Fic: 'Power', Spike/Xander, for mini-nanowrimo day 28

[darkhavens]

Author: darkhavens
Title: Power
Fandom: Pairing: Buffy: Spike/Xander, reference to Angelus/Spike
Rating: R for violent imagery
Words: 100
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.
Summary: Spike learns about power.
Notes: Written for slashthedrabble prompt #146 - Power, and also for mini_nanowrimo, day 28. Can be read as a standalone, though in my head it is part of the baby!vamp!Xander 'verse.


To be able to snap bones like twigs and peel away skin like blood-soaked rags and still have your victim beg for your touch, your attention; to drain a body of its lifeblood while it wriggles and flops, then leave it balanced on the cusp to survive or perish while you laugh - that's what Angelus taught Spike about power.

Angelus didn't have a clue.

True power is taking a fragile human being and, in that taking, creating a demon, an equal, family - making them yours.

Having Xander in his bed, by his side, because he wants to be - that's power.



mini_nanowrimo running total: 11448 words, in 28 days




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Comments

[literati.livejournal.com]

oh baby!

so very lovely.

♥

[outsideth3box.livejournal.com]

Oh HELL yeah!

Spike is so very want-worthy, ::S::

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Awwww! undead/eternal LOVE!

[tabaqui]

Yisssss.
*swoons*
:)

[viciouscats.livejournal.com]

Yay! Baby!vamp!Xander makes me happy. :)

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

I love how you can capture the Truth of these characters in a drabble. This is especially beautiful. I don't know if I've said it, but I LOVELOVELOVE the baby!vamp!Xander verse.

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

So true...very nice drabble.

[mysticsoblivion.livejournal.com]

I shall be oh so articulate and say: GAH! *wurble*

[vinniebatman.livejournal.com]

Ohh... very well written and quite good.

~Alice~

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

Spike knows where it's at!

[texan-elf.livejournal.com]

Whoohoo! You tell'em Spike.

I do so adore your baby!vamp!Xander'verse.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

because he wants to be Lovely.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

And I just wanted to add that reading all of these in one go is interesting, seeing the overarching and continuing story lines unfold, interspersed with moments of pure intimacy or pure comedy. I love Spike's attitude to Xander - tender, loving, exasperated, forgiving. And Xander's to his sire - eager, knowing, teasing, obedient.
I know it's a world of drabbles, but I would love to see a continuous story in this 'verse - with Angelus and Dru and Spike and Xander and Connor... and Giles? Meanwhile, or anyway, loved this. Thank you.

[niccy07.livejournal.com]

new snippet!

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Dude, just...awesome...

*Is awed*

*hugs you*

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

Angelus didn't have a clue.

True power is taking a fragile human being and, in that taking, creating a demon, an equal, family - making them yours.

Having Xander in his bed, by his side, because he wants to be - that's power.

The ultimate difference between Angelus--who was a brute, for all his "artistry"--and Spike.

Lovely.

[etaureau.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D