Bloody Awful
Timeline: pre-series
Prompt: Service
Disclaimer: still not mine, alas
The shop windows glowed from inside, frost ringing each pane like sugar.
"Angelus?" Darla cooed. "I'm hungry for some Christmas sweets." If her words puffed no steam, the passers-by did not notice.
Spike looked at the riches within, murmuring, "So still I stood, and stared and dreamed, savouring sweetness with my eyes, devouring dainties till it seemed my candy shop was paradise."
"One of yours?" Angelus sneered.
Spike glanced up. "Robert Service."
The door opened to a burst of children's laughter as a family exited, their arms full of bundles.
Angelus caught the door and held it. "After you, Darla."
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_william_service/poems/12499.html
Prompt: Service
Disclaimer: still not mine, alas
The shop windows glowed from inside, frost ringing each pane like sugar.
"Angelus?" Darla cooed. "I'm hungry for some Christmas sweets." If her words puffed no steam, the passers-by did not notice.
Spike looked at the riches within, murmuring, "So still I stood, and stared and dreamed, savouring sweetness with my eyes, devouring dainties till it seemed my candy shop was paradise."
"One of yours?" Angelus sneered.
Spike glanced up. "Robert Service."
The door opened to a burst of children's laughter as a family exited, their arms full of bundles.
Angelus caught the door and held it. "After you, Darla."
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_william_service/poems/12499.html