Requiem (Spike, Angel)

[baudown]

Title: Requiem

Author: baudown

Characters: Spike, Angel (I know, I know! Not Spander!)

Disclaimer: Don’t own or profit from them

Warning: Character death, post-NFA

Written for: open_on_sunday

Prompt: Tradition

Word count: 100

It's always with him -- the ache of absence, the phantom limb.  He's learned to keep the force of it at bay, but there are times, like this, when the current overtakes him.  Sweeping him back, and back, until he's crouching in that street again, a dying man cradled in his arms.  (And in the end he was a man, if only as he died).  Holding him close, whispering the name he'd never spoken willingly, until that moment.  Sire.

No grave.  No stone to honor him.  Just the asphalt where he fell.  Spike pours the whiskey there, an offer of libation.

Comments

[dimestorefind.livejournal.com]

I think it's gen. There's clearly so much emotion and history between them that it feels like it shouldn't be, but I think it is.

And character death! Poor Spike, hasn't he been through enough?