FIC: The Late Shift

[Grimaldi]

cool update, thanks for the free Willow

so in order to get a free Tara, do i need to fill out an order form, or send in a coupon or something?

"That movie has warpped my fragile little mind"

"All day I dream about fuckin' "

"Hey, look at the prostitutes you guys!"

[TinyJewishSanta]

Well - I for one am not going to look a gift Willow in the mouth (oh- for a better choice of words). Giving my Willow back once was hard enough - I am not doing it again, no sirree, no way.

"Willow.... That's a tree. You're a tree! Yeah, uh, uh, are there any nachos in here, little tree?" Band Candy

[wiccachica]

*Switches all the free Willows for free Taras*



TinyJewishSanta gets to keep her Willow though...



Enjoy them! See...no coupon needed Grimaldi.



As for Mack...the pup...he's still in Danger's hand...I just needed suspence...and a wriggling puppy kinda nixes suspence...lol...



I'm glad you liked the last bit...I'm feeling a little weird today...



And I too want the Willows to have Taras of their very own...but I'm not sure how the troll is going to work this out. I have to agree with NewRuthRising That a desperate Willow is a potentially unpredicatable Willow indeed...



OMG!!! I'm "'pimpin'-Fabulous Disco sexy??? Now THAT'S a compliment....I mean...just Sexy...sure (hahaha)...but DISCO sexy...I'm just floored! Thank you Sass! And don't cry...everything will work out for the best...(hands Sass a Kleenex)



And just so you know a Wiccachica without her woncubines is a sad Wiccachica indeed, LeatherQueen...



Afternoon Edition:

Chapter 152: How many Bauds per Millisecond Does it Take to Make One Baudy….?



Raining.



It’s been raining for way too long…



For crying out loud…this is Southern California…it’s rained like four times so far since January ….and that’s WAY above the rain quotient for the YEAR….



Not only that, but here I am…walking through Gentle Earth…



Gentle Earth. Filled with nothing but snooty uppercrust Vamps and Highbrowed Hellbeasts. Bloody Un-Lifestyles of the Rich and Restless….



Damn it, I wish I lived here…



As we make our way into the thick of Gentle Earth, I feel Willow’s previous resolve melting away. I feel this because despite how we don’t generally get along…she’s practically melded to my right side at this moment…her green eyes look like those creme pies with the green Maraschino cherries in the center...



" Are you sure this is where Danger lives?" She asks me.



" You want to stop and ask one of the nice gents who live around here for directions, Red?" I ask…trying to keep from laughing at the way she looks up at me… thinking I’m serious.



" He lives right over the next hill…big white crypt…family must’ve been rolling in it when they were alive…" I say.



" Rolling in WHAT?" Willow asks blankly…looking at me with a funny expression…



Kid’s had a rough night…she’s cold…and worried…and probably a little shell-shocked right now….



Gah. ..what do you care if she’s shell-shocked, Spike? I mean it’s not any of your….



And the very next second she just keels forward for no apparent reason.



I catch her before she falls face first into the rain soaked grass.



…concern…



I pick her up…she weighs so little that I’m tempted to toss her…just to see how far I can send her…you know… so the next time she tells me she trusts me about as far as I can throw her…I’ll have an exact distance for her…you know…fifteen…twenty feet…and besides…she’s unconscious …she’ll never know….



Okay…so maybe I won’t throw her right now…maybe I’ll play the good guy and carry her to Danger’s crypt…let her come around like a normal girl…naturally-like…you know…in a tomb…



As I bank the next hill…I see a figure exiting Danger’s crypt. In the rain…the person is nothing but a shimmery form that stops to stomp around angrily in the mud as I continue to approach.



She still hasn’t caught sight of me.



I hear a voice filtering through the rain…and I stop for a moment…confused…



" I won’t let you do it! I just won’t!…It spells trouble, Pru! Just plain trouble!" I hear her shout in the general direction of the open Crypt door.



She doesn’t notice I’m upon her until I’m a few paces away. She turns abruptly to me…her pigtails swinging wetly into her face…



Her…very familiar face….



Her strikingly familiar face…



" Ruh…ruh.. Red?" I say…losing my hold on the one…and staring boggle-eyed at the other.



Sploosh. The Willow previously unconscious in my arms… goes down in the squishy grass…



The pig-tailed Willow looks pointedly down at the Willow on the ground at my feet, and then slowly back up at me…her expression….priceless…



" Oh….We are in sooooo much trouble…." She says.



TBC…

" I mock you with my Monkey Pants!" - OZ


" You're NOT the source of me" - Buffy


" Tremble!" - Gacknar

Edited by: wiccachica  at: 4/19/02 11:19:37 am

[Sassette]

LOL ... Awww ... and now I want to know how far Spike can throw Willow.



God, I'm sick.



-Sass

[UniDagger]

(passes out one free Willow to everyone for the day..)

*Switches all the free Willows for free Taras*





That like movie rentals? We get frequent willow-miles? Cash in 200 willow-points get a Willow Rental for 2 days?



(I still think I could handle one of each *g*)



btw, you said the willow was for a day...didnt say the taras had to be returned *EG*

[wiccachica]

Very astute UniDagger. VERY astute...



I think if you got one of each...they'd end up being too busy with each other...unless...that is your....uh...point...



Sass... I'm going to have to ask you...



no...not if you're really a sick puppy for your last comment...(but really...Willow-throwing...???...that's Troll-logic)



My question is...



Have you been playing around the board all day and not writing me fic, Love?



Am I going to have to lay down the law here??? (which will be funny cuz I'm a really intimidatingly tall... ninny)



Okay...so I'll have to try the flirting thing....



Oh...Sass... my lovely fic-writing diva of all that is good and right in this world.... How's the writing coming??? Hmm?





-chica

" I mock you with my Monkey Pants!" - OZ


" You're NOT the source of me" - Buffy


" Tremble!" - Gacknar

[Rane018]

this is soooo fantastic.



and spike: "I pick her up…she weighs so little that I’m tempted to toss her…just to see how far I can send her…you know… so the next time she tells me she trusts me about as far as I can throw her…I’ll have an exact distance for her…you know…fifteen…twenty feet…and besides…she’s unconscious …she’ll never know…."

hilarious!



how you can work and write at the same time is beyond me. Danger reminds me of this character i wrote for a valentines day challenge in the other board. however, he had a crush on tara. anyhoo, why does he still call her THE tara? doesn't he know she's not THE anymore? right? didn't she beat the crap out of the god already? and why is he so sweet and cute? what's keeping him nice?



and all the willow's meet again! um, they did meet last time right? i cant remember. i know willow knew about them but i dont remember if she met them. i need cliffnotes. :/ hehe. hugs

[wiccachica]

Such great questions, Rane! ( I sound like a teacher...not that that is bad...I like teachers!)



How do I write and work at the same time??? Simple! I don't work....uhm...hahaha...no...really...I work 14 hour days right now...and I TAKE 20 minute breaks to write...I consider writing to be a break-like activity...though I'd like to spend more time going over these posts...you know...fleshing them out and making them a little more plausible.... oh well...maybe with my new job....



Now...for the question of Danger...I think of him as kind of a fluke vamp...you know...not really meant to be a vamp...not particularly cut out for the BIG BAD job. I think he still thinks of Tara as THE Tara...but only out of a sense of puppy-like loyalty...though I'd definately not put him in the CRUSH catagory for this fic.... I'm attached to him because where Cordy and Anya have been the " tell it like it is" characters...Danger represents my....sense of over the top loyalty...I see him as a really honest sensative guy when he was alive...that was really too sweet to lose that entirely....



And yes...the Willow's will certainly be a kick in the pants together again...I'm sure of it!



Whew... I'm mouthy today.



Hope that helped understand my warped brain a little.



-chica

" I mock you with my Monkey Pants!" - OZ


" You're NOT the source of me" - Buffy


" Tremble!" - Gacknar

[Sassette]

"Whew... I'm mouthy today."



Bad Sass! Must ... not make ... comment. Must .... use ... powers for .... good --- ... not ... Evil.



-Sass

[supermus]

"We are in SOO much trouble"

LOL! I remember each of the Willows had a title(Klutzy, Naughty, etc.) Which Willows are Pru and Pippa?

I too am in the "rooting for giving them Taras" camp. I mean, I'm enjoying *my* Tara. But there's a moral issue about creating life, isn't there? *realizes he's a liberal*. Never mind, no moral issue. Create away!

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Nothing gets in the way of fate. Not time, not space, not distance, no person or creature. Not even death. Eventually fate will bring them together."

-Excerpt from Katharyn's "The Sidestep Chronicle"

[LeatherQueen]

OH! *LOL* Yes... I also wonder how far Spike could throw Willow. And do the weather conditions affect that throw?



Yay!! My very own Tara. Goodie, goodie...



*sigh* off to another meeting I go... but at least the memory of this will get me through. I can sit and think about my very own Tara while I ignore the speakerphone...

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"Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind." - Glory


"Futile... like a FOX, baby!" - Tara in The Late Shift by wiccachica

Edited by: LeatherQueen at: 4/19/02 1:16:37 pm

[jdcioffi]

I could *hear* Willow -- er -- Pippa - er, uhm ... a Willow-voice say "we're in SO much trouble."



This gets better and better ... which is odd, because something that is "best" can't get better. It must be getting bester.



Or something.



JD

...but if I did call, she wouldn't hang up on me.

[Grimaldi]

Thanks for the Tara (do I have to return her??) Spikes comment about how it has rained to long for Southern California was funny (and true). Is seeing how far Willow can be tossed a new Olympic event?



really great update. can't wait to see Pippa and Pru try to explain everything.

"That movie has warpped my fragile little mind"

"All day I dream about fuckin' "

"Hey, look at the prostitutes you guys!"

[Sassette]

So you're going to send us off for a weekend of no updates with Willow Willow lying on the ground in the rain?



Y'know, that would be a happy visual if, y'know, she and Tara were alone and Willow Willow was, say, CONSCIOUS?



-Sass

[wiccachica]

Oh Sass...

Quote:

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Y'know, that would be a happy visual if, y'know, she and Tara were alone and Willow Willow was, say, CONSCIOUS?

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I like the way you think....



As for another update...I didn't have the time for a third today...but I have a pleasent bout of insomnia as of late...so possibly an early edition tomorrow....hmm?



-Chica

" I mock you with my Monkey Pants!" - OZ


" You're NOT the source of me" - Buffy


" Tremble!" - Gacknar

[ExtraFlameyWT]

Yay for insomnia!



Okay, no "yay" for insomnia... but a woo and a hoo for another update!



-Aimee



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"Hey Will, this is me. It doesn't all have to be good and fine. This is the room where you don't have to be brave. I still love you. If you're worried, you can be worried." -Tara to Willow in ep. 603 Afterlife

[Sassette]

Heh ... and >I< like the way >you< think ... or, umm... the way your troll thinks, or, errr ... damn, I'm confused.



But yes ... tomorrow morning will be acceptable. Thank you.



-Sass

[DarkWiccan]

Okay, it has taken me three days to finally catch up to where you've left off as of today 4/19/02 (I'm new to the board). And I just have to say....



YOU ARE INSANE!!!



I kinda like it



Cheers

DarkWiccan

"Promise me you'll never be linear." "On my trout."

[wiccachica]

I'm not going to be able to update for a day or two... what I thought was just weariness...turns out to be pneumonia... and I just have to catch up on my stregnth...through sleep....lots and lots of sleep... and tea....much tea...



sounds awful...doesn't it? Sleep... and tea...heh.



I'll pop in later to read all the fic updates....and say hello...



Have a great day!





Nikki

" I mock you with my Monkey Pants!" - OZ


" You're NOT the source of me" - Buffy


" Tremble!" - Gacknar

[Sassette]

Awwww ... you get lots of sleep, and lots of tea. Pneumonia is no fun at all, and I wholeheartedly disapprove of our dear wiccachica not feeling well.



Hope you feel better soon.



-Sass

[mollyig]

Aw poor wiccachica.



Well, mind your weary, wacky wee self okay!

Adding up the total of a love that's true, multiply life by the power of two
Indigo Girls

[ExtraFlameyWT]

Aww, feel better wiccachica... get lots of sleep...



we will wait patiently for more updates of the multiple Willow variety.



-Aimee



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"Hey Will, this is me. It doesn't all have to be good and fine. This is the room where you don't have to be brave. I still love you. If you're worried, you can be worried." -Tara to Willow in ep. 603 Afterlife

[UniDagger]

Much to my picky-eater dearest ~Liz's dismay, I must make a suggestion here: Chickweed Tea. I know, I know..sounds horrid but believe me its the herbal tea that works. GNC or any health food store should have it. Works wonders in getting you over pnumnia/bronchitis (its the only thing that helps me. Last time I had it..and Id had it for several years running...I had it 3 times in 6 months. Chickweed Tea did what all the doctors 'give her the same old stuff' method couldnt). And dont listen to ~Liz, its not bad. You can add a touch of honey if you like (I dont like honey, myself). I cant drink anything that is nasty, so if it was bad...I wouldnt suggest it



Hope you feel better!

[jdcioffi]

*waves hands through the air like David Copperfield*



Just sending some get better vibes.





JD

...but if I did call, she wouldn't hang up on me.

[TinyJewishSanta]

Just adding my well wishes to the mix.



TJS

"Willow.... That's a tree. You're a tree! Yeah, uh, uh, are there any nachos in here, little tree?" Band Candy

[wiccachica]

Really thanks for your well-wishing...and I will definately try the chickweed tea, UniDagger (I'm certainly not adverse to some good advice)



Thanks!



-chica

" I mock you with my Monkey Pants!" - OZ


" You're NOT the source of me" - Buffy


" Tremble!" - Gacknar

[Grimaldi]

hope you feel better

"Awww, Grasshopper, you're so screwed."



"Alright, let's just shoot the fucking sex"

[tkheaven]

I hope you're feeling better, wiccachica. Get your rest...

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"Hey Will, this is me. It doesn't all have to be good and fine. This is the room where you don't have to be brave. I still love you. If you're worried, you can be worried."

- Tara to Willow ~~ Episode 603: "Afterlife"

[Pixie gishmock]

Feel better, wiccachica. *Pixie brings over some chicken soup and echinacea tea* Get that troll to take care of you!

Life is full of changes...The better you are at letting go of things, the freer your hands will be to catch something new. ~from Off The Map by Joan Ackerman
"It's good to be a chicken casserole," Tara murmured before passing out. ~from "Answering Darkness" by Sassette

[AutumnT]

Personally, I just think she's holed up with the Willows for a few days of fun.



Seriously, feel better. Though I'm sure the Willows will help with that.

Autumn

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Buffy: I could wrestle naked in grease for a living and still be cleaner than after a shift at the Doublemeat.

Willow: Plus, I'd visit you at work every single day. --- "Normal Again" shooting script