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

[addison-rock.livejournal.com]

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 3 )

Comments

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's... wow. I don't quite know what I was expecting. I saw you'd be rewriting "Getting It" and, I don't know, I wasn't sure how it'd go. But this is excellent. It's really fantastic. Thank you for this, it's really wonderful.

[mkcrl120.livejournal.com]

Really impressed by this story, wasn't sure what I was expecting by Angel's side of it but liked this version.

Mike C

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

That's the good stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Great remix:D
Liked the way you wrote the story...

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the story. Well-plotted, well-constructed and an excellent twist on bastardsnow's original.

I thought you captured the dislike-hate relationship between Xander and Angel very well. It's hard for a lot of people to play on Xander's ass-y side without going over the top, but I think you struck a good balance here between Xander the jealous twerp, Xander the reasonably good-on-his-feet fighter, and Xander the immature teenager.

I especially liked the switch in PoV to Angel and his own feelings of ambiguity about his situation and position, not to mention his (mistaken) assumptions about people around him. Then again, that's pretty much Angel to a T.

Good story, fantastic spin on the original. I enjoyed this quite a lot.

Fic: Walking After Midnight part three

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Go Xander!

“I’d do it all over again,” he told Angel flatly. “In a heartbeat.” Oh, sharp.
And his buddy speech.

Excellent Angel, too, fading back into the musing that was the start and recognising Xander's strength, because he does have age and experience and wisdom that Xander does not.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That's the authentic Xander voice all right, and Angel too - most of the time in BtVS and early Angel episodes he seemed to accept that there may one day be good reasons to kill him, and makes plans on that basis. Shame he pretty much lost that in later episodes.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Climbing inside Angel's head is always tricky. At first I was a bit put off by the wordy, overly dramatic style of the first few paragraphs. Then I realized that was exactly what the inside of Angel's head is like and slid into the rest of the story. Neither Angel nor Angelus have a clearly defined sense of porportion, always seeing themselves as more central players than they are. Viewing Xander, at least outwardly, as an annoying yippy dog. Positively startled when he's effective in a fight.

That gave a lot of punch to the Xander as Buffy's ace in the hole thoughts at the end. That the return resentment is based on a wierd type of respect really sells his perspective. Xander holding onto his animosity with the certainty of youth was dead on for Xander at that point.

Excellent read.