A heartfelt recommendation

[winter]

Some of you may have noticed that there are 260 comments on my last post. 240 of these are me and 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.)

Comments

[winter]

This one scene, with blood and comfort and the sheer connection between the three - gaah.

I think you might like it :>

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Ï am sure I will....... rigth now my brain is so blergjhed, tho, that reading anything is not a good idea. would miss too much...

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

This is the point I wish I had a webcam on you when you read that scene for the first time ;)

[winter]

It consisted of a lot of covert hyperventilating, mostly. Bloody open-space office, you know. But gah, I have such a predilection for emotional connections, and ownership, and I've never hidden my blood kink or the hand kink, so with the additional visuals supplied by my overactive imagination, I was lucky not to have fallen off the chair.

That, by the way, would have taken some explaining. I'm afraid it would have been classified as reading porn on company time after all ;)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*grins* falling off a chair would be bad :D As would the being caught with teh pr0n ;) I had to be in super-stealth mode when I was writing it at college and the tutor was flitting around.

[winter]

Heh, stealth mode for fic and LJ isn't a problem for me - I'm the world champion at Alt+Tab. But controlling facial expressions is another thing. I'm very, very lucky my opposite number is mostly in meetings this week, because otherwise he'd be wondering why I'm blushing so much.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed I didn't get caught in the smutty RPG I used to play in an open lab with people constantly coming and going. Have a sneaking suspicion if the uni knew all the amateur porn I was getting hold of, I would have been barred instantly ;D

Fortunately, the sirens (which I never knew about until I witnessed them) only went off when I guy went looking for hardcore pro porn ;) Seeing a 20-something guy flee from a room because a siren is wailing that he's looking at porn cracked me up entirely.