These days off have not been productive on the writing front. I’ve felt out of sorts, my sleep patterns have been shot to hell, and I just haven’t felt cheerful enough to work on my overtly comic WIPs or energetic enough to work on the long stories. What I have done is start a new fic. It’s going to be my Spike story for November at
12monthsofbtvs and should be around the 10,000 words mark in total. I’m not going to put it up on the community until it’s finished but I’m going to post the first part here now because otherwise there will be a long gap without anything from me. The final version should be three parts long.
It could be described as a songfic, it’s Season 2 of BtVS, and it’s going to be Spuffy. The rating is PG-13 so far, but I’m not sure what the final rating will be. This installment is 3,175 words and takes place during “Passions”.
Summary: after an act of petty vindictiveness by Angelus deprives wheelchair-bound Spike of his normal music he listens to a Kate Bush album, and in so doing he triggers a chain of events that alters everything …
( The Hounds of Love )