BtVS pre-series Fic in ten parts: Promises Made To a Lady #8

Well it's been an adventure to get this ready. Had to rebuild almost from scratch about ten minutes ao when I managed to delete the whole darn thang!

Anyway this is the eighth in the ten-part drabble series set in the buffyverse during WWII. The ten took a very few hours last Sunday to complete; though necessary fact-checking and a realisation that caused a slight change around here meant two parts had to be reworked to avoid, I hope, plot errors.


TITLE: Promises Made to a Lady VIII. Someone to Watch Over Me
AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014
LENGTH: 100
A/N: Now we come to the introduction of the, hopefully, surprise guest stars.

VIII. Someone to Watch Over Me (September 1944)

He followed the watcher easily enough; she made little attempt at hiding.
She just seemed to be meeting with former...
Gustav cursed himself for an idiot when it occured to him she was not behaving as a watcher anymore. Then he got wind of the leech's meeting another, a female; insane spawn of Angelus, and not seen outside Paris since it's fall.
And last week had been the Slayer's eighteenth...
Now they were nowhere to be found...
Without thought Gustav headed straight for where he knew the leech would be.

Spike finished his last Gauloise, smiled, and followed their prey.


May the Goddess watch over us all,
'tis ok to be Takei,
Kerk TehKek

BtVS pre-series Fic in ten parts: Promises Made To a Lady #9

Penultimate episode now; though if this was a TV show, or possibly one of the better movies this would be the last of the main action before the scene the real fans are rewarded with at the denouement.
This was the other part I had to rework a bit to remove the creeping errors that occur when you have to make changes earlier in the story; it remains the case this ten-part pre-series WWII buffyverse story was conceived and written in a few short hours last Sunday afternoon, while I was internet-less and unsatisfied with what I had on my external hard-drive.
Think I should maybe do that more often?


TITLE: Promises Made to a Lady IX. The Trapping of a Mouse
AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014
LENGTH: 100
A/N: Yes the title IS a play on the title of, possibly, British theatre's most-famous play, and Gustav is finally free of his obsession and is about to be a proper Watcher again, or..?

IX. The Trapping of a Mouse (November 1944)

Burnt down weeks ago, the barn was but a shell, but Gustav settled there to plan his next move anyway.
Finally he understood the leeches movements during the Occupaton. It had never intended escaping Dunkerque; killed Emilie. He had trailed it only to let her real killer escape.
There was still a chance the Slayer was alive; there was silence from the Watcher's.
He kicked a scorched pail; verdamnt, he should have...
It had too patriotic...

Spike rose from the corpse; deliciously licking a trail of it's blood from his chin.
Even he wasn't so stupid as to turn him.


May the Goddess watch over us all,
'tis ok to be Takei,
Kerk TehKek

BtVS pre-series Fic in ten parts: Promises Made To a Lady #10

So we reach the final part of this epic ten-drabble world war two buffyverse adventure.
The real stars of the show are revealed; Holmes has found the killer has left the stage and we can look back on how things developed.
Well that, as in the 'masterpost' with all parts in one place will happen next week; partly because I want to give anyone who may happen to be actually reading this a chance to read all parts in situ, but also because I'd like to give myself every chance of exploiting this writing flood I have going on. The 'masterpost' will appear by the middle of next week then.
Comments on each section will be most appreciated; but also when that 'masterpost' appears comments there on the story as a whole will be appreciated in separation as 'twere.


TITLE: Promises Made to a Lady X. Life in Death
AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014
LENGTH: 100
A/N: Christmas here can mean whatever you (the reader) think it means. I would suspect that, to beings of our 'heros' vintage, that would mean the night of the 24th into the 25th of December; it could also cover the period of the traditional twelve days of christmas, or the time from shutting up shop on christmas eve to the conclusion of boxing day. I dare say there are other versions of this out there as well. I know when I think these events occur, but the actual time is of no great importance.
Worth remembering that at this time the now-famous 'Band if Brothers' were surviving the harshest of conditions in the Ardennes holding back Hitler's last gasp gamble to save his Reich. I believe he had gone insane by the time of the final collapse, and at this time was merely deluded as to his and countries situation. The defeat Germany experience over this period of weeks may have sent him insane though.
Was Gustav Frensburg merely deluded during the course of this story, or was his blind obsession a kind of temporary insanity? I know what I think, but what you choose to believe is your own decision.

X. Life in Death (Christmas 1944)

They hosted the Slayer at the villa; south of Versailles, where Dru had hidden during the occupation.
They shared their conquests with her as they made love.
His kills had all been Germans, or their collaborators; hers, with her lack of conscience, had been of any stripe that took her fancy, including Jews attempting to escape the Vichy government.
They were making love again when Spike told her how he'd watch Dru despatch the Slayer in Nineteen-Forty.
Then they fed on her together, though it was Dru who made the kill.
Spike was too much a gentleman to deny her.


May the Goddess watch over us all,
'tis ok to be Takei,
Kerk TehKek