Dana's Secret

[ozma914]

Part one of a Buffy The Vampire Slayer miniseries in which four friends have four secrets. In the first, the slayer Dana makes a phone call.
Special thanks to Anon for her beta abilities, and to keswindhover, from whom I stole the idea that the Buffybot has a peculiar form of identification …

Comments

[redwolf]

We're sorry. You must first dial one when calling this number

Nice work with Dana. Liked her conversation with Spike.

[ozma914]

Thanks. Spike's usually easy for me to write, but Dana takes me some work.

[curiouswombat]

Nice - nice to see Harmony again, and I liked that Dana didn't even try to explain Tara's place in her life to Spike - it would have been too compicated!

Harmony

[ozma914]

I suspect sometimes Dana isn't really sure who's real and who isn't, especially in Tara's case; and the last thing she'd want to do is discuss that with Spike. As for Harmony, she wasn't planned to be in the story -- she just kind of appeared as I typed it. So I thought it was nice to see her, too!

[demonicamills]

This was awesome! I never thought about Dana trying to apologize. Great work

Thanks!

[ozma914]

I try to come up with off the wall stuff for the more minor characters to do. It's fun that way!

[cbtreks]

I liked this a lot. Funny, I've only just seen the final season of Angel (thanks Netflix!) and this is the second story I've come across in which she figures prominently. Good for Spike, forgiving her and giving her that bit of advice. I'm sure it was hard for him, but if anyone could put himself in her place, it would have to be him.

[ozma914]

I thought there were some parallels between the two of them -- both doing evil things, but striving now to be better people. The great thing about Dana is that she's an unrealized character: Writers can basically take that little bit of her we saw on the show and extrapolate wildly. In a way, that makes it more fun than major characters whose personalities have been fleshed out over the years.

[untitleddemo]

I really loved this. Great characterization work with Dana, her conversation with Harmony totally cracked me up. Big huge awwws to her apology to Spike. I especially liked this bit:

“Do you think … do you think people can really be forgiven? I mean, can someone who’s done as many bad things as we have ever do enough good things to make up for it?”
“Absolution.” Spike sounded far away, and not just in the flesh.
Not knowing what the word mean, Dana remained silent.
“I hope so, luv. But I can tell you this: Just doing good things doesn’t help. You can’t fight along with the good guys just because it’s fun, or to keep from getting into trouble, or to impress a girl. You’ve got to mean it.”

Very well done. Thanks for this great fic!

[ozma914]

You're welcome! It is, quite literally, a pleasure.
I was trying to get all of Spike's history into that little conversation, to show how far he has and hasn't come.