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Drum roll. Here it is, the final part of my WIP of many years. Can't tell you how relieved I am. I think I may have had problems letting go (stories are so like children), because the chapter got longer and longer. Ordinarily, I'd say "murder your darlings", but I think in fanfic it's okay if there's a lot of angsty dialogue and not much else. ;) So, yeah, this could have been shorter, but I have to go with Mark Twain here: I honestly don't have the two years it would take to make this shorter. :D

Anyway, if you've been reading this from the beginning (and are still here): Thank you for your patience. If you're new to this: Fasten your seatbelt for a little roadtrip.

ENJOY!

TITLE: Broken English Part 18
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: R (finally!)
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics) - vaguely references the arc of the comics but goes AU; set in Germany
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru
Sorry, unbeta'd.
PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17

( Part 18 )

This is the penultimate chapter. Yay!

TITLE: Broken English Part 17
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: R (finally!)
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru
Sorry, unbeta'd.
PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16

( Part 17 )

After this chapter there will only be two more installments, I think. The next chapter is tricky, the last one is not.:)

TITLE: Broken English Part 16
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru
Sorry, unbeta'd.
PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15

( Chapter 16 )

Current Mood: creative

And my little G/E road movie/dreamspace journey continues... this time we catch a glimpse of the past....
Only a short update, sorry, but the dialogue in the next section still needs a bit of polish

TITLE: Broken English Part 15
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru
Sorry, unbeta'd.
PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part12, Part 13, Part 14

( Chapter 15 )

Finally. A new chapter.

TITLE: Broken English Part 12
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru
Sorry, unbeta'd.
PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11

( Chapter 12 )

Current Mood: jubilant

Crossposted to open_on_sunday
I am so out of practice, when it comes to writing in English, and my memory of the show is getting hazier, but I thought: Let's try a little drabble anyway...
Set during S2.
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Earning Giles’s forgiveness was harder than turning lead to gold. Ethan knew, he’d tried both.

Trying to blow Giles after Randall’s funeral had been a mistake, he knew that now, but it’s not like Ethan had had any experience saying sorry. He’d never wanted, never needed anyone’s forgiveness before. He’d considered himself a free man: free to go where chance took him, without looking back.

How do you say you’re sorry to a man who cannot bear the sight of you?

You don’t.

All you can do is treat every punch, every kick, as the caress that might have been.

Current Mood: nostalgic

Another lucky find! I love love love Ethan stories about his time in Initiative custody.
This one is terrific. No surprise there, after all it was written by Indri.
http://www.notanothersite.com/indri/vamerica.html

Ethan-ficathon Masterlist

I'm sorry about the long wait. Although I tinkered with the chapter almost every day, I never made real progress until this morning. The last two weeks were both busy and lazy. I took time off, the kids were at home, we made a few trips, played computer games. Anyway, the next part is almost finished. I hope it won't take me long to update.

TITLE: Broken English Part 8
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru

PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

( Part 8 )

Ethan-ficathon Masterlist
After a long wait, here it is, the next part. Expect the next update on Friday or Saturday.

TITLE: Broken English Part 7
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru

PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

( Part 7 )

Ethan-ficathon Masterlist

After a long wait, here it is, the next part. Expect the next update on Friday or Saturday.

TITLE: Broken English Part 6
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru

PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

( Part 6 )

Ethan-ficathon Masterlist

Here it is, the promised longer chapter. :-)

TITLE: Broken English Part 5
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru

PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

( Broken English - Part 5 )

My Ethan-ficathon story finally continues...
Only a very short update today, more a teaser than an actual chapter, but I wanted to let you know that I haven't abandoned this story, even if I posted a Spander fic yesterday.... Anyway, the next chapter is almost finished. If only I could stop tinkering... Hee.

Ethan-ficathon Masterlist

TITLE: Broken English Part 4
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: will eventually be R
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR:

spikendru

PREVIOUS PARTS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

( Boken English - Part 4 )

*chuckles.* I know, it's evil to stop there. But you shouldn't have to wait long for the next update. I have four hours of writing scheduled for tomorrow morning. :-)

Current Mood: devious

Okay, here it is, the second part of my Ethan-ficathon story. It now has a title. :-)

I'd link to the first part, but thanks to vista and this stupid browser posting interface, I have problems formatting my posts. I should download one of the clients, but I lack the energy right now. Also, the story is unbeta'd. Sorry. Please point out any problems or errors that you encounter.

Masterlist: http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/275193.html?view=2076409#t2076409

TITLE: Broken English (used to be untitled)
PAIRING: Giles/Ethan
RATING: I'm aiming for a slashy R, but the characters might chicken out
SPOILERS: Set after 8x04 The Long Way Home (comics); set in Germany, btw
PROMPT: a vacation or roadtrip, magic, slash
WRITTEN FOR: spikendru

( Part 2 )

This is for

rayne_y_daze who needs cheering up.
It didn't turn out as cheerful as I wanted to make it, but I guess I can only do 'cheerful' once I've gotten past the angst and the hurt.
This is just a standalone scene. I won't promise a sequel, because I don't want to put myself under pressure. My current WIPs are bad enough.

Tentative title: Ice
Giles/Ethan, set now-ish, PG, angst/hope

( Ice )

Okay, this is more or less unbetaed (meaning I changed things after the last time someone else had a look at this). If you find problems, please let me know. I'd like to get rid of mistakes and problems before archiving.

This one is ***complete***
Not another WIP. *Sigh of relief*

Useful Commodities

PAIRING: Anya/Spike (Friendship); Spike/Buffy (implicit); Anya/Xander (implicit)
RATING: PG 13
SPOILERS: Up to BtVS 7x14 “First Date”
SUMMARY: Post-“First Date” – Anya talks, Spike mostly listens…
AN: Will be archived at ffnet and at my site, as usual.

( Useful Commodities )

Once upon a time there was a fledgeling fanfic writer, who discovered the joys of slash quite by accident (thinking that a site called 'Slashing the Angel' surely hosted torture fics, eww!). However, then she came across Pet's Educations series and

mpoetess's "Chocolatey Goodness". What a discovery! Our fledgling writer felt tempted to write some slash fic of her own, just a short X/S fic, nothing fancy, and ended up writing a long series, one she never quite finished, namely:

Let's Talk About Sex

Rating: NC-17 for smut (both her and slash) and language
Pairing: X/S, S/Anya, X/Anya plus (in the pipeline) X/S/Anya

Summary: Vaguely set in a much lighter S6, where Buffy and Spike had sex just once; For Anya's birthday Xander decides to give her a threesome and recruits Spike for the event (wanting the vampire for Anya's pleasure but quickly coming to think of other applications for the blond menace)

Genre/Warnings (for the whole series): AU, comedy, fluff, angst, romance, friendship, some bad jokes, some song lyrics, pot, pop culture, wanking and no Anya-bashing whatsoever - plus everybody is extremely consenting :-)

This was the first smut I ever wrote. My lack of experience shows in the first few chapters, but I think from chapter 5 onwards it's not so bad. I enjoyed writing it and it's irked me for months that I lost impetus so close to the finishing line.

Since then, the story has been nominated in the Candy Store Awards for Best Threesome. I suppose it would be more flattering if the nomination were in any of the other categories, but I'm happy anyway. Besides, there's not much competition in that category. Anyway, the nomination seems to have provided me with a much needed nudge, because I'm really determined now to give this smutty little guilty pleasure a proper ending.

In order to put pressure on myself to finally finish this baby, I'm posting a little peek preview, i.e. a few paragraphs of the chapter I'm currently working on (I should warn you, they will undoubtedly be rewritten somewhat, but to give you a little taste of what's coming, they should suffice):

( This way to the unadulterated smut... um, foreplay )

Current Mood: determined

Do you sometimes write little scenes and then you get jossed or you never write the story that scene was supposed to be part of?
My Post-"Grave" fic never got launched because I was too busy doing other stuff. Funnily enough, some of the things I had planned to write, happened on the show. Not exactly the same way, but on a more abstract level.

For instance, I was absolutely certain that ME would try to totally dismantle Spike's physical sex appeal. I expected them to literally peel him like an onion, to remove layer for layer to eventually enable the other characters (and the not so Spike-infatuated viewers - yes, they exist) to see him for who he is - rather than what he is. I thought they'd start with his looks. That they'd disfigure his face (the lighting in S6 constantly underlined his man/monster conflict by often casting half his face in shadow). I honestly didn't expect them to make him insane and filthy (And what does the fact that I still find him yummy say about me?).

I recently found out that the initial church scene in "Beneath You" had a shot where his face is partly burned by the cross.

I wondered, why Spike looks healed and well (sort of) in the following episode, but I suppose it's for practical reasons: all the aditional make-up uses up an awful lot of time every day and slows down the general shooting schedule.

I must admit, ME surprised me, by dismantling both the crypt set(although in hindsight it makes sense to move Spike from a place of the dead to a place of growth) and the Magic box set.

Which means I won't be needing the little snippet I wrote about the Magic Box. But I'm a hamster kind of person - I never throw anything away. I don't own my things, my things own me.
Sometimes, I can so relate to Anya.

100.000

“Almost 100.000 bucks?“ Buffy exclaimed, squinting at Anya’s notepad.

“It would have been more if Xander hadn’t done some of the repairs free of charge,” Anya informed her helpfully.

“100.000 bucks,” Buffy repeated in awe. Part of her mind was busy imagining the pile of clothes and shoes that kind of money could buy, before guiltily applying her imagination to more immediate financial problems, like the mortgage on the house and Dawn’s college fund.

“And you’re saying you expect Willow to cough up this kind of money?”

“Absolutely,” Anya said firmly. “Dawn had to give back what she stole and work off her debts, why should Willow get away with her orgy of destruction?”

“But 100.000 bucks? No way is she ever gonna have that kind of money,” Buffy said dubiously.

“She can pay it back in easy monthly instalments,” Anya explained cheerfully, pointing at the figures. “She should start paying off Giles’s half. After all he’s mortal and doesn’t have many years left in him. Unlike me. I can wait. I’ll charge interest, of course, but at a humane rate.”

“I’m sure she’ll be pleased to hear it,” Buffy said.

She opened a cardboard box and started to put various scented candles into the shelf.

“I didn’t know the stuff was worth that much.”

“The books she sucked dry, they’re the largest lump. Some of them were quite rare. Some were Giles’s private property, but I don’t see why he shouldn’t be compensated for the loss. It’s not like they were insured against evil witchcraft.”

“Why don’t we tell the insurance it was theft or vandalism? The shop was insured against that, wasn’t it?” Dawn could be heard, coming up from the basement, carrying a glass jar filled with dried chicken feet.

“Because it wouldn’t be the truth,” Anya simply said. “There, how does it look?” She held up a cardboard sign: ‘Grand Re-Opening – Stock up for the next Apocalypse’

Buffy formed a circle with thumb and index finger. “Perfect, Anya,” she said.

Current Mood: contemplative

Today the writing bug bit me. You know how sometimes a story takes on a life of its own? It happened to me with Perdition Catch my Soul – somehow the characters talked and ranted and hurled abuse, one would have needed a shovel to shut them up. Well, actually, I didn’t use the shovel. I just listened, and wrote down what they said, and when the boys ran out of steam, I sent them off to make up. Meanwhile, I pored over what I’d written. That’s when the hard work began. Where I had to trim, cut and slice. It’s a bit like cooking. You can’t just throw everything you like into the pot, stir and hope for the best…

Anyway, this story has been so much fun. It was supposed to be a little fling on the side, but it’s turned into a full-fledged fatal attraction. My household is a shambles, my hubby neglected, and I’ve got an insane smile on my face. And this potpourri of metaphors has been going on for far too long.

Now all I have to do is find out how to post a link in my brand-spanking new Livejournal.

Perdition Catch my Soul

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Xander/Spike
Rating: NC-17 for slash (sort of), dark imagery, naughty language
Summary: Post-"Beneath You" (7x02) - What if Xander, instead of Buffy had followed Spike to that church...

Perdition Catch my Soul - Part 1
Part 4

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: The sounds of my daughter Viktoria, playing...

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FIC: Broken English - Part 18 - (Giles/Ethan) - R - *** COMPLETE***
FIC: Broken English - Part 17 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 16 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 15 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 12 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
Drabble: Time of Lead (Ethan/Giles - PG)
REC: Ethan versus America (by Indri, PG)
FIC: Broken English - Part 8 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 7 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 6 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 5 - (Giles/Ethan) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 4 (Ethan/Giles) - R
FIC: Broken English - Part 2 (Giles/Ethan) - aiming for R
Ficlet: Ice (Giles/Ethan - PG)
New Spike/Anya fic!
Let's Talk About Sex
Snippet: 100.000
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FIC: Broken English - Part 18 - (Giles/Ethan) - R - * COMPLETE*

FIC: Broken English - Part 17 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 16 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 15 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 12 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

Drabble: Time of Lead (Ethan/Giles - PG)

REC: Ethan versus America (by Indri, PG)

FIC: Broken English - Part 8 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 7 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 6 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 5 - (Giles/Ethan) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 4 (Ethan/Giles) - R

FIC: Broken English - Part 2 (Giles/Ethan) - aiming for R

Ficlet: Ice (Giles/Ethan - PG)

New Spike/Anya fic!

Let's Talk About Sex

Snippet: 100.000

I wish there were more days like this one...

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