How to Woo a Vampire

WARNING: TORTURE SCENE DEPICTED AT THE END, IF YOU DON’T CARE TO READ THEN SKIP IT. THIS CHAPTER IS BY FAR THE MOST VIOLENT, AND THE SCENE UNDER THE CUT IS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO READ IT. IT DEPICTS IN GRAPHIC DETAIL THE TORTURE OF ONE OF XANDER'S VICTIMS.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the characters or world, and the plot is only slightly mine.

A/N: Ok ladies and gents this chapter is a bit different from the others in the fact that it actually depicts the torture of one of the initiative boys. The scene itself is separated from the rest of the chapter so if its not your thing then skip the last part of the chapter nothing happens after the torture so its unimportant to the plot of the story just an added bonus of sorts. I would like to send a special thanks out to a good friend who has been helping in the creative process of this story with little ideas here and there and some Buffy canon. The torture section is mostly for her, and she knows who she is. Thanks again for reading and enjoy.
Chapter 7

Across town from Spike Xander walked into the manor after having deposited the last gift feeling as though he just had the most invigorating fight of his life. It wasn’t as though Riley was the most difficult soldier to kill, he was in fact quite easy to catch off guard mainly because he knew Xander, but maybe it was because of all the pent up aggression he has had towards all of Buffy’s simpering boy toys. And though he wasn’t able to draw it out like he wished he could but it was still satisfying.

‘But if I waited one more night, then I could have tortured Riley even further, no I can still torture Angel for awhile, and Spike gets his present on time, win win situation,’ he thought to himself laughing. While he did somewhat worry about one of the Scoobies finding out about Spike’s pressies any reaction they have, especially Buffy could only be good for him in the long run, because it would show Spike what they truly think of him.

Before falling asleep Xander reminds himself to call both his sire the next day to see how she is faring in her quest in LA and Willow to see what the Scooby gang has figured out about any new situations in town. In other words him. After awhile Xander decided to forego sleep and instead reminisce about the evening’s activities.

Flashback:

As Riley silently patrolled one of the many cemeteries of Sunnydale late one night, having snuck away from Buffy’s overbearing guardianship, he heard a noise coming form a nearby crypt. After the rash of disappearances of his men, he decided to err on the side of caution and try to wait out whatever monster lurked in the shadows. As he turned toward the crypt gun in hand a deep, gravelly voice called out, “You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?”

Riley now agitated even further than before decided to take proactive measures and called back, “Who the fuck is there, I’m armed so come out before I start shooting.”

Walking out of the shadows of the crypt into the moonlight with his hands up and a sheepish expression on his face was Xander, “Sorry Riley, jeez I thought it was funny, you know just a joke, just a simple little joke that does not require life endage. It is just the harmless Zeppo here, no one dangerous or scary or shootable, just harmless old donut and pizza grabbing Xandman. I haven’t been able to see you guys for awhile due to work so I’d thought I ‘d see if you guys need help with patrol tonight cuz I have some free time. Wasn’t expecting you out her all by yourself I mean usually patrol is in groups so I ‘d thought I’d at least get to see some of you guys. Again wasn’t expecting to see you here with just a gun and you know on the topic of the gun it’s kinda making me fidgety so could you maybe drop it a bit or put it away cuz having a gun pointed at you isn’t the kind of experience I’m wanting right now not exactly fun.”

Exasperated yet again by the stupidity of the most useless of the self-proclaimed Scooby gang, Riley began to reprimand Xander as he lowered his weapon. “Oh sorry to scare you Xander, but you shouldn’t do those things, patrol should be taken seriously and I almost shot you because of your funny little joke. It wasn’t funny it was irresponsible and so is wandering around the cemetery at night without proper backup, I mean I’m trained for these kinds of field ops but your not, and are you okay Xander you look kind of funny?” He asked this as he noticed Xander began to lose the sheepish expression from before turn into an evil looking smirk, something that seemed out of place on not only Xander’s face but on someone who should be is being scolded for their idiocy.

Still slightly smirking Xander began to close off his expression again as he asks, “Oh yeah I’m fine just been busy and such doing work and stuff so anything interesting happening lately? I’ve just been feeling left out and I know its my fault and don’t worry Riley I learned my lesson I’ll never do this again.”

As Riley explained to Xander about the missing soldiers and how worried the gang was Xander’s smirk comes back and continues to widen as he steps closer to Riley to show his support for his ‘friend’.

“Xander this is serious stop smirking like that this is not funny this is a real situation and if you can’t handle that then you should just go home.” Riley said this becoming very annoyed by Xander’s reaction. As Xander continued in the same fashion, Riley only begins to anger and before he can continue to tell off Xander for being such a moron, the useless human quickly moves toward Riley with preternatural speed and takes the gun saying nothing except to step back, and smirk wider.

“Hey Xander what the hell is wrong with you, are you possessed again, why are pointing that at me, give me my gun back it’s government property, remember Xander you’re a good guy and you should not be damaging government property like that,” Riley says quickly as though unaware of the now mounting danger in the situation.

“Good, bad, I'm the one with the gun,” was all Xander replied with giving Riley an evil smirk as he raised the gun, pointing it at Riley.

Now worried about the Scooby’s attitude, Riley takes a cautious step back, “What the fuck Xander have you lost it?”

Xander laughs and shoots Riley in the knee and when he goes down Xander steps closer anmd grabs Riley by the throat. Smirking Xander suddenly changes into a vampipric game face shocking Riley. The situation still hdn’t sunk in when Riley heard Xander whisper in his ear, “It's all fun and games until someone gets shot in the leg” before the former donut boy used the butte of the pistol to knock Riley unconscious. As his world went black all Riley could think about was that the new vampire in town could very well be one of their own.

TORTURE SCENE UNDER CUT, ONLY READ IF YOU ARE MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE IT AND WANT TO READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
An indeterminate time later Riley began to swim in and out of consciousness and quickly realized he was in a bad situation. Riley used every ounce of military training at his disposal to slow his breathing and act calm and as though he was still unconscious until he could take full stock of the situation.

Before he could remember what had happened leading up to this or determine more than the fact he was hanging in a room by his wrists which seemed shackled above his head, a voice rang out through the room.

“Now Riley, my dear friend, it is rude to pretend to be asleep when I have gone to so much trouble to give you a proper celebration.” Hearing the voice, Riley remembered all that had occurred. As the fact, that Xander, the helpless, hapless, donut boy was now a vampire came to him his head shot up only to see the golden eyes of a game faced Xander staring back.

“Boo,” Xander said making Riley start at the nearness of the vampire. After taking a quick look around the room which looked like the dark corner of the dungeon, Riley began to fight with his shackles in a futile attempt to free himself.

“Now, now Riley I wouldn’t bother you are my prisoner and moving around like that will only tire you out, those are special shackles, they can hold a vampire without breaking, so what chance do you think a poor, defenseless mortal like you have?” Before Riley could say a word Xander continued. “For the record we are in a small offshoot of the sewer system, got to love the mayor for one thing, his city planning skills certainly allowed free movement. Anyways, I digress, we are now under a crypt in a Sunnydale cemetery, and well this little hidey-hole has been my home away from home the last few weeks. Its great for that quick jaunt out into the cemetery and I made sure to stock it well for my purposes.” As he finished, Xander turned and walked to what looked like a table in the corner. What was on it Riley couldn’t quite make out as it was in a dark corner of a very dark room.

Riley decided to try and reason with Xander, hoping against hope that maybe a little of the ever so loyal Scooby remained. “Xander what are you doing, let me go and we can go see Buffy and the others. Its not too late, once we tell the rest of yours friends they will help you. I'm sure Willow and Tara can figure out something to help you. All you have to do is let me go, ok Xander. Just let me go now.” Riley pitched his voice to be kind and soothing, not the scared and pissed off emotions he actually felt. Even in the darkness he could tell Xander stopped doing whatever it was he was doing by the table, and then his shoulders hunched and began to shake. Riley decided to continue his technique as it seemed to be working.

Before he could continue however, a strangled noise was heard and Xander spun around. As he did so a maniacl grin could seen on his human face, the dim lighting casting it into shadows creating an even more sinister look. Riley began to arch away from Xander the look on his face chilling him to his bone. And then an even more disturbing whooping laugh broke free of Xander’s mouth. Riley scrambled back from the vampire only to be dragged back by his shackled arms as he realized his plan did not help his cause only served to amuse the twisted fuck.

“Why Riley,” Xander said through bone chilling bouts of laughter, “I have never heard something so amusing. I know exactly what our two favorite witches would try and well to be frank I’m having too much fun to want to end up like Dead Boy now. So why on earth would I go see them now”

Afraid Riley could feel his adrenaline begin to pump and throwing caution to the wind he began to scream. “Because they are your friends you sick fuck, and you have always been one of the good guys.” Before he could continue Xander was suddenly in his face snarling.

“Havent you realized it Riley, the new big bad you are all so afraid of is me, for once in my life I am respected for my abilities and why would I want to change that just for some people I once called friend. Figure it out soldier boy since you always say you’re so smart, they're all dead. They just don't know it yet.”

With that said Xander turned back to the table to finish what he started before. Riley just stared at his back in shock. The last thing any of them would suspect was one of their own and then it hit him, Xander had been missing for two weeks about the same amount of time his men had been going missing. Which means that all things considered it was highly likely that Xander was at least partially responsible for all of the problems of late.

“Why, Xander why have you been doing this you have no reason to hate the initiative. Why are you capturing my men and where are they now.” Xander continued fiddling with whatever was on the table, seemingly ignoring Riley. As the adrenaline pumped through him Riley saw red, and began to scream, “Where are they vampire once anyone figures out I'm missing you will be hunted down you piece of shit. What have you done with my men I demand to know now. If you have killed any of them for whatever sick, twisted reason you are doing this then I will find a way to kill you. I will torture your undead ass, tie you up outside and let you wait for dawn. Answer me you …”

Before he could finish Xander turned around brandishing what looked to be a long polished dagger. “Now Riley, what makes you think you can call the shots here, you’re the one chained to the ceiling, not to mention you’ll be dead before anyone can come to save you. And why would they connect these horrible atrocities with me, I mean I’ve been legitimately busy with my job. You know that I’ve just been throwing myself into my work after Anya broke up with me.” Xander said all this in a faux innocent tone of voice which contrasted with the evil smirk gracing his face.

“But if you really want to know my reasoning I’ll tell you it doesn’t matter in the long run, you’ll be dead before you can tell anyone.” My reason is Spike, and before you piss me off even further this does not mean that Spike is calling the shots, it just means I’m getting revenge on the initiative for Spike. All of your soldier boys have been gift wrapped and sent to Spike as presents to show him my love. And you Riley will be the last of the lot, isn’t that just swell.”

Before Riley could respond, horrified at the way Xander spoke of his men and his so-called reasoning for doing it, Xander began to make shallow cuts into his torso. It was then Riley realized he had been stripped the only thing he was wearing was his boxer shorts.

For whatever reason the cuts Xander was making across his chest did not hurt nearly as badly as his throbbing knee which was where he had been shot earlier in the night. For what seemed like eternity Xander expertly turned his upper body into a bloody mess, making patterns across his front and back with the long dagger creating more and more cuts. By this point all Riley could concentrate on was the pain, and he felt as though he was about to lose consciousness, when a sudden horrible stab of pain from his hip brought him out of his haze.

His boxer shorts had just been cut off via a long slice down his right hip, the slice itself was bleeding profusely and Riley could faintly hear the dripping of his own blood on the stone floor. Before Riley could act in any way, Xander grabbed his face and stared him down with those unearthly amber eyes, which were glowing in the dark of the chamber.

“You know, Riley it really is too bad I cant spend the time I want to torturing you, I mean at the rate I’ve been going I could keep this up for days, maybe even weeks if I allowed you to heal some, but alas I must put an end to our fun. Spike should be returning from his night of fun and frivolity soon and I want to surprise him with a pressie upon his return.”

The words made little sense to Riley as he fought the blackness of unconsciousness, but as he floated on the waves of pain, he did realize that he would die soon.

Without Riley’s notice Xander had stepped back, admiring his artwork, but as Xander saw the realization on Riley’s face he decided it was time to step in for the kill. “Scream as loud as you like Riley,” Xander said as he grabbed the writhing man face, ignoring the clattering of the chains of the shackles clinking together. “No one can hear you scream.”

With that said he pried open Riley’s mouth and pulled out his tongue before slicing it cleanly off. As the tongue fell to the floor a small amount of blood sprayed out onto Xander’s face. Licking the blood off around his mouth, Xander stepped back, taking in the look of pure pain on Riley’s face. Before the man could lose consciousness Xander took a glass of water and threw it at his face.

As he watched the mortal splutter on water and blood Xander grabbed the man’s genitals and pulled them harshly away from the body. Bringing down the dagger Xander cut them off the man’s body.

Riley, felt the haze of pain change as his tongue was cut off, and before he could surrender to the abyss cold water splashed him in the face. As he spluttered and tried to spit out the blood pooling in his mouth, a sharp searing pain shot through his body originating from his groin. Riley mindlessly tipped his head back and let out a bloodcurdling scream of pure pain, only to begin to choke on his own blood. Before Riley could regain his breath and stop choking, something long slightly squishy was shoved down his throat.

Riley began to choke even harder as panic gripped him he began to move around trying to get free and get whatever was obstructing his mouth out of it. The adrenaline, which had stopped pumping so furiously half way through the cutting, began to renew only adding to Riley’s furiously paced and manic movements. Before anything could be done however, Riley felt his throat grasped tightly and the familiar blade of the dagger, slick with his own blood touched his throat.

He heard Xander whisper into his ear, “Goodbye Riley I'm sorry we couldn’t spend more time together like this, but I do believe Spike will enjoy you.” And with that Riley fell into oblivion as his throat was slashed from ear to ear.

End Flashback

A/N: Well that is this chapter the cliffhanger from chapter 6 will be resolved in the next chapter. I hoped you enjoyed it whether you liked the torture scene or not. Please do not flame me for being to graphic or putting it in there, I thought it was needed to understand the changes in Vamp Xander's character from canon Xander, plus torturing Riley is fun for all. This is also the only archive it is posted on so glad you read.