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coprime_recs) wrote2013-02-23 07:42 pm
coprime_recs) wrote2013-02-23 07:42 pm
Xover (Buffy/Sandman): The Waiting Room by Nestra
The Waiting Room (Buffy-Death | PG | 1,617 words): Buffy meets Death. There are a lot of stories out there where a character meets Death (either the Sandman version as here or the Discworld one) and they run the emotional gamut. This particular one is on the bittersweet end of the scale because Buffy's still got some fantastic and some terrible things ahead of her. But it's comforting in a way, despite knowing what's coming, because at least Buffy has someone friendly on the other side of it all.
Excerpt:
"Hey," [Buffy] says to the girl sitting next to her.
"Hey," says the girl, and smiles. But she doesn't say anything else; she just sits there, staring at Buffy without a hint of rudeness.
"We're dead, right?" Buffy asks, surprised at how calm she is.
"You are," the girl replies. "For me, it's a little more complicated."
Excerpt:
"Hey," [Buffy] says to the girl sitting next to her.
"Hey," says the girl, and smiles. But she doesn't say anything else; she just sits there, staring at Buffy without a hint of rudeness.
"We're dead, right?" Buffy asks, surprised at how calm she is.
"You are," the girl replies. "For me, it's a little more complicated."