DeadWar: Schism 1.02 (Tell Me All Your Thoughts on Gog)

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Sorry for the long hiatus!
Disclaimer: All original characters belong to me. All other characters are property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy

Summary: While Oz and Regan search for the missing Slayer, Sadha comes under attack by forces working for Roger Wyndham-Price. In her current mental state, Sadha has no choice but to depend on Dena for assistance--and Dena is far from reliable aid where vampires are concerned.

(Subplot: The demise of Sadha's original Slayer, Shefali, told in flashback.)

Beta: darlas_mom

Rating: PG

Feedback: Yes, please!

Act I
Act II
Act III

DeadWar: Be Good Sweet Maid

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Rating: PG

Disclaimer: All non-original characters are property of Joss Whedon. All original characters are property of me.

Summary: The Scoobies are on the run, and the only one who knows just how deep Xander's betrayal goes is a soulless vampire....

Beta: darlas_mom

Be Good Sweet Maid

Business as Usual Chp 13

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Title: Business as Usual
Author: lilachigh
Rating: PG
Setting: Season 5
Disclaimer: All characters belong to ME except Agnes Pringle who is all mine.
Summary: In The Replacement, Spike talks of the charming lady who runs a tea-room in the town garbage dump. What if he wasn't being sarcastic? Meet Agnes Pringle, English spinster and reluctant vampire. Agnes just wants a quiet unlife, but as she is Spike's friend, that is unlikely to happen.


Chapter 13

Dust to Dust



Agnes Pringle was shutting up her tearoom in the Sunnydale garbage dump. It had been a long night and dawn was just breaking over the mounds of rubbish, casting strangely beautiful pink, rose and golden beams across the cast aside remnants of Sunnydale society.

She sighed wearily and rubbed at her eyes. She was tired to the very depths of her being. It was all very well having vampire healing ability – it did come in useful every time she burnt herself on the little oven she used to make her cakes – but it did nothing for physical exhaustion apparently.

Although Agnes knew a lot of her problem wasn’t physical. She had lost a friend. That nice woman, Joyce, had died, almost in front of her! Now Agnes had a close and personal knowledge of death. She had seen a lot of it over the years, and experienced her own, of course. But she was never prepared for it.

And tonight she was feeling guilty as well as sad. Had she contributed to Joyce’s demise in some way? Perhaps some little thing she had said or done had made the other woman realise that the quiet, plump lady making tea in her kitchen was not just a friend, but an evil vampire!

Joyce would have been terrified, not having any knowledge or experience of such things. Could that have caused her to have some sort of attack and die?

There was also a fine moral dilemma that wouldn’t stop buzzing around the English spinster’s brain. If she hadn’t been in the kitchen, if she had been in the same room and seen Joyce dying, should she have tried to turn her?

Was a life as a vampire better than no life at all? She just couldn’t decide. Compared to her previous existence, this life was hard, dirty and unfulfilling. But – she struggled with herself, trying to be honest – would she prefer to be dead?
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