Advent Drabble #7 (Buffy & Friends)

[estepheia]

Happy birthday, synful_trixx!

BtVS - Buffy & Willow & Xander & Giles & Dawn - post-NFA - G
For monanotlisa
(When I threw Xander and the others into the mix there was suddenly no more room for that extra special Buffy & Willow moment you requested. Hope that's okay. Maybe I'll try again later...)


Warmth

It’s freezing outside, but the apartment is sweltering. Willow has been baking for hours; Cookies, gingerbread, the works, while Giles and Xander went out shopping. Now they’re trying to wrestle a huge Christmas tree through the door.

“Wait! Slayer job” Single-handedly, Buffy yanks it inside. Pine needles scatter. “See?”

No more mom-cookies, or guilty gift vouchers from Dad; no more stilted, heartbreaking Christmas cards from Angel or inexpertly wrapped gifts from Spike; no more Anya tales about child-eating Santas…

Will Christmas ever stop hurting?

“Buffy! Did you use my new lipstick?” Dawn yells.

With friends like these?

Getting there.

Comments

[synful-trixxie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

Sad and sweet. Yes, I'd imagine post-Chosen/NFA Christmases would be full of mixed feelings.

[violetfrosting.livejournal.com]

Aww, how sweet.. *drifts off into happier fandom times*

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

No, no worries at all -- this is utterly perfect, and I love it!! & :-))

Especially adore how, in so few words, you create this palpable atmosphere of family, the errands and the bickering and the love in the spaces between. And, of course, the *warmth*. So aptly titled.

Thank you!

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I like that one.

Gina