You Want This
(Angel, season five speculative; no spoilers save the one everyone knows.)
Spike wants to move. It's late, and he's hungry, and right now he's really bored. He kind of wants that chocolate muffin Fred left in the lounge because he can't remember actually ever eating a chocolate muffin, and he wants to see what it tastes like.
He sighs and rustles a little, but not too much because he's been told not to move. Not that he usually takes commands from anyone, but there's two fucking people in the world for whom he does what he's told, and lucky for him they're both alive. Figuratively speaking.
He looks over at Angel, who only has one eyebrow raised and both eyes on his paper, but somehow that one eyebrow seems to convey both, "Do you honestly think you're going anywhere?" and "If you're good, you'll get a chocolate muffin." So he sits relatively still and watches the ceiling. He thinks he must have even less patience now than he did when he was still a vampire, which seems remarkable, but he never used to bounce his knee when he was a vampire and now he has the serious and mind-numbing compulsion to do just that.
Angel makes a quiet suggestion for him to turn to the left a little, and he does, feeling a ripple of air over his skin that makes him shiver. He sees Angel smirk a little and makes a face at him, but whatever. He has a nice view for himself, anyway, in this position, and occupies himself by watching the muscles in Angel's arm shift as he draws thin, quick lines, his fingers jumping all over the page.
Spike never sees the picture until months later, and then he blames this not-being-preternatural thing on how he managed to walk right by the detailed sketch in the hallway every day. He inspects it, pleased with the results.
SA, these are complete charmers. I'm getting them now, as vignettes; that bit of Watcher-Slayer was especially moving for me, because it nailed them, and they were always and still are my two favourite characters (although Wes, as he evolved, is close behind).
As Deb goes, so goes my nation.
Or, the relationship between those two characters was my favorite on the show, and this captures it. Perfectly, I think.
Hey, thanks, kids. I've been systematically disemboweling my plot bunnies, and there's was a scribbled note about Buffy finding the Tales of the Slayer (said note was made while I was reading Volume One of the short stories in Nashville and eating bad greek food) and I was feeling kind of nostalgic for season one.
psst.... if someone wants to write me kinky Ethan/Buffy, I'd be very happy.
no, I don't understand it either.
must have something to do with the monkeys at work...
Plei, I'll write you some shortshort kinky Ethan/Buffy.
But I want some feedback, madam.
SA, those were both very gorgeous. I loved the image of Buffy feeling the connection to the long history of the Slayers, and I really, really, schmoopily want Angel to sketch Spike. That's my big wish for the next season: angst everywhere, of course, but at least One.Damn.Moment of connection. One moment of quiet to speak of everything that has gone on before. Or will everything that has gone before be nothing but pain?
Oh, damn ... there's another plot bunny behind me, and it keeps whispering "You were my Yoda!" in a betrayed voice. You don't get that pissed if you didn't care. Bugger, where's the Bunny-Be-Gone?
Help.
Why is my brain refusing to disgorge the name of the friend of Giles who wasn't quite killed by the Bringers? Tyson? Roston? Something like that?
I'm writing Plei's kinky and I need it.
