FICLET: Do not go gentle

[calove]

This is the second of the orphaned fics. This one obsessed me for a few weeks last year shortly after writing Five Stages of Grief, but it never seemed right, despite getting to 3,500 words. I've fiddled with the thing off and on for ages to no real avail, so - resolution and all - post it, forget it and move on

Comments

[makd]

here via the SU_Herald.

sad, thrilling, and poignant.

neat.

[calove]

Thank you for coming over, and I'm very glad you enjoyed the fic.

[mentalme85]

So that's how he got his precious lighter! I haven't read much OC fic, but I really liked this ^___^ and it fits in with the show really well.

[calove]

To be honest, I haven't written much OC fic. In fact, this is the only one :) But he had to have got that lighter somehow...

I'm glad you liked it - and that's a very, very cute icon!

[mentalme85]

I really did! I think I remember reading.. blame it on the boogie too and loving it ^__^ I should warn you I suck at commenting, I WILL get better, that should be my resolution.

Hee! Thanks, it's one of my favs. It's snaggable and it's by kazzy_cee

[calove]

Thank you for the friending - it's good to know you're reading, even if the comments are few (although always appreciated!)

Ah, I should have recognised the icon. KC is so talented...

[gillo]

“No…” she gasped as his hand slid between her thighs, “no-one else…” She barely whimpered when he drove his teeth into her neck and finished it.

Wonderful inkage of sex and menace - it sums up why vampire porn is so hot!

Beautiful work - I'm so glad you posted it. Lovely explanation of the lighter - if the leather coat was a sentimental souvenir, it stands to reason the lighter would be. And the portrait of the empty, lonely little Watcher, so desperate for life she'll even settle for unlife - perfect.

And Evil!Spike who's still just a touch sympathetic - it's made my evening.

So now I can go back to marking another batch of Mocks. ::sigh::

Thank you, luv.

[calove]

Thanks, pet, I'm very glad it helped!

Mocks, huh? Sounds like... umm... well, about as much fun as this review on lung cancer I'm supposed to be putting together... only without the depression... or, then again, maybe not.

*sigh*

I'm really not cut out for spending my evenings reading about nasty diseases. Finding it very hard to resist the lure of the cold white wine in the 'fridge (I've already given in to the lure of the choccie bickies...)

[gillo]

Yup, Mocks. Only 19 kids, but each one has six essays, over five hours of writing, at a marking rate of about twenty minutes per essay. Inept analysis of the same four poems gets old very quickly. Tomorrow, lucky me, I get to mark analysis of adverts for adventure holidays in Antarctica (yes, really) and an extract from Scott's diary. I can hardly wait.

OTOH, lung cancer reviews are not unalloyed joy either. ::passes you virtual white wine::

[calove]

Cheers!

*virtual clink*

Oh, that sounds dire! That's an awful lot of marking. It must be very hard to keep up any level of enthusiasm and keep down any level of cutting sarcasm.

Lung cancer sucks. And what makes this job a million times worse is that my good friend's father has just been diagnosed (as in last Friday) with - yup, lung cancer. I now know more about his prognosis than she does. And really, I'd much rather not... Talk about timing.

[bluekaty]

That was magnificent! I can't believe you were not satisfied with it. Spike's voice is perfect, it was so true to the on-screen character I love.
I'm so glad you decided to post it :)

[calove]

I'm starting to like it better :) Really, I think it had just been around and fiddled with for so long, I'd kind of lost sight of the whole.

Anyway, I'm very glad you liked it, and especially that you thought Spike's voice was on target - that means a lot to me.

[enigmaticblues]

That was simply amazing. So dark, and so beautiful, all at once.

[calove]

Thank you, Jerusha.