Gorgeous. Their thoughts feel very natural to me: yeah, that's how it would be. And I'm fanning myself, even though it was nothing like a sex scene. Good writing is sexy.
I've now read Confessional, too, btw, and I've been trying to figure out how to respond. It's an amazing, provoking piece, but so far it's reduced me to an uncharacteristic, "Dude. Buh! Wowsers."
Hey, another great piece of work, I love how you are portraying Angel as he attempts to reenter the human race. Interesting to see how the dynamics between he & Buffy are coming together & where they will go from here. I'm in for the long haul on this one for sure !!
Yay for update! I like how Buffy is clearly warming up to him before that "he can't be trusted" revelation. The Buffy of chapter one wouldn't have not noticed the brow-ridges, that's for sure. Yet I can see her "he can't be trusted" attitude making for some interesting tension in upcoming chapters, so overall I like what this chapter has given us!
Yay! This is really what I wanted to do with this chapter. I think in circumstances like this her heart would still begin to let him in, but her mind would still be in protest. I'm glad it worked for you!
He shook his head again. “I can’t feel hunger.” Not that kind of hunger, anyway. Until now, he hadn’t missed eating in the least. Not only was his stomach now a useless cavity, food had a bland taste and brought no satisfaction. The small pleasures of eating the sweet things he’d liked as a human were nothing compared to the absolute, all-consuming bliss of feeling new blood surge into him, warm and rippling through his arteries right down to his capillaries, pulsing and sensitive and engorging every part of him. He got a hard on every time.
One of the best descriptions of feeding I've ever read.
In fact the whole scene where Angel eats was compelling and heartbreaking- looks like Buffy is going to have to part ways with some of her hard and fast vampire-are-like-this rules.
This continues to be mesmerizingly good...I only wish it was ALL done so I could read it more quickly. *pouts*
I'm glad you liked that scene. It was important to me.
I wish it was all done too, because I want to read it, but dragging it out like this is turning to be actually quite good for me. I tend to get a complex every once in a while about my writing, and whenever I post a chapter of this fic my confidence goes back up and I get all excited about everything all over again. It's such a pleasure hearing what people have to say about something I wrote quite a while ago, now.
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I've now read Confessional, too, btw, and I've been trying to figure out how to respond. It's an amazing, provoking piece, but so far it's reduced me to an uncharacteristic, "Dude. Buh! Wowsers."
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I'm glad you thought The Confessional was good. If I can reduce someone as articulate and eloquent as you are to "Wowsers," my work there is done ;o)
Thanks again.
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another great piece of work, I love how you are portraying Angel as he attempts to reenter the human race. Interesting to see how the dynamics between he & Buffy are coming together & where they will go from here.
I'm in for the long haul on this one for sure !!
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Thank you for reading.
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One of the best descriptions of feeding I've ever read.
In fact the whole scene where Angel eats was compelling and heartbreaking- looks like Buffy is going to have to part ways with some of her hard and fast vampire-are-like-this rules.
This continues to be mesmerizingly good...I only wish it was ALL done so I could read it more quickly. *pouts*
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I wish it was all done too, because I want to read it, but dragging it out like this is turning to be actually quite good for me. I tend to get a complex every once in a while about my writing, and whenever I post a chapter of this fic my confidence goes back up and I get all excited about everything all over again. It's such a pleasure hearing what people have to say about something I wrote quite a while ago, now.
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