open_on_sunday drabble challenge for February 1, 2004
Today's challenge: doors
AtS – Season 5 - Pairing: Spike/?
1. Opening Doors
A phone call came from Andrew. Apparently, Evil, Inc. had been harboring a secret. Spike. Unbelievable. Someone else whose time was finished, destiny clearly fulfilled, brought back into the harsh, unforgiving world.
The flight from one continent to another fraught with possibilities. Would Spike be as depressed, as unable to cope, incapable of reintegrating as…
Standing in front of Wolfram & Hart, scanning for the elevators. Pulse pounding as the doors closed. The car rose and discharged it's passenger. Pushed open the door to Spike's office, catching the vampire by surprise.
Blue eyes widened in shock as he said, "Xander?"
BtVS – Dream sequence – Pairing: Buffy/?
2. The Lady Or The Tiger
Awareness came as she slept. Slayer dream? Maybe, maybe not. In the moment, however, Buffy found herself in a small room. Two doors the only things that marred the smooth walls. The proverbial lady and the tiger scenario, of that she was sure. Or, perhaps the tiger and the tiger. With her luck? Two Tigerion demons.
Both doors opened of their own accord. Behind the first, human Angel, small children with sweet brown eyes. Behind the second? Gamedfaced Spike, glee in his amber eyes, beckoning her to join him in the night.
Time to take the tiger by the tail.
AtS – Season Five – Pairing: Wesley
3. One Door Opens
One door closes, and another one opens. That's what they say, right? Who the bloody hell are 'they' anyway?
Wesley Windham-Pryce, Watcher. Once upon a time. Rogue Demon Hunter. No longer. Part of Angel Investigations. Until… until what? Something niggled at the back of his mind, forgotten but festering. If he thinks too long on the subject he fears he'll go mad.
Now? Heads up a department at Wolfram & Hart dealing with the Mystical and Supernatural. Things happen without reason, causes unknown.
Well, thank you kindly, but he'll open and close his own doors as he damned well pleases.
BtVS – Season Five – Pairing: Spike
4. I'll Take Door #1, Bob
Spike was in agony, suspended in chains at Glory's hands. He'd already been beaten, prodded like a piece of soggy bread, cut, burned and bruised almost beyond recognition.
He tried, desperately tried to clear his mind of everything, in case Glory could actually read his thoughts – no thoughts of Buffy to look forward to, no thoughts of his Bit to comfort him. He was alone in this, and fully prepared to go out dusty.
Life was all about choices… which gave him an idea as he struggled to free himself from the chains. "You know that show? With the prices?"