I've created a monster. *g*

Today, Robin and I finished a journey started almost ten months ago.

We watched the final episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

To say that I timed Robin's exposure to this show *perfectly* is understating the truth. She has fallen so completely in love with this show that it reminds me of my first flush of true fannish love. That isn't to say her reaction has been identical to mine. While we are both true Buffy/Angel 'shippers, she has definitely had her own opinions on different episodes and characters.

She likes Dawn. I *hated* Dawn. Of course, she was fifteen the first time she saw Dawn.

I was thirty-two.

One way her reactions are very much like me is that she has been writing 'fic set in the Buffy 'verse. Good 'fic too, so far quite well received on Fanfiction.net. Her primary focus has been on an AU established following "Passions" on a very simple premise:

What if Buffy had chosen to kill Angel at the end of that episode instead of saving Giles?

The result is quite interesting - instead of Angel, a newly vamped *Giles* forms the third member of the Spike-Dru "gang". And instead of Dru's lover and rival with Spike for her affections, Vamp Giles has allowed Dru to adopt him as her "Daddy". Deeply sick and twisted, and disturbingly well written, considering it's *my* sixteen year old penning the tale.

Her current 'fic, however, crosses into truly inspired crack-fic territory. She's rewritten "I Only Have Eyes for You" in her alternate universe.

With Oz and Dru in the central roles.

Think about it. Oz and Dru interacting as the vessels for James and Grace.

Kissing.

Declaring their love for each other.

And she makes it *work*! It's *good*!

This fact disturbs me almost as much as how well she wrote Vamp Giles' first feeding.

I've truly created a monster.