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A couple of notes that have really nothing to do with this fic:
I haven't forgotten about the nice folks that gave me challenge assignments a few days ago. Now that I'm done with this, I'll be poking at them and seeing what comes out.

scarletangel68, I have something in the works that may serve for your challenge, but it's going to take quite some thought and setting up. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait. :-)

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Okay, folks, here we go. Fic posting time:

Title: Soulless, Evil Things
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG-13 (language, violence)
Words: A little over 10,000
Disclaimer: Not mine, they're Whedon's. *sob* Some dialogue was cribbed directly from Episode 88 "Into the Woods," written by Marti Noxon.
Written for: Inspired by You Got the Stones Challenge #44: Buffy must be nice and non-selfish (NO spells allowed to explain this), Riley MUST prove some of his teaching credentials (ie - not being his usual, dopey self--sorry, Riley fans) and - the hard part - the plot: A big bad threat comes to Sunnydale (quelle surprise!) and Spike is in severe danger with the usual drinkie of the Slayer blood cure - does new, reformed Buffy (a) take this chance to let him die or (b) does she do what she did with Angel-poos? I know it's not much of a challenge, but the characterization should prove...er...interesting enough *evil grin*
ALSO - must feature all of the following: A bar of chocolate in a VERY strange part of Willow's anatomy, those plastic, Christmas reindeer horns, a blood-flavoured milkshake and a cameo role for Drusilla, either in flashback or returning.
Notes: Takes place sometime after "Shadow" and goes AU from there. Many heartfelt thanks to honorh, illmantrim, jerib_78, alliterator, and appomattoxco for being sounding boards and letting me bounce stuff off them. I did not want to make Riley the bad guy in this fic, but when it went that way in spite of my best efforts, they gave me a way to do it without making it a "BashFic." You guys rock!( On to the fic! )

Will be posting fic later today. The YGtS fic is in the final polishing stages, and I even came up with a title for it and the four chapters it came to. Printed out in 9-point font and half-inch margins, it's fourteen pages, and it's a little over 10,000 words.

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