, Spike said Xander and I brought Dawnie up in the other reality,” Anya said, a note of pride in her voice. “Of course, I’m the natural choice - no good in an apocalyptic battle,” said added, to Buffy’s raised eyebrows, “Very good at running away. I really feel I ought to take more of an active role in this universe as well.”
“We babysit twice a week, Ahn,” Xander said around a mouthful of doughnut, sprinkling the books laid out in front of him liberally with sugar. Buffy noticed a comic tucked not-so-subtly inside an especially fat tome.
“Yes, but I let you do all the work.”
“Fair point, well made.”
“She’s probably due a fresh diaper,” Buffy said dryly.
“Are you?” Anya said, lifting Dawn up to her eye level. “Are you due a fresh diaper-wiper, baby?”
It was quite sweet, really. And at least she wasn’t calling her ‘small human’ any longer.
Then Anya frowned. “Huh, she has blue eyes. I never noticed before.”
At the non-sequitur, Buffy glanced at Xander, a question on her face, but he just pointed his doughnut back at her. “This one’s yours.”
“Yes, she does,” Buffy said slowly.
“She has blue eyes,” Anya repeated. “Yours are hazel. And Joyce’s are brown.”
“Right.”
“Well, no thanks to Giles, I did have to sit through high school biology, you know. Haven’t you ever wondered who her father is?”
Actually, I am really pleased with this whole chapter so far. You see a lot of author's notes that say something along the lines of 'I'm still not happy with it, but I can't stand to look at it anymore, so here you go.' I've written things like that myself before. You hardly ever see the reverse, but that's how I feel right now -- that it's full of fantastic lines and I love it. Possibly my my favourite line so far, though, comes from Joyce...
“He just does it because he’s in love with me,” Buffy said eventually. Then she realized how long it had been since he’d actually said as such. What if…?
“There’s no ‘just’ about feelings like that, sweetheart. Love is a force of nature. It can change the world.”
“You know, Spike said Xander and I brought Dawnie up in the other reality,” Anya said, a note of pride in her voice. “Of course, I’m the natural choice - no good in an apocalyptic battle,” said added, to Buffy’s raised eyebrows, “Very good at running away. I really feel I ought to take more of an active role in this universe as well.”
“We babysit twice a week, Ahn,” Xander said around a mouthful of doughnut, sprinkling the books laid out in front of him liberally with sugar. Buffy noticed a comic tucked not-so-subtly inside an especially fat tome.
“Yes, but I let you do all the work.”
“Fair point, well made.”
“She’s probably due a fresh diaper,” Buffy said dryly.
“Are you?” Anya said, lifting Dawn up to her eye level. “Are you due a fresh diaper-wiper, baby?”
It was quite sweet, really. And at least she wasn’t calling her ‘small human’ any longer.
Then Anya frowned. “Huh, she has blue eyes. I never noticed before.”
At the non-sequitur, Buffy glanced at Xander, a question on her face, but he just pointed his doughnut back at her. “This one’s yours.”
“Yes, she does,” Buffy said slowly.
“She has blue eyes,” Anya repeated. “Yours are hazel. And Joyce’s are brown.”
“Right.”
“Well, no thanks to Giles, I did have to sit through high school biology, you know. Haven’t you ever wondered who her father is?”
Actually, I am really pleased with this whole chapter so far. You see a lot of author's notes that say something along the lines of 'I'm still not happy with it, but I can't stand to look at it anymore, so here you go.' I've written things like that myself before. You hardly ever see the reverse, but that's how I feel right now -- that it's full of fantastic lines and I love it. Possibly my my favourite line so far, though, comes from Joyce...
“He just does it because he’s in love with me,” Buffy said eventually. Then she realized how long it had been since he’d actually said as such. What if…?
“There’s no ‘just’ about feelings like that, sweetheart. Love is a force of nature. It can change the world.”