Changes Update!

[tabaqui]

Hello, and here you go, enjoy now!
I'm off to see what I can do about updating Little Runaway sometime today...

Chapter 30: Counting

Enjoy!

Comments

[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

Tears ran down my face the entire time I read it. I still can't face the angst to go back and read the last bit. My shirt is soggy.

You're so damn freaking good.

[tabaqui]

My GOD you read fast!
:)

*pets*
It'll be okay!
And thank you, bay-bee.

[oakangel.livejournal.com]

So. Wonderful. I'm telling ya, the more I read - the more I'm convinced that someone should get around to actually publishing you! You, my dear, are *Talented*

:::waits patiently for L.R. update:::

[tabaqui]

Heeee.
I think so too!
Guess i'd better get my ass in gear and WRITE that OF, huh?

Thank you!

[sufie58.livejournal.com]

I am always desperate now to read your next chapters and look forward to Sundays to get my next fix. This was another sad chapter but also with a little hope - going back to Seattle with the Family and starting to mark off the calendar. Thank you. *hugs*

[tabaqui]

Thanks for the lovely fb!
I'm so glad you liked it.

[pyrite.livejournal.com]

::sniffle:: poor xander! but at least he's got the rest of the pack with him. spikey's all alone and cut off for seven years. i hope they manage to talk tara into staying. this was wonderful as always.

[tabaqui]

Thank you so much!
Glad you liked it.
:)

[nashmaveric.livejournal.com]

::looks at you sadly and goes in search of her old security teddy bear:: Damn you're too good at this. ::sigh::

[tabaqui]

*pets you gently*
It'll be okay!

Thanks, bay-bee.
:)

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Very good total misery freak-out in the first section, with Xander insisting on solitude to try to hear Spike (sniffles, here, jhow sad indeed). Great job of showing him healing enough to think about the end of the wait and make plans and take action to care for himself and the Family.

Love the Connor bits, for reasons I'm not prepared to investigate. Except to say that having two kids taller than me makes me miss having toddlers.

However?

Next Sunday can't come too soon!

Julia, poking away at my own stuff...

[tabaqui]

Thank you thank you.
:)
I'm glad his freak-out seemed appropriate and not...forced.
Heee.
I'm writing Connor only as a defense against the horrible, lispy, PRECIOUS children that so many people write.
*shudder*
I loathe children, as a rule.

*poke*

[umbralillium.livejournal.com]

Had me teary-eyed again with that chapter. Xander's pain was just so raw. *sniffle* Wonderful, Tabaqui!

[tabaqui]

Thank you!
*hands you tissue*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

"You are not, querido. You need to eat."

"Yes, abuela," Xander murmured, Derio's Granny flashing in the link and Oz hrummf'd down in his chest, wolfish laughter.

Hee! So glad he hasn't completely lost his sense of humour even though he feels like he's lost Spike. ::sniffles:: Saaaaaaad!

There's whiskey in the jar.

Oh, I can so see Spike tormenting Angelus with this. *g*

Another beautiful chapter, and Xander's idea with the calendar made me want to hug him tight. Wonderful!

[mofetash.livejournal.com]

you know this takes a loooooong time to read when you cant see the words for the tears.....sniff. AT each new chapter I skip to the end first to see if he's back.....then I start at the top and keep the tissues handy...waaaaaaaaaaa!

[shighola.livejournal.com]

I just ...hurt. I need Spike back almost as much as Xander.

Glad to see Xander making plans and finding some way to deal with the days of raw, searing, agony ahead of him.

[tabaqui]

Oooh...*pets*
Thank you so much!

[riani1.livejournal.com]

And now the time of endurance begins. Thank you for the Angel/Connor bits. I'd forgotten that Angel was working a deal for Cordy to survive.

Me, I'm worried about Spike's state when he gets back, too. Jack is so going to owe them for this.

[tabaqui]

Ooh, you're welcome!

Hehehe. Jack.
*rubs hands*

[cloudiecat.livejournal.com]

Arrrrgh!!! LJ ate my post damn it!! Deep breaths ... ok, here goes again ..

I felt so sad for Xander and his pain and was glad he had Oz and Derio to help him deal with the loss of Spike. Loved Xan's idea of marking off Spike's years away on a calendar - a palpable way for him to look forward to Spike's return. I am worried about Spike too and how he will be treated by the Fae - plus he's all alone there. I really want him back home with Xan and the boys where he'll be safe and loved. Gald Dawn's gone with the boys and hope Tara will follow soon too.

This story has such feeling - and this was another beautiful chapter:-)

cloudie

[tabaqui]

*kicks lj for you*

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked it.

I guess i didn't say it right... Spike's actually in a hell, not with either Court.
Jack was just the go-between.

[txrabbit.livejournal.com]

I cried. Warms tears turning cold as they rolled down my face and dripped on my chest and I sniffled, my bottom lip trembling and my husband asking, "Why are you crying?"

I'm so glad that Xander found a difinitive way to count the time. So much healthier than just wasting away. Oh, this hurts so bad. But he will be home soon.

[tabaqui]

I am both perversly pleased and horribly guilty at the same time.
Thank you so much. It's so odd, but it's an amazing compliment.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering how Spike's going to be affected by a 7-year stay in a hell (is it correct to say *a* hell versus plain old *Hell*?) when he gets back. Worried about him...

Great writing, as always, Tabaqui, showing poor Xander's loss and longing and the drawing together of family to support him.

[tabaqui]

Yup. 'A hell' is fine 'cause that's what Jack said 'a hell, sometime'. There's more than one!

And thank you so much!
I'm so glad you liked it.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Well it probably goes without typing, but, *sobs*

Poor Xander! Let me kiss and make it better!!!

And, love how he's marking off each of Spike's years *and* his year away. True love, that. *sniffle* Perfection, darling.

[tabaqui]

Hehe.
*pets you*
Have a tissue.

Thank you, bay-bee!
And, ummm...watch it. The wolves are protective.
:)

[cleeaz.livejournal.com]

Don't make us wait to long for the next chapter - pretty please - Cindy Lee

[tabaqui]

Hehehe.
Just 'til next week!
:)

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with . . . um, someone above, Next Sunday can't come soon enough.

I relate to that seven days circled on the calendar bit. Divide the year up in to smaller chunks and keep track of how time is passing for Spike. I want Spike back with his pack!

[(Anonymous)]

Duh. I hit the post button before remembering that live journal won't let me put my name in the info - just in the comment. Bleh! It was me, stonering. Is it next sunday yet? Are we there yet?

:-)
stonering

[vampirefever.livejournal.com]

I cried like a baby.
::sniff::
Wonderful writing babes.
::sniffs some more::

[tabaqui]

*pets you*
Here, hon, have a tissue.

Thank you!
*icon squeeeeee!*

[chriself.livejournal.com]

I really liked the analyticalXander calculating the time difference and marking the calender. I did, however, have a perverse image of Xander,Derio,and Oz making red and black paper chains to show how many days untill Spike's return...

*circles Sundays on own calender*

[tabaqui]

Yeah, he had to focus on SOMETHING or go nutso.

Uh, so NOT with you on the paper chains.
:)

[annabuffy.livejournal.com]

Poor Xander. My heart is breaking for him. Glad that Dawn decided to go with him and will help him wait for Spike to come back. Please let Spike come home soon.

[tabaqui]

I'm glad you enjoyed it.
It'll be okay!
:)

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

*sniff* It's gonna be a long year...

The calendar thing was really cool. I loved seeing little Connor (I have a Connor "thing"), he was a sweetie. And I'm glad to see Dawn going back with the guys/pack to Seattle.

::hugs Changes!Xander::

[tabaqui]

Thank you!
I don't have so much of a Connor 'thing' *haven't seen those eps.* as a desire to write a child that is NOT all...lispy and cyewtie-wootie and all that. And the way Angel was with Connor in the eps. i DID see - he held him every minute, so i think that despite his other...failings *hee!* he'd make a really good, if slightly off-kilter father.

Yay, Dawn! Smrt girl.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

You need to stop killing me-- how is Xander going to survive?

Let me tell you how much I loved Conner and Angel, that was so sweet, the two of them, and I really wished it'd been like that for them. I love how nice you are to Angel, knowing your feelings about the guy *wink* Get all the Angel DVD's you need to be writing them too! I can just imagine an AI with you at the helm! *wibbles*

Don't hurt my boy for long-- can't stand it and pleeeeeaase don't break Spike, please!!!!

In othe words, don't pull a Roxy--be nice!

[tabaqui]

Oooh!
*hasitly revives you*

Hehe - yeah, i can't bash the big dork, not when Connor and Cordelia are relying on him.

Heheheehe.
I could never be as evol as that Roxy bitca.
:)