Um. . . huh?

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So my very first fanfic was a Spuffy piece called Needy. It kind of embarrasses me now. More than that, it actually contains what has become one of my biggest pet peeves, character bashing. Angel is basically the villain of the piece. Which is why I was kind of surprised when I got this review of that story today: This chapter was a bit too Bangel for my tastes.

Um okay?

So I went back and checked the chapter that review was left for. Basically the story is an alternate version of Damaged, where Buffy comes to L.A. instead of Andrew. So here's the dialogue after Spike has been wheeled into the ambulance and Buffy and Angel are talking:


"Good. Well, any way, I'll just take Dana and. . . "

"What? Buffy wait. We'll take care of her don't worry."

"Angel, she's a Slayer. It's. . ."

"No Buffy, really. We can handle her."

"-my responsibility. Angel. I did this to her. I made her this. Besides, I'm not all that comfortable leaving a crazy slayer in the hands of an evil law firm." Angel started to protest but this time Buffy cut him off. "An evil law-firm that's been known to hire rouge slayers and use them as assassins I might add."

"Buffy, we won't do that, we can help her."

"Yeah, look maybe you can, but she belongs with us. You know, the good guys."

The look on Angel's face was like he'd been slapped. She almost regretted saying it. She could feel it coming. The same argument they'd had post-Sunnydale when she found out that he'd decided to take over Wolfram & Hart. She wanted desperately to believe that Angel was better than this place, that he could do good, but she couldn't take that chance. And he'd never given her a very good explanation of why he would join up with his old archenemies. She knew he was hiding something from her probably to protect her. She almost wanted to laugh. She had once told Spike that she couldn't love him because she could never trust him but the fact was Angel was the big love of her life and she didn't trust him. Wasn't sure she could ever trust him again.

"Buffy, it's not like you have a choice here." He was angry, she could hear it in his voice, see it in the way he stood up a little straighter.

"No Angel, it's you that doesn't have a choice. LADIES." She could hear behind her the van, as twelve other girls appeared. "Thirteen slayers. I'm not thinking that's your lucky number Angel."

As her girls loaded Dana's stretcher in their van, Buffy wanted to apologize to Angel. To try and make it better somehow. But she knew she couldn't. There was no way she could leave Dana with him, and she suspected that anything she might say would only make it worse.

So I guess I'm curious if this is far more Bangely than I was aware of. When I looked hard I could sort of see the Bangel undertones. I mean I didn't ignore the fact that at one time Angel and Buffy had a serious relationship. On the other this is only chapter 2 of the story, and I know that the story ends in amazing Angel bashing, so maybe I'm looking at it a bit slantedly.

It doesn't really matter, it just amuses me. It also reminds me why I prefer posting my Spuffy here in LJ rather than at the big Spuffy sites (although I'm such a review whore I can't help it).

I also have a feeling this reviewer gave up on the story, which is okay because like I said, my first story, I don't exactly consider it great art. They did leave a review for the next chapter saying it was Much better than the previous chapter Spuffywise. which implies that it's not much better in other ways, which is almost certainly true.

But hey it amused me, so I guess that makes it a good review.