Drabble: Tithonus
This came up in a discussion on goldenusagi's journal, and I had to write it. It's, um, claiming fic. You've been warned.
Tithonus
By Barb C.
Pairing/Characters: B/S
Rating: G
Summary: Be careful what you wish for.
When Buffy was twenty, it was a necessity. When she was forty, it was romantic. When she was sixty, it was touching. The claim tied them together for eternity, the prophecy said. Her blood, freely given; his mark upon her neck; their power shared. She would live forever; he would walk in the sun. Unlike her dad, unlike Angel, he'd never leave her. Win/win.
When she was a mindless, pain-wracked husk of a hundred and twenty, Spike set a stake to his heart, cursing the sun that could no longer set them both free.
Her last breath was his dust.
END
Tithonus
By Barb C.
Pairing/Characters: B/S
Rating: G
Summary: Be careful what you wish for.
When Buffy was twenty, it was a necessity. When she was forty, it was romantic. When she was sixty, it was touching. The claim tied them together for eternity, the prophecy said. Her blood, freely given; his mark upon her neck; their power shared. She would live forever; he would walk in the sun. Unlike her dad, unlike Angel, he'd never leave her. Win/win.
When she was a mindless, pain-wracked husk of a hundred and twenty, Spike set a stake to his heart, cursing the sun that could no longer set them both free.
Her last breath was his dust.
END