I closed the door t' my digs behind me and reached for a smoke from my coat, followed by the silver zippo that clicked open t' provide my cancer stick with the fire it needed. I snapped the lighter closed, shoved it back in my pocket, then moved to take a confident step forward before I was halted by my brain. My brain which had begun to talk way ( Read more... )

The night's welcoming darkness was enveloping him from all sides. The only enemy to this desolate, dark wasteland of night was the headlamp on the front of the motorcycle that preceeded him. Spike's eyes were stoic, glued to the road but seeing only the past that had driven him to such an end. In all his memories he could think of nothing he loved ( Read more... )

"PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME NOW!" I sang at the top of my lungs to the CD I had in my car's deck, pausing to take drinks from the bottle I held in my lap. Duran Duran. Not quite as top-notch as the Sex Pistols but they do in a pinch. "IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD DO? IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD SAY... THAT'LL MAKE YOU COME MY WAY? BOW BOW CHICKA BOW BOW ( Read more... )

I reached the tunnel underneath the street that Carita's was on and managed to find the appropriate ladder after a few moments. Should've brought a sodded flashlight. I pulled myself up the ladder step for step then pulled my trench coat up over my head, forgetting that there was already a hole burned into the thing. A deep breath and a count of ( Read more... )

It's the hair. It's gotta be. Why else would I attract such negative responses from .. well .. everyone? They call me crass and rude? Pfuh. I call it self defense. You spout at me an' I'm spoutin' right back. Tha's the law ( Read more... )

"Give me a break, here, it's not easy to be convincing when you're stuck in the body of a teenage girl.""Give YOU a break?" I snorted a chuckle at the notion, raising my eyebrows to compliment my reply. I raised my hands in a sarcastically apologetic manner, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot you were pulled out of an eternity of peaceful bliss to do some ( Read more... )

I nearly snorted a chuckle from surprise at this offering, raising my brows as such a sound was accompanied with a resounding, "Me?!" I pressed a palm to my chest. "You want ME to run about your soldier boys?" A leader? A general of some vast army led by some kook hard up to take over more than the world ( Read more... )

I half flew through the front doors into Wolfram & Hart bowling over god knows how many people on my way. Not like I was going to take the time to stop and fry in the rising sunlight to offer a polite 'oh pardon me'. Soon as I hit the lobby floor I half tripped over myself throwing my coat off of me and spinning around with a resounding, " ( Read more... )

At this point I was convinced that the night couldn't get any worse. That is until I stepped into the building and advanced the elevator only to find them shut off. "... fan-bloody-tastic," I half growled at myself, knowing now I was forced to take twenty two flights of stairs ( Read more... )

The world was in such a twirl I could barely conceive a rational thought. It felt as though I was dreaming even when concious hadn't abandoned me. I think I was in the back seat of a car but how I got there remained an unanswered question. My mind had become a mariad of cobwebs and I was simply trying to navigate them without much success ( Read more... )