Right I have never written a Buffy story before and I haven't read many, so
if this storyline is familiar to someone else's, its pure coincidence and
I'm sorry
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Buffy [and those of Angel who appear later on in this story] the mighty Joss Whedon does. Plus I don't own any of the song lyrics used throughout this story.
Rated: R for swearing and sexual content. M/F
Summary: Set early Season 6 of Buffy and early season 3 Angel (but in no way connected to later events of both the series) A new woman comes to Sunnydale and reluctantly helps the Scooby's out, Spike can't help but feel a connection with her....
Genre: Angst / Mystery
Feedback: Please review, good or bad, tell me. Email me at musictosellyoursoulfor@yahoo.co.uk
Okay so I finally wrote the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it. Feedback would be cool, even if you don't like it I won't be offended. Thanks. xxx Ellie xxx
Chapter Seven: Grace.
She had to get out of there. Maybe she was just a fool, maybe a coward unable to let him kill her even though she wanted that. But now as she sat in some demon bar, the kinda place she never usually went but had decided to seeing as he was right, she was a demon, might as well stay with her own kind, whatever that was. Now as she drunk cheep beer and sat in the shadows, eyes firmly fixed to the table, now she knew why she hadn't let him kill her. Nothing in her life made sense, but the last day had provided snippets of an answer. Her mind had began to become engulfed by the images of that man, who she had first seen in her thoughts when Spike had been pressing down hard on her chest, trying to make her unable to breath, even though when she thought about it, she never breathed in and out. This man, she was unable to clearly see what he looked like. Louise knew, however, that it wasn't a comforting image, this man, or whatever he was, she was afraid, he made fear grip her body, yet she had no idea who he was.
She took another sip of her drink. Something else had hit her when Spike had been abusing her, she knew that whoever this man was, he was dangerous and it made her fear for not only her safety but also that of her Vampire love. She wanted to warn Spike, tell him to be careful but she knew if she ever met him again he would kill her in an instant. So she now knew two things, a dangerous man in her thoughts, and this same creature out to harm Spike. A final thought had also entered her mind, when she had told Spike he couldn't kill her for his own sake, that had seem like the purest truth she had ever said, Louise had no idea why but he couldn't be allowed to kill her and this is why she decided that leaving Sunnydale was her only option.
Louise looked at herself in the opposite mirror, blood encrusted on her face and arms, she must look like a walking zombie. She began picking her bag up and going to finish her last drops of alcohol when a glass of red wine was placed down in front of her. She looked up to see the waitress smiling politely
"Excuse me, I didn't order this" Louise stated
"I know some man did said he knows it's your favourite" The young woman replied walking away.
Louise looked at the drink and her mind swam with ideas, Spike, was it him, did he buy her this drink as a way of saying sorry? She glanced around briefly, she couldn't see him nor sense him and he didn't know she liked red wine, in fact until the glass had been placed in front of her she had forgotten her own like the said drink. Still though she didn't want to taste it, could be a trap, more than likely. She had lingered to long in this bar and in Sunnydale, she needed to go and grabbed her possessions, getting up to leave.
"Aren't you going to drink that?" She heard a deep male voice say as she walked to the entrance, she held her coat in her arms.
Louise turned, no one was standing there, imagining things, lack of sleep and lack of understanding were causing her to hallucinate that's all it was. She took a step out into the night-air.
"Turning down an offer of red wine and friendship, how you've changed" The same eerie yet oddly familiar voice said.
"Do I know you?" she twirled around, nothing, Christ she was going mental only explanation. Then as she looked forward again she saw him, that man from her disturbed thoughts, smiling back at her, towering above her. Louise's immediate reaction was to run and she darted to her left to do this.
"Oh Louise, my precious girl I've missed you so much, you need my help" he said from behind her
She stopped in her tracks, a shiver down her spine, she turned again, then her eyes met his and her defences crumbled, she was entranced by him, she dropped her coat and looked again "Michael?" she asked, a name lodged deep in her thoughts, yes he was called Michael.
"Oh child you've come back to me, when I need you the most" He walked towards her and rested his hands on her shoulder's, a deep look of concern in his eyes, but also comfort, she was still fixated by him.
"What's going on?" she whispered, she wanted to rest her head against his chest and she couldn't describe why, but to her she believed it would be right.
"You have been betrayed by your friends, by this soulless creature you claim to love, he has destroyed your common sense" He moved his hand down to hers and entwined their fingers before beginning to walk away from the bar as her coat that laid on the floor.
"Spike? He hasn't he needs me" She reasoned, yes Spike, Christ she loved him, why was she holding this man's hand when she should be running away from Spike because he could hurt her and something deep inside of her said he couldn't do that
Michael looked to her, as they strolled down the back streets "He doesn't want you. He doesn't understand you."
"Who are you?" She asked, who was this man she was holding hands with and not running away from when her immediate reaction had been to do that, her instinct told her to pull away and get the hell out of there
"You don't remember?" He frowned gripping tighter onto her
Louise paused from her walking and looked up to him "I don't think I want too, this is some kinda trick." She pulled her hand free and began panicking, she needed to be strong this was wrong, she needed to be assertive "I swear you keep away from him, from the Slayer and her family, she's been through hell, she will kill you!"
"Unlikely" he remarked coldly reaching for her body
Louise jerked away, her eyes blazed, this wasn't a friend, this person or creature was evil, he wanted to hurt her and Spike, her intuition told her all of this "You think she couldn't? What are you a vampire? I bet I could send you to hell in an instant" she searched her bag for a stake and produced one lunging into him.
Michael grinned and brushed the stake away grabbing her wrist and twisting it, he wasn't even breaking a sweat "Big words, maybe a long time ago that was right my dear, but your weak, corrupted by the human's now. Worse than that you want to help the vampires, that isn't your job"
She cringed as he bent her wrist "And I suppose being with you is, an ex- boyfriend maybe, I don't know, I've been through a lot of shit lately, unless you can give me answers on that, I don't want your help, leave Sunnydale if I was you" she was rambling again but she had no idea what was happening.
"Why would I want to do that? Its our destiny to be with one and other, why did you leave me, two hundred years I have walked this earth looking for you, I've tracked you down on several occasions and every time your with creatures like him. You have sold your soul to the devil," he growled, distant footsteps could be heard so he dragged her down the street fuming at her words.
"Maybe I'm evil, yes I'm evil, big bad me, run away if I was you" she threatened; okay she was the one threatening him when he was attacking her and had thrown her to the floor like that made sense.
"Unconvincing honey" He knelt down by her and yanked her up she began screaming for him to let go, he quickly strode down the streets and exited the alleyway for the main high street, a few shoppers still walked the sidewalks but they didn't seem to be listening to her cry for help as he threw her to the ground again. "He may have made us think we were wrong, He may not need us anymore but He never thought we were evil, if He did He would send us to hell, we would be with His old friend Lucifer"
"He?" Louise tried to get up was the panic in her body fixed her to the floor, a police officer walked past and didn't even look at her and Michael, oh shit something was definitely wrong "Jesus a bible basher, just what I don't need, go away!" she yelled, all this talk about He was making her feel like she was watching some shitty Evangelical cable channel, all that praise the Lord bullshit. She didn't believe in God, why would she, there was only the Hellmouth, evil was real, the only good person she'd ever met was the Slayer.
"If I'm a stranger how come you knew my name, and me yours, how come I ordered your favourite, red wine?" He joined on her the floor, she noticed how he was attractive, in a slighter older guy kinda way, though he had nothing on Spike, oh she wish he was here, even if he hated her she felt safe with his presence "How come I know I could make your senses explode with bliss and excitement with my caress, you know that too, remember when I was in you and you begged me to stay, begged me to freeze time so we never had to stop" his finger trailed up her t-shirt onto her skin and round the curves of her moulds
"I" she closed her eyes, sensations rose in her, she bit her lip, she could imagine Spike doing it, oh his previous fingers kneading her moulds instead of this stranger.
"You need guidance, we need to be joined together again, He always wanted that, even when He rejected us He willed us to stay together, that if we were to spend our lives roaming this planet that we should do it together, side by side" Michael continued teasing her, his fingers pinched at her nipples and she let out a satisfying moan, being felt up on a sidewalk as people walked by acting oblivious " I want you again, I've forgive you for getting confused, upset with me, 2000 years of being with me must have driven you into a lapse of disillusionment" he pressed firmly and saw her back arch in pleasure
Louise groaned, Spike let it be Spike touching her like this, she opened her eyes, and growled "Fuck off and die" she yanked his hand away, he was speaking bullshit, rubbish, or the damn fucking truth
"Like I said before, unlikely" he smirked at his control over her body and ran his fingers over arms. "Those marks that heeled so quickly, you can't take your life, its sinful" he preached to her.
"Please, just" she choked, please let him go, her emotions were a mixed bag of pure fear, pure excitement, she was erotically charged and fucking confused and she knew he was right they had been with one and other and for 2000 years? Possibly, who knows, maybe he did, maybe he knew who she was, maybe she didn't need Spike, maybe Michael's touch was enough, but, but, no, no, she loved Spike, she did, she had begged him to change her into a Vampire and she meant it.
"I'm here to enlighten you" He leaned in and placed his hands onto her face, engulfing her mouth, bringing her up.
Louise felt pulsations on her head and saw small bits of light glow from his hands, then her mind exploded with a million images. War, death, thousands if not more of dead bodies, faces of children with blood on them, old people begging not to be killed, women, men, just destruction everywhere, and she knew everything she saw was a memory not a nightmare but the truth. She thumped on his back with her fists, she couldn't see it, see this death, clearly remember the stench of bodies and decay from centuries of killing, she saw civilised worlds, ancient lands, different races of people. Tears trickled down her face.
He finally pulled away and stared at her sternly "You understand what we do now"
"No" she shook her head, she hadn't killed those people, she couldn't have, she wasn't a murderer.
"Yes!" He declared "Look around you, these people, ignorant of the evil that surrounds them, they let the vampires and demons kill their family and friends they don't stand up against them, they should die for their sins!"
"Your wrong, their just humans!" She reasoned, they lived in denial it didn't make them wrong "Aren't we demons?"
"We could never be demons, humans are like a disease, have been ever since Eve was tempted, He put us on this planet to take His revenge, He may have forgiven them in the end but we shouldn't" Michael grabbed Louise's hand and closed his eyes.
A great bright light engulfed the night sky, Louise's body began to shake, she closed her own eyes, what was happening? She felt this power surge from him. She fell back on the concrete, the sky turned back to night, screaming and shouting could be heard. She lay unconscious as a dozen bodies laid dead in the road and on the sidewalk and Michael walked off unnoticed into the night.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Buffy [and those of Angel who appear later on in this story] the mighty Joss Whedon does. Plus I don't own any of the song lyrics used throughout this story.
Rated: R for swearing and sexual content. M/F
Summary: Set early Season 6 of Buffy and early season 3 Angel (but in no way connected to later events of both the series) A new woman comes to Sunnydale and reluctantly helps the Scooby's out, Spike can't help but feel a connection with her....
Genre: Angst / Mystery
Feedback: Please review, good or bad, tell me. Email me at musictosellyoursoulfor@yahoo.co.uk
Okay so I finally wrote the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it. Feedback would be cool, even if you don't like it I won't be offended. Thanks. xxx Ellie xxx
Chapter Seven: Grace.
She had to get out of there. Maybe she was just a fool, maybe a coward unable to let him kill her even though she wanted that. But now as she sat in some demon bar, the kinda place she never usually went but had decided to seeing as he was right, she was a demon, might as well stay with her own kind, whatever that was. Now as she drunk cheep beer and sat in the shadows, eyes firmly fixed to the table, now she knew why she hadn't let him kill her. Nothing in her life made sense, but the last day had provided snippets of an answer. Her mind had began to become engulfed by the images of that man, who she had first seen in her thoughts when Spike had been pressing down hard on her chest, trying to make her unable to breath, even though when she thought about it, she never breathed in and out. This man, she was unable to clearly see what he looked like. Louise knew, however, that it wasn't a comforting image, this man, or whatever he was, she was afraid, he made fear grip her body, yet she had no idea who he was.
She took another sip of her drink. Something else had hit her when Spike had been abusing her, she knew that whoever this man was, he was dangerous and it made her fear for not only her safety but also that of her Vampire love. She wanted to warn Spike, tell him to be careful but she knew if she ever met him again he would kill her in an instant. So she now knew two things, a dangerous man in her thoughts, and this same creature out to harm Spike. A final thought had also entered her mind, when she had told Spike he couldn't kill her for his own sake, that had seem like the purest truth she had ever said, Louise had no idea why but he couldn't be allowed to kill her and this is why she decided that leaving Sunnydale was her only option.
Louise looked at herself in the opposite mirror, blood encrusted on her face and arms, she must look like a walking zombie. She began picking her bag up and going to finish her last drops of alcohol when a glass of red wine was placed down in front of her. She looked up to see the waitress smiling politely
"Excuse me, I didn't order this" Louise stated
"I know some man did said he knows it's your favourite" The young woman replied walking away.
Louise looked at the drink and her mind swam with ideas, Spike, was it him, did he buy her this drink as a way of saying sorry? She glanced around briefly, she couldn't see him nor sense him and he didn't know she liked red wine, in fact until the glass had been placed in front of her she had forgotten her own like the said drink. Still though she didn't want to taste it, could be a trap, more than likely. She had lingered to long in this bar and in Sunnydale, she needed to go and grabbed her possessions, getting up to leave.
"Aren't you going to drink that?" She heard a deep male voice say as she walked to the entrance, she held her coat in her arms.
Louise turned, no one was standing there, imagining things, lack of sleep and lack of understanding were causing her to hallucinate that's all it was. She took a step out into the night-air.
"Turning down an offer of red wine and friendship, how you've changed" The same eerie yet oddly familiar voice said.
"Do I know you?" she twirled around, nothing, Christ she was going mental only explanation. Then as she looked forward again she saw him, that man from her disturbed thoughts, smiling back at her, towering above her. Louise's immediate reaction was to run and she darted to her left to do this.
"Oh Louise, my precious girl I've missed you so much, you need my help" he said from behind her
She stopped in her tracks, a shiver down her spine, she turned again, then her eyes met his and her defences crumbled, she was entranced by him, she dropped her coat and looked again "Michael?" she asked, a name lodged deep in her thoughts, yes he was called Michael.
"Oh child you've come back to me, when I need you the most" He walked towards her and rested his hands on her shoulder's, a deep look of concern in his eyes, but also comfort, she was still fixated by him.
"What's going on?" she whispered, she wanted to rest her head against his chest and she couldn't describe why, but to her she believed it would be right.
"You have been betrayed by your friends, by this soulless creature you claim to love, he has destroyed your common sense" He moved his hand down to hers and entwined their fingers before beginning to walk away from the bar as her coat that laid on the floor.
"Spike? He hasn't he needs me" She reasoned, yes Spike, Christ she loved him, why was she holding this man's hand when she should be running away from Spike because he could hurt her and something deep inside of her said he couldn't do that
Michael looked to her, as they strolled down the back streets "He doesn't want you. He doesn't understand you."
"Who are you?" She asked, who was this man she was holding hands with and not running away from when her immediate reaction had been to do that, her instinct told her to pull away and get the hell out of there
"You don't remember?" He frowned gripping tighter onto her
Louise paused from her walking and looked up to him "I don't think I want too, this is some kinda trick." She pulled her hand free and began panicking, she needed to be strong this was wrong, she needed to be assertive "I swear you keep away from him, from the Slayer and her family, she's been through hell, she will kill you!"
"Unlikely" he remarked coldly reaching for her body
Louise jerked away, her eyes blazed, this wasn't a friend, this person or creature was evil, he wanted to hurt her and Spike, her intuition told her all of this "You think she couldn't? What are you a vampire? I bet I could send you to hell in an instant" she searched her bag for a stake and produced one lunging into him.
Michael grinned and brushed the stake away grabbing her wrist and twisting it, he wasn't even breaking a sweat "Big words, maybe a long time ago that was right my dear, but your weak, corrupted by the human's now. Worse than that you want to help the vampires, that isn't your job"
She cringed as he bent her wrist "And I suppose being with you is, an ex- boyfriend maybe, I don't know, I've been through a lot of shit lately, unless you can give me answers on that, I don't want your help, leave Sunnydale if I was you" she was rambling again but she had no idea what was happening.
"Why would I want to do that? Its our destiny to be with one and other, why did you leave me, two hundred years I have walked this earth looking for you, I've tracked you down on several occasions and every time your with creatures like him. You have sold your soul to the devil," he growled, distant footsteps could be heard so he dragged her down the street fuming at her words.
"Maybe I'm evil, yes I'm evil, big bad me, run away if I was you" she threatened; okay she was the one threatening him when he was attacking her and had thrown her to the floor like that made sense.
"Unconvincing honey" He knelt down by her and yanked her up she began screaming for him to let go, he quickly strode down the streets and exited the alleyway for the main high street, a few shoppers still walked the sidewalks but they didn't seem to be listening to her cry for help as he threw her to the ground again. "He may have made us think we were wrong, He may not need us anymore but He never thought we were evil, if He did He would send us to hell, we would be with His old friend Lucifer"
"He?" Louise tried to get up was the panic in her body fixed her to the floor, a police officer walked past and didn't even look at her and Michael, oh shit something was definitely wrong "Jesus a bible basher, just what I don't need, go away!" she yelled, all this talk about He was making her feel like she was watching some shitty Evangelical cable channel, all that praise the Lord bullshit. She didn't believe in God, why would she, there was only the Hellmouth, evil was real, the only good person she'd ever met was the Slayer.
"If I'm a stranger how come you knew my name, and me yours, how come I ordered your favourite, red wine?" He joined on her the floor, she noticed how he was attractive, in a slighter older guy kinda way, though he had nothing on Spike, oh she wish he was here, even if he hated her she felt safe with his presence "How come I know I could make your senses explode with bliss and excitement with my caress, you know that too, remember when I was in you and you begged me to stay, begged me to freeze time so we never had to stop" his finger trailed up her t-shirt onto her skin and round the curves of her moulds
"I" she closed her eyes, sensations rose in her, she bit her lip, she could imagine Spike doing it, oh his previous fingers kneading her moulds instead of this stranger.
"You need guidance, we need to be joined together again, He always wanted that, even when He rejected us He willed us to stay together, that if we were to spend our lives roaming this planet that we should do it together, side by side" Michael continued teasing her, his fingers pinched at her nipples and she let out a satisfying moan, being felt up on a sidewalk as people walked by acting oblivious " I want you again, I've forgive you for getting confused, upset with me, 2000 years of being with me must have driven you into a lapse of disillusionment" he pressed firmly and saw her back arch in pleasure
Louise groaned, Spike let it be Spike touching her like this, she opened her eyes, and growled "Fuck off and die" she yanked his hand away, he was speaking bullshit, rubbish, or the damn fucking truth
"Like I said before, unlikely" he smirked at his control over her body and ran his fingers over arms. "Those marks that heeled so quickly, you can't take your life, its sinful" he preached to her.
"Please, just" she choked, please let him go, her emotions were a mixed bag of pure fear, pure excitement, she was erotically charged and fucking confused and she knew he was right they had been with one and other and for 2000 years? Possibly, who knows, maybe he did, maybe he knew who she was, maybe she didn't need Spike, maybe Michael's touch was enough, but, but, no, no, she loved Spike, she did, she had begged him to change her into a Vampire and she meant it.
"I'm here to enlighten you" He leaned in and placed his hands onto her face, engulfing her mouth, bringing her up.
Louise felt pulsations on her head and saw small bits of light glow from his hands, then her mind exploded with a million images. War, death, thousands if not more of dead bodies, faces of children with blood on them, old people begging not to be killed, women, men, just destruction everywhere, and she knew everything she saw was a memory not a nightmare but the truth. She thumped on his back with her fists, she couldn't see it, see this death, clearly remember the stench of bodies and decay from centuries of killing, she saw civilised worlds, ancient lands, different races of people. Tears trickled down her face.
He finally pulled away and stared at her sternly "You understand what we do now"
"No" she shook her head, she hadn't killed those people, she couldn't have, she wasn't a murderer.
"Yes!" He declared "Look around you, these people, ignorant of the evil that surrounds them, they let the vampires and demons kill their family and friends they don't stand up against them, they should die for their sins!"
"Your wrong, their just humans!" She reasoned, they lived in denial it didn't make them wrong "Aren't we demons?"
"We could never be demons, humans are like a disease, have been ever since Eve was tempted, He put us on this planet to take His revenge, He may have forgiven them in the end but we shouldn't" Michael grabbed Louise's hand and closed his eyes.
A great bright light engulfed the night sky, Louise's body began to shake, she closed her own eyes, what was happening? She felt this power surge from him. She fell back on the concrete, the sky turned back to night, screaming and shouting could be heard. She lay unconscious as a dozen bodies laid dead in the road and on the sidewalk and Michael walked off unnoticed into the night.