ALL MANNER OF MONSTERS
Disclaimer: All of the characters in this fiction (except for the random few who I created) belong to…..Joss Whedon, ME, and the cast that portrayed them, so wonderfully on BTVS and ATS.
Summary and Prologue:
“There are all manner of monsters in the world; most of them are human…” A quote by Cynthia, circa 2005.
Summary: Buffy Summers is the mistress of Riley Finn, a well known, ruthless head of a sect of the Irish mob. Although the couple resides in the rich ‘Hill’s of Los Angeles, California? Buffy was born, raised and schooled in the smaller town of Sunnydale, up north of LA.
Buffy was destined, even before she was seventeen-years-old, to become the property of Riley Finn, eventually. Thanks to her shady father, Hank Summers and his allegiance to Finn, Buffy was promised to Riley before she had any choice in the matter.
Although Buffy showed a natural gift for art, like her mother, Joyce, her destiny was all mapped out for her by her father and Riley. Something happened, or, I should say, ‘someone’ happened, on a Spring day, back when Buffy was not quite seventeen-years old. Buffy met a young brilliant British man, who would change her fate, eventually.
I suck, big time at summaries, never trying to give too much away from the start. I’ll probably change the title of this story ten times before it’s over!
Of course, the ‘someone’ is Spike and his part in this little drama is huge, just as his impact on Buffy’s future will be.
Riley is a dickhead in this story (alert the media, huh?!?)…ruthless, more then bordering on evil monster territory. Buffy will start out by looking like a misleading, lying even, little spoiled brat who evolves into a gold digging trophy ‘mistress’ for Riley. I’ll tell you readers this…she’s not any of these things, she’s actually a pawn in this whole mess.
Spike is a hero, kind of, but he has his own agenda, in the present, too, so please, keep that in mind. When Buffy and Spike first meet, he’s twenty and she’s not quite seventeen. They meet in a vacation type atmosphere and sparks fly, immediately between them. Unfortunately, Buffy is who she is and Spike really doesn’t know exactly ‘who’ that is, back then anyway. Confusing, yes, sorry, but hopefully through the flashbacks in the plot line, I can clear up the past between Buffy and Spike.
Years after their ‘meeting’ and brief affair, Spike and Buffy will be thrown back together again. Since it was Buffy that ‘ran’ away from Spike (big news there, huh?) our bleached blond anti-hero, William ‘Spike’ Giles, is still carrying resentment for Buffy. Along with that fiery torch of love that he’ll always carry for her, too.
When they meet, under the most ‘unsavory’ circumstances in the present, Spike and Buffy will have to face the fact that they are still in love with each other. No matter who Buffy is living with now and how dangerous that man is.
Nothing is what it seems in this story, just as no one is what ‘they’ seem to be. There are many reasons for the things Buffy does and our heroine is harboring a very big secret of her own that will lead her and Spike into danger.
Please give this a shot, like I said before, I suck at summaries and will probably change this one hundred times before it’s over!
Prologue:
Spike Sinclair, aka William Giles, sat in the bar, in LA, drinking his whiskey. For an FBI agent, one of the youngest, Spike could hold his alcohol better then most veterans of the Agency. Certainly better then his partner, Xander Harris, who was at this time, calling his girlfriend, Cordelia on the cell phone.
Chuckling to himself, Spike had to pity poor Xander. His girl was going to go ballistic when she found out about this newest assignment of theirs. Working undercover as gangsters in the world of notorious Riley Finn and his lackies.
By the look on Xander’s face, Spike had called this one pretty well. Poor Xander looked as if he was going to have to go undercover, himself, again once this case was over. Just to get away from Cordelia Chase, his fiance. From Xander’s descriptions, Cordelia could get pretty ugly about these FBI cases that her future husband was assigned to. She could go pretty ballistic, at any given time and poor Xander always was on the receiving end of his girl’s anger.
‘Thank God I’ve never loved anybody like that,’ Spike thought silently. ‘At least not somebody I can have,’ he added bitterly.
Oh, there was a ‘somebody’ that Spike loved, no question. He had for over seven years. But the problems was, that somebody was not in Spike’s life, at least, she hadn’t been. Up until now that is.
Now, Buffy Summers would definitely be in Spike’s life again, no matter how fucked up the reason was. Buffy being Riley Finn’s mistress was well known, to just about everyone, everywhere and of course, Spike would soon come face to face with his ghost from the past.
In fact, Buffy Summers was precisely the reason that Spike had volunteered for this assignment. The only reason he bothered to return to California at all. If he, Spike, could get close to Buffy, finally, then he could have her in his grasp, once again. This time, he would not let her slip out of it. No matter what happened out of it, Buffy would be his, once more.
Spike got up and slipped some change into the old jukebox that sat in the corner of the bar. He chose a song he actually liked and hit the input code to select it.
For some reason, this song always reminded both William Giles and his alter ego, Spike Sinclair, of his Golden Goddess, Buffy Summers. Which was really fucked up, in itself. Buffy had been William’s muse, his light in the darkness. That Spike would think of Buffy when he heard this song, never ceased to amaze or confuse him, totally.
‘On The Dark Side’
‘The dark side’s callin’ now nothin’ is real
She’ll never know just how I feel
From out of the shadows, she walks like a dream
Makes me feel crazy, makes me feel so mean
‘Ain’t nothin’ gonna’ save you from a love that’s blind
When you slip to the dark side, you cross that line…
On the dark side, oh yeah,
On the dark side, oh yeah’
A/N: Well, there it is, such as it is. In the next chapter, we get to meet the present day Buffy and her ‘patron’ Riley Finn (sorry, it’s a must for the plot, Riley I mean).
The song is from ‘Eddie and the Crusiers’ the movie.
Thank you for reading and please review. Luv, Spuf
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05/18/17 04:16 am
pj! I remember wishing one of your stories would be finished seriously about a decade ago. Amazing. I just tried an old password I used to use and amazingly got in too. Memories!
pj
03/20/17 01:20 am
10 yrs later, i finally rem my username and password. Pari, you rock. Hope you are well.
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12/23/16 01:12 pm
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10/06/16 08:34 am
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08/31/16 03:45 pm
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08/31/16 03:43 pm
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