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kerk_hiraethTITLE: Thru October, until Forever
AUTHOR: kerk hiraeth
FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
LENGTH: 200
CHARACTERS: Lisa Torres*; Dawn Summers; Martin King (Lisa's Dad),
'SHIP: Dawn/Lisa,
SUMMARY: As this is intended for Halfamoon 2025's Day Thirteen Prompt, One Hit Wonders, a little backstory.
Lisa is Dawn's companion during her scenes in 'The Body'; only scenes she, Lisa' has in the series. Over the years I have written a lot; A Lot, of stories featuring the two as a couple.
This is the first time she has had a surname; this is the case with her Dad as well; hence the different surnames, a fact that will be, hopefully, be explained in a future story. Lisa's Mom died when she was two year's old.
Those three facts are the same in every 'verse I've written them into and, the only relevance they have here is that a certain character is alive in this 'verse, and her name is included in the story. Relevant here is that Lisa's Mom and Dad never married and her Dad has been raising her alone since her Mom died.
At this point they are somewhere between Homecoming, when they were seventeen, and the second half of their Senior year when they are both eighteen; no particular relevance there, excepting it leaves it open for me to include this story in all my Buffyverses where Sunnydale is destroyed.
A/N: Title is a reference both to Girl in Red's iconic We Fell in Love in October, but also to the original idea for a story I've been working on since, it feels like forever, as far back as lockdown.
“Butterflies? “
Lisa managed to breathe, at least, as Dawn's pinky brushed hair from her wet cheek. Grasping the finger she kissed it, smiling as she turned her head.
“Feet as big as icebergs.”
Dawn's eyes revealing how young she really wasn't, Lisa was transported back to the first time she'd made Dawn laugh after the death of her Mother.
“Are we ready?”
Dawn's query was almost the reverse of hers on Dawn's first day back at School after the funeral.
Wordlessly touching foreheads they began whispering some of Tara's favourite song lyrics; almost like a prayer to them now.
The sound of the front door of her house roused them; turning they saw her Dad, trying to look stern with his arms across his chest.
Demanding an answer.
“Are We not due a formal introduction?”
Momentarily confused Lisa rolled her eyes, before realising that this was Dawn's first visit since they'd come out as a couple. Then she took in the formal inquiry.
Her Dad was talking about her Mom.
Smiling as a single tear prepared to journey down her cheek, Lisa took their hands in hers; connecting the four of them.
“My Parents this... This is my Heart revealed.”
May the Goddess watch over you in these dark time,
kerk hiraeth
FIRST LOVE
by
John Clare
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Date: 2025-02-14 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-14 02:59 am (UTC)In an increasingly hellish landscape, Queer stories matter all the more.
Lisa had, maybe, two minutes of screentime, but I've written thousands of words for her character over the years; all in connection, of one sort or another, with Dawn in a couples relationship. Also, and it was relatively recently that I realised how unusual it was, I made an unconscious decision to have her be raised by a single father.
Every time I come with a story idea about Lisa and her relationship with Dawn, I also discover more about her relationship with her Dad; he, however, is not yet ready to talk about her Mother, and the love of his life who he has never felt able to replace, even slightly, in hius heart.
She must have been something special; as are they.
kerk
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Date: 2025-02-14 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-06 04:33 pm (UTC)and apologies for missing your comment before now.
kerk
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Date: 2025-02-15 10:44 pm (UTC)Oh my heart! What a gorgeous, beautiful line. <3
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Date: 2025-02-15 11:24 pm (UTC)It's also amazing how easy it was to slip back into Dawn & Lisa's relationship; even more so the relationship between Lisa and her Dad, who came into existence himself when I was trying to write the mini fic series for deird1; where I came up with him being a singled father, and Lisa never having known her mother because she had been so young when her Mom died.
The title was one of the first, or even the first, title for what became Chasing Cars; can't remember whether I was going to use Evanescence's October, or Girl in Red's We Fell in Love in October as the imspiration for that title, but I liked the title I came up with and ran with it, but ended up changing it at least twice before i realised Chasing Cars was perfect for that fic.
After I began writing this one that title kept coming up and, quickly, the story morphed around this title; making it much, much easier to write.
kerk
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Date: 2025-02-16 06:13 pm (UTC)Some characters/relationships are like that. It's a wonderful feeling.
The title was one of the first, or even the first, title for what became Chasing Cars
In my head, this keeps changing itself to 'Speeding Cars' (by Imogen Heap), which is one of my favourite songs of all time, and there's a gorgeous Doctor/River vid to it.
(This is a good thing, I am immediately liking your fics. <3)
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Date: 2025-06-06 03:55 pm (UTC)Loved this a lot, particularly the this is my heart revealed line. Nice to see them have a happy ending. And the introduction to both parents was a nice touch.
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Date: 2025-06-07 02:34 am (UTC)While this is set a couple of years after The Body, it's still early in their relationship.
I believe the most recent, time-wise, fic I've written about Lisa & Dawn is set on the anniversary of Joyce's passing, a few months after the airing of the fourth season episode of Wynonna Earp with 'that' sex scene.
I like to think I've got more stories coming about Lisa's parents as well; certainly ones about her relationship with her Dad.
kerk