Business as Usual Chp 16

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Title: Business as Usual
Author: lilachigh
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: All characters belong to ME except for Agnes who is mine.
Setting: Season 5 and onwards
Summary: In The Replacement, Spike talks about the charming lady who runs a tea room in the garbage dump. Please meet Agnes Pringle, English spinster and reluctant vampire. All Agnes wants is a quiet life, but she is Spike's friend so that wish is never granted. Agnes has just been to Joyce's funeral, the Scoobies are turning their attention to Glory and Spike is feeling left out

Business as Usual
Chapter 16: Quiz time.


There is, Agnes decided, nothing quite so wonderful as taking off shoes that pinch your toes and putting on a nice pair of fluffy slippers. Especially when you’ve been standing on said pinched toes for the past few hours, selling cakes, tea and various savouries to the local demon and vampire residents of Sunnydale.

Now it was seven in the morning, the curtains were tightly drawn against the rising sun and she was snuggled up in her armchair, a mug of hot chocolate at her side and a plate of only just stale iced fancies that wouldn’t go through another day until the evening.

Agnes sighed in contentment. She had made quite good money that evening, she was alive, comfortable and in half an hour she would make some dough for bread tomorrow, go to bed and sleep the day away. From under her chair she pulled out the favourite magazine she’d been saving, picked up a pencil and took the first sip of her chocolate that she’d laced with a little pig blood. Bliss!

The knocking at the door shattered the silence and she didn’t even get a chance to say, “Who is it?” before Spike was in the room, flinging himself down on her bed – rucking up the coverlet as he did so! – and peering hopefully at her drink. Agnes sighed and handed him the mug.

“The TV’s broken. I’ll need to nick another one tomorrow.”
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