Drabble: Inside (BtVS: post-Restless Adam)

[seraphcelene]

Title: Inside
A/N: 100 words post-Restless for the Sarah Polley challenge at open_on_sunday. My inspiration was Splice.
Disclaimer: BtVS and all related characters belong to Whedon, Fox, Mutant Enemy, et al. I'm just taking them out for a little exercise.
Summary: Adam after death. Magic and monsters, what if there was a soul besides.


What was your name? They ask, not for the first time.

Not a man among us can remember.

And that includes the you who you once were and who you've now become.

I am singular perfection. I walk in both worlds and belong to neither, Adam answers in your voice, liquid baritone frankensteined with demon and machine.

He is what remained, downloadable memory; your heavy uranium heart.

Your hands were not your own, nor your eyes or what you did. A shadowed soul clinging to the corners, nothing more (but never any less) than Adam's nameless longing, acknowledged and discarded.

Comments

[lettered.livejournal.com]

This is fucking awesome.

[seraphcelene]

And the fast is finally broken!

Thank you, buttercup. Surprisingly, I like it, too.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

This is so sad. I love it. He was once a man, long forgotten...

[readerjane]

Ooh, very intriguing. There's a person in there, but it's fragmented. I like the "clinging to the corners" phrase.

[seraphcelene]

:)

He was and that's something, I think, that was really lost in the show. It focused so hard on his monstrosity that except for that moment in Restless, I don't think we ever really think of the man.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully, I will be productive in 2012 and get loads more writing done. I've missed it.

[seraphcelene]

Thank you!

[maryfic.livejournal.com]

Whoa - wicked. Shockingly good in so few words. Adam had such potential for complexity, and I think you've cracked that open here.

[seraphcelene]

Thank you so much! Splice was my inspiration and I really wanted to get that idea of complexity and of layers, dueling impulses of personality.