Drabble for open_on_sunday LJ Community

[agilebrit]

Title: Lonely Heart
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: G
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, they're Whedon's. *sob*
Written for: open_on_sunday's 80's Challenge.
Notes: Inspired by the song "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes, the #8 song of 1984. Buffy's POV, sometime in Season 6.

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Spike loves me.

No matter how much I deny it, I know he does. He's proved it often enough, before and after Glory. He protected Dawn, almost with his unlife, he patrolled when I was dead, and he helped my friends. He didn't have to do any of that. But he did, because he loves me.

But I can't let myself love him back, can't let him in. Love just hurts way too damned much. I loved Angel. I loved Riley. Look where it got me.

Loneliness is numbing, but it hurts less than loving and getting your heart shattered.

Comments

[alliterator.livejournal.com]

Aw, Poor Buffy. I guess you filled your S6 Buffy POV requirement for OBAFU.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Not sure I'd go that far, since Spike said the assignment was for a 1500-2000 word fic. But I have written stuff that was sympathetic to her. *grumble* Guess I could start going through transcripts...

After I write these two other drabbles.