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Summary: Rewrite of season 1 with Giles as the Big Bad.
Master List for In a Corner of My Soul (previous chapters / scenes)

( Giles found himself clambering after Buffy through a chain link fence. What the hell had he been thinking, allowing Rupert to follow Buffy into such an obvious trap? Not that he could allow her to go alone, obviously. “Buffy, could we have at least tried a less surreptitious approach?” )

Title: Could It Be Magic
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 476 - Siddha
Rating: PG
Summary: Another chapter for Shanshu
Word Count: 1271
Note: Since Angel's getting what he wants, I took the title from Barry Manilow. How do you think Buffy will react when Angel wants to see Manilow's show on their Vegas honeymoon?

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( Spike could remember loving Buffy, but he couldn't quite work out why he'd loved her. Looking back, it seemed like an addiction, loving the worst thing for him. Dru had been like that too, not good for him. First off in the killing and turning and then by invoking his jealousy with her Daddy issues. Millay hadn't been bad for him. He'd loved her. They'd had passion with no dysfunction. Maybe that was a human trick, loving well. Maybe he'd forget how to love wisely, if he survived the spell. )

Title: When You Have Neither
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 475 - Titanic
Rating: PG
Summary: Another chapter for Shanshu
Word Count: 2470
Note on scene title: When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. - Al Gore

( Millay didn't argue when Xander and Dawn had commandeered one of the vans so they could return to LA immediately. Anything that got her to Will sooner was okay in her book. The Slayers were staying to close the Hell-thingy, assuming there even was a Hell-thingy, but Millay had seen the creatures that had climbed out of the crater. Those monsters would put even Nosferatu to shame. She'd also seen them turn to dust when killed. If Hell-thingys did exist, then the more people making sure they were properly closed the better, but Xander said the Slayers had it covered and that was good enough. Millay might not believe in Hell-thingys and vampires, but she did believe in Will, who might or might not be in LA. If he was, she wanted to be there with him. )

Title: Thirteen Moons
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 474 - Cheerful
Rating: PG
Summary: Another chapter for Shanshu
Word Count: 1955

( They'd driven to the magic shop. Of course driving was faster, but that wasn't the real reason they'd taken the car. The things Angel had said he do if they left him behind, well, Willow hadn't even known you could do that with a leg, even if it was detached. )

Check out the Angel & Death Nuns covers. Cooool!

Title: Big Rico's Pizzeria
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 462 - Magnum Opus
Rating: PG
Summary: Another chapter for Shanshu
Word Count: AO3 says it's 1377; fanfic.net lists it ast 1381; Open Office (which I know is wrong) as 1432
Note: The end is in sight. I've been plotting out my future scenes. Two to three more months unless I start adding scenes.

( “Let me get this straight.” Buffy had taken the centermost of the three leather chairs in Andrew's office. After listening to Angel whine all the way from Rome, she wasn't about to be stuck on the couch with him except that wasn't a problem. Even after the shades had been drawn down, Angel wouldn't enter the office. Fine, if he wanted to brood by the door, he could just do that. “Not only is Spike missing, but Willow has been grabbed by somebody, Xander just got out of jail, and Andrew has vanished.” )

This is a birthday present, if I remember correctly for Niki1988. The request was season 3, Angel proposes to Willow.
Rating: Worksafe (probably overal but at least for now)

( “Gee, patrolling Jurassic Park. What fun.” The branch, hanging across her path, was heavy with lush dark leaves. As she pushed it up and out of her way, Buffy wished she hadn't been drawn back to Angel's mansion. It wasn't like a bunch of demons would be skulking in its gardens. Okay, Spike, Drusilla, and Angel. Angelus that is. Angelus had set up home in the mansion but … But nothing. There was nothing here for her anymore and the sooner she figured that out, the better it'd be. She didn't need to be here. She should stick to cemeteries. )

Title: Kokopelli
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 459 - Kokopelli
Rating: PG
Summary: Another chapter for Shanshu
Word Count: 984

( She didn't go find Wes but she did move off by about fifty feet, far enough away that she couldn't hear Angel grumble, but she stupidly looked back long enough to see that he'd gone into a major brood-fest which was, of course, why she hadn't shut him up sooner. As she raised her eyes to the giant screen hanging one level up and showing an ad for The Sound of Music, Buffy thought about how Spike would have handled the sitch. Spike wouldn't have cared. Instead of bitching all the way from Rome to LAX, he'd have been busy making lewd suggestions about joining the mile high club or playing the innocent with the stewardesses while his hand stroked up Buffy's thigh. She could almost feel Spike's eyes on her. The way he used to look at her, it went beyond adoration. It was like he was gazing at the Holy Grail or something, which was sort of creepy given the whole religiousness of that image. )

I've been playing around with rewriting some of my shorter stories. The variants of this story can be found on AO3.

He'd follow Darla anywhere – oh, but you're a pretty thing – even into a dark alley, even when he knew he shouldn't shut his eyes, even when he knew he should run like Hell.

He didn't think twice when she'd offered him the dark-haired gypsy girl, even when the lass' curses had rained down like a flood from Heaven itself. Curse me? Ah, but you’re a stupid thing. Can’t you see I’m already cursed?

He'd follow Darla anywhere, even into the worst mistake he could make. What kills you makes you stronger, not smarter.

Title: Gives Me the Willies
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 445 - Firebrand
Rating: PG
Summary: Part 14 of Shanshu
Word Count: 840

( So, the new and improved dive, looking not that different from the old dive. )

Title: Rescue
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 442 - Sidekick
Rating: PG
Summary: Part 11 of Shanshu
Word Count: 1882
Note: After taking a gander at Sparrow2000's process, I decided to write my dialogue first and add details and descriptions later. As I was writing the dialogue, I realized I needed to start this scene earlier and so the dialogue I first wrote doesn't start until Xander calls.

( Angel had been taken and, even though it'd been less than a day, it seemed to Buffy as if the sun had vanished with him. The shadows had deepened as if the light wasn't strong enough to hold the dark back. The trees that had been full of buds – just yesterday, hadn't it been – now raised stark branches to a dreary sky, branches that held tightly to their few desiccated leaves as if those tiny bits of unlife could survive the ravages of winter. )

Fandom: BtVS
Prompt (Open on Sunday): Episode Titles - The Zeppo
Summary: If Dr. Seuss had written "The Zeppo"

( As Xander is wondering What it means to be cool, His uncle's old car Leads him straight to a ghoul. )

Title: Bad Eggs and a Vamp in a Hat
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt from Open on Sunday: Episode Title - Bad Eggs
Summary: If the episode Bad Eggs had been written by Dr. Seuss
Rating: G

( As the mall is closing, No streetwalker dress, A fight in the arcade, And a Calling to confess. )

Title: Shanshu
Chapter: 1 - Love's Bitch
Fandom: BtVS
Characters: Spike, Buffy, Angel
Rating: PG
Summary: Spike shanshu's because of his sacrifice in "Chosen."
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but they will be ... once I've taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha.
Note: Written for a prompt from Pickamix's adopt a plot bunny post: Spike shanshu's because of his sacrifice in "Chosen." I don't know where this story is going. I'm writing it as a go, which doesn't necessarily work out well for me, so we'll see. I do know Spike will have amnesia, and idea I got from Lyl's In Another Life. I also belive it will head in a Spillowy direction.
Note: Some of the text taken from the BtVS episodes “First Date” and “Chosen.”
Word Count: 1270

( The house was quiet, finally. All it had taken, to get the quiet, was staying up until three AM. Buffy sat alone on the couch. The lights were on around her. They'd found rooms for everyone – Willow, Xander, Giles, the girls, even Spike – so she wasn't keeping anyone up. Plus she didn't like the dark so much anymore. )

Prompt: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger at Open on Sunday but I changed it a bit.

He’d follow Darla anywhere, even into a dark alley, even when he knew he shouldn’t shut his eyes, even when he knew he should run like Hell.

He didn’t think twice when she led him to the dark-haired gypsy girl. He even grinned at the threats. “My tribe will hunt you down, demon, and curse you. The fires of Hell will lick your skin for all eternity.”

“You are too stupid to live. Don’t you know I’m already cursed?”

He’d follow Darla anywhere, even in to the worst mistake he could make. What kills you makes you stronger, not smarter.

Title: Darkness Unspoken
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: PG
Character: Angel, thinking about Buffy
Concrit: Please, in Comments
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine, not yet, but they will be… once I’ve taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Word Count: 130
Note: The original prompt at Open on Sunday was lack, but apparently I'm the one lacking something: when I tried to recall the prompt I came up with lock.
Note: You may notice a similarity to my story titled Dead Kennedys. The story started taking a different path but I liked both versions.

The steel bars were nothing next to the thin band of light that angled across the floor. His fever rose as that golden beam, impenetrable as a raging wall of fire, inched closer and closer. Heat and light brought hallucination: Buffy outside the cage. She stood facing him but her head turned when he looked up. She wouldn't even catch his eyes.

A great abyss lay between them: the chasm of darkness unspoken. Mere words could never bridge that gap, could never explain the flamboyant pageant that comes from living without caring, without a purpose, without a soul. Buffy could never understand, never forgive, never forget what she could never be told. How could he have ever thought they could have a life together when one of them was dead?

Title: Dead Kennedys
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: PG
Character: Angel
Concrit: Please, in Comments
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine, not yet, but they will be… once I’ve taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Word Count:
Note: The original prompt at Open on Sunday was lack, but apparently I'm the one lacking something: when I tried to recall the prompt I came up with lock.

The steel bars were nothing compared to the thin band angling across the concrete floor. His fever rose as that golden beam of light, impenetrable as a raging wall of fire, inched closer. Heat and light brought hallucination: Buffy standing outside the cage. Just above the bridge of her nose he saw that crinkle, the one she got when he couldn't keep up with her pop references. How was he supposed to know the Dead Kennedys were a band and not a whole family turned demon? Between him and Buffy lay neither locks nor sunlight but an abyss, an impenetrable chasm: centuries of change. He'd thought they could have a life together, that mere words could bridge the gap between them. But this was beyond anything he could ever understand. Who would name a band the dead anything?

Title: Falling
Summary: You remember that episode where, after achieving perfect happiness, Angel loses his soul? Well, there's always been something that bugs me about it. “Bugs!” I said “Bugs”. *cracks up laughing*
Characters: Angelus, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny
Warning: Character death
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine, not yet, but they will be… once I’ve taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Note: Crossover with Warner Brothers cartoons. Can you tell I saw that old Roger Rabbit movie shortly before I wrote this?
Note: crack!fic

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Title: That First Taste of True Fear
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: PG
Summary: Remember that episode where a ghost (The First?) shared his pain with Angel, pain about a scene that Angelus had set up for him (the ghosty guy) to find? Angelus watching that guy find his daughters.
Character: Angelus
Concrit: Please, in Comments
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine, not yet, but they will be… once I’ve taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Word Count: 100
Prompt: Written for a prompt at Open on Sunday: savor

“Girls?” There was a touch of concern in the voice, but no true fear. That would come later.

As their father stood in the doorway and took in the scene – the two girls playing at formal tea – his smile suggested satisfaction, a sense that all was right in the world. It didn't last.

“Mandy? Beth?” Ah, there it was, that first taste of true fear.

The father fell to the floor, grabbed the bodies into his arms, and rocked back-and-forth and back-and-forth. His haunted eyes stared off at nothing. Killing could wait. Drinking in his pain was much more satisfying.

Title: One Last Look
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: PG
Character: Angel
Summary: After that episode when Angel fights with Riley, Angel takes one last look before leaving town.
Concrit: Please, in Comments
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine, not yet, but they will be… once I’ve taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Word Count: 100
Note: Written for a prompt at Open on Sunday: egg/cross
Note: I'm not sure if this tracks exactly with canon. *crosses fingers* and hey! I just worked in the cross prompt as well! Ha ha.
Query: I left it in because it's the prompt, but I'm not sure the “egg on his face” bit works completely. What do you think?

Angel pulled over at the top of the hill. Her rejection still felt like egg on his face, but he couldn't resist one last look.

Riley Finn. Not his fault, none of it his fault, but damn him anyway. What should have been forever had become, to her, nothing more than a flash in the pan, over and done with, better forgotten. Well, two could play at that game. He was done. Let Sunnydale have her.

Leaning against the car, Angel slid to the ground. He couldn't drive off, not yet, not while his eyes were still blinded by tears.

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