Fic: Drummer Boy

Title: Drummer Boy
Fandom: BtVS
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: It's slightly smutty so I'm going with PG
Notes: In early October a friend sang out, "Shall I play with him pa rum pum pum pum?" and another sang back, "On his bum."  That was the inspiration for this story.


( Drummer Boy )

Traditions

Today I participated in that uniquely American tradition of cooking four pounds of bacon! OK, it isn’t really a tradition here, or even for me although I’ve done it once before, two years ago I think. We’re having a holiday breakfast at work tomorrow and I volunteered to help. Happily it only took about 45 minutes to cook and cleanup was a breeze because I put papers down everywhere to catch the grease.

The breakfast is always fun, with the two chief omelet “fighting” over who is the better cook, all the helpers in cute hats with elf ears (which is where the hats in my Spike dressed as an elf stories came from), and a group of people volunteering to make music by the tables. Last year we had a guy playing a guitar and a woman on flute accompanying the singer. As long as Santa doesn’t make any non-worksafe comments this year (fingers crossed), it’ll be a good time.

The real tradition I did today was to sing the Santa Lucia song and light candles. Two days late I know, but I ran out of time on the actual day, and I had today off. It was quite lovely. I just adore sitting by candlelight.