Drabble: Home Sweet Home (School Hard )

[rebcake]

It's School Hard Week at fantas_magoria
The prompt was:  When Spike is introduced in this episode, it's clear he's been in Sunnydale before. What's the story?




Route 66 was a hoot. All those intrepid travelers, far from home and all, filled with the spirit of adventure. No sense of limitations. No sense, period.

Motor lodges. Drive-in movies. Car hops. Christ! Car hops were the living end. God bless America.

He mowed down the “Welcome” sign and followed his nose to the soda shop downtown. Darla held court in a booth, wearing a poodle skirt, surrounded by jocks.

She waved them off when she saw him, “William. Thank you for coming.”

“Don’t know why you think I’ll have any better luck than you, springing ol’ Bat Face.”

Comments

[shapinglight]

That was great - very atmospheric of the period. Plus it reminds me all over again why I love the idea of Spike/Darla.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Spike/Darla, huh? She's certainly dom enough for him, but I think she prefers 'em big and stupid. *tips hat to Julie Brown* He's neither. Could be entertaining, though.

[shapinglight]

I love them as a pairing, have to say. This may well be precisely because they're such an uneasy fit.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I implied that Angel is stupid. He's not. He might not be intellectually nimble in the way that Spike is, but he is far, far from stupid. Mea culpa.

[shapinglight]

True - though he can be horribly dense at times.