Another Chance (7/9)
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stillroseTitle: Another Chance (7/9)
Fandom: BTVS; Spike/Xander
Warnings: Slash, AU 5th/6th season, violence, character death
Rating:NC-17
Summary: Another Spike shows up in Sunnydale insisting he has a soul…and that he loves Xander.
UNBETAED
Previous parts here.
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“LOVE YOU!” They screamed in unison as Spike’s cool see spilled deep inside Xander as his cock pounded the human’s sweet spot.
Xander arched and bucked. His hot spend began to dribble over Spike’s hand.
“Gaha SPIKE!!” Xander cried.
“Xander!” Spike shouted. He vamped. His claim wasn’t complete! He needed more! He pulled Xander’s into his lap. He buried his face into Xander’s neck.
A scream of agony erupted from Spike’s throat!
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“Stop! Spike!” Xander shouted as he continued to struggle against the vampire’s hold as he began to understand what was happening. “Spike you can’t bite me! The chip!”
Spike jerked him harder. The chip fired. The vampire roared.
“Spike! Stop!” Xander gasped. Spike snarled.
Somewhere a door slammed. Footsteps echoed.
Spike growled. He mewled and held Xander.
“Spi…”
The bedroom door opened. The other Spike stood in the doorway. Xander blinked. His Spike snarled and growled.
“I thought you left?” was all Xander could think to say as he sat naked and breached in his Spike’s lap smelling of sex.
“I did,” the other Spike said.
The feral Spike still inside Xander clutched him tighter. Xander’s hissed as the hold hurt his ribs. Spike screamed.
“Then I remembered what you’d said about the chip,” the other Spike said as he cautiously moved further inside the room.
“The chip? You know why he’s provoking it?” Xander yelled above the naked Spike’s snarls.
“He’s claiming you. The demon has a need ta taste you…”
Xander blushed. He’d been tasted all right.
“Taste all of you,” the other Spike continued.
Xander paled as the clue bus arrived.
“You mean..?”
“He doesn’t need much, Xan,” the other Spike said as slipped close to the bed.
Spike jumped. Xander screamed. Spike’s chip fired and the vampire yelled.
“Until he does..he…” the other Spike said.
“He’s gonna be wild and crazy Spike?”
The other Spike nodded as he eased his way on to the bed. Naked Spike tried to jerk Xander back. Once again they both screamed.
“Will you stop it! You’re aggravating him and hurting us!” Xander yelled.
“I’m trying ta help you!” argued the other Spike.
“Yeah! Well do a better job!”
“Give me your hand,” the other Spike ordered.
“What?”
“Give me your hand!”
“Did you drop IQ points while you were gone? Can’t you tell nakey Spike doesn’t like you? The closer you get to me the grumpier he gets? Don’t you think he’ll fry something if we hold hands?”
“Listen, ya git, I can bite you,” Spike hissed.
“Oh that’ll make him happy!” Xander shouted back.
“Yes! Yes it will!”
“How!”
“Because when I’m done you can offer him your bleeding arm!”
Xander’s mouth paused in mid-retort. The other Spike’s plan might work.
If I can trust him, Xander thought. He studied the other, Spike.
“Xan,” Spike said. “I wouldn’t hurt you.”
Xander blushed. He remembered how he’d felt just a few minutes before in the throes of passion. If this Spike and his Xander had felt the same way, the decision was easy.
“You’ll have to be quick,” Xander warned.
The other Spike grinned. “Fastest fangs in the west.”
Xander snorted as he shot his arm out. One Spike let out an enraged howl while the other grabbed at Xander’s arm.
Cool lips wrapped around Xander’s wrist while a piercing shriek of agony filled the room. Xander saw his Spike’s clawed hand fall away from Xander’s arms even while he felt fangs piercing through his skin.
Xander gasped. There was a brief moment of suction, the smooth slide of a tongue and then heat was flowing from him. The other Spike released his arm.
“Now, pet!” Spike shouted.
Xander pulled his arm back. He turned as best as he could in his Spike’s hold. He offered his bleeding wrist to the snarling vampire behind him.
“Spike…please,” Xander begged trying to reach his vampire.
Suddenly an arm wrapped around Xander’s waist. Another grabbed Xander’s wrist. Once again cool lips and a tongue slid over Xander’s torn flesh. There was a sweet intimate pull and tug which shot a sensation deep into Xander’s core. It was erotic and yet it wasn’t sexual. He gasped.
He could feel his blood pumping into Spike’s suckling mouth. He could feel the vampire drawing his life’s fluid into him and the intense erotic feeling inside him grew. It was dark and sweet. He whispered Spike’s name and found he wanted his blood to flow. He wanted to give this to his vampire. He leaned into the embrace while willing the liquid to flow faster.
This is what the other Xander must have felt for his Spike, Xander thought. He must have shared this with him. I wonder what I..he would have done if Spike had been the one to die.
Xander’s eyelids drooped. The nursing sensation eased. A tongue lapped gently at his wrist. Xander sighed.
The bed shifted. Somebody moved toward the door.
“Wait,” Xander whispered.
The tongue froze. Xander forced his eye lids back open. The other Spike stood by the bedroom door staring sadly at the two naked figures satiated, bloody and entwined on the bed.
“Stay,” Xander invited sleepily.
The gentle licking strokes ceased.
“Pet?” Xander’s Spike asked.
“He’s got nowhere else to go,” Xander.
“Xander,” both Spikes said in unison.
“He helped us. We should help him,” Xander argued.
“Pet,” Spike said from behind him.
“You’ve claimed me. I’m yours,” Xander said with a yawn, “a claim that might not have happened without his help ‘oh he who forgot about the not being able to bite and didn’t warn the Xan-man.’”
“He has a point,” the other Spike said.
“Yeah..and if I want your opinion…”
“I know…you’ll beat it out of me,” the other Spike smiled as he began to strip.
“OI! Didn’t say you could stay!”
“And ya never will…”
“So why ya gettin’ starkers?” Spike said as he scooted over in the bed pulling his sleepy human close to him.
“Cuz we both know I’m stayin,” the other Spike grinned.
“Just cuz Xander asked?”
“Get used ta it. Ya won’t be able to deny him much.”
“Yeah?”
The other Spike nodded as he tugged off his boots.
“He’s a cheeky git who always seems ta find himself in the middle of trouble…”
“Got that part,” Spike snorted as kissed the top of Xander’s head.
“And he’s got perfect hearing,” Xander mumbled sleepily.
“Go ta sleep,” both Spikes ordered.
“Bossy much?” Xander turned in Spike arms and buried his face in the vampire’s chest.
“Get used to it,” the other Spike rumbled softly as he slid into bed on the other side of Xan.
“Just remember who’s boy he is,” the original Spike warned.
“Mn amotboy,” Xander protested.
“Sleep,” Spike whispered with another kiss to Xander’s head.
“He hates that,” the other Spike grinned.
“Thanks for the tip,” Xander’s Spike replied.
***
The next day had been awkward when Xander woke. The room still smelled of sex and the slight iron tang of blood. Worst of all, Xander was smushed between two naked and half aroused vampires.
Still, Xander didn’t have long to wonder about his predicament. He had more pressing concerns, like a full bladder. He wasn’t sure about the etiquette when waking up to go the bathroom when you’re the middleman in a puppy pile but at that moment he didn’t care.
He jumped up.
“OI!” Both Spikes complained.
“Sorry!” Xander squealed as he crawled of the end of the bed and made a mad dash for the bedroom.
“Bloody git!” the twin Spikes shouted after him.
After taking care of his morning ablutions, Xander decided to take a shower. He was sweaty, crusty and a bit bloody. Plus, if he were to admit it to himself, he wasn’t ready to face the Spikes. He knew he would eventually but he was hoping for a little more time.
Time to figure out just what I’ve gotten myself into, Xander wondered.
***
The powers that be had an odd way of answering prayers on the Hellmouth. The phone was ringing when Xander stepped out of the shower. He grabbed a towel, slung it around his waist and dashed for the living room. He made it just in time to see one of the Spikes, he wasn’t sure which one, pick up the phone.
“Yeah!” he barked. There was a pause as the person on the other end spoke.
“Uh huh,” Spike said. Xander snapped his fingers and motioned for the phone. Spike just smiled and raked his eyes over Xander. The human snapped his mouth shut with an audible “SNAP.”
A soft whistle from the bedroom doorway caught Xander’s attention. There was another Spike standing there. That’s when it registered with Xander, both Spikes were naked! Xander blushed while high tailing it back to the bathroom. He hadn’t been granted enough time.
***
He was still glaring at the Spikes when they were gathered back in Buffy’s dining room. Willow had pictures from her hacked feed to the Sunnydale morgue pulled up. Much to Xander’s odd relief the phone call hadn’t been about the Doublemint Spike situation.
“So as you can see, we have something new in town,” she said.
“Landshark?” Xander asked as he turned away from what seemed to be left of a torso and a foot of Don Reynolds former mailman.
“Werewolf?” Dawn asked cheerily trying to peek around Willow.
“Drokken,” the other Spike said with a deadly chill in his voice.
“D..drokken?” Tara asked.
“Cookies?” the Buffybot offered.
“Off!” ordered Willow. The Buffybot went still with a plate of cookies in her hand. Dawn snatched three.
“It’s a hellhound of sorts. Very..very hard to kill. Two hearts and both need to be removed and stopped from beating before it dies,” the black clad Spike said.
“You fought one of these things before then?” Xander’s Spike asked.
The other Spike nodded. “It..it’s what killed Xander.”
The girls gasped. Dawn’s cookies fell from her fingers. The red shirted Spike growled and the other Spike turned away.
“I’m sorry,” Xander said.
“We were on patrol. Been findin’ a string of bodies like this across town. Finally Xander decides to use himself as bait…”
“And you let him!” Spike snarled.
“Spike!” Willow said. Tara stared at the men for a moment then laid a hand on her lover. She shook her head gently.
“There was no letting him do anything!” Spike growled back. “Figure that out quick and maybe you’ll do a better job of keeping your Xander alive then I did mine!”
“Your Xander?” Dawn mouthed at Tara. Tara smiled and put her finger over her lips.
“Hey! Xan-man, standing right here,” Xander said.
“And here’s where you are staying until we kill this thing,” his Spike barked.
“Oh no!” Xander turned and glared at his Spike. “Don’t think for one minute you get pull that crap with me! I have just as much right to go out and get myself killed as the other Xander did!”
Both Spikes growled.
“Uh, Xander?” Willow asked. “Is there something you want to share with the class?”
Xander blinked, blushed and shook his head. He turned back to the other Spike.
“What happened?”
“I was late! I was too fucking late!”
Willow cupped Dawn’s ears. She rolled her eyes.
“When I realized Xan had snuck off without me, I followed as quick as I could. But there were some fledges attacking some stragglers on the way home from the Bronze. I stopped to save the kiddies, dust the baddies and then pick up Xander’s trail. It’s what we’d done a hundred times together. Bloody hell if we’d been together it’d been practically foreplay!”
“Dawn honey,” Willow said, “why don’t you go to your room?”
“Unh UH!” Dawn said with wide eyes.
“And when ya…” Spike prompted.
“I knew the smell of his blood,” the other Spike said softly. “I could tell you exactly the number of times I’d tasted it.”
Willow made an “ew” face and looked worriedly at Tara. Tara smiled reassuringly and squeezed her hand.
“I smelled his blood long before I found him and the monster. Xan..he..he’d wounded it,” Spike choked, “it was hurt but..not enough. Not enough not to have…”
“To have…” Xander gently pressed needing to know what happened to his counterpart.
“It ripped him open!” Spike snarled.
“Xander!” Dawn whispered with tears in her eyes. Tara and Willow pulled her close.
Spike snaked an arm around Xander’s waist.
“Is that what you wanted to hear! He was ripped wide open! Bleeding! Dying! And the thing was still chargin’ him! I…I…” the other Spike began to falter. Xander reached for him.
Once again Xander was suddenly sandwiched between two Spike’s. One was holding him tight, protecting him. The other holding him tight seeking comfort from him.
“You did everything you could,” Xander whispered.
“I was too, late, pet,” Spike cried. “Too late! I killed it but you..you..you were already…”
“Shhhh,” Xander said while he stroked and kissed the crying Spike’s hair. “It was my choice to go out. I should have waited for you.”
“I shouldn’t have wasted time on the fledges.”
“That’s not what I would have wanted, and you know it.”
“But I might have gotten there in time…there might have still been enough life left …”
“To what? Turn me, Spike?” Xander asked.
The vampire nodded.
“And you think I really would have wanted that? “
“I couldn’t…can’t…Xander…you…you’re my everything!”
“Spike listen to me,” Xander said softly. “Look at me.”
Spike raised his head. He looked at Xander.
“Willow..me …all of us. This isn’t the first time we’ve dealt with alternate universes. We’ve met another version of Willow, a vampire version. One who came from a universe where I am..was a vampire and it ain’t pretty, Spike.”
“But…the curse…my soul…”
“You think me as a vampire I’d want anything to do with a soul? You’re wrong! There’s nothing of love left in me, Spike. Nothing that would have fought for a soul. Nothing that would want a soul. Nothing that would have even loved you back! In that universe I was one of the Master’s favorites! Hell, Angelus would probably want my autograph.”
“No..” Spike shook his head.
“Yes,” Xander insisted. “Listen to me, if you couldn’t save me. If I died because I was reckless and stupid..because I didn’t wait for you I’m sorry. That was selfish of me. You didn’t..don’t deserve that..but you have to believe me when I tell you turning me would have been just as reckless.”
“But Xander…”
“No buts Spike…” Xander said firmly then pulled the vampire closer. The vampire stared at the human for a moment then sank to his knees. Xander followed with his Spike sinking in tandem behind him.
As the other Spike began to silently shake with grief the girls quietly slipped away from the room. They were gone before the heart breaking sobs escaped the vampire. Xander held him the entire time.
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:30 am (UTC)So beautiful...and was there really an episode where they were all vampires? If there was, which episode was it? I do want to watch that one...
Amazing chapter as usual, gotta love the Spike/Xander/Spike love.
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Date: 2010-04-26 11:08 am (UTC)yeah..
Date: 2010-04-28 03:27 am (UTC)sr
PS Chap 8 is up.
thank you
Date: 2010-04-28 03:26 am (UTC)It is an amazing episode...and it's one of the reasons why you don't want Xander to be turned..you think he was evil when possessed by a hyena..?
Anyway..glad you like. :)
Chap 8 is up.
sr