BtVS: Bonfire Night (7/?)

[alixtii]

Title: Bonfire Night (7/?)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Dawn/Giles, Madelyn
Rating: PG
Summary/Notes: A family celebrates a British holiday and suffers an attack of British poetry. For karabair. This fic involves Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men." You can find it here.

Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI
Bath, England—November 5, 2019

Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason, and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Dawn watched as Giles grabbed the burning incense and raced out of the room.

She ran after him. “What is it?” she asked.

“Yshnak demon,” he answered as he ran. Dawn followed him through the hall and out the back door. “Posesses an inanimate object and uses it to send out psychic energy.”

Dawn watched as Giles threw the burning incense into the bonfire they had built that afternoon. The kerosene caught, causing the bonfire to erupt in a sudden immolation. The flame spread to the effigy of Guy Fawkes as it too became covered in flame.

From inside the mansion, Dawn could hear Madelyn’s screams.

Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
TBC. . . . here

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

ohh, I need more!

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

It's practically done--no more Eliot quoting, I'm afraid.