Dead Things drabble Challenge

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Title: Dead Inside
Author: Always_jbj
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Character/s: Spike



It hurt.

Not the bruised flesh, the broken bones or the torn skin. Not even the hole that her cold words had ripped in his heart.

He had failed her.

In the end it had meant nothing. She’d left him lying there—useless—as she left the alley; determined to throw her life away. His words, his pleas, everything he'd tried to do to save her, had failed. Just as he’d failed to save her on the tower.

When it had counted, when she’d needed him to come through, he’d failed her once again.

Swollen eyes closed against the pain.

Comments

[elisi]

Gah! *cries*

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

*passes tissue* Thank you!

[untitleddemo.livejournal.com]

Wow. You made my heart hurt. Such powerful words! Well done. :D

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the drabble. Sorry about making your heart hurt, though! *hugs you*

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Gah! Nicely done - makes you ache for Spike.

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie! The whole episode makes my heart ache for Spike.

[drakontaskyria.livejournal.com]

Awesome! So very awesome. Poor Spike - and William - always feeling he's failed the women he loves so very much.

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

[gillo]

Poor boy. So true - he offered himself to be beaten to stop her going on into the police station, and he failed to stop her. That's what would hurt more than the bruises.

[alwaysjbj.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yeah, Spike's pretty tough LOL... he was terribly beaten up, but I do think that not being able to stop her would have hurt him a lot more then the actual beating.