TITLE: RUIN
AUTHOR: Jaydn Michelle
RATING: PG
PAIRING: TECHNICALLY NONE, A HINT OF B/G
SPOILERS: NOPE - just season six stuff, which everyone knows anyway. Giles has left.
DISCLAIMERS: NOT MINE, EVERYONE KNOWS IT, BOWS TO JOSS AND CO. Hasn't been beta-read, all faults, inconsistencies, and bad writing are purely the fault of me.

Sway - sensuous limb and sweat, the strobe of a light, bass guitar and drums, arms rising high, eyes closed.

A circle of cleared space; she's drawn the attention of every male yet, but none approach.

Dancing in a void on the streets of ruin.

The beat changes, harder, faster, darker, and her body adapts instinctively, the edge of violence and hard sexuality. Hips move, hands clenched, and when her eyes open, they flash with incendiary power. Wisps of blond hair strung tight across her cheek, body swaying in a thrumming pulse.

She can see the smear of faces at the periphery of her vision and Buffy closes her eyes.

…crinkled smile…a brush…whisper…no one element that she can hold onto; English baritone and warmth; a solidness of presence.

The lights flash, darkness and white reverse, the press of bodies circling her but not yet close. Like the strategy of a pack…wolves…eyes glinting amber, nothing but vampires.

She sways, dancing on the streets of ruin.