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Prompt 83 - The Underground - Excerpt from Soul Survivors - Dawnofme - BTVS
Hello all. I just joined yesterday, so this is my first post. I hope I've done it right. This scene is from is my WIP and I've only posted three chapters so far. So this is very much a spoiler to anyone who is reading the story.
Title: Soul Survivors: A scene from chapter eighteen
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, OC
Prompt: The Underground
Warnings: None
Rating: This part PG, The story is overall NC-17
Summary: My AU that is set in season seven. Buffy is now a vampire with a soul and she has to deal with all the usual dangers, plus a few new ones. This scene takes place in a London hotel room, the night after a big show down with an enemy.
Unreal Together The first story in the series
Soul Survivors The sequel to Unreal Together
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Buffy was emotionally, if not physically exhausted. Last night, they’d been up until after dawn, furiously making love to each; trying to cling to the reality of hear and now. They were both still on the earth, they were together and they could still love each other.
As she got dressed, she remembered that night, not so long ago, when Spike had come into her bathroom. He’d told her that love was passion and that it burned. She’d said that she didn’t want to be consumed. Now she realized that he was right. Better to be consumed by the power of intense love than to be consumed by the world at large.
Spike was not in the room when she woke up and she hurriedly shoved her feet into her boots so she could go find him. She didn’t have to look far as he was in the sitting room. His back was to her and he leaned over the coffee table as he sat on the couch. A bottle of single malt scotch, two half-filled glasses and a pile of playing cards lay between him and Giles. The watcher sat in the chair on the other side of the table, concentrating on his hand.
“Hurry it up old man. I want to win this hand sometime before you up and pass on, cuz I know I’m not in the will.”
“Do shut up. I can’t think when you do that,” Giles said.
Buffy smiled at them as she came around and sat next to Spike. “You’re not cheating are you?”
Spike smiled brightly at her and she basked in the wake of his love for her.
“Good evening, kitten. Thought maybe you’d sleep through until tomorrow.” He leaned over and kissed her cheek. “And no, I’m not cheating. Don’t have to with him.”
Giles looked at them over his cards with resignation. “I don’t know if I should be insulted by that or not?”
Buffy grinned at him. “It’s Spike; be insulted.”
The watcher grinned back at her and placed his cards on the table before leaning into his chair in smug victory. “Don’t under estimate your opponent.”
“Hmpt,” was all Spike would say and tossed his cards down.
Giles grabbed the bills on the table and pocketed them while Buffy frowned at Spike. “I hope that wasn’t our Paris trip money.”
“No worries, love. I won more than I lost.” Spike patted his jean pocket.
He used the remote and turned the TV on, while Giles cleaned up the cards and took the bottle and glasses back to the mini bar. It was all so domestic and she thought how strange things had become. It was a good strange, but she never would have guessed that this is how things would have ended up.
“So what are the plans now?” she asked them.
Giles moved his chair back in place and took a seat. “I have my ticket for the night after tomorrow. We’ll leave for the airport right before sunset. You’ll have to take the Underground again by way of the sewer system from the hotel basement.
Buffy crinkled her nose. “Yuck, but do we have to leave so soon?”
Spike held her hand. “’Fraid so, pet. We’ll do Paris tomorrow night, but we’ll only have a few hours if we want to get back before daylight.”
“I got a call from Faith early this morning.” Giles adjusted his glasses and leaned back. “There’s increased demon activity and it seems to be centered around the new high school. I think she’s going to need all of our help.”
“Dawn didn’t mention that when she called.” Buffy countered.
“After so many years with a slayer for a sister, I doubt the usual pick up of activity in the fall would even faze the girl,” Giles said.
“He’s got a point there.” Spike squeezed her hand.
Breaking news interrupted the program on the television and Giles grabbed the remote to turn up the volume.
A male reporter squinted past the lights shining down on him to stare directly into the camera as police activity and official looking vehicles drove behind him. “We’ve just had reports that a rabid animal is on the loose somewhere inside the Royal Brompton Hospital behind me.”
He pressed his earpiece closer to him and paused before nodding. “One death has now been confirmed. Somehow this animal found its way to the fourth floor without being seen by anyone and attacked a man who was brought in just last night with gun shot wounds.”
The reporter turned to point at the large structure. “Hospital officials have locked down the building and police are not letting any one in. They are evacuating patients as fast as they can and barricading staff in with patients who are too ill to leave their beds…”
Giles turned the volume down and the three of them glanced at one another, dumbfounded.
“You don’t think--” Spike started.
“Yeah, I do.” Buffy got up to get her jacket. She should have seen this coming. They had to find her.
A light knock on the door had them all pausing. Buffy was closest to it, so she changed direction and opened it. Andra stood on the other side.
“Don’t look so surprised,” she told Buffy. “I told you I’d come tonight to say goodbye.”
Spike stood with Buffy as Andra stepped over the threshold. “Seems you’ve been a busy girl.” He pointed to the TV screen as Giles turned up the sound. “Looks like you’ve already been out calling.”
Andra narrowed her eyes at the screen. “That man was a criminal and I saw no justice for his crimes in the near future.”
They were all silent, but Giles frowned at her with the type of disapproval that Buffy guessed she’d seen from her own watcher a few times before she was turned.
Andra gestured with her hands in agitation. “That bastard was going to kill your slayer.” Her voice rose. “He killed my lover!”
Andra continued to glare at Giles and he only back down when the phone rang.
Spike picked it up. “Hello. Yes. Here he is.” He held the phone out for Giles, “It’s Aida wanting to know if you’d seen the news yet.”
“I’ll take it in my room.”
Once Giles was gone, Andra relaxed her stance and sighed as she watched the reporter on TV. “You can’t blame me for wanting to rid the world of that filth.” Then she spit and Buffy crinkled up her nose. “And, don’t you be telling me that I shouldn’t harm a human. There be evil out there in all types of forms. There’s a slayer out there to do the demon hunting, but no one to hunt down the evil humans.”
Spike put his arm around Buffy. “I, for one, am glad you did it. I say good riddance.”
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You've really piqued my curiosity with this snippet. I'm not a Buffy/Spike shipper, but you've really captured the flavour of an interesting relationship in this snapshot. I especially liked “It’s Spike; be insulted.” Now that's a girl who's very clear eyed about her relationship *g* And her worrying about whether Spike had lost their Paris money was a lovely touch.
I'm a bit up to my eyes with RL at the moment, but when I get some breathing space, I'll definintely go back and read the previous parts.
One little typo right at the top
trying to cling to the reality of hear and now. Should be 'here and now'.
Great first entry to the community. Keep them coming!
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I have been pleasantly surprised by the positive reactions to these two stories. They were very fun to write. So much so, that I'm having a hard time getting on with my original works. LOL!
I'm going to attempt to do original works for the prompts here. Unless one of the prompts really fits in with something I happened to be writing at the moment for my next BTVS story.