Title: Dear Boy
Writer: Azure K Mello
Part: (12/?)
Thanks for all the feedback!!
Challenge/plot bunny by Angela (who makes pretty icons), who wanted chipped Spike interacting with human Darla and for Angel to swoop in playing our golden boy's brooding knight!
Not Beta-ed
Setting: After Angel's Untouched and set during Buffy's Crush which has been moved up in the time line as Dru went straight to Sunnydale and was never in LA.
Rated R
As he washed Spike's hair he said softly, "Drusilla and Darla are in the hotel. I'm going to kill Darla, what should I do about Dru?"
Spike was lying in the bath with Angel's arm supporting him around his back. With a soft sigh he said, "I could feel Dru when we got here, I thought I was going mad. Please don't kill her, Angel, she's too mad to realize what she did. She didn't help, she just stood by. Please don't hurt her. Please, sire, she thought it was all in fun, the way she does." A single tear fell down his face, he wouldn't be surprised if Angel killed Dru despite of what he had said.
"As you wish, Childe." Angel leaned forward to wipe the tear away and felt that the water was only lukewarm, Spike had been in there for quite a while. Stunned at his sire's subservience Spike said nothing and so Angel spoke again. "Let's get you out and dried off. You can get some sleep, Will. Or would you like me to just run you a clean bath you can soak in? I'll be back in half an hour."
"That's it?"
"I want her dead and can find no pleasure in torturing her, I want to be back here with you. Unless. . . do you want me to turn her and chain her up? Then you can torture her."
"That wouldn't be very good for your soul."
"Fuck my soul," said Angel with vehemence, "I don't give a damn at this point. And I truly doubt that this would make me feel any guilt. She hurt my favorite childe; she hurt you, Will."
"But you can't even be bothered to hurt her a little? Humph." Spike turned to look at the bathroom wall.
With a slight laugh Angel said, "Anything I do will simply prolong her stay on this earth. I'd rather dispatch her to hell and then come back to you."
Spike studied him for a long minute. He couldn't get a pulse (no pun intended) on his sire's actions. The young vampire didn't understand why the man was doing any of this, why he would hurt his soul to vindicate Spike. A voice in the back of his head told him that Angel wanted to hurt him, that it was a plot of some sort, that Angel had in fact asked Darla to break him. Still another voice said that Angel had asked Darla to torture him so that the dark vampire could come and play the sire. But the rest of him so badly wanted to believe that Angel was really taking care of him, had really not known what was going to happen to him. He wanted to be his sire's boy. "Would you run me a new bath?" he asked in a small voice.
As the bath emptied its red water and refilled with clear Angel ran his fingers through Spike's hair. All of the blond's wounds were healing nicely. His fingers were healed but still needed nails to grow back. His ear had regenerated and his eyelids were starting to reform. In a few days no one would be able to tell that anything had ever happened to the vamp. Angel feared what would happen when his Will didn't need him. He pushed the thought into the back of his mind. His boy would be ok and then they would go back to LA where Angel could keep a closer eye on his childe. He could make sure that no one hurt his childe. He could make his boy happy. "You're looking good, soon you'll be able to stay alone." He felt a shudder go through Spike's body and he said, "I'm not leaving you, that isn't what I meant. I told you already, I'm not going anywhere without you."
Spike couldn't think of a reply to the obvious lie and so said instead, "Kill her for me, sire? Please kill her for me."
"I'll do anything for you, childe." Angel sighed, the night had been a long one and he now had to go and kill his sire for a second time.
Sorry it's short I wanted to write something before I left to visit my brother. I hope you liked it.
