mistletoe | Flash Challenge at fantas

Challenge #5 Drabbles using a line from Emily Dickinson's many. many poems.

Title: The Road Not Taken (with apologies to Robert Frost)

Rating: PG

Character: Owen

Author: mistletoe54

A/N: OK not a Dickinson fan here, so I’m afraid it’s just 2 random lines from ED that spoke to me, a little.

He was enamoured of Emily, maybe of Buffy too. They both offered the thrill he sought in different ways. From Emily he gained his romanticised love of the unknown: death. Dying is a wild night, and a new road. This rang true. His road was so old.

In Buffy he saw a way to the new road; wild nights were how she lived: not in the Bronze, but in the haunts of the dead. Why did she not want him when she left with her friends?

They may not need me, but they might. He followed her on the road.

Title: Not Wanted On Journey

Rating: PG

Character Angel

Author: mistletoe54

A/N: Just the last line in italics is Emily’s.

Angel was annoyed. This boy was whom Buffy wanted to be with, neglecting her duty? Now! This boy with his eager puppy look and irritating desire to interfere with things he could not understand. Why would Buffy not listen to him? It was frustrating, and awkward when the boy asked how he knew her. “Work.” True, except he didn’t work with her. Her friends hurried in, wasting more time. Then she left him behind. Both of them. The ugly truth sank in. They were irrelevant, surplus to her calling.

He looked at Owen and thought, I’m nobody, who are you?