Best Souvenir, chapter 14

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Chapter fourteen of Best Souvernir. (Whistler never existed. Buffy and Angel meet after the End of Days is over. Future fic, alternate reality.)

A/N: Sorry about the wait. Thanks so much for your patience and anyone who is still interested. Hopefully more will come soon. Big thanks to a2zmom.

Comments

[i_palimpsest]

Woohoo!!!!!

I Love Love LOVE this story and it feels like we've been waiting forever for an update - but you can't rush genius!!!!!

Well worth the wait!

[lettered]

Thanks for stickin' with it!

[timeofchange]

It's fabulous to see a new chapter of this story, and what a perfect reveal. Just brilliant, coming after the whole EEK scene. Also, Jenny? Hummmm.

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Glad it worked for you. Thanks!

[raintree85]

I'm all smiles and grins, great chapter, was a more than well welcomed surprise to see an update today. As every other sane person who will be commenting here, really looking forward to whatever comes next in this little tale:)

all the best
~Rain

[lettered]

Hey, hi! Thanks!

[a2zmom]

Hello! You're back and I'm back! It's amazing.

Look for an e-mail related to this either tonight (or more likely) tomorrow.

How are you sweetiekins?

[lettered]

*clings* I miss you. It feels like forever. It makes my brain itchy. And how are you?

[a2zmom]

I am strange.

Aaron is off looking at colleges in Boston right at this moment. How is this possible? A week ago, he had a sleep over and he and his friends played with Legos all night. (And I'm not being metaphorical. That actually happened.)

I'm alternating being being manically busy and slothfully lazy.

[lettered]

big busy and a little lazy is better than medium busy all the time, imo.

I still love Leggos; I don't blame him. But boy, college. *wipes tear for you*

[chrisleeoctaves]

You have no idea how much I love this story and how much it's killing me to wait between chapters...and I don't even read wips but I cannot resist the call of Best Souvenir. I can't...it's just too damn good. And that's a tribute to the story itself, but also to the marvelous complex characterization of Angel- who is not all goodness and light, but a creature who fights against his dark nature every single moment. And a Buffy who is tough and determined, but strangely vulnerable. They are beautifully matched.

One little typo I spotted:
and Buffy stop short of on the corner to assess the situation.

And someone who knows NYC better than me may be able to confirm this, but I don't think there would be a shop with ducks hanging in the window a la Chinatown around Bleecker Street- which (if memory serves and it may not) is more Greenwich Village-ish.

I cannot WAIT to go back and read this story from start to finish.

[lettered]

I'm sorry. You know, you're the reason I'm holding off posting the next chaptered thing I'm writing; the thought of making you wait hurts me. THough I doubt you'd start reading it before it was finished after what's happened with Best Souvenir! But you have no idea how flattered I am that you read it even though there's such a wait between. Hopefully this time there won't be!

Typo--fixed! Thank you so much for pointing that out.

a2zmom is beta'ing this story, and she's from NY. She suggested the dead ducks! For atmospheric flavor. Bleecker comes down right to the edge of Soho, but I'll double check with her. It's murder writing a story set in a city I've only ever been in for 3 days. I always think I get the local stuff right and then it turns out I'm wrong.

Thanks, as always, for your support.