Another drabble
For frellingtinked, who requested Willow/Xander

Title: Ice cream
Rating: R
Summary: Takes place during the S4 episode, "Something Blue."
Characters are owned by Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy; I'm only borrowing.



She thinks it's ironic when he talks about how everyone feels pain -- especially since he's been the cause of so much of hers. All the times that he didn't look at her and -- after it was too late -- all the times that he did. At the end of the day, he's just another man who's hurt her.

She doesn't tell him that; instead, she says what everyone's been thinking but are too afraid to say.

Oh, like what? "Oh, poor me...I live in a basement." Yeah, that's dire.

The look that he gives her makes her want to throw up.

In fact, she does throw up, but it's not until she stumbles out the back door and smells the foulness of the dumpster that she really starts to heave. As she bends over to avoid puking all over herself there's suddenly a hand on her left shoulder and another smoothing back the strands of hair that have fallen across her face.

He looks away when the bile splashes onto the pavement, but he doesn't leave her. When she's finished, he takes her arm and, by the time she asks him, he's already leading her back to the dorm. He's there to steady her when she trips and stumbles -- that is, until they start walking on grass that's slick with rain and, this time, she takes him with her.

Instead of trying to get up, she curls into a fetal position and begins to cry like a wounded animal. He doesn't know what to do except roll her over and take her face between his hands and kiss her runny nose and quivering lips that open to suck in his tongue. He shouldn't be hard, but he is and there's a flurry of hands and all he can think about is ice cream on her nose that summer as he sucks on one nipple after the other.


Next up is Spawn for Jessica!