july 6, 2007
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
One Taste by glossalia- Dawn/Kit, Dawn/Tara, PG-13, spoilers for s6 of Buffy. Excerpt: Dawn switched over to Tara's toothpaste the night after Giles left with Willow. She rationed it out all through the summer but by the middle of August, it was gone. The tube was empty and curled.
She put it in the box she keeps under her bed, with the picture of Mom, Buffy's graduation tassel, a postcard from Oz in Prague, and the copy of Dickinson's poems that Willow gave her for her tenth birthday.
Tara's toothpaste is the only real memory Dawn has in that box. The only one she's sure of, the only one that doesn't depend on magic and mojo and bullshit. The only one that didn't appear out of nowhere like her.
All Your Freedom by Branwyn- Tara, gen. AU, guessing it's supposed to happen sometime in s6. Tara runs away. Excerpt: Tara has nightmares about the day her father came after her, nightmares in which Buffy is glaring, and she is stammering so badly that she cannot explain or defend herself. (You want her Mr McClay? You can go ahead and take her.) Willow's stony eyes follow her out the door of the Magic Box, and hell re-emerges to swallow her whole while Donny stands by and smiles.
Sometimes Buffy's gaze is as heavy as her father's, as full of doubt and righteousness.
There is a numb place in Tara's brain where all her hellish realities can co-exist without intruding on her more regular functions. Thoughts of Willow are imprisoned there for the moment, which allows Tara to get back to the house (Buffy's house) and pack, calmly.
Who Loves the Sun by glossolalia-Oz/Cordelia, post-Lover's Walk, PG. Lovely piece with one of the best Ozs I've seen. Excerpt: She's scared to sleep, though, because she can't stop dreaming about Xander and the spike and the harsh, mean smell of the hospital and Xander and the way his mouth fit against hers like no one else's ever had and how he'd whisper in her ear while he kissed her neck and his hands did that *thing* around her waist, half-kneading, half-pulling and the way he'd talk so fast while she drove him home, like he almost believed that each time was the last time she'd ever talk to him, and he had to fit in just as many words as possible before they got there and the door closed, and she let him believe that because she was in charge even when they both knew neither one of them was.
Oz is touching her like she's his guitar. Lovingly and innocently and Cordy sighs.
Crossover:
Les Cousins Dangereux- Connor/Dawn, R, spoilers for all of Buffy and s4 of Angel. AU where Connor's "family" is Dawn and Buffy rather than the one Angel sees at the end of Home. Supposed to be post-Chosen, from Connor's POV. Highly recommended. Excerpt: He's pretty sure most of his friends got out before Sunnydale collapsed in on itself. He thinks, anyway. The day after, he and his sisters and the Scoobies and the Potentials and everybody who got out of Sunnydale on the schoolbus are all trying to regroup. The ones who aren't in the hospital are all staying in a cheap motel, but he and Dawn are the only ones hanging around without anything to do. Everyone else is visiting at the hospital, or talking to the government or reporters, or trying to straighten out their insurance policies or the defunct Watchers' Council accounts so that they can afford to eat. Connor's not sorry that the Potentials are all busy - whenever they're around, they always giggle and stare at him and occasionally ask him out, like because he's the only guy their age around, it's open season. And whatever, they're hot, mostly, but there's ten million of them, and all the staring makes him very uncomfortable. Plus, they keep talking about, like, tampons in front of him, which is not awesome.
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Nine Pieces of Eight by penknife- Calypso, Elizabeth, Will, Jack, Gibbs, Teague, Ragetti, Barbossa, Bootstrap, Elizabeth's son. Oh, lovely fic in which each of the nine characters above have convos with Calypso (post-AWE, obviously). My favorite is the last one. :) Excerpt: He wakes to the knowledge that someone is sitting at the foot of the bed and reaches for his pistol, wondering if this is how it felt for Jack the night they dragged him from his captain's bed and locked him in the brig. Then he realizes it's a woman, and he swears, wondering how anyone got a wench aboard without his knowing. Whoever brought her had best be prepared to share with everyone else.
"You planning to shoot me?" the woman asks, and the voice is both familiar and amused. Against his will his left hand moves to cover his right, and he remembers feeling the flesh wither away, the sinews tightening and wrapping round his bones. Calypso turns and smiles at him with her blackened teeth.
"To what do I owe the honor of this visitation?" he asks, and gives her his best smile. "Not that your presence is ever unwelcome."
"You a bad liar, Hector Barbossa," she says. "You always were."
Firefly/Serenity:
Strawberry Orgasm by lost_her_sway- Kaylee/Inara, NC-17. As I said in my wee review, great characterization of the characters and very hot as well. Check it out and make sure to review! Excerpt: Kaylee stretched and reached for her overalls and underthings. Time to get lost - if Inara wasn’t in there with her, it probably meant she was seeing to a client planetside, and it would certainly not do if they were to come back to the ship and find the resident mechanic in their bed. She was about to hop out of bed and get dressed when the door opened and in came Inara herself, holding a large box and smiling.
“I do hope you weren’t planning on leaving just yet,” Inara said softly. “I’ve brought a surprise for us.”
One Taste by glossalia- Dawn/Kit, Dawn/Tara, PG-13, spoilers for s6 of Buffy. Excerpt: Dawn switched over to Tara's toothpaste the night after Giles left with Willow. She rationed it out all through the summer but by the middle of August, it was gone. The tube was empty and curled.
She put it in the box she keeps under her bed, with the picture of Mom, Buffy's graduation tassel, a postcard from Oz in Prague, and the copy of Dickinson's poems that Willow gave her for her tenth birthday.
Tara's toothpaste is the only real memory Dawn has in that box. The only one she's sure of, the only one that doesn't depend on magic and mojo and bullshit. The only one that didn't appear out of nowhere like her.
All Your Freedom by Branwyn- Tara, gen. AU, guessing it's supposed to happen sometime in s6. Tara runs away. Excerpt: Tara has nightmares about the day her father came after her, nightmares in which Buffy is glaring, and she is stammering so badly that she cannot explain or defend herself. (You want her Mr McClay? You can go ahead and take her.) Willow's stony eyes follow her out the door of the Magic Box, and hell re-emerges to swallow her whole while Donny stands by and smiles.
Sometimes Buffy's gaze is as heavy as her father's, as full of doubt and righteousness.
There is a numb place in Tara's brain where all her hellish realities can co-exist without intruding on her more regular functions. Thoughts of Willow are imprisoned there for the moment, which allows Tara to get back to the house (Buffy's house) and pack, calmly.
Who Loves the Sun by glossolalia-Oz/Cordelia, post-Lover's Walk, PG. Lovely piece with one of the best Ozs I've seen. Excerpt: She's scared to sleep, though, because she can't stop dreaming about Xander and the spike and the harsh, mean smell of the hospital and Xander and the way his mouth fit against hers like no one else's ever had and how he'd whisper in her ear while he kissed her neck and his hands did that *thing* around her waist, half-kneading, half-pulling and the way he'd talk so fast while she drove him home, like he almost believed that each time was the last time she'd ever talk to him, and he had to fit in just as many words as possible before they got there and the door closed, and she let him believe that because she was in charge even when they both knew neither one of them was.
Oz is touching her like she's his guitar. Lovingly and innocently and Cordy sighs.
Crossover:
Les Cousins Dangereux- Connor/Dawn, R, spoilers for all of Buffy and s4 of Angel. AU where Connor's "family" is Dawn and Buffy rather than the one Angel sees at the end of Home. Supposed to be post-Chosen, from Connor's POV. Highly recommended. Excerpt: He's pretty sure most of his friends got out before Sunnydale collapsed in on itself. He thinks, anyway. The day after, he and his sisters and the Scoobies and the Potentials and everybody who got out of Sunnydale on the schoolbus are all trying to regroup. The ones who aren't in the hospital are all staying in a cheap motel, but he and Dawn are the only ones hanging around without anything to do. Everyone else is visiting at the hospital, or talking to the government or reporters, or trying to straighten out their insurance policies or the defunct Watchers' Council accounts so that they can afford to eat. Connor's not sorry that the Potentials are all busy - whenever they're around, they always giggle and stare at him and occasionally ask him out, like because he's the only guy their age around, it's open season. And whatever, they're hot, mostly, but there's ten million of them, and all the staring makes him very uncomfortable. Plus, they keep talking about, like, tampons in front of him, which is not awesome.
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Nine Pieces of Eight by penknife- Calypso, Elizabeth, Will, Jack, Gibbs, Teague, Ragetti, Barbossa, Bootstrap, Elizabeth's son. Oh, lovely fic in which each of the nine characters above have convos with Calypso (post-AWE, obviously). My favorite is the last one. :) Excerpt: He wakes to the knowledge that someone is sitting at the foot of the bed and reaches for his pistol, wondering if this is how it felt for Jack the night they dragged him from his captain's bed and locked him in the brig. Then he realizes it's a woman, and he swears, wondering how anyone got a wench aboard without his knowing. Whoever brought her had best be prepared to share with everyone else.
"You planning to shoot me?" the woman asks, and the voice is both familiar and amused. Against his will his left hand moves to cover his right, and he remembers feeling the flesh wither away, the sinews tightening and wrapping round his bones. Calypso turns and smiles at him with her blackened teeth.
"To what do I owe the honor of this visitation?" he asks, and gives her his best smile. "Not that your presence is ever unwelcome."
"You a bad liar, Hector Barbossa," she says. "You always were."
Firefly/Serenity:
Strawberry Orgasm by lost_her_sway- Kaylee/Inara, NC-17. As I said in my wee review, great characterization of the characters and very hot as well. Check it out and make sure to review! Excerpt: Kaylee stretched and reached for her overalls and underthings. Time to get lost - if Inara wasn’t in there with her, it probably meant she was seeing to a client planetside, and it would certainly not do if they were to come back to the ship and find the resident mechanic in their bed. She was about to hop out of bed and get dressed when the door opened and in came Inara herself, holding a large box and smiling.
“I do hope you weren’t planning on leaving just yet,” Inara said softly. “I’ve brought a surprise for us.”