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Yeeee-haaa! The Serenity on the Hellmouth Awards announced the winners of round 5, and my fic Mission Accomplished picked up another award. Huge thanks to everyone involved, and congrats to the other winners on my flist!
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Also, here's a drabble for the open_on_sunday prompt "teach/teacher".

Jitters


4AM. Five hours before the Slayer Academy opens, Robin finds Faith drinking beer in the kitchen. He grabs two more from the fridge, sits down and waits.

"Last time I set foot in a classroom I was 15," she says finally. "B's insane."

"You're a fight instructor. I don't think she's expecting you to teach algebra."

"Yeah, but... Me as an authority figure? I'm not sure I can even spell 'unqualified'."

"I once hired Buffy to counsel kids with emotional problems."

Faith frowns. "Huh."

"Most of them survived, too." He takes another sip. "Are you coming back to bed?"

"Yeah."

OK, so I really liked this DVD commentary thing, and it WAS requested, and it's one of my favourite things I've written, so what the hell: Here's my s7-from-Faith's-perspective fic "Atonement's a Bitch" with running commentary.

Atonement's a Bitch: Chapters 1-5
Atonement's a Bitch: Chapters 6-9

And here's the original version for those who prefer.

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Also, two weeks' worth of wins at still_grrr. Yay. Thanks a lot to all who voted!

This week's challenge at open_on_sunday is "Babies". Which can be a sickeningly cute, but fun, subject. Here's three.

...when you're an escaped murderer trying to fight alongside those you've hurt. But you'd hardly know it from Buffy s7, so this is a series of 'missing scene' fics about Faith’s and the others' attempts to deal with her past and present.

I love Faith. The five episodes she got on Angel are all among my favourite eps of that series, largely because of the interplay between Faith, Wes and Angel and the character development on all three of them when they get together. However, once she crossed back over to Buffy, a lot of that took a back seat. I wanted to explore what might happen behind the scenes, so this basically follows canon but hopefully with more character insight.

Also, if you want to know the background for this, in-jokes etc, here's an annotated version of the fic.

This won first place in good__evil's december challenge 2006.

Thanks to selene2 for the lovely plaque!

Pairing: Faith/Wood in one chapter, though that's not the focus of it.
Chapters: 9
Rating: PG13/R

Scenes 1-6 below.
Scene 7 and 8 here.
Scene 9 here.

ATONEMENT'S A BITCH

Scene 1 - Scene 2 - Scene 3 - Scene 4 - Scene 5 - Scene 6

( Scene 1: 2 Kool 2 B 4-Gotten (Wesley) )

( Scene 2: Miles to go (Willow) )

( Scene 3: Eavesdropping (Dawn) )

( Scene 4: Innocent When You Dream (Buffy) )

( Scene 5: Windmills (Giles) )

( Scene 6: Scar Tissue (Robin) )