Title: Human Inferiority

Author: Angelus

E-mail: angelus1317@hotmail.com (Please put "Human Inferiority" on the subject line.)

Subject: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Category: BRA, BSR.

Rating: PG.

Summary: There are some areas in which normality just won't cut it.

Spoilers: None.

Archive: Anywhere, just ask me first.

Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, Spike, and Riley. They belong to WGN and Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. If I owned them, they'd be...well, use your imagination.

Author's notes: I started a series of drabbles, one for each season. This is my season 4 drabble.

Dedication: To all the techies, old and new, just because.

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I really should be glad that I have a loyal, loving, *normal* boyfriend. I should be thanking my lucky stars.

What I *shouldn't* be doing is wishing that his body were just a few degrees cooler; his heart didn't beat quite so loudly; his left eyebrow wasn't so perfectly scar-free…

He loves me. With his entire heart and soul, he loves me. And I, with my entire heart and soul, can only wish that I loved him back.

This—this vamp obsession thing—is so, *so* wrong. But some things just can't be helped, no matter how hard you try.