'Worthy' and 'Smoke Signals', 2 for slashthedrabble #64 'Habit'

[darkhavens]

Author: darkhavens
Title: 'Worthy' and 'Smoke Signals'
Pairing: Spike/Xander, Spike
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG for language
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Summary: A couple of moments out of time in the baby!vamp!Xander 'verse.


Worthy

Once turned, Xander looked at Spike as though he'd hung the stars, and tossed a silver coin into the sky to hang there as the moon. Every gentle touch sent a tremor rippling through his frame. Eyes that flashed from shag tobacco brown to gold and back again fought the urge to blink in case he missed his Sire's next move.

Even knowing that it couldn't ever last, Spike got used to being looked upon as Xander's shining god. But a tiny part kept waiting for the other shoe to drop - the moment Xander got a clue.

It's still waiting.



Smoke Signals

Slide. Tap. Snick. Flare. Snap. That first slow hissing drag. The slightest cracklecrack of fast ignition as the ember grows.

Draw it in, hold it - a measured count of one two three - then out, slow and steady, warm across the tongue.

Filters, full of chemicals and tar, steal the flavour; smother it in ethyl, methyl, isobutyl, phenyl cocktails. And worse.

Even loose tobacco doesn’t taste the way it used to - rich bodied, verdant scented green and full of life. Yet Spike still smokes. It's a habit, one of many, and it's his. He always did enjoy a damn good shag.




NEXT

Comments

[batmanvinnie.livejournal.com]

Wow, I loved those. One again, my socks you did rock. Kick ass.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[blue-icy-rose.livejournal.com]

That first one made me smile...but at the same time, just made me want to hug Spike. (Though there'd be lots of protesting and baby!vamp!Xander may very well have drained me faster than I could blink for randomly hugging his Sire. ~_^)

Both of these were gorgeous.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Spike is a wonderful sire, he just doesn't realise that Xander sees the real him and not some iealised version. Silly vamp. *g*

[gnome781.livejournal.com]

I love the first one! so sweet! they're both wonderful! It's always so great to see more of these!

*happybounce*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

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

Wonderful! Loved baby!vamp!Xanders vision of Spike, and all Spikes bad habits. He so wouldn't be the same without them

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

He wouldn't be the same, and Xander sees the bad stuff, he just accepts it as part of Spike. :D

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

These are just gorgeous, the first one was so sweet and the last line of Smoke Signals made me laugh like a loon -you just can't beat a good double entendre.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I actually wrote the second one first, wrote the shag line and immediately thought of Xander's hair. *g*

[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

Those are so good! You're so good at the little drabbles. I'd really love to see Xander reassure Spike on that first one. AWWW! Spike needs huggles.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *smooch*

I'm sure Spike figured it out eventually, and Xander would have done anything necessary to convince him, methinks. :D

[tabaqui]

Ahhhh, schweet. Love 'em!
*snuggles fic*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thankee! :D

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh. These are super.
Second is a more original idea (and cute pun - and thanks for setting it up in the first!) - but I like the first better because I am a sucker for Xander's worship and Spike's secret insecurity. :)

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I actually wrote the second one first and 'shag' made me think of Xander so I had to write the first one. *g*

[fanbot.livejournal.com]

*smooch*
Psst, we have heard from the kitty cat lately *worries*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Seven has been pretty quiet lately, but you never know when she's going to get her whiskers in a twist again. ;)

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Marvelous both. :)

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Damn!!

Whew!!

God, how you can do it for me!!!

*Mentally lights her own fag after these couplets...*

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. :D

You didn't sneak one of Spike's, right, cos he'll be pissed... *g*