Hell Is In the Details
Interlude - In My Minds Eye
Hell Is
Buffy
Oh God, it’s over. She’s really done it. Ended
her teenaged fantasy of perfect romance once and for all.
Buffy sits on the bed, watching over an
exhausted Spike as he slumbers, her hand gently stroking his sleep-lax face.
So young and peaceful in repose, it’s easy to forget Spike’s century of murder
and mayhem, she reminds herself.
Is he her future? One way or another, they’re tied together.
They break and bleed for each other. She’s risked life and limb to rescue him –
he’s died for her.
Come what may.
Spike
Exhaustion. Overwhelming inexorable
bone-deep mind numbing fatigue keep his eyes closed. Spike knows she’s sitting
with him. Her scent and her touch are sense memory for him. Just knowing she’s
there allows him to relax.
His magnificent bitch Queen. Spike
just knows he’s smiling. If she asks for a limb, he’ll willingly hand her the
blade… because he knows, finally. In
word and in deed she’s proven her feelings today. He matters –
When he wakes up, he’ll thank her for putting him first.
Gunn, Lorne, Harmony - supportive
friends – novel for him. He could get used to this.
Lorne
He’s a lover, not a fighter. His motto
since Pylea. So pray tell, how did he end up
with two vampires, a Slayer and a street thug cum magically enhanced lawyer in
his home?
Slayer VampVampire – an old tale, with a
re-cast male lead. All the makings of a smash hit.
Vampy
little secretary. Ah well, he can always use an assistant no matter what
he does next. Gunn? He’ll stay or go as he sees fit.
No worries there.
They saved a soul and a life, but his heart breaks as it
sings.
Busted trust and lost friendship.
Harmony
Oh God! What did she do? Is she nuts? Where the hell is she
going to find another office job that operates on vampire time? And there’s the
issue of her apartment and finding a source for blood and keeping up with the
latest fashions… what’s a single vampiress to do?
Even without a soul, Harmony knew she did the right thing.
She’s always been Sireless. Making her way in the
world without help has been more than difficult. But if a Sire could do what
Angel did to heondiondie Bear… maybe she’s been the lucky one all along.
Gunn
Man, why does it always boil down to taking sides? Bloods
and Cryps, humans and vamps… Rodney King had the
right of it. Why can’t they all just get along?
He’s so damned tired of fighting. Thought the law was the
way out, finally. Yeah, demons for clients, but he was dealin.’
The law was resolute, until he pushed at it. Wasn’t bloody
until Angel made it so.
He’ll never look at it in the same way again.
Not since Spike. To see him so trashed by
the letter of the law. Vampire law. Bastards
were as devious as humans.
Wes
Wes has a headache no mere analgesic will banish. How does
one cope with finding out that the vampire he’s trusted with his life for more
than five years has baldly lied about events from the past year?
It’s not the issue of Spike, per se. He doesn’t know him on
a personal level. But he does… did know Angel – or so he thought.
beast.
To be capable of murder by disassociation
even with his soul and lying about it? How can he trust in Angel again?
Fred
Fred’s heard of the ruckus in Angel’s office over lunch in
the Wolfram & Hart cafeteria. So much hostility and venom, she decided
discretion was the better part of valor and tucked tail, hiding in her lab.
So confusing. Angel’s old
girlfriend now has a new boyfriend, who was also a vampire who was once part of
Angel’s family but who’s since been sold like an animal to the slaughter.
Spike had survived, just like she did in Pylea. Angel Loss and betrayal rival an edged blade in their ability to Images of William laid out before him – held fast by chains Held in Gunn’s arms – “You set me free – my own, now!” Angel awakens with a scream, muffled by the fangs embedded And he wonders if he might have gone too far, after all. Anya Nobody knows she’s still around; still in existence. She’s happy now. No ties to the pathetic band of mortal She hears a pained cry for justice… from Buffy? Wish granted!
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Only met him once, for a few brief moments last year, but she tips her hat to
him for his rescue.
cause pain, and awareness is a double edged sword. Angelus wielded these tools
like a master.
and cuffs, hole torn and dripping with his Sire’s
in his lower lip.
just as her mortal body was pierced by the Turok-han’s
blade. Back in the vengeance game with a… well… vengeance.
children she’d been attached at the hip to. Xander
will move on – maybe find himself a good man for a change.
she’ll find her own way.
– about time she admitted her feelings for him.