Vampire's Kiss 3/6? (Bennet/Claude, teen)

[ninamusing]

Title: Vampire’s Kiss
Author: nina_ds@ninamusing
Fandom: Heroes
Characters: Bennet/Claude, traces of Bennet/Sandra, Claude/Peter, Claude/various OCs, even a wee hint of possible-maybe Sandra/Claude; also Claire and, as requested, Mr. Muggles in a cameo
Rating: Teen
Challenge: written for brave_new_slash’s Morally Grey November.
Author’s notes: Sincere thanks to Indyhat for a

Comments

[veetvoojagig]

I am still enjoying every second of this. I believe you've won yourself a fan. *grins*

[ninamusing]

Boy, you are fast! I'm still sprucing up the layout, and I've already got a response.

Thanks so much for your feedback - I'm so glad you're enjoying it. Makes it easier for me to keep pushing through the difficult chapters like this one.

[veetvoojagig]

I jumped on it like a snake. *laughs* Tasty prey.

See, that's why I try not to write chapter fics. *laughs* I get disheartened.

[ninamusing]

I'm terrible about stories short enough to post in one go - there are very few times when I've ever had an idea that was truly short (once in my life, I wrote a drabble that I was satisfied with, and it was totally an accident - 100 words exactly on the first try). One other idea, I thought was going to be a drabble, and it ended up being something like 500 words - still short for me!

Ideally, I'd have liked to have been finished before starting to post, but the deadline went zooming past. I'm doing another multi-chaptered fic in another fandom's ficathon alongside this one, and although I am feeling a wee bit stressed to get chapters out every few days, it's also making me write, which I probably need, because I tend to dwell too long on things. So, on balance, I think this is working for me! I hope it can keep working for the readers.

[liritarofrohan]

Wow, this series continues to be amazing. I love Sandra, and you write her so well. I really laughed at the whole "Yank/Yankee" thing, because it's so true.

[ninamusing]

Welcome to the fic! And thanks for all your feedback - made me warm and toasty this grey winter morning.

Yes, the Yank/Yankee thing just had to be done - as a Southerner who lives part-time in the UK, it was just too easy. (I still like my tea iced, thank you very much!)

I love your icon! It was important to me that Sandra was done to the best of my ability in this story, because I love her in the show (Ashley Crow does amazing work with really very little to go on in terms of script), and because it would be so easy to ignore her or make her a cipher or a viper in a Bennet/Claude story. I'm trying to make her the key to understanding Bennet (even for him to understand himself), which I hope will start to come a little more clear as we go from here.

(And as I'm posting this, there is an ad for Heroes at the bottom of my LJ page! Talk about targeted advertising!)

[liritarofrohan]

Heh. And as a Yankee living in the South, I can totally relate. *Grins*

I adore Sandra. I actually roleplay as her in a few games. Ashley really is amazing.

(Hee! That is so awesome. *Giggles*)

[nina_ds]

And as a Yankee living in the South, I can totally relate.

Have you ever read Florence King? I highly recommend Southern Ladies and Gentlemen as a way to understand the peculiar psyche of the South. I've read academic sociology and history that's not half so enlightening, plus, it is laugh-out-loud hilarious (and rather bawdy in places). It's amazing that it was largely written in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

[redlight_artist]

Words fail to describe how much I love this. You have such a gift. I can't wait to read the next piece. This is art.

[nina_ds]

Wow, that's amazing feedback. (I don't know about art - fanfic, yes!) Thank you.

[foofasaurus]

I am so so so sorry I haven't commented before now. I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know I'm bookmarking each part as they pop up on my flist, but I haven't yet had time to sit down and read them. I'm looking forward to it sooo much though!

[nina_ds]

That's okay! I know exactly what you mean. ::chuckle:: I left an almost identical message for the person who wrote my Doctor Who OT3 ficathon story! I hope things ease up on you soon, for your own sake, but I hope you like the story when you get around to it.