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liz_marcs

Dark Xander: Nobody Never Gets to Heaven; Part 4/?

Jan 14, 2007 16:20

Today was MarcsMom's Unbirthday (yesterday being her Birthday), so I ended up hanging around the ol' homestead for a bit. By the time I scraped the thin ice off my car, dodged people driving either at 90 mph or 15 mph on the highways, and made it home, I was mentally exhausted and not up for another round of playing dodge-'em with people who've ( Read more... )

fanfiction: 2006, character: faith, character: spike, character: buffy, fanfiction: fic-a-thon, fanfiction: nobody never gets to heaven, character: oc, character: xander, character: kennedy, fanfiction: buffy the vampire slayer, character: willow, character: ensemble

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fluffybkitty January 15 2007, 00:05:51 UTC

This is a unique New England thing, I think. People tend to "forget" how to drive in snow and ice in between winters.

No, this happens in old England too. Normally once a year we get alittle bit of snow and everyone forgets they drove in the same amount of snow the year before. It becomes a TRAUMATIC EVENT! Even though in Oxfordshire there is barely an incg on the ground at most, people drive either like maniacs (because they have to get home before it gets worse) or like learner drivers (Oh my God snow, they never covered this on the test!)

Either way, to those of us driving for a living (for which snow equals bad no matter what) the streets ain't safe.

moxproxy January 15 2007, 00:26:46 UTC

Actually, this even happens in Norway, which is a country partially built out of snow.

Every year, the first snowfall comes totally unexpected, and all traffic simply collapses! And the newspapers get at least a weeks worth of headlines regarding all the accidents, and how suddenly winter came this year. And all this because of two inches of snow (in a country which usually measures snow-depth in meters). It's ridiculous.

fluffybkitty January 15 2007, 00:35:45 UTC

I suppose humans are just programmed to be dramatic :)

The worse thing is that I used to love snow, until I started having to drive in it for my job. Now I hate it! I feel like I lost another little bit of my childhood when I realised this. (Yes I'm 29, but snow is snow!)

moxproxy January 15 2007, 00:56:43 UTC

I know the feeling. I'm 29 too, and I still love snow, when it's real snow, not sleet. I even love driving in it, as long as I'm the only one on the road that is. :P Like Liz says, it's looking out for the other idiots who's just discovered snow for the first time that's exhausting.

Although this winter has been disappointing, snow-wise. Only a couple of inches at the most, so far. I miss the "eight-feet-deep"-winters we had a few years back... :)

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lillian13 January 15 2007, 00:14:07 UTC

Oh. My. I'm thinking the 'real' Kennedy is trying to get through but can't, and in the process is scaring both Baby and what's left of Kennedy's personality post-vamping.

And Buffy! yay! (Now I really want to whap Willow.)

liz_marcs January 15 2007, 05:24:41 UTC

You're closer than you think.

And to be fair to Willow, she's in a bad corner right now. Now that Buffy's made contact with Xander, the clock is ticking and time is not on her side.

smhwpf January 15 2007, 00:24:09 UTC

Oh, boy. Xander actually broke Kennedy worse than Angelus broke Dru. Yeeeee. Chilling.

But aaaaaw, Buffy. Still loves Xan, and still has that complete and instant mental divide between the souled and unsouled versions of her vamps.

liz_marcs January 15 2007, 05:23:47 UTC

Buffy's absolute, unshakeable divide, which Xander even begin to wrap his head around (to be fair to Spike and Faith, he isn't listening to them about it either). She's sure as heck not going to view Xander any different in this respect.

And Xander...Xander has issues. Always had issues. Even when human and had a soul. Just without a soul he didn't view them as issues so much as "good ideas."

All I needed was one line of, "Daddy like." I turned it into an entire vamp Xander kink.

Now I need to shower to get the slime off.

jebbypal January 15 2007, 00:41:56 UTC

OH wow, so nice to see this. Loving the story and can't wait to see more when your life permits of course;)

liz_marcs January 15 2007, 05:20:21 UTC

This is one of three WiPs I'm hoping to finish off. *fingers crossed*

Wish me luck.

booster17 January 15 2007, 00:52:02 UTC

Ye gods. Drusilla was better off than Kennedy. Was unsouled!vamp!Xander still competing with Angel back then?

And just why Kennedy can still walk in the sun is intriguing.

liz_marcs January 15 2007, 05:19:48 UTC

The way I look at it is this: Xander's experience pre-death with vampires falls more on the psychotic end of the scale, to the point where run-of-the-mill vampires aren't actually something to aspire to (that is, if you're a soulless psychotic killing machine). In a lot of ways, Angelus's ghost was pretty much soulless vamp Xander's "how to" guide.

There's a few other psychological issues mixed up in there as well (part of that is soulless vamp Xander's daddy-kink and Kennedy's insistence that she's "the one and only").

Yes, yes. As a soulless vampire Xander was not fluffy bunny kittens. No. Definitely not the type that would be looking to get his soul back.