Berlin, Germany - October, 1930

Chapter One:  Twilight Falling

"Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas
Je vois la vie en rose
Il me dit des mots d'amour
Des mots de tous les jours
Et ça me fait quelque chose"
                  -Edith Piaf, La Vie En Rose

The air was thick with cigarette smoke, and the club's dim lighting filled the room ( Read more... )

so this has been running around in my head all day.
rating is pg-13ish, because Spike is evil and he kills people.

The first pair of work-boots Spike got after he'd been turned came off of the corpse of a dockyard worker.  Angelus didn't like them, but then, Angelus didn't like anything that wasn't fancy and irritating, and after Spike had taken the ( Read more... )

So this is a very short update... but
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and now a three-hundred word (or so) Spike drabble for your reading pleasure...

Always Blood

It's always been blood.  He was born in it, woken by it, and the scent that cut through his coffin-panic was the smell of it as it oozed from his torn knuckles.  It makes other vamps lazy, complacent, to be well-fed.  It makes Spike as sharp as a razor ( Read more... )

very short blurb....



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"This is a bad idea," Spike says.

The words are enough to make Alex pause.  Spike, after all, is the king, queen, and crown prince of bad ideas and half-cocked plans, and if he thinks they shouldn't be doing this, well, then, they probably shouldn't.  Come to think of it, this plan was originally one of Spike's, which ( Read more... )

They get Mulder into the car, struggling and swearing the entire time.  Or rather, Spike does.  Left to his own devices, Alex would have ordered Mulder into the vehicle at gunpoint, but Spike manhandles 190-odd pounds of furiously resisting FBI agent into the back seat with about as much difficulty as Alex would have with an angry toddler.

Alex ( Read more... )

a/n:  The first part of this story is based on Cody Nelson's wonderful Take Me To Your Leader, which I read long, long ago, when my only fandom was the X-Files.  It lingered.  For years.  And then when I started reading Buffy fic, it came roaring back, with this attatched to it.

ed. 15 May 2009:  This story has been nominated for Best Crossover in ( Read more... )

A Sickness Past Your Cure
a BtVS/Smallville crossover by Auberus

Summary:  On his way to New York City after the events of  'The Harsh Light of Day' and "In the Dark,' Spike's car breaks down just outside of a little town in Kansas.

Author's Notes:  I know the timelines are off, but I just couldn't resist.

"I hear
my ill-spirit throb in each ( Read more... )