Perceptions!verse - Spander Files

“Of course you immediately agreed to play postman.”
“Got it in one, Watcher. But you know what it’s like with
parcel deliveries – they never turn up when you’re
expecting them. Can be sitting in for hours waiting for
the doorbell to go and you know they’ll turn up the
minute you nip out to the shops.”
“Spike, what exactly are you saying?”
“I thought we might drop in unexpected, like. I had to
remind the stupid git that I was a vamp, that I couldn’t do
anything ‘til after dark. He doesn’t know about the Gem
of Amara, so I thought we might gatecrash his little tea
party a bit early.”
I twist round in my seat and look up at him, and he grins
at me and winks. “I thought you might like to see what
you’re going up against, so I persuaded him to say
‘cheese’ for me.” He fishes in his duster pocket, and pulls
out the small camera he bought when we were on our
trip, and quickly calls up the right picture. He’s shaking
his head as he stares at the screen. “That really is a face
only a mother could love.”
I take the camera off him, staring at the latest product of