TITLE:  Needing You 1:  Do What You Have To Do
AUTHOR:  Tienco (tienco@msn.com)
COUPLE:  Angel/Spike
RATING:  R for now, may get up to NC-14, not sure.
DISTRIBUTION:  My site!!  www.geocities.com/tienco_21 and various lists.   Ask if you want it, I’ll let you have it.  Oh, Kylia and Candy can always have it.
DISCLAIMER:  All belongs to Joss Whedon.  Gosh, I wish I were Joss.  I’d have such a good time with Spike…and Angel….and Graham….and Lindsey…throw Willow in there and it’s a party!!
SPOILERS:  None that I can think of...
SUMMARY:  Spike needs Angel.
NOTES:  "Do What You Have To Do" belongs to Sarah McLachlan.  I love her songs.  All of the stories in this series (I think there will be four) will be set to Sarah
Songs.  //  // is the lyrics.

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//What ravages of spirit//
//conjured this temptuous rage//<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
//created you a monster//
//broken by the rules of love//

He’s a monster.  Without the bloody soul, my sire is a monster.  Slutty and her friends think that they know Angelus, but they don’t.  Granted, he was around for
those few months after he lost the soul, but that wasn’t *my* sire.  My sire was a glorious man, violent and passionate.  He was what a vampire should be.

He was a monster, his rage was tangible.  It was a glorious time when Angelus and I were together.  We would kill, shag, drink…whatever we wanted to do.  It didn’t
matter.  He loved me, and I loved him.

It was the one thing that made him different.  He could love.  He taught me what love was.  Granted, it wasn’t a normal love, but it was love.  And that made that
monster more tolerable.  I loved him.

I still love him.

//and fate has led you through it//
//you do what you have to do//
//and fate has led you through it//

//you do what you have to do ...//
 
 

Fate took him away from me.  I was so angry when he left.  Of course, I thought he was dead for a century.  My heart ached when he left.  I went on a bloody rage.
He would have been proud.
 
 

And then Dru and I found him in Sunnydale.  He had a soul.
 
 

Fate gave him the soul.  And now, with that soul, he has to atone.  I can’t…I can’t be with him.  There is no way his soul can accept me, or what we once had.
 
 

I know he has to do what he has to do.
 
 

But that doesn’t mean I won’t stop loving him.
 

//And I have the sense to recognize that//
//I don't know how to let you go//
//every moment marked//
//with apparitions of your soul//
 
 

I can’t bloody let him go.  I never could.  I tried, I did.  I left Sunnydale, took Dru away from him.  Of course, in the process, I lost Dru.
 
 

But that never hurt as much as loosing my Sire did.
 
 

His soul is constantly there, I can feel it when I’m around him.  I can feel Angelus underneath, straining to get away, to claim me as his.  The soul makes him push
me away.  I know the demon rages against his cage when I’m around.

And for that, Peaches hates me.

//I'm ever swiftly moving//
//trying to escape this desire//
//the yearning to be near you//
//I do what I have to do//
//the yearning to be near you//
//I do what I have to do//
 
 

It hurts.  I want to be near him always.  Some nights, while I lie there in that crypt alone, I have to hold myself back from going to LA to be with him.  I was half way
there one night, until I realized he’d either laugh in my face or stake me.  I have to keep myself busy, so I don’t dwell…
 
 

I think that’s why I haven’t stopped helping the Scooby Gang.  Somehow, in my head, I know that helping them might make me look better to him.
 
 

I do what I have to do.  I would take him, soul and all, if only I could have him again.
 
 

//But I have the sense to recognize//
//That I don't know how//
//to let you go//
//I don't know how//
//to let you go//
 
 

I don’t know how to let him go.  No matter what I do, who I shag, it’s always Angelus in the back of my mind.  He’s the one that I love, and will always love.  All of
eternity.  I would devote it to him in a non-existent heartbeat.

//A glowing ember//
//burning hot//
//burning slow//
//deep within I'm shaken by the violence//
//of existing for only you//
 
 

It’s true.  I only bloody exist for him.  He put me here, he is the proverbial father I never had.  He was the best lover I’ve ever had.
 
 

The love I feel for him, it’s gut wrenching.  It’s deep in my belly, burning slowly.  I know that it will never be extinguished.
 
 

I love my Sire.
 
 

I love Angelus.
 
 

I don’t know how to let him go, and I bloody well know that I never will.
 
 
 

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