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Here's my second entry for this year's Buffyverse Bingo. Let's say this one is for "Autumn holiday/festival".

Title: Civilization
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Angel, pre-series
Characters/Pairing: Darla, The Master
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~750
Summary: In our reality, the Roanoke colony in Virginia disappeared mysteriously at some point between 1588 and 1590, and the first successful English colony in Virginia was only established in 1607. In the Buffyverse, that colony appears strangely well-established in 1609. There's an obvious explanation for this, that includes the girl who would become Darla.

( Roanoke colony was so very small compared to Southampton. At first the girl had scoffed at playing with these children, most of whom had never seen city streets. She missed her friends back home, and having to do so much extra work in the fields and kitchens didn't feel much like the new start her mother had promised her. But truth was, she got along fine with the children, and running around the forests and fields was something new, something it felt like she'd been missing. And then there were the stories. )

Right, here's this year's holiday fic. Would be a shame to break a tradition. Happy turn-of-darkness, everyone!

Title: Four First Dinners (And One Cancellation)
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffyverse
Rating: PG13
Word count: 5x100
Characters: Anne, Willow/Tara, Darla/Angelus, Lindsey McDonald, Buffy/Immortal
Summary: Five times people had a Christmas dinner together for the first time. Though one of them didn’t quite work out as planned.

( Dinner’s served )

For still_grrr's Oscar month, here's a little something inspired by the Paul Newman classic Cool Hand Luke.

Title: Let Me Have Men About Me That Are Fat
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 100

Let Me Have Men About Me That Are Fat
Pre-series

After the final raid on UC Sunnydale, Darla has three minions carry the moaning Luke to his crypt. "And let's not drop our fearless leader, hmmm?"

One of them glares at her. "The Master is our true leader. Until he rises, Luke is his lieutenant, his trusted instrument, his most high -"

"Yeah, yeah. Just make sure he doesn't throw up."

The bloated, blue-ish Luke tries to speak. "I told..." He swallows, chokes something back. "I told you I could eat fifty students."

Darla pats his hand with a razor-thin smile. "And we're all very impressed. Now get some sleep."

still_grrr's monthly theme is "Love Fest", so here's one het, one slash, and one femslash... thingy. (I'd originally planned for three drabbles, but the last one got away from me a bit.)

Title: All Wrapped Up
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Fandom/timeline: Buffyverse, Wishverse
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Willow/Xander

( The gift that keeps on giving )

Title: There Goes The Cavalry
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Fandom/timeline: Angel, shortly after "Not Fade Away"
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Spike/Andrew

( 'Gratitude'. Riiiight. )

Title: Sanguine
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: R-ish
Fandom/timeline: Angel, "Reunion"
Word Count: 333
Characters: Drusilla/Darla
Warnings: ***Violence, slight bloodplay, slight incestuousness***

"When blood sees blood of its own
It sings to see itself again
It sings to hear the voice it's known
It sings to recognize the face"
(Suzanne Vega)

( 'Sanguine'. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means 'bloody'. )

Weee! That was quick! Many thanks to whoever nominated Why Are You Wearing That Stupid Human Suit at the Indigo Crypt Awards.



Also, for open_on_sunday's challenge "Remember" (which made me want to write Dawn/Dana, but seriously, that pairing name would be way too confusing), here's drabblage:



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Reality brings back ancient memories in disconnected flashes.

The wooden cage rocking gently when it's lifted, like the ship to Virginia. (How old was she? Was her family with her?)

Vegetables and cooked meat. (Were the tomatoes this big? Was she always this hungry?)

Powerful men who want something from her. (Damn her? Save her?)

They let her out after dark. (Is sunlight dangerous?)

"Make him a monster again," they say. "Haunt his dreams." (Is that her, haunting her own?)

Everything reminds Darla of what she was. There's barely enough reality at Wolfram & Hart to tell her who she is.

Here's a bunch of icons, mostly for still_grrr's female power thingy month. Oh, and for one of them I got this, for which I am - as ever - humble and grateful, both to those who voted and to the indomitable xlivvielockex:
( Banner under the cut )

Anyway, the 100x100s. Swedish dialogue taken from the Selfless shooting script:


As always, free to a good home with credit.

Title: Looking Just Like A Ghost
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~2500
Warning: Character death, slight blasphemy.
Pairing: Mentions of Angelus/Darla, Angel/Buffy.
Disclaimer: These characters are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy etc. If Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale, I wouldn't have made any money off fanfic about her. (I still don't.)
Summary: Wishverse backstory: When she doesn't show up, Angel has to try and stop The Harvest all by himself.

Written (somewhat late) for soundingsea's Freewheelin' Ficathon, and loosely inspired by Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited."

( Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough )

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OK, Happy New Year everyone! Just about time to squeeze this in before the year's over. This is belated birthday fic for xlivvielockex and maharet83.

Title: Five People Who Didn't Know They Were In A Crossover
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 600 (4x100, 1x200)
Fandoms: Scrubs, Young Ones, Twin Peaks, Dexter, Sopranos and the various Buffyverses
Disclaimer: These characters are owned by all sorts of people, all of whom have this in common: they're not me, and they're the only ones who make any money off the characters. And I've had schnapps.

Five People Who Didn't Know They Were In A Crossover

( John 'JD' Dorian )
( Vyvyan Basterd )
( Dale Cooper )
( Dexter Morgan )
( Tony Soprano )

A couple of wins - yay! Thanks!
( Shinies )

Also, I just discovered that I completely forgot to post this here. It's something as unusual for me as a somewhat serious Angel ficlet. Originally it was an edited scene from an long but increasingly confusing fic I wrote and keep cannibalizing (Some Velvet Morning When I'm Straight came from that one too). Anyway, this got third place for the Angel month over at good__evil, so again - YAY!

Title: Does Forever Work For You?
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~650
Characters/Pairing: Angel/Buffy, Angel/Darla
Timeline: AtS s2/s3
Summary: Only in dreams...

( Blondes Have Less Sun )