Cleaving (Spike/Xander)

[baudown]

Title: Cleaving
Author: baudown
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Disclaimer: Don't own them
Written for: open_on_sunday
Word count: 100
Prompt: French
Warning: Character death

Friends come to call, with red-rimmed eyes.  Xander would have wanted this -- for them to mourn together -- but Spike's not one to share.  His grief is his.  And Xander isn't here to disappoint.

He locks the door, he shuts his eyes.  Look, another vision!   Perhaps it's just a conjured dream.  Or is it memory?

Did they dance in a ruined garden?  Sing lullabies in French?  Rise, like spirits, from the ashes?  Walk with heroes, arm-in-arm?

And did he love a dark-eyed boy?

And also: was he loved?

It's only ghosts that live here now.  There's no one left to answer.