A heartfelt recommendation
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winterSome of you may have noticed that there are 260 comments on my last post. 240 of these are me and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.)
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
Date: 2006-03-17 06:32 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 06:34 am (UTC)But seriously, yes, put to bed. Gonna wake up from VK's pov in the morning with ickle vampire clinging on him like he's the best thing ever :D
Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 06:40 am (UTC)Mrrrr. I really don't see what VK's existential angst is all about.
Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 06:41 am (UTC)Herbert's sprawled on the couch upstairs, eyes closed, lsitening to Spike's yells and having a gay old time of it himself ;)
Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 06:50 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 06:52 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 07:01 am (UTC)Meanwhile, I'm a little bogged down in the kidletfic. I'm running out of ways in which a nanny can be unsuitable for a vampire's baby boy...
Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 07:03 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 07:04 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 07:06 am (UTC)Should probably stop listening to Barton as Phantom if I want to think...
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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
Date: 2006-03-17 07:09 am (UTC)...Barton as Phantom? Dammit, I don't have that! :S
Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 07:10 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
Date: 2006-03-17 07:12 am (UTC)Re: and lo, VK winz!1
From:And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:00 am (UTC)“Mm...” he mumbled, trying to lift his hands, but his body felt completely and utterly sated and drained. He heard the soft chuckle and felt the brief brush of lips to his as he drifted into what he assumed was sleep without protest.
Re: And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:03 am (UTC)Now, shall you go back to Dawn-glompage, or straight on to next morning?
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:14 am (UTC)Although I did just have the thought that Dawn going wandering and running into Herbert properly and them having a mutual "you hurt him, I keel you" match ;)
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:22 am (UTC)And gah. I need to glue together all the fragments of today's scene, print them out and carry in my wallet for reading when I'm feeling down :D
Re: And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:25 am (UTC)*flails* You just made me squee and blush like a crazy giddy person, I hope you know :D
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:27 am (UTC)*OMGiconLUV*
...now I really, really want to write Dracula and a young von Krolock being all snarly at each other...
Re: And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:31 am (UTC)(AND YES! YES! YES AND A THOUSAND TIMES YES!)
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Date: 2006-03-17 10:34 am (UTC)(I've done some sketches for the Herbiefic, and they're just so mmmm together. Each is completely fascinated by the other even as he despises him. They bring a new quality to the words, screwed-up relationship.)
Re: And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:38 am (UTC)(EEH! Yay! Can't wait to see it :D Am actually working on sleepy!Dawn and Herbert just now ;))
Re: And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:40 am (UTC)(Gimme once you're done?)
Re: And the last two paragraphs of the scene:
Date: 2006-03-17 10:44 am (UTC)(Naturaly :D Herbie's just wandered into her room without asking permission while she's in the bathroom ;D)
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Date: 2006-03-17 11:09 am (UTC)Those two are getting along like a house on fire, aren't they? :)
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