Re: FIC (sort of):__Where_there's_fire?

[Kaz <kardeb97@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

*giggles* That was great and even in a snippet you
managed to do excellent characterizations all around!
:)

~Kaz


--- danspector@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Okay, so I was answering Jason's questions and it
> sort of turned into a
> snippet. So I guess I better add a proper header?
> 
> Title: Where There's Fire?
> Author: Dan Spector
> Pairing: Buffy/Spike (alas! But in a negative way,
> and with
> Buffy/Willow/Xander friendship and implied B/W
> feelings)
> Rating: PG (for some implicitly sexy talk)
> Spoilers: The general Season 6 plotline, but no
> actual details.
> Refers to events from "Becoming, Part 2" and
> "Amends". Also steals a
> line of dialogue from "The Wish".
> Summary: The Three Musketeers and an unwanted
> undead fourth have a chat
> in Buffy and Willow's kitchen.
> Archiving: Oh, come now! Well, if you really want
> to, let me know, and
> I'll boggle at the concept of preserving this
> trifle.
> Feedback: Sure, why not? On list or at
> danspector@xxxxxxxxx
> Author's Note: Just dialogue and stage
> directions?this wasn't meant
> for evocative brilliance, just to answer some
> questions.
> 
> 
> Xander: So, you're saying vampire hair does grow
> after death, that's
> how Angel grew that mustache you saw when you shared
> that vision at
> Christmas that time?
> 
> Buffy: And may I say, that was the ugliest thing I
> ever saw? Forget
> about him killing the maid and all that, the real
> reason sharing that
> dream wigged me like that was that thing on his lip!
> 
> Willow: Easy, Buffy, it was just a dream. But
> that does make sense.
> After all, human hair continues to grow after death?
> 
> Buffy: I remember that; I told Giles that right
> before Kendra came to
> town.
> 
> Willow: Poor Kendra.
> 
> Buffy: Yeah, Kendra for Faith. Not the best trade
> the PTB ever made.
> 
> Spike: Oh, come now, surely you're not going to
> begrudge Dru the only
> slayer she ever bagged? (gets looks, naturally)
> 
> Buffy: You're disgusting.
> 
> Spike: If you say so, pet. 'Sides, slayers are
> born to die in
> battle?you're warriors, it's why you don't fit in
> with the common
> herd, here. (gives others a look)
> 
> Xander: Do you mind?
> 
> Spike: Just a little bare-bones truth, all. None
> of you will ever know
> what Slayer's about, like I do. Right, Summers?
> 
> Buffy (weakening): Spike, not now?
> 
> Xander: Hey, Spike-cicle, could you for once stop
> boring us with the
> hitting on Buffy? You may have eternity to waste,
> but some of us prefer
> to spend our time talking about the
> not-entirely-hugely-impossible
> things in life.
> 
> Spike: I'm chastised, I well and truly am.
> 
> Buffy (small): please?
> 
> Willow (trying to defuse the situation): Speaking
> of kind of impossible
> things, how do you smoke, anyway, Spike?
> 
> Spike: I put the fag in my mouth?
> 
> Xander: I am NOT a?
> 
> Willow (quickly): Cigarette! It means cigarette!
> 
> Xander (covering): ?a smoker. Complete non-smoker
> here.
> 
> Spike (ignoring): ?and I take a nice long drag. 
> Just because I don't
> have to breathe, that doesn't mean I can't. (Looks
> at Buffy) We do a
> lot of things we don't have to just because we like
> them, right, luv?
> Almost an addiction they are; a raw, consuming
> need? 
> 
> Xander: Okay, that's it! I need to put some wood
> in you, right now!
> (off Willow's look) A stake, Will, I was talking
> about a stake! Geez!
> 
> Buffy: I, uh, I need to pick up Dawn at school?
> 
> Willow: But, Buffy, it's Sunday.
> 
> Buffy: Sunday school?
> 
> Willow: You're agnostic.
> 
> Buffy: Oh, yeah. Darn.
> 
> Spike: C'mon, Slayer, stay a bit. Don't you have
> anything you'd like
> to say to me? Anything at all?
> 
> Buffy (looks troubled, but then makes up her mind): 
> Y-you're right. I
> should have said this a long time ago. (looks at
> him tenderly) 
> 
> Spike (serious): Go ahead, luv, say it. It's time.
> 
> Buffy: Spike, do you remember when we first teamed
> up, to stop Angel?
> 
> Spike: Like it was bleeding yesterday, pet.
> 
> Buffy: You'd knocked out that cop (Spike nods), and
> you stopped for a
> smoke, remember? (Spike nods again) I watched you,
> and there's been
> something I've been meaning to ask you ever since?
> 
> Spike: Say it now, Buffy, say it now.
> 
> Buffy (suddenly flippant): Is it me, or was the
> smoke coming out of
> your neck? What's up with that? Do you have gills?
> (smirks) 'Cause
> that's just really, really weird.
> 
> Spike: Bloody hell! Bitch! (stomps out, still
> muttering)
> 
> Xander: Good one, Buffster, you really had His
> Yellowness going there.
> 
> Willow (embarassed): I was actually kind of worried
> for a moment; I
> thought?and it was a stupid thought, I know?I
> thought you might be
> falling for his line.
> 
> Buffy (ashamed): I'd never?I mean, I would never
> want to hurt you
> like that.
> 
> Xander: Nah, our little Buff Daddy can see right
> through Cold, Pale
> and Icky. (Pause) Although, I really don't know how
> you put up with his
> crap.
> 
> Buffy (smiles): I have you guys. (she hugs them
> both, an arm for each
> of them)
> 
> Willow (tipping Buffy's head onto her shoulder): 
> Always, Buffy, any
> time. As long as you want us.
> 
> Xander: Amen to that.
> 
> 


=====
Don't knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run away- he hates that.

~ Anonymous

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