Dark Shadows: Lilacs in Bloom and Stopping by Woods
Dark Shadows, Fanfiction, My Fanfiction July 23rd. 2008, 6:54pmI decided recently to post some of my zine stories that I wrote when I was deeply, deeply into Dark Shadows. I wrote many stories, all of them to do with the character of Willie Loomis, who I found (and find) to be fascinating. He was the servant of the vampire Barnabas Collins, and while there’s a good many people out there who think Barn is the hero and the good guy, I thought Willie was the best. He had the heart of a lion and wasn’t afraid to step up to Barnabas and tell him he was an idiot. So, to start with, here are two links to my LJ where the following stories are posted:
Title: Lilacs in Bloom
Author: Sylvia Bond
Genre/Rating: Het/PG-17
Verse: Lilacs Verse
Pairing: Willie/Victoria
Word Count: 10,257
Summary: On a fine spring day, Willie takes time out of his busy day to tend to a lilac tree. By chance, he is able to give the fresh petals to Victoria Winters who is, at the time, being vigorously courted by Willie’s boss, Barnabas Collins. Barn finds out and the bad things happen. The sequel is Stopping by Woods.
A/N: I once thought that Willie and Maggie were the OTP in Dark Shadows fandom. That was, until I wrote this story.
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Title: Stopping by Woods
Author: Sylvia Bond
Genre/Rating: Het/PG-17
Pairing: Willie/Victoria
Verse: Lilacs
Word Count: 27,326
Summary: In this sequel to Lilacs in Bloom, Victoria contemplates Barnabas’ courtship of her and is shocked when he tells her that Willie is carrying a torch for her. He warns her to be careful, at which point she becomes rather more aware of Willie than she should. And then bad things happen.
A/N: It is my secret dream that one day Willie and Victoria will run off together, leaving Collinwood far, far behind them.
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I love everything about this sequel to Lilacs. This is the Vicky that I like. She’s not dim like she is later on in the series. She’s got backbone and she’s not in that endless “I don’t understand” mode. She has observed Carolyn using her femininity to get her way with men and applied those same tactics in dealing with Barnabas. And who knew that Barnabas could be sucked in like that? It was brilliant!
The writing is spot on. I could absolutely envision every moment of this story in my mind’s eye and found that I didn’t want to stop reading until the end. (Not my end, the story’s.)
The kiss. It was hot scene, yet at the same time, telling of Vicky’s experience (or lack of it), in this situation. Barnabas is gentle, yet firm and completely romantic. I enjoyed it very much.
I love everything about this sequel to Lilacs. This is the Vicky that I like. She’s not dim like she is later on in the series. She’s got backbone and she’s not in that endless “I don’t understand” mode. She has observed Carolyn using her femininity to get her way with men and applied those same tactics in dealing with Barnabas. And who knew that Barnabas could be sucked in like that? It was brilliant!
The writing is spot on. I could absolutely envision every moment of this story in my mind’s eye and found that I didn’t want to stop reading until the end. (Not my end, the story’s.)
The kiss. It was hot scene, yet at the same time, telling of Vicky’s experience (or lack of it), in this situation. Barnabas is gentle, yet firm and completely romantic. I enjoyed it very much.