Title: Salt
Author: Am-Chau Yarkona
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters.
Rating: G
He sprinkles salt on all his food. It’s a habit—perhaps his mother did it, perhaps they told him not to and he’s making up for lost time. I sit, watching, sipping the pig’s blood I haven’t got any appetite for.
“Are you going out tonight, Spike?”
“I might. Why? Are you afraid you’ll miss Enterprise if I stay in?”
The quips are the easy part—they’re my only protection now, the gloss that keeping me from cracking completely simply because it’s habitual.
“I don’t… the remote’s mine, okay?”
He reaches for the salt again. Habits are hard to break.