Challenge fic - Captive Audience

[ares132006]

Well. It's then end of May and I promised scribesdsI would rise to the challenge and write a fic for Writers' Toybox Twenty Four Hour challenge. I made it just in time.

Tell me what you think. Thanks.

Ares

Comments

[scribesds]

Oh, this was super! I love the mystery of the missing Angel at the start. Poor Buffy must have been so worried! He certainly made a dramatic entrance, didn’t he?

Your Buffy/Angel banter was perfect. Just the right mix of humour and concern for each other.

[ares132006]

I'm glad the banter worked. I do love the way our heroes relate to each other.

I didn't want Buffy to have to rescue Angel, again, and I am pleased that him being missing added the right amount of mystery.

Thank you for the challenge, and thank you for your wonderful comments.

Ares

[dralf_burns]

This was great!

The beginning was the perfect way to draw us in with concern for Angel and then Buffy waking up on the altar. Tsk, tsk, these bad guys really need to learn to not gloat, but then we don't really want them to get smart.

“You’re not like that, Buffy. It’s not in you to let that happen. It’ll eat you alive with guilt if you decide to walk away now.”

I loved those lines because Buffy would feel guilty about it and Angel just knows that about her. He won't let her do something she'll regret. I loved the rest of their banter as well; it's just right in every aspect.

Thank you for a great story!

[ares132006]

Tsk, tsk, these bad guys really need to learn to not gloat, but then we don't really want them to get smart.

It's something that seems to be inherent in the bad dudes, gloating and screwing it up. :)

And thank you for picking out that line about guilt. Angel deals with his guilt every minute, he doesn't want Buffy to have to do the same. It would change her. She probably
has enough things she regrets doing already without adding to the list.

I'm glad you liked the story.

Thank you for your lovely comments.

Ares

Friday June 1st, 2012

[livejournal]

User audela referenced to your post from Friday June 1st, 2012 saying: [...] Lorne/Cordy. PG. Captive Audience [...]

[raintree85]

Superlike:-) loved the beginning middle and end, as well as all the bits in between

[ares132006]

Thank you so much. (I love your icon, btw.)

[zuriel]

The bad guys will never learn, will they?

I liked the Buffy/Angel banter...well, might as well say the whole story. And that tidbit at the end was a little gem.

Well done, Ares.

[ares132006]

Thank you. I guess bad guys are meant to be stupid, when they're mostly not. Look at Angelus, he was bad to the bone. Until it came to Buffy...

Thank you for commenting.

Ares