Christmas Fic ('tis the season)

[mrsevilpigeon]

Title: A Dark Angel Christmas Carol
Summary:  Max is visited by three spirits. light ML
Word Count: 5000
Rating: T
Notes:  Written for spastic_visions  for the Blah Blah Woof Woof Secret Santa Challenge

Comments

[last01standing]

No zombies, sure but ghosts are just as good.

I've got to say, I was cracking the hell up with every "You're dead," "Where do you think I've been this past year?"And the deaths were of course hilarious.

And of course there is something wrong with me that I zeroed in on that first when there is SO MUCH other stuff I love in here.

It's really nice (and by nice I mean realistic) to see Max hitting her breaking point because that's something the show never showed us. It makes her seem more human somehow. The frame-up with Dickens was a fun little premise and all your ghosts seemed perfectly in character. (Plus OMG YOU CAN ACTUALLY WRITE HERBAL. YOU'VE BEEN HOLDING OUT ON ALL OF US). I laughed out loud several times.

And then there was the angst in the future. I love that Logan risks the life threatening proceedure on the chance that Max might come back and ALEC IN PERIL makes me all sorts of nervious. Plus, White! I love me my bad guys like Woah!

All in all a great fic and a wonderful Christmas gift. Thank you so much, Lisa.

[mrsevilpigeon]

I'm so relieved that you liked it and that you were willing to accept dead things that weren't strictly zombies. I've always wondered where Bling, Herbal, and Kendra ended up. Horrible, violent, comedic deaths that nobody ever noticed seemed as plausable as anything else.

And I'm totally happy that the Herbal came off as credible. Writing him is freakin' intimidating! I was very tempted to just steal more from Dickens and have him silent and pointing at graves while wearing a black hood, just so I wouldn't have to screw with his dialogue.

Anyway, I'm glad you like it and I really appreciate all the shout-outs.

[geeky_apple]

I don’t know how you do it but seriously admire how you make her frustration so amusing, funny and still completely true to character, never ridiculing or drifting to sweetish-cute like it inevitably happens when I try funny.

And your Kendra just dismissing the usual ghost existence with her self-finding convictions - funniest thing of all. Don’t you want to write something like the ‘Chronicles of Kendra’? Please?

[mrsevilpigeon]

See, and to me Kendra is a really flat, utilitarian character. She isn't deep enough to get her own story! (Maybe why I love to write her, I'm jealous of her simplicity.) Tell you what, you give me a prompt and I'll write you a Kendra snippet in lieu of a chronicle