I. ( I took a little something from ‘Becoming pt. I’, but it’s kinda different)
(Spike)
Before talking about me, I think I’d better start by telling you about my two Sires, at least the few things I know about them.
Let’s start with the first one, although I really can’t tell you much about him.
We need to make a jump both in space and time, because that story takes place at Galway, Ireland, in 1753.
A young man, we’ll name him… Angel –although that wasn’t his real name right then– wandered around some dismal boulevards, drunk as always, when he caught a glimpse of a beautiful woman who was dressed very elegantly and seemed to be part of the noble class and very sophisticated. Her name was Darla, but there’s no need for me to tell you anything about her, after all, I’ve never met her, so, let’s jump to the big event.
For you it’ll enough to know that she easily charmed Angel, in fact she just batted her pretty eyes at him and made him curious with the promise of a world with plenty of things that he had never seen before.
He agreed to discover that world, so she told him to close his eyes and...
Uhmm, you know, Buffy doesn’t want me to describe this kind of things in detail, so let’s just say that she bit him, ‘cause it turned out Darla was a vampire, so she drank from him, and then he drank from her, too, he died for a while... and that’s when the odd stuff began.
The night of his awakening, Darla sat near his grave, eager to welcome her Childe... because that’s how we call a vampire turned by another one who is their Sire.
Ok, there’s also the case of the minions, that’s different, but now it’s not important.
As I was saying, Darla had an unpleasant surprise, because Angel had come out from his grave wearing his new game-face, growling and everything, but when she offered him a girl whom she had previously knocked down as his first meal, he rejected her, running away almost horrified... but Darla followed him. No matter the excruciating pain that being too hungry brought him, Angel seemed unable to harm any human beings; Darla tried with several preys, but without any satisfying results.
Three days after he was reborn and despite all of Darla’s attempts to force him to feed, Angel kept refusing until he was in risk of dying …for real this time.
Although it was definitely against her rules, she felt pity for her Childe due to some strange reason, so Darla finally gave in and she headed towards a Butcher’s Shop, coming back to their abode with some bagged blood.
Angel instinctively knew it was animal blood, so he grabbed the bags, emptying them very eagerly.
Angel was in no danger of dying anymore and Darla understood what was wrong with him, due to some very mysterious reasons Angel had kept his soul. In all the previous siring of vampires nothing like that had ever happened.
Maybe, it was because during his human life he had been very wicked and dissolute, so becoming a vampire had made him repent of his human life and look for some kind of eternal redemption.
But I don’t think that that is the real reason why, mostly because... if I follow this logic... I should have been a kind of... scourge of all the continents then!
But we weren’t talking about me now, were we?
Darla couldn’t accept him, so she taught him how he could get blood without killing any humans and then she yelled at him how much she hated him and how ashamed she was of him, then she told him that she couldn’t keep living like that any longer; in fact, she left that same night and Angel didn’t hear for centuries from the Sire he had disappointed so badly.
The poor fledging vampire had to face a new world he didn’t know, without any guide or teacher, but he was a smart guy, so he soon learned all the rules and he became fully aware of the powers he had received.
He became a very strong vampire, so much so that he could easily face and submit the other vampires that crossed his path.
He also learned how to drink human blood, although he did that very rarely and only if it was absolutely necessary, but he always knew when to stop so he wouldn’t damage his victims too seriously.
His soul prevented him from socializing with the other vampires, so he became a solitary vampire, wandering from one town to the other, from one country to the other, from one continent to the other.
Time ran out quickly. It was already 1860 and he was in London. He didn’t think that he would spend much time there, because he usually left after a few weeks, but one night he definitely changed his mind.
Angel told me that tale so many times that I perfectly memorized it, really, I could tell you word by word what he told me, and that’s exactly what I’m gonna do.
It was an evening like many others, and Angel had suddenly decided to take a walk along the Thames River, he never before had felt the urge to do that. All of the sudden, he saw a girl sitting near the shore singing with a very sweet voice.
But it wasn’t just her voice what charmed him, because she was a beautiful girl with long black silky hair, very pale skin and a petite but very pretty body.
Feeling someone’s eyes on her, she’d gotten up abruptly.
“Who’s there? I know there’s someone there, come out!” she exclaimed a little bit scared.
Angel took a step out from the shadows, smiling at her so sweetly that she calmed down immediately.
“It’s fun, because I’m usually the one who can feel the presence of another...” he chuckled. “What is a pretty girl like you doing all alone here at night?” he asked her.
“I always come here, it’s a call I can’t resist to. The day is beautiful, the sun is pretty, but... the night has something more, it’s special and plenty of secrets that the stars always whisper to me...” she explained.
“So, what did the stars tell you?” he wondered, taking a step closer, but that made her back off as she stared at him with her big almost violet eyes.
She liked Angel and he had realized it, as he was fascinated as well by her way to talk and see the world; it’s not too difficult to imagine since I loved that about her, too.
“They told me that someone would rescue me from a very unhappy fate... are you that someone?” she approached him very cautiously.
“I don’t know... but I’m willing to save you...” he murmured, caressing her face.
After that contact she pulled away.
“It’s late, I must go home before they realize I’m not there... or they’ll punish me, baby won’t have her slice of cake at tea-time!” she blathered, puzzling him.
“Wait, where are you going? I don’t even know your name!” he said.
“There will be other times, at this same place, we’ll meet again, bye, mysterious gentleman!” she ran away.
And that was their first meeting.
Anyway, the girl had told the truth, because those two met again and...
Hey, who pressed ‘Stop’ ?
“Ah, so you’re still at the beginning, the first meeting between Angel and Dru! And to think that I was sure that you were already talking about me!” Buffy exclaims, hugging me from behind and I am baffled that I hadn’t even notice her presence.
Ok, I was engrossed by the tale, but on the other side truth is that she is becoming bloody good in lurking in the shadows and catching me off guard.
“What can I say? A story must be told slowly and in details, otherwise it’s just a lame summary!” I justify. “Anyway, pet, are you already back from patrol? Not that I’m complaining, of course..” I murmur, kissing her.
“You know, honey, it was a quiet night, there were just a couple of demons that I eliminated in a heartbeat..” she explains, leaving the room. “.. and I haven’t even gone by the Bronze, I prefer to spend my time here with you, with my family!” she goes on, coming back with a cup of blood in her hands. “Are you sure you don’t wanna taste it?” she asks me, sipping a little from it, and then she pushes the cup towards my lips, but I pull away horrified.
“Bloody hell, pet, there’s no way I’m gonna drink sodding pig blood!” I growl annoyed.
“Whatever!” she shrugs, as she resumes drinking. After that we stay here cuddled together for a while.
“So, tell me.. “ she murmurs, getting up and looking at me seductively as she approached to the threshold. “Are you going to keep telling the story. Or... do you wanna follow me into our room to make me have the real fun that you promised me?” she goes on, growling playfully at me.
And there’s no need to be clairvoyant to guess what I chose to do!
TBC
Thanks to everyone who reads, please, tell me if you (don’t) like it… ;)
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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!
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03/20/17 01:20 am
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