From: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com (buffyfic-digest) To: buffyfic-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: buffyfic-digest V2 #122 Reply-To: $SENDER Sender: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-buffyfic@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk buffyfic-digest Sunday, April 12 1998 Volume 02 : Number 122 In this issue: BUFFYFIC: "Reunion" (11/?) by Ingrid Re: BUFFYFIC: Repost query... BUFFYFIC: Capeside Stories BUFFYFIC: Within Me (1/1) See the end of the digest for information on (un)subscribing to the buffyfic or buffyfic-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:22:36 -0400 From: ingrid29@juno.com (Ingrid E Stanton) Subject: BUFFYFIC: "Reunion" (11/?) by Ingrid DISCLAIMER: The characters of Angel, Buffy, Cordelia, Willow, Xander, Jenny, Giles & company are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Sandollar Productions, and The Warner Brothers Network, and are used without permission. The author claims no rights to these characters. SUMMARY: Yeah! I’m happy. Today is OFFICIALLY the first day of my vacation!!! That means that this one is kind of an "upper," at least compared to the more recent parts. You’ll like this one. I’ve included some sarcastic humor. Humor? What's humor? Welcome to my story. It takes place ten years into the future, but I’m not telling you what’s happened in advance. I’m going to reveal that as time goes on in the story. I love to get feedback, except when my mailbox explodes, which is often, but send it anyway! My address is Ingrid29@juno.com. If you don’t get this, that’s because you haven’t read the other parts. If you want to get this, ask me for them! ********* "Reunion," by Ingrid Part Eleven: "A Reintroduction" ********* Buffy was getting more and more agitated the closer they got. When they picked up the rental car, she made Angel drive, and she watched the baby in the back seat. She couldn’t stop her hands from shaking. If she were a smoker, this would have been her cue to whip out a pack of cigarettes and perhaps smoke the entire contents at once. But she wasn’t. What the hell was she supposed to do to quell this nervousness- slay a couple hundred vampires? The car crept into the driveway. She could have sworn she saw a snail speeding past. Angel was a judicious driver. Funny. She’d always appreciated it until today. Now she felt like slamming down the gas herself. Buffy decided to take the time to look at her surroundings. What she saw was gorgeous. The whole scene was covered in snow, including the entire landscaped garden. The house was massive, its edifice dwarfing anything that stood in front of it. What was most beautiful of all was a cement fountain, now non-functional and covered with snow, in the shape of a swan. Angel took the baby from her hands as she stepped out of the car, probably afraid she would drop it from the way she was shaking. Steady. Xander and Cordy, that’s all. Absently, she noticed the forest surrounding and isolating the place at the same time. The treeline was dark in contrast with the pure white around them. The air was chill and silent, cutting thoughts abruptly. Something moved in the woods for a moment, and then all was still again. When she made no move to do so, Angel knocked on the door with his free hand. She felt numb. With a flourish, the great door swung open, and a beautiful woman answered. Cordelia, she recognized immediately, and flashed her a stupid grin. She’d obviously dressed for the occasion, looking almost as nervous as Buffy did, God knows why. Her hair was luxuriantly tied into a lose bun, curled strands of the dark silk framing her face. Her dress was a pretty, conservative, long gown, in dark green velvet. Her wedding band was the only jewelry she wore. She looked prettier now, certainly, if that was possible, but there was something different about her that Buffy couldn’t quite put her finger on. She looked cautious now; reserved. It was almost…responsibility. After a few moments of staring at each other, Cordelia gathered her senses. "Buffy, Angel, hi! Come on inside! It’s cold out there!" She waved them inside, and immediately took notice of Willow. "Oh my God. She’s beautiful." Buffy smiled up at her kind expression- something she’d never thought she’d see from the former May Queen. The watcher snapped out of her reverie. "I’m sorry! Can I take your coats?" They handed them over. "What, no servants," Angel asked, surprised, when Cordelia was gone. "They might find out," Buffy answered logically, painfully aware of the secretive nature of the whole business. Cordelia returned quickly, and led them inside. Buffy looked around at the beautiful, tasteful interior and then back down at her dress. She frowned. The simple long black silk didn’t seem like enough. "Xander’ll be down in a minute. He got inspired about a couple of hours ago." They stopped in a modern sitting room, standing in the center. Cordelia scanned Buffy for a moment and smiled. That’s when she was completely taken by surprise. Cordelia hugged her warmly. "I’ve missed you," she heard over her shoulder, in a strangely emotional voice, "both of you." Releasing Buffy, she hugged Angel with the baby still in his arms. Buffy half expected to see her sneering over Angel’s shoulder. Instead, her eyes were closed, a mixture of joy and pain spread over her face. She looked dangerously close to tears. Hell was freezing over, and it wasn’t so bad, Buffy thought. Cordelia gathered herself together quickly, straightening her dress and offering them seats. "Would you like anything to drink? I got some champagne I think you’ll like. We went out and bought it today. They acquiesced, and she returned with three glasses, bubbling with the ginger liquid. Buffy sipped at hers slowly, beginning to relax. It was a start. A *good* start. She heard footsteps coming down stairs and closer. Xander. She took another sip of champagne as all that relaxation went right out the window. *** END, PART ELEVEN. Some feedback each day keeps the badfic away (Ingrid29@juno.com)! "Isn't this a bit inappropriate for the kiddies?"-The Man With the Drawl _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 16:39:30 EDT From: Catl274935 Subject: Re: BUFFYFIC: Repost query... YES!!! Please repost "Slayer be Slain". I loved that story. I've already read it like a million times, but I wouldn't mind one bit reading it another million. It is my FAVORITE fanfic. An excellent example of how fanfic should be written. But, that's just my opinion. Looking forward to reading your story AGAIN AND AGAIN, Vampcat SVS #15 RASF #54 Member of RABID "They were two halves of the same whole: as pure as the day when human, as dark as the night now that they were whole vampires." from "Slayer be Slain" by Angel's Lover - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:35:59 -0700 From: taygeta@juno.com (Charity C Tran) Subject: BUFFYFIC: Capeside Stories I can't send my capeside stories, they're too long. Just go to: http://www.bfree.on.ca/ppages/trish/ if anyone wants to read them, and any of my other stories that my friend as placed on that list. Taygeta _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 14:42:40 -0700 From: taygeta@juno.com (Charity C Tran) Subject: BUFFYFIC: Within Me (1/1) Title: Within Me (1/1) Author: Taygeta E-mail: taygeta@juno.com Feedback: Please!!!! Disclaimer: The Buffy characters portrayed in this story and any other references to Buffy the Vampire Slayer are the property of its creater Joss Whedon, and its owners Mutant Enemy productions, Kuzui Productions, Sandollar Productions, and 20th Century Fox. Author's Note: This is my first try at Angel/Buffy fanfiction. I've never really liked the idea of Buffy and Angel, so I've never tried it. But I got to thinking that I might as well write one because I do have sympathy for Buffy's lost. Considering this is my first Buffy and Angel fanfic please send FEEDBACK!!! ******************** Within Me By: Taygeta Angel... I often say that name to myself in a whisper that seems to echo in the silence of the night. That one single word that causes pain to rise from my heart and tears to fall my eyes. Memories of his love and my love for him, that seem so ancient to this day, clash with new ones made of his hate against me and that which sprung from mine against him. Although I know it is but that alternate self that I hate, I cannot help but still see the golden heart of that which use to be dominate in his image. They are the same, yet they are different, and how can this be? The same image shared, but two differing feelings of heart I have for something one in the same. My mind is clouded with battling memories and heartache of two types, each worse and worse by day and by night. I long to understand, but such knowledge I have yet to find. Angelus...Angel... Two names, two souls, two hearts, contained in but one form. In my mind, I can separate the two, but in my heart I see them still as one. A change so sudden that it made be stumble and it made me fall. And as I fell into the darkest depths I wondered how I could live without you. In time, my lost self was found, but my lost heart forever gone. He's not the same guy you knew... They all say to me that he isn't the same and that the one I love is gone, but I cannot accept such words. He is not gone and shall never be gone. I have accepted that not in bodily vessel shall find his heart, but within me he lives. Within my heart he dwells, and within all that is myself, he shall survive. ***************** The End What did you think? _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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