Fic: Poisoned Apple, Flashpoint, Spike
Title: Poisoned apple
Author: lillyg
Characters/Pairings: Spike, mention of Greg
Word Count: 200
Prompt: #75 Gifted
Rating: PG
Genre: gen
Spoilers: slight new season premiere (3x01?)
Summary: It’s not always easy to be gifted.
Disclaimer: Me no own!
Betas: not right now…
The kid’s mother had said the "G" word. "Gifted". Her son was gifted. So is Spike. Not some kind of creep he’s always been accused to be all his childhood. He’s more intelligent than average, so what? It wasn't his fault. He knows that Greg picked up on his slip of tongue. He knows that he's good for a talk with the Sarge as soon as they're back at the headquarter. Greg knows that behind Spike's assurance, he hides that when he was younger he suffered a lot from being a geek when it wasn't "trendy". When he was a kid, he was just the weirdo.
Now he knows he overcame his feelings a while ago when he went to the university because there, geeks are cool. But it doesn't prevent feelings from resurfacing, why he got dumped before prom night for a jock, how he often ended stuck somewhere because someone found it funny if he was late for his class, or got home with a black eye or two. So he knew that Greg would talk to him, probably not as a boss, but as a friend. They may go out for a drink. Because he knows that he's a geek. But he's THEIR geek.