(writer signing on, but she's getting a drink.)

Hey, hey. I pop in for a minute and here I see Plei fic! Buffy doesn't have to be dead, because the Slayer line goes through Faith. I do hope we hear about how Faith died. And I really, really want to know what's going on with Xander. Oh, and I think that Wesley should call Giles at some point. For whatever reason.

Plei,

He repeated what the police had said almost verbatim, including their mention of Leigh's had claim that she'd seen the man escape.

I think that this need either more or fewer words (mention of Leigh's claim or that Leigh had claimed).

I think that this need either more or fewer words (mention of Leigh's claim or that Leigh had claimed).

Okay! So noted in the log.

I'm not sure if there's been a beta pass since I totally restructured the first part of the second part. I mean, not counting my "Hmm... what the fuck have I written so far?" re-read, which had more to do with Angel than with that scene.

I'd offer to beta, but I'm not home for another 10 days or so. I'm just lucky I have a computer here.

::cough::Icanbeta::cough::

When I have more of it done, I will send it to you, Elena, and s.a., not to worry.

Ple - -that was lovely. Can't wait for more.

Guess what! I'm writing S4!Faith. I'm not exactly sure what happened. I blame Laura Shapiro's vid. Also, Hoa Nguyen's poem "Out". It feels weird to start with a title and have to write from there-- I mean *have* to, the phrase was gnawing at me-- because I usually would rather chew off my own arm than think of a title for my story.

[SO FIRST-DRAFTY IT HURTS]

[after she scrambles up over the wall on campus]

Legs pounding, feet hitting nice and solid against the pavement and Faith can remember a time when she wasn't this fast. She can conjure up the ache of drawing breath after a hard [run], or what it felt like to twist an ankle and fall while running, but only if she really concentrates on it. And who wants to do a thing like that? Right now her muscles are working, she's moving smooth and strong, she can feel the little twist in her back as she turns a corner onto the next street. Spent eight months in a coma and she wakes up all ready to go, not even the ghost of stiffness or a single crick in her neck. Slayer powers, gotta love them.

Yeah, she used to be weak. But then she turned eleven and when she woke up on her birthday and stood up and stretched it was like hello, good morning, world sliding from black and white into technicolor. And sure, fine, she was like Dorthory out of Kansas, every year she got stronger and when she was sixteen she threw her mother across the room and broke one of her ribs, though she hadn't even been trying, and then a year later there was that crazy woman with the accent who kept telling her what to do. Then Kakistos, and Sunnydale, and she had almost been happy there, almost been getting into the whole white-hat scene-- living in a cheap motel room and watching B moon over her big, broody, lump-of-soul-and-undead muscle boyfriend until Faith was itching so hard to dust him that sometimes she felt her fingers creeping around her stake before she was even aware of it. But jealousy and ugly rooms were nothing she hadn't learned to live with, and sometimes, fighting next to B or blowing off Wesley or sitting in the library with the gang researching the next harbringer of doom, Faith felt something unfamiliar, something warm and tight in her chest, and maybe it was happiness. But that was all before a man in a dark alley bleeding from his chest, and it all ended up with B's sweet face set grim and pale as she stabbed her with her own knife on the roof of some goddamn building. And then the sleep. And then the months and months of dreams.

Oh, she was going to kill B.

[more later]

cereal:

All right. Yes. t smacks self I had a reason for posting. What's the address of the Summers home? Some something Revello Drive? Am I spelling that right? I can't find it in the scripts.

'harbinger' not harbringer. Otherwise no quibbles. Keep going!