Fic: Walking After Midnight: the Music of Pain Remix [Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Angel, Xander; PG]

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Title: Walking After Midnight: the Music of Pain Remix
Author: aadler_
Summary: Sometimes the enemy you can count on is exactly the friend you need.
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Angel, Xander Harris
Rating: PG (language)
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of others more creative than myself. I don’t own them, I don’t profit from them. Angel and Xander belong to Joss Whedon, with rights also going to those companies and individuals who licensed them from him, of whom I am not one.
Original story: “Getting It” by bastardsnow
Notes: As with the original story, this takes place in Season 2, shortly after the events of “Amends”.

( Walking After Midnight — Part 2 )

Comments

Fic: Walking After Midnight part two

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

And we have the first part of the conversation *g*

They're a great creature/menace, the Ptarmiiki.
And the sense that Angel has of the kind of night against really well done, and a bit fun against the ordinariness of his antagonism with Xander. Very in character for the show.

Re: Fic: Walking After Midnight part two

[aadler]

Everything you say just makes me feel really good.

The original author seemed to feel that demonic hive-rats were a little off-putting — though he praised the story overall — but to me they felt like the right mix of 1) something that could cause Angel some problems, by surprise and numbers, and 2) something that Xander would be able to fight against with reasonable effectiveness but without coming across as unrealistically heroic.

I’m glad it seemed to work for you.