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ETA, again: GOT IT! It was Acid Test, by Yahtzee. Which I managed to find because, in answering a comment, I had to describe the premise in more detail and the words "long strange trip" bobbed up to the surface of my brain. And if you google for "Xander" and "long strange trip," you will get this fic within the first few results.
O HAI, I IS SHERLOCK HOLMES. :-) *does a victory dance*
I have this memory of a Buffy episode. Xander takes some demon-made drug (I think his date slips it to him) and kind of falls out of time; we're in his POV, and he experiences the events of the next 24 hours in non-chronological order. And there is, of course, other mayhem and danger befalling the Scoobies during those 24 hours, and once Xander figures out what's happening to him he winds up saving the day because he's seen parts of the ending before he's seen the beginning. I could swear I remember visual images associated with this scenario, but I've scanned the episode listings on my BtVS dvd's and cannot find anything resembling what I've just described, so it seems increasingly likely that what I'm actually recalling is an exceptionally well written fic.
Does this sound familiar to anybody? And if you know what I'm talking about, do you know where to find it? Because I'd really like to see/read it again, but (obviously) I haven't the faintest clue where I came across it in the first place.
ETA: And no, it wasn't "The Zeppo." That's a fair guess, but the central premise of the whole thing was that Xander was experiencing time out of order, and he kept getting yanked from one moment into another with no transitions, and his chronology was all jumbled up. And this was definitely due to some demonic drug trip.
It really must have been fic, but so compellingly written that I could picture everything vividly. I just have no idea where I saw it, or who wrote it, or how to go about finding it again.
O HAI, I IS SHERLOCK HOLMES. :-) *does a victory dance*
Does this sound familiar to anybody? And if you know what I'm talking about, do you know where to find it? Because I'd really like to see/read it again, but (obviously) I haven't the faintest clue where I came across it in the first place.
ETA: And no, it wasn't "The Zeppo." That's a fair guess, but the central premise of the whole thing was that Xander was experiencing time out of order, and he kept getting yanked from one moment into another with no transitions, and his chronology was all jumbled up. And this was definitely due to some demonic drug trip.
It really must have been fic, but so compellingly written that I could picture everything vividly. I just have no idea where I saw it, or who wrote it, or how to go about finding it again.
