Drabble: "China"

[beer_good_foamy]

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.

Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's so sad ... and it would have fit in perfectly as a scene in the show.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

That's great praise in my book - thanks a lot!

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

So sad but lovely too.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[sarah-daly.livejournal.com]

This is amazing, it really does fit into the episode. Especially when imagining it in the same style as the episode, ie. no music, only the bare sounds of the actions themselves.

Perfect.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, I wanted to fit that in - the sound of china breaking, that squeaky little crack - so I'm really glad you caught onto that!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Oh - ouch (and I don't mean the crushed cup).Nice.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

Wow that was a very powerful drabble.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[poisontearss.livejournal.com]

Awww :( The Body is one of the best--and worst--episodes on BTVS imho...just because of how sad it is. Nice job!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Agree completely - it turns me into a sobbing heap every time. Thanks!

[faith-chaos.livejournal.com]

This would have git perfectly in the saddest epoisode ever of the show, and that's saying something as I think the ep was one of the few ones where I wouldn't change a thing. Lovely babe, as usual.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks so much! I agree perfectly about "The Body", too. One of those episodes where absolutely everything is perfect.