Ramblings of an Old Kweer

 

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

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

This sixth drabble of the ten-part pre-series buffyverse stories sees us still in the early days of the German retreat in the western theatre; which became a collapse after the abortive Ardennes offensive. When I first wrote this; all of which was done while internet-less in a few short hours on Sunday afternoon, my dates were guesswork. Ultimately I decided to remove a specific date, but the original would have been out by nearly a month.
Still, maybe I should mislay my net access more often...

TITLE: Promises Made to a Lady VI. Trapped by the Hunted (August 1944)
AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014
LENGTH: 100
SUMMARY: We are crossing a rubicon of sorts with this story as characters are learning their roles are not what they thought they were; not that their certainty is any more clearly correct than it had seemed.


Feldwebel Marten Neuwenbeke fell this morning guarding the escape of his German SS comrades from the American forces attempting to entrap them east of Argentan. It is recommended that he be awarded, posthumously, an Iron Cross for...

Gustav Frensburg, had he known, would have been amused at the commendation; cold and bitter smile though it would have been.
He was already too far away. He had seen Watcher and Slayer, headed north toward the Canadians forcing closed the gap between Falaise and Argentan.
He had to stay with her; despite the risk.
They were unaware they were become the hunted.


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

This is the fourth of the ten-part series I wrote in a relatively short few hours on Sunday afternoon while internet-less and unable to find anything to capture my mind on my external hard-drive. All ten parts are drabbles, and were written as I was learning the story myself.
Perhaps I should lose my internet more often...


TITLE: Promises Made to a Lady IV. Eye of the Mountain Dew
AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014
LENGTH: 100
CHARACTERS: Two new ones; a new Slayer; replacing the one who replaced Gustav's lost Slayer, and a Watcher who may, or may not be (in my head), be related to a series canon watcher.

IV. Eye of the Mountain Dew (May 1944)

Whispers out of Watcher Headquarters reached Gustav early in Forty-Four.
He saw the Slayer himself in late May. She was Canadian-Indian, set to hunting the same leech as himself.
He nearly cursed in German on hearing she was going into Utah Beach; try as he might, he had no chance of being attached to her unit.
He had to calm himself with the knowledge that he would be between her and their target, with ample time to intercept them.
Determined to be there when it was dusted; confident of his tracking abilities, he kept his eye on the real prize.


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

This is a pre-series Buffyverse story in ten parts, all drabbles; set during World War Two. Managed to write it all in a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon, because I was tired of scrolling through my external hard-drive.
Really should lose my internet more often...

TITLE: Promises Made to a Lady II. False Freedoms
AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014
LENGTH: 100
CHARs/SUMMARY: see http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/40930.html

II. False Freedoms (June 1940)
http://kerkevik-2014.livejournal.com/41969.html

He watched shoreward as it disappeared over the horizon.
The tiny boat Gustav had been rescued from, sunk by his own people's gunfire.
Its eyes never left him either.
Of that he was certain.
Eyes closed, he could still see it. Too still, and far too heavily bandaged to be anything Human.
Its escape had been prevented; that was some small comfort.
He could still keep his vow.
Gustav thanked his parentage; practicing his rusty Quebecois in his head as he drank the awful englander tea.
Only when it had disappeared entirely did he turn his gaze away from Dunkerque.

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