Requested Drabble #2
Drabble #2 Spuffy -- "sweet, soulful Spike. Anything sweet and lovely will please" for enchantress4eva
set before End of Days....PG rated..~380 words...has no title (sorry)
Beneath and Above aka Untitled One
“Why, uh, why don’t you wait till all of this is over?”
“I’d really rather do it before. I might not-I’d just rather do it now, okay?”
“Not okay,” Spike argued and opened his mouth to explain why, only to come up empty.
“Okay then, so I’m going.”
“She’s not there!” Spike blurted out, “She’s not there, alright? That’s why you can’t go see her.”
”Spike,” Buffy began, sounding confused, “What do you mean my mother’s not there? I was there when we buried her and last I checked the cemetery hadn’t gone anywhere.”
“I had her moved,” he explained quietly. She wasn’t supposed to find out until this was all over.
“What do you mean you ‘had her moved’?” Buffy asked carefully.
“’From beneath you it devours’, right?”
“What’s that have to do with-What?!”
“Figured that something coming from beneath might not leave too much ‘above’ standing. And didn’t want all of good ol’ SunnyD to be uprooted-and/or disappear-and for you to have to lose your mum all over again. Precautionary measures and all that.”
“So you paid someone to dig up my dead mother’s body-without asking me? And had her moved to…where?”
“I didn’t’ want it to be something else for you to worry about, luv. And found her a nice cemetery just north of L.A. Right nice place.”
“And she’s there already?”
“Should be, yeah.”
Spike grew more and more nervous the longer she stayed silent. They’d finally developed some sort of relationship where they could finally be comfortable around each other and now he’d gone and bollocksed it all up.
“You really….I want to say I can’t believe you cared enough to do that…but the thing is, I can. You always liked my mom and…and you love me and Dawn….Thank you, Spike for thinking of the one thing that I never would have thought of but that would have killed me in the end. I couldn’t lose her again. Not like that even.”
“I know, luv, I know.”
“Will you take me there someday? Show me the place you picked?”
“You bet, kitten. Soon as this is all over and done with.”
The hug she gave him as thanks was unexpected but not in the least bit unappreciated. “Thank you, Spike.”
THE END
I hope that was sweet enough for you, Maddie :)
set before End of Days....PG rated..~380 words...has no title (sorry)
Beneath and Above aka Untitled One
“Why, uh, why don’t you wait till all of this is over?”
“I’d really rather do it before. I might not-I’d just rather do it now, okay?”
“Not okay,” Spike argued and opened his mouth to explain why, only to come up empty.
“Okay then, so I’m going.”
“She’s not there!” Spike blurted out, “She’s not there, alright? That’s why you can’t go see her.”
”Spike,” Buffy began, sounding confused, “What do you mean my mother’s not there? I was there when we buried her and last I checked the cemetery hadn’t gone anywhere.”
“I had her moved,” he explained quietly. She wasn’t supposed to find out until this was all over.
“What do you mean you ‘had her moved’?” Buffy asked carefully.
“’From beneath you it devours’, right?”
“What’s that have to do with-What?!”
“Figured that something coming from beneath might not leave too much ‘above’ standing. And didn’t want all of good ol’ SunnyD to be uprooted-and/or disappear-and for you to have to lose your mum all over again. Precautionary measures and all that.”
“So you paid someone to dig up my dead mother’s body-without asking me? And had her moved to…where?”
“I didn’t’ want it to be something else for you to worry about, luv. And found her a nice cemetery just north of L.A. Right nice place.”
“And she’s there already?”
“Should be, yeah.”
Spike grew more and more nervous the longer she stayed silent. They’d finally developed some sort of relationship where they could finally be comfortable around each other and now he’d gone and bollocksed it all up.
“You really….I want to say I can’t believe you cared enough to do that…but the thing is, I can. You always liked my mom and…and you love me and Dawn….Thank you, Spike for thinking of the one thing that I never would have thought of but that would have killed me in the end. I couldn’t lose her again. Not like that even.”
“I know, luv, I know.”
“Will you take me there someday? Show me the place you picked?”
“You bet, kitten. Soon as this is all over and done with.”
The hug she gave him as thanks was unexpected but not in the least bit unappreciated. “Thank you, Spike.”
THE END
I hope that was sweet enough for you, Maddie :)