Rating: PG-13
Summary: Given a chance to do things differently a hero finds that putting another first and ignoring his own desires can lead to his rewards beyond his hopes.
Author's Notes: Setting: Begins post AtS "Not Fade Away" and rapidly goes to S6.
This story is complete.
Prologue: Into the Mist ~ Reviews (0)
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Chapter 2: Repaired ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Some dialogue taken from, or twisted to my purposes from, “Smashed” written by Drew Z. Greenberg
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Chapter 3: Restored ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Some dialogue taken or modified from the script of “Wrecked” by Marti Noxon
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Chapter 4: Returned ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Some dialogue borrowed, and in some cases twisted, from “Gone” by David Fury and “Doublemeat Palace” by Jane Espenson
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Chapter 5: Live With Pieces Missing ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Some portions of dialogue from “Dead Things” by Steven S. DeKnight
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Chapter 6: Older and Coming Closer ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Some dialogue from “Older and Far Away” by Drew Z. Greenberg
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Chapter 7: As It Could Be ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Some dialogue from “As you Were” by Douglas Petrie. Yes, I did change
the location for the confrontation with the Suvolte from a dam to a
waste treatment facility.
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Chapter 8: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed… ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Keeping this one PG-13 or R at the highest rating. Only hinting at
NC-17 material. Some dialogue from “Hells Bells” by Rebecca Rand
Kirshner.
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Chapter 9: Nothing Normal ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: From this point the story veers very off canon. A bit of dialogue comes from “Angel” (BtVS S1) by David Greenwalt
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Chapter 10: Out of Chaos ~ Reviews (0)
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Chapter 11: Setting Red Right ~ Reviews (0)
Author's Notes: Although the plot has taken a turn far from canon, I have sought in
these last two chapters to touch on the last episodes of Season 6 with
an occasional bit of dialogue or “moment”. Those episodes are “Seeing
Red” by Steven De Knight, “Villains” by Marti Noxon, “Two to Go” by
Douglas Petrie and “Grave” by David Fury
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Chapter 12: Called to Life ~ Reviews (1)
Author's Notes: See A/N in Chapter 11 for notes on dialogue from series
Poem at end is Love Sonnet LXXIX by Pablo Neruda (I’d pay to hear JM read his sonnets!)
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