Wunnerful!

not like she hopped a bus and changed her name to Jane or something.”

Um, that would be Anne. You know. Because she did, once.

(Done with Plei's encouragement)

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She had been missing for two weeks when the waitress at her favorite diner handed him the note. No name, but looking at her notes during hours of dry-eyed research made her girlishly-rounded scrawl as familiar to him as his own.

The bitter satisfaction of her turning to him for help ("again", Lilah's voice said in acid-honey tones) wasn't marred at all by his guilt at still wanting her in the face of his grief; but changed into something that could, if he didn't stop to examine it too closely, be called happiness.

She didn't answer when he knocked and called her name. Forcing his way through a locked door still made him feel like he was play-acting at being someone competent, but that didn't stop him from doing it.

She was crouched in the corner between the bed and the wall. Her eyes were huge and dark in the gloom of the curtained room. He knelt down to check on her, felt a dark surge of glee as she threw her arms around him. She was cold and shaking as she burrowed into his jacket seeking warmth and comfort; or so he thought right up to the point she pulled his gun from the holster. He felt her face become ridged, but refused to believe it until she met his shocked stare with feral golden eyes.

Okay, I finally have a Buffista place to post my Due South drabble---

"First Sight"

Francesca asked me once if I believed in love at first sight and I do, very much so. Though when I first met Ray I was blinded by deception and misunderstanding. When our case was finished I found myself alone with these truths: my home was gone, Ray Vecchio’s goodbye misunderstood, and I was left alone again. Then I looked at him, this man, this stranger, without trying to prove him a liar or a lunatic and was struck— needwantpurelove —it left me unbalanced. I thought, “I’ll be his friend, I’ll keep him close. I won’t be left behind again.”

I'm loving everything. Deena, I cannot wait to see more of this. And I love how many more ficwriters we have!

I felt inspired by reading all the drabbles to break out of my lurker mode in here and write the gun/note/motel 200 word. I'd like to post it but it is spoilery for BtVS, because I'm a huge old spoiler ho. Can I post it here whitefonted or should I just sit on it? I feel really weird even thinking about posting something in fic with such excellent writers, but there you go. Now I'm gonna his post message real fast before I lose my nerve.

Please don't post a whitefonted NAFDA spoilery story here.

Though I'd love to read it ... later.

Post! Whitefont if spoilery, but post!

edit: Ummm, why not whitefonted?

Apparently, not everyone's browser supports whitefonting, I think.

I just checked, this is a NAFDA thread.

Ummm, why not whitefonted?

Because it's spoilery for BtVS, and that means it can only live in the spoiler thread until it comes to fruit.