Fic: Glimpses

[freecat15]

Yay, early Seasonal Spuffy kick-off! And what do you know, the next glimpses already lying around on my computer are School Hard ones :)

As these are just glimpses into their heads (and hearts) throughout the series, you really don't need to read the first chapters posted here in May. Again unbetaed due to spontaneity.
Also, I have no idea how to hide something under a cut on DW. It's short enough that I hope it's okay to post without cut.

Thanks so much to the mods for keeping this so very much alive (and dragging me back in)!
So, here goes:


Title: Glimpses
Author: freecat15
Era: Season 1 - 7 (this chapter: S2)
Rating: PG13
Summary: Glimpses into the story of a Slayer and a Vampire. A series of drabbles along the series, each of which can be read as stand-alone; sometimes two build a unit, as is the case here
Word Count: 2 x 100


 
So that’s her. The newest her.
She’s remarkable.
How she moves! There’s power behind that swing of her hips.
She’s different from the others, more intense, somehow. And how her little pals flutter around her, basking in her light. That’s new, a slayer with friends.
She’s glowing. He can feel her brightness like her power seeping into him, even far away, there in the dark. And how her skin glistens, just like her eyes.
She’s beautiful. He really wants to dance with her.
Soon she’ll be his.
He wonders if he’ll feel the fire in her when he touches her.

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She knows it from the moment he steps out of the shadow, applauding her for her fight - this vampire is dangerous.
He emanates energy like none of the others ever have. He seems more alive than some humans she knows, and isn’t that just weird?
Somehow she can’t lift her eyes from him, it’s like they are the needle to his north pole. And suddenly she’s aware that the hairs at the nape of her neck are standing up and her stomach does a strange flippy thing.
She’s not scared of him, though.
Maybe that’s why he’s so dangerous.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Hi, I'm going to comment properly later, but just a heads up: I'm about to remove the adult content setting from this post, because it seems it was messing with the link for people who aren't logged on to Dreamwidth.

[freecat15]

Oh. It wasn't intentionally set on adult content. I thought 'default' setting meant no restriction like at LJ; I should've checked though...DW confuses me.

I don't know if you already changed anything from your mod side, but when I checked just now it was still set on default - I changed it to 'no restriction.

Thanks for the heads up :)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I know. For some reason we have the whole community set on NSFW and all the posts by default, too... *rolls eyes*
Thank you, no restriction is good! I just double-checked, and the post opens without logging in now.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Okay, I'm back. It's so good to see you! *hugs* I'm glad you keep letting yourself be dragged back into the fandom...

"The newest her." Ohhh, he means the newest Slayer, doesn't he. But for Spike, there's always a *her*. <3 That's how I read it at first. (Of course, he doesn't know that part yet! ^^)

I love how they're both aware of the power in each other and they immediately see each other as different from the other Slayers/vampires. *ships hard*

"And suddenly she’s aware that the hairs at the nape of her neck are standing up and her stomach does a strange flippy thing." Guh, yes. He's dangerous, and I, for one, am excited... :D

"He really wants to dance with her.
Soon she’ll be his." Gotta love that vampy blurring of the lines between violence/death and romance/sex. *g*

[freecat15]

Thanks for the warm welcome back *hugs back*! I'm happy to be here again, and hope I will be more often!

You (again!) picked up on everything that was important to me, even the slight double entendre of 'her'.

Gah, there was so much tension from the very beginning between them, and they were both so very special for what they were (slayer and vampire) - it was so obvious he was her counterpart in every way, it's absolutely and totally unbelievable that Spike was intended to just -- go away after a few episodes! I'm sure though that a huge part of that was how SMG and JM acted.

I'm glad I had these two glimpses already sitting on my computer so that I could participate at least in this wonderful pre-SS :) Thanks for that special, it was a brilliant idea!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Yes. It was mostly Rebcake and Gillo's idea, I just kinda prodded it to life when the execution kept not happening.