4 Drabbles - Cordelia, Clem, Lorne and Harmony

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

Titles: Girl in a Car, Introduction, Resolution and Political Correctness
Author: aurey09
Character: Cordelia, Clem, Lorne and Harmony
A/N: Thank you hesadevilfor helping with these.

Title: Girl in a Car
Character: Cordelia
Timeline: Post Graduation Day

Cordelia sat waiting for the next bus. A car pulled up.

“Where to?”

“LA. Where you headed?” she asks.

“I’m driving to all 50 states.”

“I’m going to be an actress.” It be easy enough to pick apart both ambitions, but they don’t.

She gets out at the rich side of town. Knows she won’t be staying.

“Thanks.” She gives him a winning smile. “I hope that I never see you again Xander.”

“Same here.”

She leans in and kisses him on the cheek.

As he drives away, some part of her leaves too. She’s not sure what it is.

Title: Introduction
Character: Clem

“I’m not evil!” Clem held his arms up as Spike moved towards him. He’d heard things. He wanted to stay alive.

“I am.”

“Hey, I know where there’s this really cool poker game being held. I could get you in.”
Spike studied him.

“You’re Spike, right? I heard you were all about the fighting. Truth is, I’m not. Where’s the challenge in that?”

“Right? So what‘s the stakes.”

“Kittens.”

“What? You play for kittens?”

“They taste great… oh, living creatures. But you can always exchange them for money, if that’s your deal.” He held out his hand. “Name’s Clem.”

Title: Resolution
Character: Lorne
Timeline: Spin the bottle/Home

Every story has a resolution (unless it’s post-modernist or cancelled by Fox). I told the beginning on a stage to a audience of me - a spell went awry and my friends lost their memories and I woke up a demon. It would have happened but I sounded the starter’s pistol.

And now it ends because a pretty, dead lady laid out her own yarn. My chance at resolution - the thing I’ve been after.

I knocked back Seabreezes to calm my nerves. It makes it easier to smile as it pulls up.

Besides who doesn’t love a limo ride.

Title: Political Correctness
Character: Harmony

Harmony marched into Angel’s office brandishing a booklet in her hand.

“I think we should start filling the water coolers with pigs’ blood.”

“What?”

“There’s not enough equal rights for vampires round here.” She couldn’t believe Angel’s lack of awareness. “They made me read a pamphlet, but there’s nothing about vampires - it needs updating.”

“We have Necro-tempered windows.” Angel tapped the glass.

“It’s a start.”

“Change is a slow, painstaking process.”

“Pain-staking! That’s like negative word for us.” She waited for Angel’s outrage to surface. He would normally have snapped at her by now. “Doesn’t it bother you?”

“No.”

Comments

[elisi]

Lovely, all of them. :)

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

I'm going to post four more drabbles later. I hope you like those as well.

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

They were all wonderful. And the last one was kind of funny and sad because Harm wants equal rights as being possessed by a demon essentially and Angel is just 'meh'.

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wrote 'Political Correctness' as a result of a course I had to take for work about a year ago. I was simple trying to be funny and didn’t expect anyone to feel bad for Harm. She expects Angel to have the same reaction because he’s a vampire too but he sees himself separate from them.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

They were so good, from Cordy's arrival, to Harms outrage! Fun, but with a sting in them.

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

Cordy is arriving to LA, while at the same time leaving Sunnydale, there's a lot of emotion there to write from.

Writing drabbles is making me nostalgic but I'm enjoying doing them, they're very addictive.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I particularly like Cordelia and Xander, but they're all great!

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

I learnt a lot from writing these drabbles 'Introductions' was my first try and writing a drabble and the Cordelia one is the most recent one in this post. Hopefully that means I've improved, so thank you.

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

These are excellent. :D I particularly loved the first one.

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Some of these were my first attempts at writing drabbles (the Clem and Harmony ones) The Cordelia one was one of the later ones I did, it's my favourite drabbles just after the Lorne one.

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

I read all of these earlier but didn't remember the Cordelia one. They are all very good, but there is a special resonance in the interaction between Cordelia and Xander. The difference between what they are saying, and how they are acting is believable, and twists the heart without being melodramatic.

[aurey09.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I need a good review my confidence in my writing is still a little shakey from Friday. It's one of those drabbles I wasn't sure of to start with. I was worried that it might be too melodramatic, so I'm glad it's not.