Title: Last Train Leaving Wonderland
Author: Lizbeth Marcs
Summary: Xander’s got a plan, but life keeps interfering.
Genre: Future fic, dark fic
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Xander/Faith


No, your eyes don't deceive. It grew from 3 to 4 parts. Due to LJ posting limits, I couldn't fit the very final section of this story. Still, you won't mind waiting until tomorrow to read the very, very end, right? (*puppy eyes*)

Title: Last Train Leaving Wonderland
Author: Lizbeth Marcs
Summary: Xander’s got a plan, but life keeps interfering.
Genre: Future fic, dark fic
Rating: NC-17

Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Xander, Faith, Giles, Buffy, original characters
Pairings: Xander/Faith

Warnings: Multiple deaths (no canon characters), violence, smut, discussion of child rape and drug use, adult language and themes, vague spoilers for all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and one for Angel the Series (Xander going to Africa post-‘Chosen’)
Author’s Notes: Written for the annual lynnevitational. Takes place in November 2008 (in short, post-‘Chosen’). All related comics are willfully and cheerfully ignored.

Disclaimer: Xander Harris, Faith Lehane, Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers and all associated characters and organizations are the property of FOX and Mutant Enemy. Any mention of real life events and real people is not meant to imply that the people or incidents in question as they are used in the story have any relationship to reality. All original characters and the plot are mine. No payment was asked for or received in the writing of this story and no profit was earned. No copyright infringement on FOX or Mutant Enemy is intended.

 ( Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. )

This is one of my "rescued stories" from the Pit of Voles.

It was written in January 2003 long before I joined El-Jay and is definitely one of my earliest Buffy fics. You can tell because I don't have Buffy's voice quite right in this one. This was actually prompted by a "desperately need Buffy-verse fluff" challenge. Since the challenge came from a B/X shipper list, well...guess the parameters.

I wrote this as a one-sided conversation where you only hear Buffy's half. You have to imagine Xander's responses. At the time I liked it, if only because I had fun trying my hand at something different. Since it was released into the wild, it's been so thoroughly Jossed that it's insane.

One thing people might notice is that Anya is the only death mentioned. That's because Anya was fingered in spoilers as the "big Scooby death" very early on in S7. In fact, she was the first death to be spoiled. Spike's (temporary) death, if a recall, wasn't spoiled until much later in the season, and when it was it was long after this story was written. Also another thing that was spoiled fairly early on was Buffy sharing the power with the Potentials, although the how and why was still pretty unclear. As a result, the fact that there are more than two Slayers is mentioned in a round-about way.

Despite the thorough Jossing, I still hold on to it in my archives because it's a very, very different story than the kind I tend to write.


Title: Two Words
Author: Lizbeth Marcs (liz_marcs)

Summary: Buffy's one-sided chat with Xander early one morning.

AU Elements: Angel never brought the mystical amulet to Sunnydale. That means Spike survived the battle against the First Evil, and Sunnydale didn’t become a hole in the ground.

Disclaimer: Buffy Summers and Xander Harris and all associated characters and organizations are the property of FOX and Mutant Enemy. Any mention of real life events and real people is not meant to imply that the people or incidents in question as they are used in the story have any relationship to reality. All original characters and the plot are mine. No payment was asked for or received in the writing of this story and no profit was earned. No copyright infringement on FOX, or Mutant Enemy is intended.

Author’s Note:  For your information, five bold stars ( ***** ) indicates a pause or a moment of silence in a conversation.

Title:  Nobody Never Gets to Heaven
Author:  Lizbeth Marcs
Rating: R

Het/Slash/Gen:  Mention of and some onscreen M/M/F threesome. One brief instance of M/M noncon. Past mention of M/F and F/F relationships.
Pairing(s):  Xander/Faith/Spike. One brief instance of Xander/OC noncon. Past mention of Xander/Kennedy, Willow/Kennedy, Buffy/Spike, Faith/Robin.

Genre:  Adventure, dark fic, character angst, future fic, monster hunt, political intrigue
Story Warnings:  Mention of off-screen past torture, serial murder, and serial rape. One brief onscreen scene of noncon. Character death(s). Vengeance. Attempted suicide by Slayer. Warnings for all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series.

Summary:  The world's most dangerous vampire has been lured to the glittering playground of Las Vegas. While the hunt is on through the casinos on the Strip, Buffy and Willow engage in a deadly battle of poker to determine the vampire's ultimate fate. It's up to Xander, Spike, and Faith to decide who should have the winning hand.

Accompanying Media:  Worksafe. Quattro (Live) by Calexico. (Click on song title for download.)

Special Thanks To: entrenous88, rainkatt, othercat, nwhepcat, midnightfae, sunnyd_lite, mandylancast. Thank you for all your support and FB. Please note that any and all mistakes are completely mine.