anythingdrabble | [Amnesty: Challenge #287: Hole] BtVS / Spuffy

Title: The Poster
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 300 (Google Docs)
Notes: Set post-S11 (comics) in an alternate reality where Buffy and Spike are an established couple
Summary: Buffy hangs a new poster in the bedroom.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Challenge: #287 - Hole [Amnesty Week]
Crossposted:

drabble_zone, My journal
Also for: Sweetheart Bingo by

sweetspicybingo
[squares - #5: Superstar and #8: Me+You]

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Spike walked into the kitchen with his arms crossed and his brow furrowed. “Darling?”
“Yes, hon?” answered Buffy with a beaming smile, while she finished loading the dishwasher.
“Why is there a soddin’ Billy Idol poster hanging on the wall behind our bed?”
Buffy closed the dishwasher and pushed the start button. “Oh, you know… I thought the decor in our bedroom could use a little makeover. Don’t you like it?” she asked nervously.
“Are you shittin’ me?” he asked, looking at her like she had grown a second head. “That wanker stole his look from me! You know that.”

“I do!” she exclaimed. “But he’s like… a superstar, and I thought you’d appreciate the irony.”
“I really don’t. I’m going to take that rubbish down.”
“Wait, wait, wait!” she pleaded, running to him to stop him.
“Buffy, I won’t sleep with that blighter hanging above my head!”
“It’s not that…” she muttered, fidgeting with her hands. “The truth is that I gouged a hole in the wall trying to hammer in a nail. I bought the poster at the music store downtown to cover it.”
“You could’ve gotten a Sex Pistols poster, you know? Or the Ramones,” he suggested.

“I know,” she shrugged. “But when I saw Billy Idol I thought that you would get so upset about him that you wouldn’t mind helping me with what I originally wanted to hang.”
Spike smirked. “Gotta love that evil mastermind of yours. What’s that?”
“Remember that ‘Me + You’ scrapbook panel I made last week? When I got the flu and I was bored out of my mind?”
He groaned. “Thankfully you don’t get sick too often, ’cause you’re insufferable. But I don’t want that frilly thing in our bedroom.”
“Well, it’s either that or Billy.”
“Bloody hell, you are evil!”