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Take this leftover drabble...
I'll probably do a full update tomorrow, when I have to doggie-sit at the parents' house tomorrow. In the meantime, I'll just take an extra moment to wax about the virtues of AtS 3.15 "Loyalty", rebroadcast today on TNT.
While I'm at it, my lonely drabbles for this week's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
open_on_sunday challenge - themed around the "unconventional".
Note: I'd wanted to write an early S4 Tara/Scott Hope scene, themed around both characters coming out, but I have no skill for that. Tossing it out for someone else to pick up, since I think there's more than a little possibility in there...
Without further ado, my drabble: Savings.
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Title: Savings
Author: Dlgood
Characters: Angel, Buffy
Spoilers: AtS-5
Disclaimer: Property of Mutant Enemy & GEICO
Theme: Unconventional
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He’d called to wish her a Merry Christmas. Granted, there were the obligatory mentions of their respective duties and other obstacles, but they’d slipped into old rhythms, Angel content to listen to her voice.
“But as long as you still have that gypsy curse, we can never be together.”
Finally, he interrupted. “I’ve got good news, Buffy.”
“Your soul is bound!”
“No. But I did just save a load of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.”
Silence.
“I saved. I thought that meant something to you.”
Laughter. Full blown. Apparently, those commercials ran in Europe too.
A.N.1: – Unconventional, inasmuch as these characters haven’t been shown having a jocular conversation in years. Plus, using GEICO for car insurance on the West Coast. Unconventional.
A.N.2: - Dialogue lifted from actual mock-soap opera GEICO commercials, currently in heavy rotation in my media market. It helps if you've seen the commercial, and are familiar with the Telenovela stylings. Weak joke, but it was stuck in my brain.
- Lots of nice parallels using each of the characters and their relationships, including the ones not onscreen.
- Talking Hamburger. Wesley's face as he performs the ritual to summon the Loa.
The angry burger face with it's "your order please" nose. - The fascinating conversation between Holtz and Wesley. Use of the "it's different: he has a soul now" within a context that doesn't make me want to wring everybody's neck.
- All after an irritating stretch of episodes, AtS finding it's footing by going back to noir-ish roots.
While I'm at it, my lonely drabbles for this week's
open_on_sunday challenge - themed around the "unconventional".Note: I'd wanted to write an early S4 Tara/Scott Hope scene, themed around both characters coming out, but I have no skill for that. Tossing it out for someone else to pick up, since I think there's more than a little possibility in there...
Without further ado, my drabble: Savings.
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Title: Savings
Author: Dlgood
Characters: Angel, Buffy
Spoilers: AtS-5
Disclaimer: Property of Mutant Enemy & GEICO
Theme: Unconventional
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He’d called to wish her a Merry Christmas. Granted, there were the obligatory mentions of their respective duties and other obstacles, but they’d slipped into old rhythms, Angel content to listen to her voice.
“But as long as you still have that gypsy curse, we can never be together.”
Finally, he interrupted. “I’ve got good news, Buffy.”
“Your soul is bound!”
“No. But I did just save a load of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.”
Silence.
“I saved. I thought that meant something to you.”
Laughter. Full blown. Apparently, those commercials ran in Europe too.
A.N.1: – Unconventional, inasmuch as these characters haven’t been shown having a jocular conversation in years. Plus, using GEICO for car insurance on the West Coast. Unconventional.
A.N.2: - Dialogue lifted from actual mock-soap opera GEICO commercials, currently in heavy rotation in my media market. It helps if you've seen the commercial, and are familiar with the Telenovela stylings. Weak joke, but it was stuck in my brain.
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One of the terrible things about living in NJ - no Geico.
I'll be here all the week. Try the veal...
Yeah. The pernicious side of drabble writing as way to unleash a rimshot. It basically amounts to an inside joke.
And actually use Liberty Mutual, because of the discount for Homeowners, though one of my former housemates is an actuary for GEICO. But those commercials, they get in my brain.