Drabble: Party's over

Saturday night, and Ripper has been gone for three weeks, five days, seven hours, two minutes.

Ethan never thought he'd be the sort to remember the minutes.

The minute they first met, when Ripper seemed like just another bully, until they touched and their power awakened. The minute he first knew Ripper was truly with him, circumstances immaterial. The minute, the first in his life, he was sure he was loved.

The very next minute, when Ripper ran away.

Ethan oversees his ‘perfect’ party, checks his watch.

Three weeks, five days, seven hours, five minutes.

Some minutes felt like forever.



[link added March 2022]
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52157

SG1 BtVS xover

Found a fic I like quite independent of Ethan content:

The Key to Byzantium
by Marcus L. Rowland
BtVS/SG1 xover
set post s7 BtVS (and a bit post AtS s5), early s7 SG1
http://lubakmetyk.infinology.net/others/rowland/
http://solo4.abac.com/lubakmetyk/others/rowland/byzantium0.htm
and proceeding logically thru 1.htm to 10.htm when I checked.
This is a good fic. Ethan turns up briefly to provide show and tell. The story is basically from SG1's viewpoint. But it is excellent, really carefully put together. The evidence that leads SG1 into the BtVS world is plausible and interesting. The characters they meet are appropriate, in character, reacting believably. SG1 are all business but also definitely themselves. This is *good*. I don't even mind that Ethan was only there briefly. I like the story they're telling.
Now the only problem is I don't know any better way to check for updates than to go back to that page and reload a lot. Suggestions?