Title: Tarnished Armor
Author: dragonydreams (Elisabeth)
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Willow/Lindsey
Summary: Leaving Wolfram & Hart was the best decision Lindsey could have made.
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over these characters. I am merely borrowing them from Joss et al.
Distribution: joss10k, my LJ/site, Walking a Thorny Path, the usual lists, anyone with previous permission. Anyone else - just ask.
Feedback: Yes please! It makes me happy and keeps me writing.
Thanks to my betas: strangecreature, kallie_kat & emeraldswan for all of your help.

Author's Note: While this takes place during season 5 of Buffy, I'm leaving out some things to suit my purposes. 1) No Dawn & Joyce isn't sick, so Buffy is still living in the dorms with Willow as her roommate. 2) Tara is just a friend.

Author's Note 2: Yes, you read that subject line correctly, this is the final chapter in this story. It turned out that I was able to wrap everything up faster than I thought, even though it probably took longer than you hoped that it would. Thank you so much for sticking with this story! {{hugs}} If you need a refresher, or read for the first time, you can do so HERE.

Chapter Word Count: 2,367; Total Word Count: 20,665


Chapter Nine

Title: Tarnished Armor
Author: dragonydreams (Elisabeth)
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Willow/Lindsey
Summary: Leaving Wolfram & Hart was the best decision Lindsey could have made.
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over these characters. I am merely borrowing them from Joss et al.
Distribution: joss10k, my site, Walking a Thorny Path, the usual lists, anyone with previous permission. Anyone else - just ask.
Feedback: Yes please! It makes me happy and keeps me writing.
Thanks to my betas: strangecreature, kallie_kat & emeraldswan for all of your help.

Author's Note: While this takes place during season 5 of Buffy, I'm leaving out some things to suit my purposes. 1) No Dawn & Joyce isn't sick, so Buffy is still living in the dorms with Willow as her roommate. 2) Tara is just a friend.

Chapter Word Count: 1,502; Total Word Count: 16,818

I realize that I haven't posted since the end of March. This chapter has been finished, but I forgot to post it. You can thank athenewolfe for the reminder. If you need a refresher, or read for the first time, you can do so HERE.

Chapter 8

Title: Tarnished Armor
Author: dragonydreams (Elisabeth)
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Willow/Lindsey
Summary: Leaving Wolfram & Hart was the best decision Lindsey could have made.
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over these characters. I am merely borrowing them from Joss et al.
Distribution: joss10k, my site, the usual lists, anyone with previous permission. Anyone else - just ask.
Feedback: Yes please! It makes me happy and keeps me writing.
Thanks to my betas: strangecreature, kallie_kat & emeraldswan for all of your help.

Author's Note: While this takes place during season 5 of Buffy, I'm leaving out some things to suit my purposes. 1) No Dawn & Joyce isn't sick, so Buffy is still living in the dorms with Willow as her roommate. 2) Tara is just a friend.

Chapter Word Count: 2,700; Total Word Count: 16,818

I know that it's been nine months since I last updated this story. If you need a refresher, or read for the first time, you can do so HERE.

( Chapter 7 )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus, vampWillow/vampXander (kind of--but not really)
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta (and all the other stuff, too!).

If you want to refresh your memories, you'll find the rest of the story here.

( Chapter 13 )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta (and all the other stuff, too!).

If you want to refresh your memories, you'll find the rest of the story here.

( Chapter 12 )

Title: Eyes of Midnight

Author: persephone_20

Website: back_in_town

Characters/Pairings: The Master, Willow, Xander, Jesse, Cecily.

Notes: Feedback is addictive to writers, and a much healthier alternative to crack!

Words: 800


Previously:The night was not over yet. For the first few bars, the Master had accompanied Willow, laying his long nailed hand upon her arm and escorting her to all the best places to make a kill and never been noticed.

Before the Master had left her in search of other prizes, he warned Willow to be wary of the sunrise. For new vampires, it was lethal. But Willow was not finished with her playing yet.


The Master would not be pleased to find out that Cecily had been so close to an angel and not been able to bring him to his death, or exposure. She did not quite know what she would do upon seeing him in their next meeting.

( Chapter 6 )

Title: Eyes of Midnight

Author: persephone_20

Website: back_in_town

Characters/Pairings: Darla, Lindsay, Willow, Xander and Oz.

Notes: Earlier chapters can be found here.

Words: 1,400

Previously: Finding no more haven in the sky than the earth, he drew himself down to a steady glide that would land him on solid earth again. Another cursory search for mortals. It would not do to have secrets of the night flying around 1880 London. They may have the superior power, but the mortals would always have the superior numbers, belying their short lived times.

Clutching his wings around himself once more, William attempted to walk like a man. No more poetry, he was done, he told himself coldly, and methodically began to rip apart the sheets of parchment that had written upon them his useless attempts at poetry.

When she was finally finished with the boy, Willow let him drop to the floor where he thumped dully. Her lips were stained with the blood of an innocent, and the rush was intense. Her eyes locked onto Xander’s for a moment, then she grabbed him, and he crushed her against him, and with no more knowledge of each other than that, they reveled in their secret section of the bar, and to any intruders on them, came a swift and silent death.

( Chapter 5 )

Title: Eyes of Midnight
Author: persephone_20
Website: back_in_town
Characters/Pairings: Angelus, Darla
Notes: I hope that people don't mind me showing artwork that has been given to me for this fic?
Words: 1,700
Summary: This is an AU!verse, where Darla, Angelus, Spike and Drusilla are angels. Angelus, however, has fallen as an angel, and takes pleasure in killing. The Master, Willow and Xander are vampires. Angels and vampires hate each other.

( Chapter 4 )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta (and all the other stuff, too!).

If you want to refresh your memories, you'll find the rest of the story here.

( Chapter 11 )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta (and all the other stuff, too!).

I promised an update, and here it is! Hope you all enjoy. If you want to refresh your memories, you'll find the rest of the story here.

( Chapter 10 )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta (and all the other stuff, too!).

I know it's been forever and a day since I posted this (or anything else, for that matter) so you can find previous chapters in my memories, here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=kallie_kat

( Chapter 9 )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta (and all the other stuff, too!).

( Chapter 8 )

Title: Fixated
Chapter: Five
Author: Twilight’s Mistresses
E-mail: Dark Lycoris at dark_lycoris@sbcglobal.net or Vallkiran at vallkiran@yahoo.com
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Spike/Willow
Distribution: Joss 10K
Spoilers: Season 2
Summary: Angelus returns, but things don’t go quite like you remember. Who will get what they want in the end?
Feedback: While we have been long-time writing partners, this is the first time we’ve written a story together. So please we’re both feedback whores. Give us what we crave! Otherwise there may be punishments all around.

*Here is the next chapter. Don't mind the mistakes . . they would be mine and mine alone!*


"Read More", use the tag ( When he came to . . . )

Title: Strange Fascination
Author: kallie_kat (a.k.a. KallieRose or just plain Kat)
Pairing: Willow/Angelus
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: Set vaguely in late S1 or early S2, before Buffy and Angel have declared themselves "soulmates," although they're definitely interested in each other.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters and claim no responsibility for anything other than this story, from which no profit is made.
Author's Notes: Although I am posting this for joss10k, this story is dedicated to Lisa Kelley. Thank you so much for all of your help, beta work, and most of all, your friendship. I hope you like this. Thanks also to dragonydreams for the beta.


( Chapter 7 )

I know it's been a while. You can blame me. I've not been doing really well with the whole fic thing lately. Hopefully this won't disappoint. -Vallkiran


Title: Fixated
Author: Twilight’s Mistresses
E-mail: Dark Lycoris dark_lycoris@sbcglobal.net & Vallkiran vallkiran@yahoo.com
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Spike/Willow
Distribution: Joss 10K
Spoilers: Season 2
Summary: Angelus returns, but things don’t go quite like you remember. Who will get what they want in the end?
Feedback: While we have been long-time writing partners, this is the first time we’ve written a story together. So please we’re both feedback whores. Give us what we crave! Otherwise there may be punishments all around.

Title: Tarnished Armor
Author: dragonydreams (Elisabeth)
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Willow/Lindsey
Summary: Leaving Wolfram & Hart was the best decision Lindsey could have made.
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership over these characters. I am merely borrowing them from Joss et al.
Distribution: joss10k, my site, the usual lists, anyone with previous permission. Anyone else - just ask. The song 'In the Darkness' is by Kane and lyrics were found at KaneFans.net.
Feedback: Yes please! It makes me happy and keeps me writing.
Thanks to my betas: strangecreature, kallie_kat & emeraldswan for all of your help.

Author's Note: While this takes place during season 5 of Buffy, I'm leaving out some things to suit my purposes. 1) No Dawn & Joyce isn't sick, so Buffy is still living in the dorms with Willow as her roommate. 2) Tara is just a friend.

Chapter Word Count: 2,980; Total Word Count: 14,090

( Chapter 6 - Please note that the rating is now ADULT )

As the first round of the joss10k comes to a close, I'm very happy to announce that we have one final winner.  mara_sho has reached that 10,000 word milestone with her fic Final Straw.  This is a very unique fic in terms of plot and viewpoint.  It will pull you in and keep you guessing! 

I hope everyone will stick around and support our writers as they continue to post updates to their winning fics.  If there is enough interest, I'll open a second round of the challenge next month.  Look for a post with more info on that in a few weeks.

I want to thank everyone who participated here, whether by writing fic, or leaving feedback.  We had exactly 50% of our challengers reach 10,000 words and I think that's pretty darn good!  Congrats to you all!

Been a minute, I suppose. Kinda short, but the next one should make up for it. Hope you enjoy...


A Failure of Diplomacy
By Femailofthespecies (cafedemonde)
Spike/Drusilla, others
FRAO
Warning: death, angst, violence, blood. All the fun things for good vampires.

Disclaimer: All canon characters belong to Joss and ME. The _end_of_days RPG was created and moderated by claudia6913 and emeraldswan.

Author's notes: see chapter one.

Word count: 1670 this chapter, 13405/10000 min words total.


This was written for the joss10k

Thank you to jennillu for the beta and encouraging words.

If you like it, please let me know. If you don't, really let me know!

Previously ...

( ...They believe I’m on my way to being one of them. Angel even has hopes of my redemption. Sad, sorry fuck that he is.”  )

Title: Final Straw
Chapter: 2: Whatever's Left
Author: Shona (aka Mara)
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. I'm just playing in this pretty big sandbox.
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers/Time-Frame: Post-Chosen
Characters/Pairing: This story focuses on Xander, but not from his POV. This chapter is very much Faith-centric.
Word count: 4,984 (Total = 10,080/10,000)
Beta Readers: Eternal thanks to engelsteorra and monkey_matt

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( I can't hold the fort//so don't give me more//I struggle and sweat//when I'm wide awake//when I know I'm fine//I'm not used to fine )

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Our lucky number seven winner is dragonydreams with her Willow/Lindsey fic Tarnished Armor.  If you're looking for a good redemption/love story, this is for you.  If you think men with guitars are sexy, this fic is *really* for you! 

The last four of you who signed up for the joss10k all have June 10th deadlines, so I'm hoping to see lots of fic in the next couple of weeks!