All Buffy characters were created by Joss Whedon. Not me.

Written for Open on Sunday LJ community's challenge #82, Shakespeare Quotes, using Taming of the Shrew's "Out of the jaws of death."

Soul
by Zzilly14


You're beneath me.

I'm using you. I can't love you. I'm just... being weak, and selfish... and it's killing me. I have to be strong about this. I'm sorry... William.

"Out of the jaws of death comes truth. I am beneath her. I'm an evil thing – I never deserved her. And she never loved me. She never will... Not that I blame her. I hurt her, and now I will suffer for eternity. May God have mercy on me..."

A dark voice echoed in the school basement. "God doesn't show mercy to vampires," it laughed. "And neither do Slayers."