Fic: A Good Night For Hunting, Spike/Xander

[darkhavens]

Author: darkhavens
Title: A Good Night For Hunting
Fandom: Pairing: Buffy: Spike/Xander
Rating: PG
Words: 201
Concrit: darkhavens @ slashverse.com. If you spot a typo, please feel free to tell me in comments. I want you to!
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Warnings/Squicks: Vamp!Xander.
Summary: Spike marvels at his own creation.
Notes: Written for challenge #33 - 'Marble' - on my long-neglected Spander Big Damn Table and for mini_nanowrimo.
Mini-nanowrimo word count: 986


It's been raining for hours. The forest is redolent with the scents of wet earth, rotting vegetation, grass - the copper-iron tang of life.

He stands at the edge of shadow, the moonlight throwing the planes and angles of his face into stark contrast. He's a lethal work of art, a deadly labor of love. A rabbit screams, high-pitched and terrified, and he doesn't even blink.

If he was stripped of the leather and silk and cotton that clings to his skin, he would outshine Michelangelo's David in his pale, marble beauty; a living - though neither live nor breathing - statue, carved from the ruins of a lost, depressed soul. Spike feels real pride in his work.

There are people approaching now, sending up a beacon of laughter and chatter, the stench of too much alcohol and too little sleep, of paper and cheap ink - students. Spike is amazed at how stupid people can be. Despite the recent spate of murders and disappearances, there's always someone who thinks a shortcut through the woods is a good idea.

Xander finally blinks, flashes a gleeful grin in Spike's direction, and steps out onto the path.

It's a good night for hunting.

Comments

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

"He's a lethal work of art, a deadly labor of love." Ooh, very, very nice indeed. Shivers happily.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I have a special love for vamp!Xander and his sire. *g*

[orchidluv.livejournal.com]

Lovely dark snippet.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tabaqui]

He stands at the edge of shadow, the moonlight throwing the planes and angles of his face into stark contrast. He's a lethal work of art, a deadly labor of love. A rabbit screams, high-pitched and terrified, and he doesn't even blink.

Preeeeeeeeeeeteh.
Yes.
:)

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thankee!

Spike thinks he's preety too. :D

[outsideth3box.livejournal.com]

::smoochesyoulikewhoa::

Ooooh, that gave me the shivers. Lovely.

I adore Spike's sense of aesthetics.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Spike is an unrepentant aesthete - the pretty matters! *g*

[literati.livejournal.com]

Very pretty. :)

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thankee, Pookie! *smooches*

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Xander finally blinks, flashes a gleeful grin in Spike's direction, and steps out onto the path.

Oh yes, Spike has created a hunter, leathal and deadly. He must be so proud of this childe

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

He is very proud! And he has reason to be. *g*

Thanks!

[mysticsoblivion.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice!!!!! So bloody detailed, leaves you chomping at the bit waiting for the next peak at 'Spike's Masterpiece'- gah!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! There are little bits and pieces of backstory floating about in my brain, ut I don't know if I'll ever write them down. maybe. ;)

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Yum, dark vamp Xander!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

I hadn't played with him for a while and he was getting bored. *g*

[vinniebatman.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I love the comparison of Vamp!Xander to a work of art.
~Alice~

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Spike put a lot of time and effort into the renovation adn remodelling job. *g*

[txrabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That's stunning. Gorgeous imagery, love!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you, darlin'! I just described what 'Spike' was seeing. ;)

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

Lovely. I can almost smell that air. And this phrase - He stands at the edge of shadow is so full of magic.
A beautifully crafted piece of sensory description. Full of dark glee and joy. Thank you.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The 'edge of shadow' line was actually the first one i wrote, and the whole thing grew from there. Dark glee describes it perfectly!

[electricalgwen.livejournal.com]

A rabbit screams, high-pitched and terrified, and he doesn't even blink.

Beautiful.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D