My Five Favorite Drabbles For 2012
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1. Colder Than Death by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alwaysjbj
He shivered; the alien sensation raced down his spine. He never felt the cold, not since that long ago night in a dank London alleyway. Vampires don’t, not really. There’s an awareness of temperature, obviously, but they aren’t affected the way humans are.
Now he lay alone in the rubble awaiting the sunset, with the scent of their pleasure hanging heavily on the air and the memory of her soft, pliant body draped across his, and the absence of her warmth chilled him to the bone just as her heat had scalded him to the very depths of his being.
2. Escape bydralf_burns
Anne is her escape. Anne is a normal, troubled girl who lives in a crappy room and works a menial job. She doesn’t kill demons and she most definitely doesn’t kiss vampires.
Except… When she spots a couple exchanging kisses, memories of graveyard kisses and That Night assail her mind. Her eyes clench shut as the images and sensations crash against the wall she’s built between her old life and her new one. These aren’t Anne’s memories; they’re Buffy’s and Buffy wants to be forgotten.
I am Anne. She takes up the mantra, hoping that one day it’ll be true.
3. Put It All On Him bykudagirl
He struggled to stand after she fled the alley.
His body wracked with pain from her fists.
His heart suffered even more damage.
His poor Slayer, she was breaking into shattered pieces.
Most demons believed the Slayer was as tough as a diamond.
He knew better. She was just a girl under that all that bravo.
The thought she killed that girl drove her to destroy herself.
She had taken out her anger at herself on his body.
He understood her better than her friends.
He just wished he could take her anguish as he took her violence.
4. Who Came Back bykudagirl
The thing wearing Buffy’s body sneered at him as he got close.
Willow brought back the body, but the inside system was wrong.
At first, she sounded and acted like their Buffy.
Then the rages began. They made excuses for it.
She’d been in a hell dimension so it was expected.
Then she had snapped Dawn’s neck.
Spike didn’t know who was behind the face of the woman he loved.
It wasn’t Buffy anymore. Didn’t matter who it was now.
Somehow his third kill of a slayer didn’t bring him any pleasure.
He cradled her cooling body as he sobbed.
5. Courting Sin'verse. post alt S3 byleni_ba
“Rupert Giles,” the grave older man started, laying down the thick file he and the other Council leaders had been perusing. “Your duties as a Watcher have been mismanaged from day one. Just the thought of allowing these… children… such liberties…”
Giles let them list his transgressions against the ancient code, heard the disdain in their accusations. Having been called on the carpet on account of Buffy’s defection had been no surprise. He wouldn’t be able to defend himself, he knew, but if he were to be given the chance, he’d turn the tables on them with one word:
Cruciamentum.
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1. Colder Than Death by
alwaysjbjHe shivered; the alien sensation raced down his spine. He never felt the cold, not since that long ago night in a dank London alleyway. Vampires don’t, not really. There’s an awareness of temperature, obviously, but they aren’t affected the way humans are.
Now he lay alone in the rubble awaiting the sunset, with the scent of their pleasure hanging heavily on the air and the memory of her soft, pliant body draped across his, and the absence of her warmth chilled him to the bone just as her heat had scalded him to the very depths of his being.
2. Escape by
dralf_burnsAnne is her escape. Anne is a normal, troubled girl who lives in a crappy room and works a menial job. She doesn’t kill demons and she most definitely doesn’t kiss vampires.
Except… When she spots a couple exchanging kisses, memories of graveyard kisses and That Night assail her mind. Her eyes clench shut as the images and sensations crash against the wall she’s built between her old life and her new one. These aren’t Anne’s memories; they’re Buffy’s and Buffy wants to be forgotten.
I am Anne. She takes up the mantra, hoping that one day it’ll be true.
3. Put It All On Him by
kudagirlHe struggled to stand after she fled the alley.
His body wracked with pain from her fists.
His heart suffered even more damage.
His poor Slayer, she was breaking into shattered pieces.
Most demons believed the Slayer was as tough as a diamond.
He knew better. She was just a girl under that all that bravo.
The thought she killed that girl drove her to destroy herself.
She had taken out her anger at herself on his body.
He understood her better than her friends.
He just wished he could take her anguish as he took her violence.
4. Who Came Back by
kudagirlThe thing wearing Buffy’s body sneered at him as he got close.
Willow brought back the body, but the inside system was wrong.
At first, she sounded and acted like their Buffy.
Then the rages began. They made excuses for it.
She’d been in a hell dimension so it was expected.
Then she had snapped Dawn’s neck.
Spike didn’t know who was behind the face of the woman he loved.
It wasn’t Buffy anymore. Didn’t matter who it was now.
Somehow his third kill of a slayer didn’t bring him any pleasure.
He cradled her cooling body as he sobbed.
5. Courting Sin'verse. post alt S3 by
leni_ba“Rupert Giles,” the grave older man started, laying down the thick file he and the other Council leaders had been perusing. “Your duties as a Watcher have been mismanaged from day one. Just the thought of allowing these… children… such liberties…”
Giles let them list his transgressions against the ancient code, heard the disdain in their accusations. Having been called on the carpet on account of Buffy’s defection had been no surprise. He wouldn’t be able to defend himself, he knew, but if he were to be given the chance, he’d turn the tables on them with one word:
Cruciamentum.
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Date: 2013-01-18 02:58 pm (UTC)