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Entry tags:
Pushing Daisies/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (PG)
Title: dust and pies by margottenenbaum
Pairing: gen (Ned-centric, with background Xander/Cordelia and Willow/Oz)
Length: 2733
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margottenenbaum
Author Website: her fic tag at LJ
Why this must be read:
Fresh out on his own for the first time, Ned sets up shop in Sunnydale (he chooses it for its low real estate prices), and proves himself to be at once the person best and worst suited for life there. The tone of this story is absolutely perfect for both shows, with rock-solid characterization for all involved. Ned is the only Pushing Daisies character to appear, but he's the main focus of the story, and the author makes excellent use of him.
It takes Ned approximately six days, twelve hours, three minutes, and forty-seven seconds to realize that after graduation he doesn't want to go anywhere near Couer d'Couers ever again. So he rents a car, packs up his apartment, and takes himself and Digby all the way to Southern California, to a town called Sunnydale that he chooses solely because it has the lowest real estate rates in ten counties. He buys out the old soda shop with all his savings and, within weeks, is the owner of his very own pie shop.
He's not open twenty minutes before a girl bursts through the doors and trots up to the counter, holding out her resume like a gift. "I'm Cordelia Chase," she says brightly, flashing a smile. "And you are so pleased to meet me."
"Shouldn't it be the other way around?" Ned asks. She looks confused. "Shouldn't you be pleased to meet me?"
Her beaming smile returns. "No, you're the thankful one, you just don't know it yet. In two months I'm going to turn your pie place into the hottest joint in town."
dust and pies
Pairing: gen (Ned-centric, with background Xander/Cordelia and Willow/Oz)
Length: 2733
Author on LJ:
margottenenbaumAuthor Website: her fic tag at LJ
Why this must be read:
Fresh out on his own for the first time, Ned sets up shop in Sunnydale (he chooses it for its low real estate prices), and proves himself to be at once the person best and worst suited for life there. The tone of this story is absolutely perfect for both shows, with rock-solid characterization for all involved. Ned is the only Pushing Daisies character to appear, but he's the main focus of the story, and the author makes excellent use of him.
It takes Ned approximately six days, twelve hours, three minutes, and forty-seven seconds to realize that after graduation he doesn't want to go anywhere near Couer d'Couers ever again. So he rents a car, packs up his apartment, and takes himself and Digby all the way to Southern California, to a town called Sunnydale that he chooses solely because it has the lowest real estate rates in ten counties. He buys out the old soda shop with all his savings and, within weeks, is the owner of his very own pie shop.
He's not open twenty minutes before a girl bursts through the doors and trots up to the counter, holding out her resume like a gift. "I'm Cordelia Chase," she says brightly, flashing a smile. "And you are so pleased to meet me."
"Shouldn't it be the other way around?" Ned asks. She looks confused. "Shouldn't you be pleased to meet me?"
Her beaming smile returns. "No, you're the thankful one, you just don't know it yet. In two months I'm going to turn your pie place into the hottest joint in town."
dust and pies