[Typical with free vacations from the castle, Spike has been more or less out of commission since Paris and that whole incident. Cuts and bruises are already well on their way to healing, but for some valid reasons, he hasn't felt like going out. Maybe it wouldn't have been as bad if he hadn't spent most of his time stubbornly avoiding the clinic, ( Read more... )

[Paris isn't that bad, come to find out. Confusing as hell how he keeps running into people, but he's an expert in not thinking too deeply about these things. Spike seems to be one of the lucky guys who woke up there speaking French by default, so getting around isn't any trouble. And if the time he's been in Paradisa taught him anything, it's to ( Read more... )

( Julia )

[Spike is bored. Now that he survived his least favorite holiday (which left him more than a little sore) and his minor jobless crisis is over, he's back in his default state of general apathy towards most everything. He's sitting behind the counter of a certain -- currently empty -- candy store, playing with an unlit cigarette in his fingers. ( Read more... )

[Ordinarily, stories about prison breaks and explosions would be right up Spike's alley. Today, however, he seems stressed out over something completely different. As if the upcoming holiday -- he hates all holidays, but this one in particular is the worst -- wasn't enough, he's been unemployed for way too long. Bills are going to start stacking up ( Read more... )

[A day or two of loosely searching around the castle grounds, and Spike hasn't found where Kaylee ran off to. Which, given her history and the fact that it's marginally his fault, means it could be time to get serious. So he does the smart thing and decides to borrow (he's calling it that, and this is no way an excuse to go for a ride) the Mule and ( Read more... )

[There's a breaking point where witnessing insanity stops having any effect on a person. They go numb to it. Spike reached that point about halfway between his old girlfriend and former partner going at it over ...magical light and darkness or whatever-the-hell that was about... and where he's at now: standing in the woods, looking at the backside ( Read more... )

[Eventually Spike had to come back to the castle, if nothing else to check on the water damage to his room from that stint a few weeks back. It's as good excuse as any ( Read more... )

( Room 705 )

[Jet used to say life goes in cycles, but to Spike, here it's more like a spiral. Lose everything you never really had until you're left with the nothing you started with -- all those ways of thinking that make you a productive member of society. Just wait around for the next suicide mission to pop up and spend the meantime catching up on some ( Read more... )