Daily Drabble #13 Strip Scrabble, Spike/Xander

[darkhavens]

First commenter on the day's drabble(ish) gets to provide pairing and prompt for the next one. You can choose from Spike/Xander, John/Rodney and Sam/Dean or choose one of them as a solo character. Give me a word, or mood, or something to think on and I'll see what I can do. I may expand the possible selection if this works and I actually get my mojo firing on all cylinders. (Nobody gets two drabbles in a row. If you get one today, you don't get to have one tomorrow, even if your comment is up first.)


Author: darkhavens
Title: Strip Scrabble
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Fandom: Buffy
Rating: PG (for nudity)
Words: 379 words
Concrit: darkhavens @ slashverse.com. If you spot a typo, please feel free to tell me in comments. I want you to!
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Summary: Xander queries the spelling of 'cat'.
Notes: Daily Drabble #13, written for knitty_woman, who prompted me with "Spander and Strip Scrabble".


Spike tapped the little plastic 'T' into the place on the bottom right corner of the board and sat back with a smug grin.

"K-H-A-T. Double letter score for K and T is on a triple word score. That's-" Spike paused dramatically, "-forty-eight points to me." His grin was the very definition of smug.

Xander fidgeted in his only remaining item of clothing, a pair of Sponge-Bob Squarepants boxers.

"That's not how you spell 'cat', Spike. I don't care what you say about how Americans have screwed up your perfectly good language, that is not how you spell 'cat'."

Spike sat back into a sprawl and ostentatiously smoothed down the front of his tee-shirt before tucking his thumbs into the front pockets of his jeans. His bare toes wiggled at Xander.

"You think so?"

Xander nodded and looked serious.

"You're absolutely sure?"

Xander nodded again, and Spike nudged the laptop towards him with one foot, browser already open to 'The Official TWL Scrabble Dictionary' website.

"Challenge me then. Type it in and see if I'm right. And then you can lose the cartoon pants, you illiterate git, and the game as well."

Xander stared at the search box. The search box stayed blank.

Xander stared at the tiles on the board. The tiles said 'KHAT'.

Xander stared at Spike. Spike stroked the erection barely held in place by his button fly and then glanced over his shoulder to the clock on the mantel.

"You gonna be done soon, or should I call out for supplies?"

Xander stayed silent but the click-click-click-click-click of the keyboard spoke loudly on his behalf.

There was a moment's pause while Xander absorbed the website's verdict and then he stood up and skinned his boxers off his hips, leaving his own cock standing proudly to attention.

"Gee, Spike, I guess you win this one, fair and square. So, what's the forfeit this time?"

~~~~~~~

Several hours later, Xander was sleeping off his post-coital exhaustion when he was rudely poked in the ribs by his indignant boyfriend.

"Oi! You... You cheated! Are you trying to tell me you spent five years in Africa and never once heard of khat?"

"No," Xander said, trying not to laugh at Spike's expression. "I just always spelled it with a 'Q'."

~~~~~~~

AN1: Khat (Qat) - a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Khat contains the alkaloid cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant which causes excitement and euphoria.

AN2: The Official TWL Scrabble Dictionary

Comments

[jameschick.livejournal.com]

me?

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

You. :)

[jameschick.livejournal.com]

Sam/Dean, a prank gone too far.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Ha! Oh, I like it. now I just have to come up with a worthy prank. :D

[jameschick.livejournal.com]

btw, this was cute!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I haven't forgotten your 'pranks' drabble, btw, but tabaqui hijacked my brain with her Wolfpack fic and an invitation to dabble in her universe (http://tabaqui.livejournal.com/121323.html?thread=4112363#t4112363). If you haven't read it, you really should (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=tabaqui&keyword=Wolfpack%2Aspn%2A&filter=all), as your drabble(ish) could very well end up being a part of it. *g*

[jameschick.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it but I certainly will add it to my list of fics to read - if I ever get any time off work without the hubby and kids clamouring for attention.

[kharma2815.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Thankee!

[altyronsmaker.livejournal.com]

Heee. Xander's a little trixter. ;)
And Spike's dirty and trixey himself. Loved.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! They're both tricksy little buggers. *g*

[vinniebatman.livejournal.com]

::smiles blissfully::
That was a happy story.
It was a bit silly, a bit snarky, and just wonderful.
Thank you!
::bows, scrapes::

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

Your icon is wonderfully absurd and absurdly wonderful.

[tabaqui]

Strip Scrabble!
You are evol, i was just thinking that Scrabble would be a good game for the Monstrous to play....
:)

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

See my comment below.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Scrabble is a wonderful game! I played it often when I was a kid, and less often as an adult, usually with the 'strip' proviso, or with the 'dirty words only' rule in play. (You couldn't score with a word unless you could use it in an R-rated sentence.) *g*

[viciouscats.livejournal.com]

Heeee! Priceless. :D

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

This is marvelous - I am astonished, not by how good it is (that goes without saying), but how quickly you did it. I am in awe.

Why am I not surprised that Xander isn't much of a Scrabble player?

Thank you SO SO MUCH for this!!

kw

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised that Xander isn't much of a Scrabble player?

So here I am, reading all the other comments and realizing that I appear to have missed the punch line. As Homer would say, "D'oh!" (wipes egg off face...) Very nice twist!

kw

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Sometimes I'm fast, sometimes I'm slow - see me take a month to answer feedback! *g*

Ah, you didn't check the online Scrabble dictionary did you? ;)

Khat and Qat are both acceptable spellings of the same word, but I assumed decided that once Xander had found/learned one way to spell it, over in Africa, it wouldn't occur to him to check to see if there were alternate versions.

[riani1.livejournal.com]

Spelled it with a Q, snerk. And Spike's *annoyed* at the idea that Xander cheated to get sex!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

:D

Khat and Qat are both acceptable spellings of the same word, but I assumed decided that once Xander had found/learned one way to spell it, over in Africa, it wouldn't occur to him to check to see if there were alternate versions.

Spike is really quite proud of how well he's managed to corrupt Xander - lying and cheating to get sex - score! :D

[mysticsoblivion.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, as always wonderful. Xan plays dirty pool, too, gotta love it! *G*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

He's learned from the best. 8g*

Thanks!

[hawk-soaring.livejournal.com]

Hee! This was wonderful!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

Hah hah. That brings back a memory to dirty to tell, since I really don't know you that well. I was playing Scrabble with my brother and mother and thought I didn't have a word left to play, and I was being my typically pouty, sore-loser self. My mother found a word for me to play. Hee. My brother's pretty straight-laced, and he was extremely shocked. Hah hah hah hah hah.

[tabaqui]

*snerk*

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

My late mother was a cross between Maggie Smith in "Travels with My Aunt" and and and a a a...hippie, I guess. She was so cute, frank, honest, innocent, and loving. I swear. At first, I couldn't bring up memories about her with out getting all misty-eyed, but I finally chilled/accepted?? Now every time I think about her I laugh, smile, or guffaw because she ws so damn much fun and so damn loving. I still miss her. I wish I could call her on the phone and prank her like we (really) used to do each other, but still, I love talking about her. She was very racy, sort of like Moll Flanders. Hee! The naughty word she found started with a c and ended with a t. Hint: It wasn't can't. Ha ha ha ha ha. (((hugs)))

[tabaqui]

Heee.
I'm glad you think of her with laughter. That's nice.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

LOL! Sounds like your mother would get along with mine. She's totally shameless. *g*

Thank you!

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

That Xander! Very cute!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[iadorespike]

*giggles* You totally fooled me. :D I thought that Spike found that it wasn't a word, but Xander had just wanted to get naked with Spike. Hee! Which, if you think about it, is all good, after all.

Very cute, sweetie. Strip scrabble - awesome prompt. *eg*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

What you have to think about is: did Xander know you could spell it with a 'Q' instead of a 'Kh' and just bluffed to lose to get to the sex, or was he really as clueless as he appeared? ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_beetle_/]

Spongebob boxers? Oh! Say it ain't so!

. . . illiterate git

Hee!

I can't believe "khat" is an actual word--and that there's an actual scrabble dictionary!

I also love that, knowing who he was playing against, Xander had the online scrabble dictionary ready =D

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine Xander not liking Spongebob? *g*

Khat/Qat is one of those words all scrabble players should know - it helps you get rid of that irritating 'K' without having to wait for a 'C', and gets rid of the 'Q' without a 'U'! Truly a blessing to the scrabblerati. :D

Thanks!

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Bwah!
Awesome.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Lol.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!