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[hesadevilspike]

Setting Post LMPTM (pre-series)
Characters Drusilla, Spike.
Rating Tame.

Written for: open_on_sunday's prompt Birthday

Not one of my best efforts but the blond pest has gone AWAL again.
ETA It's better now, thanks to bit of beta work by speakr2customrs

Mother“What’s wrong, pretty William

Comments

[speakr2customrs]

Very good.

It might, however, have had a little more impact with a slight change to the word order at the end:
"Down there, I killed her. Twice."

I'll elaborate in August.

[hesadevil]

You're absolutely right. I'll change it if you don't mind.

I did say it wasn't one of my best.

[bogwitch]

Haunting.

[hesadevil]

It certainly haunted Spike.

I'd like to write about the time immediately after he killed his mother in a longer fic. I need to explore exactly how he managed to repress it so well that The First could make such good use of it.

[bogwitch]

Sounds like a plan!

[hesadevil]

But the Muse is being very tight-lipped about it, so I may abandon it before I even begin.

Did you see the good work Speakr did for me with this drabble? It really lifted the final lines. Things are looking very promising for August.

[hesadevil]

Thank you so much,that's what I was aiming for.

[lillianmorgan]

Lovely Drusilla voice! But poor thing - she hasn't quite learnt how to control Spike just yet...

[hesadevil]

Did she ever? I think their relationship had a lot more to do with Spike's residual humanity than her ability to manipulate.

But I'm open to be persuaded otherwise!

[lillianmorgan]

Heh, I think Drusilla's role in the relationship comes down to how much you think of her as a manipulator and strategist; and whether she used her implied weaknesses and mental illness as a way of tightening her hold over Spike, as a way of calling to his chivalrous side to take care of her. Yeah, it's really a matter of figuring out who is the one in control of that mental game between them ;) And on which side you see them! (Plus all the other stuff involving Angelus of course *g*)

[hesadevil]

Nods. I never thought that Dru deliberately chose him to take care of her, but she saw the chivalrous knight in him when all everyone else (apart from his mother) saw was a weak, romantic fool.