TITLE:
Associate Aston
AUTHOR:
AmethystxX
CHAPTER: 4
DISCLAIMER: I
don't own any characters in the fic, I am merely borrowing them while their
owners glare at me (whimper)
PAIRING: Spike/Angel
eventually
SUMMARY: Angel
gains a new associate to help them against the Senior Partners. What happens
when he sets his sights on Spike and what will Angel do about it SLASH
WOLFRAM AND
HART MEDICAL WARD:
As soon as
Angel just
stood there and watched while Gunn tried to get a reaction out of him. He just
stared at Spike while several tubes were stuck into him to figure out what the
poison was doing to his body and where it was. After another long few minutes
everything had calmed down dramatically. Gunn sat him in a chair while he
continued staring at Spike. The machines that were hooked up to Spike took his
blood level and temperature, which should be completely cool, the blood level
was low signalling that blood was being used in incredible speed while the
temperature was alarmingly high.
He was hooked
up to blood bags, which were being drained slowly, and it seemed that the blood
going in wasn't registering on the machines. The blood in his body was still
falling, slowly but still surely falling. The Medics were baffled. It seemed as
though Spike had lost his healing ability.
"When
one gets injected or consumes it they suffer in a sort of weakened way. They
are unable to move, speak or think properly even their blood and organs stop
working properly."
Gunn had
decided to leave Angel where he was and research to try to help Spike, Angel
was causing no harm. He seemed
. Catatonic.
After a smooth
15 minutes of research it was suddenly interrupted by the machines alarms and
Spike's seizure.
Everyone just
stopped what they were doing, not knowing what to do. The medics looked at each
other; Spike should not be having a seizure yet.
"I need
as many human blood bags you have to replace the lost blood! He could start
spitting up blood any minute and if he doesn't get it he could turn to dust
before we've even started! I want you three on research, as fast as you can, I
need to know what this poison does and how to cure it!" Everyone went into
action, Gunn, Wesley and another medic went onto research and the others rushed
round grabbing blood bags and hooking them up. They also hooked empty bags to
collect lost blood.
Angel then
decided to click into action by rushing up to see what was happening. He was
barely being held back by
Wesley then
started waving his hands about in an, 'I've found something' way.
"Oh! It
says you have to separate the compounds in his blood to try and find a sort of
lilac colour element. It's unknown but can be seen under a microscope. It's the
healing element in the poison but is cancelled out by the other surrounding
elements. You add the element to Hydrochloric Acid where it then fuses, removes
the acid in it turning it into an alkali, the Hydrochloric acid is essential to
this. The poison in his body is acidic and should be cancelled out by the
alkali. Inject the same amount of alkali as the acid was and that should
neutralize the poison"
Wesley clapped
his hands in delight and rushed off to the lab.
Gunn was
scrunching his face up trying to figure out how the hell that science stuff was
supposed to work.
Angel wasn't
listening as he was still trying to get to Spike.
The Medics
were still working furiously to calm down Spike. They gave him a strong
sedative in the end.
"He's
stable"
As everything
calmed down again, Wesley came in holding up a light purple solution. He got
the dosage needed, flicked it, and then injected it into Spike. The results
were immediate. The blood level in his body was rising and Spike got back his
natural pallor, he even started to breath again as though he was asleep. The
poison in his blood was steadily dropping at increasing speed but his healing
factor didn't seem to be kicking in. Angel sobbed in relief.
"When he
wakes up, if he wakes up, he'll be very weak and his healing factor won't be at
top notch. It's going to take a long time for him to recover." Wesley
spoke quietly.
"What do
you mean if?" Angel whispered back, sitting at Spike's bedside.
"His
organs shut down Angel. Everything weakened in him, everything. His brain
didn't function which means that it may have confused it when everything was
healing. He may not be able to wake up. Not only that the healing factor isn't
working so that makes it even harder for his brain to cooperate." Wesley
smiled sadly, but Angel still looked determined.
"I'll be
here for him when he wakes up." Wesley sighed; this is going to be
difficult. Gunn came over and patted Angel on the back,
"Of
course you will man, I'm sure he'd like you to be there for him as well"
As Gunn spoke he looked to Wesley; Go with it. He said with his eyes.
The medics
cleaned up the equipment and gave smiles to each other. They had saved Spike
who was Angelus' childe. They were glad he was alive so that they weren't dead.
Everything
went silent as the Medics left and the three friends were left watching over
their newest friend. Begging him to awake from the coma.
SOMEWHERE
AWAY FROM WOLFRAM AND HART
Spike stood
standing in complete darkness. He didn't understand what had happened. He had
walked into the lab before blinding pain hit his head and then darkness. Now
he's stuck in the darkness with there not seeming to be a way out. Spike
frowned; why doesn't this look good.
He listened
carefully and he could hear voices. He could only pick up detached words and
half of sentences. Many human blood bags
turn to dust before
poison
cure
it.
Spike sighed;
it didn't make sense. He wanted to know where the hell he was and how to get
out. He suddenly felt as though he were floating, flying only without a breeze.
He was then watching in third person as Angel yelled, ranted and told him of
how much of a failure he was. He also watched as a lone tear travelled down his
face after Angel had left. Spike sighed, not one of his best memories.
"Now I
will tell you what I've done for you
50 thousand tears I've cried
Screaming Deceiving and Bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me"
Spike was then
pulled from that memory and was left yet again in darkness but this time he
could hear someone talking without the sentences scrambled, although it sounded
like an echo. He looked down at his hand and could almost feel someone
clutching it, holding onto him. He then realised the voice was Angel's and
sneered. Maybe this is my own personal hell; live in a hell where you hear your
love's voice for eternity. One sentence caught his attention, I'm so sorry
please wake up!
"Don't
want your hand this time I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom"
He was in a
coma.
"I'm
dying again"
Spike looked
around at the never ending darkness, panicking and breathing hard, then he
screamed.
"I'm
going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under"
After he
calmed down, realising that his screaming weren't going anywhere just bouncing
back to him, he concentrated on the voice as much as he could, trying to get
closer to it. Please Spike, I love you please wake up I'm sorry! You've been
asleep for a long time now you should wake up now. Please
I really do love you
I never meant to push you away
Spike thought
as those words were being said. Should he take the risk? What if it was a plot
so that Spike can go back to being the puppy? What if it was lies?
"Blurring
and Stirring the truth and the lies
So I don't know what's real and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again"
Spike decided
to take the risk. He concentrated on the voice until he felt another floating
sensation but with an added 'pull' to it. The voice sounded closer and clearer
until the sensation stopped and he could feel bedding under him.
"I'm
going under
Drowing in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through"
His eyes shot
open, his pupils dilated and he gave a heart-wrenching gasp.
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