"Juliet"
By PassionFish
Summary: A companion piece of the Building Bridges/Burning Bridges fictions – set five years in the future.
Timeline: Building Bridges/Burning Bridges
Rating: PG
URL: http://www.morbiddesires.com/MD/juliet.html
Comments: Yes, please! morbiddesiresbypassionfish@yahoo.com
"Once upon a time there was a beautiful Princess...."
"Daddy! You ALWAYS start your stories like that!"
"I know, kitten, all the best ones do." He flicked the tip of her nose with his fore-finger, smiling as she giggled. "Anyway....there once was a beautiful Princess..."
"Mommy?" The little girl interjected again; having heard the beginning of every story a thousands times.
“That’s right. Anyway….”
“And the Pwincess lived in a booooo-tiful house!”
“Hey – who’s telling this story?” Spike growled in mock annoyance, making the child giggle at him once more.
“You are, daddy.” She answered obediently.
“Exactly. So, this Princess, she wasn’t any ordinary Princess, she was-“
“Xena! Wawior Pwincess!!!”
Spike couldn’t help but laugh. “No, lamb, that’s a different story.”
“Oh.” She frowned, trying to work it out, then her brow lightened again as she gave up. “Go on, Daddy”.
“Thank you.” Manners first, of course. “This Princess, was a special Princess. In the day time she went about all her Princess duties, but at night she transformed into the protector of her Kingdom. A-“
“Why is it Kingdom?”
“Because they live on the land that the King owns.”
“But there is no King in this stowy so that’s silly Daddy! It should be Princessessdom!”
Again, he laughed. “Okay, love – she was the protector of her Princessesdom. And she fought the forces of darkness. But our Princess was lonely and-“
“Awww.”
“Exactly. She was lonely and so she was susceptible to stupid poofs-“
“Spike….”
The warning came from doorway, in which stood the Princess in question.
“Mummy!” The little girl got up and ran to her mother, wrapping her chubby little arms around her legs.
“What, love, I was just telling it like it is.” Spike pouted when his wife frowned at him.
The infamous eye-roll was all he got by way of response.
“I think we can leave Mummy’s insanity out tonight.” Buffy picked up her daughter and walked her over to where Spike was sat next to the small bed.
Tucking her in, Spike continued. “Fine. So – “.
“She meets the evil-good knighty person and get to the good part, Daddy!”
“Women!” Spike growled good naturedly, while his two favourite girls giggled at him.
“So anyway, they fall in love and produce the spawn of Satan-“
“Spike!”
“Daddy!”
The two admonishments were simultaneous and he couldn’t help but smile. “And, the Princess, who was all doped up-” He continued through his daughter’s giggles and his wife’s third ‘Spike!’ of the night. “-decides to tell the nurses that the beautiful creature they had created was to be called Juliet, just because she had watched Romeo and Juliet the night before.”
“And Daddy didn’t say anything ‘cause…” Juliet filled in her half of the conversation, smiling up at her father.
“Daddy didn’t say anything, because Mummy had broken both of Daddy’s hands.” Spike responded in an equally patient voice.
Juliet giggled.
Buffy shook her head. “Mommy hadn’t broken them both.”
“Well, she would have finished off the job if Daddy had dared remind her-“
Again, their little Princess-in-the-making interrupted her father.
“Mommy, can you tell a story now, Daddy’s stories are boooooowing!”
Buffy laughed as she watched her husband growl and dive for their daughter, in full vamp face as he started to tickle her. Juliet’s squeals of delight filled the room and Buffy smiled, pure contentment pouring from her body.
The End
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