No Masquerade
Prompt: Costumes
Timeline: The Girl In Question
Spoilers: The Long Way Home, BtVS8
Disclaimer: still not mine, alas
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He’d mistaken her before, but not this time.
When she'd marched into his crypt, all mechanical, his eyes and nose too swollen to know her for herself. His lips knew better, though.
When she came down the stairs after he’d lost all reason to expect her, the day she was alive beyond hope or reason.
When her knife cut him free from the First’s bonds, her shoulder startlingly solid, warm beneath his hand.
Spike smiled inside, watching the blond head dance across the Roman nightclub. He feigned dismay - let Angel think the worst. No masquerade could veil his eyes again.
Timeline: The Girl In Question
Spoilers: The Long Way Home, BtVS8
Disclaimer: still not mine, alas
~~~
He’d mistaken her before, but not this time.
When she'd marched into his crypt, all mechanical, his eyes and nose too swollen to know her for herself. His lips knew better, though.
When she came down the stairs after he’d lost all reason to expect her, the day she was alive beyond hope or reason.
When her knife cut him free from the First’s bonds, her shoulder startlingly solid, warm beneath his hand.
Spike smiled inside, watching the blond head dance across the Roman nightclub. He feigned dismay - let Angel think the worst. No masquerade could veil his eyes again.