Forfeit (Spike/Xander)

[baudown]

Title:  Forfeit
Author:  baudown
Pairing:  Spike/Xander
Disclaimer:  Don't own, just love
Prompt:  Tow, 100 words, open_on_sunday
Note:  I have a weird feeling this is the seed of my fall for S/X piece.  Hmmm.


Forfeit

Spike's known vamps who kept pets.  Angelus did, once -- a tow-headed virgin, snatched straight from the seminary.  Mooned over him, to Darla's disgust, until Dru snapped his neck in a fit of jealous temper.

 

A weakness, keeping humans.  Anyway, it never lasted.  Demon's nature, always wanting more.  So the humans wound up drained and dead, or worse, turned and tossed away, because afterward, they weren't the same.  Not what was wanted, but merely what was left.  Nobody needed that sort of dirty reminder hanging about. 

 

Just one last look at his sleeping boy.

 

Spike's gone before Xander wakes up.

 

 

Comments

[baudown.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm really thinking of this as a part of Spike's thought process in a larger story. But it does pose some challenges, because while I think the transience is probably sufficiently supported by canon, the letting go -- not so much. And even if Spike is anomalous in many ways, he's certainly not a consequential thinker, and if anything, he holds on tighter and longer than anyone else. Plus, I was envisioning a pre-chip time frame, which makes it even more difficult.

Must -- make -- brain -- work.