ATS/BTVS - Spike/Angel(us) - Fear - PG-13
Title: Fear
Author: tamibrandt
Fandom: ATS/BTVS
Rating: PG-13
Character(s)/Pairing: Spike/Angel(us)
Summary: Angel comforts Spike when nightmares finally catch up.
Warnings: NO SPOILERS.
Notes: Beta'd by Myself, kateyes085.
Word Count: 643
Written for 10_hurt_comfort
My Table Here
The sound of growling and mewling woke Angel. He lay there for moment to gain his bearings and realized that the sounds weren’t coming from him. They were drifting from the person next to him.
Angel sighed.
Spike was in another nightmare.
He wondered what it could be this time. Sometimes the dreams dealt with things from the distant past and other times it was things in the last five years. Spike had mentioned once that he still had nightmares, but Angel had shrugged it off as another ruse or some way for Spike to annoy him. He believed that up until Spike took to sleeping with him. It wasn’t for sex either.
After Cordelia’s funeral, Spike had started sleeping on the couch in the living room. He had said it was so Angel wouldn’t have to be alone, but Angel figured it was because Spike didn’t want to go back to his own apartment. Then a couple of weeks ago the blonde had crawled into the other side of his bed.
For all Spike’s bravado in the light of day, he was tormented by dreams at night. Angel cursed Buffy for the first time in his life for not saying anything about it. Granted, that night he gave her the amulet wasn’t the best time to have a heart-to-heart discussion about his childe, but still, she had plenty of chances over the years to update him on Spike. She had plenty of chances in the last year to talk to him; instead, she accused him of being evil for heading Wolfram & Hart and deemed him untrustworthy. She refused to help him with Fred, instead choosing to double-cross him over a deranged slayer.
Buffy told him that Spike spent 3 weeks, crazy as a loon, in the school basement before he snapped out of it. Angel cringed at the thought of what his childe suffered through before having to buck up and deal with the latest evil thing to take over Sunnydale. Three weeks didn’t seem like enough time to get over haunting nightmares, and it was starting to show now.
Angel turned over on his side, facing Spike and pulled the trembling body against him. Spike’s arms went around Angel and hugged him tight, holding onto the dark haired vampire for dear life as the nightmare wracked his body. Angel tried to absorb the trembling shudders.
Sometimes Spike talked in his sleep, so Angel had snippets of what had happened to him in Sunnydale and other places. His childe rarely spoke of his kills. Unlike Angel, whose soul cursed him to remember his victims; Spike wasn’t plagued by his past that way. He spoke more about things that went on when he was captured by the Demon Research Lab and the Scooby gang.
His childe’s nightmares consisted of his treatment by Riley Finn, Buffy, Xander and Giles. From what Angel gathered, Willow and Tara seemed to be the only ones that treated Spike halfway decent. The times he dreaded most were when Spike recounted Angelus' treatment of him, as a fledgling and during his re-emergence in Sunnydale, specifically how he abused his childe while in a wheelchair.
Angel was so lost in thought that he jumped when he felt Spike’s fangs sink into his neck. After the initial surprise, he composed himself, knowing that any emotion could go through a blood-link. With the years of silent brooding on the outside and turmoil on the inside, he was astonished that he had enough poise to help Spike this way.
Angel let Spike drink until he relaxed and drifted off again and then he pulled Spike free to rest against his shoulder. Angel ghosted his fingertips along Spike’s spine as he continued to brood over his childe’s dreams. It was hours before sleep finally claimed him with the blonde tangled around his body.
Author: tamibrandt
Fandom: ATS/BTVS
Rating: PG-13
Character(s)/Pairing: Spike/Angel(us)
Summary: Angel comforts Spike when nightmares finally catch up.
Warnings: NO SPOILERS.
Notes: Beta'd by Myself, kateyes085.
Word Count: 643
Written for 10_hurt_comfort
My Table Here
The sound of growling and mewling woke Angel. He lay there for moment to gain his bearings and realized that the sounds weren’t coming from him. They were drifting from the person next to him.
Angel sighed.
Spike was in another nightmare.
He wondered what it could be this time. Sometimes the dreams dealt with things from the distant past and other times it was things in the last five years. Spike had mentioned once that he still had nightmares, but Angel had shrugged it off as another ruse or some way for Spike to annoy him. He believed that up until Spike took to sleeping with him. It wasn’t for sex either.
After Cordelia’s funeral, Spike had started sleeping on the couch in the living room. He had said it was so Angel wouldn’t have to be alone, but Angel figured it was because Spike didn’t want to go back to his own apartment. Then a couple of weeks ago the blonde had crawled into the other side of his bed.
For all Spike’s bravado in the light of day, he was tormented by dreams at night. Angel cursed Buffy for the first time in his life for not saying anything about it. Granted, that night he gave her the amulet wasn’t the best time to have a heart-to-heart discussion about his childe, but still, she had plenty of chances over the years to update him on Spike. She had plenty of chances in the last year to talk to him; instead, she accused him of being evil for heading Wolfram & Hart and deemed him untrustworthy. She refused to help him with Fred, instead choosing to double-cross him over a deranged slayer.
Buffy told him that Spike spent 3 weeks, crazy as a loon, in the school basement before he snapped out of it. Angel cringed at the thought of what his childe suffered through before having to buck up and deal with the latest evil thing to take over Sunnydale. Three weeks didn’t seem like enough time to get over haunting nightmares, and it was starting to show now.
Angel turned over on his side, facing Spike and pulled the trembling body against him. Spike’s arms went around Angel and hugged him tight, holding onto the dark haired vampire for dear life as the nightmare wracked his body. Angel tried to absorb the trembling shudders.
Sometimes Spike talked in his sleep, so Angel had snippets of what had happened to him in Sunnydale and other places. His childe rarely spoke of his kills. Unlike Angel, whose soul cursed him to remember his victims; Spike wasn’t plagued by his past that way. He spoke more about things that went on when he was captured by the Demon Research Lab and the Scooby gang.
His childe’s nightmares consisted of his treatment by Riley Finn, Buffy, Xander and Giles. From what Angel gathered, Willow and Tara seemed to be the only ones that treated Spike halfway decent. The times he dreaded most were when Spike recounted Angelus' treatment of him, as a fledgling and during his re-emergence in Sunnydale, specifically how he abused his childe while in a wheelchair.
Angel was so lost in thought that he jumped when he felt Spike’s fangs sink into his neck. After the initial surprise, he composed himself, knowing that any emotion could go through a blood-link. With the years of silent brooding on the outside and turmoil on the inside, he was astonished that he had enough poise to help Spike this way.
Angel let Spike drink until he relaxed and drifted off again and then he pulled Spike free to rest against his shoulder. Angel ghosted his fingertips along Spike’s spine as he continued to brood over his childe’s dreams. It was hours before sleep finally claimed him with the blonde tangled around his body.