Through the Eyes of a Child
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Adult ++
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Through the Eyes of a Child
TITLE: Through the Eyes of a Child
AUTHOR: Cath
PART: 1/10
PAIRING: Spike/Xander eventually
RATING: PG-13 becomes NC17 later deals with past child abuse and m/m relationship
SPOILERS: Don’t think so
FEEDBACK: Always welcome, usually needed
DISCLAIMER: I still want and I still can’t have. They belong to Josh and Mutant Enemy. No Money, no infringement, I just wanna play with them for awhile.
THANKS: A big thank you to Alyjude, in my humble opinion the best Sentinel writer out e ane and her wonderful sweet and beautiful Sentinel story Healer for the inspiration and the reason the plot bunny bit me on the butt. http://www.skeeter63.org/~k9kennel/Alyjude.htm
THANKS also to tehaunu for being my beta on this one. You were a lifesaver.
~~italics~~ thoughts
Chapter 1
The battle was still going strong and the Scoobies were loosing ground. This demon was a total unknown, even Giles did not know what it was. It wasn’t the biggest they had ever fought, only about eight feet, but nothing they did to it had even slowed it down. Wounds healed over as fast as they were infed. ed. Xander had attacked from the rear as Buffy came in from the front, Giles jumped in at every opening he saw. Repeatedly they had attacked the demon without much luck of any kind. Buffy’s arm felt like lead and she didn’t know how much longer she could keep at it, even her slayer strength was giving out. She knew Xander and Giles must be ready to drop. Willow and Tara were calling up every defense spell they had. Their voices were growing hoarser and hoarser but nothing was working against the furred demon. They hit it with spell after spell but it made no difference. The creature struck out with it’s left arm and sent the watcher rolling up against a headstone. Giles shook his head~~well at least I didn’t get hit in the head again~~ trying to clear it before rejoining Buffy. As he was getting to his feet he noticed a dark shadow coming from behind him. ~~Oh Lord if that’s another one of the same we’re all doomed.~~ As the shadow got closer Giles began to have a little hope. It was another demon, just not the same demon. Maybe now they had a chance.
“Oi, what in the hell are you playing at now?” Spike snarled as he approached the group. “Don’t you lot know better than to mess with a Graz’elktheus demon?”
Giles looked at Spike in shock, “You know what the devil that thing is?”
“Of course I do, said so didn’t I?~~and just where the hell is my Xan-pet?~~ Hey Red, you and Glinda knock off the mojo, it don’t work. It’s immune. Slayer you have to jab it in the middle eye, that’s its only weak spot and don’t let it get a claw in you it's poison.” Buffy jumped at the demon and started stabbing at the creature’s middle eye…nothing happened. “Bloody hell you just won’t let a person finish will you? You have to use silver.” Spike pulled a dagger from his boot and started running toward the demon. He leaped up as he got near it and planted the dagger deep in the center of it’s third eye and just that fast the battle was over. As it fell, the body began to melt into a gruesome slimy mess.
“Ewwww, why do we always get the slimy, stinky demons?” Buffy whined “Why can’t they just poof like every self respecting vampire does. Oh well another night, another apocalypse stopped. Everybody OK?”
“It appears that we all survived intact and I will make sure to put in your order for a non slimy demon next time.” Giles stated as he cleaned his glasses while glancing around at the group. Willow and Tara were gathering up their supplies, Buffy was cleaning weapons and Xander… “Where’s Xander? He was off to my right just a moment ago.”
“When did you see the whelp last?” ~~and why is it always my Xan-pet you manage to loose. You never loose the flippin’ slayer bint do you?~~Spike began to run around searching behind headstones and mausoleums looking for his Xander.
“Xander, quit fooling around, it’s late and I want to go home and take a long, hot bath.” Buffy shouted “I guess we better start looking for him, he just can’t be trusted to take care of himself.”
~~One of these days Slayer…this chip’ll be history and you’ll be a happy meal.~~Spike’s thoughts were not happy ones as he searched for Xander.
The group split up and started searching in the immediate vicinity for the dark haired boy. They continued searching the cemetery in an ever widening pattern. 30 minutes into the search the group still hadn’t found him Spike was becoming frantic, bouncing from one point to the next with vampiric speed. ~~Why didn’t you wait for me Xan? I told you I would be here. I swear I’m locking you in the bleedin’ apartment for at least a month.~~
Finally they heard Tara yelling from across the cemetery, “I found him, h-hurry up, he’s hurt. I th-think it may be bad.”
Spike tore across the cemetery~~not my Xan-pet, nothings going to happen to my Xander. Do you hear me, whoever’s supposed to be listening…NOT MY Xan-pet~~ and was standing over the pair by the time the rest of the group had gotten over to where Tara was. She was on the ground with Xander’s head in her lap. He had a bloody gash across his chest that was oozing blood but he didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere else. Tara was gently patting his checks trying to wake him up but it wasn’t working.
“We had better be getting him back to the Magic Box. I will need the books there and we need to get out of the open. The demon might not have been alone. We have to try and find out how to counter act whatever the demon did to him. Spike do you know anything about the effects of a wound from that creature?” Giles did not like the feeling of being helpless, it was his job to know these things.
“All I know is that it’s supposed to be bad mojo and you shouldn’t get near the claws. No one ever told me what it does exactly.” Spike was staring at the boy on the ground wanting to grab him up and carry him away but he knew Xander would get royally pissed if he made a scene in front of the Scoobies. “Here let me get him, you lot lead the way and I’ll carry the whelp.” ~~Xan-pet what have you got in the way of this time? You’re going to quit helping the soddin’ slayer if I have to tie you to the bed.~~
“Spike I thought you said it was immune to magic.” Willow’s voice was becoming louder and shriller as if she was accusing Spike of causing this. “We quit the defense spells because YOU said they wouldn’t work.”
“I said the demon was immune to magic not that it didn’t have some mojo of it’s own. S’like mojo won’t stick to it, it just bounces off.” ~~You bloody Scoobies ain’t blamin’ me for this cockup.~~ “Now just get out of the way and let me get the boy up off the ground.”
“We don’t need your help Spike. I can carry Xander and you just go back to your crypt or wherever you hang out now.” Buffy snarled. Spike snarled right back at her in full game face, growling loudly.
“Buffy, enough. Do be quiet. Spike please quit encouraging her. Buffy, Spike is the only one with any knowledge of this demon and we may need him there.” Giles was nervously polishing his glasses again. Dealing with Buffy and Spike was like dealing with two very spoiled, aggressive children.
“Fine, but if fangless gets in the way or does anything, he’s dust.” Buffy brandished Mr. Pointy as if to prove that she wouldn’t hesitate to use it.
Giles lead the way to the Magic Box, lost in thought, trying to figure out where to start looking for a cure for the Graz’elktheus demon’s venom or whatever it happened to be. Opening the door to the shop, he motioned Spike over to the research table. Spike gently laid Xander down on the table, smoothing his hair away from his face as he let go. Giles brought a blanket from the office and covered the boy up. He pulled books down off the shelves and frantically began to search for the demon in question. The girls were standing quietly around the table Xander lay on wanting desperately to be doing something just not knowing what they should do. Tara finally took Willow’s hand and led her over to where Giles was frantically searching through books. She handed Willow a book, picked up another one and started searching for answers. Buffy just stood off to the side, she knew when it came to research, she would just be in the way.
Xander was beginning to slowly toss his head back and forth softly moaning and mumbling incoherently. Spike went back to the bathroom and wet a towel to wash the bloody of his Xan-pet’s chest. He gently opened the torn shirt and began to softly wipe away the blood. The wound wasn’t deep, just a scratch actually. It didn’t look like something that could take the boy’s life. ~~Stop it, Xan-pet has had worse than this and always survived, hell he’s had worse from his own flippin’ parents.~~ As Spike leaned down to finish taking off Xander’s shirt, he was suddenly looking into the large, dark chocolate colored eyes he knew and loved.~~yeah you’re the Big Bad alright, ready to start beggin’ for a look at those eyes, anything to show that Xan-pet is in there.~~
“It’s about time you joined us whelp. Had the watcher and the witches right worried about you, you did.”
“who are you?” Xander asked in a small whispery voice.
“Oh hell…WATCHER get over here…NOW.” Spiked yelled.
AUTHOR: Cath
PART: 1/10
PAIRING: Spike/Xander eventually
RATING: PG-13 becomes NC17 later deals with past child abuse and m/m relationship
SPOILERS: Don’t think so
FEEDBACK: Always welcome, usually needed
DISCLAIMER: I still want and I still can’t have. They belong to Josh and Mutant Enemy. No Money, no infringement, I just wanna play with them for awhile.
THANKS: A big thank you to Alyjude, in my humble opinion the best Sentinel writer out e ane and her wonderful sweet and beautiful Sentinel story Healer for the inspiration and the reason the plot bunny bit me on the butt. http://www.skeeter63.org/~k9kennel/Alyjude.htm
THANKS also to tehaunu for being my beta on this one. You were a lifesaver.
~~italics~~ thoughts
Chapter 1
The battle was still going strong and the Scoobies were loosing ground. This demon was a total unknown, even Giles did not know what it was. It wasn’t the biggest they had ever fought, only about eight feet, but nothing they did to it had even slowed it down. Wounds healed over as fast as they were infed. ed. Xander had attacked from the rear as Buffy came in from the front, Giles jumped in at every opening he saw. Repeatedly they had attacked the demon without much luck of any kind. Buffy’s arm felt like lead and she didn’t know how much longer she could keep at it, even her slayer strength was giving out. She knew Xander and Giles must be ready to drop. Willow and Tara were calling up every defense spell they had. Their voices were growing hoarser and hoarser but nothing was working against the furred demon. They hit it with spell after spell but it made no difference. The creature struck out with it’s left arm and sent the watcher rolling up against a headstone. Giles shook his head~~well at least I didn’t get hit in the head again~~ trying to clear it before rejoining Buffy. As he was getting to his feet he noticed a dark shadow coming from behind him. ~~Oh Lord if that’s another one of the same we’re all doomed.~~ As the shadow got closer Giles began to have a little hope. It was another demon, just not the same demon. Maybe now they had a chance.
“Oi, what in the hell are you playing at now?” Spike snarled as he approached the group. “Don’t you lot know better than to mess with a Graz’elktheus demon?”
Giles looked at Spike in shock, “You know what the devil that thing is?”
“Of course I do, said so didn’t I?~~and just where the hell is my Xan-pet?~~ Hey Red, you and Glinda knock off the mojo, it don’t work. It’s immune. Slayer you have to jab it in the middle eye, that’s its only weak spot and don’t let it get a claw in you it's poison.” Buffy jumped at the demon and started stabbing at the creature’s middle eye…nothing happened. “Bloody hell you just won’t let a person finish will you? You have to use silver.” Spike pulled a dagger from his boot and started running toward the demon. He leaped up as he got near it and planted the dagger deep in the center of it’s third eye and just that fast the battle was over. As it fell, the body began to melt into a gruesome slimy mess.
“Ewwww, why do we always get the slimy, stinky demons?” Buffy whined “Why can’t they just poof like every self respecting vampire does. Oh well another night, another apocalypse stopped. Everybody OK?”
“It appears that we all survived intact and I will make sure to put in your order for a non slimy demon next time.” Giles stated as he cleaned his glasses while glancing around at the group. Willow and Tara were gathering up their supplies, Buffy was cleaning weapons and Xander… “Where’s Xander? He was off to my right just a moment ago.”
“When did you see the whelp last?” ~~and why is it always my Xan-pet you manage to loose. You never loose the flippin’ slayer bint do you?~~Spike began to run around searching behind headstones and mausoleums looking for his Xander.
“Xander, quit fooling around, it’s late and I want to go home and take a long, hot bath.” Buffy shouted “I guess we better start looking for him, he just can’t be trusted to take care of himself.”
~~One of these days Slayer…this chip’ll be history and you’ll be a happy meal.~~Spike’s thoughts were not happy ones as he searched for Xander.
The group split up and started searching in the immediate vicinity for the dark haired boy. They continued searching the cemetery in an ever widening pattern. 30 minutes into the search the group still hadn’t found him Spike was becoming frantic, bouncing from one point to the next with vampiric speed. ~~Why didn’t you wait for me Xan? I told you I would be here. I swear I’m locking you in the bleedin’ apartment for at least a month.~~
Finally they heard Tara yelling from across the cemetery, “I found him, h-hurry up, he’s hurt. I th-think it may be bad.”
Spike tore across the cemetery~~not my Xan-pet, nothings going to happen to my Xander. Do you hear me, whoever’s supposed to be listening…NOT MY Xan-pet~~ and was standing over the pair by the time the rest of the group had gotten over to where Tara was. She was on the ground with Xander’s head in her lap. He had a bloody gash across his chest that was oozing blood but he didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere else. Tara was gently patting his checks trying to wake him up but it wasn’t working.
“We had better be getting him back to the Magic Box. I will need the books there and we need to get out of the open. The demon might not have been alone. We have to try and find out how to counter act whatever the demon did to him. Spike do you know anything about the effects of a wound from that creature?” Giles did not like the feeling of being helpless, it was his job to know these things.
“All I know is that it’s supposed to be bad mojo and you shouldn’t get near the claws. No one ever told me what it does exactly.” Spike was staring at the boy on the ground wanting to grab him up and carry him away but he knew Xander would get royally pissed if he made a scene in front of the Scoobies. “Here let me get him, you lot lead the way and I’ll carry the whelp.” ~~Xan-pet what have you got in the way of this time? You’re going to quit helping the soddin’ slayer if I have to tie you to the bed.~~
“Spike I thought you said it was immune to magic.” Willow’s voice was becoming louder and shriller as if she was accusing Spike of causing this. “We quit the defense spells because YOU said they wouldn’t work.”
“I said the demon was immune to magic not that it didn’t have some mojo of it’s own. S’like mojo won’t stick to it, it just bounces off.” ~~You bloody Scoobies ain’t blamin’ me for this cockup.~~ “Now just get out of the way and let me get the boy up off the ground.”
“We don’t need your help Spike. I can carry Xander and you just go back to your crypt or wherever you hang out now.” Buffy snarled. Spike snarled right back at her in full game face, growling loudly.
“Buffy, enough. Do be quiet. Spike please quit encouraging her. Buffy, Spike is the only one with any knowledge of this demon and we may need him there.” Giles was nervously polishing his glasses again. Dealing with Buffy and Spike was like dealing with two very spoiled, aggressive children.
“Fine, but if fangless gets in the way or does anything, he’s dust.” Buffy brandished Mr. Pointy as if to prove that she wouldn’t hesitate to use it.
Giles lead the way to the Magic Box, lost in thought, trying to figure out where to start looking for a cure for the Graz’elktheus demon’s venom or whatever it happened to be. Opening the door to the shop, he motioned Spike over to the research table. Spike gently laid Xander down on the table, smoothing his hair away from his face as he let go. Giles brought a blanket from the office and covered the boy up. He pulled books down off the shelves and frantically began to search for the demon in question. The girls were standing quietly around the table Xander lay on wanting desperately to be doing something just not knowing what they should do. Tara finally took Willow’s hand and led her over to where Giles was frantically searching through books. She handed Willow a book, picked up another one and started searching for answers. Buffy just stood off to the side, she knew when it came to research, she would just be in the way.
Xander was beginning to slowly toss his head back and forth softly moaning and mumbling incoherently. Spike went back to the bathroom and wet a towel to wash the bloody of his Xan-pet’s chest. He gently opened the torn shirt and began to softly wipe away the blood. The wound wasn’t deep, just a scratch actually. It didn’t look like something that could take the boy’s life. ~~Stop it, Xan-pet has had worse than this and always survived, hell he’s had worse from his own flippin’ parents.~~ As Spike leaned down to finish taking off Xander’s shirt, he was suddenly looking into the large, dark chocolate colored eyes he knew and loved.~~yeah you’re the Big Bad alright, ready to start beggin’ for a look at those eyes, anything to show that Xan-pet is in there.~~
“It’s about time you joined us whelp. Had the watcher and the witches right worried about you, you did.”
“who are you?” Xander asked in a small whispery voice.
“Oh hell…WATCHER get over here…NOW.” Spiked yelled.