Testing The Limits, Spike/Xander, PG-13

[darkhavens]

Author: darkhavens
Title: Testing The Limits
Fandom: Pairing: Buffy: Spike/Xander
Rating: PG-13
Words: 4x100
Concrit: Please. If you spot a typo, feel free to tell me in comments.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Warnings/Squicks: baby!vamp!Xander
Summary: Xander tests the limits of his new existence.
Previous chapters: Part of the baby!vamp!Xander 'verse. Set early in the timeline.
Notes: Written for mini_nanowrimo day 9, and for various prompts on my badly neglected Spander Big Damn Table.

Testing The Limits

005. Dawn

He feels the sun inching closer to the rim of the horizon. He watches clouds fade to salmon pink and rose and palest peach as light begins to filter through.

He makes a mental note not to use those words if he has to explain today's curiosity to his Sire. Prolonged exposure to teenage girls has left him with the vocabulary of a Queer Eye alumnus, and he doesn't want to hand Spike more ammo than he already has.

The first narrow spur of lightfireitch scores a line across the top of his unbooted foot. He lets the curtain drop.



025. Alcohol

"Vampire constitution, love. Not gonna get pissed on a few pints of American dishwater. Even that Old Peculier you liked from the import shop wouldn't do more than make your belly ache if you filled your boots. 'S just not possible."

"You're saying that 'cause I puked on your boots that time. I bet if I tried I could…"

"I spent four nights and five days in an old English brewery, Xander. Damn near drank the place dry and I all I got was a furry tongue and an irresistible urge to pee."

"I'm still gonna try."

"'Course you are."



008. Fire

"I thought vampires were supposed to be flammable. I'm sure I read it in one of Giles's old journals."

Spike's grip on Xander's wrist ground the bones together so hard Xander thought he could almost hear it. With a grimace, he dropped Spike's Zippo into his Sire's waiting hand.

"So you read that shite in one of the Watcher's books and figured you'd do a little field test of your own? What if you'd gone up like a roman candle without me here to stop you? I should flay the skin off your back for this."

"You won't."

"I might."



045. Cold

"You are not spending the night in Lenny's walk-in freezer! I know he said you could, but you need to understand. You're not invincible, Xander. You're not Superman or Wolverine or whoever you're worshipping this week. You're a vampire. You'll combust if you go out in daylight, and you'll turn into a bloody great icicle if you spend the night in sub-zero temperatures!"

"But…"

"Fine. Let's go."

Lenny didn't put up much of a fight until Spike tossed him into his own freezer and wedged the door shut. Five hours later, he shattered with a single kick.

"Get it now?"

~~~~~~~

Mini-nanowrimo word count: 5421

Comments

[literati.livejournal.com]

LOL! God, poor Spike.

Alcohol is my favourite! ♥

*melts*

[darkwind3.livejournal.com]

poor spike is right and you KNOW Xander would want to try every one of those ideas that popped into his head LOL

[myredempire.livejournal.com]

Vamped is I believe is my favorite version of Xander ever, and you write him so well. That half crazed innocent cruelty that makes him adorable, sexy and frightening in the most perfect mix.

I wait for more on a razor's edge.

[devo79.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I get it now =)

[mysticsoblivion.livejournal.com]

*sporfle* Those were great! And ya Mys reads too much when she sees Old Peculiar and automatically thinks words like 'gibbous' and 'amphibian' and "Old Ones", lol. *goes off to find her copy of Smoke and Mirrors*

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! Spike has definitely got his hands full now, doesn't he?

[chaoskir.livejournal.com]

Hihi, I guess Spike didn't expected that this will be that hard. Your Xander is so adorable. I love your drabbles. Thanks for sharing.

[tabaqui]

Heeeeeeeeee!
Xander *would*.
*pets him*

[saifai.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Loves 'em all, though I think Alcohol is just a bit more favored than the others. *gloms*

[sciencegeek.livejournal.com]

aww...I love this series, in general.

I'd love to see them in chronological order, but I feel like (after reading them all in a couple sittings) that that would be a lot of work.

[outsideth3box.livejournal.com]

Good grief, Spike has himself an immortal teenager! Bwahahahahahahahaha!

[stretfordditto.livejournal.com]

I near fell off my chair with the last...

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Is this Xander going through his rebellious phase, or will Spike always have to watch him like a hawk? I suspect the latter, and also that Spike's rather enjoying the watching.

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

Dude.

I've gotta get on this table of yours--I love these. Especially "cold". Poor Lenny.

And Xander seems like exactly the childe Spike deserves :)

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

Lenny didn't put up much of a fight until Spike tossed him into his own freezer and wedged the door shut. Five hours later, he shattered with a single kick.

"Get it now?"

Dude. That's still . . . cold.

[niccy07.livejournal.com]

God I love this 'verse! Vamp!xander is so cute- in a really creepy sadistic kind of way. Not to mention, watching him and Spike is really amusing!