FIC: Answering Darkness

[willowphile410]

So...we've established that there's a connection between Glory and Tara...but what kind?



Fabulous update, Sassette...you are amazing!

"coffee, kisses and gay love"...the only things in this world to live for...

[Karzia]

Autumn, If your e-mail had not been private would have sent you a virtual pie, you have good update mojo .



Fabo update

"The Bible contains
six admonishments of Homosexuals and 362 of Heterosexuals, That doesn't mean God doesn't love Hetrosexuals, just that they need more supervsion."


Lynn Laver

[Sassette]

**W.I.: Hallucination, Hell ... Hallucination, Hell ... Eh - I'll exlplain it in the next update.



**xita: I hope that wasn't so 'out of left field' that it makes no sense, though *shrug* But I'm glad I surprised you. Heh.



**ExtraFlameyWT: Well, that will ALSO be answered in the next update. But yes ... Glory Bad, Trickster Bad.



**ToughGrrl: Heh. Thanks *G* Like I've said before, I love a good 'wow'.



**TX: Oh, yes ... your impatience is legendary, and an awesome thing to behold. But no, you weren't the only one ... Yuri was actually the first to know that Glory would be showing up, I believe.



And yes, Glory is naked, too.



Two more chapters, then an epilogue kind of thing. Or maybe I'll call it a chapter - I don't know. I don't know if I'll post them in multiple parts, though - I might wait until those chapters are totally done before posting.



I refuse to answer the question about exactly WHAT state Glory is in ... that would be telling And I find it incredibly amusing that you want Glory to kick The Trickster's ass. You're, ummm ... basically rooting for Glory there - you sure you want to do that? *G*



**tommo: Honestly, it was the only actually 'planned out' cliffhanger in the whole fic. I don't really consider any of the other chapter-endings to be cliffhangers, not really. But that was just too good a stopping place to pass up. Y'know, 'cuz I'm all evil and stuff *G* Besides, it's a logical break as we'll be shifting viewpoints in the next bit.



**Autumn: Outside = Overrated. Got it. And y'know, I'm kind of sad to see the ending coming up so soon, too ... but I don't want to delay it in an unnatural manner - that would just make it suck ... of course, I'm sure you knew that. Glad it surprised you, but again, I hope it wasn't so completely unpredictable that it doesn't make sense. Of course, i'll make a bit more sense in the next part.



**maudmac: You just hold on to any little piece of hope that makes you happy *G* And I'm sure Pixie will be along with the panties shortly.



**Owl: Heh ... well, I like my cliffhangers confusing. It's not a "ooh, do they live? do they die?" kind of thing ... it's a "Oh, Schnikeys! What's gonna' happen now?" Because, really, I could go in all sorts of directions from here. *evil cackling* Oh, umm .... did I cackle out loud? I'm not evil, really. Honest. And thank you *G*



**willowphile410: Tara and Glory are connected!?!? But ... but ... how ... ?



**Karzia: Why, thank you *G*



Small note of warning ... I just realized that Tuesday is NOT a re-run of Buffy, so the update will be Monday or Wednesday. I'll be thoroughly surprised if I update Tuesday.



-Sass

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I Think The Hellmouth Tastes Like Chicken -- Autumn

[tommo]

Hell yeah, Sass. Sometimes a cliffhanger is just too delicious an opportunity to pass up. And when it's used correctly, like it is here, and not at the end of every friggin' sentence, heh heh, it works so well.

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No metaphors...just fucking.

[AutumnT]

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Glad it surprised you, but again, I hope it wasn't so completely unpredictable that it doesn't make sense.

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No Sass, you have an amazing ability for always making even the weird make total sense. It makes me think you're really smart. I like to imagine you in nothing more than a propeller cap sometimes. Oh, was that TMI?

Autumn

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Buffy: I could wrestle naked in grease for a living and still be cleaner than after a shift at the Doublemeat.

Willow: Plus, I'd visit you at work every single day. --- "Normal Again" shooting script

[Sassette]

**tommo: LOL ... Thanks, Ruth *G* I must admit, I love a good cliffhanger ... ummm ... when I'm >writing< the story. They frustrate the hell out of me elsewhere, though *G* Still, I try to resist their allure as I'm writing. My rule for where a chapter ends is a major viewpoint shift or a setting change *shrug* Or if I have more than six pages done and am tired and want to go to sleep ... then I just get to the next stoppoing point and put it up.



**Autumn: I make weird things make total sense? I'm CRACK!? Heh ... cool And yeah, I'm fairly smart, but, ummm ... how'd you know about the 'nothing but a propeller cap' thing ... ? Is there a web cam in here I don't know about?



-Sass

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I Think The Hellmouth Tastes Like Chicken -- Autumn

[xita]

Sass, may I call you sass? I feel so sassy doing so. Sass... no it made sense, complete sense, I was just surprised

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"Everything is turning out so dark..."

"No, it's okay. Lost is good. Willow and I always know how to find each other!"

[AutumnT]

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how'd you know about the 'nothing but a propeller cap' thing ... ? Is there a web cam in here I don't know about?

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Umm. no. forget I mentioned it.

Autumn

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Buffy: I could wrestle naked in grease for a living and still be cleaner than after a shift at the Doublemeat.

Willow: Plus, I'd visit you at work every single day. --- "Normal Again" shooting script

[blameburner]

*chants "Please let it be a hallucination, please let it be a hallucination!"*



Sass, um, Tara without a finger? "Ewwwww" and "Nuh-uh!" And let's not get into the whole Glory-hell-bitch-back-from-the-land-of-eternal-bitchiness thing. That's it! I'm back to glaring.



*crosses arms over chest and gives Sass the patented blameburner glare*

Giles: There's nothing here to indicate. Just vague references to chaos and destruction.
Willow: Just once I'd like to hear a reference to balloon animals.

[LeatherQueen]

Oh My God.



(just a sidenote, but I seem to be saying that about your fic a lot these days.)



Anyhoo, yes, oh my god... Glory was released! But where the hell did Tara go? Ack! Oh Sass with your evil cliffhangers... things just keep getting deeper and deeper for these two.

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"Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind." - Glory


"Futile... like a FOX, baby!" - Tara in The Late Shift by wiccachica

[dulcinea]

but again..I'm delurking with the praise. You write so well, and this fic is so easy to read...and obviously I'm a bit strange, 'cos I love the cliffhangers...they leave me wanting more...Luckily I don't have internet access at work, or I'd be checking the board every 2 minutes for updates!!

[sheila wt]

Oh. Goddess.

I was so into the story that I was feeling a little hard to breath around here too... I could almost feel the dirty under my fingernails... the desperation, the struggle... Sass, it's just amazing how powerful your writing is!

I can't even believe I was kinda happy that Glory was back to kick "Tricky's" ass! "Hellucination"??



We're so screwed, aren't we? Waiting 2 more days for "Entrophy" and 3 more days for AD's new chapter??? Be still, my poor heart...

Sheila

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Willow: "If you felt lost and alone? Where would you go?"

Tara:"To you."

[superZONic]

Tremendous effort, Sass...like, in every way. You must be exhausted. How *do* you pound this glorious rivetingness out?

So, i'm off to get a massage in China Town because my back is in a question mark and my arse is numb from being unable to tear myself away from your 50-odd chapters all weekend. I know you're all, ' Thanks fer sharing ' but still, my physical misery gives praise to your tome.



Thanks for rocking my underworld!

[BigMac]

Talk about a wild story this is it need more.

Tara: Assume Crash
Positions

[Sassette]

**xita: Oh, xita ... you can call me anything you damn well please *G* And I'm glad - surprising, yet making perfect sense was exactly what I was going for. Heh. I love it when a twisted plan comes together.



**Autumn: Oh, good ... I'd hate to have to put some clothes on. They're just so ... restricting. Not fun at all.



**blameburner: Well, Tara's finger was not actually cut OFF ... just cut. But yes, Glory is back from ... wherever she was. Glare away - I can take it *G*



**LeatherQueen: Hmmm ... Tara ... Tara ... that was the blonde one, right? I, uhhhh ... seem to have misplaced her. *looks around* Tara? Tara!



**dulcinea: Why, thank you *G* LOL ... and checking the board every two minutes is exactly what I do at work when it's slow. *G*



**sheila_wt: Thank you *G* And yeah, I'm amused at people who are happy to see Glory. Because, y'know, W/T were going to have trouble with >one< Hell God. Now they get to play with two. So, yeah, they're in trouble.



**superZONic: Well, I come home from work, I crack open a coke and chain smoke, and I start typing. Somewhere around six to eight pages, I stop and post it. Enjoy your massage, and thank you - glad you like the story *G*



**BigMac: Heh ... I'll post more as soon as I have a good chunk finished - but I want to take time and make sure everything makes sense as I move forward towards the end.



-Sass

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I Think The Hellmouth Tastes Like Chicken -- Autumn

[ExtraFlameyWT]

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**ExtraFlameyWT: Well, that will ALSO be answered in the next update. But yes ... Glory Bad, Trickster Bad.

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hehe, yes... i kinda felt like buffy at the end of grad day pt 2



"tree pretty, fire bad"



-Aimee

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"Hey Will, this is me. It doesn't all have to be good and fine. This is the room where you don't have to be brave. I still love you. If you're worried, you can be worried." -Tara to Willow in ep. 603 Afterlife

[TrueXena]

Chunks? I like your Chunks. I want more Sassette Chunks.

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Doc: "I'm the happy peppy pimp, 'cause I don't beat my hos!" / Doc: "...and then they had sex."

Tara: "Its good to be a chicken casserole." -in 'Answering Darkness' By: Sassette

TrueXena: "Get a taste of Religion. Lick a Witch!"

[Willowfan]

HOLY CRAP!!

Glory?!?!

Good God...are they going to have to kick her sorry ass again?

I mean....why can't these skanky hellbitches stay down?

Sure...she's a god.

They are mortal...but damn...she got her sorry butt whupped by "Mere mortals" before this.

Oh well...smackdown time again.

Right now, though, I think Willow needs to concentrate on the love she and Tara share...the "Light Side" so to speak.

Dark Magick is SO not going to help her this time.

But magic based in Light, strengthened by their love for each other?

Nothing in the world more powerful, Hellgoddess or not.

That's my two and a half cents.

Great story Sass.

Love it!

Willowfan

“Love’s bitch?” Spike asked softly...
“Woman enough to admit it,” Willow agreed with a nod and a sad half-smile.

“Cheers, luv,” Spike whispered... -Answering Darkness by Sassette

[Grimaldi]

great update.



poor Willow, just couldn't get there in time. i love that even though Willow is in hell, she still shows her academic side in wanting to examine her surroundings. nice cliffhanger with the return of Glory (hope she kicks the Trickster's ass).

Awww, Grasshopper, you're so screwed.

If there are any questions, you may direct them to that brick wall over there.

[Puff]

Sass wow that was brilliant



*Is speachless*

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You know, it's a real deal relationship and that's why people can relate to it
Amber Benson

[WiccansIllusion]

Sass I think you broke some kitties...

'It's good to be a chicken casserole'-Sass, answering darkness

'My heart is cleverer then I and it knows what to do.'-MC Legends of the Kiss

[Pixie gishmock]

Holy Shit!!!!! Frelling hell!!! With Glory, and the finger, and Glory, and where's Tara!!!!! Sass you definitely broke me this time. Owl warned me about the bloody cliffhanger last night, but I was too tired to read it then. You are an evil genius! *Pixie tosses over a drawerful of panties (must keep up my reputation), then swings over to Owl and hangs on tight*

Life is full of changes...The better you are at letting go of things, the freer your hands will be to catch something new. ~from Off The Map by Joan Ackerman
"It's good to be a chicken casserole," Tara murmured before passing out. ~from "Answering Darkness" by Sassette

[Canadian Kitty]

Wow. That was totally unexpected, yet understandable in a totally hindsighted kind of way. Did that make sense? Let me put it this way, after I finished reading it I made two sounds: Waaaa? followed by Ahhhhhh.



But Sass, where's the love?



CK

"You wanna go out sometime, for coffee, food, kisses and gay love?" Willow- Normal Again.

[Mufin53]

I knew they needed Glory for this one, but... but where did Tara go? Um... I'm scared!



Plaid skirt? Check. Argyle socks? Check. White shirt half buttoned? Check. Down on my knees? Check.

*puts hands together and prays for an update tonight*

I don't think I can wait until Wednesday!!!

[Drakkenfyre]

What the hell do I say? Shit damn fuck screw !!! Son of a Trickster's Bitch!!! I am now officially broken!!

"We few, we happy few."
"We band of buggered."

[jomarch]

Argghhhhhhhh!



Sassette, every new chapter is so damn good. You are seriously raising the bar each time. Can't wait for the next one. Am slightly broken as well but have faith that your resolution is going to be so good!

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You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; It will not let you fall

And Death shall have no Dominion

[ExtraFlameyWT]

need. update. fix.



i need to be fixed. i am still thinking in fragments.



-Aimee

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"Hey Will, this is me. It doesn't all have to be good and fine. This is the room where you don't have to be brave. I still love you. If you're worried, you can be worried." -Tara to Willow in ep. 603 Afterlife

[jdcioffi]

G-glory? Uuuuhm ... *gulp* ... I miss Alice and her Land of Happy Hooligans!



Naw, this is super. Super duper even!

JD

Helen: "What makes you happy?"
Jessica: "Nothing. I'm not."
(Kissing Jessica Stein)

[Sassette]

LOL ... I seriously love you people.



**ExtraFlameyWT: Heh ... okay, having now reduced someone to "Fire Bad, Tree Pretty", it's like I've met all my goals, and no longer need to actually >finish< this fic. Ummm ... just kidding. No coronaries, please. *G*



**TX: Oh, TX, and my chunks like you, too.



**Willowfan: Is it wrong that the phrase "why can't these skanky hellbitches stay down?" just has me rolling? And, ummm ... generally speaking, anything that has the word "God" in theie name wins - because seriously - you can't kill them, and you probably can't even hurt them.



**Grimaldi: Heh ... another one rooting for Glory. God, I'm good But yeah ... I see Willow as being someone who >feels< very deeply and very world-shakingly (okay, that's not a word ... just go with it) to the point where she can't handle these emotions without putting them inside some kind of rational framework to gain perspective. Tara, on the other hand, doesn't try to pigeon-hole what she's feeling, but just accepts it. They're pretty disparate ways of dealing with it, but I think they actually feel things just as deeply - again, they just handle it differently. It's all in the approach - and Willow's approach has her focusing in on academic minutiae (did I even remotely spell that right? *G*) when she's feeling something that's too intense for her to handle.



**Puff: Thank you *G*



**W.I.: Yes, I did. I'm so naughty. But I promise I'll put them all back, okay?



**Pixie: Where's Tara? That would be telling. And why is it that every time I start interacting with a new group of people they decide that I'm an evil genius? I'm not >that< bad!



**C.K: Ahhh, perfect *G* That's exactly what I was going for. I wanted this to be obscure enough that it would be difficult to guess, but supported enough by the body of the fic that it didn't seem totally arbitrary and random. And the love is on its way. You'll see *G*



**Mufin: Awwww ... *runs over and gives you a great big hug* You don't have to be scared - everything turns out all right in the end, I promise! Excellent catch, btw, knowing they'd need Glory ... I just about spit up my soda when I saw your post a few pages back telling me to fix this, even if I had to resurrect Glory to do so. Oh, and, ummm ... love the outfit. I mean, I >LOVE< the outfit.



**Drakkenfyre: *nods* Yeah, that about covers it. I promise to put you back together, though - believe me, everyone will be feeling all warm and fuzzy by the time I'm done.



**jomarch: *blush* Raising the bar each time? You're too sweet! *G* Thank you for the faith you have placed in me - I promise not to let you down. But, y'know, as an Evil Genius, I have considered (it was a stray thought - I had no control over it, I swear, and I immediately dismissed it) the idea that someone could come to this board, start some W/T fic, then end unhappily. It would technically fit within the Pens guidelines, if I recall correctly. But - as I said - it's just something that popped into my head, because I'm Slightly Evil, but not something I would ever, EVER do ... I'm Evil in Theory, not so much in Practice. Besides - I want a happy ending as much as everyone else here.



**ExtraFlameyWT: Still broken? Eep! I just now got home from work ... so I haven't even started the next update yet ... but I will have it done as soon as I can - but honestly, that might not be until Wednesday. I have no idea how fast I'll be able to write tonight.



**jdcioffi: Super Duper? *G* Thanks! And yes, the land of Alice and her Happy Hooligans was kind of fun, in a twisted "I'm a crack fiend" kind of way.



-Sass

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I Think The Hellmouth Tastes Like Chicken -- Autumn

[ExtraFlameyWT]

Okay, I will wait...

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Heh ... okay, having now reduced someone to "Fire Bad, Tree Pretty", it's like I've met all my goals, and no longer need to actually >finish< this fic. Ummm ... just kidding.

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You'd better be kidding!! I don't know what I'd do!



But really, take your time... I'm sure we will all be pieced back together eventually.



-Aimee

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"Hey Will, this is me. It doesn't all have to be good and fine. This is the room where you don't have to be brave. I still love you. If you're worried, you can be worried." -Tara to Willow in ep. 603 Afterlife