Drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

Here's the closest I've ever come to Giles/Spike. Don't ask me why. For open_on_sunday's challenge "Eureka."

The Buoyancy Principle

“Rupert?”

Ignore him.

"Ruuuuuupert?"

"What?" Giles opened the bathroom door and glared at the shackled vampire in his bathtub.

"I'm bored. Fancy a quiz? What did Archimedes discover - "

Giles slammed the door and returned to his books. He realised something was wrong an hour later, when his socks grew damp.

After wading to the bathroom, he found Spike grinning in the overflowing tub, running the tap with his feet. "If you want your carpet to live, either undo my chains or reach down and pull out the plug I'm sitting on. Either way, I won’t be bored anymore."

Comments

[rebcake]

I am now envisioning Spike chained to a chair, pointing a hairdryer at some damp books while Giles holds a sharpened pool cue to his back, sipping a brandy.

I do love a bit of adversarial Spiles! Delightful addition!

[beer_good_foamy]

...Now I am too. And it's a good image.

Thanks!

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

Something about Archimedes and Spike in a deliberately overwhelming bathtub appeals to my sense of the "hee!" This was clever.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The second I saw the prompt, I thought "OK, there has to be a bathtub involved somehow... And water on the floor... and hang on, why didn't Spike ever do this?"

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Hee!

"I've often wondered how much a vampire's weight goes down when they're dusted. Shall we carry out an experiment?"

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks - and hee! right back!

[rahirah]

Bwah!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

:)

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Excellent! :D

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[shapinglight]

Hee! Does Giles realise this is vampire foreplay, I wonder?

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I think the answer to that question depends a lot on one's interpretation of exactly what sort of experimentation Giles and Ethan got up to in college. :) Thanks!

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

"I'm bored. Fancy a quiz? What did Archimedes discover - "

he found Spike grinning in the overflowing tub, running the tap with his feet.

*dies laughing* Your Spike is the most hilariously mischievous little boy EVER.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And you know he used to pull stuff like this on Angelus all the time.