Title: Ballare
Author: Vashti
Fandom: BtVS, Nightwing
Characters: Buffy, Dick Grayson
Rating: PG
Summary: Buffy's battle-trained mind makes a logical leap.
Length: 100 words
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the words, and that's probably up for philosophical debate.
Notes: Originally written for the tthdrabble mod birthday event over on livejournal. Title and scene inspired by the Cirque du Soleil performance of the same name, which is worth looking up on youtube.
Ballare
by Vashti
It's when the "lovers" link arms – held aloft by silk wrapped around their middle, fluttering between their legs, spinning high above – that Buffy knows who Nightwing is. She's been held as intimately in arms as deeply corded as the aerialists'. She's even shaken that hand in non-official capacities when his boss had introduced their office to her and Giles and Dawn.
So if Grayson, circus acrobat orphan, was the masked Nightwing, Buffy thought she could guess who the older man sitting next to him was, watching the act even more intently.
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