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Title: Unmet
Author: baudown
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Disclaimer: Don't own, etc.
Written for: open_on_sunday
Word count: 100
Prompt: Sea
Note:  Thanks to dragonyphoenix for getting things going with the prompt




The night it didn’t happen, they were on the beach, chasing a random demon.  Over the dunes, down to the shore, into the churning surf.  It dissolved there, anticlimactically, a floating green scum.

They were bent double, giggling helplessly, clutching at each other; and suddenly, they were kissing, desire all around them like a fog.  Then Harris pulled back, and shook his head, as if rousing himself from a dream.

The memory comes to him, from time to time; a faint, familiar echo in his ears.  His heart doesn’t beat, but it bruises.  Regret sounds to Spike like the sea.



Date: 2012-11-24 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
His heart doesn’t beat, but it bruises. Amazing!

Date: 2012-11-24 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sparrow2000.livejournal.com
Points up - that's the line I was going to quote as well. You have such a talent for drabbles, for telling a huge story in so few words.

Just lovely.

Date: 2012-11-24 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com
Thank you, and thank you again for posting the prompt. I've been missing open on sunday. I hope you'll keep prompting!

Date: 2012-11-24 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com
Thank you so much. I find writing drabbles to be difficult, but good for me -- I need to rein in the blather now and then.

Date: 2012-11-25 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
I've been thinking about prompting but figure I should give the real mod a chance to. Likely I'll put prompts up on Tuesdays if nobody beats me to it.

Date: 2012-11-26 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skargasm.livejournal.com
Oh man, that was so painful - poor Spike.

Date: 2012-11-27 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com
I can't stop tormenting him. It's a sickness.

Date: 2013-11-02 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chasingdemons.livejournal.com
This was just beautiful! Really.

Date: 2013-11-02 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com
So happy that you liked it, and thanks for letting me know.

Here from buffyversetop5

Date: 2013-11-02 04:37 pm (UTC)
yourlibrarian: Angel and Lindsey (Classic Recs-eyesthatslay)
From: [personal profile] yourlibrarian
Oh, nicely done!

From Buffyverse top 5:D

Date: 2013-11-04 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] comlodge.livejournal.com
Lovely. His heart doesn’t beat, but it bruises. Regret sounds to Spike like the sea. beautiful words.

Re: From Buffyverse top 5:D

Date: 2013-11-04 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com
Thank you!

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