Love the title! (grin) (I'm going to have that song going through my head for the rest of the day, I'm sure)
Ah, Dumbledore, the old meddler. (smirk)
Interesting device there, to have that repetition of the introductory paragraph, with each part being added on and explained as it went.
It's really rather fascinating to read this reinterpretation... because it makes me realize the things I left out of the series, left open to interpretation, such as the actual location and order of events.
Now, she was not about to go to the backwoods village she started in. It was probably overrun by rabbits, anyway, and that just wasn’t a place she wanted to be.
(grin)
He liked having his own space, though, and she liked walking around her apartment naked. Those two things just wouldn’t mix.
(smirk)
She nodded in agreement, nothing hidden in her eyes. “Yes, I did. Don’t know how that means I think you’re stupid.”
So very Anya.
She met his eyes steadily. “The lower you fall, the more you had to climb to get back up here. You didn’t fall as far as I did. You were an actual Death Eater for, what? Less than a year? I was a vengeance demon for a thousand times that long. The worst thing you’ve done pales to mine. The question isn’t whether I can live with your past, but if you can live with mine. My ex couldn’t.”
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Date: 2012-11-10 08:46 pm (UTC)Ah, Dumbledore, the old meddler. (smirk)
Interesting device there, to have that repetition of the introductory paragraph, with each part being added on and explained as it went.
It's really rather fascinating to read this reinterpretation... because it makes me realize the things I left out of the series, left open to interpretation, such as the actual location and order of events.
Now, she was not about to go to the backwoods village she started in. It was probably overrun by rabbits, anyway, and that just wasn’t a place she wanted to be.
(grin)
He liked having his own space, though, and she liked walking around her apartment naked. Those two things just wouldn’t mix.
(smirk)
She nodded in agreement, nothing hidden in her eyes. “Yes, I did. Don’t know how that means I think you’re stupid.”
So very Anya.
She met his eyes steadily. “The lower you fall, the more you had to climb to get back up here. You didn’t fall as far as I did. You were an actual Death Eater for, what? Less than a year? I was a vengeance demon for a thousand times that long. The worst thing you’ve done pales to mine. The question isn’t whether I can live with your past, but if you can live with mine. My ex couldn’t.”
Yessssss.