From: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com (buffyfic-digest) To: buffyfic-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: buffyfic-digest V2 #315 Reply-To: $SENDER Sender: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk buffyfic-digest Thursday, August 27 1998 Volume 02 : Number 315 In this issue: BUFFYFIC: Bled (2/?) BUFFYFIC: DISCUSS: Beta Readers BUFFYFIC: The Soul of Good & Evil (3/?) 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: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:44:35 EDT From: Subject: BUFFYFIC: Bled (2/?) Title: Gone II: Bled (2/?) Author: Meg R-C Feedback: Please, but if you want to critique, try and make it constructive criticism, 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 The knock startled Willow more than she would have liked to admit. With her honed vampiric senses she should have felt the presence of her visitor long before he announced his presence. Angel appeared at the top of the stairs. "Answer the door Willow," he told her. This confused her. They never opened the door, always allowing salesman to find new victims and tourists to remain lost. Willow wondered what could be so important about this visitor as to allow him entrance into the safe haven Willow had come to call home. But she trusted Willow, knowing that he would never risk her for anything, and would in turn risk everything for her. She trusted him to protect her from the darkness that haunted them, as she had once trusted Buffy to. And what she found standing there, or she found standing there, shocked her and thrilled her more than anything ever had or ever could. After four, almost five years, Willow had only dreamed of a reunion to her past. But there her past stood, in the form of Buffy Summers, vampire slayer. "Buffy," Willow whispered, overcome with joy at seeing her friend alive and well, and standing on her doorstep. But Buffy did not return her joy, her relief, or seemingly any emotion at all. Her eyes were cold as stone, her face passionless. While physically she looked no older than the teen Willow remembered, so much in her demeanor, her eyes, her being seemed to have aged countless generations. Her body was Buffy Summers, but Buffy Summers seemed to have died from within. "Hello Willow," Even her voice was flat and emotionless, "may I come in?" "Of course," Willow opened the door wider and motioned her inside. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:03:36 EDT From: Subject: BUFFYFIC: DISCUSS: Beta Readers I'm writing my first fan fic and I need a couple Beta readers. As a hint the story revolves around someone using Miss Edith to get back at Dru. E-mail me if you are interested. Cindy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:27:27 EDT From: Aglx@aol.com Subject: BUFFYFIC: The Soul of Good & Evil (3/?) Title: The Soul of Good & Evil (3/?) Author: Michelle E-mail: Aglx@aol.com Rating: PG for this part. Just answers a bunch of questions as to what the heck is going on. Author's Notes: This story follows directly after my two others, "Vengeance," and "Lost & Found." I rewrote the third part with a completely different plot (the story that this is an alternate for is, "Deadly Instincts." Basically, everyone is a vampire, with a soul except Drusilla. Buffy, Willow, Xander, Angel, Giles, Joyce, everybody. http://members.aol.com/aglx/fanfic.html Spoilers: Plot has nothing to do with real series except for characters that are used. Feedback: You may hate or love the idea of the story so please let me know what you think. ***** Buffy's head rested peacefully against his chest. She had cried herself to sleep, unable to explain what had happened with Angel. Xander, however, kept his eyes open, despite his body's urging to sleep. He wanted to be there for her when she woke up. Whatever had happened with Angel must have been big. < Angel loved her too much to just leave her. Maybe he left her because he loved her _too_ much? > Xander's thoughts were interrupted as Buffy suddenly awoke and turned to face him. "Hey, sleep well?" he asked, trying to make any kind of conversation he could. "Do I ever?" Buffy rubbed her eyes open. She sat back against the headboard next to Xander. "So, what happened with Angel?" The words just flew out of his mouth; he had to know what had happened, but he had also hoped that he could ease into the subject, rather than simply blurting it out. Buffy looked at him, a bit surprised. After brief consideration, she sighed: "Drusilla." "Our sire, Drusilla?" "The one and only. She and Spike came looking for us a while back. She was _very_ unhappy with the way things ended at the villa. Finding out that Spike was alive and I didn't kill him wasn't enough to stop her. She wants me dead, and she'll stop at nothing to get it done. Including destroying her relationship with Spike." Xander just watched her attentively, not wanting to interrupt. "Convinced that Spike was still in alliance with me, and that there was more going on between the two of us than there seemed to be, she kicked him out." Buffy sighed again, holding back tears that the demon inside of her refused to let show. "When Drusilla came after me, Angel was convinced that he could lead her away and finish her off himself. This is the part where I know Drusilla was involved. He left, Drusilla stayed." "So let me get this straight: Dru kicked out Spike, thinking you and him had a thing going on, came searching to kill you and not Angel. But Angel thought he could protect you by leading her away. Now you haven't had contact with him for months, and you're life's falling apart." "Well, that's one way to put it. Yeah." "But what about Spike?" Xander asked. Buffy let out a quiet laugh. "That's actually the funny part of the story. After Drusilla kicked Spike out, he came to Angel and I for help. Somehow, Spike thought I could convince Dru that there was nothing more going on than what we'd told her. A fight broke out between the three of us, and Spike ended up unconscious." "Hah. Did he really think he could take on an ex-slayer turned vampire and the deadly creature that made him?" "Told you it was funny. Anyway, Angel and I restored his soul and then he took off. After Angel left, he came back to me, hoping to work something out. So he's been the only help I've had against Dru, and in the search for Angel." Xander's smile faded as he finally realized how much trouble she was in. "Buff, I'm sorry. If I had known..." "Don't," Buffy interrupted. "I didn't want you to know about it. I didn't think you or Willow wanted anything to do with me. The way you two just _left_ led me to believe that you hated me. Can't say that I could ever blame you." "Buffy. Willow and I didn't hate you. We just needed to get away from you, I mean, we helped make you a demon. You know what it's like to have your soul returned. Every memory of every death or pain you ever caused is brought back to you. The thoughts, the images of everything we'd done was too much to handle." "I know," she whispered, just loud enough for his vampiric ears to pick up. "I'm going to call Willow. She's probably wondering what happened to me." "What?! You didn't tell her you were coming?" "Technically no. I, uh...well..." he said getting up from the bed and walking over towards the phone. "She sorta kicked me out of the house until I could work out my problems. See, I was holding a bit of a grudge against you and Angel for restoring our souls and uh..." "Say no more, I get it." "I don't anymore. I was just having such a hard time dealing with my own problems that I decided to blame it on you two." He tried to smile, hoping she would accept it. "Thanks." "You know what I mean..." "Xander, go call Willow." "Right, Willow. Calling now." ____ Did we like? ------------------------------ End of buffyfic-digest V2 #315 ****************************** 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. Back issues of this digest can be found at: ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/lists/buffyfic/archive/ Dalton Spence has also provided an index of the buffyfic archive at: http://www.hwcn.org/~ag775/BUFFYFIC.HTM For help, contact Jill Kirby (jtkirby@mcs.com) or sah (romana@mindspring.com)