Alive Again

Blocker

Alive Again



pairing: pre- Spike/Dawn
time frame: BtVS s6, where Spike is not in love with Buffy
word count: 156

inspired by the line:
She kisses me goodbye - for the sixteenth time.
-Smile, James Marsters



She doesn't know what she does to me.

She doesn't know what it means.

She doesn't know that I save every one, like a pale pink ribbon fallen from her hair.

She doesn't know that her presence is the only light in a life that's been too long cold and bitter and festering in the dark.

She kisses me goodbye. For the sixteenth time.

It's the sixteenth one. The sixteenth time Dawn's kissed my cheek as she rushes out the door to get home to her mum.

The sixteenth time I've felt those rosy warm lips on my too cold flesh; the sixteenth time I've been too stunned by the act to move. The sixteenth time I've yearned to return it; the sixteenth time I've craved to take it further.

And on the sixteen-hundredth, should I still be lucky enough to be receiving them, I'll still be craving her touch. She makes me alive again.





The End