Life Could Ever Grant Me 6/14

[emelye_miller]

Title: Life Could Ever Grant Me
Author: Emelye
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: Mature
Summary: Sequel to The Resolute Urgency Of Now, and Such A Part Of You.
Disclaimer: Not mine, all theirs.
Warnings: None.
A/N: Artwork by the lovely katekat1010.

Chapter Six

Comments

[zowiebwalker]

How do you do it?!?
No words! well, besides brilliant. I'll be more coherent later.

[emelye_miller]

Haha! Well, I stare at an open Word document for half an hour, check my email, make some coffee, stare at the document some more, get the mail, stare at my blinking cursor then close the computer in disgust. Then at two in the morning, I wake up with a scene writing myself in my head. I decide to write it down in the morning. I forget it. Then two days later, I think I remember most of it, I scream at my husband to leave me alone for an hour and I write it.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. ;-)

[zowiebwalker]

Ah. The genius of discord. So what you're saying is the sequence and relevance of events feeds your imagination, thus producing fantastic word placement, right?

[emelye_miller]

Couldn't have put it better myself. ;-)

[mulder200]

LOL! I like their neighbor Bob and how calm he was at all the weirdness.

Poor Spike! It figures he would breakdown sooner or later. I am glad Angel was there to support him and the resulting time share was fabulous.

I can't wait until they figure out all the players. THAT should be interesting.

[emelye_miller]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked Bob! I like him too.

I'm getting excited for the next part. Things are really going to pick up now. ;-)

[chibi_kachi]

Loved it! Just... gah; I can't even start at one end and go to the other without just saying it was fantastic.

Really loved the picture Spike gave Xander as his gift - that's just such a sweet thing. Loved the rocking chair and the baby named AJ (Ambrose Jesse!).

I really liked the ending of the chapter as well with Angel wanting to teach the baby Gaelic and Spike refusing (but I'm sure Angel will still go ahead and do it when no one is looking).

And Dru's gift was very fitting for Dru. I say keep the cage and put a bird doll in there and set it in the nursery. It be cute... and can totally avoid thinking dead bird as the second part of the gift.

[emelye_miller]

Thank you! I think you're probably right about Angel. ;-) And that's a very good idea for the cage! I may use that.

[chibi_kachi]

Welcome! ^^ Its just such an Angel thing to do and really he does need someone who can converse with him in Gaelic even if its a kid!

And definitely feel free to use that idea if you can work it into the story. I thought of it because of something semi-similiar my grandmother has in her home.

My grandmother has this big fish bowl that she filled with sand, stones and some plants but instead of putting water and fish in the bowl she put in these little stone animal like turtles and fish. Its quite cool actually. I think the plants are real and she mists them but I can't remember.

[lil_coyote]

I forgot I was reading the story on dreamwidth and not LJ. This comment was me:
This looked so interesting I went way back and started from the first story a couple chapters ago and just caught up to this chapter. Hope that made sense. Anyway, great stories and I've had a grand time reading them so far! Only problem is now I have to wait for the next chapter instead of just clicking a next link. Heh.
The relationship between the two is great and I like how you've set Spike up as Master of the Hellmouth. You've presented Spike and Xander as complex characters, but you've also brought a depth to characters like Tony and Anya that are often left as something like cardboard caricatures of the bad father and the bitchy ex.

[emelye_miller]

Thank you so much. I really strive to make the characters as well rounded as I can and it means a lot to me that you feel I'm accomplishing that.