200-word Buffyverse ficlet: "Substitute" Andrew/Spike, PG

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Title Substitute
Fandom: Buffyverse [post-series; non-comic canon]
Rating/Warnings: PG; Andrew being a hopelessly adorable fanboy
Pairing: Andrew/Spike .. or is it?
Disclaimer: No famous person by the name of Joss Whedon was impersonated in the making of this drabble.



It was the leather. No. It was the swagger. No. The rough accent? No. It was the way his past threatened to catch up with him and how he fought bravely to make up for his mistakes. No. It was because he wasn’t human.

“Maybe there is just one thing,” Andrew sighed, sounding embarrassed. “It’s his . . . This is going to sound immature for such a gentlemanly professional as I. . . . It’s his time machine.”

“His what?” The Dawn scrunched her face. “He has a – ? Oh.” She looked back to the television. “You meant him.” She pointed to the character on the sci-fi program Andrew had roped her into watching. “I thought you were talking about . . . never mind.”

Andrew didn’t catch her implication. “Yes. The Doctor. The greatest hero of them all.”

“He’s not real Andrew.”

“Once upon a time, little lady, you thought vampyres were only legends.”

“They didn’t have tv shows!” Dawn tried to reason (which was hopeless in itself) but Andrew’s tone was enough to indicate there would be no reasoning. He was head over heels for this leather-donning cocky Brit. She wondered if he even realized . .