Title: Cranberries
Author: Dreamiflame
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Note: Holiday fic.

Tinsel on the floor, and Willow, laughing, demands Spike pick it back up, hands on her hips. Spike grins unrepentantly and continues looking for the perfect place to hang the mistletoe.

Dawn pricks her thumb stringing cranberries, and holds it out to Spike to kiss better. He licks the bead of blood away, his tongue cold and wet against her skin, and Dawn smiles gratefully, then returns to her garland.

Tara and Willow exchange glances, worried over the bit with the blood. Spike shakes his head firmly. "I would never," he murmurs, and they relax, knowing it's the truth.