For hjcallipygian: Eating-her-lunch-and-drinking-from-a-soda-bottle Drusilla

[alixtii]

195 words, PGish.

Eating-Her-Lunch-And-Drinking-From-A-Soda-Bottle Drusilla

The moon was high in the night sky, the darkness half wasted, and still Drusilla had not lunched. She slipped through the darkness, swimming through the shadow like a shark searching for her prey.

Hinx, minx, the old witch winks, the fat begins to fry.

And then she saw it: a 24-hour convenience store, a glistening pearl in a sea of black, and out walked her prey, a woman in a red dress carrying a brown paper bag. The princess of Arabia.

Nobody at home but Jumping Joan, Father, Mother and I.

Snicker-snack! The princess fell, and Arabia's glass towers shattered until only one was left--soft to the touch, not glass at all but the magic material of a scientist's cauldron. Drusilla took Arabia into herself, and she was nourished.

Stick, stock, stone dead, blind man can't see.

Tentatively, she picked up the plastic bottle and brought it to her lips. Memories exploded on her tongue: begging for peppermint drops as a child, the licorice Angelus would give her when he'd whipped her, the candy store massacres of '49. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a cheat.

Every knave will have a slave, you or I must be he.

"Ooh, sweet," she whispered.




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Comments

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

Yummy! And I

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

...do love that icon!

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's filling the slot of my Drusilla icon for the time being, as I decided I really needed an incest icon.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

That drabble is positively a marvelous. A complete jewel.

*wibbles*

I've never seen Dru so well-written.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

*is agog*

liz_marcs just called a 195-word ficlet a drabble? My world is in disarray.

But seriously, thank you so much! I always love writing Dru, she's so much fun.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

That is awesome! Crazy and pretty and majestically fucked-up, just like Dru.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I do my best.

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's brilliant. Perfect Dru.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[cadence-k.livejournal.com]

This is fabulous! I love your Dru voice, especially this part:

Tentatively, she picked up the plastic bottle and brought it to her lips. Memories exploded on her tongue: begging for peppermind drops as a child, the licorice Angelus would give her when he'd whipped her, the candy store massacres of '49. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a cheat.

The image of Dru drinking from a soda bottle is great and you captured all that very well here. Loved it!

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Dru is a character for whom it is always a pleasure to write!

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Hinx, minx, the old witch winks, the fat begins to fry.

God, I can remember girls skipping to this when I was a kid. It is so weird to see it again in this context.

You have some lovely lines here. Very nice, very evocative.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Pretty much whenever I write Drusilla, I turn to The Oxford Dictinary of Nursery Rhymes. I picked it up for something like 50 cents at a library sale and it has proved to be a good investment, as I do tend to write her frequently enough.

I'm glad you liked the ficlet!

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Lyrical and magical, and one of the most marvelous Dru's I have ever seen. Conratulations.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Dru was actually one of the first Buffy characters I ever wrote, so it's always a pleasure to return to my roots, so to speak. She's always a delight to write.

Thank you!