048 - Faithfully
Faithfully
Synopsis: Just as Giles is trying to come to terms with the discovery of a bit of foreshadowing regarding Buffy's family, Jenny comes home and confesses to an impulsive indiscretion that has the potential to put their marriage in jeopardy.
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Synopsis: Just as Giles is trying to come to terms with the discovery of a bit of foreshadowing regarding Buffy's family, Jenny comes home and confesses to an impulsive indiscretion that has the potential to put their marriage in jeopardy.
Please leave any feedback here for 'Faithfully.'
To try to put my feelings into words, this chapter was seriously pricless. It was one of those very rare (but very serious) times where Giles and Jenny actually fight for real. Sure they still bicker from time to time, but they never have a knock down, drag out fight like this one was escalaing to (had there been two other people that were not Rupert and Jenny? I fear that might have happened, but I can't see Rupert ever hitting Jenny). With Giles and his escalating Ripper-ness and Jenny with her extra strength? It probably would not have been pretty.
The way you are able to take us on these emotional roller coaster rides is amazing. What I mean by that is, is you have the skill to make the readers feel what the characters are feeling and it's very real to us. We are able to connect so well with the characters thanks to how well you can write them. For example, when there was anger in the room with the fight going on? I couldn't help but feeling a bit angry myself, even though I shouldn't have. Then when they both broke down and cried against opposite sides of the bedroom door (which was an EPIC bit of writing all in its own), I couldn't help but wanting to cry myself. Giles and Jenny fights do tend to make me sad, but this was so very different.
Now, for the Angel/Jenny thing.. I am still a bit iffy on it. Manda and I had a whole conversation about this last night. I agree that it is sexy and steamy, but for some reason there is something unsettling to me about it, so I am not sure if I will ever like it as much as I should. I accept it, and I can totally see it happening, but.. Yeah. Sorry. I feel bad because all of the others really like it, but each is entitled to his own, yes?
I also love (as the others and I have said before) how you can so seamlessly sew Jenny into the lines of this story. God, it's just so perfect. It even almost makes MORE sense to have her in the story.
The way you sent Giles off to England was also very good. He just kind of seemed to come and go in the series, but in this? He actually had a reason to go, aside from just having to talk to the Council. I thought it was a very good idea that they spent a few days apart because that being apart would just bring them crashing back together again.
And it did!
Giles' homecoming was so cute with the roses and everything after hearing one of their songs on the piano in the airport. He never forgets about Buffy.. But you can definitely tell that Jenny is truly the one on his mind (It was SOOO cute how you had Joyce and Buffy mini-fangirl over how cute of a couple they were. BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!).
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As Giles reminisced in the story, they have had many makeup sex sessions, but this one was just completely different. I love how you described their coming together once again. It was almost poetic. Especially the, "It was passionate, bone-meltingly intense without being rushed or frenzied. This coupling was all about taking the time to truly feel each other, inside and out, to come back together after the abrupt rift had thrown an ocean between them." That was probably one of my most favorite parts of the entire chapter.. It was just so poetic and beautiful and and Hee. I loved it. Plain and simple. Also the way they made love to the song was just so cute.
So.. I hope that in some way, you can tell how much I seriously loved this chapter AND you for writing things like this so freaking well.
Oh, I must mention though, when they were having that fight? It reminded me of so many fights that I have had with my dad before. See.. I know I compare myself to Rupert a lot, but the way you write him just reminds me so much of myself. It takes one litte thing to set me off and then I am not a person anybody should be around. So, you have the power to make one think too.
OH and his letter about going to England? I just wanted to mention that I LOVE Anthony Head's cursive writing. >.> It's very cool (I write kinda like him, but more neat and more female looking, but that's beside the fact).
So, I think I have everything down that I wanted to mention. I bloody LOVED this chapter and I hope that you can tell that from this review if it even makes sense because I feel like I have rambled.
LOVED IT and this chapter is one of big reasons I am sticking with this RP for the long haul. :D
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Glad you guys enjoyed the makeup sex too, hehehe. It was very different for me to write that as opposed to any of the other times they had crashed together again, because this one almost needed to be slow and tender. Maybe because they're married now, and their marriage was on the line? IDK, it was just a totally different set of feelings for me writing this, versus any of their other makeup sessions.
Again, SO SO happy you enjoyed this chapter! I'll get started on "Checkpoint" at some point during the week -- kinda wanna finish that birthday-smut-fic first :D
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It was one of those very rare (but very serious) times where Giles and Jenny actually fight for real. Precisely. As I mentioned to myfidgetball, I think this may have only been the second time I've ever taken them to this place -- the only other time I can recall, was "In With the Old." Normally, I like to keep their fights easily-resolvable. I think this totally called for a blowout, though.
The way you are able to take us on these emotional roller coaster rides is amazing. What I mean by that is, is you have the skill to make the readers feel what the characters are feeling and it's very real to us. We are able to connect so well with the characters thanks to how well you can write them. Thank you SO so much!! I really do try so hard to convey everything that I feel as I write. I really try to dig in to the emotion of the story, because that's the only way I can think to properly convey everything that needs to be said and described. If that makes any sense. LOL IDK, I get kinda crazy and trance-like when I get into the zone writing. Sometimes I can't even explain how I get from a point-A to a point-B -- sometimes I just write until I can't anymore, and I look up and there's a finished fic sitting in front of me. LOL. Kinda like highway-hypnosis, but... writing.
Yeah. Sorry. I feel bad because all of the others really like it, but each is entitled to his own, yes? Well, you're not the only one that doesn't list it as a crack!ship like some of us do, but -- as I said, as long as you guys don't get completely closed-minded and all, "Uh-uh, neverevereverEVER" about something I'm trying to present to you, it's all good. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing.
I thought it was a very good idea that they spent a few days apart because that being apart would just bring them crashing back together again. I was very very excited that this landed within the canon right around the time of Triangle, because I had been wanting to utilize that Giles-goes-to-England thing, but I was uncertain about whether or not to send Jenny off with him. This was the perfect opportunity to keep it a solo trip like it was in canon, but to give the solo trip underlying meaning and implications. And, as you said, it brought them crashing back together again. And I do so love writing those moments when they crash back together. Loved it in Passion, loved it in The Runaways, and Amends and Redemption, and now this. :D
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