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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2006-05-03 03:24 am

FIC thing I think.

Title: No Need For Cake Or Flowers
Rating: violent.
Length: short. 350 words.
Disclaimer: Title is Jill Tracy, Diabolical Streak, "Let's Spend an Evil Night Together". Nothing gets more Spike/Dru than that song.
A/N: This isn't really a fic. It's more like stream of consciousness. You might find it fun, so I share...but it's not a fic fic.


Chicago, 1920s

Dru's been sleepin' shaky, misses the snag of Darla's nails. He's been creepin' by wary, trying not to wake her nighttime hush. Sneakin' out at night now and then, he brings her back a bedroom tale: a virgin fresh and saintly, but the fear's too thin to feed Dru's lust.

Need a plan to pep her up some, get back the days of mayhem. Wanna hit on the town on all sixes, feed on all the innocence. Get on down by the jazzin' parlor, Spike steps her in for a bit of punch. Let the smoke sting like incense; suck in on the jazz room draw. Fuck the fish-net waitress, serve up a plate of fun.

Inside is murky gambol, all full of the frets and gin. Bassist plucking the beat right in tune, inching toward the perfect chord. Hoofer high-kicking up where the moon goes, shimmyin' down where the jeepers creep. Crooked man bent over the bar with a cigar, taper, bottle of booze and a loose suspender. Gotta stage blue with the haze of warm blood, sweat and pores so sweet like candy. Gonna drink it all down in one shot, then again it could be three.

Wend a way through the torsos and neck-lines, Spike n' Dru it into the cool black heart-- sittin' pretty piano, thrummin' hard with its ribcage of groove. A cool cat's nookie'in' around on its G-spots, minor and good ole treble'in' clef; he's sendin' a thrill down its baby grand, just like twistin' that birdie's breasts.

Take 'im down with a whisper kiss, lands so smooth it's like on a film. "Dinner and a show ducks, all set for a Friday evening. Let's murder till the bassist stops screaming; come on, he'll taste like pepper/mint."

Jazzer's blood oozin' down on the hard floor, snap of silence makes it so damn real. Red and the blue swirling 'round all rich swanky, it's a violet shadow on an artist's paints. "Daddy'd've loved the show here, so sad, it's jazz and all so bent."

"Gotta get over it, doll; it's just me; see?" But just another fairytale gone wrong. Dru ain't buyin', Dru, Dru, doll--she's got the blues.

[identity profile] cordelianne.livejournal.com 2006-05-05 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
This is wonderful! There's a beautiful poetic flow and rhythm to this piece.

I love the alliterations of "smoke", "sting" & "suck" which really make it flow:
Let the smoke sting like incense; suck in on the jazz room draw. Fuck the fish-net waitress, serve up a plate of fun. And the second sentence is wonderfully bookended by two words beginning with the same sound.

This is such an evocative image:
Crooked man bent over the bar with a cigar, taper, bottle of booze and a loose suspender.
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2006-05-05 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, your fb rocks my world! It's funny how when I'm choosing words like that I think no one will notice, but then sometimes people do. And sometimes I really over use alliteration, so I'm glad it worked for you.

Thanks so much!