Works in Progress meme

[butterfly]

Once again, that uncanny great luck of mine has worked -- I've got the place and the roommate seems quite nice. When I have a positive attitude, everything always seems to come up roses. Which is a good enough reason to stay hopeful.

And hey, while I'm here, I'll do that Works in Progress meme. Wow. I have a lot of these.

Pas Vivant, Pas Mort
Darla: *dies*
Angel: *dies*
Dru: *dies*
Spike: *dies*
Darla: *is dusted*
Angel: *goes to hell*
Angel: *returns*
Darla: *returns*
Darla: *dies*
Darla: *dusts self*
Spike: *burns up in the hellmouth*
Spike: *returns*
Dru: I'm crazy and I'm still the most stable person in this group.

Thou Shalt Not
Angelus: *worships himself and kills people*
Angel: Woe. I love Buffy and yet sometimes want to drink her dry.
Angel: Woe. I killed my parents long ago and remembering it gets me revved up.
Angel: Woe. I trained someone to mock God and he was hot yet incredibly unimaginative.
Angel: Woe. I am going to hell because I am pond scum.
Angelus: Yeah, like they'd take you. Only the interesting people go to hell.

Chimera
Illyria: I am above you all, insolent scum. You will never reach my greatness.
Spike: She's a bloody loony.
Gunn: She is hard to understand.
Angel: I don't know. I can see her side of things. I know that at times I feel as though you lot are insolent scum.
*silence*
Angel: Um. Kidding?
Harmony: Wow. This is totally fucked up.
Wesley: That about sums it up, yes.

Door Number Two
Gunn: *is honest with Wesley in TOGoM*
Wesley: *tells Gunn that he's crushing on Fred*
Gunn: *pushes aside own minor feelings for Fred to support Wes*
Wesley: Wow, I do appreciate this.
Gunn: Cordy's looking hot today.
Angel: Look! I have a son!
Cordy: *kisses Angel in the Birthday-verse*
Gunn: *kisses Cordy in the actual-verse*
Fred: *almost dies*
Wesley: *confesses feelings, as prompted by Gunn and Cordy*
Wesley and Fred: *kiss*
Wesley: *discovers prophecy*
Groo: *returns*
Cordy: Groo!
Gunn: Cordy!
Angel: I have a son! Look!
Groo and Cordy: *go off to have sex*
Wesley: *tells Fred and Gunn about prophecy*
Fred: You have to tell Angel.
Wesley: I can't.
Fred: If you don't, I will.
Wesley: *tells*
Holtz: *razes AI to find Connor, succeeds*
Angel: *confronts*
Sanjiahn: *is pissed*
Holtz: *flees to Quor-toth with Connor*
Gunn: *is seriously injured*
Angel: My son is missing!
Cordy and Groo: *return*
Cordy: What happened?
Angel: My son is missing!
Gunn: I can't feel my leg. Or my arm. Oh, wait, my arm is actually missing.
Cordy: Oh, honey. That's horrible. Don't bleed on this shirt, it's one of a kind.
Gunn: *kisses Cordy*
Angel: I will do anything to find my missing son.
Angel: *endangers the group*
Wesley: *is pissed*
Wesley: I'm in charge, Angel! Remember?
Connor: *returns*
Holtz: *dies*
Connor: *sinks Angel to the bottom of the ocean*
Skip: Cordelia, you are a higher power.
Cordy: But Gunn wants me and I do think that he's hot.
Skip: Higher. Power.
Cordy: If you insist.
Angel: My son hates me and I'm stuck staring at fish. My life sucks.
Cordy: Damn, glowing is boring.
Wesley, Fred, and Gunn: *save Angel*
Connor: *finds Justine, joins forces*
Season Four: *only the Wesley plotline is significantly different*
Angel: I must join W&H to save my son.
Wesley: Right, screw that, I'm still in charge of AI.
Angel: *quits*
Wesley: Don't care!
Angel: Fine! I'm taking Lorne with me!
Wesley: Do what you like! I'm keeping Fred and Gunn!
Spike: *returns from firey death*
Angel: Hah, now we both have two lackeys. So there.
Wesley: You are incredibly immature for such an old man.
Angel: It's Spike's fault.
Wesley: You didn't have to sleep with him.
Angel: It's kinda tradition.
Fred: *dies*
Illyria: *born*
Wesley: *goes nuts*



Broken Road
Author: Ooo, I should totally do a pretentious reflections series based on BtVS, like I'm planning on doing with AtS. And I can make pretty pictures!
Buffy: Oh. Prophecies. That's what my section is about? Wow. You bring the fun.
Author: *pushes prophecies toward Buffy*
Buffy: *thwarts*
Author: Yay!
Giles: Watcher's diaries excepts. Very imaginative. Just like you have to imagine my dry, sarcastic tone.
Author: Shut up and talk about why the previous Watchers were all idiots.
Giles: *does so*
Angel: My entire section is about killing people?
Author: No! There's the love bit!
Angel: Which also has a lot of killing in it, I've noticed. I have a soul now, you know.
Author: Who doesn't? Besides, having a soul hasn't stopped...
Angel: What was that?
Author: *meekly* Nothing.
Angel: Good.
Xander: My bit is about other people.
Author: Well. Yeah. Okay, that's true.
Xander: Why is my entire part about other people?
Author: Oh, just deal.
Spike: Poetry? You're putting deliberately bad poetry in my section?
Author: It's no worse than yours. Better, because it's bad on purpose.
Spike: Mine was bad on purpose! I had scriptwriters!
Author: Yeah, yeah, suck it up, Blondie-bear and talk about destroying things.
Dawn: Ooo! Look, it's fake memories! Because remembering those could in no way be painful because of their very fakeness. Thanks.
Author: My pleasure.
Willow: Why am I last? Am I in trouble? I didn't do anything wrong.
Author: *sighs*

Trinity
Xander: Hey, I can still read your minds.
Willow: Um, it was supposed to wear off.
Buffy: Well, we can continue planning for fighting against the First using telepathy, then.
Willow: Um, I think that it's kinda dangerous.
Xander: We are so screwed.
Buffy: Aren't we always?

Buffy/Angel/Wesley story
Buffy: Wow. Wesley's hot now.
Wesley: Buffy seems to respect me. Or she wants to fuck me. I can't quite figure out which.
Buffy and Wesley: *have sex*
Angel: Hey, I heard that Buffy was here... woah!
Wesley: Sorry about that.
Buffy: Hey, we could all have some fun together. There could be chocolate sauce.
Angel: Well...
Buffy and Angel and Wesley: *have sex*

Werewolves' World
Buffy and Oz: *fall through portal a hundred years into the future*
Buffy: Huh, werewolves have taken over.
Oz: I completely fit in.
Buffy: I feel out of place.
Oz: I can't think of any escape.
Buffy: Me neither.
Buffy and Oz: *have sex*
Willow and Xander and Co: *save them*
Buffy and Oz: Oops.

Erasing the Line
Buffy and Xander: *become a couple*
Buffy: Well, that was surprisingly painless.
Xander: I'm happy with it.
Season Seven: It's so bizarre to have a functional, cheery couple in my midst. *pokes B&X*
Buffy and Xander: *giggle*

A Dried Rose
Buffy: Xander's been tortured! By Faith! I must kill her for touching one of my people! Plus, she totally didn't even ask. Like she ever does, the bitch.
Xander: Wait, she's been possessed by the mad spirit of the First Slayer! It wasn't her fault!
Buffy: Oops.

In Perfect Possible:
Technical Difficulties
Buffy: So, it's been a while since that kiss.
Xander: Yep.
Buffy: Wanna have sex?
Xander: Okay.

Dance of the Mayflies
*evil happens*
Buffy: We should stop that.
*they do so*

Cacoethes
Willow: We should break up.
Kennedy: What's that now?
Willow: I slept with Giles.
Kennedy: But! Gay!
Willow: Apparently, I'm bi. Who could have guessed, what with all the serious boy-crushing I did when I was young?
Kennedy: *pouts*
Willow: *sleeps with Giles again*

Dead Skin
Willow: Oz!
Oz: Willow!
Willow: How've you been?
Oz: Good. You?
Willow: I'm okay.
Oz: How's that girlfriend of yours?
Willow: Dead. Thanks for bringing it up, asshole.
Author: Um...

Silver and Steel
Stephen: In this story that was conceived pre-Origin, I'm actually Connor and don't know it yet.
Willow: But when I see him, I get an odd feeling and end up uncovering a huge mind/reality changing spell.
Angel: Oops.

A Delicate Time
Willow: I've decided that we're going to stop seeing each other.
Giles: What's that now?
Willow: I have an odd feeling that I'm going to need to be single soon.
Giles: Fine, but don't expect me to be happy about it.
Willow: Hey, you were sleeping with a twenty-four year old. You should have been expecting fickle.

The Scar of You
Andrew: La, la, la. Life is a grand thing. People rely on me. Life is so great. Hmm. I wonder if people can see my depths.
Author: Honey, I can't even see them. You're as deep as a wading pool.

Will-o'-the-wisp
Willow: Tara?
GhostTara: Oh, hey.
Willow: Tara?
GhostTara: So, you can see me now. That's nice.
Willow: Tara?
GhostTara: I think I broke her.



Untitled Series
Fraser: *doesn't quite lie but definitely lets people believe things that aren't true*
Fraser: *continues to mislead*

Hamilton's Locket
RayK: We're solving a case on our vacation. Why am I less than surprised?
Fraser: I think that there's an odd twist.
Ray: Well, yes, you're on the case.
Fraser: *solves case*
Ray: *kisses Fraser*
Fraser: *has minor break-down*
Ray: We don't have to!
Fraser: *pounces on Ray*
Fraser and Ray: *have sex*

Picking Up the Spare
RayV: You know, love is a lot like bowling.
Author: I hate you. I suck at bowling.
RayV: *is insufferably smug*
Author: *hates*
RayV: *gets a spare*
Stella: Ooo! I got another strike!
RayV: That's a metaphor.
Author: *hates*

Sex in the Park
Fraser: *calls Ray on the phone* Let's have sex in the park.
RayK: Yes! Baby, let's go!
Welsh: Kowalski! I'm pairing you up with Vecchio, who has returned from Florida, starting this very instant. Since you're going off to meet Fraser-
RayV: Wait, he is? He didn't say that.
Welsh: Didn't have to. They have lunch together every day.
RayV: *is quietly shocked*
RayK: *hates*
RayV: Well, let's go see Benny.
RayK: Uh... I should call him first.
RayV: Whatever, polack.
RayK: Whatever, asshole.
Fraser: *waits in park for sex*
Park: *waits with Fraser*
RayK: So, what happened with Stella?
RayV: Screw you, I'm not talking about it.
RayK: Like I care.
RayK and RayV: *meet up with Fraser*
Fraser and the Rays: *have case*
Fraser: *tells RayV that he's sleeping with RayK*
Author: *is blocked*

Queering the Text:
Losing Time (Perfect Strangers)
RayK: Fraser isn't telling me something.
Fraser: *stays mum*
Ray: *is upset*

Defining Denial (Dead Guy Running)
Ray: I'm not falling in love with Fraser.
Fraser: *is hot*
Ray: Fuck.

Licking Wounds (Mountie on the Bounty)
Ray: So, Fraser, I was confusing you with my ex-wife. Sorry about that.
Fraser: *not actually there*
Ray: Yeah, this would work better if I were actually talking to Fraser and not myself.

Trembling Toward (Doctor Longball)
Ray: *hangs out with Dief, watches his homerun video*
Dief: *watches*
Ray: I'm thinking about Grace, who I almost had sex with, and not at all thinking about Fraser.
Dief: *watches*
Ray: I'm so fucked.

Goats and Wolves (Easy Money)
Ray: *hangs out with parents*
Ray: *leaves*
Ray: Fraser could have died.
Ray: *angsts*

Passive-Aggressive (A Likely Story)
Ray: Fraser kicked me in the head to wake me up. What was that about? Hey, Fraser, I thought you didn't even like the chick?
Fraser: *stays silent*
Ray: *is annoyed*

Sunk (Odds)
Ray: I think that I may have a small crush on Fraser.
Fraser: *plays poker with Ray*
Ray: But it's not a big deal.

Ashes (The Ladies Man)
Ray: *cries*
Fraser: *silently comforting*
Ray: Why is this so comforting? Must be that silly crush thing.

Physicality (Mojo Rising)
Ray: I'm not letting Fraser drive my car so that I can feel up his ass when we change places again. That's not what that was about.

Learning the Steps (Mountie Sings the Blues)
Ray: Hey, Fraser, why can't you dance?
Fraser: *shrugs*
Ray: C'mon, you can do it. I'll teach you.
Ray and Fraser: *dance*
Fraser: *kisses Ray*
Ray: *is shocked!*
Fraser: *backs off*

Carol of the Bells (Good for the Soul)
Ray: *feels guilty*
Fraser: *is very wounded*
Ray: *thinks about kissing Fraser*

Topsy-Turvy (Dead Men Don't Throw Rice)
Ray: *ponders the state of the universe in general and Fraser in specific*

The Day After Tomorrow (Say Amen)
Ray: *angsts*

Cliff Notes (Hunting Season)
Ray: *kisses Fraser*
Fraser: *backs off*
Ray: Wha?
Fraser: You were right earlier.
Ray: Wha?
Fraser: As long as you're undercover, we can't do this.
Ray: My life sucks.

Phoenix (Call of the Wild)
Fraser and Ray: *have sex*

Comments

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

You must write: Buffy/Angel/Wesley story and Cacoethes

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

So, do you want to see Willow and Giles get it on or would you be in it for the big Willow and Kennedy break-up scene?

Hee. I definitely plan on trying to continue both of those.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

Both the break-up and the sex.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

That's good.

*nods*

Both are equally important in the story.

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

Yay about the place! :)

Also, hee, I can't pick which of those sounds most fun, each one I read was like "ooh, this is good, this is good" and so on. ;)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Coolness. And thank you!

[vanilla-tiger.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to read some of these (in the no-pressure sense, of course).

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I can't wait to read some of these (in the no-pressure sense, of course).

<i.Wesley: You didn't have to sleep with him.
Angel: It's kinda tradition</i>

Is it wrong that I can actually see this dialogue taking place?

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yay, glad that they look interesting.

Is it wrong that I can actually see this dialogue taking place?

Nah, it's totally right.

*looks innocent*

Yep.

[nova25.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Those are great. I'd love to read an alt!version of Ats:4 when Wes wasn't dark.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

And yeah, all of my alt!motivation seems to lean towards making things lighter. I have this desire to make the characters I love happy (this is why I understood Angel doing the mind/reality switch tango).

[nova25.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree. Although I like the dark arcs of characters, I don't find them quite as appealing as I think most of the fandom seems to-- in fact, I often get annoyed when characters like Fred and Xander are bashed-- and the gist of the bashing is that they've never undergone a seriously dark time in their lives.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

And they've both had dark times, they just haven't been as systematically destroyed as most of the cast has.

But yeah, I like watching the shows when they're light just as much as when they're dark. I liked seeing Wes and Fred together for that short time -- they found great joy in each other. Part of the reason that I love ME is that they aren't afraid to be silly and light (which is why I loved TGiQ).