I think Cordelia's forgetting something, House is older than her and far less of a brooding prude, like Angel is :P. Therefore, he has a bigger (Tehe heh, I said bigger heheheh!!=P)... where was I??...Ah yeah, House has a bigger imagination when it comes to how please a partner in carnal matters :P.

Cool chapter, see ya!!.

Thankfully he's not a prude. (My inner letch is happy) There are times I really wish I'd rated this higher, but the original was not rated high, so I don't want to lock out the old readers... (sigh).

House has a bigger... arsenal of seduction... and they just seem so right for each other... if they don't end up killing each other! There will be explosions either way!

Can we say BOOM?!!

Ya knew I had a boom in there somewhere!!

Blue

Nice. I love the Wesley/Willow thing. Especially considering that they're married IRL. Great job and good plot. Keep it up! :-)

Thank you. Glad you're enjoying it. You know I keep looking for good Willow/Wes fics and hardly ever find any... It just seems like it would be a cool idea... It's been calling me for a while...

Blue

Dang! Wills and Wes?? (I can't believe that they are really married and have 1.5 kids!!!) So Wills is gonna jump the fence again for Wes...

Well, someone has to try it... I keep looking for Willow/Wesley fics and not finding any... I felt torn b/c I like Willow as a lesbian. I must warn you... the path will not be smooth or easy... I hope it ends well...

Blue

This is getting interesting.

Willow/Wesley is funny. It's actually more amusing because of the Alyson Hannigan/Alexis Denisof marriage... and from what I've seen on twitter, their kids are cute. ^_^ (Alyson tweets.) Reading about Willow and Wesley just makes me grin now.

I like how you're developing this new story organically, growing it from the end of the previous one. It's nice to see smooth transition in fic series'. *smiles*

It is, isn't it? Hehe.

Yeah, Willow, Wes is funny... funny because despite the fact that they're married in real life, I find very few W/W stories, and even fewer crossovers. Glad I could make you grin!

I hope organic isn't a euphemism for disorganized! hehe. I am glad the transition is smooth. I just wonder. Will Xander take Anya's advice?

Peace,

Blue

Love this.

Thank you.

Blue

Oh, I need MORE of this story!!! Please!

More will be soon. Just know I'm under the gun with RL and TFD, my epic...

Blue

This whole series is an interesting idea. Good to see more of it. :-)

Very glad that you're interested... and happy to provide more of it... more soon.

Blue

EDIT: Thank you for recommending Xander's New House, the original story... I really appreciate it.

interesting interactions...
looking forward to the next chapter ^_^

Happy New Year!

Hope that's interesting good. Speed of updates will increase in coming weeks.

Happy New Year to you too!

Blue

I like Greg and Cordelia together and the way you're shaping their relationship. That...was really kinda hot. :)

Very glad to oblige! They're just so snarky... it's like snark with pep! Plus, House is an old letch, and Cordy is hot and I think hot blooded too (remember that scene with Angel at the theatre?) (fans self). :-)

Blue -> is enjoying contemplating Greg and Cordelia.

So Cordie and House are "falling" for each other huh? Hopefully it gives House a kick in the pants to get her and Giles back awake. My question is....WHY doesn't Wills use her magic to help someone be able to go into Giles' mind and find out why he hasn't woke up yet?

Willow has already used her magic to try to fix them both... So far, it hasn't worked. That was mentioned in the previous story and it will come up again. It won't work, for reasons that will be revealed. Yup, House has been and will be working his rear end off trying to save both of them. Hope you like my 'couple'.

Blue.

I hope you update. I like this series.

Thank you. I will update. I just need to get done with my Turned from Darkness story. That series went unattended for over a year. So, my attempt is to give my readers a Christmas present and finish it. Then, I will come back to some of my other stories... I'm very glad that you have enjoyed this series so far.

Peace,

Blue

I so hope this isn't abandoned, it's by far one of the best fics I've read in any fandom, ever. Your characterizations are so spot on and I can't wait to see where you have everyone going. It's so interesting to watch as everyone starts coming to terms with all that's happened to them and struggling to find out how they should go about rebuilding their lives and relationships, it just all feels so organic. And even the characters from shows I've never seen seemed to blend right in with the story in a way that didn't make me feel like an idiot for not being "in the know", as it were. I really can't wait to read more of your amazing story! For now I guess I'll just have to go see what other delicious stories you've written for me! ...you did write this for me, right?

Nope, no abandoning at all. Just life on life's sometimes ugly terms getting in the way of what I would rather be doing: writing. For some reason burying people I love and fixing flooded houses and dealing with other assorted chaos really sucks the creativity right out the soles of my feet... leaving me with huge burns and no creativity. Sigh. I will tell you a secret... in the last few days, I've been writing all sorts of little vignettes... some of which feel like they might be 'good'... that is usually a good sign. Writing for me is like breathing, so I can't go without doing it long, but lately, it's been hard to write even a line, kind of like agonal breathing, but fortunately, I don't think I'm gonna 'die' just yet...

I try very hard to write my characters as if they're not 'just' TV characters... Instead, I'm writing my own episodes of the (combined) show, and so my characters must be real, must be in character, and the person who has never seen an episode of 'my' show (or the shows from which the characters hail) must be able to relate to the characters. If you have to 'know the show' to 'get' the character, then they're just a cardboard cut out b/c I'm relying on the show to do the 'heavy lifting' and I'm not really writing, I'm playing make up a story with other people's characters... My goal with my fan fiction is that my characters be real, yet be able to walk back into their respective shows, and still be believable to people who *have* seen those shows... but I want to write them so they sparkle and touch my readers even if you don't know any of their history. I also always have at least a couple OC's in my stories... I try to keep them in check b/c I'm not into "Mary Sue".

I have to tell you, I'm deeply moved and my head is about 'this' big from reading your lovely review. I'm glad you like it! Gosh, that sounds so trite... I feel like dancing around and singing 'you like me, you really like me! (to paraphrase Sally Field's Oscar speech from 1985). This is the sort of review that makes me want to write... I write for me, but if I wrote for reviews, it would be for reviews like this... where the reviewer really 'gets' what I'm trying to do and loves what I've done because of it... that's an amazing feeling that I hope I'll never take for granted. Thank you. I did write it for you... the one who can see exactly what it is I work so hard to do.

Peace,

Blue

EDIT: Thank you so much for your recommendation! You really made my night!

The beginning with Giles really hooked me. Memories of Buffy's swan dive and experiencing her coming back in the coffin (that he picked out - nice super creepy touch) *shivers*. And hey, two suns! Are we talking the funky new reality where dragons live (who are not named Puff) or are we going back to Pylea? Now I'm imagining him reliving Fred's time there. Either way, color me intrigued.

Oh, speaking of Fred. It hit me to wonder about her parents. They always seemed to be the most caring, emotionally-normal ones (after Joyce died). So, wouldn't they try to get in touch with their little girl (not knowing about Illyria - who is seeming awful Fred-like anyway) if her place of business became a crater and there was stuff on the news about strange happenings centered around the Hyperion? Just a thought.

Moving on, I really enjoyed how you handled Willow coming to terms with her powers and learning a level of responsibility for them. I just rather hope that means she can still take joy in them - perhaps sometime in the future. It tickled me in the story before this one when she teleported into the demon and made it explode and was all giggly about it. I didn't really see that as misusing her powers just having a bit of fun with them perhaps, like a Slayer doing a showy move.

You're explanation of Willow's mindset didn't groove as well with how I saw her character. It's not that the whole Val thing wasn't gruesome, (liked his backstory, btw) but I rather felt she dealt with some of this at least when she killed Warren & Rack. I also always saw Willow as someone who would think about and -over- think things (especially early on in the show). So the fact that after all these years of staking vampires (she wasn't always sideline girl - that summer Buffy was away and again while Buffy was dead Willow seemed to take a pretty primary role in the hunting), killing demons, and re-ensouling vamps she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she was killing things...Well, agree to disagree a bit, I suppose.

Don't mean to seem overly critical - I'm still totally along for the ride here.

Faith listening to public radio just makes me smile. I truly love characters being fleshed out in unexpected ways like that (maybe especially ones I can relate to so easily as someone who has been able to get on a horse and ride bareback by herself since she was seven and has been listening to NPR regularly since she was a teenager *laughs*).

Next up then, your Dru series. :)

I'm glad that the Giles part resonated with you. It was hard to write, but also felt 'right'. Who else would be 'together' enough to pick out a casket for her? Hmmm Giles reliving Fred's life? There's an interesting idea for another story... Giles in Pylea...

Right, I'm so glad you reminded me that I have to deal with Fred's parents... though the story is mostly set in Princeton, it will follow Gunn, Illyria, Anne and Harmony... whose soul is quite permanent. Since she wanted her soul, there was no need for the 'curse'. She may not be miraculously good, and she's not going to become suddenly smart, b/c lets face it, the human Ms. Kendall was none of those things, but I think the fang gang's willingness to take her in made quite an impression, so it will be a cold day in hell before she leaves them. After all, none of her friends ever came through for her when she was alive.

I'm glad you related to how Willow dealt with her power. Power can be a weird thing... It's very tempting to abuse, even when you know the potential drawbacks. It takes quite a bit of maturity to recognize your limits when you don't have many limits compared to the rest of the world. I think that presidents of countries probably face this too... all of a sudden they have the power of war and life and death in their hands and they have to wield it carefully or in some cases, let it go to their heads... Except, of course, Willow has no one to 'answer' to, not in the same way as an elected official. Other than her conscience and her friends, there's nothing to stop her. That is a scary thing.

Willow did kill vampires, but she really didn't see it as 'killing' -- I know of fighter pilots who have thrown up when they've been forced to do hand to hand, even after a lot of experience bombing and shooting down other planes. Somehow in your face and personal is different. Even people who've shot people can have a hard time with stabbing someone. There's something a lot more 'intimate' about having someone's blood and brain matter splattered all over you.

I can tell you from personal experience that seeing a (closed, clothed) dead body, and seeing a cadaver opened up or a damaged corpse are *very* different experiences, and in my case I was not responsible for any of them being dead or not intact. (I'm in health care, btw).

I think that the reality of what she did to Warren's body wasn't a concern b/c she was essentially crazed when she killed him. Afterward, he wasn't there for her to experience the reality of her actions because she'd vaporized him. She also didn't do it with true premeditation.

There's also something else. PTSD doesn't always hit with the first battle. Sometimes, it takes repeated exposure and trauma before it catches up with you. Also, when you mix sex with violence, unless you have a very specific mind set (either liking it, or being able to compartmentalize) it is NOT something people feel comfortable with.

Still, it's OK for us to disagree! [smile]

Glad you liked my Faith developments. I too like horses and public radio. I think that someone like Faith would take to horses. Horses are very non-judgmental as well as being very powerful and affectionate -- I think someone like Faith would love horses. Horses are one thing that make me wish I lived in the country.

I look forward to your crit of my Dru series. ;-)

Blue

Looking forward to the next bit.

Thank you. More soon, according to muse...

Blue

The insights into Faith's relationship with Robin, and particularly the way he reacts to the threat of early Slayer death represented by her injury (which SHE feels only adds to her unworthiness of him), were especially good.

I'm glad you like that particular part because I can relate to them both and that's probably why it just seemed to flow. I was once a young, insecure spouse, and I also lost someone very precious to me. I try not to write myself into stories, but I guess I just see that in their relationship, especially after all that happened to Faith both in canon and in my story. Hope that makes sense.

I very much appreciate your review.

Blue