Title: La Petite Morte Author: Foxhunt2blue Summary: Together they are never alone. Rating: NC-17 Pairing: Spike/Angel Spoilers: None for the show Disclaimer: Our wonderful Joss created them I had nothing to do with it---wish I had. I just play with the boys on occasion. I on the other hand claim anyone you don't know. Feedback: Please feed the baby slash ho' it needs nourishment to grow! ;-) E-mail: foxhunter2blue@yahoo.com Website: Author's note: This was inspired by an incredible Spangel pic by SueWorld---what a beautiful piece of art. This one is also dedicated to my new partners in crime Salustra and Pet. What a pair! I love you both for encouraging my dark side. ;-) **** When he realized that it was more than just blood he wasn't sure. Perhaps it was in that moment when his lover touched him as no other could. Smooth cool silk beneath him---above him the same, but beneath was the hardness of muscle, sinew, and bone. He wanted to be consumed by that coolness and to become one with it. A cold fire that burned him in the night just as the light of day could burn him to ash. A flame so beautiful and unique in it's perfection that there was only one---there would be no other. Parting his thighs he pulled his lover closer, his fingers grasping at sleek dark hair, and the curve of a rib cage that cradled lungs no longer used. A heart that had long ago ceased to beat, yet still understood love. His leg lifted---thigh muscle flexing---curling around his lovers thigh as if to say 'Come closer'. Soft sighs escaped his throat as lips smooth as marble trailed along the tendons of his neck. His lover's hand with long slender fingers curled around the curve of his ass cheek pulling him closer. Fingers splayed against his marble skin---massaging and squeezing. Between their cool bodies the first embers of desire grew. Their cocks swelling with the need they both felt. He hissed at the contact, then moaned as his lover shifted his hips. Each explored the other for it had been far too long since they had touched. Decades---more than a century parted this moment from the last. This time though there was far more to share. In the past it had been about family and dominance. Now it was about family and something far greater. They had both changed. No longer was he the soft, spoken poet who had been embraced by a dark-eyed doll. His lover was no longer the vicious killer who had taught him the ways of the hunt. Who had laid waste to entire villages by the side of a petite blonde, blue-eyed devil who could pass for innocence with but a lowering of her lashes. The dark-eyed doll had tossed him away when she tired of playing with him. His lover's blue-eyed devil had been scattered on the warm winds of a California night. And so it seemed they were all that remained of a family who had once feed upon the innocent, the young, even the not so innocent and the old. Their thirst now was not for the blood of others, but for that of each other. Grandsire and childe. Linked by blood, by the past, and by the deepest truth. Limbs intertwined, bodies linked together in a dance as ancient as the oldest of their kind, but there were no others like them. Even amongst their kind they were different. Something to be feared. He had chose his path in hopes of being loved. To be treated as though he were man and not a monster. His lover had been cursed because of his deep hatred for all he had once been. Because of his inability to love and his need to destroy. Two eternal beings cursed in their own way. Cursed to walk among the humans, yet never truly belong in their world. In each others arms they found what they both needed even more than the blood that nourished them. His back bowed as his lover took him---impaling him with a mix of pain and pleasure. Legs trembling he en- circled his lover's thrusting hips as he moaned in need. There was no need for words---not between them--- for they had surpassed words long ago. With but a simple glance or the lightest of caresses against pale, cool skin they spoke to one another. A rhythm was formed. Together they were as one and their souls soared. His voice rose in a keening wail as his lover's cool fingers wrapped around the smooth steel curve of his cock and stroked. His lover's voice rose as well in a deep roar---the roar of the stormy ocean's waves on the rocky shore. Like their bodies, their voices intertwined. The voices of centuries past and yet to come. Together they reach- ed the peak of no return and if their hearts had beat perhaps the would have stopped. Stopped in that one moment when they were no longer two outcasts, but two human souls soaring. His last thoughts as his body trembled with it's powerful release was of something he had once heard. As his lover came deep inside him---fingers tangled in bleached golden white locks---he wept. His lover's incisors pierced his throat drinking from his body just as he gave him this moment. A moment the French called la petite morte---the little death. For his lover he would suffer anything if but to feel one more death at the hands of his master---his lover. "Angel...," he sighed. The End