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Spike and Buffy, Lost in Cyber-Space by Anne Rose (R)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Author on LJ: --
Length: 35,000 words
Author website: Anne's Rose Garden
Why this should be read:
In this season 6 rewrite Willow uses her computer to do a little inter-dimensional hacking. Spike takes her laptop and occasionally connects to our reality and our Internet circa season 6 - full of BtVS spoilers, rants and fanfiction. Intrigued, he starts to investigate and comes to conclusion that fanfics are prophecies and ficwriters are oracles. Spike asks then what he should do to win Buffy's heart and gets a lot of creative advices.
Anne-Rose pulls off the ultimate post-modernist trick - that of a writer inserting herself and her friends into the narrative. Usually the results are embarassing, but here the technique works because the twist is rooted in the very nature of the BtVS fandom - creative, snarky and hungry for spoilers. Anne-Rose' story provides the reader with a unique glimpse at the fandom in 2002 when shipper wars were raging and spoiler whoring reached its peak. Yet the writer manages to to avoid harshness and bashing; she looks at characters and their fans with sympathetic smile.
He clicked on a link and another page opened. There were pictures of her, the Scoobies, Spike, Giles, Dawn, everyone. They sat there; mesmerized for several minutes, as they read brief life histories of several of their friends. "How do they know all this? Who are these people?"
"I don't have any idea, but it sure seems like this might be a little more important than patrolling tonight," he replied. "There are hundreds of these pages." He clicked on another link for a site discussing William the Bloody, with some cryptic initials A/S/X in the site description. The page popped open displaying a huge picture of him, Angel, and Xander. Their grinning faces had been pasted onto a set of bodies that were doing things that managed to offend even him. "Bloody hell!" he swore, closing the page.
Buffy's jaw dropped and she just sat there for a moment, then she started laughing hysterically. "We have *got* to bookmark that page," she managed to say between giggles. "I *so* need that picture to blackmail you and Xander."
"Over my dead body! And that was clearly a fake picture!" He looked at her as she laughed, and his face began to soften. It had been so long since she had laughed like that, not since before she died. Since she had been back, there were times when he wondered if he would ever hear it again. The gentle expression turned to one of mischief. With an evil twinkle in his eye he said, "Here now, you know it's fake. Have you ever seen the Poof smile like that?"
She continued chuckling harder, as she nodded. "Good point, I don't think Angel's smiled like that in his whole life." She wiped her eyes and took a couple deep breaths to calm herself. "Ok, what other surprises have you found?" He began clicking again, and she asked, "By the way, how did you find all of this?"
He shrugged. "I just thought I'd search on Spike. I put in Spike Vampire, and all this came up."
"Why are there all these links to me when we searched on your name?" she asked, as she scanned the screen.
"Wondered that myself. Bloody unfair if you ask me."
"I'm not. Go back and search on Buffy and vampire."
He put the search string in, and hit enter. Immediately there was a list of sites with titles like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Buffy and Angel Forever', 'Spike and Buffy', and a couple even mentioned Riley and Buffy. She just stared at the computer, too stunned to say anything. Spike, on the other hand, had already had a chance to get over his initial shock and was surfing through the pages to see if there was some sort of pattern or indication of who was behind it.
"Slayer, I think I'm on to something." He pointed to the screen. "See here? They refer to lists of members. Here it is again on this page. This one is called Spike_Buffy_6."
"Six? Six whats?" she asked.
"I don't know. Every time I click on a link that's supposed to take me to it I get an error message," he growled. "Oh, this one is priceless!" He had clicked on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spike_Buffy_6/ only to arrive at a page saying, 'Oops... There is no group called Spike_Buffy_6.'
"Do you think it's some kind of security measure? Maybe we need a password to get in there?"
"I don't know," he grumbled, "but now I'm annoyed." He did some further searches and finally he slammed his hand down on the table, causing her to jump. "Aha! Found it." He ginned smugly as he typed in, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spoiled_Spuffy and hit enter.
"What the hell is a Spuffy? And why is it spoiled? Sounds like a bad thing," she grimaced.
A red page popped up, and they scanned the text. "It looks like more code. I can't understand what it's talking about. Can you get to the messages?"
Just then, a picture finished loading. They both gaped at the computer as a picture of the two of them stared back. They were holding each other; her head was pressed against his chest. She looked blissfully happy, and his expression while not quite a smile looked very content, with an undercurrent of possessiveness. It was as if he was challenging anyone who dared to take this woman from him.
Spike and Buffy, Lost in Cyber-Space
Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Author on LJ: --
Length: 35,000 words
Author website: Anne's Rose Garden
Why this should be read:
In this season 6 rewrite Willow uses her computer to do a little inter-dimensional hacking. Spike takes her laptop and occasionally connects to our reality and our Internet circa season 6 - full of BtVS spoilers, rants and fanfiction. Intrigued, he starts to investigate and comes to conclusion that fanfics are prophecies and ficwriters are oracles. Spike asks then what he should do to win Buffy's heart and gets a lot of creative advices.
Anne-Rose pulls off the ultimate post-modernist trick - that of a writer inserting herself and her friends into the narrative. Usually the results are embarassing, but here the technique works because the twist is rooted in the very nature of the BtVS fandom - creative, snarky and hungry for spoilers. Anne-Rose' story provides the reader with a unique glimpse at the fandom in 2002 when shipper wars were raging and spoiler whoring reached its peak. Yet the writer manages to to avoid harshness and bashing; she looks at characters and their fans with sympathetic smile.
He clicked on a link and another page opened. There were pictures of her, the Scoobies, Spike, Giles, Dawn, everyone. They sat there; mesmerized for several minutes, as they read brief life histories of several of their friends. "How do they know all this? Who are these people?"
"I don't have any idea, but it sure seems like this might be a little more important than patrolling tonight," he replied. "There are hundreds of these pages." He clicked on another link for a site discussing William the Bloody, with some cryptic initials A/S/X in the site description. The page popped open displaying a huge picture of him, Angel, and Xander. Their grinning faces had been pasted onto a set of bodies that were doing things that managed to offend even him. "Bloody hell!" he swore, closing the page.
Buffy's jaw dropped and she just sat there for a moment, then she started laughing hysterically. "We have *got* to bookmark that page," she managed to say between giggles. "I *so* need that picture to blackmail you and Xander."
"Over my dead body! And that was clearly a fake picture!" He looked at her as she laughed, and his face began to soften. It had been so long since she had laughed like that, not since before she died. Since she had been back, there were times when he wondered if he would ever hear it again. The gentle expression turned to one of mischief. With an evil twinkle in his eye he said, "Here now, you know it's fake. Have you ever seen the Poof smile like that?"
She continued chuckling harder, as she nodded. "Good point, I don't think Angel's smiled like that in his whole life." She wiped her eyes and took a couple deep breaths to calm herself. "Ok, what other surprises have you found?" He began clicking again, and she asked, "By the way, how did you find all of this?"
He shrugged. "I just thought I'd search on Spike. I put in Spike Vampire, and all this came up."
"Why are there all these links to me when we searched on your name?" she asked, as she scanned the screen.
"Wondered that myself. Bloody unfair if you ask me."
"I'm not. Go back and search on Buffy and vampire."
He put the search string in, and hit enter. Immediately there was a list of sites with titles like 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Buffy and Angel Forever', 'Spike and Buffy', and a couple even mentioned Riley and Buffy. She just stared at the computer, too stunned to say anything. Spike, on the other hand, had already had a chance to get over his initial shock and was surfing through the pages to see if there was some sort of pattern or indication of who was behind it.
"Slayer, I think I'm on to something." He pointed to the screen. "See here? They refer to lists of members. Here it is again on this page. This one is called Spike_Buffy_6."
"Six? Six whats?" she asked.
"I don't know. Every time I click on a link that's supposed to take me to it I get an error message," he growled. "Oh, this one is priceless!" He had clicked on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spike_Buffy_6/ only to arrive at a page saying, 'Oops... There is no group called Spike_Buffy_6.'
"Do you think it's some kind of security measure? Maybe we need a password to get in there?"
"I don't know," he grumbled, "but now I'm annoyed." He did some further searches and finally he slammed his hand down on the table, causing her to jump. "Aha! Found it." He ginned smugly as he typed in, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spoiled_Spuffy and hit enter.
"What the hell is a Spuffy? And why is it spoiled? Sounds like a bad thing," she grimaced.
A red page popped up, and they scanned the text. "It looks like more code. I can't understand what it's talking about. Can you get to the messages?"
Just then, a picture finished loading. They both gaped at the computer as a picture of the two of them stared back. They were holding each other; her head was pressed against his chest. She looked blissfully happy, and his expression while not quite a smile looked very content, with an undercurrent of possessiveness. It was as if he was challenging anyone who dared to take this woman from him.
Spike and Buffy, Lost in Cyber-Space