Slamming into the dresser next to Willow’s bed, Spike quickly pulled himself up, reaching out and grabbing the book from earlier. Quickly flipping to the correct page, the vampire began to read the words of the spell aloud ( Read more... )

From chapter 8 of glossing's beautiful Compassing Wonders, a Giles/Oz AU. Previous chapters are here"Quiet tonight. So quiet and so sweet a style," Gilles said over dinner ( Read more... )

"Tally ho!" Xander exclaims, from beside her, and she looks around, watching him. He's holding up a plastic pipe and gesturing with it. "Pip pip, Alexander, jolly good show old chap." He grins, and looks over at Celeste. "See, still, nobody's going to cotton on ( Read more... )

stoptocheer, Lessons, here.

Giles, of Xander:

Dark hair, huge dark needy eyes, coltish limbs, occult books on his record and a teenage body full of insecurities and vulnerability.

redbrickrose, in response to the weekly drabble topic of Lessons for open_on_sunday, here.

Angel was in everything Spike touched, everything he was. Angel was Drusilla’s source, Buffy’s strongest ghost, Spike’s darkest shadow.

From "Fast Food" by paynbow -- the long overdue expose of Buffy's life at Doublemeat Palace:

“Spike, you’re indecisive, rude, you pay entirely in nickels and pennies, and you’re holding up the line. Again I ask, in what way are you helping me?”

In tonight's dream she and Angel are sitting on a dock, all wooden ( Read more... )

"He could stop cold if he wanted to, he wasn't that fuck-stupid, but just then Spike roused himself and said, "You all right, mate?" in a husky, hungry voice, and Xander looked at him and accepted the invitation to his teacher's house and asked Amy for a spell and sent Buffy to kill Angel and led the graduation charge to certain death and let the ( Read more... )

Fundamental law of Xander Harris, in Willow's book: he won't ever get anything school-related, but he'll look unfairly adorable not getting it.

- From stoptocheer, in a drabble request here.

"When Buffy stops smiling, she seems a little more herself. Her skin isn't stretched so tight over all that fragile bone, and Giles can see a faint resemblance to the round-faced, silly, young girl he first knew. Buffy looks like her own distant cousin ( Read more... )