From: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com (buffyfic-digest) To: buffyfic-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: buffyfic-digest V2 #314 Reply-To: $SENDER Sender: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk buffyfic-digest Wednesday, August 26 1998 Volume 02 : Number 314 In this issue: BUFFYFIC: ADMIN: Free email policy BUFFYFIC: Serial Lies (1/1) BUFFYFIC: Bled (1/?) See the end of the digest for information on (un)subscribing to the buffyfic or buffyfic-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:46:50 -0400 From: sah Subject: BUFFYFIC: ADMIN: Free email policy Please read this. It's very important. Effective immediately, anyone who wishes to s*bscribe to any Buffy list on a "freemail" account (Geocities, Hotmail, etc.) will be required to provide us with a "permanent" e-mail address as a backup. 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Thanks. sah and Jill romana@mindspring.com and jtkirby@mcs.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:00:15 -0700 From: Lise Subject: BUFFYFIC: Serial Lies (1/1) Author: Lise (lisewilliams@geocities.com) Title: Serial Lies Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me (duh) and I'm not making any money. Plot: Willow finds out a little more about Giles' past than they realized-- his occult days aren't the only dark spots... NOTE: Spoiler for 'Halloween' --A good deal of this story comes directly from the episode 'Halloween', so if you haven't seen that one, this might not make too much sense... This has been rattling around in my head for quite some time...and I thought that a story that had nothing to do with 'Becoming' might be nice... Serial Lies Willow moved quickly, and walked out of the shop. Then she stoped, confused. Giles wasn't acting like himself. She thought about going back in, and seeing if he was okay....but he'd told her to leave. His exact words were "Willow, get out of here now." That didn't leave much to interpretation. She hesitated, then took a step fearfully back towards the door that lead into 'Ethan's'. If he caught her... he'd be angry. Thinking a bit she, she moved forward a little faster, more confident. This was Giles-- his angry didn't even approach a little bit miffed compared to anyone else. And she wasn't going to leave him in case he needed her help. Buffy wouldn't. "Hello, Ripper." Willow couldn't see Giles, but the man with him was wearing a sneer. She held her breath, afraid of making any noise that would startle either of them and give her away. The man-- presumably Ethan-- paused a moment, then when Giles didn't say anything, continued. "What, no hug? Aren't you pleased to see your old mate Rupert?" Willow frowned, not understanding. His old mate? That means they must have known each other before... "I'm just surprised I didn't guess it was you. This Halloween stunt stinks of Ethan Raine." Willow still couldn't see Giles' face, but the ice in his voice chilled her. "Yes, it does, doesn't it. Don't want to blow my own trumpet, but it's genius." His sneer grew wider, and proud. "It's the very embodiment of be careful what you wish for." The disgust in Giles' voice was clear. "It's sick, brutal, and it harms the innocent." Willow shifted a little to get a better view of what was going on-- and to be able to jump in if Giles needed it. So far, they were talking, but things could change quickly. Ethan said with as much sarcasm as he could muster, "Oh, and we all know that you are the champion of innocence and all things pure and good Rupert." Willow turned from Ethan to Giles, and tried to see his face in the dark. Ethan added, "It's quite a little act you've got going here, old man." The determination on the sliver of Giles' face that she could see was like steel. He wasn't going to break down. "It's not an act. It's who I am." The barely suppressed anger was evident on his face and in his stance, but he pushed it down, settling for an icy glare. Ethan almost laughed in his face. "Who you are? The Watcher? Sniveling tweed-clad guardian of the Slayer and her kin? I think not...." Willow could see the taunts on Ethan's face, and the anger building in Giles'. But Giles stayed perfectly calm, perfectly in control. Ethan continued, "I know who you are-- and what you're capable of. But they don't, do they? They have no idea where you come from." Giles interrupted, and Willow shivered at his transformation. "Break the spell Ethan, and leave this place and never come back." Ethan mocked, "Why should I? What's in the bargain for me?" Willow was scared, and Giles' next words took her by surprise. She began to inch towards the exit. Giles, with a look of pure hatred yet perfectly calm at the same time, said, "You get to live." Willow-- having seen enough to know that she could be in danger from friend and foe alike-- didn't wait. She ran. ***** She didn't know what to do. The night had been okay, and things had a happy ending... but... but... "Will, you okay?" Willow jumped, and then smiled at Buffy. "I'm fine." Buffy raised her eyebrows, and said, "Okay.... I'll leave you to it then." She walked away, and Willow breathed again. She hadn't told Buffy about what had happened in the shop because she didn't know what to make of it. Now, she was sitting in front of the computer two days later, trying to get the courage to search for the information that would fill in the gaps in Giles' past. She hadn't wondered, but then Ethan, and Ripper, and.... Willow input the search parameters "Rupert Giles" AND Oxford AND Ripper... then paused before she hit enter. Yes, she was doing the research... but what would she do with it if she actually found something? She bit her lip, looking at the picture of Buffy on the counter. Giles really cared for the Slayer, he really took his job as Watcher seriously. Frowning, she tried to imagine what would change their opinions of him. He was homeless... he was a jewel thief... he was a circus performer.... no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't think of anything that would change him. He was Giles now, no matter who he was before. In a fit of strength of character, she decided that whatever she found, she would respect Giles' privacy and not tell Buffy. She hit enter. And then her eyes widened.... in horror. " Times: June 72: Another body was found in the same stance as the five recent murders around Oxford university early this morning. No suspects have been brought into cusotdy as of yet, but the police have assured university students that they are in no danger yet. So far, all victims have been from out of town, and no one need be alarmed. This sixth body was found like all the rest-- gruesomely dismembered, with several artifacts of unknown origin surrounding the body. It appears to be linked to the recent occult happenings in and around the university, but students in such faculties are outraged at the suspicions cast on them and their professors. One, Rupert Giles, went so far as to ridicule the attempts of police to find the murderer. His exact words were, "It'll take more than a bloody bunch of Scotland Yard idiots to find a demon..." Police refuse to acknowledge the possibility that the magics 'engaged' in at the scenes are real, and have called the murders an occult hoax. There is no hard evidence yet, and aside from several mocking notes from both Oxford students and murderer alike, there have been no real leads. It appears that this latest body will join the rest as just another victim of Oxford's modern day Jack the Ripper." - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manager of Sector Zeta www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/5713 Listowner of the Spikelist@onelist.com http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/spikelist "...You want to go a few rounds, I'm all for it. You want to stop your boyfriend, we're gonna have to play it a different way..." --Spike to Buffy, "Becoming II" - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:30:15 EDT From: Subject: BUFFYFIC: Bled (1/?) Title: Gone II: Bled (1/?) Author: Meg R-C Feedback: Please, but if you want to critique, try and make it constructive critisism, suggestions or something I can use to make it better Distribution: Sure, just send me the URL Summary: A sequel to Anya's Gone, Buffy tracks down Angel and Willow Rating: this part PG, but the whole thing will never get worse than PG-13 Disclaimer: I own no characters, they all belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy, I'm just borrowing them Content: angst, Buffy/Angel, character death She stood on the stone doorstep, debating whether or not to knock. So much had happened and she had worked so hard just to get to this point. Once again she stood at a crossroads, so much laying on her decision, too heavy for her twenty-two year old shoulders. Turning around and going home, pretending failure, was the easiest choice, the least painful. But then she would have to face his eyes, so dependent on her to fulfill his final and only request. But to knock was to open all the wounds so carefully closed but never healed all those years ago. It was coming face to face with her past, her guilt, and everything else that so far had been banished from everywhere but her nightmares, and the darkest corners of her soul. But staring at that door she knew she had no choice, there was only one path she could take. And so she knocked, and thus she bled as the wounds opened and the memories came rushing back. ------------------------------ End of buffyfic-digest V2 #314 ****************************** To subscribe to buffyfic or buffyfic-digest, send the command subscribe buffyfic-digest or subscribe buffy to majordomo@xmission.com. You will need to go through a confirmation process, and the listowners have to manually approve your subscription request, so it may take some time. To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@xmission.com with unsubscribe buffyfic-digest or unsubscribe buffyfic in the body. 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