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Something Like Summertime by thenyxie (NC-17)
::waves:: Long time watcher, first time writing, blah blah blah blah...I'm at the wheel of the Buffyverse van this month, so expect a bunch of Buffy/Angel fics coming your way, with a sprinkling of other fun things to boot. I'll kick off with one of my all-time favorites and go from there.
Fandom: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER / ANGEL: THE SERIES
Pairing: Buffy/Angel
Length: ~2,550 words, one-shot
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thenyxie
Author Website: Archive
Why This Must Be Read: I stumbled onto this beautiful one-shot even before I started watching Buffy, and I was transfixed. The setting is simple and beautiful, and so is the writing. It captures the happy ending that these two so desperately deserve, and it hones in on the why of it--they are happiest together. Thatthenyxie keeps them fighting the good fight makes it all the sweeter: part of what makes the pairing so interesting is that the two have always had higher callings keeping them apart, but when you take the barriers away, they still want to do what's right, for themselves and for the rest of the world.
Light moves over the rolling surface of the lake like a second skin. Small, choppy waves glitter as they rush, blinding sun twinkling like star points at their edges. Wind sweeps in, warm and summer light, and she tilts her face up and back towards the sun, letting her hair flow like streaming gold.
Angel stands behind her, presses kisses along her neck, hands gentle on her shoulders. She leans back into his caress, pressing against his chest, thinking that thousands of miles away, across another body of vast water, her destiny still waits.
“What are you thinking?” he murmurs, brushing his mouth against her ear.
“Mmm,” she murmurs, snuggling against him. “Just… summer’s almost over…”
“We’ve still got some time.”
“I know. It’s just… You know. I never thought I’d want more than this. Being a normal girl, with you.”
“There’s nothing normal about you, Buffy,” he says, and she can feel his smile against her skin.
“Yeah, I’m beginning to get that,” she says with a wry chuckle.
“Why does that sound like a bad thing when you say it?” he asks.
“I was just… we’ll be going back soon. Fighting again.”
“It’s what we do,” he says, and she can feel him shrug.
“Is it?” She stops, puts her hand on his arm and turns to him. “Angel. You’re human now. What if… I mean, I don’t…”
“Buffy. Most of the time I was in LA, not a single person on my team had superpowers.”
“I know. But… you don’t have to fight anymore, Angel. We could… we could just live.”
“Is that what you want?” His eyes are so warm, so intense and loving her, and she has to look away, out over the water.
Something Like Summertime
Fandom: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER / ANGEL: THE SERIES
Pairing: Buffy/Angel
Length: ~2,550 words, one-shot
Author on LJ:
thenyxieAuthor Website: Archive
Why This Must Be Read: I stumbled onto this beautiful one-shot even before I started watching Buffy, and I was transfixed. The setting is simple and beautiful, and so is the writing. It captures the happy ending that these two so desperately deserve, and it hones in on the why of it--they are happiest together. That
thenyxie keeps them fighting the good fight makes it all the sweeter: part of what makes the pairing so interesting is that the two have always had higher callings keeping them apart, but when you take the barriers away, they still want to do what's right, for themselves and for the rest of the world.Light moves over the rolling surface of the lake like a second skin. Small, choppy waves glitter as they rush, blinding sun twinkling like star points at their edges. Wind sweeps in, warm and summer light, and she tilts her face up and back towards the sun, letting her hair flow like streaming gold.
Angel stands behind her, presses kisses along her neck, hands gentle on her shoulders. She leans back into his caress, pressing against his chest, thinking that thousands of miles away, across another body of vast water, her destiny still waits.
“What are you thinking?” he murmurs, brushing his mouth against her ear.
“Mmm,” she murmurs, snuggling against him. “Just… summer’s almost over…”
“We’ve still got some time.”
“I know. It’s just… You know. I never thought I’d want more than this. Being a normal girl, with you.”
“There’s nothing normal about you, Buffy,” he says, and she can feel his smile against her skin.
“Yeah, I’m beginning to get that,” she says with a wry chuckle.
“Why does that sound like a bad thing when you say it?” he asks.
“I was just… we’ll be going back soon. Fighting again.”
“It’s what we do,” he says, and she can feel him shrug.
“Is it?” She stops, puts her hand on his arm and turns to him. “Angel. You’re human now. What if… I mean, I don’t…”
“Buffy. Most of the time I was in LA, not a single person on my team had superpowers.”
“I know. But… you don’t have to fight anymore, Angel. We could… we could just live.”
“Is that what you want?” His eyes are so warm, so intense and loving her, and she has to look away, out over the water.
Something Like Summertime