Title: Back In Town
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Spike.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Lovers Walk.
Summary: Spike returns to Sunnydale, hoping to find a solution to all his problems.
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 411: Amnesty 68, using Challenge 353: Welcome.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.



Welcome to Sunnydale; that’s what was on the sign on the approach into town. It was cheerful and, supposedly, welcoming, but it lacked a certain honestly. Maybe that was why Spike smashed the car straight through it. Or maybe it was simply because he was drunk out of his mind and couldn’t see straight.

“Home, sweet home.”

Yeah, right. He came to Sunnydale in the first place to make his mark on the vampire community, but the welcome he’d gotten wasn’t especially warm. Not that it had mattered back then, because he’d had Dru at his side, and he’d been full of big plans. First he’d kill the Slayer, then he’d take over Sunnydale. He’d be the big boss vampire, live it up while his lackeys did all the hard work.

Only it hadn’t worked out that way, killing the Slayer had proved harder than expected, and one after another, all his plans had fallen apart until eventually Dru had left him. It wasn’t fair!

Now he was back, not expecting the welcome to be any warmer this time than the last, but that was okay; he wasn’t looking to be made welcome, he’d just come to get back what was his, starting with his self-respect.

If he was going to get everything back the way it had been before, then he couldn’t think of a better place to start. Sunnydale was where things had gone wrong so logically that was where the solution to all his problems must be. Well, it made sense to his alcohol sodden brain.

He needed to win Dru back, needed her to love him again, so he’d start at the magic shop, get himself a love potion that would have Dru grovelling in front of him, begging for his forgiveness. Yeah, that would work.


The End