Fics for 2015 #081 ~ Birthday Series for elisi #7. "When a Man Loves a Woman."

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This is the seventh in a ten-part series of drabbles, originally intended for elisi's birthday three years ago. That plan got derailed halfway through, but I've recently been able to recover my original ideas and now plan on posting all ten tonight.

 

 

 

TITLE: “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

AUTHOR: kerkevik_2014

CHARACTERS: Faith; Xander,

PAIRING: Faith/Xander;

WORD COUNT: 100

A/N: “You only love

when you love in vain.

 

Try another radio probe

when ten have failed,

take two hundred rabbits

when a hundred have died:

only this is science.

 

You ask the secret.

It has just one name:

again.

 

In the end

a dog carries in his jaws

his image in the water,

people rivet the new moon,

I love you.

 

Like caryatids

our lifted arms

hold up time's granite load

 

and defeated

We shall always win.

 

(Ode to joy by Miroslav Holub)

 

 

Part Seven: “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

 

 

“Think a good fuck will help?”

 

Faith was pissed.

 

“I never asked that of you.”

 

She fell quiet for a second; then swore under her breath.

He took her hand; kissing it. “I can't love you both?”

She didn't pull her hand from his; but she did search his expression.

 

“You love her more than me?” Which he'd never denied; his eventual response surprising her.

 

“And for a lot longer,” adding, before she could answer that, “You love Buffy as much as I do.”

 

Faith nodded ruefully, for this she could not deny either.

Matter settled, they made love.

 

 

 

Goddess watch over us all,

Kerk TehKek