Less Than Real by Zulu (NC-17)

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Hey. I'm Polo and I'm your BtVS/AtS slave for the month. I'm a big fan of femslash and gen in the fandom, especially quite unusual stuff, so that's what you have to look forward to! Enjoy.


Fandom: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Pairing: Faith/Dawn
Length: 5,079
Author on LJ: queenzulu
Author Website: here.
Why this must be read: This is one of the most beautiful fics I've ever read. It's also the fic that got me into Faith/Dawn and believe me, even if you think you don't like Dawn, you should give this a shot. It plays with her character perfectly. She still has that bratty edge but that's not all there is to her and Faith's characterised brilliantly too, all power and wild energy.

I'm not joking when I say this fic gave me goosebumps. It's fragmented and unusual and is based on such an excellent premise - one that you'll have to read to discover - that it's stuck firmly in my memory for a long time.

Faith lets the rhythm slam through her and moves with the music so easily it's like the bass line takes life from her heartbeat. Dawn dances more slowly, she swims through this alien sea, and it's not with the beat but in syncopation. She follows after wherever Faith leads and they dance so closely, so close.

"You're like lightning," Faith says again, between songs, leaning in to breathe hot breath on Dawn's neck. "You're like one of those balls...with the electricity inside...all the squiggly lines reaching out from the center to the glass. And I know..." She chuckles, and her hands tighten on Dawn's hips. "If I touch you...all that energy will come straight to me..." And she pushes her hips forward, and Dawn gasps.

"Oh..."

The next song blares its opening chords then, and Dawn knows her moan is lost in the speakers' roar, but Faith captures her mouth and tastes the sound of her surrender.

They kiss, long and deep, and they dance, and there is no difference.

Faith kisses like she's screaming into thunder, defying danger, wild and wet and calling down the storm from the skies.

Dawn dances like lightning.

Less Than Real