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Love and Death Embrace	By : addielogan Category: > Buffy/Spike(William) > Buffy/Spike(William) Views: 4146 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Buffy groaned,
her head aching as she swam towards consciousness. The whole evening was a
blur, and she struggled to remember the last thing that happened to her.
Slowly, she opened her eyes, only to immediately become more confused.

From the looks of
things, she was in a small, dingy bathroom. Chained
to the bathtub?

Immediately she began
to struggle, panic coursing through her as she realized the chains were too
secure for her to break. Both her hands and feet we manacled, and her upper
body was secured to the pipes. How had she�

The memory of
what had happened in the alley behind the club came rushing back, and her panic
was replaced by anger. �You better let me out of here, you bleached, Limey
bastard!� she yelled, struggling more with her chains. �I�m going to fucking
kill you!�

Within moments,
the door opened, and he leaned in the doorway, his arms crossed over his chest
and a smirk on his face. �Oh, a death threat. There�s
an incentive.�

�You want an
incentive? Here�s your incentive,� Buffy said with a saccharine smile that did
nothing to temper the fire in her eyes. �Let me go now and I�ll kill you
quickly as opposed to the slow, agonizing torture you�ll be looking forward to
if you don�t do what I say.�

He uncrossed his
arms, revealing a stake in his hand, and shook it at her like an admonishing
finger as he spoke. �See, I don�t think you�re in much of a position to be the
one trying to make a deal, ducks. I think I�m
the one who�s going to pose the deal.�

�Unless it�s your
heart on a platter, I�m not interested.�

He moved quickly,
leaning over her with the stake poking into the top of her breast, poised to
slide down and into her heart. �Then it�s not much of a loss for me. Won�t even
be much of a clean up. I�ll just have to turn on the faucet and watch you swirl
down the drain.�

As loathed as
Buffy was to show any fear, the thought of that being her end was not one she
wanted to face. However, she didn�t want to cut a deal with this guy either.

So she decided to
go with her third option � seduction. Although the idea of bedding a human held
absolutely no appeal for her, she didn�t see much more to fall back on than her
feminine wiles. Besides, if she could just get him to lower his guard down, she
could bite him before he had to finish the deed anyway.

She smiled at
him, wriggling her body. �Come on, baby, you don�t really want to do that. Why
don�t we have some fun instead? I mean, I�m already chained up�if you�re into
that sort of thing.� She winked.

�I�m not,� he
snapped, the stake digging further into her skin. �Nor am I into something as
disgusting as sex with a vampire.�

�Oh, I don�t
know, baby,� she purred. �You seemed like maybe you�d be pretty into it back in the alley. Unless that
is where you keep your extra stake after all��

He slapped her
hard across the face, splitting her lip. �Shut your sodding
mouth, bitch.�

Buffy narrowed her
eyes and licked her blood off her mouth. �I�m not selling out Angelus to you.�

He stood up,
backing off from her and shoving the stake into his back pocket. �Fine. Keep quiet for now. I�ll see how you feel in a few
days after you haven�t fed.� He left the bathroom, shutting the door behind
him.

Buffy roared as
she pulled against the chains with her full strength, though she finally
slumped in defeat when after several minutes they hadn�t even budged.

This night was
really not going well for her.

*** *** ***

Spike paced the
main room of the tiny apartment, his heart pounding in his chest. He�d followed
the two vampires out of the club expecting to do nothing more than to
exterminate a couple more vermin when he�d caught their conversation � and
discovered the female was Angelus�s lover.

He�d developed a
plan on the spot that had been shoddy at best, but then again, none of his
plans had every exactly been carefully thought out. Wesley�s contact in Los Angeles had confirmed Angelus was indeed in the area, but
beyond that, he hadn�t been able to tell him anything else. Spike had been
searching for the vampire ever since, but his whereabouts had remained elusive,
and the word on the street was he was barely seen out in public these days,
even to feed.

Something about
some demon turf war, apparently.

So after several
weeks of frustration, he�d stumbled on his first break. He�d thought for
certain the vampire would turn on Angelus in order to spare herself, but she
was being stubborn. He doubted it was any sort of real loyalty, and he knew it
couldn�t be love since vampires were incapable of such emotions. Which meant it
was simply stubbornness.

So he�d have to
wait it out. Eventually, when she was hungry enough, she�d talk. In the
meantime he�d just have to�keep his
distance. He�d known from the moment she�d started it that her attempt at
seduction had been a ruse, but it had still made him�uncomfortable. The idea of
being inside a cold, dead body� He shuddered just
thinking about it.

And if his body
had been responding to her, well� She was a hot blonde with perky tits, and
that was the automatic male response to being flush up against a hot blonde
with perky tits. It was just the way men were wired and didn�t mean a thing.

Although he was
thinking now that chaining her up to the tub might have not been the best idea.
He could use a shower�

Instead, he opted
for a drink.

*** *** ***

Buffy had managed
to fall asleep despite her current uncomfortable position, yet she awoke only a
few hours later with the feeling of being watched.

Which
she was. Her captor was back in
the bathroom, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest. He
reeked of alcohol, and Buffy hoped she could use that to her advantage. Drunks
tended to be sloppy.

�Decided to give
up on this and let me go?� Buffy asked, keeping her
eyes locked with his across the room. �Because really, this
isn�t going to end well for you.�

�Sun�s almost
up.�

His voice was
cold enough to send a chill through her. He couldn�t be thinking of� No, she
liked the starving her plan much better. That would take time. Time for him to mess up and for her to get away. But
anything involving sun�

�Yeah. So maybe you could like, um, let me rest?�

He said nothing
more as he strode across the bathroom, keys in his hand. He unfastened the
chains that had her bound to the tub as well as the ones around her feet,
though he left her arms and hands secure. Buffy struggled, kicking wildly as he
lifted her up, but he managed to keep her at an angle so she wasn�t ever able
to make contact.

He carried her
out of the bathroom, letting her see they were in a small apartment, though she
didn�t take the time to really look at her surroundings. He was walking towards
the door, his grip on her tight enough to bruise.

Buffy started
panicking more as he brought her outside, refastening her chains so she was now
locked up against the metal bars of a balcony. She could feel the impending
sunrise deep in her bones, and she struggled against the chains, her demon face
sliding forward as she snarled at him. �Let me go, you sick bastard!� she
yelled, knowing it would be only a matter of minutes before the first rays of
sunlight broke over the horizon, covering the eastern-facing building.

No one seemed to
be coming out of their apartments to see what was going on outside either. But
then again, from the look of the neighborhood, it wasn�t the sort of place
where people really wanted to know�

�Tell me where he
is.�

�I can�t!� Buffy
yelled, pulling on her chains again.

�Yes, you can.
You know where he is. Just tell me, and I�ll let you go.�

�No!�

�Then I stand
here and watch you burn.�

She couldn�t get
free. The sun would be here any minute. She�

Oh god,
Buffy realized, unable to stop the tears that sprung to her eyes. She was going to die. She�d seen
vampires who hadn�t made it into shade fast enough before, and listened to
their screams as they burned into nothingness.

Nothingness�
She�d be nothing at all. Not a body. Not even dust � not if she went out like
this. There�d be horrible, blinding pain, and then nothing at all.

�Please, don�t do
this,� she begged him, not even caring that she was crying in front of him. She
didn�t care about being tough now. She was scared. She hadn�t been this scared
since�since Angelus had turned her. �Please, if you�re going to kill me, stake
me. Don�t do it like this. Please. I
don�t want to burn.�

�You wouldn�t
have to if you just told me where he is.�

Buffy shook her
head hard. �I can�t.�

�Why
the bloody hell not!�

�Because
I love him!� Buffy screamed.

He stopped at
that, looking at her with something akin to confusion. �What?�

�I love him,�
Buffy repeated, softer this time, her voice choked with sobs. �I�I�d burn
before I turned on him, but I� Please, just don�t kill me like this. Make it
something quicker. Please.�

For a moment, he
was silent, and Buffy shook, wishing she was stronger than this. She knew
Angelus never would�ve faced death with tears in his eyes. He never would�ve
begged. But she was so scared, and it had been so long since she�d really felt
in danger.

When he came back
over to her and unchained her from the balcony, Buffy felt a sense of relief
mixed with dread. Sure, she wasn�t going to burn to death now, but she had no
doubt in her mind that he was still going to kill her. But at least a stake
through the heart looked like a quicker way to go. From what she�d seen, it
only took a matter of seconds.

So when he took
her back into the bathroom and refastened her to the tub, she was confused.
�Aren�t�aren�t you going to stake me?� she asked.

�Do you want me
to?� he asked gruffly, not looking at her face.

�No.�

�Then shut your
gob before you tempt me into going through with it now.�

Buffy thought after
her brush with real death she should probably just keep quiet like he said, but
one question kept echoing in her mind, and she needed to know the answer to it.
She needed to know what she was suffering
for. �Why do you want to find Angelus so badly?�

He hit her hard,
making her head slam back against the pipe and blood run down from her nose. �I
told you to shut up, bitch.�

Buffy felt tears
stinging her eyes again, but this time, she held them back. He checked the
chains to make sure she was fastened tightly, then
stormed out of the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.

Alone, she
slumped against the tub, feeling any hope of ever getting out of this fading
away.

*** *** ***

Spike paced the
tiny living area of the apartment, cursing himself
with every step. When exactly had everything managed to go completely arse over tit? That stupid chit he had chained up in the
bathtub was bollixing up the whole mess, ruining what should�ve been a
completely workable plan.

All she had to do
was tell him where Angelus was. He had no doubt that she knew. It was simple �
just open her fucking mouth and give him an address.

He�d thought for
sure she�d crack when he�d brought her outside. Vampires were always out only
for themselves, and when it came to betraying another vampire or saving
themselves from bursting into flames, the answer was always cut and dry.

Only she hadn�t
cracked. She hadn�t even begged him not to kill her � just not to kill her like
that. She�d seemed perfectly willing
to die in order to protect Angelus.

Not only that,
but she�d professed to love the other
vampire.

Spike knew it had
to be a trick. Vampires were incapable of love. She�d been trying to manipulate
him, use emotions to keep him from leaving her there. Either that or she�d
called his bluff and knew he hadn�t actually been planning on letting her burn.
She was the only lead he currently had on Angelus�s
whereabouts, and he wasn�t about to let her die so soon. He had to give it at
least a little more time and hope that between starvation and the fear that he
could kill her at any moment, she�d stop playing this ridiculous game and tell
him what he needed to know.

However, in the
meantime, he needed to get some rest. Between the stress of the evening and the
amount of liquor he�d ingested, staying upright was beginning to become a
problem.

Hoping she�d stop
being so bloody stubborn once she got a little hungrier, Spike stretched out on
the couch, quickly succumbing to exhaustion.

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I was going to
wait a few days to post another chapter, but I�ve been having such a good time
writing this fic (and writing like crazy, too), that
I really wanted to know what you guys thought about it, too. So feedback would
be very, very appreciated!
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