Drabble: Soul Cake
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lonelybritI've tried to give this drabble a Halloween-y feel. It is done for the very very lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheesygirl on the occasion of her birthday. I hope your day was a truly great one :)
Soul Cake
Wesley insisted that you do Halloween properly, none of the commercialised pumpkins, candy and costume trash mounted in shop windows. He wanted his November old school. And why not? He’d very much earned at least a little reward.
“I never thought I’d taste a decent soul cake in LA of all places,” he says, firelight catching the damp gleam of his tongue as he licks away the stray crumbs. “Good bakers are so hard to find these days.”
“It’s surprising what people are capable of, given the right incentive,” you purr, pulling him to you, pressing your face close against his neck. He lets his head fall back and you feel him shiver as you run your lips in sharp kisses down to the collarbone.
“You’d think she’d be pleased,” he murmurs. “Someone finally taking that brat off her hands. It screamed to high heaven, and it tasted funny.”
“You’re not complaining after all the effort I’ve gone to, are you, Wes?”
He turns and you taste the blood in his kiss. “I’m hoping, Angelus, that any future efforts on your part will be more productively focussed.”
And the sparking fire of bones matches the golden blaze of his eyes.
Note: Soul Cake - sweet cake thing rather like a hot cross bun. Poor folk would go round and beg for such cakes from their more wealthy neighbours. In exchange, they would pray for the souls of the dead, to refuse a request for a soul cake during what became Halloween brought bad luck on the house.
And apparently 'bonfire' comes from the burning of the bones of the cattle slaughtered for the winter.
ETA: REC. Forgot to do this last night. Wonderful fic, Worlds Apart bybka0711. It's gen, set during Season 2. Lovely family fic, great adventure, with more than a few 'meep!' moments :)
cheesygirl on the occasion of her birthday. I hope your day was a truly great one :)Soul Cake
Wesley insisted that you do Halloween properly, none of the commercialised pumpkins, candy and costume trash mounted in shop windows. He wanted his November old school. And why not? He’d very much earned at least a little reward.
“I never thought I’d taste a decent soul cake in LA of all places,” he says, firelight catching the damp gleam of his tongue as he licks away the stray crumbs. “Good bakers are so hard to find these days.”
“It’s surprising what people are capable of, given the right incentive,” you purr, pulling him to you, pressing your face close against his neck. He lets his head fall back and you feel him shiver as you run your lips in sharp kisses down to the collarbone.
“You’d think she’d be pleased,” he murmurs. “Someone finally taking that brat off her hands. It screamed to high heaven, and it tasted funny.”
“You’re not complaining after all the effort I’ve gone to, are you, Wes?”
He turns and you taste the blood in his kiss. “I’m hoping, Angelus, that any future efforts on your part will be more productively focussed.”
And the sparking fire of bones matches the golden blaze of his eyes.
Note: Soul Cake - sweet cake thing rather like a hot cross bun. Poor folk would go round and beg for such cakes from their more wealthy neighbours. In exchange, they would pray for the souls of the dead, to refuse a request for a soul cake during what became Halloween brought bad luck on the house.
And apparently 'bonfire' comes from the burning of the bones of the cattle slaughtered for the winter.
ETA: REC. Forgot to do this last night. Wonderful fic, Worlds Apart by
bka0711. It's gen, set during Season 2. Lovely family fic, great adventure, with more than a few 'meep!' moments :)
