Title: Little Wing Author: Orilon Rating: PG-13 (one bad word) Pairing: Spike/Xander Spoilers: none Distribution: If you want it, take it and let me know where. Disclaimer: Everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. Characters not from Buffy come from my imagination. Title belongs to Jimi Hendrix. Summary: Xander's flying lessons go wrong. Feedback: Please.

I was shot down flying tonight. I was practicing my soaring when I felt a sharp pain in my right wing and wasn't able to control the change back to human form; I blacked out when I hit my head on a gravestone.

When I woke up I felt cool fingers bandaging my right arm and heard my sire muttering something about damn rogue falcons. I whimpered in pain when the fingers ran over the back of my head. I heard a shushing noise and a low purring as cool fingers bandaged my head.

Turns out Black Widow had been taking shots at me all night but I unconsciously dodged them. I was starting to think instead of working off falcon instinct towards the time I wanted to land and got hit with a crossbow bolt in my right arm.

She's extremely angry that I won't join her and has started to try to kill me since I won't. Spike warned me that she wouldn't give up and I wish now that I had listened to him.

I lay my cheek on my sire's cool chest and sigh as fingers run over my good shoulder. Sometimes I wish I was a normal vampire so I wouldn't have to deal with crap like this. The falcon healing is fairly fast but I'm still sore from hitting my head on the gravestone and my whole body on the ground.

I hear a low purr coming from my sire and can feel his chest vibrate against my cheek. It's relaxing and I slowly drift off to sleep, and I have a feeling that that was the idea.