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"Assignment Sunnydale" by Calle Dybedahl (PG)
I missed crossover day but was kindly given permission to post late. This one is Sapphire and Steel/Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Pairing: Willow/Tara (Buffy)
Length: 1800
Author on LJ: ?
Author Website: http://www.cyberpomo.com/
Why this must be read: This fic takes place at the very end of the Buffy episode Seeing Red. Here Time offers Willow a deal to save Tara's life and she takes it. Through a series of time loops we are shown how Time is using Willow as well as Sapphire and Steel working to stop her. Seeing Red is one of the most emotional episodes of Buffy (for me anyways) and this fic makes it all the more painful. A good kind of pain though.
The window shatters in a cloud of glass fragments. Blood spatters all over the red-haired girl's white shirt.
"Your shirt..." the blonde girl between the window and the redhead says, before she falls to the floor. The redhead rushes towards her lover, her face transforming with shock.
"Tara?" she says, pulling her head into her lap. "Tara? Baby?"
There is no reaction.
"Baby, come on!" she says, desperation breaking her voice. "Get up!"
But her baby is still. Below her, blood stains the carpet.
Tears are trickling down the redhead's face. She cradles the blonde's head in her arms. She rocks back and forth, mumbling half-felt unbelieving negations that nobody hears.
She hunches down further, and suddenly it occurs to her that she's not feeling her lover's breath. Her beloved isn't breathing.
In her mind, something snaps.
She uncurls, looks straight up, seeing nothing. Her eyes are solid black. A faint red spark appears deep within the blackness. Quickly, so quickly, it swells, making her eyes glow brilliant pain-red. Magical forces gather around her. The air thickens, waves of power rippling through it. Barbarous names pour forth from the redheaded girl's throat, ancient and powerful names that hasn't been spoken for eons. She's working from instinct. She's not thinking at all. The many reasons that the names are never spoken don't occur to her. She wants her baby back. The forces gain substance. Lines of darkness dance around the girl. Just a moment more. Just a moment more, and she'll release them. Release them, and they'll bring her beloved back to her again.
Before she can speak the final word, a hand covers her mouth.
The lines of darkness scatter and disperse. The red-headed girl turns her head. A blonde woman in a blue dress is crouching behind her. Even crouched, she looks tall. Her eyes are glowing a cold sapphire blue. Slowly, she takes her hand from the redhead's tear-streaked face.
Assignment Sunnydale
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Pairing: Willow/Tara (Buffy)
Length: 1800
Author on LJ: ?
Author Website: http://www.cyberpomo.com/
Why this must be read: This fic takes place at the very end of the Buffy episode Seeing Red. Here Time offers Willow a deal to save Tara's life and she takes it. Through a series of time loops we are shown how Time is using Willow as well as Sapphire and Steel working to stop her. Seeing Red is one of the most emotional episodes of Buffy (for me anyways) and this fic makes it all the more painful. A good kind of pain though.
The window shatters in a cloud of glass fragments. Blood spatters all over the red-haired girl's white shirt.
"Your shirt..." the blonde girl between the window and the redhead says, before she falls to the floor. The redhead rushes towards her lover, her face transforming with shock.
"Tara?" she says, pulling her head into her lap. "Tara? Baby?"
There is no reaction.
"Baby, come on!" she says, desperation breaking her voice. "Get up!"
But her baby is still. Below her, blood stains the carpet.
Tears are trickling down the redhead's face. She cradles the blonde's head in her arms. She rocks back and forth, mumbling half-felt unbelieving negations that nobody hears.
She hunches down further, and suddenly it occurs to her that she's not feeling her lover's breath. Her beloved isn't breathing.
In her mind, something snaps.
She uncurls, looks straight up, seeing nothing. Her eyes are solid black. A faint red spark appears deep within the blackness. Quickly, so quickly, it swells, making her eyes glow brilliant pain-red. Magical forces gather around her. The air thickens, waves of power rippling through it. Barbarous names pour forth from the redheaded girl's throat, ancient and powerful names that hasn't been spoken for eons. She's working from instinct. She's not thinking at all. The many reasons that the names are never spoken don't occur to her. She wants her baby back. The forces gain substance. Lines of darkness dance around the girl. Just a moment more. Just a moment more, and she'll release them. Release them, and they'll bring her beloved back to her again.
Before she can speak the final word, a hand covers her mouth.
The lines of darkness scatter and disperse. The red-headed girl turns her head. A blonde woman in a blue dress is crouching behind her. Even crouched, she looks tall. Her eyes are glowing a cold sapphire blue. Slowly, she takes her hand from the redhead's tear-streaked face.
Assignment Sunnydale