badly_knitted | BtVS Double Drabble: Almost Ready

Title: Almost Ready
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Angelus.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 411: Give Me Time at

drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: Second half of Season Two.
Summary: Buffy was almost ready to deal with Angelus. All she’d needed was enough time for love to turn to hate.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

One little spontaneous act, something that should have been the beginning of the next stage in her first serious relationship, had turned Buffy’s entire existence into a kind of surreal nightmare. The gentle, caring boyfriend she’d made love with had turned into a sadistic monster, and since that night, Angelus had dedicated himself to tormenting her, threatening her friends, her mom… He’d even murdered Ms Calendar, all because she’d been trying to recreate the curse responsible for restoring his soul the first time.

Maybe he was trying to drive her insane the way he had with Drusilla, but if that was the case then he’d seriously misjudged her. She wasn’t going to lose her mind, no matter what he did. All he was doing was making it easier for her to see that he was no longer the man she’d loved. Every cruelty, every taunt, just made her hate him more.

She probably should have killed him right away, but it wasn’t that simple. She’d been too off-balance at first, not ready to accept that Angel was gone for good. She’d just needed time to adjust. Now, though…

She wanted him to suffer, to hurt him as he’d hurt her.

The End

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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From:

kitarella_imagines

Come on Buffy! You can do it!💪

From:

badly_knitted

She will, she's almost there...

Thank you!

From:

kitarella_imagines

Yes, she's a hero!

I really liked the way David Boreanaz made Angel and Angelus sooooo different! He's such a good actor.

From:

badly_knitted

I agree, but I've heard so many people say he wasn't a good actor when he was being Angel. Guess they just don't understand the subtlety, the reserve and understatement needed to portray a character who is trying to get used to interacting with living people after so long in the shadows.

From:

kitarella_imagines

I thought he was brilliant. Remember that episode when he and Buffy were possessed by ghosts, or something. He walked towards Buffy laughing, then started crying. I thought an actor showing an abrupt change of mood like that proves they are really good.

From:

badly_knitted

Oh, I Only Have Eyes For you, I love that episode! Yes, David was so brilliant in that one. He and Sarah were such good friends and worked so amazingly well together.

From:

kitarella_imagines

Yes it was a great episode! It's nice when actors get on well, it's sad when you hear stories of actors being rivals and hating each other.

Although I think that's an old fashioned attitude really. You hear tales of people like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis trying to hurt each other in films, but now days it seems actors prefer to be friends and have fun together, rather than being arch enemies.

From:

badly_knitted

Yes, it's always good to hear when people get along while filming shows, because they have to spend so much time together. It would be awful to work with someone you hated, especially if you have to act like good friends onscreen.

From:

kitarella_imagines

That's why I could never be an actor 😅 I'd hate all that, I like honesty.

From:

badly_knitted

It's not the glamorous profession some people see to think. Long hours, doing the same scene over and over until the director is satisfied, everything filmed out of order, spending ages in make-up then having to keep getting it touched up, getting soaked, or too hot, or freezing cold on location... I could never do any of that. Not even when I was young.

From:

kitarella_imagines

Yes, not my cup of tea either, I like being invisible in the background, writing stories, not acting in public. And as for sex scenes, I could never, ever do those, ewww.

From:

badly_knitted

Yes, invisible background person here too.

Heck, even kissing scenes! No thanks.

From:

kitarella_imagines

It's funny, I write E rated fanfics but I am pretty reserved in real life! Well I wouldn't like to do kissing and sex scenes with strange men (actors).😂

From:

badly_knitted

And some actors are VERY strange *grins*

I write some explicit fic (need to get something done for Bring Back the Porn), but I'm not that kind of person in real life, it's just that my characters are...

From:

kitarella_imagines

Yes the idea of acting kissing and/or sex doesn't appeal to me. I'd have a clause in my contract- no sex scenes- if I was an actor, which I never would be 😂 I think Henry Cavill had that clause in his contract for a few years, when he was much younger. Although obviously he changed his mind later.

I like the fact that I appear to be a prim and proper married woman who would be shocked at the slightest thing, but instead I read and write E rated fics and not much shocks me. The two extremes make me laugh. Some of my online friends were shocked at the sex in Bridgerton but it just washed over my head. So to speak 🤭

From:

badly_knitted

I guess there are bound to be some actors who don't do that stuff, fand others who are unfazed, but I couldn't. I prefer to be well covered with clothing, lol!

I'm 62, a lot of people would be shocked that I love to read X-rated fics and occasionally write them. My mum never found out even though we lived together. Excessive swearing on TV shows bothers me, but sex scenes don't.

From:

kitarella_imagines

Yes, thinking about it, there are actors who don't do sex scenes aren't there. e.g. Samuel L Jackson, Sarah Jessica Parker. Henry Cavill said he was traumatised by The Tudors and it put him off sex scenes, then he felt better some years later and changed his mind.

That shocked attitude is what annoys me. People are such prudes! Sex and love is normal and natural, why shouldn't we read and write stories about them? At whatever age we like.

I think violence, horror and murder are more weird and I wonder why people aren't more shocked by those subjects. I never write about those! How come they are viewed as normal things to read and write, but sex and love are not?

I am getting on my soapbox now! lol.

From:

badly_knitted

I'm sure Sarah Jessica Parker must have done sex scenes in Sex and the City. Maybe she's stopped now she's older. There must be a lot who don't though, for whatever reasons. All actors should be free to only do what they're comfortable with. It's like with prosthetic makeup - some actors just can't handle that while others love working under a ton of latex. No one should be made to feel bad or guilty for not wanting to do certain things on screen, or on stage.

So true, love and sex are a big part of being human and should be celebrated.

I freely admit I do write violence and murder (two of my characters are homicide detectives, so yes, they deal with murders and dead bodies. I wrote another drabble today with a murder scene. I also love writing horror for

spook_me every year, although I don't watch horror movies these days because they creep me out now that I live alone. But loving relationships are the basis of most of my fanfic, even though find romance novels and movies boring. I think I need to be really invested in the characters to enjoy a romance plotline, and I can get that when it's characters I'm familiar with and who I love.

From:

kitarella_imagines

I also thought she had done sex scenes in SATC but apparently not. I read that she refused to do nudity, but I can’t remember exactly because it was so long ago I watched it, so I just read it on a list of ‘actors who won’t do sex scenes.’

With ‘sex scenes,’ I suppose what I mean is—actors who do graphic sex scenes as in ‘manoeuvring’. Just ‘being in bed, talking/sitting up/sleeping’ is not graphic. If I was an actor, I could do the ‘being in bed’ but not the ‘manoeuvring.’ If you get my meaning. I'm getting the giggles now.🤭

Yes definitely actors shouldn’t be pushed to do things, I hate the thought of young actors feeling like they have to do sex scenes to move up in their careers. Sounds like ‘the casting couch’ thing doesn’t it. Ugh.

Oh yes if people like writing horror, murder etc, each to their own. It’s just not for me and I avoid it. I like writing about love, romance, sex. And humour! I cannot write a fic that doesn’t have SOME kind of humour in it. I can’t even write love, romance and sex without humour and giggling. Probably why I like the Professionals at the moment—they can’t do anything without laughing and playing around!

From:

badly_knitted

She probably did some in bed but not graphic scenes then. I've re-watched part of Season One (I have most of the DVDs picked up at charity shops) but since I mostly listen while doing other things, can't say I noticed one way or the other.

Oh yes, I can manage being in bed as long as I don't need to move 😁

Really does have Casting Couch vibes, doesn't it? *shudders*

I tend to just write whatever a prompt or challenge inspires. Occasionally it will be something angsty, in which case there probably won't be any humour, but mostly there's something humorous in whatever I write, even if it's just the banter between characters. Even when my detectives are at a murder scene, although then it tends to be black humour.

I really need to watch my Professionals DVDs. Trouble is, I'm currently trying to re-watch Buffy, Stargate SG-1, and Babylon 5. I need more hours in my days.

From:

kitarella_imagines

Yes I wish I'd chosen another actor now, not Sarah, as neither of us know for sure about whether she's done sex scenes or not 😅

Same here about the bed.

I dread to think what has happened to young actors of any gender on the casting couch in the past...

Oh yes of course, that's a good way to be- get inspired by a prompt! I think I tend to get prompts in my own head really, no idea where they come from! I'm glad you like writing humour, I find it's not a common type of fanfic and I'm in a minority writing humour. Most people seem to write sex, angst or whump. But I can't write anything without a bit of humour, and sex is funny much of the time anyway. Giggling always happens in my sex scenes e.g. recently some characters were doing it in a river and had to stop each other falling into the river, so that was funny.

Oh I love all your DVD choices! I hope you get to watch them all! The Professionals could be after all of those, they aren't going anywhere 😊

Life is mostly attitude and timing - Jerry Jeff Walker

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