Mickey and Silvia
Author: Titti
E-mail: titti_adriano@h...
Ships: Spike and Angel
Rating: NC-17 for the series.
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Dedication: A big "thank you" to Vixen.
Disclaimer: We all know that I don't own them, but we have to thank Joss, 20th Century Fox, Mutant Enemy, The WB and now UPN and who knows who else. Dirty Dancing and its sound track is not mine either and I have no clue who has the rights to that.
Spoilers: Season 5 BtVS/Season 2 Angel to be safe but it's mostly AU
Archives: Take it, spread it, just let me know where.Part 5
"Giles, Wesley! Get up here. I think they are waking up."
Willow hadn't left the vampires' side since they were rendered unconscious by the portal.
They had been in this forced coma for 8 days. During this time, the gang had tried different spells to wake them up. While the level of difficulty increased, the result was always the same. Nothing worked.
Willow was the last to give up when her energy was completely drained.
Finally, they were forced to wait hoping that the two vampires would wake up.
When Spike and Angel opened their eyes, they found themselves surrounded by all their friends.
After looking around, Spike realized that they were lying on Joyce's bed. Dawn was the first to hug Spike. He was her family now.
"It's OK, Nibblet. I'm fine." He tried to reassure the teenager in his arms but he was still shaken up by his dream. He was a woman and had made love to Angel. Spike wasn't sure whether he should be glad that he was a dream.
"Angel, are you OK? You scared me to death. I told you that you should have taken Gunn or Wesley with you." Cordelia couldn't resist the `I told you so' comment.
"Cordy, I am fine. And Gunn and Wesley would have been in my situation if I had taken them with me." Angel knew that reason wouldn't help, but he still tried. The problem was that he was too emotionally spent. In his dream, he was in love with his childe and Spike had returned that love. Now he was awake and alone again.
He looked at the blond sitting next to him. Was he imagining it? He could swear that he saw love in those blue orbs.
"Are you OK, Spike?" Angel's hand touched the blond head.
"Stop touching me, nancy boy. Of course, I'm fine."
He didn't have time to think why the souled vampire was acting so strangely before he felt the queasiness in his stomach. He pushed Dawn away and he flung himself off the bed. He thanked his vampire speed when he was able to reach the bathroom before starting to throw up.
The dark vampire was the quickest to reach Spike. Angel was at his side holding his forehead while the contents of his stomach kept coming out. When he finally stopped, Angel took him in his arms.
"What's wrong Silvia?" He didn't know why the name had slipped out. He was thankful that no one else was close enough to hear it.
Spike's jaw dropped at the name. That was his dream how could Angel know about it.
The look on Spike's face startled Angel until he realized that it wasn't a dream. Somehow they had really lived it all.
He kissed the blonde vampire.
Two witches, a seer, a watcher, an ex watcher turned rogue demon hunter, the Key, an ex vengeance demon and the Zeppo all looked on speechless.
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The entire group was sitting in the Summers' living room, still in shock from the bathroom scene. Only Dawn seemed happy that Spike had found someone who cared for him.
"We need to know what you remember to determine how to deal with the portal." The older watcher was trying to do his best to stay calm after having listened to Spike's cursing for a good thirty minutes.
"Bloody hell, Rupert. I don't care. I want to know why I am puking. I am tired of all these changes." Spike let the last part slip before he realized what he was saying. He gave Angel's a scarred look hoping for some help.
"What changes, Spike? Tell us what happened." Giles wanted answers. He was losing his patience but he also knew Spike well enough to know that pushing the vampire would only obtain the opposite effect.
"We both experienced the same events." The response came from the souled vampire who was doing his best to keep his calm. He wanted nothing else but to be left alone with his lover.
"See, you never listen to me. I told you they weren't in a coma at all. They were in another dimension."
All heads turned to the ex demoness. "You were feeding in the other dimension, yes?"
When she saw the vampires nod their heads, she pressed on. "That's why they didn't seem to suffer from hunger. I told you it was the portal to Olympus. Do you think the Greeks came up with that all by themselves? Please, humans are not so inventive. …So did they make a nice orgasmic experience for you?"
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After hours of discussion and with great input from the ex demoness, they were able to deduct that the portal was indeed a door to another dimension.
Anya smugly explained that the inhabitants of Olympus feed on other beings' emotions. For this reason they would suck beings from other dimension. They would steal images from their victims' minds, and create worlds that would amplify the victims' feelings.
From these encounters, the Greek myth of the Olympic gods was born.
Anya informed them that the gods liked the passionate personalities of the Ionic people so much that they created a permanent portal in ancient Greece. This had given Anya the chance to meet some of the gods in person.
Anya was quick to point out that these so-called gods had real powers comparable to the powers of mythology. Therefore anything the two vampires experienced on Olympus would have repercussion in their dimension.
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Feeling the sun's arrival, Angel claimed to be too tired to continue this interesting, yet useless discussion and informed everyone that both vampires would now go to sleep. He never gave anyone a reason why he was speaking for Spike. For once the blonde was only too grateful to comply. They were back in Joyce's room. Spike was lying on the bed while Angel sat on an armchair.
"So, of all the things on this heart, you could only think of a movie before possibly being dusted?" Angel was teasing but he was also curious to find out how Spike's mind worked.
"Shut up. Nibblet made me watch that movie three times that day. I know every bloody line. I guess the gods saw that and got a bit confused." He was sulking but a hint of humor was there.
"Do you regret any of it?" Spike added the question as an after thought, but this was the most important bit of information to him.
Angel was unsure how to answer it. It had been so simple at Kellerman's, but her it was different. Then he realized that his love was still the same.
He got up from the chair and threw himself onto Spike. He cupped the blonde's face and stared into the blue eyes. "I love you now and forever."
He was about the land a kiss when he felt Spike push him with all his strength. Now he was really confused. He thought that's what his lover wanted and needed to hear.
Spike, on the other hand, needed to get to the bathroom fairly quickly if he didn't want to leave a blood trail in the hallway. Nausea was a sensation he hadn't experienced in over a century and he sure hadn't missed it.
Angel was panicking now.
When something or someone was threatening his loved ones, the dark vampire, whether as Angel or Angelus, would react with death and destruction, but now his lover was sick and he had no one to slay. He felt completely hopeless until he thought about the one person that could help him. He practically flew downstairs.
"Is Anya still here?" When his eyes found the young woman, he grabbed her and dragged her upstairs.
Spike was lying on the bed again looking even paler than usual.
"What's wrong with him? What did those gods do to him?" Angel was frantic.
"I don't know Angel. There are many gods. I don't know whom you encountered. They usually don't hurt their guests thought. So unless you offended one of them, they wouldn't harm you.
"Spike did you do something stupid that I don't know about?" Angel wouldn't be surprised to find out about a fight. Leave it up to the blonde to piss off a god.
"I didn't do anything, you poof. You never left my side, ever. So if I had done anything, you would have known about it." After taking a breath he added: "I'm hungry."
He was whining but he really didn't feel well. He felt a tremendous hunger but his body refused to keep any blood down.
"I'll go get blood for him. You stay with him." Anya volunteered. A thousand years of experience gave her the intuition to guess that these two were in love.
When she returned with the blood, her suspicions were confirmed. She found Spike scooped up against Angel's body. The taller vampire was hugging the other landing soft kisses on his blonde head.
She joined the two on the bed. Thinking about what the vampires had told them, she recognized that they hadn't disclosed any real information except the fact that they had experienced the same fantasy and that they were never in danger.
"Look, I'll try to help, but I need to know everything." She kept her voice soft. She had learnt after Buffy's death that humans reacted better to that tone when they were afraid or sad. She was willing to bet that it would work on vampires also.
"Just sleep now and you can tell me later, OK." She pointed to the blonde vampire who was peacefully asleep in Angel's arms. She handed the blood to Angel and left.
Angel drank the blood intended for his companion and joined him in slumber.
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Spike could hear them arguing downstairs. He wanted to know what was going on but getting up taking so much energy. He just woke up but he felt so very tired.
(I just need some blood and I'll be fine. Of course, I have to manage not to puke it all.)
He was slowly making his way down the stairs when he heard his lover's voice. He sounded upset. True Angel was using his usual monotone but Spike's vampire ears could pick up the tension.
"I'm staying here. Wes, you are in charge, remember. You can take Cordy and Gunn back to L.A. and I'll stay until we find out what's wrong with Spike."
"What if I have a vision and we have to fight demons? You would put us in danger to stay with Spike?" Cordy was trying to reason with her friend not understanding why Angel was being so stubborn.
"Just stay away from the fucking demons and you'll be safe. I.am.staying.with.SPIKE."
Everyone gaped. Angel was Mr. Stoic. He never cursed, never raised his voice, almost never unless he had misplaced his soul.
"It's OK luv. I am sure that if you need him, he can drive down and be back without missing anything." Spike didn't want to create problems between Angel and his friends.
Angel covered the distance between them in two long steps and hugged Spike. "I am staying. I don't want to discuss it anymore, but thanks anyway." He said softly then he released the blonde and stepped back.
His warm gaze became a frown.
"What the fuck! You have a heartbeat."
"Cor Peaches, what are you on and where can I find some? Of course I don't have a heartbeat. I'm a bleeding vampire for Satan's sake."
"Did you have intercourse on Olympus?" Anya might have learnt the tone to use, but tact was still not her forte.
Xander wanted to be blasted into oblivious at that moment. "Anya, we don't ask that question. We don't even want to think that question. And may I add EWWWW."
"Yes, well Anya, personal questions are really no help right now." Giles swore that he could hear the music from the Twilight Zone in his head.
"Why do you want to know?" Angel was learning that this young woman was a lot smarter that everyone gave her credit for. She may not know how to act around humans (Like I am Mr. Savoir Faire) but she had vast experience with the non-human world.
Before Anya could answer Spike spoke up. "Dawn, can you go and buy me some pistachio ice-cream?"
"Hell, you just want to get rid of me. You're worse than Buffy was. I'll let you know that I know a lot about sex." The key was tired of being treated like a kid. "First of all you know I don't like it when you curse. Secondly, I never want to get rid of you. I just really, really want ice cream right now. Thirdly, you'll discover sex the day you get married. So now, could you do me this favor?"
Dawn got up with a sigh, took the money proffered by Angel and left.
When Spike was certain that she wasn't standing outside the door, he turned to the ex demoness.
"Yeah, we had sex. So what?" He stayed focused on the young woman sitting in front of him. He wasn't sure how Angel would feel about his revelation but he needed to know what was wrong with him. When he felt Angel's arms around him, he relaxed again.
"Where were you?" Anya kept asking her questions without noticing the shock on the other humans' faces.
"Outside, on the grass, under a tree." Spike wasn't sure how much he wanted to share, but he would go to great lengths to get to the bottom of this mystery.
"How was the weather?"
"For God's sake, Anya, do you think the weather would explain why Spike has a heartbeat." Giles wanted to shut his employee up. "I don't really think any of us wants to know what constitutes a romantic encounter for two male vampires."
Spike and Angel started laughing at the last comment. Then they had to explain about Spike's sex change and answer what felt like a million questions. When they were done, Spike answered Anya's last question.
"It was nice. Moon was out. A little chilly, you know end of the summer in the mountains. Oh, it was windy, really windy. I almost felt that the wind was going through my body."
"Boreas." Anya was so excited. She knew exactly what was wrong with Spike and was sure that nothing bad would happen to him.
She went on to explain to the rest. "Boreas is the God of Fertility. He can make fertile any female under any circumstance. Congratulation Spike, you're pregnant."
The two vampires answered in unison: "Oh, fuck."
TBC