Title: Hundred forty-seven days yesterday
Characters: Spike, Buffy with slight mention of Dawn
Season: 6
Episode: 'Afterlife'
Words: 100.
It's not her. It's the bloody bot. Hands all bruised, bloodied and cracked. Dirt under the nails, soiling her delicate skin—the bot doesn't bleed.
He's mumbling like a madman stumbling around in a daze. It's all a trick, it's just a bloody trick. His eyes are tired and he's seeing things. Whole sodding world has turned topsy tuvry. And yet she stands there looking at him, glancing down at her marred hands.
Nibblet's yammering on about her bein' through a lot—ya know, with the death.
'Hundred forty-seven days yesterday. Uh...hundred forty-eight today. 'Cept today doesn't count, does it?'