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So... where do I find all that finale spoiler fic that I’ve so studiously avoided on LJ? I’m pretty certain

wisteria_ wrote one. Did you,

anniesj? What about everyone else on my friends list? It’s hard to remember who was spoiled and who wasn’t.

But I want that fic. So come on, tell me! If you wrote a finale fic before it aired tonight, I want to know. I promise to comment, even.

For myself...

I bring you a Spike drabble, series finale.
Written 11:57 pm, finale night of BTVS.

"Something... effulgent."
"I hope you dance ‘til you burn."
"You are dead inside."
"What’s a word means glowing?"

Send the Pain Below

Footsteps faded. He wanted to remember her smell, but all he saw was fire and light.

So this was it. This was magic, fate, life.

It burned. It stung. It was fucking brilliant.

No, he was brilliant. Radiant. It was in him—this came from inside him.

Look at me, he wanted to cry. I have the light. This light is in me.

I have all of this inside of me. William the fucking Bloody. Spike. I am here.

If he hadn’t been trapped glowing like a prismed nova, he’d have laughed.

And I’m not empty.

He smiled, and he shined.