It's my posting day, and I have (as seems to happen every other year) fallen back on an old staple,
the Santa Claus Chronicles. This time, it's the prequel. Even so, some references in the story will work better if you've read the other stories in the sequence first (none of them are very long, I promise), or at least if you bear in mind that the Buffyverse Santa (as described by Anya) is not a nice fellow at all.
Setting: London, a snowy Christmas Eve, 1882.
Pairings: Spike/Drusilla, mention of Angelus/Darla
Rating: PG-13
Beta: Beta'd by
dwyld, to whom many thanks.
Santa Claus: the Origins.