World Enough and Time (a drabble)

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

I've been rather neglecting this place lately.  I promise I'm still writing...Some of the fics I'm working on are bogged down a little; others aren't suitable for this list.  (The mods should know someone has erased the posting guidelines!)

Not usually my style, but this should be amusing.

Title: World Enough and Time

Author: Mabus101

Characters: Illyria, Spike

Rating: G

Disclaimer: If the characters were mine instead of Joss's I'd write a best-selling novel and make a million bucks.

Illyria became a deity once more and conquered the world.  She briefly considered erasing it and beginning over, but the "Congratulations!  You have won a Domination Victory!" screen was beginning to pall.

"The creation and destruction of worlds...a children's toy."  For the briefest of moments, Illyria found herself mildly impressed.

"You do realize this stuff isn't real," Spike questioned her, gesturing at the nuclear devastation on the screen.

"What you call space and time were but the shadows of my domain.  I stepped between universes as easily as you cross a room," she informed the vampire.  "What is real?"

Comments

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

Hilarious, and yet it brings up a very good point. Well done.

The mods should know someone has erased the posting guidelines!

Argh! I better have them somewhere! Thanks for pointing that out.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

Thanks...I don't usually write drabbles, but a thought came up to me last night and when I started writing I realized all I had was twenty or thirty words (maybe the first couple of sentences). So I lengthened it a little.

In case anyone isn't aware, Illyria is playing Civilization. "Deity" is the second-highest difficulty level, in the third edition anyway (the highest is "Sid", after the game's creator).

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

I like this one, it makes you think.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

I like to make people think. Thinking is good. ;)

[rahirah]

Coolness.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Barb. Feedback is my friend. :D

[alexao.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed reading this.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mrs-underhill.livejournal.com]

Oh, how interesting! And I must admit I'm a big fan of Civ, so there's more coolness in this story for me.
I wondered whether Spike was familiar with Civ after he told Angel in TGIQ: "As fas as projects go, you are the Sistine Chapel". :) But when would he play it - he didn't have a computer at home. Nah, he probably played on someone's PC at W&H, and then showed it to Illiria. He became fond of video games and gameboys - so why not of computer games too? :)

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

Why not indeed? But I'd think something like Doom was more his style. Unless, like Illyria, he likes to start nuclear wars. ;)