Right now, he wants to hug the petite thing in the really ugly sweater. It's really ugly. How could her friends let her out like that? Don't they care? Mentally he adds "short attention span" to his symptom list.

Based on the above...

"Ok, it says 'has enough issues for his own subscription.' But look at the good...at least they thought you have a lot going on, mentally."

and this...

erika, will you marry me? I am so in luv with everything you write. The timing, the snark, the intelligence...

I realize, both straight females and all, but still. Gah!

Aw, shucks.Maybe this plural marriage could get big.And, cause I'm all greedy, does it sound like Willow and Timmy? Or like I'm showing off.

I can only comment on Willow sounding dead on because I don't know Timmy from Adam. Which sounds wrong because I know an Adam that may very well be just like Timmy.

Oh, well, I'm sorry...I thought you'd seen both.But I have been tiresome enough on that topic, I'm sure. I was such a Willow in hs. And the older I get the more of a Bayliss I am (Which points to my being less straight at some point in my future, doesn't it?) So if you have a friend like him, I can say both "Good," and "My sympathies."

AHem.

I am ALREADY marrying erika.

erika? "Intensely readable" is one of the single biggest compliments I offer, anyone, anywhere, any time.

Second drabble, same theme.

A Memory of Breakfast

It was four AM, a rainy Roman not-quite-morning. Spike and Dru had been dancing; Dru had got herself a lovely absurd pair of four-inch heels, all fluttering satin ribbons, and Spike had taken her to a goth club near Trastavere. Under dim lights and pulsing music, they moved close together, sensual, frightening.

When they sat down beside the girl, one at each shoulder, she barely had time to register fear.

"Spike," Dru said, touching the girl's slender neck, "we never had dinner."

Damn, Deb. I know the work it took to get to the point where you can drabble like that, but man, it feels like water, just dripping off the ends of your fingers. Effortless, inevitable, every word.

erika, I'll just love you from afar, since I can't get near for all your spouses. Cindy, going back to read yours now.

Aw, Cindy, you made me miss both of them. And you made me sad for what might have been. I really would have liked to see them in an acknowledged-- and acknowledgable--relationship.

I always had the thought that Joyce and Rupert might have brought out both the best and the worst in each other. It would have been an interesting longterm dynamic, to say the least.

Aw, you guys...thanks, so glad you like it, and my little masturbatory wordplay, and like that(equivalent to, not about, at least till Munchkin shows up again.)But I can never archive, because my LOTS canon is all fucked up(to use a very technical term in fandom) Beau and Kay don't even start to shag for another two years, but I like the Transgressive Partner Sex for the drama and angst...and it's kind of a load-bearing boink now...the whole story hinges on it.Damn Court TV for showing them out of order, cause on most shows there are more physical cues in terms of hair clothes...whatever.(Except KS can never go to the barber alone, ever. So mote it be.)And Ripper/Joyce=sexy, but you knew that. Way 5300 being a Buffista has changed me, when I thought Chris, Ade, and "Daniela" were gonna have a three-way, I was like "Ooh" and my mom was like "Ew."