Fic: A Funeral in Her Heart

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Title: A Funeral in Her Heart
Rating: G
Setting: B4
Summary/Prompt: Written for the 2013 Halloween Challenge over at SB Fag Ends. Lacrimosa's The Way of the Shadow: human blood

Buffy stepped into the bathroom as quietly as only a Slayer could. Spike, chained in the tub, still had that pale blue bit of blanket wrapped around himself. He wasn't breathing, his skin was as pale as death, and his cheeks so sunken-in he looked half-way to concentration camp victim. The blanket, wrapped around him like that, reminded her of a shroud. She ripped the blanket off him, getting it caught in the chains. He woke as she was trying to tug it away. “Hey! Hey, Slayer. What the bloody hell are you doing? Bathtub's cold enough without you running off with my only blanket.”

Buffy dropped the blanket. “I … You looked dead.”

With a frown Spike said, “I am dead.” He tugged at the blanket. “You've gotten it all tangled in the chains. Thanks a lot, Slayer.”

“Sorry,” Buffy said. She couldn't get the image of Spike, dead but not ash, out of her mind. “You look like you could use more blood?”

Spike looked wary. “Wouldn't say no.”

“I'll go heat some up.”

Buffy brought him the blood but didn't stay to watch him drink. She couldn't stand to see him so ill. Instead she raced off to the hospital to steal him some human blood. She couldn't figure out why she cared whether Spike of all people, or um vamps, lived or died, but she did.

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Ah, the seeds of future feelings being sown...


Gabrielle

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

What fic is this remixing? Funeral Shroud is a special ingrediant that requires a different response.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Okay I removed it from the comments. I was just responding to prompt because I have no idea how I'm supposed to know what the other "special rules" are. I didn't see anything to indicate this required something else.

I know some prompts have other rules but since I hadn't seen anything in these prompts I figured maybe there were going to be future prompts with other rules.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

There is a note in bold at the bottom of the ingredient description. There won't be any more prompts.

However, the bestest, clearest way to know is to look at the table that the scoreboard links to here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/bogwitch/MagicBingo_Page_1_zpsabe97868.png

Could you adapt this to fit something else?

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah, and now I see it. That chart posted after we've already started to post stories tells us. I would feel a lot less frustrated if the comment that I'd gotten the prompts from had also told me this.

What does remix mean exactly?

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I accept that I would have changed it but I couldn't edit the comment anymore. We pretty much thought people would be following the book as anything in the descripion can be used a prompt, it's not just the names.

A remix is when you take a previously written story and rewrite it in a different way, from another perpective or point of view. Often people rewrite other people's stories (with their permission and you can do any of mine), but we will accept a remix of one of your own.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

When I clicked on the "Way of the Shadow" link I just got a big book cover with no prompts at all. I didn't see that useful link of the magic bingo page untl you posted our counts. Plus I didn't know what the words in caps were supposed to mean so I just ignored them, which is totaly my bad.

Okay, remix is what I thought it was. Is a meta what I think it is because what am I supposed to do with "raven skull" as a meta? I think I'll be waiting to see what fascinating thing someone else comes up with for that one.

And I just figured it out. I can totally switch this story to one of the human blood prompts. *happy dance*

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Did you click on the book cover at all?

Yeah, a meta is some kind of analysis or commentary on the show. Not my speicality either.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did click on the book cover. Gave me nothing. Just kept showing the book cover.

[quinara]

Hi! I'm really sorry about this and the confusion it's caused. I'm just wondering - do you have javascript enabled? Ideally the book cover should appear in the centre of the page and on clicking (for The Way of Shadow) the page should fade to red and an open book should be revealed with options to select on the left page and a title+a skull on the right.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I don't even know how I would tell if Javascript is enabled. Wouldn't it be on by default? Not that it means it is on for me ...

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Technically, you could remix this fic. :)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

*huge grin*

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

You know, I am really enjoying the fics, but I am SO glad I am not joining in with the writing because I have absolutely no clue what is going on. And I have read the posts and looked at the chart.

*blushes*

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's confused. *huge grin* Basically pick a column and respond to the prompts in that column. But if the prompt has a word next to it that is all CAPS, then there are special conditions. META means write a meta-ananlysis. POETRY means write a poem to that prompt. Etc. Oh, and only respond if the prompt is in a black square with white text because the others have already been responded to (or so I think).

I found out the hard way by making mistakes but I think only one of my stories (raven skull which requires a meta) won't get posted here.

[quinara]

Sorry we're being confusing! Did you manage to access the books on Boggy's website?

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Not me, but I figured that was just my computer which has been persnickety from the get-go.

Wednesday, October 23

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User oni_9 referenced to your post from Wednesday, October 23 (http://su-herald.livejournal.com/683183.html) saying: [...] Spike, Buffy. G. A Funeral in Her Heart [...]

[shapinglight]

Clearly, poor Buffy is under a spell. :Looks Lacrimosa's way:

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Now really, would she (going with witch as female here) who must be obeyed really do something like that to a character in one of her minion's stories?

[waddiwasiwitch.livejournal.com]

This is very nice.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I was afraid the "but she did" at the end might be a bit heavy-handed but no one seems to mind.