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menomegirl) wrote2006-06-05 09:08 pm
menomegirl) wrote2006-06-05 09:08 pm
Another Drabble.....
Because I was asked....concurrent to events of Wish Fulfillment.
Envy
POV:Angel
Timeline:Set after the episode "The Yoko Factor"
Rating-Anyone
Word Count:270
Shattered images and fragments filtered through a mind tired, a body bone-weary, healing itself of the injuries incurred in days past as the sleep of day crept up to claim him, voices whispering through his thoughts, scattered like leaves blowing on the wind.
The golden, sunlit hues of a boy in his mind. He'd been strong, built to fight and trained to kill. Eyes that locked on his own, a body poised to fight, that didn't back down, not even when quiet vulnerability crept into his voice, because there had been steel underneath.
A chin risen in defiance, silent challenge accepted and met and despite everything, Angel had been impressed, for the boy had fought well. He had held up where most humans wouldn't have, spurned on by what Angel knew was rage, fueled by jealousy because he himself had been filled with it.
The boy, who was able to walk in the sunlight, a boy who would be all the things for Buffy that Angel couldn't be. This boy would have-has had-things he would never touch again. Things that were only a dim dream to the vampire. He had her.
No....Angel didn't like him and yet...there was a grudging kind of respect mixed in with the dislike and a disquieting feeling in the pit of his gut. He didn't know why that was, only that it was.
Might hurt you
Shaking his head, the vampire closed his eyes, words softly spoken, full of menace and deadly with promise repeating an endless loop as he fell under the thrall of inevitable sleep.
Please try
*la la la*
Envy
POV:Angel
Timeline:Set after the episode "The Yoko Factor"
Rating-Anyone
Word Count:270
Shattered images and fragments filtered through a mind tired, a body bone-weary, healing itself of the injuries incurred in days past as the sleep of day crept up to claim him, voices whispering through his thoughts, scattered like leaves blowing on the wind.
The golden, sunlit hues of a boy in his mind. He'd been strong, built to fight and trained to kill. Eyes that locked on his own, a body poised to fight, that didn't back down, not even when quiet vulnerability crept into his voice, because there had been steel underneath.
A chin risen in defiance, silent challenge accepted and met and despite everything, Angel had been impressed, for the boy had fought well. He had held up where most humans wouldn't have, spurned on by what Angel knew was rage, fueled by jealousy because he himself had been filled with it.
The boy, who was able to walk in the sunlight, a boy who would be all the things for Buffy that Angel couldn't be. This boy would have-has had-things he would never touch again. Things that were only a dim dream to the vampire. He had her.
No....Angel didn't like him and yet...there was a grudging kind of respect mixed in with the dislike and a disquieting feeling in the pit of his gut. He didn't know why that was, only that it was.
Might hurt you
Shaking his head, the vampire closed his eyes, words softly spoken, full of menace and deadly with promise repeating an endless loop as he fell under the thrall of inevitable sleep.
Please try
*la la la*
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Thank you.
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*dies*
*goes off to think*
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Thank you!
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*snuggles closer*
Love it!
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Thank you darlin'!!!!
*licks*
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*nibbles on you a little*
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Still thinking on this one-there might be more.
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And Riley was written as probably the straightest character on either Btvs or Ats, I think. I've watched his episodes repeatedly and the questionable subtext re:Riley is damn hard to find. There are a couple of things with Xander that can be considered slashy. One or two things with Spike, perhaps. And as far as I can tell, none with Angel.
But I'm one of the people who doesn't see slash just because there's two pretty boys. For me, there has to be thought or emotion behind it, or it just doesn't work, especially if the two characters have never met in canon (such as Lindsey/Riley, one of my favorite pairings) or did so only once.
Riley and Angel met briefly. But however short the meeting was, it was pivotal to Riley, both at the time it happened and beyond. In fact, that meeting was perhaps the beginning of his vampire addiction.
His belief that he would always be second best for Buffy was proved true and it became too much for him.
As for Angel, well, you know he had to have that mean dig that Buffy delivered in Sanctuary in his mind-on his mind-a lot, even if he went to Sunnydale to apologize for his behavior in The Yoko Factor.
I had to think on Angel/Riley a long time and I'm still doing so.
And to be frank, I did not like Riley/Buffy at first. Not because of Buffy/Angel but because I thought Riley was too good for her, an opinion I still hold, even given the ambiguity of As You Were.
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The nice thing about Riley (in my own little unresearched opinion, as I don't own those seasons yet and am going strictly on memory here. *ahem*) is that he was never exactly the most demonstrative fella. Which gives an author a fair amount of wiggle-room in terms of what was going on in that head of his at any given time. There are plenty of ways to get from action A to action B, in terms of his thought process, and I think you do a damn fine job of it here. (The idea that his interaction with Angel was the start of the vamp-addiction is beyond intriguing.)
The only Riley-shaped thought that's ever crossed my mind was provoked by him mentioning that his next mission after he left in As You Were was in Nepal. And we all know where Lindsey did at least some of his training before coming back to L.A... *g*
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That's very true and something I plan on using, if I take it further.
There are plenty of ways to get from action A to action B, in terms of his thought process, and I think you do a damn fine job of it here.
*grins* Thank you. Although the concept of PWP's alludes me. Sometimes it's a winding path from A to B for my writing LOL.
(The idea that his interaction with Angel was the start of the vamp-addiction is beyond intriguing.)
*purrs* Yes it is, isn't it? Mmmmmm.
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When Lindsey and Riley meet in Nepal, in my own little 'verse, it's more about the interactions and the weird little stuff they seem to have in common, rather than any crazy-jungle-sex-up-against-a-tree. *sheepish grin* Damned if I know why I felt the need to clarify that. XD
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Exactly. They both fell in love with women who couldn't see past Angel to see them. (Tiny blondes what's up with that? Then there is of course, Angel himself. So many issues. Oh and a shared vamp thing mmmmmm.
Why aren't you writing yet missy?
Huh Huh Huh?
*is demanding*
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Since before Healthy Attachments? Bad girl! *spanks*
ps-damn fine tag darlin'.