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lokifan

What I Owe You

Oct 18, 2010 13:59

Title: What I Owe You
Word count: 200
Characters/pairings: Dawn, Spike, Buffy
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Spike does Buffy a favour; then Dawn does one for him.
Warnings: angst, attempted rape references
Challenge: favour
Disclaimer: The boys and girls belong to Joss, even though I’m often much nicer to them than he is.
Author’s Notes: This was written ( Read more... )

drabbles, gen

Comments 17

leni_ba October 19 2010, 23:39:43 UTC

Been some time since I saw Dawn&Spike goodness, so thanks for makingmy day. The first one was precious, and the second, while sad, as just as realistic.

lokifan October 20 2010, 01:35:41 UTC

Thank you! :)

I love it but I loathe it... subtle_shades October 29 2010, 05:41:30 UTC

Hmmmm.... This is the problem with being a sporadic internet type. You always miss stuff when it's hot off the presses.

On the one hand, I love your Spike/Dawn interaction. And I like that Dawn doesn't brush away how badly Spike wronged Buffy.

On the other hand, I don't understand why Spike is considered a worse person/character/friend than Xander or Willow or even Giles. Xander tries to rape Buffy in the hyena!possession episode. Willow does rape Tara (and on several occasions and in multiple fashions with that forgetting spell!). And, arguably, Willow's many successful/unsuccessful attempts at forcing others to behave/forget things as she pleases are also rapes. (After all, rape is usually a crime of power - and Willow so often seemed to want power over others that she simply shouldn't have had.) Giles feeds people to a bodiless demon as part of his rebel without sanity phase ( ... )

Re: I love it but I loathe it... lokifan November 10 2010, 18:45:31 UTC

Hey, I like late comments! Although I apologise for replying so late to yours :)

Well, he isn't from my perspective. Xander and Giles are less clear-cut but I certainly consider Willow's rape of Tara to be worse than Spike's attempted rape of Buffy - she had a soul, she never seems remorseful, and of course she actually did it. I don't know it's fair to say Giles fed people to the demon - as far as I remember it was the other people in their little dark-magic club who died, and they knew the risks.

But - while this is interesting to talk about - it's in a sense irrelevant to the drabbles, because the second one is Dawn's pov not fandom's. She doesn't forgive Spike for trying to rape Buffy in canon, and I like that she doesn't. She trusted him and he attacked her sister - she's got no reason to forgive, even if she finds that painful. (And she was also the most wary about Willow coming back; Dawn takes no shit! ♥)

Thanks for the comment!