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Drabble: Cave In, Hand Over, Hang On

May 14, 2006 11:41

Title: Cave In, Hand Over, Hang On
Length: I may have cheated a bit. But 100 words, my way; I DID IT AGAIN!
Rating: G! again!
Prompt: for semby. Angel and Xander.
A/N: Xander saves Angel.
edited because I fucked up.

( Cave In, Hand Over, Hang On )

fic, character: xander, character: angel, length: drabble, fic: buffyverse, rating: g, fandom: buffyverse

Comments 19

femmenerd May 16 2006, 05:09:31 UTC

This is beautiful and uber-compact in just the way a drabble should be.

On an unrelated note--I read "The Confessional" today in between having delirious fever dreams that I was in QAF and torturing myself watching "The Prom" and the Graduations.

It rocked my face. And I usually am wary of first person fic, but you made it smooth like a super-smooth thing, and really made me think about Faith.

Buffy: I want my life to be with you.

Angel: I don't.

Me and my friend (who owns Yummy Sushi PJs): Liar! Liar-pants! Liar-pants-face!

lettered May 17 2006, 03:25:10 UTC

Glad you liked it!

And am so flattered you read The Confessional! Thanks! I don't like first person either--in fact, I hate it, which is of course why I had to write it. I thought she would be just about the most impossible head to get inside of. Ha!

Buffy: I want my life to be with you.

Angel: I don't.

What I love about the wording there is he doesn't. He really doesn't. He want his life to be with her, but doesn't want her life to be with him, because he loves her THAT much. It's a bit of a deceptive (and cheesy) play on words on his part, but I love love love that it was written that way, and adore DB's delivery to death.

lillianmorgan May 16 2006, 07:39:25 UTC

I don't know if you read my post about being a style junkie, but ::big fat sigh of happiness: this pushed all my buttons.
I love the way you tie Angel's past to his future. Lovely.

lettered May 17 2006, 03:27:29 UTC

I'm really behind on reading my flist, so probably not! But I'm so glad it worked for you.

I always thought of drabbles as just being a moment in time, and my moments always turn into scenes which rapidly become epics, which is one of the reasons I feared writing them. But before starting this project I went and read some of the best drabbles I've read, and realized that some of them are just sound bites about the characters themselves, who they are, what they've been, what they will be. I tried to pull that in here, and make a statement about Angel himself. Again, so glad it worked for you! Thanks!

my_daroga May 17 2006, 22:13:31 UTC

Just gorgeous. Angel put quarters in for Mandy but drank a man already dead instead. I want to use words this way, I want to be able to pay attention to the sounds not just the meanings, and you give me hope. =)

lettered May 22 2006, 10:05:38 UTC

Aww! I read this comment and melted a little. You really know how to make a girl feel good :o)

And I'm glad you liked that line. It took a whole lot of cutting to fit the word limit, but I was rather pleased with the result.

my_daroga May 22 2006, 14:04:47 UTC

I just did my first two drabbles ever (100 word exactly). I don't know how I did, but I do know it's hard!

Not half so poetical as you, though.

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lettered July 30 2006, 07:45:33 UTC

Thanks! It's one of my first drabbles, so I was unsure about it. Glad you liked it.