Jackboots and Bubblegum

This is painful. I have 50 words to go and this is like pulling teeth, y'all.

Random y'all aside: I saw a sign yesterday - lovely fresco done by a local Italian company - that said "Ciao Y'all". My husband would not let me buy it. He clearly sucks. That sign was AWESOME OMG.

This is Spike and Dru. Comics Spike and Dru. How is this hard for me? I actually think I know why - both this fic and the comics posit that at some point Spike ends up being totally over Dru and I just can't brain that.


In my head canon, Spike and Dru are always a part of each other - sometimes together, sometimes not, but indissolubly bound. I write Angel the same way: unable to be with them, but unable to stop loving them. It's very much in the model of the family experience of addicts and abusers - people you love do bad things and become people you cannot live with, but you don't stop loving them.


So this "I've let so many things go" bit messes me around like whoa. Which may explain why I am still 50 EFFING WORDS SHORT OF THE GOAL.

Random Link: I do not know HOW they managed it, but this Little Pony looks EXACTLY like Captain Jack Harkness. ADORABLE.

Characters: Spike

Rating: PG-13

Summary: He’s got a basket full of kittens, an office full of novice poker players, and a source that might have some information on Angel. What Spike's doing while Angel is missing. Spoilers for the comics up to issue #32.

A/N: Posted for prompt #25-poker on my 50ficlets table. And for anxiety_junkie who suggested Spike and his kittens. I didn't make it all the way to the actual game, but I hope you'll like anyways.

Feel free to suggest pairings or ideas for the other 48 prompts!

( Time to distract the kiddies, then... )

Pairing: Xander/Dawn

Rating: NC-17

Summary: There’s just no graceful way to segue to naked. A look at how Xander and Dawn's first time might go. Based on Buffy S8 comics canon. Mild spoilers through issue #31.

A/N: I wanted to write an "awkward first time" story and if it would happen to anyone, I think it would be these two. Also, for anxiety_junkie who is not having a good week: a little happy story, even if it isn't your favorite pairing. I told you I could make it up to neutrally hopeful!

( I love you? This is a bad idea? Look, Cheese Guy! Too many possibilities... )

Pairing: Spike, Xander (pre-slash)

Rated: R

Summary: Comics canon compliant, future fic. He can remember a few moments like this from Sunnydale, all misinterpretation and humiliation. So he stands in front of the bed, watching Xander watching him.

A/N: A continuation of my comics canon fics A Spot of Trouble and Nearly Triumphant. Contains spoilers for Buffy S8 up to Issue #26.

( The blushes strike him as funny. Xander blushes a lot these days and it’s just odd... )

Pairing: Spike, Xander (pre-slash)

Rating: PG-13

Summary: After meeting Xander in a London alley, Spike does some thinking. A sort of continuation of my comics canon future AU A Spot of Trouble.

A/N: Written because laazikaat asked very nicely and provided a helpful CoSoRanOb list of prompts: Colour: silver or green, Sound: something creaking (door, gate, bedsprings, lol), Random Object: empty beer bottle or discarded chocolate wrapper. Not very slashy, sweetie, but I hope you enjoy just the same and thanks for helping me continue this little comics canon adventure.


( Dru’s not here now, if she ever was. )