Comments | lynnevitational: Fanfic: Birds In Cages.

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Fanfic: Birds In Cages.

Jul 15, 2007 20:18

Title: Birds in Cages.
Fandom: elements of both ‘Angel’ and ‘Buffy: the Vampire Slayer’, Spike/Angel. Lynnevitational ficathon entry for stakebait.
Rating: R, for swearing, violence, and sexual content.
Description: It was always about power. It was never about love. (It was always about lying to yourself.)

( It was never about love, not about love in the slightest; love was something left behind with oxygen, with the taste of nervous sweat on your lip when you saw a certain silhouette in the parlor door... )

Comments 8

redbrickrose July 20 2007, 17:04:09 UTC

This is just stunning, and the use of the Four Horseman was truly inspired. The language is amazing, visceral and evocative and this whole piece is so true to who Spike is, to who all of them are really, and to their perverse and damaged, but intense and unbreakable connections with each other. The ending was perfection because, for Spike, of course it was always about love. Of course. I literally got chills reading this; this comment is entirely insufficient to tell you how amazing I think this fic is.

fodian July 26 2007, 18:11:32 UTC

Wow. Just, wow.

stoney321 August 3 2007, 13:39:20 UTC

I'm very late in getting here, but so glad that I finally did.

Absolutely lyrical, and the final line just breaks my heart. Wonderful.