Title:
Understanding
Author: Hieiko
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire
Slayer
Pairing: Spike/Buffy
Notes: Written for
tv100's
challenge: distant barking, breath, salt.
Summary: During Dead
Things. The Spike/Buffy confrontation.
Buffy faced Spike, wanting him to just let her go.
"You can't understand!" She cried in desperation, breath hitching slightly.
Spike, however, refused to back off. He gripped her shoulders and pinned her to the wall with his own body.
"Maybe I can't understand, love. But I still want to help," he murmured softly, tasting the salt of her tears as he held her face gently and kissed her.
Somehow she stopped crying.
Buffy stared into Spike's eyes and they just stood there, foreheads pressed together, in silence.
The sound of distant barking brought them back to reality.
And then Buffy whispered, "Take me home, Spike."