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Beth Winter ([personal profile] winter) wrote2006-03-16 09:09 pm
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A heartfelt recommendation

Some of you may have noticed that there are 260 comments on my last post. 240 of these are me and [livejournal.com profile] fyrie talking about a single story. She fed it to me by spoonfuls, killing me softly just as I was trying to work, or sleep, or just get the vampires out of my head by any means possible.

What Remains - Jossverse and Tanz der Vampire. After LA goes boom, Spike comes back to the last two vampires he knows who might take him in.

If I had to put a label on this, it'd probably be Hurt/Comfort. After the Angel finale, Spike is broken to pieces, and it's up to von Krolock, with Herbert's help, to put him back together. But gods, this is so sweet and heart-breaking, and there's one scene (which I won't spoil) that killed me dead.

Even if all you know about Tanz is that I blather about it a lot, go read it - all you need to know is that von Krolock is Herbert's dad, and that he's a sorcerer and occasional seer. All else speaks for itself.

(She's not finished with the first chronological fic in this series, but it will explain a lot if you read the two she posted previously - Until the Moon is Abed, slash and het Herbert/Spike, von Krolock/Dru, and then Unwritten Words, where pre-Buffy Season 2 Spike asks for advice on helping Dru.)

Re: and lo, VK winz!1

[identity profile] fyrie.livejournal.com 2006-03-17 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Eating the child is usually frowned upon :D Dirty, lazy, idle, stealing, crazy-religious, feeding the sprog garlic... um..

Re: and lo, VK winz!1

[identity profile] fyrie.livejournal.com 2006-03-17 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
er...

Should probably stop listening to Barton as Phantom if I want to think...

...

Crazy? In the Drusilla form, but non-vampy. Violent? One of the types that would lock him in a room and sneak off with her boyfriend.

Re: and lo, VK winz!1

[identity profile] fyrie.livejournal.com 2006-03-17 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
Alas, haven't found anything further than those. Probably bootlegs kicking about but I don't know where to start looking.