Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Secret Garden: pretty maids all in a row

[ariafic]

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Secret Garden
Rating: PG
Word count: 5586
Summary: Mary Lennox, vampire slayer.
Notes: Thanks to the internet for help with various bits of Indian mythology. The speech about the Slayer is taken pretty much verbatim from s1 Buffy. Written for nextian's birthday. Happy birthday, Emma!

pretty maids all in a row

Comments

[oxoniensis]

What a fascinating crossover! I love the way you've kept Mary's character, just added an extra dimension.

[vocal_bard]

Secret Garden fanfic exists? This blows my mind with the spot-on characterization and the fun integration of the two settings. Awesome job!

[bookelfe]

This is awesomeness. All the little details of characterization! Colin's morbidness and optimism, and Dickon's matter-of-fact acceptance, and the difference between the Slayer that ten-year-old Mary would have made and the slayer that fourteen-year-old Mary would - I love it.

(In the interests of full disclosure: months and months ago I actually wrote a drabble about Martha Sowerby, Vampire Slayer. Obviously the universes are strangely tempting to cross over. This is ten times more awesome, though!)

[zooey_glass04]

I really enjoyed this! The thing I loved the most was all the 'might have been' moments, particularly when Mary thinks what she would have been like if she'd been called as a Slayer sooner. It made me think about canon on both sides in a new way.

Great story - thank you!

[booksandcheeses]

You don't know me and I don't know you, and I'm not at all certain how I stumbled across your journal/this story...

...but it's awesome.