Title: The Choice of Weapons
Author: Miss Murchison
Medium: Fic
Rating: G
Words: 1539, some stolen from Edna St. Vincent Millay
Years ago, someone commented to me that Edna St. Vincent Millay would have been a good vampire. Ever since, I’ve imagined that she had a fling with Spike at some point. She certainly knew Drusilla, whom she describes in Siege:
This I do, being mad:
Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.
The second book of poetry I picked up for inspiration was a collection of her works. I borrowed the first lines of a sonnet for this fic. This isn’t the sort of thing I usually write. It’s not cheerful, and there’s no happy ending.
This is set post-NFA, the AtS finale, with no references to the comic book seasons, because I haven’t read any.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc.