Title: Make Me Immortal With a Kiss
Fandom: BtVS
Pairing: Spike/Buffy
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Rough, violent sex and some blood play. Biting.
Timeline: Set during Season Six.
Word Count: 1366
Disclaimer: I do not own. I'm not pretending to own. I'm not making money. Did I cover everything?

A/N: So, I just kind of sat down and wrote without knowing what it is what I wanted to write and this is what came out. Title taken from Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

A/N2: Huge thanks to [info]buffy_the_vamp6 for the awesome banner.








She wants it angry.

She wants it to be angry and harsh and painful. So painful that she can’t think about anything else, not Dawn, not her job, not slaying, not her friends, not heaven. Painful enough that she can’t even think about the pleasure it gives her to see his face twist in a grimace when she digs her nails into his shoulders and slams him against the wall, (pleasure pain pleasure… does he too get pleasure from the pain?) or the thrill of satisfaction she gets when she sees the marks she creates, bright, hot red slashes against the tender skin of his throat and chest, splitting open to spill droplets of stolen blood.

She thinks that she’s disappointed that she didn’t wear her cross tonight. She wants to see the outline of it burned into his skin, run her tongue around the rough edges of it and hear him gasp and hiss at the pain, feel the breath he doesn’t need escape his chest. For a moment she feels disgusted with herself, but then he grabs her waist and spins them around, slamming her back against the wall and kissing her with such ferocity that the back of her head hits the stone of the crypt with a crack and she thinks yes! This is what she wants, what she needs.

She braces herself against the wall and wraps her legs around him, gasping at the feel of him inside her, cold as the stone beneath her hands (no heat, no heat. The blood isn‘t hot, so how can it bleed?). The dirt and dust is gritty beneath her sweat-slicked palms and she tangles her fingers in his hair, smearing the blond strands with it. “Harder,” she gasps and when he complies her shoulders scrape against stone and the pain is so good that she doesn’t even think about how that is the first word she’s said to him tonight.

Her back arches and her bare breasts press against him and his cold blood smears across her skin. She knows he sees it when she feels his chest rumble in a growl and his head dips down to take one red stained nipple in his mouth. She clutches him to her and moans, arching further and tilting her head back so her hair falls away from her neck.

Bite me,” she says and writhes against him when he suddenly stops moving, tightens her legs on his hips to pull him further inside her. Her fingernails claw into his skin again and she watches him grimace even as he stares at her in shock (pleasure pain pleasure… she knows its wrong to get pleasure from his pain). “Do it!” she snaps and gone are wide blue eyes, replaced by gold slits surrounded by pale, rough ridges and her eyes close as his fangs pierce her skin, and her whole body suddenly feels alive, shuddering as her Slayer senses go haywire at the invasion.

Gone are all thoughts. There is nothing but the heat and the pleasure and the pain, nothing but the rough stone against her back and the cool body first pressing, then collapsing against hers.



Later, he watches her. They’re lying on the ground, the worst of the cold blocked by the multitude of colored rugs below them, twisted and rumpled now. There is only an inch of space between them but he knows better than to touch her. He doesn’t curl his hand around her shoulder, or skim his fingertips along the line of her thigh, doesn’t bury his nose in her tangled hair. Any gentle touch from him would be immediately rebuffed, so he props his head up with one hand and watches her under heavy, sated eyelids.

The energy has left her now, the fierce, manic glint in her eyes is gone and she is motionless. Her eyes are fixed unblinkingly on the ceiling and the expression on her face is a blank one. Her skin is pale from blood loss and when she slides her hand from the wound on her neck to her stomach the movement is sluggish and awkward, as if she doesn’t know how to move her own body. He thinks he prefers her like before, angry and wild and violent, to this. Now, he thinks as he takes in again the expression on her face, which hasn’t shifted from the still, blank one she’s worn since he rolled off of her, she looks dead.

Or that she wishes she was.

He leans over her. Her eyes are hazy and for a moment she continues to stare past him but then she blinks and her eyes widen as they focus on him, as if she had forgotten he was even there.

“Does it help at all?” he asks quietly, “Coming here? Escaping from the house and your friends, trying to forget you are the Slayer? Does being here make it better at all?”

She turns her head away, staring at the bookshelves across the room. She doesn’t speak for a moment and the only sounds are her breaths, slow and even and uninterrupted by his. “It helps,” she finally whispers and then turns her head back towards the ceiling, eyes closed. “Some.”

He doesn’t move away, but keeps staring at her face. Her make up is ruined, the heavy eyeliner she has taken to wearing since she came back smeared below her eyes, making her look tired and worn. Her cheeks have hollowed out some and he wonders if she gets anything to eat besides the rubbish they offer at that grease trap she works at, because he knows she doesn’t eat it, taking instead the one free meal she is allowed back home to the Nibblet.

“It’s not something I can escape,” she says suddenly. Her voice is quiet, her eyes still closed. “This…feeling. I can’t leave it behind or forget about it.” He watches as the corner of her lips pull down in an unconscious frown and a little line appears between her eyebrows. “It always hurts.”

Taking a risk, he reaches out, tracing with his fingers the hollow of her throat, following her collarbone to her shoulder and then smoothing his palm down her arm in a light, comforting gesture. When she doesn’t flinch away from his touch he bends closer and whispers.

“Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”

Her eyes open and finally, she looks at him, eyes flickering back and forth slightly under a furrowed brow. “What’s that from?”

“A play called Doctor Faustus.” His hands leave her arm to play with the tips of her hair. She’d cut it to spite him, he knows, but he loves the feel of the tips against his chest and stomach when she leans over him. “It’s about a man who sells his soul so he could have a demon servant called Mephistopheles for twenty-four years.”

“Hmm.” A small smile appears on her lips and her eyes slip from his to rest on his chest, tracing the scratches and dried blood there with her gaze. “Is that what you are?” She reaches up and touches his chest, fingers drawing patterns against the untouched skin in the center. They make a cross, but he doesn’t say anything. “A demon here to tempt me into selling my soul and living an eternal life in hell?”

He looks at the dried blood on her neck and imagines it gone, sees the long line of her throat as she arches back, chest heaving, sweat pooling in the dip above her thin collarbone. Bite me, she says. Do it!

Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!--
Come, Helen, give me my soul again.


“Maybe I could ask the same thing about you.” He murmurs and she laughs, pulling her hand away and sitting up. The laugh is choked and bitter and she looks away from him again, avoiding his eyes.

“Maybe you could.” She says and starts looking for her clothes.








From: [identity profile] mulder200.livejournal.com


Woah! This was so dark and bitter. Pretty much what I expected during season 6.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Yeah, I'm afraid most of what I will write from season six will be pretty dark. Things were just so twisted between them then.

Thanks for reading and commenting, hun!

From: [identity profile] angearia.livejournal.com

Re-Post


I don't know what dark room I was led into, but it's left me disquieted and confused. I feel like I'm watching these two part ways from a few feet away and mourning the tragedy of their circumstances while fearing the violent emotion fueling this encounter. Their pain. With each other they find torment and succor, pain and pleasure.

I feel a bit numb myself after reading this, like I've been beaten alongside Buffy and Spike. It's almost like looking too closely at something so volatile and nefarious - that dark emotion, that emptiness inside her during Season 6. The hunger that claws, grapples and scratches. Wanting to hurt in order to heal. Physical pain to distract the emotional void. And after the violent physical release, you're left weak and wanting. I can easily imagine Buffy numbly walking home to crawl into her bed, only to repeat this vicious cycle the next day. Frightening and bitter.

What a dark mood you were in tonight. Powerful stuff here.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com

Re: Re-Post


Wow! That is quite an intense reaction!

Wanting to hurt in order to heal.

I really love the way you put that. It seemed that was just what Buffy was trying to do in Season Six, not realizing that it was also self destructive. And Buffy numbly walking home to crawl into her bed was exactly what imagined happened after this story.

I suppose I was in a bit of a dark mood last night. I know I had just had a talk with my writing professor about a class I'm doing bad in thanks to my family life, and I was a little emotional after explaining to him everything that has been going on. Maybe that I had an effect on this. *shruggs* I hope it wasn't too dark for you, though!

From: [identity profile] xc-runner50.livejournal.com


Wow, this is season 6 spuffy, no doubt in my mind at all. Great pictures of Spuffy that you painted for us.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Season six: dark, complicated and twisted, yes? I love delving further into all that.

Thanks for reading. :)

From: [identity profile] wylouloucoyote.livejournal.com


Ouch. That hurt my heart. But it's VERY well written and very in tune with the Buffy and Spike of season 6. Good job!

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


It hurt my heart to write it. But those two characters were eaching hurting (themselves and eachother) in that season and I can't seem write it without putting some of that in.

Thanks you for reading and commetning, hun. :)

From: [identity profile] louise39.livejournal.com


“It always hurts.”

Season 6 - for both of them - pain and desolation.
This ficlet is wrenching, despondent and despairing.


On a cheerier note: Love your banner. I would like to friend you. OK?




From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Aw, thank you! And yay for new friends!

wrenching, despondent and despairing

Thank you, hun. Those are great compliments for an angst writer. :)

From: [identity profile] all-choseny.livejournal.com


Wow that was dark, And so very Spuffy. Their relationship was so complicated season 6. I wish season 7 would have told more of their story.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


So do I. I loved how in season seven they finally started to heal, but I wished we could have seen more of it.

Thanks for reading. :)

From: [identity profile] panda-pooka.livejournal.com


This is very good. Rough and bitter and so damned needy - fitting with the mood of Season Six perfectly. I enjoyed this Very Much!

From: [identity profile] hello-spikey.livejournal.com


oh that is lovely! Dark and sweet and sexy, and I so love that end with its ambiguity. *clap clap*

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Thank you! I think you are the only person who commented who described this as "lovely" and "sweet." *grins*

From: [identity profile] servus-a-manu.livejournal.com


(Here from [livejournal.com profile] su_herald ) Wow. This IS dark, but in a totally realistic way. One of the things you've done here that I wish the show had done, is show Spike more sympathetic to Buffy's emotional state. And not in a pitying way at all, just searching his own bank of experience (in this case, poetry -and can I just say what a stroke of genius that Marlowe quote is) to try and connect with her.

Beautiful, and haunting.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Thank you! You know, you can always tell what I'm studying in my classes, 'cause they always manage to work their way into my writing. This week it was Doctor Faustus. :) I'm happy you think this was realistic. Their relationship in season six WAS dark, but I didn't want to go overboard.

By the way, I didn't even know about [livejournal.com profile] su_herald until you posted this, but I checked it out and wow! That's a good idea! So much easier to keep track of things than watching a million communities...

From: [identity profile] servus-a-manu.livejournal.com


lol! That's how I found out about su_herald, too. Somebody found me on my original LJ thru a rec there. It's not a complete list, by any means, but definitely a good jumping off point.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Thank you! I do love to write things that are dark, sad and disturbing sometimes.

Thanks for reading. :)
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From: [identity profile] devylish.livejournal.com


dark
and probably accurate at times in their relationship...
well written

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Thank you! I'd like to think this is accurate to season six. I mean, we got hints of how rough their sex could get in the show, and yeah, that could be chalked up to passion and slayer/vampire strength and all that, but when you combine with Buffy's dream (where pain and pleasure is twisted together) and the alley scene in Dead Things, I really think there is a much darker, more twisted reason behind it all.

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From: [identity profile] devylish.livejournal.com


and even if both of them weren't lost in a morass of darkness, Buffy was.

how do you balance demands of family/friends, your duties to the 'world', AND the fact that you've just lost the only pure happiness you've ever known?


her desire to feel FEEL anything except for the emptiness/pain that she feels, makes soooo much sense.

and spike's desire, as echoed in your fic, to do whatever he could to make her happy, even temporarily, makes sense.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


and even if both of them weren't lost in a morass of darkness, Buffy was.

You know, I've heard people talk about how in that season Spike was trying to drag Buffy into the darkness to join him, but I always saw it as the opposite. She was the one dragging him down. though I can't exactly say he was some kind of "victim" in it, because I think allowing her to treat him and the relationship they had the way she did was very consciously done. Either as a misguided attempt to help her, or a way to keep her with him in any way possible.
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From: [identity profile] devylish.livejournal.com


if we want to push that idea even further....

Spike was clearly abused by Buffy. Part of the abused/victim thought process sometimes entails thoughts of: 'i deserve what i'm getting'... or 'if i was 'better/worthy' she wouldn't hit me/hurt me/use me'....

did he want her? yes. was he love's bitch? yes. did he use her desire to 'feel' as a way to keep her? yes.
was he abused by her? yup.

i don't excuse the abuse... just detailing it.

and i wonder... kinda maybe... if the FACT that she knew she was being abusive to him, HELPED her excuse/forgive spike's almost rape.


From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


While I do think that Buffy was abusive, I don't think that Spike had the typical mind set of an abused victim. I don't think it was "I deserve what I'm getting" so much as "I can take it." I think he knew that she had all this confusing and pain and anger to deal with and that she couldn't share it with any of her friends and family, so he allowed her take it out on him, hoping it would help her. (Again the scene in Dead Things comes to mind, where she is obviously taking out her self disgust on him and he just says "lay it all on me.")

Does this mind set stop him from believing all the verbal abuse she spews at him? Does it stop it from taking an emotional toll on him? No. It doesn't. As was shown in Seeing Red where he cracks and fall apart.

But I don't think he was a complete victim in it. Nor do I think he'd never tried (or succeeded) to rape anyone before. If you recall during the scene of his emotional breakdown in the crypt he says: "Why did I do it?" and then he stops and says, "Why didn't I do it?"

I don't think her abuse absolves him of blame for how screwed up their relationship was. Nor do I think the rape absolves Buffy. They weren't just abuser/abusee or rapist/victim. It was far more complicated than that.

As for forgiving Spike... well they didn't really deal with the rape in season seven. Which I can understand becuase you don't want to remind everyone of the ugliest part for his character while trying to redeem him and possibly lose fans for focusing on something so horrible. But still, that always bothered me that it was never dealt with.

From: [identity profile] torrimarch.livejournal.com


Wow, that's an intense scene. Awesomely done! You write very well...

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Thank you so much! And yeah, it was intense. To write it even.

From: [identity profile] peroxidepirate.livejournal.com


Good story! This was the right balance of dark, hot, & just a little, tiny bit affectionate. I don't usually like Spuffy fics, but this one comes off completely in the spirit of the show. It's dark without making either of them into a villain, not too romantic, not rewriting canon, but giving more depth to what's already there. Perfect.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Wow! What a great comment! Thank you! It's so nice to hear that people like your story even when they don't necessarily like the pairing. :)

I'm so happy you think it fits with show. Personally, my favorite fics are always ones that can fit well with how things really were. I mean, if you change everything around, especially the characters themselves, aren't you taking away what made you love the characters/pairing in the first place?

Not that I don't like a nice AU, now and then, 'cause I'll admit it, I do. But I like it when the characters themselves are still as close to the real ones as possible.

Thank you so much for reading! :)

From: [identity profile] rebcake.livejournal.com


Does being here make it better at all?

Some.


*sigh* Both of them are striving to improve things (for her, at least), but neither knows what will really help. Nor do I, alas.

A bittersweet interlude, beautifully told. (I might be in the minority thinking this is at all sweet, but I do.)

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


I don't think there was really anything they could have done at that point in time. For Buffy it was just about getting through it, and I think she knew that too.

Haha. Yeah, you are definatley in the minority with the swee comment. Mostly I'm just getting how it was so dark. Though I hadn't thought it was that dark when i posted it. *shruggs*

Thank you so much for your comment, hun!

From: [identity profile] rasp-berry-hats.livejournal.com


Wonderfully dark. Could have fit in anywhere during Season 6. Very dark, very twisted; just like them in that year.

I also liked how you quoted Faustus. That truly does fit that relationship of Buffy and Spike during that time.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


I thought so. When we were going over it in my literature class I couldn't the idea of using it to play a little bit with Spike and Buffy's relationship out of my head. Their relationship really was twisted in season 6, and I think the quotes Doctor Faustus reflected that a bit.

Thank you so much for reading and commenting hun!

From: [identity profile] buffyconvert.livejournal.com


This was so intense; I almost felt like I was Spike. It's so funny that HE'S a "demon" yet he's so much more literate than Buffy. He would make a great teacher.

From: [identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com


Yes, I think so too. But I don't think Buffy is dumb in anyway, she just never got to focus on stuff like that because of Slaying. Sad really, because there were a few episodes that showed how she was really flourishing with the collge thing.

Thanks for reading and commenting!
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Fic: Make Me Immortal With a Kiss


Intensive chapter, dark.
Spike knows why Buffy comes to him, he sees what she does.
Good Buffy POV (or Buffy voice?) of Season 6.
Good but bittersweet (dark).
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