tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-02-20:2166830Ramblings of an Old Kweer"O General; My General."kerkevik_20142017-01-20T03:32:29Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2014-02-20:2166830:92594Fics for 2017 #004 ~ Spirited Away2017-01-20T03:30:37Z2017-01-20T03:32:29ZBreaking Point: Plaisir d'Amour from Band of Brothers OSTthoughtfulpublic0 <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> TITLE: </b><i><b>Spirited Away </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> AUTHOR: </b><i><b>kerk hiraeth </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> FANDOM: </b><i><b>Buffy the Vampire Slayer (set in the 22'verse) </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> CHARACTERS: </b><i><b>Buffy Summers; Xander Harris; Faith Lehane; Kennedy; Willow Rosenberg; Rupert Giles; Riley Finn & (in abstentia) Olivia, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> LENGTH: </b><i><b>100, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> A/N: </b><i><b>The title is a conscious homage to the creator of one of my favourite films; My Neighbour Totoro; the drabble is dedicated to </b></i><a href="http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self" class="i-ljuser-profile" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 115, 153); display: inline-block; font-family: ProximaNova, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.15px; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px !important; border: 0px !important;"><img class="i-ljuser-userhead ContextualPopup" src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo.gif?v=17080?v=144.4" style="border: 0px !important; image-rendering: pixelated; width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px !important; vertical-align: text-bottom !important;" alt="" /></a><a href="http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 115, 153); font-family: ProximaNova, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.15px; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">red_satin_doll</span></a><i><b> to whom I have long promised a happy ending for her most beloved character, and it is also from her pov. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Xander at least seemed embarrassed at their failure.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Kenn and Will stared at her; making her reflect on an inkling that the wrong word would earn them both a punch.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Faith smirked.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> But she always smirked; her glare returned as her <i>successor</i> left her husband's side and went to the door.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Too smug.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “<i>C'mon in, roller boy,</i>” Faith told Rupert Giles, as Riley manouvered his wheelchair inside.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Ignoring Faith's deliberate barb their old watcher handed her a printed email.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> From Olivia; back in the States.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Their elusive Slayer had somehow smuggled herself into, and out of, Navajo territory.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Heading home.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Goddess watch over us in these dark times,</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O-mCzwV8YIc/Tdakygo73vI/AAAAAAAAFoo/50njULMBvGc/s1600/its_ok_to_be_takei_button-p145907135654739375qdu5_210.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /> Kerk Hiraeth</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kerkevik_2014&ditemid=92594" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-02-20:2166830:91358Fics for 2017 #001 ~ You have to go... when the Black Rabbit calls.2017-01-06T21:14:11Z2017-01-06T21:14:11Zickypublic0 <br /> <b>TITLE: </b><i><b>You have to go... when the Black Rabbit calls.</b></i> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> AUTHOR: </b><i><b>kerk hiraeth </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> FANDOM: </b><i><b>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with honourable nods to Watership Down; General Leia Organa and her RL avatar's mothers most famous musical role in Singin' in the Rain. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> CHARACTERS:</b><i><b> Faith Lehane; Kennedy; Marcie Ross; Rowena; Xander Harris; Buffy Summers; Dawn Summers; Lisa; Olivia; Rupert Giles; Andrew Wells {in spiritus; Richard Adams; Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds} </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> LENGTH:</b><i><b> 156 </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> A/N: </b><i><b>I have lost count of the number of different versions of this I have gone through. The first version had to go because I was so distraught myself; this before I heard the news about Debbie Reynolds, as well as a real life loss close to my heart, that I had gotten two of my Buffyverses intermingled. The word count is very specific; adding the combined ages of Richard Adams; author of the book that changed my life, Watership Down, and Carrie Fisher; who created; not my first, but certainly my most memorable and enduring fictional Hero, Leia Organa. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “<i>O, Embleer Frith!</i>”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Slayers embarked in search of, first him; then her, when the news came in; scant minutes apart. Kennedy and Marcie Ross kept them, discretely, away; under their General's orders.<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_characters#Ren.C3.A9e" title="List of minor Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Renée</a> had absented herself; intent on guarding her <i>not-serious </i>boyfriend, though she let them know Xander was holed up in a geek bar on one of the seedier stretches of the Allegheny.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Buffy herself was with her sister and her <i>wife</i>, Lisa; sitting vigil over various children, while Olivia sat with Giles as the still bedridden<i> Ripper</i> relived his youth endlessly watching Star Wars movies; including a specially delivered copy of the newest one.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Meanwhile Faith; arms about a now doubly-grieving Andrew, looked out over another stretch of the Allegheny and quoted a long-deceased Slayers favourite Watership Down passages.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Occasionally pausing to join him in his tearful renderings of musical numbers, and the Star Wars theme, she somehow kept her own emotions in check.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><br /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “<i><b>O General; my General.</b></i>”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Goddess watch over us all in these dark times, <br /><br /> <img src="https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2012/4-30/xPmYY43n2G-2.png" alt="" /><br /> <br /> Kerk Hiraeth</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kerkevik_2014&ditemid=91358" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-02-20:2166830:84973Fics for 2016 ~ #035 ~ Forged Identities2016-11-20T15:04:56Z2016-11-20T15:04:56ZDesmond Carrington's The Music Goes Round (almost his last show :-( )contemplativepublic0 <br /> This was the second of two fics that I wrote the other night; but has grown from an attempted drabble, into a triple. It wanted to be short, but not as short as I originally thought it to be. <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> TITLE: </b><i><b>Forged Identities </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> AUTHOR: </b><a href="http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self" class="i-ljuser-profile" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 115, 153); display: inline-block; font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.15px; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px !important; border: 0px !important;"><img class="i-ljuser-userhead ContextualPopup ContextualPopup ContextualPopup ContextualPopup" src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo.gif?v=17080?v=143.3" style="border: 0px !important; image-rendering: pixelated; width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px !important; vertical-align: text-bottom !important;" alt="" /></a><a href="http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 134, 179); outline-width: 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.15px; white-space: nowrap;">kerkevik_2014</a> / <img src="https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png" alt="[personal profile] " width="17" height="17" style="vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;" /><b><a href="https://kerkevik-2014.dreamwidth.org/">kerkevik_2014</a> </b></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> FANDOM</b><i><b>: Buffy the Vampire Slayer </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> CHARACTERS: </b><i><b>Faith Lehane; Xander Harris; </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> LENGTH: </b><i><b>300, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> SUMMARY: </b><i><b>How do the characters we know and love continue to deal with the losses; gains and changes in their lives. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b> A/N: </b><i><b>This is set in the femalehusband!verse; where Willow is dead, Kennedy never knew her and Faith and Tara are, at this point in the timeline, now married and parents. They did put the cart before the horse, but I've always believed the horse should have the freedom to decide to what, or whom, it should be tethered. I've also borrowed a character from the comics; only mentioned here, but I liked her, and here she is very much alive. There is also a character mentioned here that jetwolf created for her Series8 continuation <a href="http://www.btvschosen.com/">www.btvschosen.com/</a>, which sadly seems to have died as a result of the much-to-be-cursEd Joss Whedon fanfiction which are the current comics (I love Satsu & Renee though). </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b> The definition of Forged in the title comes from these meanings <a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/thesaurus/forge">en.oxforddictionaries.com/thesaurus/forge</a>, as in the the fire that forges steel; mythical rings etc... </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> X-man was waiting outside Buffy's office when she dropped off her report.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “<i>Why do you even patrol?</i>”<br /> He watched her from the door; thought about telling him where to go, but he didn't wait for her.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “<i>You have a family now,</i>” and she followed his gaze to the new framed photo above her desk; her, Tara and the baby the day she'd given birth. Faith felt an unfamiliar sensation at that.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Heart tightening, she pushed past him and strode down the corridor to the coffee machine in the Commissary.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> He followed.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Of course he did; man had he cornered, morally, having helped her deliver her child... and because of what she'd nearly done to him. He could be like a dog with a bone about things like that.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Chrissie had also had a crush on him when she'd first arrived; never become a lover, like Renee; mostly because the X-Man always remembered when she was twelve.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> How could she explain to him that she needed to kill the demons herself; before Kennedy got here. Not that anyone would blame her, but Kenn had responsibilities that didn't allow for personal revenge.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> She would always be a Slayer even so, and Chrissie had been one of her first trainees; only her being thirteen had mitigated against her following Kenn to London all those years ago. She'd done Kennedy proud though; buying her own trainees the time they needed to escape.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> He watched her preparing two cups of coffee; grunted and went off to make his trademark; near-as-fuck Fenway Dogs he'd created for her thirtieth birthday.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Watching the coffee dripping she wondered how to explain, so he'd understand.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Then something Buffy had told her many years ago came to mind; back before the Great Sundering, which had nearly killed them both.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> “<i>It's who I am,</i>” she told him when he returned.<br /> They dined in silence.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Goddess preserve us in these dark times,</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O-mCzwV8YIc/Tdakygo73vI/AAAAAAAAFoo/50njULMBvGc/s1600/its_ok_to_be_takei_button-p145907135654739375qdu5_210.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Kerk(evik) TehKek Hiraeth</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kerkevik_2014&ditemid=84973" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-02-20:2166830:54459Fics for 2015 #081 ~ Birthday Series for elisi #7. "When a Man Loves a Woman."2016-01-01T02:16:15Z2016-01-01T02:16:15ZOnly the Lonely by Roy Orbisoncreativepublic1 <br /> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">This is the seventh in a ten-part series of drabbles, originally intended for <a href="http://elisi.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self" class="i-ljuser-profile" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 115, 153); display: inline-block; font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.15px; line-height: 19.6px; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important;"><img class="i-ljuser-userhead ContextualPopup ContextualPopup ContextualPopup ContextualPopup" src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo.gif?v=17080?v=134.5" style="border: 0px !important; image-rendering: pixelated; width: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 1px 0px 0px !important; vertical-align: text-bottom !important;" alt="" /></a><a href="http://elisi.livejournal.com/" class="i-ljuser-username" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 134, 179); font-family: ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.15px; line-height: 19.6px; white-space: nowrap;">elisi</a>'s birthday three years ago. That plan got derailed halfway through, but I've recently been able to recover my original ideas and now plan on posting all ten tonight.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>TITLE: </b><i><b>“When a Man Loves a Woman.” </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>AUTHOR: </b><font color="#007399"><b> <a href="http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self"><img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo.gif?v=17080?v=134.5" name="graphics1" align="BOTTOM" width="19" height="19" border="0" alt="" /></a></b></font><a href="http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/" target="_self"><font color="#007399"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt">kerkevik_2014</font></font></span></font></a><b> </b></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>CHARACTERS: </b><i><b>Faith; Xander, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>PAIRING: </b><i><b>Faith/Xander; </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>WORD COUNT: </b><i><b>100 </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>A/N: </b><i><b>“You only love </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>when you love in vain. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>Try another radio probe </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>when ten have failed, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>take two hundred rabbits </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>when a hundred have died: </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>only this is science. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>You ask the secret. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>It has just one name: </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>again. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>In the end </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>a dog carries in his jaws </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>his image in the water, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>people rivet the new moon, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>I love you. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>Like caryatids </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>our lifted arms </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>hold up time's granite load </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>and defeated </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>We shall always win. </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>(Ode to joy by Miroslav Holub) </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Part Seven: </b><i><b>“When a Man Loves a Woman.” </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“T<i>hink a good fuck will help?</i>”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Faith was pissed.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“<i>I never asked that of you.</i>”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">She fell quiet for a second; then swore under her breath.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">He took her hand; kissing it. “<i>I can't love you both?</i>”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">She didn't pull her hand from his; but she did search his expression.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“<i>You love her more than me?</i>” Which he'd never denied; his eventual response surprising her.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“<i>And for a lot longer,</i>” adding, before she could answer that, “<i>You love Buffy as much as I do.</i>”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Faith nodded ruefully, for this she could not deny either.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Matter settled, they made love.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Goddess watch over us all,</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><img src="http://hexenkurier.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Parole-Its-OK-to-be-Takei.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Kerk TehKek </p><br /><br type="_moz" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kerkevik_2014&ditemid=54459" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2014-02-20:2166830:54239Fics for 2015 #080 ~ Birthday Series for elisi #6. "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay."2016-01-01T00:54:04Z2016-01-01T00:54:04ZMain Theme from Band of Brothers OSTcontemplativepublic0 <br /> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">This is the sixth of a ten-part drabble series set in the 22'verse, and originally intended for <font color="#007399"> <a href="http://elisi.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self"><img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo.gif?v=17080?v=134.5" name="graphics1" align="BOTTOM" width="19" height="19" border="0" alt="" /></a></font><a href="http://elisi.livejournal.com/" target="_self"><font color="#007399"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt">elisi</font></font></span></font></a> 's birthday three years ago. Lost my way when it was half completed, but recently I was able to find my way back and finish the journey. This is then the first of that second half, so long delayed.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>TITLE: </b><i><b>“Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.” </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>AUTHOR: </b><font color="#007399"><b> <a href="http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/profile" target="_self"><img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/userinfo.gif?v=17080?v=134.5" name="graphics2" align="BOTTOM" width="19" height="19" border="0" alt="" /></a></b></font><a href="http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/" target="_self"><font color="#007399"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="ProximaNovaSemibold, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt">kerkevik_2014</font></font></span></font></a><b> </b></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>CHARACTERS: </b><i><b>Xander; Buffy, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>WORD COUNT:</b><i><b>100, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>A/N: </b><i><b>“The power of the night, the press of the storm, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>The post of the foe; </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>Yet the strong man must go.” </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i><b>(Prospice by Robert Browning) </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Part Six: </b><i><b>“Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” </b></i></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Xander sat down beside Buffy; silently joining her in contemplating the fishermen landing their catches. He wanted to ask how she was doing, but changed his mind when she gently rested her head on his shoulder.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">They both understood that she was handling Spike's death, but didn't want to talk about it just now. Not that they talked much these days; he was simply here for an old friend if she did want to talk.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">They talked about his marriage to Faith some; other simple things, until the sun eventually went down, then he left her alone and went off to find his wife.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Goddess watch over us all,</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><img src="http://www.frostcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/takei.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Kerk TehKek</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> </p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kerkevik_2014&ditemid=54239" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments