After the Crater (4/?)

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Here's the forth part of my story After the Crater this responds to the prompt cry havoc for tamingthemuse
Pairing: Dawn?Wesley
Rating:  NC-17 eventually but this parts not quite there but close
Author: grenouillenue
This takes place afterthe Angel episode Hell bound
Teaser - Wesley tells Dawn about Spike
previous parts here

Wesley's POV.

It's been a hectic day and a long one. What with Fred's insistence in finding the formula to re-corporealize Spike and fighting Pavayne. I felt a little guilty when they were looking for a way to power the machine and I thought of Dawn and here being all that mystic energy but I didn't want to share her and Fred said that the power needed to be evil. But power isn't good or evil it just is. The power in the white room has been used for evil but that's only because the senior partners are evil. Dawn's power has never really been tested that should be remedied. But if I want to talk to her about that then I need to tell her about Spike being back. I need to tell her soon I’ve put it off for too long already there’s no way to avoid her getting mad.

 

It’s late when I get to her house due to the fact that Fred spent so much time trying to figure out how to help Spike only to bring back Pavayne instead. From what I could see Spike saved Fred something I wouldn’t have thought him capable of when we first met. I mean I heard that he acted that way in Sunnydale but I thought t hat was only because he was in love with Buffy. I wonder is he now in love with Fred? Oddly that thought doesn’t bother me as much as it would’ve a month ago. I come to this realization mere moments before Dawn opened her door. I see her standing there in these fluffy pink pj’s and I wonder how I can change what she knows so drastically wondering how I can tell her that someone else came back from the dead and then ask her to help me keep them here.

 

Dawn’s POV.

 

I hear a knock on my door and being Sunnydale trained I take a stake with me. There’s only one person that I’ll be happy to see at this hour the only connection to my old life who knows that I’m here. I open the door making sure to look as innocent and naive as possible so as not to let whoever or whatever there was outside my door, know how much I really had learned from my sister. I mean hello sister of the Slayer here it’s not like I don’t remember living on the hellmouth for eighteen years. I peered through the Judas hole and saw Wesley and opened the door with childlike enthusiasm, I was disappointed when he didn’t show up at the diner that night. I know that he has to work odd hours sometimes but he usually is able to sneak away for a little while.

 

(Neither POV this part worked better from the third person)

“Hey”

“Hey. Can I come in?”

“Yea sure. I was just making tea did you want some?”

“That would be great.” Wesley said standing in Dawn’s kitchen looking around awkwardly.

“So that’ll take a while to steep.” She said gesturing to the pot “Did you want to tell me what’s going on?”

“I’m not sure. It’s a long story.”

“Well start at the beginning.”

“Well we captured a spirit that was sending others to hell to protect himself.”

“Really how?”

“We made him take physical form and locked him in a cell.”

“Neat,”

“Only a child of the hellmouth would say that was neat.”

“What can I say I was made from a slayer and hey was that a crack about my age because I’ll have you know that I am eighteen I am an adult.”

“I know full well that you are an adult.”

“Really and what are you going to do about it?” She teases sounding almost forced like she’s reading a script.

“This.” Wesley answers pulling her towards him and covering her lips with his. She moaned into the kiss allowing him to slip his tongue past her lips. He explored every inch of her mouth as his hands ghosted over her skin. His hands slipping beneath her top to caress her back and slowly sliding around to her front,

“Wes.” She moaned, as his hands trailed lower on her abdomen “Wes we can’t do this now.”

“Why not?”

“We just can’t ok.”

“Oh.” He said thinking that she wasn’t ready for this. “Well I did come here to tell you something, something that will probably make you very happy and upset you at the same time.”

“Well Wes what is it.”

Knowing that there was no other way to tell her this than to just do it he looked at his shoes “It’s about Spike. He’s back.”

“What? How?” She screamed crying havoc

“The amulet that Angel gave Spike, it was returned to us and Spike popped out of it.”

“When?” she asked through gritted teeth

“He was at the office the day after I ran into you for the first time. But there’s a problem.” He continued not pausing to allow Dawn to answer. “He’s a sort of ghost and he can’t leave LA.”

“What do you mean he’s a ghost?”

“He’s non-corporeal. Fred found a way to re-corporealize him but it didn’t bring Spike rather the Pavayne guy I was talking about earlier. The thing is we need a big burst of energy to bring him back and the source we used before won’t help us anymore.”

“Let me see if I understand. You want me to help bring him back?”

“In a word yes.”

“Alright but for him not for you. When can we do this?”

“I was thinking tomorrow you could come by early in the morning.”

“I’ll have to get the day off but it shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll see you then. Goodbye.”

“Dawn. I should’ve told you earlier.”

“Yes you should’ve but I’ll see you tomorrow and we can talk then.”

 

PART 5 – The physical side of Spike

 

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[grenouillenue.livejournal.com]

just one thing I still am desperate for a beta anyone who's interested PLEASE PLEASE respond to his comment
Thanks

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Ah, now that develops the story nicely. Well done.
Interesting idea to blend both Dawn's 'key' qualities and her 'made from Buffy' qualities together like that, acknowledging both. I really like it.
Nice to see Wesley being more confident too. I look forward to seeing Dawn's reaction to that kiss.

As for a beta, I wish I could help, but I already beta for sparrow2000 and honestly do not have the capacity to do more. Have you tried a request on any of the comms you are a member of? Or adding the request to the top of your story here?