Hee! Banterlicious.

Second drabble in the elements theme; this time fire.

Fire

There was sunlight in his veins.

It happened fast, the way he'd have imagined, had he given it any thought. A creature of the darkness, of unending night, possessor of a soul that did nothing but hurt, no matter what he did - and here he was, deep underground, and the sun was moving through him like a flash flood of solar flares, uncounted atoms of raw heat under his dead blue skin.

He stood, and laughed, and marvelled, flesh and blood and bone burning away as he channelled the power of the light.

And he saw how it ended.

Wow, deb. You have a way of making powerful moments even more powerful.

Thanks, sj. After all, he did say he wanted to see how it ended....

One final elements drabble, for all of them.

Elemental

It only took a moment to die.

From inhale to exhale, the briefest moment in history - it went like this:

First, the sound of air whistling, surprise, cold steel embedded in the soft toughness of the human heart.

Next, the slow icy burn of the bullet, so small, so infinite in its hurt; the froth of water boiling up in dying lungs.

Finally, the sorry dance of gravity, falling into death, earth to earth.

It takes longer to tell than to feel, to end, to cease to be.

Inhale, exhale, a look of surprise. She never heard Willow screaming.

Just a couple perverts sitting around talking(and getting meta)Maybe I oughta stay out of my stash on weeknights... [link] Should this be in Enablers? Not even close to Buffyverse...And my plural wife demonstrates her tremendous mastery of the drabble form, as always.

Erika, that is hysterical.

I'm glad it's not just me. My favorite part's about the Xmas tree...I'm so meshugge.I thought about having them get together, but comparing notes is funny...and Samantha never gets to keep her clothes on.

comparing notes is funny...and Samantha never gets to keep her clothes on.

Yes, it is funny. Very, very funny, and easy to picture when you write it. But keeping the clothes on is, in Munch's eyes, not a real impediment (S3).

No. That's why he wishes he met Sam first.He just doesn't get a lot to say on his new job...except possibly too much to the hair department...I should let that go but it really is a shande

So I seem to be writing a Charmed/Angel crossover.

Tortured pretty boys are fun to write, even if you do have to throw them into another dimension and bend time to get them to hook up. Sadly, they just seem to want to yap at each other so far...