Drabble: "China"

Yup, "China" is this week's prompt at open_on_sunday. Happy year of the pig, everyone!


Shattered

When they get back from the hospital, Giles takes Dawn upstairs to put her to bed. Buffy, unable to not do something, starts cleaning up the mess the paramedics made in the living room.

Behind the couch she finds her mother's favorite cup, shattered where she dropped it. Earl Grey drying into the carpet, lipstick still on the rim.

Buffy doesn't hear Dawn bawling her eyes out upstairs as she tries to glue the cup back together. But Slayer strength, supposedly useful in saving the world, crushes the fine china in her white-knuckled hands. Useless shards dig into her palms.

Drabble: "China"

Yup, "China" is this week's prompt at open_on_sunday. Happy year of the pig, everyone!


Shattered

When they get back from the hospital, Giles takes Dawn upstairs to put her to bed. Buffy, unable to not do something, starts cleaning up the mess the paramedics made in the living room.

Behind the couch she finds her mother's favorite cup, shattered where she dropped it. Earl Grey drying into the carpet, lipstick still on the rim.

Buffy doesn't hear Dawn bawling her eyes out upstairs as she tries to glue the cup back together. But Slayer strength, supposedly useful in saving the world, crushes the fine china in her white-knuckled hands. Useless shards dig into her palms.