{"id":7487,"date":"2015-08-11T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:28:18","slug":"persephone-lies-dying-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/11\/persephone-lies-dying-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Persephone Lies Dying. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Title: Persephone Lies Dying.<\/strong>\u00a0Book 1<br \/>\n<strong>Author: Samsom<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pairing:<\/strong> Cordelia\/Angelus<br \/>\n<strong>Summary:<\/strong> Cordelia is haunted.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating:<\/strong> R for disturbing imagery. I hope.<br \/>\n<strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> Not mine. Fox, ME, and Whedon own the characters. I make no profit from this.<br \/>\n<strong>Genre:<\/strong> Horror<br \/>\n<strong>Notes:<\/strong> Fourth in the Persephone fics. Set in the summer between BtVS s2 and s3. AU after Killed By Death, and a loose sequel to my fic Collatoral Damage<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Four<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her dreams, the grave dirt wraps her up like Mother\u2019s arms and Angel smiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His shoulders block the sky above them, and she can&#8217;t see the stars or the moon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She can only smell the earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nothing will keep him from her, he says. Not the slayer or the boy, nor the hospitals with their pills and locked doors and bed restraints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not even Hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It doesn\u2019t matter to him that her skin is dry and her lips are cracked. Her hair is limp and she smells like sickness and death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her ribs are like a ladder, and he counts the rungs with loving fingers, smiling gently down into her pale and waning face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She tries to smile back, the display of rotted and yellow teeth at odds with the blankness of her features.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madness wears her as its face and he says she\u2019s never been more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>mo chroi<\/i>, he whispers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the morning they find her in a heap under the open window. Her lips are stained red and her wrists are bruised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But her smile is as radiant as the sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>~~end~~<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Persephone Lies Dying.\u00a0Book 1 Author: Samsom Pairing: Cordelia\/Angelus Summary: Cordelia is haunted. Rating: R for disturbing imagery. I hope. Disclaimer: Not mine&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-completed-fics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}