less travelled
Feb. 1st, 2006 | 02:17 am
- Sidelines. A Season in Other Rooms by
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eliade (Spike/Xander): And Xander still couldn't bring himself to move or touch anything. He'd never been sure if the proverbial glass was half-full or half-empty, but he knew when the glass was broken. - Unaccomodated Man by kindkit (Giles/Oz): He knows, of course, that this is a double exaggeration. He'll still be human most of the time.
And he hasn't really been human since Oz bit him, twenty-two days ago. - Alternative Lifestyle by acchapin (Ripper/ Buffy): Elsewhere.
- You Pretty Things by doyle_sb4 (Fred/Dawn): The line starts with her birth and trails into dashes two days ago, when they brought her back. She draws a little off-ramp for her five years in Pylea and marks with an X the moment when she died. Another X, smaller, a quarter-inch or so back from that. It’s not to scale, but it’ll do. She just needs a model.
- The Inherent Ineluctability of One's Fate by stoptocheer (Willow/Tara, Xander, Giles, Buffy, Dawn):
And screamed, and screamed, and screamed, until the world was gone. - Fairy Tales by nikitangel (Wes/Faith): Wes says that it didn’t always go down that way.
- Beats a Cruel December by Brighid (Spike/Dawn): "Who wants to play?" she asked softly, and their faces grew slick with fear. She was the Slayer.
And everyone knew the Slayer was a crazy-assed bitch. - Run and Catch by cesario (Drusilla, Dawn): Someone is trading one world for another, and Drusilla stands in the eddies of reality, ears attuned to one voice, then the next, none of them being especially permanent.
- Thaw by Dazzle (Angel/Buffy, Angel/Cordy): TWO DAYS AGO, IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE * I wouldn't usually warn but, this is a deeply unsympathetic Buffy portrayal
- American Gothic by Polly Burns (Connor/Wes): Time is strange, it's elastic, it can make itself impossibly dense or spread like a silk scarf. Time can arch its back like a cat and seem twice its size.
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best
Jan. 30th, 2006 | 01:40 am
- Four Ghosts by holli (Giles, Buffy, Willow, Xander): By the end of your sophomore year of high school, you're pretty sure that Sunnydale High is haunted.
- Winners by Ins (Buffy, Willow, Xander, Tara): I meet up with Xander and give my count -- seven, now just
about dawn and time to pack it in -- and he grins, "lucky number,"
and it's been a good night. I'm glad to see him smiling. - The Gang of Four by Jim Loats (Willow, Cordy, Xander, Jesse): It's getting harder to remember every day, so I'm going to try to write it all down before it's gone.
- Not Quite The Loneliest Number" by stoptocheer (Xander/Willow): And hey, who could forget the grand number seventy-eight. Seventy-eight days since Jesse's body had started moving again.
- bleeding by lalejandra (Willow/Xander): She's lost everything.
She has Kennedy -- who doesn't count.
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my heart arranges
Jan. 30th, 2006 | 01:27 am
- Seven Languages by yin_again (Spike/Xander): The fourth time was in the closet, but neither one laughed at the joke. Spike wasn’t even sure if Xander was real at first. When he decided that he was real, Spike prayed for the first time in a hundred years, thanking whoever was listening for letting him feel warmth and want and kindness again.
- Lessons in Cool: That Music Thing by dessert_first and tesla321 (Xander/Oz): So now Xander is sitting on his front steps, guitar in hand, waiting for Oz to pick him up and teach him a few other things about guitars. Like maybe how to play one.
- Kyrie Eleison by kyrafic (Angel): It's been centuries since he rose before dawn to walk to Mass, blowing plumes of white breath ahead of him into the cold darkness. He can barely recall the feel of the wafer on his tongue and the details of the priest's robes grow hazy in his mind.
- Ballad of Ira Hayes by julia_here (Xander): Everyone else was in Europe; but Europe was just another nowhere to him; his friends were no longer his definition of home, and after a few years in the great strangeness below the Sahara he’d ceased to value novelty. His home town was at the bottom of a crater, but there was a whole country full of Toys R Us and Starbucks and multiplexes, McDonald’s and Wal-mart, and that stuff was as close to home as he was ever going to get.
- Shelter by mosca (Wes/Angel): All Wesley could think at this point was, "Please don't say 'White heat,'" because then he was going to have to say "Velvet Underground" back, and all semblance of seriousness would be lost. And he wanted to be sympathetic. He was starting to care about Angel's morose bullshit for the first time in a long time, and he wanted to keep caring.
- descant descending by macha3 (Buffy/Spike): function. this is a dance of levels, and of levelers, and those who stand and wait. these are the gates she means on his behalf to shatter. this is the day the doors on the stairway down can all be entered. in this ritual she gives over everything she has and is reborn. when she has paid her price and finally stands naked, she will be clothed in power. this is a story older than the world. this is the game that she was born to play.
- Opus by zortified (Giles/Oz): He can't quite figure out the melody though, and he's getting closer to asking Giles if he'd help. Oz wants this written, wants it finished and to sing it just once before--
But maybe if he never finishes it, it will be his portrait against mortality. - the great cereal mastemind by amand_r (Andrew): In the best of times, you're a feeb. No really. You are. Everyone knows it. They even say it to your face.
- Threnody of Wildflowers by Yavi Asad (Buffy): "Tell me something I don't know. About you."
"I like wildflowers. All kinds, but golden poppies the best. You know, the kind that grows all over California."
"Why?"
"Because they're yellow."
"You like yellow?"
"Not particularly."
"That's a dumb answer then."
"'Sa dumb question, Buffy, you either like something or you don't. There are no reasons." - listen to your heart bleed (and I feel fine) by annakovsky (Giles, Spike, Buffy): "I... you remind me of someone I used to know," Giles says.
Buffy tilts her white head and looks at him. "You're, like, a psycho stalker or whatever, but I don't get it. I feel, I dunno, safe with you. Secure, or something."
"Really," Giles says. Maybe there is some of her left after all.
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consumed, subsumed
Jan. 28th, 2006 | 09:51 pm
- anyway the main thing is by bettyp (Gunn/Wesley): But love. Love’s no joker. Love ain’t no song and dance and it ain’t getting its own special on HBO anytime soon.
- All That's Best of Dark and Bright by redbrickrose (Spike/Buffy, Buffy/Angel, Angel/Spike): She isn’t that girl, but if she isn’t the same, then neither is he.
- The Waking by mpoetess (Giles/withheld): Of course she loved him. How could she not, when Rupert Giles loved her?
- A Girl Made From Sky by doyle_sb4 (Dawn/Cheeseman): Sometimes, though it was strictly forbidden, he chased the worst of the nightmares away, and when he could spare the time he gave her more pleasant dreams.
- An Atlas Of The Beautiful World by croupier (Cordelia/Tara): They huddled together to keep warm that night, and when Tara whispered, "Thank you for doing this with me," Cordelia could only close her eyes and smile, because Tara was happy.
- a sorta fairytale by amerella (Spike & Dawn): And Dawn thinks of the way Spike had looked at Buffy, the way he still looks at her with his face that's the same, and then she doesn't know what to think anymore.
- Five Things That Never Happened To Xander Harris by stoptocheer (Xander): Xander just looked at him, so utterly blown away that Giles was remotely serious, that he almost forgot to pose for his own freeze-frame: "Xander 'the Man' Harris: Girl Magnet and Tweedy Watcher Guy In Training".
- shacked up #89 by rheanna27 (Wes/Gunn): Words are precious; a non-renewable resource. We use them sparingly, recycle where possible.
- proud: Things Giles Does Not Say, and One Thing He Does by ellen m (Giles): "I love you."
- Volcanoes Melt You Down by typicrobots (Willow): She isn't happy, because she wants to kiss everyone - Tara, Spike, Faith, Kennedy, Oz, all those boys at the clubs, and sometimes even Xander, when he's looking his most grieved.
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braaaaaaaaiiins
Jan. 27th, 2006 | 10:47 pm
- The Amazing and True Adventures of Dawn Summers and Her Zombie Twin by kyrafic (Dawn Summers and Her Zombie Twin): "Dawnie!" said Willow. "What are you doing??"
"Brains!" said Dawn, and gave Vi's hair another sharp tug. - Real Friends Help You Move Bodies by C.L Kamnikar (Giles/Jenny): "Do all robots double as barbell weights?"
"It's not a robot, it's an android," Willow corrected him, kneeling down next to the thing to study it.
"And the big difference is...?" Cordelia asked, stepping over it with distaste and joining Xander a few feet away. "And we should care... why?" - The Other Half Lives by yahtzee63 (Cordy/Wes/Dennis, um, ish): The walls started pounding, and she quickly cupped one hand over the phone. "Phantom Dennis!" she hissed. "We are getting to ER soon, I promise. Just be patient!"
"Good for you," Wesley said. "But, actually, I was calling about something else. I was wondering if -- maybe -- you wanted to go out tomorrow evening. Dinner, drinks. You know." - Untitled by kyrafic (Buffybot/Mr. Gordo): She waits until everyone is out [subdirectory /priorities/stealth] and boosts herself through the window into her bedroom -- the other's.
- Lilah and Xander vs. The Zombie Gods of Redding by jennyo (Lilah/Xander): "Oh, well. At least I'm already technically dead."
"And I'm sure that'll stop the crazy voodoo people from chopping you into tiny, itty-bitty technically dead pieces, Lilah," - Medley of Extemporanea by idyll (Angel/Lindsey): It surprises Lindsey for a second before he remembers the history the two of them have. Time's a tricky thing. It's not always as linear as one expects it should be and the past fifteen years have been packed tight and full of life for Lindsey.
- The Loving Dead by witling (Xander): So his house is cold sometimes. So what.
- Big Damn Zombies, Sir by shrift (Firefly): "Braaaiiins," Jayne said, and fell down the ladder leading to his quarters.
- Untitled by doyle_sb4 (Buffybot/Illyria): “You will move six millimetres down and three to the left,” she ordered. “And increase the frequency of your lapping.”
- Xander Harris's Really Weird Jar-Jar Sex Dream by spike21 (Xander/Jar-Jar): Well, see Xander goes to see the Phantom Menace and eats way too many strawberry nibs and raspberry sour fish and Flipz and Jones Sour Apple Sodas and so when he goes to sleep that night he has this dream. And it's a funny kind of dream, almost kind of a sexy dream, except that IN the dream he's actually still sleeping, or more, really -- *dozing* -- with his eyes closed and just feeling really...hmmm...really good.
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Jan. 26th, 2006 | 08:18 pm
- Hope is A Blossom of Glass by romanyg (Wes/Angel) :He is a wire, resonating.
- 32 short fics about xander harris by nwhepcat (Xander) :He avoids looking in the mirror -- he already knows what he'd see.
- Paen by spike21 (Giles) :It hardly seems like missing her.
- Five Good Things That Never Happened to Faith by m_phoenix (Faith/Buffy) :The kiss B gives her is light and unexpected, but so full of longing.
- Ten Steps to Better Living for God-Kings Through Technology by liz_marcs (Illyria) :When Ms. Burkle starts wearing leather, dyes her hair blue, and begins wearing blue eye contacts, the secretaries exchange knowing glances: Another department head bites the dust.
- I no longer look for heaven by marginalia (Tara/Oz, Oz/Remus, Remus/Sirius) :she was worth remembering.
- Untitled by doyle_sb4 (Dawn/Illyria/Anya) :“What’s going on?” Anya demanded
- the piano has been drinking by marginalia (Giles/Oz) :Words are slipping away, slipping around him, slipping in and out of other languages, losing him before translation and finding him after.
- Not Quite the Emerald City by pinkdormouse (Ethan/Lorne) :Suddenly he is both at home and very far from it.
- fare thee well by marginalia (Tara&Death, Endless) :When she was seventeen, Tara saw a pale-skinned girl smiling at her through the haze of her tears.
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as we know it
Jan. 5th, 2006 | 11:44 pm
- four seasons beyond armageddon by International Princess (Buffy/Giles) NC-17 : In the end (or maybe the beginning) it was just the two of them.
- In the Bleak Midwinter by annakovsky (Xander/Dawn) PG : She is wearing a t-shirt that says Mrs. Seth Cohen. Earlier in the day she had informed Xander that this was "mostly ironic." She is so eighteen years old he aches with it
- Seeing Africa by huzzlewhat (Xander) PG : The stories happened to someone else, and that someone else? Fictional. The Xander in his stories never had a name.
- Cup of Tea by thawrecka (Giles/Spike) R : He doesn't dare go to the house. Buffy and Joyce are there; dead women seeped into the walls. Their ghosts are loud and noisy and Giles' head aches. "I'm just very busy," he says
- Everything by anr G : Only when you think of all the could-have's and should-have's and realise you NEVER DID. You never did save her.
- rough replacements by unwinding (Buffy/Giles) R : They buried his mother in London and it rained, of course it rained, but Giles is English so he had an umbrella and dry eyes.
- Things Left Undone by minnow1212 (various) PG-13 : Part 5: Life's a Bitch
- What Guile is This? A Luddite's Love Story by glossing (Giles/Buffybot) NC-17 : Time does not flow. Without life, the flow ceases.
After life, moments simply follow moments, each one stark and discrete. Memories and the new shuffle together. Stammer.
This is grief. - The Weary World Rejoicing by annakovsky (Xander/Anya) PG : Xander's ears are pink from cold, and he worries. They cannot afford to lose Willow. They have lost so much already
- You Who Never Arrived by m_phoenix (Dawn/Riley) R : “Where are you going?”
“Nowhere,” you admitted, feeling suddenly foolish.
“Sure,” she said, almost smiling. “I’m going that way too.”