FIC: A Bottle of Jack Daniels Following Apocalypse (Giles/Buffy, FRM, tagfic)

[antennapedia]

Title: A Bottle of Jack Daniels Following Apocalypse
Author: Antennapedia
Pairing: Giles/Buffy, Buffy/Spike, Xander/Anya and some hints of Giles/Buffy/Xander
Rating: FRM
Summary: Giles, Buffy, and Xander drink to fallen friends in a remote motel room.
Warnings: A bit of voyeurism.
Notes: For my flist, which a year ago said it wanted deeply

Comments

[sahiya]

tag!

though, er. I sorta knew. so if you think it's unfair, I'll live with it. *goes to read*

[antennapedia]

Go for it! I don't think you've claimed one before, so go for it now. And tell me what you think of the revisions. It's still an awful muddle, but I moved the tone quite a bit from that first version.

[sahiya]

Yay, I read and I'm still the first as far as I can see.

I really liked the revisions. The tone did shift, especially at the end, where Xander turns more serious, but I thought it worked very well. I especially liked how you dealt with Spike, who of course is the thorn in the S7 Buffy/Giles side. It was really just lovely overall.

Okay, what do I want? Hmm. I think I'd like a continuation of the Doctor Who crossover snippet, the one set right after "Pangs," with Ethan and Doctor and Rose and Buffy (and of course Giles). :-D

[antennapedia]

This prompt makes me very happy!

[secondalto]

Ohhh, yes. I could certainly listen to Giles talk all day so I don't blame Buffy (or Xander) at all.

But I wonder, did she read Mallory in Modern or Old English? Because Le Morte de Arthur is different in the latter, but still interesting.

[antennapedia]

Well, cough, Buffy read the same edition I did when I was a kid, which was The Boy's King Arthur, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. So not really Mallory, not directly.

[secondalto]

Ha! She had it easy then. I read it in both Modern and Old (because the edition I read had both) just for comparison. I read it in college.

[antennapedia]

I have a different edition in my own library here. I think my parents still have the very old handed-down-through-many-hands edition with the color plates I read as a kid. I never read it for a class, oddly enough! Entirely for pleasure.

[nutterbudgie]

That was...adorable. Sad. Kinda hawt. Sweet. Funny. Really, really beautiful. Wow, thanks.

[antennapedia]

Thanks! My pleasure to give pleasure.

[seldomifever]

Wow! I'd say you really hit the nail on the head with this one. Definitely "deeply emotional, weirdly intellectual Giles/Buffy raunch, with hurt/comfort and mild kinkiness, in a new setting." Very cool. And thank you for finishing it. I've needed some good B/G for some time now. Nicely done!

[antennapedia]

I am pleased to hear it hit the spot. I feared it would be too weird. And I think there's a lot of stuff here that needs followup-- too much going on in one place. Man, when Giles started talking he took off in a direction I hadn't predicted when I planned it out.

[antennapedia]

Thank you so very much for that utterly sweet feedback! And I'm very please to make your acquaintance. Hello!