Spike, Lilah: Waving, Not Drowning

Incredibly late. Also it started out dark nasty Spike/Dru/Lilah and in redrafting turned out gen comedy romp, which happens to me quite a bit.

Title: Waving, Not Drowning
Author: Doyle
Pairing: none, though it's kind of Spike/Lilah
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For sallyanne for the Junk Drawer Challenge - she asked for an AU of Crush. The first line is a lift from that episode.

"What about me, Spike?" Harmony wailed, the crossbow weaving erratically in her hands. "You forget about me again? The actual girlfriend, unlike Drusilla and the stupid slayer and -" the weapon found a new target as she narrowed in on the smirking brunette by the Buffy shrine "- I don't even know who you are, but back off of my boyfriend, bitch."
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sadbhyl is looking for nominations for the second round of the Walk With Heroes Awards. It's for non-ship fic, so check out what was nominated last time and go suggest some new stuff.

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My adventures with the Buffy tie-in novels continue apace. Thanks to my local library and a couple of charity shops (for 40p I don't *care* how bad the book is) I have in my grubby paws ( many Buffy and Angel published fanfics )

. That's a stack of paperbacks to go with me to Belfast this week, then.

I've read one chapter of Resurrecting Ravana (by Ray Garton) and it's fairly painful going, what with the stilted, redundant writing.

She slammed the stake into its throat. The hellhound sat up with a startled growl. The stake remained in Buffy's hand... with the silver pointed tip pointing at her. She'd stabbed the hellhound in the throat with the wrong end of the stake.

I love how in the last sentence he recaps what she just did, the fact that it was to a hellhound, and that it was with a stake. Because we wouldn't otherwise know that from the previous two sentences. I'm having flashbacks to Sunset Beach (cue the sound effect of flashbacking)

Seven Crows (John Vornholt) is a book I should like - it's Rileycentric - and at least it acknowledges it completely screws with canon. The preface says it takes place in 'an alternate season 7', by which they mean the summer after Grave, except Angel's not stuck under the sea and Cordelia and Connor... well, so far, they don't seem to exist, but maybe they get a mention later on. Bored with the first couple of pages, I flipped ahead, read the section where Buffy whispers "goodnight, sweet prince" after Angel leaves their motel room, and hurt myself giggling.

These Our Actors - it's centred around Spike and Willow, set in season 5 but with a good chunk of it set prior to Spike's turning. so far, I'm loving it. Fingers crossed.