RL sucks and I need distracting: PROMPT MEEEEE!

Jul 06, 2010 16:50

Tinyfic prompt call! Idea ganked, again, from entrenous88. :D ( Read more... )

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menomegirl July 6 2010, 16:27:19 UTC
I'd love to read Xander having a mini-epiphany about Spike (that he's way different than Angel, even if he is a vampire too.)

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Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 6 2010, 22:39:20 UTC
Xander has been working alongside Spike for over a year when the epiphany hits. It's not a big one, as epiphanies go - and boy, does he know from epiphanies - but it still stops him in his tracks and makes him blink.

Whenever he's around Angel, he always has the same immediate, bone-deep reaction of 'Vampire. Evil. Kill it. KILL IT!' which then morphs straight into 'Oh, right, Angel. Skeevy old 'good' vampire perving on schoolgirls - okay, schoolgirl... and of the Slayer persuasion, but still! - Do. Not. Want. Kill it!'

With Spike? Not so much.

Oh, maybe in the beginning, he was all 'Vampire! Kill! KILL!' But then stuff happened. A microscope to the head followed by a period of fear and dread, ruled over by Spike, all lovesick and drunk - and incidentally, how is that even possible with the whole borrowed blood thing and the demon and being undead and all?

Focus, Xander. Epiph now, question later. Right. Where was he again? Oh, yeah.Spike. And his scary-romantic co-dependence thing with Dru that had him trying to get help with ( ... )

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) menomegirl July 7 2010, 01:22:39 UTC
Oh, I liked this very much; I was imagining the expressions on Xander's face as he thought all that out.

I especially liked these lines:

Somehow that whole mess made him look less like a soulless monster and more like a clueless teenage schmuck of the type that Xander was sadly very familiar with.

Angel brooded and loomed and angsted manfully - vampfully?

It made him seem human, somehow, whereas nothing Angel - or Angelus - did ever let anyone forget what he was, not even for a moment.

Despite his hundred plus years of undeadness, Spike still lived life to the full and revelled in his humanity at least as often as he indulged his demon.

Great characterization.

Thank you!

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 16:16:46 UTC
Thank you!

It was fun spending time in Xander's head again. Even his inner monologue babbles. *g*

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) fai_dust July 8 2010, 16:01:09 UTC
'I'm a sad, souled vampire; join me in my suffering'.
Very true. Although I do like Angel/Xander, this was great.

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 16:47:23 UTC
Thank you!

Angel always seemed to make such a production of his suffering. *g*

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) windandsummer July 8 2010, 16:01:17 UTC
Omg this was f'in brilliant. It was fun and funny and so very Xander and I would so love to see what kind of trouble he landed himself in.

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 16:51:46 UTC
Thanks!

It was fun spending time in Xander's head again. it's been too long. even his inner monologue babbles. :D

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) tabaqui July 8 2010, 16:15:03 UTC
Whooooooooot.
Awesome. And fun. And spot-on Xander-brain.
*twirls you*

:)

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 16:53:17 UTC
Thankee! *spins*

It's been too long since I spent time in Xander's head. It#s such a babbly, random place! :D

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) skargasm July 8 2010, 16:15:42 UTC
That was absolutely awesome - I loved listening in on Xander's thoughts, especially incidentally undead co-worker with a really nice ass,/i> - LMAO!

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 16:55:11 UTC
Thanks!

You just know this whole thought process happened while he was still staring at Spike's really nice ass with a 'BZUH?!' expression on his face. *g*

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) riani1 July 8 2010, 16:19:00 UTC
"incidentally undead" heh

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 16:57:05 UTC
Yes! Xander is so blasé about that whole missing pulse deal now. *g*

Thanks!

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) wrtr_aka_wmgrg July 8 2010, 17:06:51 UTC
Oh, wow ... did he ever nail Deadboy. And hopefully, he'll soon be nailing or nailed by Spike. *g*

Terrific little story. :)

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Re: Spike/Xander - Epiphany (548 words) darkhavens July 8 2010, 17:12:37 UTC
Hee! There will be no nailing of Deadboy, but mutual Spike-Xander nailage is definitely on the menu. :D

Thanks!

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