Being a Vampire Sucks 1: Irony

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Dunno where this has come from (possibly from current unwillingness to engage with anything lengthy and complicated fic-writing wise), but I've written a Sheila (you know, from School Hard?) ficlet. First in a short series about minor vamp characters.

Setting: BtVS season 2, during School Hard
Rating: PG
Gen

Irony



Turns out being a vampire isn't as cool as it sounds.

First off, there's the dying part. It hurts, even when the vamp chowing down on your neck is some weird chick in a long white dress who looks like a breeze could blow her away. Also, the waking up tossed in a corner like trash with a pile of dead guys on top of you isn't so great either. It had been ages before someone had come and gotten her out from under, and even then they'd yelled at her, like it was her fault she'd been sired.

Also, when you're first vamped, you're kind of bottom of the pecking order? Everyone bosses you around. Just like school, in fact, 'cept that if you kick back they don't so much give you detention, or suspend you, but shrug, pick up a stake and kill you.

So, for the first time in her life - unlife- whatever - Sheila's doing something that mom, mom's deadbeat boyfriends, that asshole Snyder could never make her do.

What the hell she's told.

There's a word for that.

Maybe if she'd gone to a few more classes, she might even remember what it is.

Comments

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Excellent. :D I was always glad that she wasn't staked in SH myself.

[shapinglight]

Yes. Wonder what happened to her afterwards? She could have just stuck around with Spike's gang, I suppose. She seemed like the small town type.

[ruuger]

Nice :)

[shapinglight]

Thanks. Poor Sheila.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Ah - great little look into a minor character. Loved it. We don't get enough of these.

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No. It's also not really something I've done before, unless you count the odd drabble (wrote one about Nina once).

[quinara]

Ooh, I like this! And am very interested to see the other vamps you're doing...

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Well, they're all vamps whose names we know, if that narrows it down at all.

Glad you liked this anyway.

[treadingthedark.livejournal.com]

Great!!

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Thank you. :)

[snickfic]

Ha ha. Oh, Sheila. Yep, it's a hard knock life, being a fledgling.

Neat!

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Thanks. I expect she'll muddle through somehow once she gets the hang of it.

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I especially like the last part, where she can't remember the word "obedience." I also love this:

waking up tossed in a corner like trash with a pile of dead guys on top of you isn't so great either. It had been ages before someone had come and gotten her out from under, and even then they'd yelled at her, like it was her fault she'd been sired.

What a horrifying condition in which to regain consciousness, even for a callous vampire: buried in pile of corpses! It makes me curious to see where Harmony was when she "came to." (As well as puzzled why Willow didn't know she'd died/disappeared.)

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What a horrifying condition in which to regain consciousness, even for a callous vampire: buried in pile of corpses!

Yes, I was trying to imply that no one even realised Dru had sired her, and they thought she was just one of a pile of corpses to be disposed of. Poor Sheila.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Sheila. *g* Very nice.

[shapinglight]

Yes, I feel sorry for her. Probably we're not supposed to, but that's just weird Joss stuff.

[yourlibrarian]

Nice insight!

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Thanks. I feel sorry for her, in fact. A lot of 'isms' surrounding the character.

[sibilant.livejournal.com]

Poor Sheila! Destined to be a redshirt AND a cautionary tale.

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Yes, though at least she survived School Hard. It's too much to expect that she lasted long, though.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Nice details!

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Thanks. More your forte than mine, I think.

[whichclothes.livejournal.com]

Yay for Sheila!

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Yes, I'm glad she survived School Hard anyway.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Heh. If Sheila were smart, she'd get out of the town the Slayer's in. But she really isn't, poor lamb. However, they don't seem to have her on a very tight leash, so there's always the chance she'll make something of herself.

I love hearing about Sheila, as you know, so thanks for a putting a spotlight on her. *hugs*

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However, they don't seem to have her on a very tight leash, so there's always the chance she'll make something of herself.

Yes, I suspect Spike didn't plan on her sticking around. Dru does love to surprise him.

Poor Sheila. :(

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Now that was fucking brilliant! :-D I loved it!

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Thank you. :)

I've often wondered what happened to her.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

There's a word for that. Maybe if she'd gone to a few more classes, she might even remember what it is. *laughs*

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:)

Sorry for not answering you before. Internet was on the fritz.