Title: You're a Good Man, Sister
author: jmaria

tth100 prompt: Kit
Crossover fandom: The Maltese Falcon
Characters: Kit, Sam Spade, Effie
Prompt: 006. Blood
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Rating: FR-15
Disclaimer: Joss owns Kit, Dashiell Hammett owns Sam & Effie
Summary: You mourn a woman who was rotten, ignoring the one you don't deserve
Mini-Series Set: Stuff Dreams Are Made Of - 2/3

You're a Good Man, Sister

Sam Spade had spent most of his life thinking on the one dame who did him wrong. Sure, he'd never really cared for Miles, but still someone kills your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Especially seeing as how the dame did it in cold blood, for no reason. Reason enough to put blood on his hands. Enough to make a man wary.

Kit watched her grandfather, trying to hate his indifference he must have once shown toward her grandmother. What makes a man so blind?

"Kit, sweetheart, why're you standing in the doorway? 'Fraid I might bite?" Sam said tiredly.

"Yeah, I am, Gramps," Kit sighed. "Gonna go on mourning the woman?"

"What woman?"

"The one who drove a wedge between you and Grams," Kit said stiffly, her loyalty to her grandmother showing clearly. God, if she didn't remind him of Effie at her toughest and Brigid - but that witch had nothing to do with his Kit. She was all Effie, her heart, her mind. His necessary ruthlessness, when need be. "Who is she?"

"A bloodsucking leech I went and fell for."

"And?"
"It was years ago, Kitty. I haven't thought about her for years. I married Effie didn't I?" Sam snapped.

"You settled," Kit murmured. "You settled when she loved you. So you'll break her heart everyday without even trying. You might as well gotten together with the bloodsucking leech, it had the same effect."

Kit stormed out of the room, slamming the door hard behind her. Sam watched as the fake falcon toppled off the table by the door. He had as much blood on his hands as Brigid. At least Kit took after her grandmother.

"You're a good man, sister," Sam murmured, picking up the thing that had cost them all so much.