One Old Tux

[dragonyphoenix]

Title: One Old Tux
Fandom: BtVS
Category: Angst
Characters/Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: PG
Concrit: Please, in comments
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but the will be once I've taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha.
Warnings/Squicks: Suggested death of a major character
Summary: How do you mourn when his death has taken your life away?
Notes: nekid_spike had a prompt for Dec 31st: formal wear. This came to me shortly after midnight.

Their final year together, they'd planned to dress up for New Year's Eve and paint the town red. Spike had kept clarifying but not in blood. It had been funny at the time.

The girls insisted on putting up a tombstone. Xander never visited it. Not once. Even if they had managed to gather the scattered ashes, he wouldn't have been in there.

Each year, on New Year's Eve, he dons his tux, carefully preserved for this one purpose. He doesn't go out. He turns on all the lights, making his apartment as bright as possible, so he can see the wasteland his life has become.

Comments

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Poor Xander!

[whichclothes.livejournal.com]

Oh, so sad!! So much angst in so few words.

[spazlady2002.livejournal.com]

oh fuck this hurts!! so sad!! thanks for sharing! Hope 2010 is awesome!!

[zilentdreamer.livejournal.com]

Melancholic, but good.

[chaoskir.livejournal.com]

Gahh, poor lonely Xander. Very sad.

[theladymerlin.livejournal.com]

This is really sad but so well written. I'm impressed with the amount of emotion you were able to fit into a drabble.

[etaureau.livejournal.com]

This story chokes me up. Your writing is lovely. And it really packed a (enormously sad) punch in this story.

[laazikaat.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Awesome in a tiny package. Poor Xander.

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Aw no?! :(

[skargasm.livejournal.com]

*quiet sob*

One Old Tux

[koshweasley.livejournal.com]

OMG - that is so sad. Poor Xander. Excellently done.

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

So, so, so sad :(

Exellent job.