This week, our challenge is Hands. Make of it what you will!
BtVS – Season 5 – The Body - Buffy1. The Artist's Hands
As much as she hated to admit that Spike was right about anything, Buffy couldn't ignore the vampire's words. "Death is your art," he'd said. "You make it with your hands, day after day" For five years she'd painted bloody masterpieces in Sunnydale's cemeteries.
Her hands had brought death to thousands of demons and vampires since her fifteenth birthday. They bore calluses from wielding wooden stakes and sword shafts no amount of moisturizer erased.
She'd caressed male flesh, stroked a sister's cheek, and comforted friends as best she could – but her hands couldn't bring life back to her mother's body.
BtVS – Season 6 – Dead Things – Spike2. Love With a Heavy Hand
Pain – another route to a demon's pleasure. William was taught to crave pain at the hands of an artist. Angelus would craft masterpieces of flesh, blood, and bone until the fledgling cried out for more. After all, if his Master was paying attention, it meant he was loved, right?
Spike carried all of William's lessons around like baggage. Pain equals love, and if this held true, Buffy most certainly loved him. Why wouldn't she admit it?
Lying on the ground, Buffy straddling his hips – beating the demon into remission… both man and demon wished she loved him a little less.
AtS – Season 5 – Damage - Spike3. Creature Comforts
If ever there was a man made for sensation, it was Spike. Denied much as a Victorian youth, he reveled in life as a vampire. Sights, sounds, tastes and most of all… touch.
He lived through his skin. Smooth silks, satins and velvets in his earlier days, crisp cottons and harsh denims currently. Nothing came between him and his Calvins.
His touch could pleasure, as well. Seduce the knickers off of any gender with the whisper of lips and the stroke of fingers.
Lying in bed, waiting for his hands to heal, Spike wished someone would touch him for comfort.