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

[ares132006.livejournal.com]

Well done. You've captured the essence of Spike. Devil take him, he doesn't care a hoot. :0)

A very good reason for him to have been in Sunnydale, too.

[shapinglight]

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

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Spike reveling in the road trip was delightful, and I love the image of Darla playing the teeny bopper bombshell.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Love it, especially Spike's commentary on the current social scene.

[bruttimabuoni.livejournal.com]

Very nice - for the sense of time and place, and for SpikeVoice.

Darla playing dress-up too; definitely a character trait we see and cah have fun with!

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Darla held court in a booth, wearing a poodle skirt, surrounded by jocks.

I can so see that!

Very nice drabble.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

And he obviously didn't. But what a great Spike you've drawn here - full of the irreverent joy of being dead and free. Very nice.

[clawofcat.livejournal.com]

Hee! What a light-hearted piece with an awesome punchline. Spike's plucky enthusiasm for the period draws you in on the first line. I can also certainly appreciate the thrill of the road and the southwest having just done a cross-country roadtip this summer. He's ever the adolescent, isn't he? Love his irreverance.

Darla rolling with the times as leader of the Sunnydale pack also brought a smile to my face.

What do you think Spike's hair looked like at the time?

[mere-ubu.livejournal.com]

This is such a delight. Your grasp of Spike's perverse sense of humor gets me every time. (I had a good giggle over the carhop line in particular.) I can see this all so clearly--like Pleasantville with fangs! And of course Darla would already be working that schoolgirl mojo for all it's worth.

I'm just gonna file this away in my "that's what really happened" drawer, okay?

P.S. I read this last week and didn't realize that I had churlishly neglected to comment until I was just now showing it to M. Mere. (Who, BTW, especially liked "'ol Bat Face.'")