AU BtVS Faith fic: Talking to the Trees by Kerkevik

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

 

     I thought I'd finish off this year's halfamoon with a Faith-centred fic I wrote for Jet Wolf's The Chosen  http://www.btvschosen.com/   Buffy continuation; much more canon to me than the season 8 comics, though I am thinking of having Satsu turn up on the Trimouth.

 

   Spoilery background info for those who might be interested enough to start reading Season 8 will be at the end.

   Hope you take the time to read and pass me your thoughts. The more feedback the better :-)

  Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
  Ray.
 

http://www.btvschosen.com/fic_trees.php

 

TITLE: Talking To The Trees
AUTHOR: Ray Harley
DISCLAIMER: Most of this belongs to Mutant Enemy etc... The rest belongs mostly to Jet Wolf and her pack. The Idea for the story is mine. There, that should scare off the nasty scary lawyers... do ya think?
RATING: R for strong language.
SUMMARY: Faith is struggling with her dark side again - or maybe her conscience? - and gets a visit from an old acquaintance.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: The dialogue at the beginning is Angel's from AtS season one episode 'Sanctuary'.

SPOILERY BACKGROUND INFO~~~~~~~~~~~

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Background info: In The Chosen's canon, Faith became the mentor of a new slayer called Hazel; who was murdered by a flellow slayer who turned out to be a traitor. Faith has been, in my take on the story, been torturing herself over her reaction to that event. Also, in an early episode, a tree was planted as a result of an agreement between Willow & other protagonists in that epsiode. It was intended to be somewhere everyone at Slayer Central could go and think about; talk, or judge honour those who they had lost.

Comments

[cmk418]

Ray,

This was lovely. I haven't read any of the S8 comics, but you gave me enough background to follow it. I enjoyed Faith's observations about the different characters and who they were speaking to or about. The pacing was perfect, I could feel the attraction Faith had to the place and also the resistance she had toward actually taking part in such a powerful ritual.

Beautifully done!

-Cat

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Well it is Jet Wolf's continuation; not the official one but, you know, now that you mention it I can imagine a scene not unlike this one between the two fitting into that version of canon.

http://www.btvschosen.com/fs_walls.php

Check out the third wallpaper on the top row of that link, and you will find a line from the end of the ep that I mentioned in my spoilery background info spiel.

You should think about checking out the whole of Jet Wolf's Season 8 continuation for, as I said above, it contains more of the spirit that attracted me to the show than Joss' vision of it has really - if I'm honest - since they started tearing Riley's character to pieces; he was never going to be right for Buffy, but he deserved better than he got.

No femslash, btw but, if you did read it, I'm sure you could figure out how to put some in :-); also, again as I said above, I'm thinking of introducing a couple of the characters from the comics into Jet Wolf's 'verse, particularly her only-too-brief girlfriend, Satsu.

And thank you for the kind words; feeling kinda lonely, what with it being valentine's day, and not having anyone to really share it with, so your feedback is going to give me a nice warm feeling to go to sleep on.

Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.