His Smile
Author: Lilithangel
Email:
abchainey@xtra.co.nz
Website:
www.livejournal.com/users/lilithbint
Fandom: AtS
Characters: Spike/various
Genre: character study
Warning/Rating: G mildest suggestion of sexual relations, m/f and
m/m.
Summary: in honour of nekid_spike and our first prompts, Spike’s
smile.
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There was a smile that softened his face, wiped away the anger and
defiance and let a bit of the poet out.
It was a smile that very few had seen and even fewer had
appreciated.
Dru knew nothing else but that smile. It had been the tears that
had drawn her to him, but it was the smile that silenced the stars for
just a little while.
Buffy saw it first under a spell and promptly forgot about it.
She
saw a flicker of it when she first danced in his darkness but it
disappeared under her angry words and self hatred. Later it
drowned
in the guilt they both shared.
Fred saw it more than anyone since Dru. Accepting him, seeing him
as worth saving, just being his friend granted her a privilege that
made
her smile more often as well.
Angelus saw it once when in a moment of weakness he relaxed around the
younger vampire and saw not the antagonist his own jealousy had
created,
not the demon they had formed but the man that Dru had seen and called
her dark prince.
Angel still dreamt about that smile sometimes and in the privacy of his
dreams came up with ways of seeing it again.
END