Darkness and Light

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A double drabble (or two connected drabbles) for this month's prompts.

Setting: BtVS season 6, post-Wrecked
Rating: PG13
For the prompts: Tunnel collapse, and Exceptionally large coronal mass ejection
200 words

Darkness and Light



Sometimes, it feels like she's walking down a long, dark tunnel.

Proverbially, tunnels have lights at the end, right?

She'd find it, she thinks, if it weren't for this...crap in her way, like money (lack of), Mom's house (falling down), Dawn (teenage nightmare).

And him. Spike. Evil, soulless (God, she loathes him), so, so hot. When he does...what he does, it feels so good she thinks the proverbial light would only dazzle her.

Ironic (in a sick, wrong way). The one thing in her life making her not want to be dead (again) is the thing that's slowly killing her.

*

She'll be the death of him. He knows it.

All right, so she's not quite her shining self these days (sodding magic! Never did anyone any good), but whenever he sees her, he's still blinded, and in more ways than one.

This thing with her is wrong. He's always known that. Can even remember saying as much to her face once (and God, she looked good in chains, which hold that thought).

But he's a vampire, yeah? Wrong is what he does.

He'll take what he can get, until (as is in-fucking-evitable), she burns him up from the inside out.

Comments

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Ah, that last line is definitely the killer.

Another excellent example of your craft. :D

[shapinglight]

Thanks, Sue. Glad you liked it. :)

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

God, she looked good in chains, which hold that thought

Okay, that was a nice moment of levity in a very strong, dark picture. *\o/*

I like the way you've juxtaposed their supposed natures: she's buried in darkness, he's striving for the light. Because it's wrong.

Lovely job.

[shapinglight]

Thanks, love. The more I think about their relationship in season 6, the rawer and angrier it seems to get. ;)

[gillo]

Ooof. That last line of Spike. Foreshadowing in the most painful Whedonverse style.

I 'enjoyed' both of these. Though that isn't quite the right word.

[shapinglight]

Glad to hear it (I think). ;)

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

So much emotion conveyed in these drabbles-so sad for this couple.

[shapinglight]

Yes, it wasn't a good time for them (though Spike persisted in deluding himself that it was, of course).

[double_dutchess]

Wonderful! (Love how you used the brackets.)

[shapinglight]

Heh! I do seem to use them a lot lately.

I really ought to go and read up about the proper use of them, as opposed to using -text-, which I always used to do when writing asides.

[kerry-220.livejournal.com]

Clever and intense.

[shapinglight]

Thank you, and thanks for reading. :)

[baudown.livejournal.com]

Wow. These are about as close to perfect as it gets.

[shapinglight]

I dunno about that, but thank you very much. :)

[chasingdemons.livejournal.com]

All so true (at that time). This is excellent!

[shapinglight]

Thanks, love. It really wasn't their best time, was it, though Spike may look back on some aspects of it with fondness. ;)

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

These are marvelous!


Gabrielle

[shapinglight]

Thank you. Glad you liked them. :)

[freecat15.livejournal.com]

Ouch. My heart is hurting for both of them.
You perfectly and beautifully captured them at this time.
Excellent!

[shapinglight]

Thank you so much. Very glad you liked it.

[yourlibrarian]

I like this idea of opposites who meet in the grey.

[shapinglight]

Thank you. Glad you liked it. :)