Fic: Behold, Little Padawan! (BtVS; Gen; Part 16/16)

[liz_marcs]

This is it! It's completely and totally done! Yay!

All previous parts can be found here.
Continued from Part 5D.

Comments

[ludditerobot]

That was really good. Thank you!

[liz_marcs]

Thank you for reading despite the *ahem* interruption in service. :-)

[ludditerobot]

Now that you mention it, there's this Africander story that's been a WIP for quite a long time .....

B)

[liz_marcs]

Yup. Going to that as soon as I finish Last Tin.

[iyalode]

Wonderfully done.

Andrew drives me freakin' insane here, which I know is fully intended but..gah!. Can't thank you enough for the switch to Faith & Xander. I was like, 'oh thank god, sanity has returned'. heh.

I like that you didn't skirt around the fact Xander wants Vi dead. That the Council has her hidden away for her own safety. Atonement is a word that comes to mind with Vi, whether she sees it that way remains to told.

[liz_marcs]

Ghandi Xander ain't. And I definitely wanted to make clear (and hopefully it came across) that Xander did have a small hand in making things worse before everything really went to hell for him by not listening to people who knew better and in losing his temper instead of acting like an adult.

I also deliberately left it open to interpretation on whether Vi is trying to make her own sort of amends by working as a Slayer. From Xander's point of view, Vi's worthless, which is not something I agree with. But it's hard to get that point across when most of the story is told from Xander's point of view.

It's hard to get across that Vi's issue was that at the end of the day she was a teenager with a crush who ended up in way over her head. Because, yeah, when I was 16 or 17, I never lied to cover my ass, and I never got caught out, and I never got into trouble more because of the lie than the actual "crime" of being stupid or making a mistake

[booster17]

Excellent story, and with that wonderful way you have of ending things so that we just wish there were more parts, even though the tale is told. I shall take great pleasure in reading this all,over again from the beginning.

Thanks Liz!

[liz_marcs]

Awwww, thanks! I thanks for the comment on the dream in Part 7.

The fact is, this entire story was written, but Andrew's 5th and final story held it up. There were something like 3 re-writes on it between February (when part 10 was posted), and December 1. The actual choice for a story never changed, but there were a lot of tonal things I had to work out...such as how obvious Susan should be that she was starting to connect certain things that Andrew said to her dream, how freaked out Helen was, how much naivete should I begin slicing off Cheryl...

So, sorry for the wait.

Glad you enjoyed!

That must have been frustrating

[booster17]

"Well, here's the beginning, here's the end, and here's the tiny bit in the middle that takes you from the beginning to the end that I have to get correct." Would drive me mad. Good work.

[ffutures]

“Your definition of ‘little’ and my definition of ‘little’ obviously come from different dictionaries.”

More like different languages.

Thanks, really enjoyed that.

[liz_marcs]

Heee!

Glad you enjoyed it.

[anonymous]

This was an awesomely wicked cool tale. And the ending leaves me thirsty for more. Now if only I had some WATER.

Dave :D

[liz_marcs]

You're still in for a wait on that. Sorry.