for i have measured out my life with coffee spoons | btvs | buffy | 1/2youcallitwinterApril 7 2012, 22:16:08 UTC
I actually wanted to fill the Spike prompt because it's fifty different kind of epic, but then this happened? idk. D: What is this even, really. I still want to try Spike out though!
set: in season six somewhere
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She’s saved the world sixty five point four three times (that one time with Adam the Scooby Gang might have contributed around point five seven - and she’s kind of being generous really- in the world saving business, but it isn’t like she was totally out of the scene there).
Not that she’s keeping count or anything.
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She thinks someone should write a book.
Not the Watcher’s Diaries. Not records that will only ever be read by some British guy in a stuffy suit with a stiff upper-lip. Not records which will tell everyone who bothers to know that she died twice, and that she once fell ‘in love’ with a vampire (‘in love’ within quotes because it’s a record and she doesn’t know if they have that word in the Basic Guide to Slayerisms or if it’s blasphemy for a Slayer to mention the word because it’s not a synonym for ‘duty’ or ‘
( ... )
for i have measured out my life with coffee spoons | btvs | buffy | 2/2youcallitwinterApril 7 2012, 22:20:26 UTC
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“I’m old enough to decide this stuff on my own, Buffy!”
“The fact that you need to state that kind of implies that you may not be, Dawnie.”
“Stop calling me that,” her sister is nearly in tears, “you think you can forever categorize me under the ‘kid sis’ label and never really bother till you get the chance to refuse me something.”
“Dawni…Dawn, I-”
“And everyone thinks you’re like, a cool, older sister that they would like to have. That is, everyone who doesn’t think you’re a freak. Which is everyone who actually has a cool, older sibling who went to high school with you. Everybody is going to be there. Everybody. I’ve already said I would go, Buffy.”
There’s a hammering at the back of her skull that resembles the hammering of her heart all those times Angel was around. There may be some poetry lost in the metaphor but god, she misses Angel. She doesn’t miss Angel when it’s Spike above her and around her and all over, but that’s neither here nor there.
“I told you it’s too dangerous, especially at that time of the night, with the
( ... )
Re: for i have measured out my life with coffee spoons | btvs | buffy | 2/2seraphceleneApril 11 2012, 05:23:34 UTC
So, just broke my heart. Right there in my chest. Fragments. Thanks for that.
This is just awesome in all the small, broken, petty ways that people hurt and rage against being taken for granted. The ways that the life we thought we would have never actually matches the reality of what life is like. I love this fic. If this is your first shot at BtVS ... dude, you've got an epic handle on the characters and I can only hope that you continue to delve into the characters. Love this!
... she doesn’t want to be the kind of girl whose entire life can be compressed into five words.
Because habits, those can be broken. Unlike memories of blinding light that doesn't blind and peace that doesn’t fit into the word she uses for it.
Re: for i have measured out my life with coffee spoons | btvs | buffy | 2/2youcallitwinterApril 17 2012, 15:43:28 UTC
Aww, that's so sweet, thanks a lot! I mean, getting late into a fandom like Buffy is nerve-wracking because you can be sure that all the amazing stuff has already been written (especially since it's Buffy, so I'm sure it's inspired a lot of awesome fic; I haven't had a chance to read much because I've been avoiding spoilers till I finish Angel). But I think you said exactly what I feel about S6 Buffy because you can see both her privilege and her burden and the characterization kills me, really. I'm so glad you liked it :D
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I actually wanted to fill the Spike prompt because it's fifty different kind of epic, but then this happened? idk. D: What is this even, really. I still want to try Spike out though!
set: in season six somewhere
x
She’s saved the world sixty five point four three times (that one time with Adam the Scooby Gang might have contributed around point five seven - and she’s kind of being generous really- in the world saving business, but it isn’t like she was totally out of the scene there).
Not that she’s keeping count or anything.
x
She thinks someone should write a book.
Not the Watcher’s Diaries. Not records that will only ever be read by some British guy in a stuffy suit with a stiff upper-lip. Not records which will tell everyone who bothers to know that she died twice, and that she once fell ‘in love’ with a vampire (‘in love’ within quotes because it’s a record and she doesn’t know if they have that word in the Basic Guide to Slayerisms or if it’s blasphemy for a Slayer to mention the word because it’s not a synonym for ‘duty’ or ‘ ( ... )
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“I’m old enough to decide this stuff on my own, Buffy!”
“The fact that you need to state that kind of implies that you may not be, Dawnie.”
“Stop calling me that,” her sister is nearly in tears, “you think you can forever categorize me under the ‘kid sis’ label and never really bother till you get the chance to refuse me something.”
“Dawni…Dawn, I-”
“And everyone thinks you’re like, a cool, older sister that they would like to have. That is, everyone who doesn’t think you’re a freak. Which is everyone who actually has a cool, older sibling who went to high school with you. Everybody is going to be there. Everybody. I’ve already said I would go, Buffy.”
There’s a hammering at the back of her skull that resembles the hammering of her heart all those times Angel was around. There may be some poetry lost in the metaphor but god, she misses Angel. She doesn’t miss Angel when it’s Spike above her and around her and all over, but that’s neither here nor there.
“I told you it’s too dangerous, especially at that time of the night, with the ( ... )
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This is just awesome in all the small, broken, petty ways that people hurt and rage against being taken for granted. The ways that the life we thought we would have never actually matches the reality of what life is like. I love this fic. If this is your first shot at BtVS ... dude, you've got an epic handle on the characters and I can only hope that you continue to delve into the characters. Love this!
... she doesn’t want to be the kind of girl whose entire life can be compressed into five words.
Because habits, those can be broken. Unlike memories of blinding light that doesn't blind and peace that doesn’t fit into the word she uses for it.
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