Five Valentine's Day Deliveries
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still_grrrTitle: Five Valentine's Day Deliveries
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Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Prompt: 148 (February - Valentine's Day)
Characters: Xander, Tara, Glory's minions, Buffy, Wesley
1992 - from Xander to Willow
This was hard.
Xander frowned at the endless row of cards on display.
Half of them said “to my wife” or “to my girlfriend”, most of them had huge “I love you!”s on the front, and all the rest had these really sappy pictures of people kissing, or puppies running around looking cute, or stuff like that.
Even worse, he kept thinking he’d found one that would work, and then opening it up to find “To My Dearest Darlingest Smoochy-Pie!” inside in huge letters.
Why wasn’t there a “to my best-friend-who’s-really-nice-and-is-probably-going-to-give-me-a-Valentine’s-card-like-she-always-does-and-I-really-like-her-but-not-like-that-but-she-should-still-have-a-great-Valentine’s-Day-because-she’s-my-best-friend” card?
That’d be perfect.
Xander sighed, and kept looking.
2000 - from Willow to Tara
Willow had looked kinda nervous all day.
Tara bit her lip, and hoped it wasn’t because Willow had picked up on what she’d been thinking – trying not to hope for.
She’d given herself a very stern talking-to in the mirror this morning.
“Tara Maclay, get a grip. She’s just a friend. That’s all. Don’t go ruining a perfectly nice friendship just because your imagination’s getting carried away. Okay?”
She’d tried to be nice, calm, and just-a-friend all afternoon, but maybe Willow had noticed.
She smiled tentatively. “What should we do now?”
…and that was when Willow handed her the card.
2001 - from the minions to Glory
They looked kinda like those guys from Lord of the Rings.
Height-and-clothes-wise, anyway. Their faces just looked really gross.
But they were spending lots of money, and she liked making a profit, so she was going to ignore how weirdly wrong they looked, and keep smiling politely.
Really politely.
They kept buying cards, flowers, and chocolate, leaving, and coming back five minutes later to search for something “even more resplendently lovely”. So far, they’d spent over two-hundred dollars on this “Gloria” woman – and two-hundred bucks could buy a huge amount of polite smiling.
Valentine’s Day was so awesome for shopkeepers.
2001 - from Spike to Buffy
The card was anonymous – although “Slayer” narrowed the field.
Number one candidate for calling her that was… someone who wanted her dead. Yeah. Couldn’t be him.
So that left… um… Harmony? No, she’d have put glittery stickers all over it.
Glory? Could be. Although she’d probably want them to know for sure that she’d written it.
And it didn’t seem to be threatening or anything. It was actually kinda nice.
Especially with the teddy bears.
Buffy shrugged, and put the card under her mirror, with a sheepish smile.
…maybe she should get a sample of Spike’s writing. Just to check.
2003 - from Wes to Lilah
He delivered it by hand, at three in the morning. Snuck up to her apartment, and put it on the floor, outside the door.
Then he left – fast.
Afterwards, he really couldn’t explain why.
Why he’d been so worried about her seeing him deliver it.
Why he half hoped the rose would be stolen by her neighbour.
Why he bought a card at all.
Later, when Lilah showed up, tore his clothes off, and showed him why the salesman had called his table “indestructible”, he realised she must have liked it.
But she never said anything, so that was okay.
Author:
deird1Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Prompt: 148 (February - Valentine's Day)
Characters: Xander, Tara, Glory's minions, Buffy, Wesley
1992 - from Xander to Willow
This was hard.
Xander frowned at the endless row of cards on display.
Half of them said “to my wife” or “to my girlfriend”, most of them had huge “I love you!”s on the front, and all the rest had these really sappy pictures of people kissing, or puppies running around looking cute, or stuff like that.
Even worse, he kept thinking he’d found one that would work, and then opening it up to find “To My Dearest Darlingest Smoochy-Pie!” inside in huge letters.
Why wasn’t there a “to my best-friend-who’s-really-nice-and-is-probably-going-to-give-me-a-Valentine’s-card-like-she-always-does-and-I-really-like-her-but-not-like-that-but-she-should-still-have-a-great-Valentine’s-Day-because-she’s-my-best-friend” card?
That’d be perfect.
Xander sighed, and kept looking.
2000 - from Willow to Tara
Willow had looked kinda nervous all day.
Tara bit her lip, and hoped it wasn’t because Willow had picked up on what she’d been thinking – trying not to hope for.
She’d given herself a very stern talking-to in the mirror this morning.
“Tara Maclay, get a grip. She’s just a friend. That’s all. Don’t go ruining a perfectly nice friendship just because your imagination’s getting carried away. Okay?”
She’d tried to be nice, calm, and just-a-friend all afternoon, but maybe Willow had noticed.
She smiled tentatively. “What should we do now?”
…and that was when Willow handed her the card.
2001 - from the minions to Glory
They looked kinda like those guys from Lord of the Rings.
Height-and-clothes-wise, anyway. Their faces just looked really gross.
But they were spending lots of money, and she liked making a profit, so she was going to ignore how weirdly wrong they looked, and keep smiling politely.
Really politely.
They kept buying cards, flowers, and chocolate, leaving, and coming back five minutes later to search for something “even more resplendently lovely”. So far, they’d spent over two-hundred dollars on this “Gloria” woman – and two-hundred bucks could buy a huge amount of polite smiling.
Valentine’s Day was so awesome for shopkeepers.
2001 - from Spike to Buffy
The card was anonymous – although “Slayer” narrowed the field.
Number one candidate for calling her that was… someone who wanted her dead. Yeah. Couldn’t be him.
So that left… um… Harmony? No, she’d have put glittery stickers all over it.
Glory? Could be. Although she’d probably want them to know for sure that she’d written it.
And it didn’t seem to be threatening or anything. It was actually kinda nice.
Especially with the teddy bears.
Buffy shrugged, and put the card under her mirror, with a sheepish smile.
…maybe she should get a sample of Spike’s writing. Just to check.
2003 - from Wes to Lilah
He delivered it by hand, at three in the morning. Snuck up to her apartment, and put it on the floor, outside the door.
Then he left – fast.
Afterwards, he really couldn’t explain why.
Why he’d been so worried about her seeing him deliver it.
Why he half hoped the rose would be stolen by her neighbour.
Why he bought a card at all.
Later, when Lilah showed up, tore his clothes off, and showed him why the salesman had called his table “indestructible”, he realised she must have liked it.
But she never said anything, so that was okay.
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- ficlet,
- glory,
- holiday havoc,
- pg,
- tara,
- wes/lilah,
- wesley,
- willow/tara,
- xander
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Date: 2009-12-17 05:44 pm (UTC)I loved the Wes/Lilah one!
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Date: 2009-12-19 10:48 am (UTC)I confess, I avoided this fic at first because it was the wrong time of year and I just wasn't in the mood for Valentine's Day, but I'm glad I reconsidered.
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