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

[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.'")

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

¡Yay! I'm so pleased you liked it!

*I had to explain to McDiva what a carhop was. Kids these days! No culture.*

I am firmly in the "that's what really happened camp", myself. So much so, that this might just turn into my very first multi-chapter fic. *runs and hides*

Thanks for commenting, at anytime. Thanks to M. Mere, too!