Pre-series fic:
Leather Apron: Murder on the Streets of White-chapel (Angelus/William, R) (United Kingdom 1888)
A murderer has been terrorizing London's east end and its not William or Angelus for once.
Forests Made of Night (OC Slayer, R) (Gerrmany 1728)
  She had survived the foe called childbirth, now she must defeat another in the dark of the ( Read more... )

Some pre-series stories don't match up with a particular episode but - thanks to the current festive challenge - now is a great time to share your historical* winter holiday fics with the comm! I'm going to inaugurate our new "pre-series" tag with a couple of tales of Spike and Dru in the deep of winter. Bundle up and enjoy!

Title: 24-Hour Midnight
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This is actually one ficlet in a series of pieces about the relationship between slayers and watchers. It's the third in the series, but each part stands alone.
If you'd like to read the series from the beginning, I've provided a link to the title page at the bottom of this entry.

Title: Unprepared
Author: snowpuppies
Genre: Angst
Rating: PG-13
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We readers evidently loved prompt 3 for this episode!

Not surprising, I think - there’s more to books than glue and paper. This is what Giles sees.

( Ficlet: See, Touch, Smell, Taste, Hear, Read )

Written for prompt #3 Giles says to Ms. Calendar: "I know! Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a, a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences...
long forgotten. Books smell. Musty and, and, and, and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, is, uh, it... it has no, no texture, no, no context. It's, it's ( Read more... )

I was originally going to go with a slightly less opaque title, but there you go.

Unbetaed, so all mistakes (and I am sure there are loads) are mine.

PG.

( Apple )

I feel sure there's a better, cookie-dough metaphor type title for this, but after mulling for a bit I can't quite grasp it.

( Ficlet: Baking Day )

I'm guilty! I meant to post this existing story from 2005 for the first episode, because it's about Angel preparing to come to Sunnydale. And I forgot...

So, I'm risking the wrath of our mistresses here, and posting it a week and a half late...

Sorry, ladies. Hope you enjoy revisiting this, anyway.

LJ link to Mirrors

Jo

Rock Bottom

Summary: Remember badly dressed vamp? And Darla acting like an obsequious ninny? What's UP with that?

“Am I doing it right?” He looks up from between her perfectly shaped, creamy white thighs with a ridged face.
“Gah, no!” She scissors her legs and throws him off the bed. “I said, ‘hurt me’. Not fumble around and get on my last nerve!”
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PG

Giles before he becomes Buffy's Watcher. ( A Plague on Both Your Houses )