Love Beyond Death
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, etc, as they belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and everyone else who can legally lay claim to them. I am making no money from this whatsoever, and don't have much anyway, so suing would gain pretty much nothing. Rating: 15 Author's Note: Set during Season 3 of BtVS. The first part of the Shattered Souls trilogy. Distribution: Just let me know where it's going. Dedication: To my parents, for finally letting me watch Buffy just as Angel left, and to Nicky, for having the faith to post this. Feedback: Do I have to beg?
Prologue
Drusilla pointed the splintering wooden stake at Angel's heart, while Spike pulled his arm tight around Angel's neck. He fought to restrain a struggling Angel.almost failed. But only almost. Tears fell in streams of salt water down Buffy's cheeks, welling in her eyes so fast she could barely see. She reached for the stake held in Drusilla's vice-like grip, but to no avail. Even as she pushed against the black painted iron bars of her cramped circular cage, Drusilla prepared to stake the nightwalker that had sired her.
" Nighty-night, my pet," the insane vampire whispered, plunging the stake toward Angel's heart.
"No!" Buffy screamed as Angel blurred and fragmented, collapsing and dissolving to dust as he hit the rocky floor of the limestone cavern.
"Don't fret, Slayer. You'll join your little lover-boy soon. We just need to settle a few finer points before you die." Spike regarded Buffy bitterly. "And don't even dream of your precious friends finding you. Me an' Dru, we've been careful this time. Left no clues for 'em to find." He smiled maliciously, recalling the luscious taste of the blood of a terrified Slayer. He'd killed two, and each had tasted simply magnificent. He couldn't wait to sample another.
"And even if they do find you it'll be too late. You wanna know what you'll be?"
"I could guess, if that'd be more fun for you."
"You'll be dead." Spike threw back his pale head and howled, pure evil resonating on his laugh.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, etc, as they belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and everyone else who can legally lay claim to them. I am making no money from this whatsoever, and don't have much anyway, so suing would gain pretty much nothing. Rating: 15 Author's Note: Set during Season 3 of BtVS. The first part of the Shattered Souls trilogy. Distribution: Just let me know where it's going. Dedication: To my parents, for finally letting me watch Buffy just as Angel left, and to Nicky, for having the faith to post this. Feedback: Do I have to beg?
Prologue
Drusilla pointed the splintering wooden stake at Angel's heart, while Spike pulled his arm tight around Angel's neck. He fought to restrain a struggling Angel.almost failed. But only almost. Tears fell in streams of salt water down Buffy's cheeks, welling in her eyes so fast she could barely see. She reached for the stake held in Drusilla's vice-like grip, but to no avail. Even as she pushed against the black painted iron bars of her cramped circular cage, Drusilla prepared to stake the nightwalker that had sired her.
" Nighty-night, my pet," the insane vampire whispered, plunging the stake toward Angel's heart.
"No!" Buffy screamed as Angel blurred and fragmented, collapsing and dissolving to dust as he hit the rocky floor of the limestone cavern.
"Don't fret, Slayer. You'll join your little lover-boy soon. We just need to settle a few finer points before you die." Spike regarded Buffy bitterly. "And don't even dream of your precious friends finding you. Me an' Dru, we've been careful this time. Left no clues for 'em to find." He smiled maliciously, recalling the luscious taste of the blood of a terrified Slayer. He'd killed two, and each had tasted simply magnificent. He couldn't wait to sample another.
"And even if they do find you it'll be too late. You wanna know what you'll be?"
"I could guess, if that'd be more fun for you."
"You'll be dead." Spike threw back his pale head and howled, pure evil resonating on his laugh.