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Just a Willow drabble - about Joyce's death.

This was written for [livejournal.com profile] still_grrr's Scene It September.



The Blue (Joyce liked it so)

Three days later, the sweater is put half on… then placed back in the drawer. Willow grabs the red instead, and heads to class.

It almost gets worn two weeks later, when Willow goes out for coffee.

It’s nearly the sweater Willow picks to wrap tenderly around her bewildered-and-blank lover. But she hesitates, then chooses another.

It sits in the drawer until, later, Willow empties everything onto the floor, and starts packing them into boxes. The red is packed, and the purple, the fuzzy yellow, the stripey yellow-and-orange.

But the blue is laid aside, left there, and never worn again.


Date: 2009-09-28 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com
Oh, wow. Powerful.

Date: 2009-09-29 12:53 am (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
Thanks!

Date: 2009-09-28 11:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] snowpuppies
Beautifully done. I love how the story focuses on a fairly unimportant inanimate object, and yet so much emotion and grief is felt throughout.

Bravo.

Date: 2009-09-29 12:53 am (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
Glad you liked it!

Date: 2009-09-29 12:42 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lavastar.livejournal.com
Oh, man. :(

I have to say, for some reason when I watch The Body I get all teary when Anya stuffs the sweater somewhere. I mean, I get teary every second of that episode, but it just seems rather humanly sad. I dunno. Sense is for other people to make.

Basically this was wonderful. <3

Date: 2009-09-29 12:53 am (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
Thanks!

(I get teary at everything in that episode.)

Date: 2009-09-29 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com
Love the understated emotion here.

Date: 2009-09-29 01:50 am (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
Thank you.

Date: 2009-09-29 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreamincolor.livejournal.com
Short, sweet, and damn powerful. Nicely done.

(..do you have a tissue?)

Date: 2009-09-29 02:07 am (UTC)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)
From: [personal profile] deird1
(*hands you one*)

Glad you like it!

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