NOTE: If you are here and you haven't read the first two stories of the "Souls In Bondage" series, this story will make literally ZERO sense. This is an ancillary tale to "LA Is the Hell You Make It", originally written as a gift for Magnus, and is the only "Tales from the SiBverse" fic that cannot be read as a standalone.
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Summary:
Some demons aren't in our dimension to start trouble.
Some demons just wanna do a job.
Heck. Some demons just want to get out of their home dimension, because they're teeming with others of their own kind, they're crowded, they're boring, life is monotonous.
Any job will do. Even plumbing a dying city in the human world.
But then... Dreams get in the way. An out-of-practice Morpheus demon just trying to make an honest buck can easily get sucked into the desperate, guilty REM-sleep of a Slayer who's just tragically lost her lover in the ending of the world a month or two ago. At which point, things tend to spin rapidly out of control. Because tinkering with mortal dreams?
Definitely not in the work-contract.
Artists: None
Categories: Season 8 (Comic), Between Seasons (any), Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Faith Lehane, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Angst, Established Relationship, POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1
Word count: 8,996 Hit Count: 425 ePub Downloads: 45
Published: April 26, 2020 Updated: April 26, 2020
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Heck; it probably won't anyway. It's weird as... well, hell. LOL, I have no idea. I was fighting insomnia when I wrote it. Call it some kind of bizarre Spuffy-ish backstory to the dreams that sent Buffy to Florence/LA just in time to land in NFA.
Read at your own risk. This one's just ???
Formatting Note: For anyone who’s brave enough to start reading me here (don't do it! Start with the beginning of the series, I beg you!!! I mean, ahem, do you) I do a weird thing. Or, at least, it’s weird nowadays. I use a couple of old fanfic conventions from long ago because I'm ancient, and we didn't used to have access to italics in the days when I used to fic. Can't break the habit now, I'm just too old and it looks weird for me without it. Character thoughts look like this in my stories: /Blah blah blah./ Conversely, telepathic communication is indicated thusly: --Hi! I'm telepathically communicating with you!-- This being a way to set said communication off as different from /Thoughts/, or past event italics.
Disclaimer: All characters property He Who Will Not Be Named, but also a lot of other amazing writers, artists, et al who get equal credit, up to and including the BRILLIANT actors who brought them to life, and with whom we work in glorious tandem to make these stories blossom. (And, I guess, Mutant Enemy. And apparently some people at, I guess, Fox, now? Who can even keep track anymore.) All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners, yadda and blah. (OCs if any are MINE, ALL MINE!) I am in no way associated with The Flawed One, Mutant Enemy, UPN, Fox, or any other media franchise. I intend no infringement. I intend sexy shenanigans and JUSTICE FOR SPUFFY!
Pairing(s): Um, Spuffy. Always Spuffy. Though... this one is a random, tangential, and bizarre way to come at that, and you have been warned a lot of ways already.
Rating: G, because this is a weird POV way to get them to get back together, and don't even ask.
Author’s Note / Dedication: This one's for Magnus, for always being awesome, and specifically for inspiring this one with his myriad questions about exactly how the plumbing is working in Hell-A when it's been uprooted to another dimension, while I continually insisted that the toilets still worked, LOL.
I HAD MY REASONS, OKAY, MAGNUS?
I just didn't know they involved a demon who walked the dreamscape like freaking Luigi on shrooms. Till... now.
1. One-Shot by Touchstoneaf - Likes: 10 Comments: 9 Word Count: 8,996 Hit Count: 425 Published: April 26, 2020
AGAIN, PLEASE NOTE: This is tangentially part of the "Souls In Bondage" series, written as a gift for Magnus, and will literally make ZERO sense if you haven't read "LA Is the Hell You Make It".
ie, if you're here for the "Tales From the SiBverse" series, looking for standalones, this one is the only one of that set that requires other reading first to make sense of it, so if you want to read those without having done so, please skip to the next entry in the series.
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You were right, Magnus. The more I thought about it, the more I was like... ok, we need a plumber in the system.
This guy showed up and started working. Then he got involved in the dreams. And then... this happened.
So this random (kind of scifi?) weirdness is really all your fault.