Title: Conceit(s)
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: B/A. Very B/A, except it's all about Spike. The ending is B/A/S.
Summary: This used to be titled, "5 Ways Those Bluggy Birds Never Shagged", but Spike decided to make it eponymous.
A/N: Warning for experimentation with style, POV, voice, and uh, reality. Take it with a grain of salt, I guess
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For me this story showed a lot of what I like about the B/A/S grouping (and each character withing that group). Each one of them needs the other one in ways that are not necessarily nice, or clear but very real to them. They all rotate around each other, and no matter how they try to pair off, the third one is hovering somewhere near by.
Thanks for sharing this.
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the third one is hovering somewhere near by.
I feel that way too. A lot. By the end they are extremely integral to each other. I'm so glad you got that from this.
Thanks again.
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He's also right. If any being on Earth embodies the thing that's between Angel and Buffy, this shattering dazzling filthy thing, it's him. And if anyone deserves to be between them, well. He was made to be love.
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spectacular but they don't get in the way.
Thanks a lot. Sometimes my own words jumble my meaning, and I was afraid of that here.
If any being on Earth embodies the thing that's between Angel and Buffy, this shattering dazzling filthy thing, it's him.
To me, each of them can be that for the other two, which is why I love B/A/S so much.
Thanks again, so much. You're fb makes me feel all...relieved!
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I waited a while before I read this because I wasn't sure what to expect, but by the end of the first segment I could not have left the computer for love or money. I don't know how you did it, but in the space of one segment you took me from laughing to physically aching. Spike's voice is awesomely human. By the end of the story, I was actually crying, because the idea that Spike could just be making up those "if onlys" standing alone in the alley was too sad for me to stand.
The immediacy of the forced perspective and the present tense works beautifully for this, I think. Going in my favorites immediately.
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the idea that Spike could just be making up those "if onlys" standing alone in the alley was too sad for me to stand.
I felt that way, too. Poor Spike.
I'm so glad you enjoyed this and that it works for you!
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There wouldn’t even be intense grunting and maybe some leather clad thigh humping. This is what Spike means about the not fucking. She wouldn’t even be all, “Wow, can we get any more me-Tarzan, you-inconsequential? Fuck, Angel, couldn’t you just call me?” For one thing there’d be cuter Buffy quips, and she doesn’t use the word fuck all that much, either.
See, Angel, it’d kill him to find a mature truth. To look down past the hero story he gets stuck on replay, to get to the end of the epic he thinks he stars in, and instead see the part of him that shows how small he is when it comes to big things like love. Couldn’t just say, “I was afraid you wouldn’t come. Afraid you didn’t care, didn’t trust me, didn’t love me.”I had to laugh at so many things that Spike thinks he knows about Buffy and Angel. But I think here, Angel *is* afraid she didn't care, and knows she doesn't trust him because didn't Andrew say? Hasn't she said a time or two to his face? And he ( ... )
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Sorry: can't say much of anything else...
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