The first of my contributions to Seasonal Spuffy...
I have never taken part in this before, and until now had never written a drabble. I hope you enjoy them and I'll be back later with some chapters of a new story or two. The lovely banner is by dawnofme
Thanks to dawnofme for checking them over for me.
Better off Dead.
Monitors beeped. IVs took fluid in and out.
Faces etched with worry peered down at her.
She’d finally suffered an injury her slayer powers couldn’t heal.
There would be no recovery. This bed was now her life.
She often thought she’d be better off dead.
Stay away. She doesn’t need you.
We’ll look after her. We know what’s best.
Spike hovered on the outskirts.
Opinions unwanted and unheard.
He watched the doctors’ failure, until one night he could take no more.
She smiled as his fangs bit deep. Sucked greedily at his wrist.
She knew she’d be better off dead.
Gone (sequel to the above)
She was different now. Sounds were too loud.
The sun lethal. Her energy boundless. Appetite insatiable.
Each night they hunted together. Her victims; any who strayed too close.
He tried to guide her. To kill just demons.
But she cast him aside in death, as she had in life.
He spoke with watcher and witch.
Now they listened. They accused.
His fault she was out of control.
Soulless.
Her sister - her last meal.
She rode him hard. The climax he gave her, the best she’d ever known.
He coughed as the stake hit its mark.
She was better off gone.
The next one is a stand-alone.
She loves me…
He remembered their first kiss.
How could he not with all that daft music?
Their second…that look of disgust, but then she still found him.
The memories of the others blurred between punches and kicks.
As he stroked her hair in that stranger’s bed, he realised that she truly needed him.
Not loved.
But needed.
Almost as good.
Much better than the usual dismissals.
Finally the guilt that forced him to seek out his soul was assuaged a little.
Then hands clasped, she said it.
Smiling, he raised his face to the heat and welcomed burning to save them all.
When I post on my lj later, there will be a fourth but I wasn't sure I could post it here as it is Spike and the Initiative.
Thanks for reading!