Fearful Symmetry Chapter 15
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tamingthemuseTitle: Fearful Symmetry Chapter 15
Author: icemink
Fandom: BtVS/AtS
Pairing: Angel/Spike/Darla
Prompt #56: St. Peter
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After Angel refuses to turn Darla, she turns to Spike, who agrees to sire her. The two of them return to LA in the hopes of corrupting Angel, so that Wolfram & Hart will remove Spike's chip.
A/N: This is more of a scene than a full chapter, but it does fit the minimum word requirements so I figured it was okay.
Previous chapters can be found here.
Chapter 15:
Lilah kept her eyes focused on the operation happening in the room below. It wasn't easy. She could feel Angel's gaze moving across her skin. It was hardly the first time in her life a man had looked at her as if she was a piece of meat, but it had never been quite so literal before.
She tried her best not to acknowledge the way he was looking at her, the problem was that secretly it thrilled her a bit. Over the last year and a half it hadn't escaped her notice that Angel was a very attractive man. Normally she was able to push that to the back of her thoughts, but somehow the cold blooded killer who had walked into Wolfram & Hart's office that night, got under her skin in a special way.
Of course soul or no soul Angel still had to make an entrance. As soon as he, Darla, and Spike had walked into the office building, the alarms had gone off. Security had rushed to the main lobby, and most of the ones who had shown up there had died.
There was nothing particularly brutal about the way Angel had killed them. Most of them had had their necks snapped or had been tossed aside like dolls. But that was precisely the thing that was chilling about it, the lack of effort it had taken. Lilah had always known that Angel was dangerous, she'd just never really seen it until tonight.
As soon as Holland had arrived on the scene he had called off what was left of security and had warmly welcomed Angel. It wasn't long until Spike was on the operating table to have his chip removed, while Angle, Darla, Holland, Lindsey and Lilah watched.
None of it sat right with Lilah. It all seemed to quick and easy. After all her dealings with Angle she couldn't help but think that something wasn't quite right. She just couldn't figure out what it could possibly be.
For just a moment her concentration wavered and her eyes met Angel's. He smiled at her, which in and of itself was enough to put her even further on edge. The look in his eyes was almost seductive, and yet she couldn't help but think a messy death lay at the end of whatever he had planned for her.
A phone on the wall rang and Holland picked it up. "Yes? Good, they'll be down in a minute," he said into the receiver. Hanging up, he turned to Angel and Darla. "The chip is out, and they're just finishing up now. You can go down to see him if you like."
A nurse came up to lead the two vampires down to the operating room. Holland waited a few moments for them to leave, the door to be shut, and for the vampires to be far enough away that they couldn't hear.
"Well, I think that went rather well, don't you?" he said to Lilah and Lindsey.
"Are you sure this is a good idea, sir?" Lilah asked. "The chip gave us some leverage over Darla and Spike, and Spike without the chip-"
"Is a dangerous heartless killer?" Holland finished with a smile. "Yes I hope so."
"Sir?" Lindsey asked.
"You don't really think it was that easy do you? That Angel just up and lost his soul. No, he still a long way from St. Peter and the pearly gates."
"If he still has his soul-" Lilah began.
"Then why are we honoring our deal with Darla?" Holland finished for her. "Because we don't want Angel to loose his soul. We want to corrupt it, and I think we've gone a long way towards that today. Angel put himself in a position where he killed several people, and now he's responsible for Spike having his chip removed. I'd say he's getting plenty dark. After all, any one Spike kills from here on out is on Angel's head. Yes, I'd say things are going exactly as planned."
Author: icemink
Fandom: BtVS/AtS
Pairing: Angel/Spike/Darla
Prompt #56: St. Peter
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After Angel refuses to turn Darla, she turns to Spike, who agrees to sire her. The two of them return to LA in the hopes of corrupting Angel, so that Wolfram & Hart will remove Spike's chip.
A/N: This is more of a scene than a full chapter, but it does fit the minimum word requirements so I figured it was okay.
Previous chapters can be found here.
Chapter 15:
Lilah kept her eyes focused on the operation happening in the room below. It wasn't easy. She could feel Angel's gaze moving across her skin. It was hardly the first time in her life a man had looked at her as if she was a piece of meat, but it had never been quite so literal before.
She tried her best not to acknowledge the way he was looking at her, the problem was that secretly it thrilled her a bit. Over the last year and a half it hadn't escaped her notice that Angel was a very attractive man. Normally she was able to push that to the back of her thoughts, but somehow the cold blooded killer who had walked into Wolfram & Hart's office that night, got under her skin in a special way.
Of course soul or no soul Angel still had to make an entrance. As soon as he, Darla, and Spike had walked into the office building, the alarms had gone off. Security had rushed to the main lobby, and most of the ones who had shown up there had died.
There was nothing particularly brutal about the way Angel had killed them. Most of them had had their necks snapped or had been tossed aside like dolls. But that was precisely the thing that was chilling about it, the lack of effort it had taken. Lilah had always known that Angel was dangerous, she'd just never really seen it until tonight.
As soon as Holland had arrived on the scene he had called off what was left of security and had warmly welcomed Angel. It wasn't long until Spike was on the operating table to have his chip removed, while Angle, Darla, Holland, Lindsey and Lilah watched.
None of it sat right with Lilah. It all seemed to quick and easy. After all her dealings with Angle she couldn't help but think that something wasn't quite right. She just couldn't figure out what it could possibly be.
For just a moment her concentration wavered and her eyes met Angel's. He smiled at her, which in and of itself was enough to put her even further on edge. The look in his eyes was almost seductive, and yet she couldn't help but think a messy death lay at the end of whatever he had planned for her.
A phone on the wall rang and Holland picked it up. "Yes? Good, they'll be down in a minute," he said into the receiver. Hanging up, he turned to Angel and Darla. "The chip is out, and they're just finishing up now. You can go down to see him if you like."
A nurse came up to lead the two vampires down to the operating room. Holland waited a few moments for them to leave, the door to be shut, and for the vampires to be far enough away that they couldn't hear.
"Well, I think that went rather well, don't you?" he said to Lilah and Lindsey.
"Are you sure this is a good idea, sir?" Lilah asked. "The chip gave us some leverage over Darla and Spike, and Spike without the chip-"
"Is a dangerous heartless killer?" Holland finished with a smile. "Yes I hope so."
"Sir?" Lindsey asked.
"You don't really think it was that easy do you? That Angel just up and lost his soul. No, he still a long way from St. Peter and the pearly gates."
"If he still has his soul-" Lilah began.
"Then why are we honoring our deal with Darla?" Holland finished for her. "Because we don't want Angel to loose his soul. We want to corrupt it, and I think we've gone a long way towards that today. Angel put himself in a position where he killed several people, and now he's responsible for Spike having his chip removed. I'd say he's getting plenty dark. After all, any one Spike kills from here on out is on Angel's head. Yes, I'd say things are going exactly as planned."
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Date: 2007-08-19 02:00 am (UTC)yay! Spike is free!
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Date: 2007-08-19 02:51 am (UTC)There was nothing particularly brutal about the way Angel had killed them. I love this line, precisely because his brutality is generally understand and, as Lilah narrates, all the more chilling because of it.
Really nice chapter here.