How to Woo a Vampire
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Chapter 3: Thoughts on Love
Disclaimer: see previous chapters
A/N: This may hopefully be the longest chapter thus far and hopefully it explains a few things, so on with the chapter.
Chapter Three
The next night Spike hurried home earlier than usual, after facing Buffy’s wrath for leaving early. As he approached the crypt he saw another soldier on his doorstep. This one arrived missing his torso. The extremities, his arms, legs and head, were laying around another gift box as though it were a body. The box that sat in the center was wrapped just like the previous one but instead of envelope had a simple note in even messier scrawl than the previous and unsigned taped to the top it read:
“With all my love and vengeance.”
After walking into his crypt and calling the same clean up crew as the night before opening the box. Inside this one was a heart, most likely belonging with the pieces of the same soldier laying outside.
Spike knew after the first letter who it was sending him the ‘pressies’ and he thought he knew the why, which was Drucilla’s crazy scheme to gain his loyalty back by using the whelp. Spike told himself he was a changed man …, ok vampire, he was in love with Buffy and with her his loyalty will stay because soon he said she will see that the soldier boy is no good for her. When that happens Spike will be there to pick up the pieces of her broken heart.
And yet, despite all of his reassurances to himself that he was and would remain unaffected by the gifts part of him saw the gifts as more than a scheme to bring him back into the family. They were sweet and romantic, in an evil vampire sort of way.
Spike quickly changed the path his mind was on because he was a changed vampire and was in love with Buffy, and was not going to go back the family because of the whims of his crazy sire. But deep down he knew that Xander was smart, and had a dark side that would not at all make him subservient to Drucilla. And, as such there was a very good chance that these gifts meant more than just that. In that same small piece of his mind he also realized that not only was Buffy a first class bitch, but as the slayer loving her was idiocy. However, it was that little part of his mind he was ignoring.
For the week to come he continued to follow his routine of going and helping the slayer (i.e. annoying the Scooby gang) and then rushing back to his crypt right before day break to see the latest ‘pressie’. While most of the soldiers continued in the same vein of dismemberment and entrails his two favorites were came near the end of the week.
One night he returned to his crypt and as he got closer he noticed a distinct lack of a body, or body parts. Refusing to admit even to himself his own disappointment at the lack of a gift he continued on slowly to his crypt. Not paying attention to anything other than the heavy door of the crypt Spike goes flying iinto said door when he trips over the large box wrapped in plain black paper in front of it. Eagerly Spike grabs the box and hurries inside and after looking for a card he rips open the paper and opens the box. Inside are what appears to be five sets of male genitals wrapped together in what appears to be someone’s small intestines. Below the odd arrangement of body parts was another envelope. Spike puuled out the note and put the box wit the genitalia on the floor.
Spike,
Well flowers are so overdone so I decided to make an arrangement you might actually like and want to keep. I hope you are enjoying your pressies and don’t worry despite the lack of a death on their part for this one my vengeance for you will continue.
With all my Love and death,
Your Whelp
P.S. sorry for the different paper I ran out of the red.
The next night Spike returned to his crypt with a cooler of porky’s best courtesy of the watcher and came upon another black wrapped box. Putting the cooler on inside the crypt, he grabbed the box and sitting down he pulled off the note on top and ripped off the paper. Opening the box lid he saw what looked liked ground meat he poked around the box and that was all that was in there. Confused at why he was given ground meat he opened the letter and began to read.
Spike,
Before you start wondering what on earth you just got lets just say one of the soldier’s had a unfortunate meeting with a meat grinder. But on a lighter note just consider this the appetizer to dinner. Goodbye for now.
Your’s alone,
Zeppo
Puzzling over the meaning of the note Spike placed the box of ground up soldier next to the other gifts in a dark hidden corner of the room.
The next night Spike realized it would be a week of gifts and he wondered if they would continue. After the first two nights they seemed to be mundane torture victims, but the last two victims were creative to say the least.. As he walked up to the crypt he saw a soldier was laying in front. Upon closer inspection he noticed the body had no discernable marks and seemed pristine and also there was no gift box near it. Except for the fatigues Spike would not have known it was likely to be a gift and not a random body.
He finally noticed a note on the ground next to his neck. Because the placement was so perfect, so Spike knew no minion had been haphazardly arranging the gifts and so the card must be placed there for a reason. It was then he noticed the bandage on the neck nect to the note, removing it he noticed the neck had been partially sliced open and the soldier had most likely just died in the past few minutes. Seeing the sun rising Spike quickly grabbed the letter and the body and after glancing around to see if anyone was lurking about the graveyard he carried both inside.
After quickly draining the body of the rest of its blood, making it the best meal he had in since the initiative put the chip in his head. Spike sat down on his couch staring at the dead soldier on his floor content and sated for once due to the human blood.
Sitting there he realized he felt no remorse at all for the soldier’s fate or his actions and is glad for the blood. ‘Does that mean I haven’t changed for Buffy like I thought, could I still be … no it just means I hate the soldiers and what they did to me so when they get their comeuppance which they are I should be glad.’
“Bloody hell.” Spike yelled aloud, “This whole situation is driving me battier than Dru. I mean the whelp is a vampire, a vampire who is wooing me by killing soldiers, and while that part isn’t so bad,” he stopped to think for a moment on the deserved torture of the initiative men. “The why, however, is getting me Dru is as impatient as I am unless its something that causes mass bloody mayhem she saw in a vision; so she would have shown herself to me by now, not continue giving me presents. So does this mean the whelps doing all of this? Soldier boy knows something has been taking them and believes they are most likely dead, hell even Buffy knows, in fact, she accused me:
Flashback
"…, okay so what do you think is causing the deaths Riley. It could be random demon attacks but the fact that your soldiers are disappearing one a night from seemingly routine patrols makes things weird.”
‘So the slayer doesn’t know what is happening to the soldiers interesting.’ Spike thought as he caught the last part of the conversation as he entered the Magic Box and discretely stood just inside the door to listen to the slayer and soldier boy converse. Lost in thought he does not notice as Willow and Tara enter the Magic Box and thus announce his presence to the slayer he is spying on.
Once he comes to her attention Buffy stands up and walks to him yelling, “SPIKE, what are you doing! I bet you have something to do with these soldiers’ disappearances. What did you do hire a demon to kill them for you or something. It is my duty to stake such a menace to society, oh wait your not a menace just an annoyance considering you’ve been neutered and have to hire out demons to do your dirty work. But you know what I have had enough of you I am so going to stake you before you cause more trou …”
As Giles entered the main store where the one sided confrontation is taking place, he puts an end to the current round of ‘Lets stake Spike’ by dropping a few large, dusty, old tomes on the table. “Well now before you do anything rash Buffy I do believe Spike will be needed on patrol tonight. The demon Riley saw last night is quite strong and I believe it may take both of you to kill it I suggest you start out soon.”
As the gang began to get ready for patrol Spike decided to ask the question that had plagued him for the last few days. Knowing what is going on unlike the others he wondered why Xander had not been mentioned in passing since he was not there. “Hey red, where’s the whelp haven’t seen him in awhile, and he is usually always here with donuts?”
“Oh yeah thanks Spike,” she said turning to the rest of the occupants in the room. “Hey guys that reminds me, Xander called earlier to say he’s going to busy for awhile. He said that he may be close to a promotion and so he is focusing on work for now. Which is such a good thing cause he seemed so depressed when Anya broke up with him. I mean I did not want to pressure him when he called and told me he and Anya were broken up but I was so worried that he was just locking himself in at home.”
“So, red the whelp and demon girl broke up did they, when did this happen?” Spike asked wondering why the witch was saying she had talked recently to Xander, when he knew he had been dead at least a week.
“About a week ago she told him that she wanted to see other guys and just left, he seemed so upset about it,” Willow replied looking sad for her friend.
Spike realized that Xander had been calling and talking to his friends providing an alibi while he had fun with murder and mayhem, which proved that Xander, at least as a vampire, really is smart. Before the others could give him weird looks for seeming concerned he commented, “Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.”
“Come on Spike, lets go before I feel I have to stake you”
End Flashback
Spike realized thinking back on that night that Xander, at least when he was human, would never have missed a Scooby meeting even for a job promotion or because his girlfriend broke up with him. He may have had no powers but he was loyal and helped no matter what. That bit of insight into the boy’s psyche is not something even his closest friends recognized and yet the evil vampire who he claimed to hate did.
Also his vampiric behavior is not that of a stupid fledge, but of one more akin to a master. He creates an alibi so his friends won’t become suspicious and the ‘pressies’ are well planned and quite wicked. “Hey the boy makes a good vampire go figure, unless Dru actually is controlling the strings,” he says aloud.
The statement made him think, Dru’s style was never like this, and Dru would never think to call the Scoobies to make an alibi, even Angelus wouldn’t do something like that. Maybe the boy is still loyal to his friends after turning. Though, while not unheard of it is uncommon for vampires to retain loyalty to human friends after turning, but then again Dru turned him so he’s got to have a lose screw somewhere it only stands to reason.
As Spike becomes increasingly frustrated with the conundrum Xander presents him, he realized he hasn’t read the letter yet.
“My Spike,
That may be a bit forward, but seeing as I am wooing you I think it is appropriate. By now you are probably working yourself into a tizzy wondering what is going on, and since asking Dru yourself seems like such a Spike thing to do (note the sarcasm) I will tell what is going on myself. Drucilla has in fact, left Sunnydale and is in LA awaiting our arrival. Also, don’t bother looking for me either, I am in hiding and doing a pretty good job of it if I do say so myself. Drucilla wants you back in the family and planned to use me in some twisted plot to do so, however I decided against that and am instead wooing you my own way as I believe I have said before. So, Drucilla is not pulling my strings so you don’t have to worry about that, this idea is all mine. Haiving said that I hope you like your latest pressie, I thought since fancy restaurants are so overdone, something more nutritious was in order, especially after last night’s appetizer. The gang is probably wondering what is happening to the soldiers, there is enough missing to cause suspicion, did Buffy blame you, of course she did that is Buffy’s style. You’re a vampire who is not a brooding souled bastard so she will never notice you like you want her to. I am sorry to say that, but think about it why have the slayer bitch, when you can have a vampire mate. Think about it, until next time.
Adieu,
Your Dark Knight”
After reading the letter, Spike wondered if Xander had been following him, the last body was warm when he found it so it had just been left there. Could Xander have been waiting and watching for him in order to kill and place the latest ‘pressie’? And also, he said Dru is not pulling the strings it is all the boy and he openly and honestly trying to win my heart, such a stupid human thing to do. As Spike thinks about this concept, he relegates the fact that he himself is trying to win the slayer’s heart in a similar fashion to that small place in his mind that holds all that he is in denial over. Instead, he focuses on just what could Xander be doing now.
A/N: Well that is it for now hopefully more will be posted soon. And for anyone who has seen this on FF.net, it is posted under a different user name, iuveniachick, so it is still me writing this story and is not being plagiarized. Just thought I would add that. Thanks for reading.
A/N: This may hopefully be the longest chapter thus far and hopefully it explains a few things, so on with the chapter.
Chapter Three
The next night Spike hurried home earlier than usual, after facing Buffy’s wrath for leaving early. As he approached the crypt he saw another soldier on his doorstep. This one arrived missing his torso. The extremities, his arms, legs and head, were laying around another gift box as though it were a body. The box that sat in the center was wrapped just like the previous one but instead of envelope had a simple note in even messier scrawl than the previous and unsigned taped to the top it read:
“With all my love and vengeance.”
After walking into his crypt and calling the same clean up crew as the night before opening the box. Inside this one was a heart, most likely belonging with the pieces of the same soldier laying outside.
Spike knew after the first letter who it was sending him the ‘pressies’ and he thought he knew the why, which was Drucilla’s crazy scheme to gain his loyalty back by using the whelp. Spike told himself he was a changed man …, ok vampire, he was in love with Buffy and with her his loyalty will stay because soon he said she will see that the soldier boy is no good for her. When that happens Spike will be there to pick up the pieces of her broken heart.
And yet, despite all of his reassurances to himself that he was and would remain unaffected by the gifts part of him saw the gifts as more than a scheme to bring him back into the family. They were sweet and romantic, in an evil vampire sort of way.
Spike quickly changed the path his mind was on because he was a changed vampire and was in love with Buffy, and was not going to go back the family because of the whims of his crazy sire. But deep down he knew that Xander was smart, and had a dark side that would not at all make him subservient to Drucilla. And, as such there was a very good chance that these gifts meant more than just that. In that same small piece of his mind he also realized that not only was Buffy a first class bitch, but as the slayer loving her was idiocy. However, it was that little part of his mind he was ignoring.
For the week to come he continued to follow his routine of going and helping the slayer (i.e. annoying the Scooby gang) and then rushing back to his crypt right before day break to see the latest ‘pressie’. While most of the soldiers continued in the same vein of dismemberment and entrails his two favorites were came near the end of the week.
One night he returned to his crypt and as he got closer he noticed a distinct lack of a body, or body parts. Refusing to admit even to himself his own disappointment at the lack of a gift he continued on slowly to his crypt. Not paying attention to anything other than the heavy door of the crypt Spike goes flying iinto said door when he trips over the large box wrapped in plain black paper in front of it. Eagerly Spike grabs the box and hurries inside and after looking for a card he rips open the paper and opens the box. Inside are what appears to be five sets of male genitals wrapped together in what appears to be someone’s small intestines. Below the odd arrangement of body parts was another envelope. Spike puuled out the note and put the box wit the genitalia on the floor.
Spike,
Well flowers are so overdone so I decided to make an arrangement you might actually like and want to keep. I hope you are enjoying your pressies and don’t worry despite the lack of a death on their part for this one my vengeance for you will continue.
With all my Love and death,
Your Whelp
P.S. sorry for the different paper I ran out of the red.
The next night Spike returned to his crypt with a cooler of porky’s best courtesy of the watcher and came upon another black wrapped box. Putting the cooler on inside the crypt, he grabbed the box and sitting down he pulled off the note on top and ripped off the paper. Opening the box lid he saw what looked liked ground meat he poked around the box and that was all that was in there. Confused at why he was given ground meat he opened the letter and began to read.
Spike,
Before you start wondering what on earth you just got lets just say one of the soldier’s had a unfortunate meeting with a meat grinder. But on a lighter note just consider this the appetizer to dinner. Goodbye for now.
Your’s alone,
Zeppo
Puzzling over the meaning of the note Spike placed the box of ground up soldier next to the other gifts in a dark hidden corner of the room.
The next night Spike realized it would be a week of gifts and he wondered if they would continue. After the first two nights they seemed to be mundane torture victims, but the last two victims were creative to say the least.. As he walked up to the crypt he saw a soldier was laying in front. Upon closer inspection he noticed the body had no discernable marks and seemed pristine and also there was no gift box near it. Except for the fatigues Spike would not have known it was likely to be a gift and not a random body.
He finally noticed a note on the ground next to his neck. Because the placement was so perfect, so Spike knew no minion had been haphazardly arranging the gifts and so the card must be placed there for a reason. It was then he noticed the bandage on the neck nect to the note, removing it he noticed the neck had been partially sliced open and the soldier had most likely just died in the past few minutes. Seeing the sun rising Spike quickly grabbed the letter and the body and after glancing around to see if anyone was lurking about the graveyard he carried both inside.
After quickly draining the body of the rest of its blood, making it the best meal he had in since the initiative put the chip in his head. Spike sat down on his couch staring at the dead soldier on his floor content and sated for once due to the human blood.
Sitting there he realized he felt no remorse at all for the soldier’s fate or his actions and is glad for the blood. ‘Does that mean I haven’t changed for Buffy like I thought, could I still be … no it just means I hate the soldiers and what they did to me so when they get their comeuppance which they are I should be glad.’
“Bloody hell.” Spike yelled aloud, “This whole situation is driving me battier than Dru. I mean the whelp is a vampire, a vampire who is wooing me by killing soldiers, and while that part isn’t so bad,” he stopped to think for a moment on the deserved torture of the initiative men. “The why, however, is getting me Dru is as impatient as I am unless its something that causes mass bloody mayhem she saw in a vision; so she would have shown herself to me by now, not continue giving me presents. So does this mean the whelps doing all of this? Soldier boy knows something has been taking them and believes they are most likely dead, hell even Buffy knows, in fact, she accused me:
Flashback
"…, okay so what do you think is causing the deaths Riley. It could be random demon attacks but the fact that your soldiers are disappearing one a night from seemingly routine patrols makes things weird.”
‘So the slayer doesn’t know what is happening to the soldiers interesting.’ Spike thought as he caught the last part of the conversation as he entered the Magic Box and discretely stood just inside the door to listen to the slayer and soldier boy converse. Lost in thought he does not notice as Willow and Tara enter the Magic Box and thus announce his presence to the slayer he is spying on.
Once he comes to her attention Buffy stands up and walks to him yelling, “SPIKE, what are you doing! I bet you have something to do with these soldiers’ disappearances. What did you do hire a demon to kill them for you or something. It is my duty to stake such a menace to society, oh wait your not a menace just an annoyance considering you’ve been neutered and have to hire out demons to do your dirty work. But you know what I have had enough of you I am so going to stake you before you cause more trou …”
As Giles entered the main store where the one sided confrontation is taking place, he puts an end to the current round of ‘Lets stake Spike’ by dropping a few large, dusty, old tomes on the table. “Well now before you do anything rash Buffy I do believe Spike will be needed on patrol tonight. The demon Riley saw last night is quite strong and I believe it may take both of you to kill it I suggest you start out soon.”
As the gang began to get ready for patrol Spike decided to ask the question that had plagued him for the last few days. Knowing what is going on unlike the others he wondered why Xander had not been mentioned in passing since he was not there. “Hey red, where’s the whelp haven’t seen him in awhile, and he is usually always here with donuts?”
“Oh yeah thanks Spike,” she said turning to the rest of the occupants in the room. “Hey guys that reminds me, Xander called earlier to say he’s going to busy for awhile. He said that he may be close to a promotion and so he is focusing on work for now. Which is such a good thing cause he seemed so depressed when Anya broke up with him. I mean I did not want to pressure him when he called and told me he and Anya were broken up but I was so worried that he was just locking himself in at home.”
“So, red the whelp and demon girl broke up did they, when did this happen?” Spike asked wondering why the witch was saying she had talked recently to Xander, when he knew he had been dead at least a week.
“About a week ago she told him that she wanted to see other guys and just left, he seemed so upset about it,” Willow replied looking sad for her friend.
Spike realized that Xander had been calling and talking to his friends providing an alibi while he had fun with murder and mayhem, which proved that Xander, at least as a vampire, really is smart. Before the others could give him weird looks for seeming concerned he commented, “Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.”
“Come on Spike, lets go before I feel I have to stake you”
End Flashback
Spike realized thinking back on that night that Xander, at least when he was human, would never have missed a Scooby meeting even for a job promotion or because his girlfriend broke up with him. He may have had no powers but he was loyal and helped no matter what. That bit of insight into the boy’s psyche is not something even his closest friends recognized and yet the evil vampire who he claimed to hate did.
Also his vampiric behavior is not that of a stupid fledge, but of one more akin to a master. He creates an alibi so his friends won’t become suspicious and the ‘pressies’ are well planned and quite wicked. “Hey the boy makes a good vampire go figure, unless Dru actually is controlling the strings,” he says aloud.
The statement made him think, Dru’s style was never like this, and Dru would never think to call the Scoobies to make an alibi, even Angelus wouldn’t do something like that. Maybe the boy is still loyal to his friends after turning. Though, while not unheard of it is uncommon for vampires to retain loyalty to human friends after turning, but then again Dru turned him so he’s got to have a lose screw somewhere it only stands to reason.
As Spike becomes increasingly frustrated with the conundrum Xander presents him, he realized he hasn’t read the letter yet.
“My Spike,
That may be a bit forward, but seeing as I am wooing you I think it is appropriate. By now you are probably working yourself into a tizzy wondering what is going on, and since asking Dru yourself seems like such a Spike thing to do (note the sarcasm) I will tell what is going on myself. Drucilla has in fact, left Sunnydale and is in LA awaiting our arrival. Also, don’t bother looking for me either, I am in hiding and doing a pretty good job of it if I do say so myself. Drucilla wants you back in the family and planned to use me in some twisted plot to do so, however I decided against that and am instead wooing you my own way as I believe I have said before. So, Drucilla is not pulling my strings so you don’t have to worry about that, this idea is all mine. Haiving said that I hope you like your latest pressie, I thought since fancy restaurants are so overdone, something more nutritious was in order, especially after last night’s appetizer. The gang is probably wondering what is happening to the soldiers, there is enough missing to cause suspicion, did Buffy blame you, of course she did that is Buffy’s style. You’re a vampire who is not a brooding souled bastard so she will never notice you like you want her to. I am sorry to say that, but think about it why have the slayer bitch, when you can have a vampire mate. Think about it, until next time.
Adieu,
Your Dark Knight”
After reading the letter, Spike wondered if Xander had been following him, the last body was warm when he found it so it had just been left there. Could Xander have been waiting and watching for him in order to kill and place the latest ‘pressie’? And also, he said Dru is not pulling the strings it is all the boy and he openly and honestly trying to win my heart, such a stupid human thing to do. As Spike thinks about this concept, he relegates the fact that he himself is trying to win the slayer’s heart in a similar fashion to that small place in his mind that holds all that he is in denial over. Instead, he focuses on just what could Xander be doing now.
A/N: Well that is it for now hopefully more will be posted soon. And for anyone who has seen this on FF.net, it is posted under a different user name, iuveniachick, so it is still me writing this story and is not being plagiarized. Just thought I would add that. Thanks for reading.