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Why Won't You Go (1/?)

May 24, 2007 23:08

Title: Why Won’t You Go
Author: ClawofCat
Timing: Season 6
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Spike/Buffy
Warnings: Graphic sexual content, spanking, violence, dark themes
Summary: Set during “Gone.” What could have happened in the kitchen that morning between Buffy and Spike had Xander not walked in on them?

Huge thanks to Eowyn315 for her comprehensive beta ( Read more... )

season 6, fic

Comments 4

the_ellcrys May 25 2007, 12:49:28 UTC

This is gorgeous. Your characterizations are spot on, and I just hurt with them, both of them. It's fantastic.

hellfire82 May 25 2007, 18:44:17 UTC

*agrees*

thanks for linking this; it was beautiful to wake up to. this is one of the few fics that made me feel much of anything for buffy; i generally have much more sympathy for spike's constant heartbreak.

awesome fic.

clawofcat May 26 2007, 14:51:44 UTC

Oh, thank you, hun. In the fandom it's pretty fair to say that most of us love and root for Spike, not Buffy. But, I think it's important to explore why Buffy was acting the way she was. We never got a strict sense of it on the show, what she was feeling, because she kept it in. Spike was constantly referring to his thoughts on their relationship, but all you got from Buffy most of the time was what she wanted him to hear, not what really motivated her. I tried to explore that here - why Buffy said and did these things, how terribly damaged she was emotionally and mentally. People like to call her a bitch during this season, but I don't think she was. I think she was terribly traumatized and this was how she dealt with it. It's not pretty, and most of us wouldn't agree with her decisions, but they were done for a reason, I think, so this is my take on that. Thank you for commenting and reading. More soonish.

clawofcat May 26 2007, 14:46:09 UTC

Thank you so much, ellcrys. This story will definately deal with both of them forging through the pain to rediscover themselves and hopefully accomplish some healing in the process. It's great to hear I nailed the characters, especially Spike, as some thought he was a bit aggressive here. In some ways, this was my take on what if Spike hadn't let Buffy walk all over him and had stood up, in a sense, to her abuse.