Drabble: Doctor Who/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Title: Dangerous Angels
Summary: Buffy Summers and Martha Jones, aka BIG DAMN HEROES.
A/N: Thanks to seraphcelene for the prompt.



Dangerous Angels

Blood, a blink, brings to life still statues: pillars of faith, gargoyles of fable. They were everything that wasn’t, that could never be, friezes of fantasy. Now, unfrozen, they kill dreams with proof.

You think you fight for truth, but every proof of reality, realer than it was before, is your enemy. Your true champion is lies, lies that children may lie in bed and close their eyes, dreaming Hell-demons and Masters of evil are only real in slumber.

You save the world so they may forget.

Tell loved ones to close their eyes.

To yourself you say, don’t blink.

Comments

[rahirah]

This is pretty awesome.

[seraphcelene]

Okay. Made of win. Dude, way to go with the pressure!!

This was awesome. I love the repetition and the layers. It reminds me very much of call and response. Loved the phrase "gargoyles of fable" and the line "You save the world so they may forget."

Lovely, lovely, lovely!

[my_daroga]

Aces. Really, I never thought of the connection, but it's totally apt and now makes so much sense. And an excellent theme, that the biggest things you fight against are the things that no one's ever going to thank you for, because the whole point is that you kept them from happening.

[elisi]

You save the world so they may forget.
That is a stunning line.

Thank you for such a treat!

[lynnenne]

Beautifully done, especially this:

Your true champion is lies, lies that children may lie in bed and close their eyes, dreaming Hell-demons and Masters of evil are only real in slumber.

Gorgeous language and imagery.

[lafemmedarla]

That was beautiful.

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

Just wonderful. I entirely loved it!

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

Goddamn that was poetic. A wonder snapshot of those two heroines

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

Beautifully written. Just lovely.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Tell loved ones to close their eyes.
To yourself you say, don’t blink.

You write killer last lines. It's all in the rhythm.

[redbrickrose.livejournal.com]

This is just gorgeous.

[essie007.livejournal.com]

"Don't blink." I melt. I never have anything coherent to say about your work because you make me squee in incoherent thinky thoughts. You should do more writings, because they are made of win. Oh and also: Sally Sparrow!

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done! I never realized how much Martha and Buffy have in common. Lovely!

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

Lovely imagery. Loved Blink, loved how you drew me back to consider both heroines.