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coprime_recs) wrote2004-09-16 07:06 pm
coprime_recs) wrote2004-09-16 07:06 pm
Xover (Buffy/Empire Records): A Birthday Wish by helsinkibaby
A Birthday Wish (Tara/Lucas | PG | 1,980 words | sequel is Drawing Comparisons) has Tara working at Empire Records. I can imagine that she'd be able to find a place for herself at the store. The story has a gentle tone that I like and which fits with Tara.
Excerpt:
Someone who's reliable, yes, who never misses her shift, is never late, but someone who, when Joe lost his temper at Lucas once, literally quailed in the corner as Joe brought thunder and damnation down upon Lucas's head. Lucas took it all on the chin, it was nothing he hadn't heard before, and it was nothing compared to being bounced off every wall in Joe's office, but he'd stood at the adjacent till to Tara for two hours that afternoon and saw her shaking hands, couldn't get the sight of Tara's scared eyes out of his head for days afterwards.
He's got the feeling that there's something going on in her life that she's not telling anyone, and he's interested enough to want to know what it is, to want to help her out, but she won't talk to him about it. All he knows about her is that she's a senior in high school, about her classes, about the colleges she wants to go to, the courses she wants to take. He knows she likes music, that she can sing, and that she's quiet.
Excerpt:
Someone who's reliable, yes, who never misses her shift, is never late, but someone who, when Joe lost his temper at Lucas once, literally quailed in the corner as Joe brought thunder and damnation down upon Lucas's head. Lucas took it all on the chin, it was nothing he hadn't heard before, and it was nothing compared to being bounced off every wall in Joe's office, but he'd stood at the adjacent till to Tara for two hours that afternoon and saw her shaking hands, couldn't get the sight of Tara's scared eyes out of his head for days afterwards.
He's got the feeling that there's something going on in her life that she's not telling anyone, and he's interested enough to want to know what it is, to want to help her out, but she won't talk to him about it. All he knows about her is that she's a senior in high school, about her classes, about the colleges she wants to go to, the courses she wants to take. He knows she likes music, that she can sing, and that she's quiet.