Three drabbles for this weeks Sunday100 challenge

[estepheia]

This weeks sunday100 challenge: photo album/snapshot


PAIRING: Drusilla/Spike
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: none

Always

They lost everything in Prague: dolls, dresses, diaries. Postcards, scrapbooks of poetry, photo albums. Mementos of a hundred years. The jealous fire devoured them all.

It didn't matter then. Princess didn't need keepsakes, not with Spike by her side for all eternity, who brought her new gowns, still warm and fragrant, and new dollies to play with.

He's gone now, lost in so many ways. Incinerated by the fire in his heart.

Drusilla cuts the deck, flips the card, then works her spell. Lines shimmer, reform. Armor morphs into a black coat. Now he'll always be her Prince of Cups.

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PAIRING: Buffy/Spike
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: S7 - Post-Chosen

Memento

"I don't even have a photograph of… my mom."

"What about your father? Surely he kept a few?"

"You're right." Buffy gives him a smile that's nine parts brick and mortar to hide behind and one part genuine warmth. "I'll ask him."

That's when Angel brings out his dented and battered strongbox and hands her the photo: Spike in a wheelchair, looking brassed off but unbroken, giving the photographer his two-fingered salute. Angelus took the picture. Angel kept it.

Buffy never asks what else Angel is keeping inside that box. She just takes the photo and carefully puts it away.

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PAIRING: Xander, Buffy/Spike
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: S5 - Post-Gift

Cut

A vampire with photos stuck to his fridge - is there anything more pathetic?

The answer lies downstairs, sprawled on the four-poster bed, boots filthy, soiling the sheets with soggy grave dirt, eyes closed, mouth slack. Spike reeks of cheep booze, bottle neck lodged in a fist that refuses to unclench even in sleep.

A photograph is lying face down on his stomach.

Xander climbs down to pick it up. Buffy. Smiling happily, a striped shirt sleeve slung around her shoulders. The person next to her is cut away.

Something inside him hardens. Xander leaves, taking his bottle with him

Comments

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Like them, especially the last one; a credible, powerful slice of Life Without Buffy.
The second one is heart-warming...although I do wonder whether Angel actually kept photos and even in that case, if he would show a Spike one to Buffy because he understood what it meant to her...

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, number two is a bit on the fluffy side. :-) But who says I'm not allowed to do fluff. Also, I'm sure it makes a difference that Angel thinks Spike is finally dead. Obviously he won't sing songs of praise about him, but if the picture helps Buffy... Now *live* Spike would be an entirely different matter. :-)
Also, I'm a closet A/S shipper... so *my* Angel has several pics of Spike squirreled away somewhere.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I thought it was fine. Pleasant stuff has its place, definitely.

By the way: Looking around in fandom, that must be an awfully *big* closet...

& ;-)

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Good ones.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Lesley. :-)

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

I like these a lot. Do you think I could archive them?

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, you can archive everything you like. You have carte blanche. :-)
I can send you all the spike-centric ones in one file, if you like. :-)

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

I can send you all the spike-centric ones in one file, if you like.

That sounds good. Thanks!

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

Like these a lot, especially the last... and I loved the idea that Angel would have kept pictures of Spike. That he could give one to Buffy showed me a man who's matured a bit. As long as Spike is dead. ;-)