Gilesficathon and stuff

http://www.livejournal.com/users/wolfling/141128.html

Squee! Thank you wolfling That is all.

Other news; went to get Lauren from preschool and they said they had openings and she can go every morning if I liked, instead of just Mon/Wed/Fri. Am ashamed to say that I didn't even hesitate but knelt down, asked her, she said yes and whee...five mornings free!

Having problems writing fic. Can't seem to get back into 'Retroactive', don't have a pull to writing anything else. Not blocked, just not driven.

I just cut and pasted part three of Retroactive into this; done about 1500 words, read it and deleted it. It's no good; not awful, just dull. Would you all hate me if I abandoned it? I've never done that but I'm really not getting anywhere with it. I might rewrite it, shorten it drastically and give it an ending so it's not just hanging there...yes, I can see how that would work. OK, I'm talking myself into this...::wanders off crying because, damn, it was so good in my head when I started it::

Retroactive Part Three and all the other parts because ram a fork in it; it's dead..

I most likely won't finish this. The original vision of the story, which was all hot and incandescently blazing is now grey ashes. There; that was nicely poetical and despairing :-(

The plan was that Wes and Spike came back for Giles. No, originally came back and told Giles stuff and went back to the future, leaving Giles with S4 Spike in his bathtub and Giles would start something with that Spike and...something.

Then I got all ambitious and decided Wes would be a vampire/human hybrid; something Fred had invented in the lab; all the advantages, none of the disadvantages, so Wes and Spike and Giles could be together (this is set post S5 Angel, AU S5 too; Giles came to visit L.A and ended up with Wes and Spike. I mean; why not? ::grin::). But Giles wouldn't do it. No loss of soul, still warm, because not dead, but with the vampire strength, living off blood, sensitive, if not vulnerable to sunlight. Giles thought it was too risky, too good to be true, price had to be paid etc. So Wes did it anyway and Giles left them, furious, just went.

So Spike and Wes are upset, worried, can't find him...then they discover he's in danger (not worked that out). He's dying, or it's a mystical threat, blah, blah. Something that happened in the past, something that he has to do/not do. So they get Fred to build 'em a time machine (this was never intended to be all that serious a fic; more of an adventure, yes?) and go back to persuade Giles to do/not do it. Then just as they're trying to figure it out, or maybe just as they're umm, wrapped around each other, the time limit expires and all three are dragged forward. Eep.

And...Future!Giles and Past! Giles meet and don't get on and yes, too right there'd have been a foursome because it's so twisted it would have been inevitable. And lots of paradoxes and Giles having to go back and...

God, sometimes I worry about me ::grin:: Is it now glaringly clear that I don't plot in advance and make it up as I go? Thought so.

This is what I did before I gave up. Sorry. Really, really sorry. I can't even chop it back to the original version; it's being about as cooperative as a two year old who doesn't want to go in a car seat.

This is a lesson to me; never have two long fics on the go with the same characters. Never leave a fic for this long; it'll go stale . Never post a WIP. ::cries some more for what might have been::

Oh; WARNING this is AU and what happens is based on me speculating and not spoilers but you need to have watched S7 finale of BtVS and the first two episodes of this season's Angel to not be spoiled at all. Wes has to tell Giles what happened, you see.

Part one and two are here
http://members.rogers.com/jdavitt01/Retro1.html

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