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

[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!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the lovely compliments! It's always nice to hear you've kept them in character. This did seem like a natural, but not often written, era for our vamps. I'm glad you enjoyed it.