I think FayJay needs minions. Not regular minions, she's got those, but, what, time minions? The ones that can slow time passage down, and let the lady read and write?

I think that would be my superpower of choice, if I was offered one.

Further to this crazy post, may I present another crazy post:

Conversation only this time, post eps Never Leave Me for Buffy and Habeas Corpses for Angel.

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“You again?”

“Me again.”

“What happened to your chest?”

“Minions of darkness. Your neck?”

“Stake.”

“Some guy missed? I’d have thought you were hard to miss, but…”

“Shut up, Spike.”

“What’s brought this mood on, then?”

“How can you be so cheerful?”

“Well, now the Hellmouth’s open, I figure Buffy’ll be along soon, searching the basement and rescuing me and whatnot. She seems very set on looking after me these days.”

“Lucky bastard.”

“I though you were all into the Cordelia chick these days.”

“Yeah. And she’s into Connor.”

“What? Your son?”

“Yeah.”

A pause.

“Into meaning, what, exactly? Into ‘looking after’ or into…”

“Into having sex with.”

“Ah. That’s… weird. I mean, I knew Drusilla got off on all the ‘daddy’ stuff, but I didn’t reckon on it running in the family quite that way.”

“Neither did I.”

“Still, you’ve always got me, yeah?”

“Yeah.”

Oh, hurrah, Elena, I'm so glad you liked it!

I found that I was unconsciously trying to write for Sir Ian's voice-as-Magneto, which really was quite something. (The voice, I mean.) I tend to work in first person, so trying for something more third-omniscient and yet true to the character was a fun challenge.

I remember seeing a film about the Holocaust where a camp survivor more or less says (in translation, and modified by the dim memory capacity of my brain): "Nobody who survived the camps was nice." Even if you went in as an ordinary decent human being, the margin of survival was so slim that if you didn't learn to take actions like rat-finking out your bunkmates or stealing food from the dying or volunteering to be a Sonderkommando ("This way to the showers. No, no, this is the ordinary procedure, nothing to worry about."), you would end up dead in the short or the long run.

Anyway, yeah, the comics canon had Erik and Magda breaking out at one point (and there's an interesting plot bunny in what would have happened had they turned left instead of right and ended up in East Germany or whatever), but I'm pretty much shrugging and supposing that the movie universe is separate enough that I'm not going to fuss over it... besides, it was such a good image that I couldn't resist when it sprang into my brain. :-)

And FayJay -- how pleased I am that you liked it, since you were the one that de-hutched the plot bunny! A big MWAH to you.

Am, BWAH!

I do love your back and forths with the Boys in the Basement.

Am-Chau, that's lovely! And could so easily be a mutual hallucination or a singular one on either side. Loved the "Didn't expect it to run in the family" bit. Damn my not being independently wealthy so I could run a commune where we'd all just write, then run around showing stuff to each other.

deb, connie, thank you. I'm glad they're enjoyed. (And it's so easy to write!)

I smell a set of them coming on through this season, given the way things are shaping up.

Damn my not being independently wealthy so I could run a commune where we'd all just write, then run around showing stuff to each other.

Note to self: Win lottery or persuade millionaire to become a Buffista.

most definitely enjoyed, thanks Am.

I think FayJay needs minions.

t koff

Just a little snippet. Came to me in a dream. Really. Just thought I'd share in hopes y'all could help me write a real Buffy fic, at least once. It's rough.(My subconcious writes sloppily.) Kennedy has always known she is different.From the time she was seven and served so hard during a tennis lesson she broke the instructor’s nose, she knew she was strong. The next year, she started training with a Watcher, slowly at first. Even the Council is not immune to her family’s power and influence.At thirteen, she finds another way she is different when she gets her first kiss from a girl

In the intervening five years, she has made her way through a number of relationships and broken a few hearts. For someone so young, she is already used to getting what she wants, and that’s what’s on her mind when she tries to tempt Willow to the Bronze.

Sure, the magic thing is freaky, but Willow is so beautiful, and Kennedy doesn’t want to face the First and the end of the world without someone to love, if only for a minute. At eighteen, she’s already given up on love that lasts

erika, very nice. You make me interested in Kennedy's POV, which the show really doesn't. Will you expand it?