#kendra and faith would never

[isagrimorie]

Post-series Robin Wood’s relationship with Buffy never recovered even after the events in Sunnydale.

He trusts Buffy to save the world but he will never trust Buffy to ever have his back again, especially when it comes to Spike.

Much like Martha Jones who will trust the Doctor in every single thing except when it comes to the Master.

Robin Wood 🤝 Martha Jones support group. (Bonus Bill Potts).

#nikki wood #robin wood #martha jones #dr who #btvs #what a disappointment buffy was in 7b #it hurts to say but its true #especially to nikki and robin wood #privileging a white dude over a fellow slayer #i'm never going to get over that bitter pill #in this instance #kendra and faith would never

[thechosenthree]

I’ve been thinking so much lately about how even though Kendra is barely mentioned after her death, she is haunting the narrative for the rest of the show.

Every time Faith is on screen or mentioned, Kendra’s ghost is right there with her. The fact that if Kendra’s hadn’t died, Faith wouldn’t be a slayer, means Kendra is never really forgotten. Faith is a living reminder of Kendra’s tragedy.

And Buffy continues to use Mr. Pointy!! In a way it makes sense to me that Buffy wouldn’t want to bring her up with other people? (I obviously understand the actual reasons but I’ve been trying to make it make sense in universe.) After all nobody else in Sunnydale knew her like Buffy did. They were freaks together!! And then Buffy was alone again.

Faith shows up and Buffy’s got someone who understands!! But it’s not the first time she’s had that, and I keep thinking of how in early s3, Faith must be a constant reminder for Buffy of the friend she lost.

And I can’t imagine Buffy bringing Kendra up to Faith? How would she go about that without it being this weird thing of having to acknowledge Faith replaced Kendra? That Buffy and Faith wouldn’t even know each other if Kendra hadn’t died?

So instead Buffy mourns Kendra alone. And keeps her stake with her, a way of holding onto her long after she’s gone. She brings Kendra with her into battle every time. She’s never really alone. Except that Kendra is dead, and Buffy must feel even more alone than she did before she met her.

And in The Wish Buffy is dressed so similarly to how Kendra was in Becoming when she died!! Wishverse!Buffy is so Kendra AND Faith coded, in different ways. It makes it feel like they’re all three in that episode.

And Wishverse!Buffy died right before Giles smashed the power source. Which means Kendra was called!! For like half a second of course before everything went back to reality. But being that she was raised to be The Slayer, it’s possible Wishverse!Kendra was actually aware she was called? I don’t know exactly how that works. But it’s different than the council needing to go find Buffy and tell her her destiny when she was called.

It’s just!!! They are the chosen three!!

They’re technically never all three on screen together— unless you count one conversation in s3 where Kendra is mentioned in front of them both. But Faith showing up cements Kendra’s place haunting the narrative for the rest of the show. If she’d died and there’d been no other slayer called, she could have faded away…

Faith’s literal existence as a character in the show ensured that she didn’t.

#i have slayer brainrot #i’m obsessed with them #don’t @ me if this makes no sense i just had to ramble a bit #kendra young #faith lehane #buffy summers #the chosen three #buffy x kendra #kuffy #faith x kendra #leyoung #buffy x faith #fuffy #btvs #btvs meta #mine

[theredpharaoah]

Dare I say we give Giles too much. I think him not giving Buffy the Slayer Handbook was dumb and ignorant. The Handbook didn’t just have rules for the Slayer, it was the definitive guide to magic on Earth and its history. The fact they never pull it out again after the first episode irritates the hell out of me. How helpful would that have been for all the Scoobies - Willow could’ve picked up magic way quicker. It probably would’ve helped Buffy hone the psychic abilities she never really developed. Remember how she’s supposed to be able to sense vampires and stuff? And in the comics, Erin had access to all the Slayer memories(I’m pretty sure) because he inherited the psychic side of the lineage. Again, that could’ve been cool to see and very helpful.

I also feel - as stated many times before - Giles completely failed with Faith. People talk about how Buffy built up that rapport with Giles and her friends - that she made their relationship the way it was. But that’s irrelevant because the relationship was present and stable at the time of Faith’s arrival. We see when Kendra comes that even the Giles is a bit taken-aback to her very by-the-book approach to being a slayer. So when Faith came - who is extremely similar to Buffy - how did Giles not immediately feel that paternal instinct he has with Buffy, Willow, and Xander? That sort of instinct comes easier the more people you consider to be your “children”. I mean it’s crazy that The Mayor had to take Faith out of that nasty ass motel. A literal demon had to go “that’s no place for a young girl”. And sure he had a motive but the fact that none of the decent people had already said it? And the way they handled the accidental kill of the evil assistant to the mayor? First of all, the Slayer killing humans is frowned upon but it’s not a hard and fast rule. I’m not saying they should just go around killing ppl, but I’m not going to feel bad that Faith killed a man who was working for demons anyway. And compare that to how they reacted to Buffy Killing Ted(when they thought she had); completely different reaction. And Buffy had exhibited far more animosity towards Ted, than Faith had for some random who got in the way.

Giles as an adult - and something of an educator - should’ve immediately clocked that Faith did not have the same upbringing as the other 3, that the Scoobies were falling into their childish instincts and alienating her, and he should’ve gone out of his way to include her and impress upon the others why they needed to accept her. Especially after they found out about her Watcher’s death and saw how terrified she was of Kakistos. Why did Buffy and Angel have to be the ones to find out Faith needed to be fought for - that she needed help to deal with her trauma. I was really disappointed in Buffy as she’d lost her watcher and relocated just like Faith. She also understood how lonely and dangerous it is being a Slayer. But I can’t blame Buffy all that much cuz she’s a kid. And Giles willing all of his things to Faith in the comics and only the Slayer Handbook to Buffy did not move me. Giles considered Buffy to be the “One True Slayer” was not a gag. Everyone considers her to be that, giving her this handbook after she’s been a Slayer for damn near a decade is insulting. She don’t need that shit no more - she had to learn it all on the job. And giving Faith his money so she could retire from violence? Faith’s violence wasn’t the issue, her relationship to it was. The whole thing read as very melodramatic and self-absorbed.

Giles was very childish and we see it all throughout the series, but especially in the later seasons. I mean when you actually think about it, he’s so ridiculous. Buffy was 22 at the end of the series. 22 and she has to take care of a teen sister, pay mortgage, bills, etc. Could you imagine that amount of responsibility at that age? Our society still considers 22 year olds to be pseudo-teens for the most part. And he left cuz he “didn’t want her to become dependent on him”…what type of shit? She was already dependent on you - you’d been her Father Figure since she was 16 and throughout a boatload of trauma. You pretty much raised the girl. And you know that - that’s why you had a dream of taking child Buffy to the fair. He’s human, but that doesn’t excuse the level of cowardice he exhibited for me.

Also, I think instead of killing Jenny in Passions, they should’ve had her live. I think she would’ve been great as Faith’s mentor. And while she didn’t take the Scoobies to task for blaming her about Angel and alienating her, I definitely think she would’ve gotten them together for their treatment of Faith. I also think she would’ve pointed out Giles’ differential treatments of the two.

#buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #faith lehane #jenny calendar #rupert giles

[coraniaid]

Of course the boring truth is that (with just a handful of exceptions) the Buffy writers never really take seriously the idea that Buffy is not actually "the" Slayer. They try as much as possible to pretend that Kendra and later Faith simply don't exist when they are not the immediate focus of the current episode or arc.

In fact, they do this so aggressively that the episode immediately after Kendra's first appearance (in the two-parter What's My Line?) starts with Giles's pre-show voiceover solemnly repeating the (just proven false) claim that "in every generation there is a Chosen One … she alone will stand against the vampires" (and after What's My Line?nobody mentions Kendra again until she shows up to die a few episodes later). And so aggresively that, between going to prison in Sanctuary [which happens just before Season 4's The Yoko Factor] and coming back to Sunnydale in Season 7's Dirty Girls, Faith's name is spoken just four times over a run of 63 consecutive episodes (once in Season 4's Restless, twice in Season 5's Checkpoint and once in Season 7's Bring On The Night). In fact they do it to the extent that Faith's very last words in the show are to earnestly ask Buffy what Buffy is going to do now that she's "not the one and only chosen anymore" (something that Buffy has of course never been at any point in the roughly four years Faith has known her, exactly because of the mere existence of Faith herself).

But. Putting that aside for a moment.

Do we think that the monks who turned the Key into a human and sent her to be protected by "the Slayer" knew in advance that there was actually more than one Slayer in the world? Or did they only know to come looking for her in Sunnydale after the fact?

I mean, it doesn't seem like they had much time to prepare after "the abomination" found them, turning the Key into a human seems very much to have been a last minute spur-of-the-moment kind of plan born of desperation as much as anything else, and it's not clear why an order of monks who guarded some mystical glowing green energy for centuries would have spent much time keeping track of the lives of individual vampire slayers (let's face it, even the Watcher's Council didn't ever bother to do that, and some would argue that it is quite literally their only job).

In other words, did the monks actively pick Buffy Summers to look after the Key (and if so, how did they know who she was?) or did they just send the Key to "the" Slayer and get very lucky?

Is there some possible alternate world where one day Faith Lehane wakes up in prison somewhere in California and suddenly remembers that she has an estranged kid sister she hasn't seen in years who lives on the other side of the country?

#btvs

[buffy-targaryen]

It always made complete sense to me that the watchers council never told Giles and Buffy about Kendra (and later, Faith). The council doesn’t give a shit about a Slayer, especially a wild card like Buffy, they must’ve been desperate for her to die again, for real this time, and leave Kendra who has been trained since a child.

It does however beg the question as to why they then allow Mr Zabuto to send Kendra to Sunnydale knowing full well she could come across Buffy who would certainly be able to successfully fight her if they met… so my theory is that must’ve told Kendra enough so that she would target Buffy as a vampire. Kendra found Buffy and Angel almost immediately, and she says that she assumes Buffy was a vamp because you know, she was kissing one (a fair assumption), but then she comes after Buffy hard. Kendra comes very close to killing her because she targets her specifically, even over Angel.

The council have never been stupid, but they’ve always been cruel and calculating, and it makes perfect sense to me that they could easily withhold information and then fall back on plausible deniability, and their ‘orders’.

#my thoughts #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #kendra young #im an anti council blog #those fuckers deserved to be blown up

[candlemouse]

I posted a new fic that explores Marla and Scott Sorenson’s experience from losing their daughter, being kidnapped, forcibly educated about magic, and finally reuniting with their family.

It will be three chapters and end up about 10k words.

It’s been really fun to write!

Here is an excerpt:

Silence filled the house. The TV sat dormant, pots and pans did not clang, and there was no bickering over the remote. Just Marla alone on the couch.

The peace and quiet she had always prayed for.

It was 6 o’clock on a Sunday. Normally, dinner would be takeout from the steakhouse downtown as Marla had always maintained that a day of rest meant no cooking. She would force the kids to eat dinner at the table, and Kendra would stress out about an assignment she had due the next day while Seth flung peas at her. Inevitably, someone would yell and the other would storm out of the room.

Marla would be pulling her hair out trying to get them to settle down and wishing that, for just once, their house could be peaceful and quiet and not full of bickering and loud noises.

She had gotten her wish.

Her house was silent.

It only took burying her baby girl under six feet of muddy dirt, and shipping her son off to her in-laws.

Great. Amazing. This was exactly what she had prayed for.

No tears fell. She just stared at the floor.

Scott was somewhere. She didn’t know. Probably grief counseling or the grocery store. Either way, Marla couldn’t seem to care enough to remember.

She was a passive participant in life at the moment. It was better that way. If she had to go back in the stream of things—back to “normal”—she’d have to have quiet Sunday dinners.

No, it was better when nothing happened at all.

The train horn interrupted her line of thoughts. It was a faithful thing that she disliked. It came every night at eleven pm. She could never get to sleep when she wanted because the blasted horn would wake her up.

While in some crevice of Marla’s brain, she registered the oddness of Scott staying out past eleven, she couldn’t stop the onslaught of grief that prevented her from thinking about anything but her baby girl. It wouldn’t be right to go about her day without Kendra on her mind. To Marla, that was the final goodbye she dreaded. The point when she forgot about her baby girl.

Ironically, the funeral had offered the briefest reprieve in her thoughts as she had to sort money around and calculate coffin costs—monotonous, mindless things.

But, the funeral had already occurred a few days ago. Well, at least Marla thought it was a few days ago. Not much recently had been cataloged in her memory.

All she knew was that there was a new headstone in the cemetery and that her baby girl was under it.

Parents weren’t supposed to grieve for their kids. That wasn’t the deal Marla had made with God when she conceived.

Motherhood was supposed to be the most amazing thing in the world. God-given. And it was, at times. But, this was never supposed to be part of it.

Why did God take her baby girl?

The priest had tried to explain to her. Euphemisms ran into mantras ran into the most meaningless crap she’d ever heard.

Their family went to church every Sunday. They praised God. They said grace before every meal. Marla had sat on her knees every night like a good girl and prayed for her family.

Her baby girl taken from her. Who did it?

The private detective didn’t know. She didn’t know. Her son didn’t know. The coroner had sent a report with confusing details, but then the next day, sent a clean bill of death.

A stroke.

Marla guessed that was it. A stroke of luck. Something no one could predict but God. Bad karma.

Scott tried to pull her to the grief-counseling meetings. It didn’t work. She didn’t want to feel these feelings and live with them. She wanted them gone!

She wanted Kendra back. She wanted her children.

Pain constricted her chest and she couldn’t breathe anymore.

It was like this now. She got sudden pains and constrictions she had used to associate with sadness and anger, but she no longer felt those feelings.

It was all nothing.

There was a knock at the door.

How late was it? Eleven? Well, who cared. Time didn’t matter anymore.

Obligated, Marla approached and peeked through the peep-hole.

There was a skinny looking man holding tupperware. He looked around and then knocked again.

Oh, well. As Marla sighed and opened the door, she was faintly aware of the consternation she would have had a week ago if she had answered the door with unwashed hair, pajamas, and days-old makeup. She couldn’t imagine ever thinking those thoughts again.

“What do you want?”

The man smiled understandingly at her and held out his container. “I’m sorry for your loss. Kendra was an amazing student. I brought a home-cooked meal for you and your husband.”

Marla squinted at him. He must’ve been one of Kendra’s teachers, but she didn’t recognize him. But, that didn’t mean much. Kendra had had six teachers. This could be the one Marla could never remember the name of.

She took the Tupperware and nodded her head in thanks. It was the most she could do, because she didn’t want to talk to him at all.

“Have a good night. If you need anything, I can have the school organize a drive.”

“That’s alright. Take care.”

Marla closed the door and opened the container. It smelled good.

A week ago, if Marla had suddenly received an influx of meals from the community, she would have kept meticulous count and ate them in the order she had received them as to avoid spoilage.

But, Marla was different now so she slid down the door frame to a seated position and used her hands to eat the chicken wings.

As she tore off the skin with her teeth, she tried to place the flavor. She liked Buffalo, but this wasn’t that. It wasn’t bad, it was just different.

Before she began eating, she hadn’t realized how hungry she was. It made sense, though. She hadn’t eaten since she had woken up, and that had been a long time ago.

Her original intention to share with her husband faded as she finished the last of the wings. Her fingers were sticky and she simply licked the sauce off, another thing she would never have done a week ago.

As she set the container aside, she resumed her meaningless staring. Exhaustion began to tug at her eyelids, and she had no will to deny it. She slumped against the wall and closed her eyes.

There was a knock at the door and then another, but by then, she was too tired to move. And by the time the door opened and the skinny man stepped in, Marla was gone to the world.

Continue reading this chapter on Ao3 by clicking this link!

#fhdw #fablehaven #dragonwatch #marla Sorenson #scott Sorenson #the Sphinx #is also a character #Fablehaven fanfiction #fanfiction #ao3 #my fanfiction #fanfic #fic

[thepunkmuppet]

a comprehensive list of all the Implications (TM) of the WishVerse that were never explored. enjoy.

so in case you forgot: buffy never came to sunnydale in season 1. the master took over sunnydale and made xander and willow his deranged vampire sidekicks. buffy fights the master and her, cordelia, angel, willow and xander all die. almost all these points are going off the branching timeline where giles didn’t destroy anya’s pendant and the wishverse kept going.

larry is a “white hat” working with giles, oz and nancy. he has dyed black hair. I think it’s safe to assume that larry is out in this universe, and apocalypse or no apocalypse I love the idea of these three being a found family friend group just like buffy and the scoobies. also love the idea that oz and larry were in love but that’s just because I am insane lmao. anyway larry is out as gay and friends with oz with surrogate father figure giles… yeah that just makes me happy. I would love to see his season 1-3 growth in coming out and becoming a better person / not a bully similar to cordy. and shittily dying his hair black.

were spike and dru there during the season 2 period? did the master kill them? did the white hats kill them? did they leave? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM????

the mayor, adam, glory and the first would likely still happen on top of all the vampire apocalypse stuff. the trio could be dead or vampires and dark willow obviously would not be able to happen. does giles fight these threats, collecting various child fighters over the years?? no idea. do they succeed?? no idea.

dawn doesn’t exist because buffy is dead. I wonder who the key would have taken the form of, perhaps she would be faith’s sister…???

what’s the status of jenny calendar?? joyce?? tara?? amy?? no one knows!! I just hope they didn’t meet too grisly of ends. the idea of leather-clad apocalypse vampire versions of all these badass women intrigues me though…

did anya remain a demon?? destroying her necklace would reset the timeline back to normal, so I guess she must have done. my anyiles heart says giles thought “I could fix her” and fell in love with a vengeance demon who doomed reality but that might just be wishful thinking (no pun intended).

angel investigations simply doesn’t exist. angel and cordy are both dead.

connor would not exist because darla would not be brought back (I wonder if jasmine would find some other way to bring about her birth??)

lindsey would have both hands intact and he and lilah would likely stay at wolfram and hart, and neither would die unless they were caught in the crossfire of vampire apocalypse stuff.

gunn would stick with his crew in LA and would likely fight the master at one point, not to mention even more vampires than usual, and without superpowers would likely die eventually.

angel investigations would never run wolfram and hart, meaning illyria would have to find a different host body. if it was lindsey or lilah that would be awesome.

pylea would stay the same and suck forever because cordy would never go there.

lorne is flourishing and loving life running caritos. he’s probably better off for it tbh. the wishverse says gay rights!!!!

in terms of wesley, faith and doyle, I recommend this amazing fic. it really speaks for itself, it’s awesome!!

its unclear as to who would be called after buffy. is it a person to person thing or simply a timing thing?? would it be kendra, faith, or someone else entirely? as I said this is explored in the fic I linked, but still interesting to discuss.

season 7 would be very different. we don’t know what slayer is currently around and we don’t know if that would change the first’s plan or the ending with all the potentials becoming slayers. no idea. kennedy would not be important thank god.

fred is still in pylea.

if you can think of anything else, please do share in notes!!

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #angel the series #ats #buffyverse #wishverse #cordelia chase #buffy summers #btvs angel

[corvidyus]

my god kendra really was doomed by the narrative to not have a happy ending. As soon as the writers room got through telling the story they wanted to tell of Buffy helping an even more repressed/controlled Slayer, they were always gonna kill her to give Buffy some trauma & to be able to introduce another second Slayer they had new ideas for…

I get it, her death was kind of inevitable the second the writers wanted to do Faith’s shadow slayer narrative (Kendra would never fit) so I can’t even be that mad. And I do love Faith’s narrative weight! She’s a good shadow to Buffy— but so was Kendra, in the opposite direction!

I do also love how her dying a really good representation of how the Slayers are forever trapped in this cycle by their destiny; live fast, slay vamps, die young - no future, no family, nothing else in their life… and when Buffy is able to break that cycle in any way (not being alone, having family/friends, having a life), it feels so good!

But man, I loved Kendra! I wish she at least had some more screen time. Her palling around the Scoobies, getting some more normal life, or even a side ep or two of her with her own watcher and monster fighting that influences/is influenced by Buffy in Sunnydale! There’s a lot of potential that wasn’t really used between the writers introducing her and then killing her :(

Or even perhaps a technical death/sacrifice similar to Buffy’s could’ve worked to summon Faith— though it would’ve been cheap to pull that twice… haha… I just like Kendra

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #kendra #kendra young #? apparently thats her last name i kinda forgot #buffy whats my line #whats my line buffy #croaking #meta #buffy meta

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, May 14

BUFFY Spike, this vampire told me you sired him. SPIKE That doesn't mean - BUFFY He said you killed him. Dumped him in a parking lot somewhere. SPIKE And you believe him? Vampires aren't - BUFFY I did follow you last night, and you know what? You didn't look lonely or casual to me. You looked like you were on the prowl. SPIKE You can't know that. BUFFY So, then, tell me. Tell me what happened. You talked to her, then what? SPIKE We talked. That's all I remember. BUFFY All you remember? SPIKE I don't know. I go out. I talk to people or I don't. It's boring. It all bleeds together. BUFFY Well, if you seem to forget that much, then - SPIKE Not that. The taste of human blood. That, I'd remember. BUFFY You were camped out on the hell mouth talking to invisible people. Recently. How can you be sure of - SPIKE No! You are wrong. You've got an accusation from a pile of dust and not a shred of proof. BUFFY So, I'll get some.

~~Buffy Season 7 Episode #130: "Sleeper"~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

On the Beach (Ensemble, G) by Ripper1701d

My burgundy shadow (Buffy/Faith, unrated) by fictiongods

MOVIE NIGHT!!! (nsemble, unrated) by thedeathscar

Slayer (Spike, unrated) by fanficsiwillneverwrite

[Chaptered Fiction]

Hand in Flightless Hand (Buffy/Spike, E) by tragicbynight

I Need A Bad Idea Ch. 45 (Buffy/Giles. E) by Skyson

I hate the way Ch. 9 (Buffy/Giles, E) by DancingAngel0013

Keep You Ghosted Ch. 7 (Buffy/Spike, M) by hydranjenna

Gemini Ch. 7 (Buffy/Angel, M) by BuildMeUpButtercup_x

Never Let Me Down Again Ch. 9 (Buffy/Angel, M) by BuildMeUpButtercup_x

Recommencer Ch. 12 (Buffy/Faith, M) by FridayQueen

B&S 4ever: Drabbles Ch. 19 (Buffy/Spike, E) by cawthraven

Highlands and Tropical Islands (Buffy/Faith, M) by QuillBard

What Happens In Quarantine... Ch. 16 (Buffy/Spike, E) by bewildered

In the Company of Witches and Slayers: Ch. 35 (Willow/Tara, E) by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer)

Eros' Curse Ch. 19 (Buffy/Dawn, E) by Deviantelfguy

hit rewind CH. 54 (Buffy/Spike, M) by untiljanuary

Bounties and Bullets Ch. 6 (Buffy/Faith, M) by alwynjaegar

Spike Has A Girlfriend, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Spikelover4ever

Guitar Villain , Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, E) by RavenLove12

The Neighbor's Point of View, Chapter 104 (Buffy/Spike, G) by the_big_bad

A Ripple In Time, Chapter 29 (Buffy/Spike, E) by CheekyKitten

Early One Morning , Chapter 42 (Buffy/Spike, E) by all choseny

Something Lingers, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, E) by goodbyetoyou

Service Unit, Chapter 12 (Buffy/Spike, E) by hulettwyo

The Kitten That Killed Slayers, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Desicat

On Your Knees for your Queen, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Desicat

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Tara by coraniaid

Tara from Buffy! by absolutely-wretched

I Robot You, Jane - Dave by annarowyn

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What If: Buffy lived with Hank instead? by Multiple Authors

Discussion of "The Slow-Burn Legacy of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' " by Cailly_Brard7

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Juliet Landau and Julie Benz look absolutely stunning in their photoshoot for the officially licensed Buffy makeup line by GlampireSlayer

Why is Buffy not on Disney+? by BoredYogiOnHere

What time period would you have liked to have seen our main vampires in? by Ok_Area9367

Scooby bang hanging out in Sunnydale at night without Buffy ? Huhhh by Salty_Oil4130

Minor-Character Review: Sheila in School Hard (S2E3). by Heart_Throb_

Omnibus Comics by chamomilekatydid

I refuse to accept Kennedy as Willow's end game pairing / one true love. by S Rou

Status of our Scoobies & Angel Investigation at the end of the Comic Book Run by Stellz04

On body swaps: a comparison, a thought experiment and a call for ideas by jonaskoelker

The Watcher by trufflesniffinpig

Which arcs of Buffy The Vampire Slayer did you feel like so brillant ? by Cailly_Brard7

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[1saviorrudra]

VEDIC CHART ANALYSIS - 1

Hi everyone.. I'm going to do a series on vedic chart analysis of celebrities. So.. Let's start.

I was thinking whom should I choose first. But after thinking long time, I decided a chart finally. It will be on her, Serena Williams. A marvelous tennis player. I will be extracting few things from wiki and analysing how it relates to her great ability as sportswoman.

In case, if you don't know who she is:

"American professional tennis player, ranked by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) as world No. 1 in singles on eight occasions, from 2002 to 2017. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on 8 July 2002. On the sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf for the most consecutive weeks as world No. 1 by a female tennis player. In total, she has been world No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks her third in the Open Era among female tennis players."

First thing, I found interesting is her majority of planets in 6th house. 6th house is the house of fights and combats. So you can see that her 6th house is superstrong with 3 planets. That gives her fighting ability. 10th Lord being Saturn is situated in 6th house. It's a very good placement for sportswoman. So majority of focus will be on combats. i.e. sports. Virgo being the natural 6th house, it adds more to her fighting ability. The other combination, I would say is her Mars rahu conjunction. Mars is a natural fighter and rahu exaggerates the fire. The rajayogas formed by 9th , 5th and 10th ruler is of highest order. It is very special. It has formed in 6th. So it was predestined that she would acquire fame through her competitive spirit.

"Williams and her tennis-champ sister Venus were brought up in a supportive environment to prepare them for such pressures as the media and competition bring to bear during the tennis tours. Their dad Richard has been called both a genius and a racist who is keeping his gifted kids wrapped in the bosom of their family. "

As I mentioned earlier, Mars rahu in 4th house shows her aggressive home atmosphere. Also, the Mars rahu combination in cancer would increase the intensity even more as cancer is the natural zodiac of fourth house. She was raised being competitive. 9th Lord Jupiter in 6th would indicate her fights with her father. Her early childhood would have been difficult but it was shaped perfectly for her tennis future.

"Williams is married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. He proposed to her on 10 December 2016, in Rome."

She was exactly proposed on moon period and venus subperiod. Isn't it amazing that we are destined to meet our partners according to our chart? Venus shines in her 7th house being strong in libra. Such a great time to find a partner. Her husband was an American internet entrepreneur and investor. You can clearly see her 7th Lord venus conjunct with mercury which indicates a charming personality who will be among crowds. Despite her combative spirit, she had a romantic side. There is no way a person with such strong venus and mercury in libra will be unromantic. Also, 5th house house moon makes her more loving.

"Williams was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, but states she has "never really practiced it" "

So she was not really religious. The reason might be major virgo placements. Virgo is a zodiac which puts logic into everything and might not perform well where faith or higher ideals are involved. Also, the planet of spirituality Jupiter placed in chitra nakshatra. Chitra is also associated with craftsmen which relates to attention to details.

"Work : Prize 1998 (Wimbledon title)

Work : Prize 1998 (U.S. title)

Work : Prize 1999 (U.S. Singles title)

Work : Prize 1999 (French Doubles title)

Work : Gain social status 11 September 1999 (Defeated Hingis; No.1 champ)"

She gained major recognition within Mars period. Mars is placed in kendra(4th house) and aspecting 10th house of career and status. Mars being the lagna Lord, it was very much obvious. She faced her defeat in July 2000. It was the period of mars-saturn. Saturn is placed in her 6th house. So, she had to suffer sadness because of defeat through her sister. Saturn subperiod causes grief usually.

There are many things which could be analysed from her chart. I didn't even get into divisional charts. But, I will keep it short as of now. I would like to know your opinion on her chart analysis. You can comment it below. If there is any celebrity chart analysis request, feel free to comment it down.

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[tuiyla]

Buffy season 6!

Okay I finally have a moment to write this out and it’s now or never so here goes, beginning of Buffy season 6 thoughts. Seen up to episode 6.

I knew going into it that it was a controversial season and obviously I’m yet to see most of it but I really enjoyed the tone the opening three episodes set. It was dark and ominous but not in the “for the sake of it” kind of way. BtVS got more saturated, if not substantially tonally more jovial when Angel the Series started but the start of season 6 almost felt like the Wishverse, what with gangs ransacking Sunnydale and Buffy nowhere to be seen. When I first accidentally found out that Buffy would die once again and return yet again, I didn’t think much of it. In that, she has died once and sure, we got an episode long PTSD and Kendra and Faith as a result (sigh, Faith) but the world didn’t feel fundamentally different. Due to many different factors, including the excellence of Buffy’s sacrifice in The Gift, this time it felt different. The Scoobies, while not quite a shell of their former selves are markedly different. Life went on but the absence of Buffy is felt in every corner. Everyone is effected but standing out the most is Willow, now leader and powerful, perhaps too powerful witch.

Willow’s development has been fascinating to follow and though she didn’t have the most to do in season 5, her not so quiet progression was all too clear when she took on Glory. And Willow’s game face when faced with the loss of Buffy is as serious as it was with Tara’s, such is the depth of their friendship. Alyson Hannigan, newly promoted to the special last but least position of the credits portrays Willow as beautifully as ever and brings a whole new dimension to her. This isn’t the same Willow Rosenberg who was too afraid to talk back to Cordelia in the pilot. She knows what she wants and what she wants is Buffy, alive and well and back with her family. Her path this season is set, even if I didn’t have vague (and not so vague) ideas of what’s yet to come. And Willow’s hardened determination is only highlighted when juxtaposed with her more relaxed self after Buffy returns. Hannigan taps more into the old Willow when Buffy’s back: her smile, her jokes, as if the weight has been lifted from her shoulders now that her friend is back. Now that the chosen one is back. But all is not well with Willow, and part of that is all being far from well with Buffy.

When it clicked what they were going for with Buffy at the end of episode 3, I felt a special kind of delight. The one you get when you know you’re about to witness something great. In this case, a fascinating journey and conflict for Buffy. They can never know but they will. Her friends will eventually have to face the fact that they ripped her right out of heaven itself. I wasn’t sure about her initial shock at first, in that I wasn’t sure it was going to be appropriately serious but also adding to her as a character. But the revelation that she’s not just startled, she’s resentful is delicious drama. And already in season 6 we have what I can only logically conclude is the build-up to Spuffy. Buffy is now so emotionally distant from her friends and even, to a degree, from Dawn. This enormous secret that she has to keep comes with having to pretend she’s grateful for something that she actually resents and tries so hard to wrap her head around. And here comes Spike, someone she doesn’t have to pretend with, someone who, if in a twisted and remote sort of way, is the closest to getting it. What an interesting way of building up Buffy’s side of the relationship, how refreshing that they’re putting the storytelling effort in instead of just catering blindly to what would be aesthetically pleasing. Granted, I still cannot yet say whether I will be satisfied with the way Spuffy unfolds but colour me intrigued at this point in time.

I had a few more thoughts after the first six episodes but really Willow and Buffy in the first three was the bulk of it and what excites me most about this polarizing season. I will say three gripes I’ve had just to let it out. One is the coffin of it all, obviously, Buffy’s friends being skilled enough to pull a resurrection off but not thinking to actually dig her body up before returning her soul into it. Also on the topic of the resurrection, why is everyone fully convinced that Buffy, saviour of the world on several occasions, defender of the innocent, hero to all went to hell? Or a version of hell, anyway. I get that so far in the Buffy lore there wasn’t much about any sort of heaven, just the different kinds of hell, but surely Giles or someone would stop to think, gee surely Buffy would have gone to heaven if there was one. I’m fine with the concept of them wanting to resurrect her regardless, fits very well with Willow’s story and of course their grief would be stronger than any notion of Buffy possibly being at peace. But still.

And finally, I really hope the Trio are just a decoy “Big Bad” and will soon be shoved out of the way to introduce... anyone else. They’re played for laughs so obviously they aren’t the actual Big Bad but I don’t think their comedy is funny, at all. Jonathan just pisses me off so much, someone who has SO MUCH to be grateful to Buffy for being a little shit. And as a group they’re just pathetic, not amusing. I don’t see how them messing with Buffy was played for comedy when girl is suffering enough as it is. She was ripped from nirvana and put back into the wheel, and we’re going to spend an episode, potentially more on some little shits inconveniencing her? No, please, get rid of them asap. Continue what the first three eps were building to and I’ll be happy.

#and that is mostly it #phew now i can progress when i get the chance #s6 here i come #btvs lb #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy season 6 #btvs

[doggirlbuffysummers]

🔥 kendra!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My fully honest take is that I would not change her dying when she did if I had the option to.

What I would change was the other casting decisions. A fair amount of main characters like Willow and Xander are minimally impacted by their race and could easily have been played by a black actor.

It's bewildering to me that there are so few people of color on this show given that it is supposedly modeled off of Santa Barbara which, from what I have read, does actually have a fair amount of people of color.

It's also interesting (tm) that all of the named people of color in Buffy (not talking about Angel here) are individuals from outside of Sunnydale who travel to it. We don't see any named POC who grew up there at any point in the show.

I think if you can access my "Which Angel character would you choose to move over to Buffy" @titsgirlbuffy, @transangelus, and @punksouthie all make a good if apparently unpopular point about moving Gunn over.

Back to Kendra.

Why would I still have Kendra die?

I think firstly, by the end of Becoming II, Kendra has outlived her usefulness as a shadow self to Buffy. Secondly, the death of Kendra and introduction of Faith is a reminder of the perpetuity of everything. Regardless of what Buffy does there will always be more vampires and demons, the slayer will always die in the line of duty, and there will always be another to replace her.

But, here's the thing: who says Faith (or like, almost any character on this show to be honest) needs to be white?

I feel like Kendra is definitely portrayed as this victim of patriarchal violence. The council have taken everything from her to mold her into this sort of a perfect soldier to "fight their war" as Quentin puts it in checkpoint. Riley comparisons I feel are particularly interesting here.

Riley, like Kendra, is a 'triumph' of nurture over nature. Riley is molded by Professor Walsh to be a good and obedient soldier who never asks questions. Similarly for Kendra. There are differences (I feel Professor Walsh was not as heavy handed) but the comparison is apt.

Also like to make comparisons between Kendra and Gunn. Gunn struggles over the course of Ats with grappling with the realities morally grey world he exists in. In just two episodes we can see Kendra do the same.

It's rough that she is in the show for so little time but there are other characters who have much more screen time than her that make a much less distinct impression. Kendra is a character that, despite her minimal footprint in terms of physical time in the show, has a huge footprint in the way she haunts the narrative.

Graham from season 4 is definitely remembered by a lot of fans and he shows up very frequently over the course of the season, but nobody really cares about Graham because he doesn't have the same emotional impact as Kendra does. Holland Manners on Angel is in a similar place.

If I get around to writing more meta style stuff about my transfemme buffy headcanon I think I definitely want to flout the poll results and talk about what's my line and Kendra because I think that from the lens I have established, What's My Line, an episode where Buffy is provided an Out from a life as a slayer that will certainly kill her, and voluntarily chooses not to take that out in order to help improve the life of someone else suffering from a patriarchal institution, becomes such a fascinating episode.

#kendra #buffy summers #faith lehane #xander harris #unpopular? opinions #asks answered honestly #btvs

[bespangeled]

Every Argument About “Buffy” On The Internet, From 1998 Until Now

Joss Whedon: Inventer Of Feminism Or Literal Hitler?

Joss  Whedon invented feminism. Before Joss Whedon, every female character on  television was crushed to death under the weight of her male co-stars’  heavier paychecks in the second-season finale.

Every female  character Joss Whedon ever wrote was forcibly impregnated by a demon and  brutally murdered, because Joss Whedon hates lesbians.

But Warren And The Trio Were –

EVERYONE  GETS THAT WARREN AND THE TRIO REPRESENTED THE THREAT OF  NON-SUPERNATURAL MISOGYNY, YOU DON’T GET CREDIT FOR PICKING UP ON THAT

Joss Whedon Doesn’t Understand What Bisexuality Is

Willow Identifies As Gay And You Are Robbing Her Of Self-Determination Because She Doesn’t Have A “Gold Star”

I’d  Feel More Comfortable With Willow’s Lesbianism If It Weren’t Sometimes  Equated With Drug Addiction, Literal Vampirism, And Megalomania

But She Was Clearly In Love With Oz

Who Are You To Say What Love Is

Dark Willow Was Pretty Hot, Though

Yeah, Dark Willow Was Super Hot

I’d Watch Dark Willow And Doppelgangland-Era Willow Hook Up If It Weren’t A Patriarchal Fantasy

Spuffy Is Problematic

Bangel Is A Child’s Delusion Of What Love Is

Spuffy Is Literally Assault

Okay But He Felt Really Bad About It And Didn’t Have A Soul

Waif-Fu And Thermodynamics: You Can’t Violate The Law Of Conservation Of Momentum

Season Six Felt Like Watching My Friends Get Murdered In Slow Motion Right In Front Of Me

It Was Worth It For Once More, With Feeling, Though

No, It Wasn’t

Doublemeat Palace Cancels Out Once More, With Feeling

Doublemeat Palace Cancels Out My Childhood

Xander Is The Only Character Who Retains Their Humanity On The Entire Show

Xander Is A Greater Monster Than Angelus And Invented “Nice Guy” Syndrome

Buffy Started To Falter After Angel Premiered

No, Buffy Started To Falter After Firefly Premiered

No, Buffy Has Never Faltered And Is Still On The Air

Buffy Started To Falter When Angel/Faith/Buffy Came Back

Buffy Was Better When It Was A Movie With Kristy Swanson

What If Evil?

Dark Willow Straight-Up Flayed a Dude!

Extremism In the Pursuit of Love Is No Vice

If a Dude Had Flayed Willow, Would We Be Cheering?

Everyone Was Too Hard On Dawn For Being A Regular Human Being

Don’t You Dare Try To Retroactively Justify Dawn

Oz vs. Tara

Oz Was Boring; Tara Was Too Good For This Sinful Earth

Tara Was Boring; Oz Was The Greatest Love Interest In Television History; Remember That Animal Crackers Monologue

What About Kenned–

SHUT UP ABOUT KENNEDY

Jenny Calendar And Race-Bending

Is It Important That Buffy Is Decidedly Not Book Smart?

Not Everyone Is Book Smart, That Is Elitist

Buffy is the Lady Channing Tatum of being Body Smart and That Is Sufficient

It Is a Tremendous Problem and Girls Should Not Watch This Show Or They Will Not Take College Seriously

I Shouldn’t Have To Watch Angel In Order To Appreciate Cordelia’s Growth As A Character

Shaming: Everyone Is Shamed

“Beer Bad” Is Slut-Shaming

“Beer Bad” Is Substance-Shaming and Preachy

“Beer Bad” Is Just a Terrible Episode

Angel Losing His Soul After He Has Sex With Buffy is Slut-Shaming

THE EPISODE WHERE WILLOW ATTENDS THE WICCAN MEETING IS WICCAN-SHAMING WICCANS ARE REAL WE ARE NOT YOUR PUNCHLINE

KENDRA’S ACCENT THOUGH

Was It Irish Sometimes, Or Was That Just Me?

Her Accent is Perfect, and Not To Be Questioned

Activating All Potential Slayers Was An Act Of Patriarchal Violence

Slaying Is Empowering

No, Slayers Were Literally Created When A Woman Of Color Was Forcibly Invaded By A Demonic Essence

Oh, Right

But Then They Get To Beat Up Everybody

Dark Willow Straight-Up Flayed a Dude

#btvs #buffy #Every Argument About “Buffy” On The Internet From 1998 Until Now #Joss is a piece of trash #From The Toast #repost

[coraniaid]

Made a list of some various ways in which Kendra could have continued to appear in the show after Faith. Sorted roughly both in order of increasing impact on the plot and increasing suspension of disbelief required on the part of the audience:

Kendra stays dead, but somebody (ideally somebody who actually met her, but failing that just about anybody) brings her name up, in any context, after her last canonical mention on the show (by Cordelia in Faith, Hope & Trick). This is ... the baseline, surely. (Do you know nobody but Cordelia mentions her by name at all after Season 2? Or that there are multiple conversations in early Season 3 in which it's discussed that Buffy was wanted for murder but has since been cleared, but not one in which it is acknowledged that the person she was wrongly accused of murdering was her friend and fellow Slayer?)

Kendra stays dead, but the First takes on her appearance at any point (either in Amends or in Season 7). There's a lot of talk about how the writers were hoping to bring back Xander's friend Jesse for Conversations With Dead People, but I've never seen anything about them doing the same for Kendra, despite the fact that Kendra appeared more times on the show (and more recently) and clearly mattered far more to Buffy. And given that the writers insisted on recasting Nikki Wood this season (despite her original actor wanting to come back!), I'm not exactly inclinced to give them the benefit of the doubt here.

Kendra stays dead, but for some reason only known to the writers, Amy Madison casts a spell to make one of the Potentials look just like her for an episode. It is never made clear why Amy would do this beyond a vague desire to mess with Buffy, how she knew about Kendra in the first place, or what consequences -- if any - Amy ever faces after casting this spell. Somehow it's still only very slightly less stupid than the actual canon plot of Season 7's The Killer In Me (which, to be clear, this would not replace in my vision; randomy-evil!Amy does two very similar spells back to back, ideally in consecutive episodes).

Kendra stays dead, but -- in classic Star Trek Mirrorverse fashion -- the writers use some sort of magical contrivance to allow the Kendra from the Wishverse (who was, presumably, Called as a Slayer the moment that the Master killed that reality's Buffy Summers) to visit 'our' reality. (This isn't really within the rules as presented in The Wish, but if Vampire Willow can do it....). Imagine a version of Season 6's As You Were when Buffy doesn't have to try to justify herself to her shitty ex -- the man who left her to fight a god and die so that he could go and make Belize safe for missionaries -- but instead she has to come face to face with the perfect, by-the-book Slayer who died as a direct result of Buffy's last relationship with a vampire.

Kendra stays dead ... until Bargaining. Willow messes up her resurrection spell a little bit and accidentally brings back more than one dead Slayer. Kendra hangs around for the rest of the show and is understandably very confused throughout (in particular, she could have sworn that Buffy didn't have a little sister four years ago...). Maybe the Watchers show up again, after Kendra tries contacting Sam Zabuto for advice. Maybe Kendra reacts just as badly to being brought back from the dead as Buffy initially does (and, look, if she wants to follow Buffy's example and start a relationship with one of the monsters she's meant to be Slaying, Anya will be newly single in just a few months' time...)

Kendra stays mostly dead, but a certain academic at UC Sunnydale with ties to the US military has been hearing rumours and myths about "Slayers" from captured demons and vampires for a while now. Long enough to become curious, and to pull a few strings at the local morgue when the rumour mill tells her a vampire somehow managed to kill a Slayer. Said academic has been funneling government money to work on her own "perfect soldier" project for a long time, and what better test subject to demonstrate this work on than a Slayer of her own? It turns out that most of Kendra's memories are still intact, after a little bit of not-exactly-ethical post-mortem surgery gets her heart working again, and as luck would have it she's even been trained for years to follow orders and never question authority. She's perfect. Realizing that the name "Adam" was a bit on the nose anyway, Professor Walsh starts a new project in Room 314...

Kendra was left for dead by Drusilla, bleeding out and unconcious on the floor of Sunnydale High School library, but it turns out that modern medicine is a bit better than it was in Drusilla's day and Slayers have this whole enhanced healing deal that the canon show sometimes forgets about. Yeah, her heart stops a couple of times in the ER, which is enough for a third Slayer to be called as in canon (and Buffy might not know that Kendra is going to make it when she goes to fight Angelus or when she leaves town), but by the time Willow is up and walking around again, so is Kendra.

Kendra is alive at the beginning of Season 3, filling in for Buffy in Sunnydale while the other Slayer is living as 'Anne' in LA. After Buffy comes back, Kendra leaves town for another Hellmouth but still regularly makes cameo appearances every season. Faith is also there, just like in canon, and the fact that Faith should only have been activated as a Slayer if Kendra died is simply never addressed. (I mean, let's be honest, it's not like the show particularly cares about continuity anyway.)

#btvs

[faith-thee-slayer]

faith was never supposed to be the slayer... faith was NEVER SUPPOSED to be the SLAYER. she was supposed to live a shitty lower class life. she was supposed to graduate high school. who knows if she ever would’ve left boston. she was supposed to be insignificant and average. she had people around her telling her she “would end up dead or alone or a loser.” there was a real chance she’d outgrow the upper age limit for being Called, had buffy and kendra never died, or if they didn’t die at exactly the times they did. her opportunities for a good life were looking fucking slim. and then the universe chose her, out of all the potentials around the world. and she had a lot of growing and maturing to do but the forces that chose her molded her into a hero, because they thought that she was worth it.

#i already knew all this but #why am i crying in the club rn #faith lehane #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #jd.text

[teribst]

Should I Tell Him

Should I Tell Him

A STORY BY MIKE

My name is Teri and I’m a 5 foot 4 inch 38 yr old strawberry blond with blue eyes and a full chest. I have great legs and I've been told a nice ass. I have also been married to my guy KC for 11 years with a 9yr old girl and a 10yr old boy.

KC is 6 feet tall and well built with a shaved head green eyes and is well endowed if you know what I mean. And as far as I know, he has been faithful to me and I had never cheated on him… but then that’s the story, isn’t it?

KC has worked for the same outfit for 8 years and has moved up in the company nicely. He had only been there for a few months when he came up with something that made them a shit load of money and from then to now hasn’t looked back.

~

KC boss Todd has always been a flirt and I guess I have sort of encouraged it but I thought it was not much more than just flirting. Once in a while if he was a little buzzed he could get a little feely but nothing too out of hand, so I just let it go never saying anything to KC. We had been to the lake a few times taking them out on our boat and had even taken a couple of weekend trips to Houston or Dallas to watch baseball. I really like Todd's wife Kendra and have had a good time with them every time we have done something or gone someplace with them.

Kendra and I had gone shopping and done lunch a few times and on such a fun day I was trying on a summer dress that I thought was a little too short. I had stepped out of the dressing room and she smiled “Yes I’d say it’s too short.” Her eyes came up to mine “Do you not wear knickers?” Came out in her sweet British accent.

I laughed “God that is short.” Still chuckling, I looked at her “Nope no panties for this girl.” I shrugged “Once when I was little, well not so little I was 13, I was going some places with my folks and they would not stop. I had to pee and when I couldn’t hold it any longer and had just stepped out of the car when I just let go. Mom was so mad she couldn't see. “Just take your panties off and toss them in that trash can.” I smiled at the memory  “I liked the feel of it and haven't worn any since.” I felt my cheeks grow hot. “KC loves it.”

Kendra laughed “I bet he does! Maybe I’ll try it.”

~

A few weeks went by and we were invited to Todd and Kendra for dinner and drinks. Some clients were in town so it was a real dog and pony show. It was well after dinner and with the drinks flowing KC went to pee. That's when Todd slipped up next to me,

“Is it true?’

“Probably.” I smiled “But I guess I should know what it is that's true.” 

He grinned “Kendra told me as she put it “You don’t wear knickers.” Is it?”

I blushed as I smiled at him “She told you the truth.” I gave him a sideways look, then looked at her standing at the bar with KC “She told me she was going to try going commando too. Has she?”

He smiled standing up “Yes and I thank you for that.” He tilted his head to one side “Tell me this, do you dampen easily?”

“Why Todd Anderson! What a question! Shoo, shoo away, away with you!” I waved my hand at him “Go find your wife.”

I  was not driving and had probably had at least 2 too many glasses of wine by the time we were leaving. At the door, as KC hugged and kissed Kindra on the cheek saying good night Todd stepped to me. His lips just brushed mine as his hand went to my butt when we embraced. He got a really good feel of it before I stepped back smiling “To answer your question yes I do and I am.”

~

A week or so later I got a text from KC

“Can you meet us for lunch at Kerbey Lane?”

“Yes, what time.” I text back.

“Kendra will be there about 11:30.”

“Alright I’ll love seeing you there my Mr”

“; )

~

I was there when Kendra pulled up. We went in putting our name on the list and sat talking about some new curtains she was putting in her kitchen. We had only been there a few minutes when KC and Todd came in and we were taken to our table and seated right after that. It was a picnic-style table and when we sat KC sat next to Kendra and Todd was next to me. We ordered our drinks and then our food and the waiter was just walking away when I felt his fingers pulling my already short loose skirt up. I said something stupid and punched him in the arm. The fingers went away, but the dress stayed pulled up. Then the food came and as we ate Todd's hand again found my thigh moving slowly up and down for a moment then it was gone. I knew damn good and well I should have pushed his hand away and wasn’t too sure why I didn’t.

As we left Todd stepped to me for his goodbye hug whispering “Did that work?”

I stepped back hugging Kendra. “Call me, I want to see your curtains.” I turned to kiss KC “I love you, babe.” I looked at Todd. “Yes it did.” I waved “See you.” and walked to my truck.

~

At the Christmas dinner and dance, it was a slow song playing when Todd came from across the room holding out his hand “May I madam?”

“God you're a goof.” I smiled as I took his hand.

He held me very tightly as he guided us to the center of the dance floor “Getting my arms around you is all I could think of for days.” his hands moved over my back and as he turned me away from the crowd it moved down over my bottom. He gave it a good squeeze then his hand came back up.

 “God you are a bad man.” I felt myself blush “Do you go around feeling all of your workers or friends' wives' asses?” I ground my pelvis into him just a little and felt he was growing.  

“No, just one.” He looked around and found Kendra talking to KC “I have been married to the woman of my dreams for a very long time and had no interest in others until you came along.” He looked back at me, “I like that I can make you wet.”

I sort of frowned, well you do and you're the only man to touch me but KC in a lot of years.” The song ended and it was the last time we had a chance to talk that night.

~

It was New Year's Eve and the place was packed, I mean jam-packed. The band was playing something and I smiled not hearing what Kendra said as she pulled KC out to dance. Todd was instantly behind me his arms going around my waist as we were shoved even tighter together by the sea of people.

I felt his hand behind me as the back of my just above mid-thigh length silky skirt came up. There was more movement. “Bend just a little.” I did and suddenly he was in me and it was like fire ran through my pussy as I came “OH GOD!” no one heard or noticed it as he moved thrusting in me, and it made me cum again! “TODD!”

I felt him push stabbing himself into me then the heat of it as rope after rope of his white-hot seed splashed up into me “I gasped “Aaaaaaa” As I came again from the wet heat of it. He held me tightly to him, his lips by my ear “I have wanted you for so long.” He grew soft and slipped out, stepping back letting my skirt fall back into place. He kissed the back of my neck and stepped away as the song ended. It had taken less than 3 minutes for our zipperless fuck and we were both smiling as our spouses worked their way back to us.

KC got the first kiss of the new year then Todd stepped to me. I could taste Kendra on his lips as we kissed holding each other tightly for just a moment.

~

Once home the realization that I’m not on the pill hit me like a ton of bricks and I tried to fuck KC through the bed letting him have me twice before sleep took us as we lay in each other's arms.

~

The next day about 11 my cell buzzed. It was Todd.

“Are you alright?”

“I was wondering if I would hear from you today. Yes, I’m fine, and you?’

“Guilty as hell but ok.”

“Good, then we both feel guilty about it. Todd you know that can’t happen again.”

“Was it that bad?”

“No, you dope. You had to know I came 3 times, but I can’t do that to KC or Kendra.”

“Alright...Maybe next New Year's Eve?”

“Maybe ; )”

~

It’s just after dinner on Thanksgiving November 25 and Kendra sat holding one of my 3-month-old baby girls I’d had twins. I looked at Todd while I nursed one while Kindra grinned the other…She looked at me smiling “They are so beautiful.”