Maybe Someday. Chapter 7.
The last two chapters were ridiculously awkward to write - this one (and the one following) practically wrote itself, which was a great relief. We're leaving Buffy to get some well-earned sleep and joining our two favourite souled vamps who also might have a few 'issues' to sort out (remember that this is a sequel to 'The Summer After
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Lovely icon btw.
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A great and necessary conversation between Angel and Spike , and I liked how you captured their feelings, in a sensitive and thorough way.
Their casualness , their honesty were refreshing, and touching.
And your Spike's voice is absolutely spot on! You made me smile with delight mentioning Shrek , but the best was his speech about Buffy :
"Just because I worship the ground she walks on, doesn’t mean that I’m blind! Running hot and cold on me for years!" And there :
"She’s a complex little thing, is Buffy, but one thing I’ve learned is that when she gets desperate, she gets mean. Bitch doesn’t even begin to cover it."
Well , who could understand Buffy better than Spike anyway?
The cookie analogy was priceless . Our beloved Spike seems a little smug , doesn't he?
I especially loved the lines about Angel confessing that when 'you 've hit rock bottom , you have to change' , and the painful echoes in Spike's heart.
Thank you for the wonderful reading pleasure . :)
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I love writing Spike and Angel - they play off each other so wonderfully!
Well , who could understand Buffy better than Spike anyway?
Heh. That's it. He never put her on a pedestal (which I think Angel did).
The cookie analogy was priceless . Our beloved Spike seems a little smug , doesn't he?
He does rather, but then he always did like to brag! ;)
the painful echoes in Spike's heart.
Oh, that's beautiful. And they have an awful lot in common, those two...
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Really???? ::dies from compliment::
My strength/failure is that I can always see things from everyone's perspective. Which is probably why I love (or at least am sympathetic to) every character in the Buffy-verse (even Riley and Eve...).
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Snort...I have the same problem and not just with the Buffyverse...real life too! I can so understand the urge.
I completely agree with what has already been said, this was a lovely chapter. I loved the way the relationship with Angel and Spike was headed at the end (just as I loved the glimpses of what was ahead for the crew on Buffy before the hellmouth incinerated Spike). I love characters that grow and mature and you've captured it totally. You didn't let Spike loose his edge while growing though (the Shrek comments and not resisting rubbing it in a bit with Angel).
Lovely!
Kathleen
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Oh, yes, RL too! It's nice to have a fellow Pollyanna though. :)
I loved the way the relationship with Angel and Spike was headed at the end
Me too! Me too! ::wishes there had been a S6...::
I love characters that grow and mature and you've captured it totally.
Oh, thank you! Angel is a bit too subdued *cough*broody*cough* at the moment, I'm trying to think up ways to make him more cheerful, since Angel is usally full of quips. Spike of course is just Spike, just a bit more sensible.
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I'm very glad I read this - wish I hadn't been such a chicken in the first place. There are so many possible directions the verse can take, I guess it really wasn't that likely we were going to be writing the same thing, but - you know! Looking forward to the next chapter!
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I adore Angel, in spite of all his faults - I thought it'd be very typical of him not to have told Spike about the Shanshu. It's that thing he has of making decisions for others.
you handled it beautifully
::beams::
Our gorgeous vampire, human? Meep.
Don't worry, it's only talk!
And does this mean that I can safely read 'Moving On'? *is hopeful*
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Phew!
'Moving On' is very different - my Buffy reacts completely differently to yours when she sees Spike and the pair of them don't actually get their act together until the last chapter! I'm guessing your Immortal is in for a pasting at some stage, but I very much doubt it'll be in the least the same as what happened to mine in 'Keep on Moving'. And Angel is an arse in mine. Sorry! That's the joy of the fandom - so few characters but so many ways to write them!
So - yeah, if you can face it you should be OK!
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Maybe - I'm still trying to work out a particular plot-point where he might or might not make an appearance...
if you can face it you should be OK!
Squee! Will have to indulge asap! And I don't mind Angel being an arse - he frequently is. (As a matter of fact my Angel is a tad too quiet at the moment - there will be more fall-out!) (Not well phrased, but I don't want to spoil you!)
PS. Spellchecker doesn't recognise 'arse'! Hee!
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“She might not have finished baking, but *I* know what flavour cookie she’ll be. Was there when most of the ingredients were mixed.”
That was cute! :) It was also a really good contrast of just how different their relationships with Buffy were.
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People just keep making my day! :)
just how different their relationships with Buffy were.
There will be more on this...
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