Title: Trust
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: G
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, they're Whedon's. sob
Written for: LJ Community Challenge100's #38 "Underneath" challenge.
Notes: Takes place while the First is holding Spike prisoner in the basement, Buffy Season 7.
Shackled to the wall in the school basement, Spike could only hang there and take the abuse that the First dished out through its surrogates. But he was able to reach inside himself and grasp something that was stronger than Evil, stronger than pain.
Hope.
Buffy believed in him. She thought he was a good man. Even after all he'd done, after all the people he'd killed, she still trusted him. He held that hope with all the strength he had left. The First couldn't touch that; he wouldn't let it.
She would come for him. He knew she would.
