"Stages of
Grief"
by Ducks
Everybody's cranking out Dead Buffy fics like they're going out of style. Mm... well, you know what I mean. Most of us were deeply effected by the BtVS Season 5/ AtS Season 2 Finales, however we might feel about the character or the B/A Ship. Naturally, I'm no different. I found myself haunted for days, especially by Angel's reaction. Most surprising of all, I found that I was genuinely mourning... as though Buffy were a real life friend of mine who died. So... being a fanfic writer, and someone perpetually entranced by Angel-Angst, I did that therapy thing I always do -- A GWA, heart-breaky, gratuitously fluffy Joss-fixer. My fic doesn't make me cry very often, but this one does... every time. So grab a tissue, and come on in. It's my pleasure to share my pain with you. *g*
DISCLAIMER: Yeah. Like I'd
give my *SELF* a hysterical nervous breakdown if they were mine. Pfft. They
belong to people who don't really give much of a hoot about them. Their handlers
and owners care not that the fans need to grieve with their beloved characters.
*I* do. Unfortunately, I have to put them back in their lonely, disconnected
universe when I'm done, and nobody gives me a red cent for caring about the way
their histories are inexorably tied together. *sniff* To make a long story less
long (We miss you, Lindsey!), not mine, don't sue.
TIMELINE: Post Season 5/2 Finales
SPOILERS: Consider the entire canon fair game, especially BtVS5/AtS2, and
ESPECIALLY-especially "The Gift" and "There's No Place
Like Plrtz Glrb"
SYNOPSIS: Following Angel and some friends through Kubler-Ross' Five Stages of
Grief.
DEDICATION: To my Devoted Minion Dru, for demanding that I "FIX IT!".
To V, for feeling my pain. To Anja, who begged for gratuitous over-corpse
wailing. And to my beloved Slashers, some of whom have come down with a sudden
B/A bug. ;)
