Meme Time!

[telaryn]

Swiped from mizzy2k (natch):

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

99% of my fic is here. A few other random fics are here.

Oh this should be fun...*g*

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Predictable Sarah Is Predictable!

[errant-evermore.livejournal.com]

Eliot’s going to kick my ass. It was the first clear thought Nate had as he was grabbed and shoved face first into a wall of the alley behind McRory’s.

“You smell…familiar.” The voice in his ear was British and male, nobody he recognized. Nate cried out in pain as his right arm was twisted up behind his back, pushed almost to the point of breaking. “Like somebody who shouldn’t be walking around sane.”

There was a sickening sound of bone grinding against bone; a moment later Nate felt his attacker’s hot breath against his neck and the feather-light brush of a pair of fang-points. “She didn’t taste you here, though. Smell’s not strong enough.” The vampire leaned into him, pressing himself full length against Nate’s back. “Lower…”

“Let me go,” Nate growled. He tried to push back against the vampire’s weight, but even though they were comparable in size, his attacker was considerably stronger and had him in a perfect joint lock. Nate really didn’t feel like nursing a broken arm when this was all over, but he was rapidly approaching the point where if he could get away with his life and his humanity intact, he would call it a win.

“Now why would I do that?” The vampire’s left hand skimmed across Nate’s hip and down to grip his inner thigh. “There we are. Right there – you were bitten by my Black Goddess.”

“My daughter’s a Slayer,” Nate growled, trying desperately to ignore the fact that his attacker was now unmistakably aroused. “You don’t want to fuck with that.”

“This coat I’m wearing, mate? Took it off the body of the second Slayer I killed.” Fang-points brushed against his jugular this time. “Lucky for you I’ve given up killing humans, but you smell too good for me to pass up a taste.”

Nate had already braced himself for the sharp stinging pain of teeth penetrating his flesh, when he heard the answer to his prayers. “Wow – B’s right. You guys with the whole smelling people thing? It’s kinda gross.”

Re: Predictable Sarah Is Predictable!

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

I maintain that having Nate mind-raped by Drusilla is the second greatest thing we did in The End of Days Job (the first being Wolfram & Hart trying to turn Eliot into the Conduit). Problem is, because I was co-writing it with my offspring, I was never able to comfortably take it to the extremes my brain really wanted to.

As such, while I was doing angst_bingo I went back to that well a couple of times...this is probably my favorite. The prompt was "Supernatural: Vampires", and I wanted to try combining the lingering threat/trauma of Drusilla with Nate reaching that point in his relationship with Faith where he's forced to realize that using her as a threat against the undead doesn't always work.

Spike was the perfect vehicle to explore this, not only because of his connection to Drusilla, but because having killed two Slayers and currently being on speaking terms with a whole bunch of others he would be *exactly* the type of vampire to laugh at "my daughter's a Slayer".

From a purely shallow standpoint, I *desperately* wanted to take this story in an entirely different direction. Nate pinned face first against a wall, Spike crowded in close, one hand clamped down on his inner thigh, getting ready to bite...this is a whole buffet of my kinks spread out for feasting right here.

And I don't even like Spike without Drusilla!

Re: Predictable Sarah Is Predictable!

[errant-evermore.livejournal.com]

I know we already discussed this piece some in emails, I just wanted to say that I've only seen bits and pieces of Buffy, and I have...entirely shallow reasons to like Spike too much. Which makes me like this bit all the more. ;)

But the explanation of the emotion there - having that consistent protection in the Slayer threat - makes this work all the better!