Fay, I know I've been watching too many zombie movies lately, but the second sentence made me think you were writing some sort of crossover, where the body was dead and the animal spirit inhabited/animated it.

The rest of it is wonderful. You have such a lovely way with sensuous language, and the characters feel right to me.

Because I can't say no to Fay...a continuation. I was surprised by the Faith/Claire vibey-ness...this may end up being femmeslash.

Even after her embarrassing reception in the back, Faith didn’t leave. Claire was, like, monumentally relieved. She would hate for her friend to find out how much of her cool was bullshit. She needed to hang out with a girl, no, woman, that if somebody called her Toe Suck Girl would be all “Hey! What the fuck are you looking at?” and not care at all. Yeah. That was bitchin’. And the fact that she made David turn green? Such a bonus.

But she still wasn’t prepared for this. “So, C, who’s the muffin?”

“Excuse me?” Even though she bitched about them, Claire supposed she’d gotten used to Fisher lead-ins to conversations like that.

“Well, you know, there was a gay guy and a stiff...who was the other one?”

“Don’t say anything about David being gay, okay? My mother doesn’t know.”

“How long has your mother been blind?”

“Since ever...my brother Nate? A muffin? Really?”

“Well, yeah. But I guess it would be Appalachian of you to notice. But there is one test I always use.” And before Claire knew what was happening Faith made...one of those kind of faces and said “Oh, Nate, harder. Faster. Oh, yes, oh God that’s good!”

Claire cracked up laughing.No, this was definitely not a Fisher.

“He passes. Definite muffinage.”

Claire was quiet for a minute. Despite the squick factor of thinking of Nate having sex(Which was kind of alarmingly frequent being that Brenda thought leaving the door open was free and open, instead of like, rude, and maximum TMI.) she found herself compelled by Faith’s imitation. Great, she thought, I either dig incest or...Toe Suck Girl is bi.

Erika, I don't know the show, but you've got Faith's voice down. That's awesome.

Thanks. I think it's the noir in me. (If you did know that show, you'd know I set off a hand grenade in their house. A hand grenade in leather pants.)

Well, the body was dead, and while it lay Buffyishly cooling Fitz's spirit has been cohabiting a wolf's body and is pretty much totally in wolf mode now that it's moved back in. So the effect is exactly what I intended. Cool.

Erika, this is splendid.

Thanks, glad you like it. Feeling the girl-on-girl this early in a story is new for me, although I thought there was a vibe between Joyce and Kay in that make-up thing, but for the most part that was metaphor.

Claire/Faith seems like such an obvious femmeslash pairing I'm surprised it never occured to me.

Good show.

I knew Claire would be attracted to Faith as she is Danger-Seeker Girl...I'm just surprised that "attracted" means porn. Or will. Maybe I'm channelling some slasher right now, AIFG.(Or maybe I just thought it would please the lovely Pandarus.) Thanks, Nova, good to hear as I mostly write het or gen...and I've only seen one season's worth of SFUs. So I'm a little insecure about my ability here.

The show gets worse after the first season. In my opinion. I gave up about 2/3 of the way through season 2.

OK, worse as in "more self-indulgent?" Because despite liking the characters, I have noticed kind of a congratulatory streak in the writing sometimes. The actors are all very good, though. (Hec should visit the Mrs. Convince her to go short.)