I generally think there's enough good mid/late season three A/X out there, and didn't want to do another one, but it seemed like the only viable setting for this fic.
I wrote a big intro and then copied in the scene that I had written earlier, and all that was good. But I wasn't sure how far it should go. If it was someone else's fic I'd be cheering for sex, but this is me, so I was pretty nervous. (This was pre Rumble.)
So many times I wrote Xander dashing from the room and into sunlight. And so many times I deleted that and made him stay with Angel. In the end, they didn't get very far, but there was no running from the room in fear, so that's good.
And there's a huge gaping openning for a sequel. Even I see that these two need to go all the way before the story can be finished, and since I'm not a virgin anymore, that's what's gonna happen.
You can count on that too, 'cause I'm not telling you my plan. If I talk about writing something before I write it, the fic's pretty much doomed from the start (see 'Whatever'). But I'm not talking, and some day I'll write the damn sequel.