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crack_van2005-09-25 06:09 pm
mona1347.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2005-09-25 06:09 pm
Lost in the Supermarket by Lint (G or K+)
Fandom: ANGEL
Pairing: None. Wesley and Illyria.
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Seems to be shut down but here is fanfic.net profile.
Why this must be read:
This is one of both the funniest and angst-ridden fics I've read. The author's homepage seems to have gone offline but I managed to find a copy of this story on fanfiction.net and oh boy am I glad I did. Wesley and Illyria in an LA supermarket - does it get much better than that?
Illyria is one of my favorite Angel characters and I deeply mourn the fact that the show's untimely cancellation stalled the possible character development of this ex-God Of The Primordium. Illyria's also one of the most difficult character voices in fic and I think many good authors avoid writing her for that reason. "Lost In The Supermarket" has one of the top five best Illyria voices I've ever had the pleasure to read.
~
"Can it be?" She asks him. "Can oscrats have really survived so much time?"
“Oscrats?” he asks.
She picks up a plum and offers it to him.
“These here, are they not oscrats?”
“Plums,” he says. “We call them plums.”
“The resemblance is uncanny. It must be them.”
She takes a bite, and he winces and moves to take it from her.
“We have to pay for these first,” he says off her annoyed reaction. “And then wash them. There are pesticides, things to keep insects from devouring them while they grow.”
“Pesticides?”
“Poison,” he explains. “To kill bugs.”
“You would poison your own food?” She asks.
“To protect them.”
“I do not understand.”
~
Lost in the Supermarket
Pairing: None. Wesley and Illyria.
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Seems to be shut down but here is fanfic.net profile.
Why this must be read:
This is one of both the funniest and angst-ridden fics I've read. The author's homepage seems to have gone offline but I managed to find a copy of this story on fanfiction.net and oh boy am I glad I did. Wesley and Illyria in an LA supermarket - does it get much better than that?
Illyria is one of my favorite Angel characters and I deeply mourn the fact that the show's untimely cancellation stalled the possible character development of this ex-God Of The Primordium. Illyria's also one of the most difficult character voices in fic and I think many good authors avoid writing her for that reason. "Lost In The Supermarket" has one of the top five best Illyria voices I've ever had the pleasure to read.
~
"Can it be?" She asks him. "Can oscrats have really survived so much time?"
“Oscrats?” he asks.
She picks up a plum and offers it to him.
“These here, are they not oscrats?”
“Plums,” he says. “We call them plums.”
“The resemblance is uncanny. It must be them.”
She takes a bite, and he winces and moves to take it from her.
“We have to pay for these first,” he says off her annoyed reaction. “And then wash them. There are pesticides, things to keep insects from devouring them while they grow.”
“Pesticides?”
“Poison,” he explains. “To kill bugs.”
“You would poison your own food?” She asks.
“To protect them.”
“I do not understand.”
~
Lost in the Supermarket