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trinfanebcuriouswombat and I were talking about the odd web-searches that find their way to my site, and I mentioned that one for "spike buffy love kisses", although on the right lines, had probably not quite produced the soppy Spuffy the searcher was expecting. This led on to a discussion of the way some people will read and enthusiastically review any soppy love story in which the lead characters are given the names "Spike" and "Buffy", no matter how dissimilar they are to the characters from the show.curiouswombat said "You ought to write that one."
theohara's book and offering up plot bunnies to anyone interested rather than starting yet more WIPs. So, here's one that I'd love to write but won't.
kantayra's Challenge #8; full details on her site, but basically Dawn doesn't get cut in The Gift, all is sunshine and roses, but Spike feels he's failed and sinks into depression, yadda yadda. She puts it better.kallysten's excellent "Heaven's Key" and enigmaticblues' more than excellent "All the Graces of the Dawn" - and I'm worried in case they've thought of the same simple one of the 147 possible ways of saving Dawn that I have, and I'm staking a claim so that even if they have I can still use it when I complete the fic. That problem doesn't exist with "Pandora's Boxer"; that's going to go completely differently and Spike isn't even going to be up the tower when we reach the end of S5 in that.
kallysten
Okay, I'm posting way, way, too much today, but what the Hell. Feel like it. Here is a bit of smut that will feature in Chapter 13 of "It's Got to be Perfect". Not beta-read yet, so the final version may differ. Giles/Harmony.
There's a Challenge up on Vampire Kisses which is rather unorthodox.
Challenge #3-
"Till The End Of The World"
- Make the Key into something other than human. Buffy and Spike still have to defend it with their lives and keep Glory from getting it. Must be a Spuffy story. The ending of Gifts must be intact.
Well, it's inspired me to make a start on possibly the strangest story I've ever written.
Here's the beginning as a teaser.
Starts at the end of Season 5 Episode 1 “Buffy versus Dracula”.
“Mom!” Buffy exclaimed. “Why is there a mechanical digger tearing up the back garden?”
Joyce was talking with a balding man in an expensive suit and a hard hat construction worker with a clipboard and a fluorescent vest. She broke off and turned to her daughter. “They’re installing the pool, honey,” she informed her.
“We’re getting a swimming pool? Cool!” Buffy beamed.
"Not exactly," her mother said. "Do you remember your Great-Aunt Leonora?"
"Not really," the Slayer replied, her brow furrowing. "Didn't she move to, like, Alaska?"
“Yes, a long time ago. I hardly remember her myself. She became an extremely wealthy woman, but rather eccentric. Well, she’s died, and left us something. An exotic pet. There’s a bequest, a large income as long as we look after the pet, but when the pet dies the income stops and the capital goes to Greenpeace.”
Buffy looked at the excavations. “Don’t tell me, Mom, the pet’s a polar bear.”
“Close,” Joyce admitted. “We’ve inherited a walrus.”
So, what do you think? Have I gone stark raving mad? It'll probably only take me two or three days to finish it and then it's back to reality. Well, not that close to reality, the next 'Violent Elizabeth Bott' story is next on my "To Do" list, and then back to "It's Got To Be Perfect".
zvi and forthwritten
