TITLE:
Associate Aston
AUTHOR:
AmethystxX
CHAPTER: 8
DISCLAIMER: I
don't own any characters in the fic, I am merely borrowing them while their
owners glare at me (whimper)
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
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WOLFRAM
AND
After
nearly a full hour of checking every corridor and room in the building they
finally reached the stairwell that led to the roof. Although along the journey
"Number
one, I'm not ignorant. I have power in more ways than one. Yes I may not be as
strong as you but the source of the power comes from here," Angelus tapped
his head smirking, "Smarts. Something you know nothing of. You come from a
world where everything belonged to you; now that you're here you understand and
know nothing. If you think that's power then I pity you" Angelus chuckled
at
Gunn
stepped between them, giving nervous glances to the two and to the opening of
the roof.
"Err
guys I think it's best we get going. If Aston does have Spike, then we really
need to get up there," As Gunn spoke he inwardly sighed with relief at
seeing them separate. He took a nervous breath and shifted on his feet.
Angelus
grinned and turned to
"I
can sense Spike up there and I can't smell any blood. I am getting traces of
Aston but he is hard to track, maybe something to do with Wolfram and Hart so
that no one can be traced" Angelus turned to look at the other two after
he spoke and sneered.
"Well?
Are we going or what?" Angelus jeered and kicked the door open to the
roof.
As
the three ran out onto the roof they were surprised to not see Aston anywhere
in sight. Angelus gave a frustrated growl and turned to Gunn.
"You
go that way" Angelus pointed to the right, he turned to
As
they all met up Gunn stood in front of Aston, who had an insane glint in his
eyes, was standing extremely close to the edge of the roof holding Spike with a
large knife at his neck. Aston stood there muttering, shifting and sometimes
even shouting out words. Spike had a trail of blood trailing down his neck from
the pressure of the knife.
"Just
drop the knife and let Spike go! Nothing will happen if you just let Spike
go" Gunn shouted over the howling of the wind.
Aston
set his eyes on Gunn before drawing his lips back and snarling, "Yes let
him go! Let him go! That's what they all shout, it happens all the time! Every
time this happens which has only been twice but oh yes it could be more, yes
much more, But only twice with Spike as second. The first one went fine,
nothing wrong, Aston got what he wanted and the other man lost the battle, the
battle was lost, and yes it was" Aston rambled and giggled crazed.
Angelus
came forward and stood level with Gunn, "If you don't let him go I'll show
you pain you'll never imagine. If he gets killed you'll regret it, I won't kill
you, I'll let you live and that's a fate even worse death because you know
what? You won't be going home. You'll be locked up in Wolfram and Hart with
constant screaming running through your head that'll make you wish every second
for a death you won't be given" Angelus said chillingly, and smirked at
the fear blossoming within his eyes.
"No
you wont, no torture for me, nope no way because I'm special. I have a gift
they say, a special gift given to me and me only. They even said my mind can't
handle being alive for so long, but I said 'No my mind is fine' and it is, it's
mighty fine. Even if I was to give up you can't have Spike, no can do, no way.
I can't let you have him if I can't, I'm sorry but it just can't happen"
Aston said with sympathy. Even under the amount of madness in his voice and
mind he still believed he was fine.
"You
want to win the battle yes? The battle between the lover and you, you want
something you can't and will never be able to have. Don't you see, the battle
is already lost Aston, you lost. Now let Spike go"
Aston
looked around frantically, "No! I'll win the battle just like last time! I
walk away squeaky clean as if nothing happened and find another challenger to
the battle. I can't lose; I can't lose because it's a win-win battle for me.
Either way I've won, either way he's lost" Aston babbled and looked over
the edge of the roof, clinging onto Spike tighter.
"Aston,
listen to me. You can't win because you've lost. Just let me go and you walk
away as if nothing happened. There's no harm in losing is there?" Spike
said slowly.
Aston
looked down and thought but then laughed, "No you see if I lose, I lose
the boy and I don't want to lose the boy so that's bad, losing is bad. Just
because the other guy is here doesn't mean I've lost, this is how it was last
time and I still won, except this'll be harder to win. You see if he has you
then I lose, I'm not losing so to win I need to have you. I'm sorry to have had
you caught up into this Spike, but I want you and what I can't have he
certainly can't have" Aston said and looked at the others getting ready to
pounce him.
Aston
let go of Spike, keeping the knife at his throat and slowly walked
backwards-leaving Spike at the roofs edge. He smiled at Spike and spoke quietly
so that the human couldn't hear him.
"Don't
worry, we will meet up again in the next life. You are much prettier than the
last one so I am feeling rather sad about doing this, but it needs to be
done" Aston whispered sadly.
Angelus
and
He
grabbed Spike's hand, barely, and was relieved to feel
"I
may not have the 'Smarts' you may have Angelus, but I am far more powerful than
you in strength" She chuckled at Angelus' sneer and looked down past
Angelus' at Spike.
"I
would very much like to be pulled up now!" Spike shouted at her while
holding his stomach with his free hand.
"Very
well, it's not as if I particularly enjoyed holding onto you to anyway,"
"I
can feel Angel on the surface of our mind. He is rather fond of you and it is
getting difficult to keep him at bay. He can have full power of our body after
I am done with Aston" Angelus mumbled before letting go of Spike and
turning to
"Find
Aston and Gunn, if Gunn doesn't have Aston I want you to find him, I have to
sort out Spike's wound. I'm not through with Aston and won't be for a long
time. He'll pay, when I'm through with him he wont understand the concept of
anything other than pain" Angelus growled out promisingly and
"So
I take it Angel went away so you could deal with Aston yes?" Spike asked
casually.
Angelus
grinned, "Oh yes, that and he is far too in love with you to see past
anything but you" Angelus replied before leading Spike down the stairs
towards the medical wards yet again.
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MEDICAL
WARD,
Claire
sat at her desk humming in tune with the music still blaring out at the party.
She did not look pleased when she saw her patient that she released yesterday
evening.
"Well
Spike I can't say I'm surprised. I had a feeling you'd be back here tonight,
what with the partying and all. So should I name this your second home or is
this a social call? Which it probably isn't" Claire spoke as she gathered
her supplies from various cupboards. Still humming she came over to Spike and
checked out his wound, grimacing at the size of the wound.
"Well,
it looks a lot like a sword wound or at least an incredibly large knife wound
since its gone right through your midriff. I can stitch that up and bandage it
but that's about all I can do right now" Claire said in annoyance and
looking up at Spike with a 'You know better' expression.
"Don't
you ever sleep?" Spike asked while smiling sweetly.
Claire
scowled, "I'm here for the party but I thought I'd have a short break in
my office and surprise, surprise look who comes back for a visit!" Claire
answered.
After
another few minutes, Spike was all patched up, although still in a lot of pain,
and was ready to go. Claire was also not too fond of this 'Angel' standing in
front of her. He seems different, she thought, and not in a good way. She
nervously packed everything a way and bid farewell to her patient while giving
him some painkillers.
"Angelus"
"We
have Aston, he's in your office"
"Good"
Angelus answered. They starting heading towards his office ignoring the party
going on behind them and thought about what was going to happen.
This
is going to be fun, Angelus thought as they stopped outside his office.
After
another pause he opened the door, greeted to the sight of Gunn standing guard
over Aston.
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