Ficlet: Tuppenny Soul

[indri]

Rated G. Written around the time of "Him", I think.

Sometimes, when Xander's out, Spike will run a cold bath. He'll lie in it with his knees bent over the end so that he can get his head flat against the bottom. He'll spend hours there, looking up at the whorled ceiling through the water. It's not as if he can drown.

For some reason, this is always when his mother decides to visit. She sits there, on the edge of the toilet seat, wearing her best mourning dress. She says, "We never expected this of you, William."

"Didn't you want to be a solicitor?" she asks him. "I can't see what this murdering business had to do with that."

Comments

[shapinglight]

That's lovely - and chilling at the same time. Also, considering the FE spends quite a while in BotN inexplicably trying to drown Spike, it's quite prescient.

[ex_peasant441]

There is a bad joke about lawyers in there somewhere, but I shall refrain because this is too fine and too poised a little snippet to tease.

Thank you so much for sharing these with us!

[makd.livejournal.com]

oh,jeez! that was creepy....

loved it!!