Part: (14/?)
Writer: Az K Mello
Summery: Spike explains relationships to Angel
Warning: mega angst. Buffy bashing, don't read it and don't flame. I've warned you, only idiots don't read the liner notes and then bitch.
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He walked in without saying a word and slammed himself into a chair feeling dejected. Spike looked up from his newspaper with a raised eyebrow. "And where is the boy?" he asked slowly.
"Willow's." He said simply as he dropped his head into his hands.
"Ah," Spike said understandingly but when his sire offered no details he asked, "why?"
"Because he hates me." Angel's answer was muffled through his hands.
"Why?" asked Spike again. He saw the back of his sire's neck twitch and knew that his question had just moved Angel's mood from upset to antagonistic and so he added to his question hastily, "I'm very good at this sort o' thing. Tell me what's what and I'll help you fix it." Angel poured out the events of the night in under two minutes. "Let me get it strait, Xander came out to a bully, you ripped apart his personal history, and then you did you're whole brooding thing. And you wonder why he left?"
"He hates me?" ventured Angel.
"No, you dolt, he loves you." Angel looked at him blankly. "Lesson time, Sire, Humans are like small animals, they break easily. Xander was wholly naked by the end of the night. He alienated himself from his peers and then you point out the flaws in his life and go suddenly cold. So he was standing there striped and you weren't paying attention. So instead of you dumping him he took the initiative and saved the you trouble. Pardon my insubordination, Angelus, but are you stupid?"
"Yes," he said as he stood.
Looking up Spike asked, "Where are you going?"
"I'm gonna stop being an idiot and do what I should have done long ago."
"What's that?"
"Claim what's mine."
Writer: Az K Mello
Summery: Spike explains relationships to Angel
Warning: mega angst. Buffy bashing, don't read it and don't flame. I've warned you, only idiots don't read the liner notes and then bitch.
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He walked in without saying a word and slammed himself into a chair feeling dejected. Spike looked up from his newspaper with a raised eyebrow. "And where is the boy?" he asked slowly.
"Willow's." He said simply as he dropped his head into his hands.
"Ah," Spike said understandingly but when his sire offered no details he asked, "why?"
"Because he hates me." Angel's answer was muffled through his hands.
"Why?" asked Spike again. He saw the back of his sire's neck twitch and knew that his question had just moved Angel's mood from upset to antagonistic and so he added to his question hastily, "I'm very good at this sort o' thing. Tell me what's what and I'll help you fix it." Angel poured out the events of the night in under two minutes. "Let me get it strait, Xander came out to a bully, you ripped apart his personal history, and then you did you're whole brooding thing. And you wonder why he left?"
"He hates me?" ventured Angel.
"No, you dolt, he loves you." Angel looked at him blankly. "Lesson time, Sire, Humans are like small animals, they break easily. Xander was wholly naked by the end of the night. He alienated himself from his peers and then you point out the flaws in his life and go suddenly cold. So he was standing there striped and you weren't paying attention. So instead of you dumping him he took the initiative and saved the you trouble. Pardon my insubordination, Angelus, but are you stupid?"
"Yes," he said as he stood.
Looking up Spike asked, "Where are you going?"
"I'm gonna stop being an idiot and do what I should have done long ago."
"What's that?"
"Claim what's mine."