Fics for 2018 # 005 ~ She Used To Be Mine

[kerk_hiraeth]

 

   TITLE: She Used To Be Mine

   AUTHOR: kerk_hiraeth

   FANDOM: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FemaleHusband!verse)

   LENGTH: 100;

   CHARACTER(S): Tara Maclay; Willow Rosenberg (deceased, and by implication only);

   A/N: This 'verse first diversifies from canon about the time of the events of OMWF thru Wrecked in S6. This is set some time after Tara, not Willow, has turned Sunnydale into a lake to destroy an ultimate evil; more than one year in time after the similar destruction happened in canon. Faith is on walkabout; on an Indian motorcycle, and Tara's safety is in the hands of another.

          If you listen to the song ( www.youtube.com/watch She Used To Be Mine by Sara Bareilles) this could be read more than one way; I'm not certain whether the 'she' is Willow, or Tara herself. The 'man' in the lyrics is her father either way; not in a good way.

 

 

       Tara listened blissfully; Willow brushing her hair.

     Trying hard to recall her chatter; all that reached her was the laughter behind that twisted smirk.

 

     She faced the mirror; didn't need to see that face.

     Oil slick eyes; dark hair that slithered; cracked veins crawling over a face she used to know so well.

 

     Willow's venom filled her ears; tweezers worked to remove glass; pain beat back the noiseless misery, and she barely left any scars now.

     They would believe she'd shattered another tumbler.

 

     Done, her eyes opened; herself staring back.

     Looking down she wondered where she'd hidden the bottle today.  




    "She is gone, but she used to be mine," 

    kerk hiraeth

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

Loved it

[kerk_hiraeth]

Thanks; spotted two words I forgot to change but corrected that now.

kerk

[elisi]

You can paint one heck of a picture/mood/moment with very few words. Well done!

[kerk_hiraeth]

Very hard not to be over-descriptive for this one; really important to let people paint their own pictures.