Drabble: Toppings

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For icon text winner angearia, who requested Anya and Spike bonding, with optional bonus Dawn. Hope you like, hon, though it ended up with less bonding and more angst than I meant.

Toppings
“Vamp in charge here,” argued Spike. “I’ll order.” Because if pizza mattered, then something mattered, even when...

“I have a concussion,” said Anya, “and I’m bruised in many uncomfortable places. I should get to choose.”

“I’m the one taking care of you lot,” said Spike. While the others grieved by killing things. “It's babysitter’s prerogative.”

“You don’t even need to eat.”

“Technicality,” said Spike. “Besides, I’ve got seniority. Barbeque.”

“I’m over eleven hundred years old. Sicilian chicken.”

“I'm as old as the world,” whispered Dawn from the couch. They were the first words she’d spoken since breakfast.

They had pepperoni.

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Ah! This is brilliant. I love that it's the immature argument over seniority that gets Dawn to speak up.

[snickfic]

Hooray! I'm especially glad you enjoyed, since it was for you. :) And yes, sometimes immaturity is just the antidote for angst.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I love you for prompting for this, by the way.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

LOL! When I thought of it including Dawn, I immediately knew you would love it, too. How can you not love the outsiders bonding? Inconceivable!

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

::loves::

funny and touching-- I got just a little teary there at the end.

And I must be hungry, because it's not 10 am, and the sicilian chicken sounds really good...

[snickfic]

Aw. Yeah, I was kind of aiming for some mistiness around the eyeballs - I'm thrilled to know I succeeded!

And I just ate a little bit ago, but Sicilian Chicken sounds great to me, too. Although that may be just due to living in a pizza-deprive country...

[jen-nsync-landl.livejournal.com]

This clicks on so many levels for me. A) I like Anya-Spike sniping. B) I like Spike the somewhat abrasive caretaker. C) I like Dawn still grappling with her identity. So, you know, in general, me likey.

Well done indeed. :)

[snickfic]

Wow, thank you! I'm glad I happened to hit some of your buttons. I do love all those things, too, so that works out very conveniently. :)

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Great change of pace there - all surface fun till the memories can't be held back any more.

[snickfic]

Yeah. I was definitely trying for a balance between the silliness and the kill-you-dead-angst, lurking in the shadows and waiting to pounce. So, I'm especially glad to know that's what you got out of it. :)

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

Aw man. This sucker-punched me with the awesome!

[snickfic]

Wow, thank you!

[deird1]

This is wonderful.

[snickfic]

I'm glad you enjoyed. :)

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. What a quick turn from silly to poignant. Beautiful.

[snickfic]

Wow, thank you. I was trying for a balance between silliness and angst, I wasn't sure I got it. I'm glad to hear it worked. :)

[rahirah]

Pwnage, Dawn!

[snickfic]

Hee. Yes. She wins pretty much every seniority argument ever.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I’m bruised in many uncomfortable places. I should get to choose.

Yes, Anya, I think you should, in a world where physical pain trumps emotional. That world is not the Buffyverse however, so the key takes it!

Wonderful. Funny and sad, a winning combo. Like pepperoni and pineapple!

[snickfic]

Wonderful. Funny and sad, a winning combo. Like pepperoni and pineapple!

Thank you! Funny and sad were just what I wanted. I'm so glad you enjoyed. Although, I've never had pepperoni and pineapple together before. Now I want to try it.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Ouch. And wonderful.

[snickfic]

Thank you. :)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, oh! That ending. You kill me. I love your Dawn. I love your Spike. I love your Anya. And all of them together? With the beginning all silly but with that hint of sadness with the mattering and then the gut-punch at the end? Fabulous.

[snickfic]

Oh, you make me so happy with your comments! This was all exactly what I was trying to do - the tension between silly and tragic, the final angst of all the things Dawn is surely thinking of when she says that. Plus the collection of the three of them, all oddballs (as Emmie pointed out in her prompt), both socially and mystically.

Yay, I'm so glad you liked. :)

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Oh. Nicely done.

[snickfic]

Glad you enjoyed. :)

Here from buffyversetop5

[yourlibrarian]

Ha! They picked the wrong category for one upmanship :)

Re: Here from buffyversetop5

[snickfic]

Heh. I think Spike just wasn't thinking straight. He is, after all, significantly older than most humans...

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's heartbreaking and wonderful.

[snickfic]

Thank you! I do so love writing things in that period.

[relurker.livejournal.com]

Loved it, a tiny little helping of heartbreak.
(but I think it should have been anchovies...)

[snickfic]

I don't know why anchovies didn't occur to me at the time. Possibly Dawn didn't have the energy to be adventurous? Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed. :)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

As old as the world. Beautiful!

They were the first words she’d spoken since breakfast. I love how this bit suggests they had what Dawn wanted, not because she had seniority, but because the other two were worried about her. Lovely.

[snickfic]

Thank you so much for the lovely comment! Yes, I think Dawn won on multiple accounts, there. (Gah, why do I so love writing about the Summer Without Buffy? It's so sad!)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I love writing the moment when Dru realizes Spike loves Buffy but Spike still thinks he loves Dru. Also sad.

[kikimay]

Adorable! <3 The fight over pizza and Spike's fighting even if he technically shouldn't feel involved (I love the relationship between Spike and human food. Really. That's also why he's my favorite vampire) And Dawn's final line wins everything.

[snickfic]

:D