Drabblage: Earth

[beer_good_foamy]

Happy birthday mygothangel and bruisexviolet83!

Also, drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Earth":

It's All Connected
Post-"Grave"

Willow leans against a tree half a world from home, feeling the bark, the roots, the earth.

So much life, power, possibility, loneliness.

So easy to reach out all the way to a California graveyard, caress her coffin, tell the worms to stay the hell away, preserve her, fix the unfixable. Maybe even...

So tempting to violate natural order, everything her lover believed in. To tell herself it's for Tara's sake, not her own. To slip into darkness.

Giles keeps finding Willow on paved roads, second floors, in rubber-tyred cars, crying, begging to be disconnected, weakened, unable to hurt anyone.


I'm not really this morbid in real life. Promise.

Comments

[mygothangel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, honey!
Great drabble!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[boy-named-susie.livejournal.com]

Powerful piece. Love it.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

Wow that was fantastic. Great job.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot!

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was morbid. I think it's beautiful and shows the depth of Willow's pain and how strong she had to be not to give into temptation.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Well... I still think the idea of Willow metaphorically lying on Tara's coffin, keeping her corpse from decaying, is a bit morbid. But yeah, the main point is the one about how strength and power aren't necessarily the same; how Willow has to be strong enough not to use the power she has.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Very poignant and scary look at Willow during her "recover" period. Nicely done.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

Wow this was powerful, emotive, just an awesome peek into grief! Really good.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Dealing with loss was never Willow's strong suit...

[keith5by5.livejournal.com]

Very touching.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

That's very much something I could see really happening. Poor Willow, trying hard to get over the temptation -- the addiction. Well done.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Your icon creeps me out, though - isn't that Tara sitting next to Glory in "Tough Love", being anything but safe? o_O Heh.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Um ... I'd thought that was from before Glory showed up, but either way, it is kinda creepy, isn't it? Huh ....

Yeah, I'm going to forget we had this conversation. :-/