Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine; story was made up by me. This was not created for profit.
Warning/Rating: NC-234735//MA. I.e. Not for the faint hearted. Lots of violence, sex, swearing, abuse.. I mean come on! Its vampires!
Pairing: Spike/Angel(us), plus trysts with other characters.
A/N: Some of you were worried that I abandoned this, I haven't… Its just the story that sometimes gets pushed to the back of the pile! So after my mini-break of revision and exams (not really a break, tbh) I'm back and I've updated this story first!
Oh And NEWS: I'm officially looking for a beta, I looked over some of my work and almost chocked in my soup! (I eat a lot of soup) So, this beta will need to be for this story and any other BTVS stories that may pop into my head! –If this isn't your forte, I' also looking for a HP beta, check one of the other stories most recent update for information!.
Chapter 14.
Angel had left with Gunn promptly after his conversation with Will; driving off to the other side of town in search for the 20 vampires with a taste for arcade gamers.
William sat quietly with the book for most of the morning; it had been over many decades since he'd last seen this book. He could hardly remember what was so interesting about it last time. What he did know though, was that the human's notes (and he knew it was the human's, the book stank of him) were incorrect. They were alright assumptions, but the human wasn't looking at the bigger picture. Instead of looking at each chapter as a whole, he'd translate each individual word and then attempt to conclude what it all meant from his new version. The master had taught William better than that; the two months Angelus sent Will away for were tough, filled with studies; intense training; lectures and other acts he didn't want to think about.
William didn't know how he'd survive; at the time he was only just learning to hunt with Drusilla instead of his sire... Being sent to the continent with nobody bar five minions that he knew almost killed him. All of his anxiety about Angelus not wanting him, and one day leaving him swelled up like a cyst, daring him to disobey and run home to his sire. The master himself was something all together challenging, fresh blood in his lair.. William wasn't permitted to sleep alone most nights. Until that moment Angelus hadn't let another male near Will, he'd killed vampires for insinuating such a thing, but those two months was a different matter. Angelus didn't care what the master did to him; it was evident by the way he wasn't called back early than the entire two months.
With the bitter memories stirred up in his head, unease seeped into Will. Would Angelus drop him off with some 'master' again? Determined not to drag himself into deep melancholy, Will set into to his work even harder than before. There must have been a reason as to why this book was so important to him.
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"How long is he just going to sit there?" Cordelia grumbled for no less than the fourth time.
"I would imagine until Angel told him to stop.." Sighed Wesley, taking off his glasses and wiping them for the third time.
"Pffft, that's impossible, no 'kid' listens to their 'parents', and anyway! He's meant to be a fledgling, right? Well, even I know they're crazy and uncontrollable, he should be trashing the place in Angels absence! Or at least getting up now and again..."
"Normally I'd agree Cordelia, but this isn't just a 'fledgling' we have here, this is Angelus' childe. A childe he spent many decades training and teaching not to behave that way..."
"I met Spike, he wasn't some perfect childe.. He was irresponsible, spontaneous and obviously had real issues with authority… And that's inside him, there's no way he's gonna just sit tight all afternoon"
"I don't think you understand that this is some 'Spike' this Angelus' one year old childe…"
Cordelia gave him a baleful look and walked up to the blonde figure all the same. The vampire's eyes went visibly yellow, but other wise he didn't move from his book.
Pasting on her best smile, Cordelia attempted to negotiate. "Hey blondie, wanna move up a desk?"
No answer, but she wasn't one to be deterred..
"I'll get you one of the comfy chairs from the office"
No answer.
"I'll let you use the office!"
Na da.
"I can get you human blood... I know where Angel keeps it.."
William paused his un-needed breathing. He was starved... And it'd been so long since he'd had human. And Angelus had some and didn't want to share it with him! WHY? Didn't Angelus think of him as worthy? Didn't Angelus want him?
Will thought back to the days when his sire would test him, keep him from drinking blood. That's what this is, he thought, a test..
Cordelia scowled at the lack of reply.
"JEEZ, why do you listen to him all the time? You don't have to, you know! Why do you obey his every last word like its sacra saint? Why not tell him to piss off with his stupid, stuck up, authoritarian, egotistical, FUCK UP... RULES!?"
Cordy wasn't really sure why she was shouting, she just felt exacerbated... She just wanted some sort of reaction from the blonde vampire.
She got one.
It was if she'd hit the on switch, along side the pissed off and opinionated switch…
"You've NO idea, you petty. Little. Human. You and your tender morality; we're fucking immortal. He made me. HE MADE ME. Made me to be by his side FOREVER. Your G-d just stares down and ignores you in your hapless little lives.. Gracing you with nothing but a reflection and GUILT. MINE IS HERE. My G-d gave me the very blood through my veins, he IS my life, he claims me, he feeds me, he CHOSE me from your feeble defenseless race! You'll NEVER understand what its like to keen for, yearn for your G-d! You'll just die and rot like the rest of your sad decrepit humanity!"
He was angry; he couldn't stop though he knew Angelus wouldn't be impressed. He'd backed the human up into a corner, fangs bared. One slip and she'd be gone. She'd know what he meant.. She's be away from him and his sire...
Wesley could see it, he knew how close Spike.. William.. Was.. He knew the chip would go off, but that would only affect the future. One hard bite, and Cordy could be hurt beyond repair already.. There must have been something he could do. The watcher thought back to his notes on vampire siring, something important. Something a childe would be expected to do.
"Em.. W-William... Angel. Angelus said you were to pick a room" A pause, William seemed to be hesitating. "I think he said something about a liar.."
The blonde's face dropped. His eyes turned cold blue and his teeth shrank back effortlessly. It was if all his anger and emotion had seeped out of him all at once. Wesley hadn't been expecting that reaction.
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