Fic: Red Death's Mask

[dragonyphoenix]

Title: Red Death's Mask
Fandom: BtVS
Rating: Mature
Character: Dru
Concrit: Please, in Comments
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine, not yet, but they will be… once I’ve taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha!
Prompt: mask as something that conceals and/or reveals
Word Count: 100

Death had worn red to the Masque, and so, beneath her golden mask, Drusilla wore a gown as red as flowing blood. Dancing past fantasies and chimeras and untold desires, Drusilla drank in the carnage to come: the coppery tang that would fill the air when fingernails slit through necks; fangs piercing skin; the sharp snap of leg-bones and then the poor puppies, fantasies no longer, overcoming their agony to drag themselves away as she, stepping slowly between, would pick them off one-by-one.

Beneath her mask was a human face but beneath that was Death, and Death enjoyed the anticipation.

Comments

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've been wanting to play with that prompt for a while now.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Dancing past fantasies and chimeras and untold desires

A lovely image, indeed. Though the part that most thrills Dru would be less thrilling for the rest of us.

Nice job.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think I'd like the part that Dru enjoys. ;-)

[dharkapparition.livejournal.com]

Lovely

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thank you. ;-)

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

Beneath her mask was a human face but beneath that was Death, and Death enjoyed the anticipation.

Wow! What a brilliant line! Great drabble.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for commenting on that line. I kept changing that last line, and I wasn't sure about it. Nice to hear that it works! ;-)