Bed's A Bit Broken (Spike, Buffy, Riley)

[baudown]

Title:  Bed's A Bit Broken

Author:  baudown

Characters: Spike, Buffy, Riley

Disclaimer:  Don't own them

Written for:  open_on_sunday

Prompt:  Bed

Word count:  100
Note:  Set at the end of As You Were, and the title is taken from the script.  Also, not Spander.

Spike stares helplessly at the wreckage.  Where to begin?  Haul out the rubble, he reckons.  Try to salvage what's left.

Riley bloody Finn, poking his nose in, interfering.  They'd been doing just fine, until he showed up.  Better than fine, because right before it all went to hell, Buffy had asked him -- had maybe believed him --

That rotten job was killing her, by inches.  He'd done it for her.

She comes to him, such kindness in her face that he's afraid.

She hasn't come to punish him.  She's come for something worse.

She's come to say she'll never come again.

Comments

[chasingdemons.livejournal.com]

NO!!!! Spike was doing so well, and then Riley had to ruin it.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

This is heartbreaking. Brilliant.


Gabrielle

[rbfvid.livejournal.com]

You pictured it perfectly.

[kikimay]

Very spot on for that moment.

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

"She comes to him, such kindness in her face that he's afraid." It says so much about their relationship that this is the line that kills me.

As always, beautifully done.

[(Anonymous)]

"Try to salvage what's left." ouch

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

:( God, I came to dislike Buffy in this episode. A lot.