126 Ficlet: Breath of Spring (Drusilla)

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Title Breath of Spring
Author Bruttimabuoni
Rating PG
Word Count 200
Prompt 126 Country (Jolene)
Characters/Pairing (if any) Drusilla/Spike



You’re a nasty messy girl, dripping with good intentions and spring sunshine. Horrid things we don’t like to touch. But Spike doesn’t care. He’s covered in you.

You’re oh so far away from us now. You scarcely noticed him when he was with you, except to hurt. You’d slay him if you knew his thoughts, because you’re a killer.

I could kill him for you. He’s gone from me now. He sleeps beside me but he isn’t really here.

But he’s so pretty. My sweet William. I don’t want him as ashes in my mouth, kissing while I kill him.

You did that, didn’t you? Kiss and kill? I felt it. Another dead man in your thrall.

I think you’re magic. In secret. Sorceress of slaying, cackling over your charms. Unnatural charms. So pretty and golden and sunny. Nothing like black mischief me. No competition.

He talks about you in his sleep. “Kill that Slayer...” he says. Not killing, not really. Not in his mind. He dreams of not-killing you. I know that. Not killing but...

He’s drowning in you. He doesn’t even know it.

He will.

He’ll drown for you, and know it, and smile.

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Comments

[wailing-owl.livejournal.com]

I really like this. Your voice is bang on, and I love the crazyobsessiveness of it.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Good Dru voice. It's easy to understand why she might take up with a chaos demon..."Seeing" isn't always a boon, is it?

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, I think the chaos demon is Dru taking her chance at being 'covered in' someone - someone really gooey...

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

LOL and ewwwwww. Leave it to Dru to be literal when she should stick to metaphors...

[louise39.livejournal.com]

What pain Drusilla is in. I could kill him for you. He’s gone from me now.

Insightful peek into Dru.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My impression of Spike with Dru is very much of an adoring supporter - so to find that crumbling must have been a terrifying change.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

And then he returns to California...

Almost spuffy.

[redrikki.livejournal.com]

Awesome Dru voice without being over the top with the crazy.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. It's very easy to go with the nuttiness - but she makes sense at least 30% of the time...

[rahirah]

Ah, poor Dru. Have to wonder if she created a self-fulfilling prophecy...

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Yes - plant an idea and nurture it with suspicion. Thanks!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I think you’re magic. In secret.

Very Dru, but also the suspicion of every jilted lover. Great!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's been ages since I thought about these lyrics and they really are abject - right down to 'I cannot compete with you' and just giving in completely. Hence: magic Slayer powers!

[zoesmith.livejournal.com]

Oh this was really good. Well done!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I really appreciate you reading and commenting.

[candleanfeather.livejournal.com]

Very inventive ficlet. Drusilla is a difficult character to write, but you did it well, perfectly mixing weirdness and logic and vampire POV.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have written full-on crazy Dru, but we do see her being relatively coherent sometimes, and honestly I get a little tired of writing the 'the bells are singing to the grasshoppers' bits... *g*. And she was sane enough to spot Spike's obsession, and cheat on him accordingly, after all!

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Excellent in voice capture of Dru's mind set just before she kicks Spike to the curb. She sees the writing on the wall.

I loved this: I think you’re magic. In secret. Sorceress of slaying, cackling over your charms. Unnatural charms. So pretty and golden and sunny. Nothing like black mischief me. No competition. The phrase Nothing like black mischief me just sings.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It's a painful mindset, losing your lover to another. Trust Dru to look at it a little sideways, though.

[ubiquirk.livejournal.com]

Great Dru with her visions just feeding into her crazy yet still having a soft spot for Spike!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes - very difficult to see the truth and believe it while being powerless to change it.

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

Great Dru voice. Not only is she insane but she suffers the *sight* too.

She Sees things she'd rather not. I hadn't thought about that before.

Creepy!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The Sight is potentially quite terrible - to see and not be able to change things as they come upon you must be horrific.

[zgirl714.livejournal.com]

Great Dru characterization. Good job.