Title: Written In The Stars, Part 2 – Family Visit Author: Xanfan Rating: R/NC-17 for future chapters Pairing: ?????? Summary: Response to challenge from Sparky. Xander and Spike become friends after Spike gets the chip, they are both hurt and Dru rescues them and brings them to Angel to heal. Spoilers: BtVS up through season 4 and Ats 1st season. I may however take some liberties with the exact timeline, so, any season from either show is fair game. Warnings: Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended. Original Challenge: Spike has been chipped and taken in by the Scoobies. Just as he and Xander are beginning to become friends something their both hurt and it’s up to Angel to save and care for them. The twist is its Dru that saves them and brings them to Daddy. A/N: I may make take some liberties with timelines from both shows. And Anya was just a onetime thing. Words in Italics indicate thoughts. ________________________________________________________________________ Angel sat at his desk, scrunched down in his chair, staring at the ceiling. Some, like his associates hanging out at Cordelia’s desk not far from outside his door, might say that he was brooding. He wasn’t. Really. Truth be told, he was bored. B-O-R-E-D. Cordy hadn’t had a vision in days. They had no clients. He was bored. I wish something would happen. Luckily, no vengeance demons were hanging around right then. However, fate and the world still had their ears open, just waiting to lay the smackdown on people who said and thought things like that. It was worse than saying, “What’s the worse that could happen?” or “It’s really slow tonight.” Angel sat up in his chair, he felt something coming, or rather someone. At least one of his childer was near. As the feeling intensified, he realized that it was, in fact, two of his childer. Did Spike hook himself back up with Dru? He stepped out into the outer office. “What’s up bossman?” Cordy asked, not hiding the boredom she had been battling all day. When Angel didn’t answer, Wesley tried. “Angel, is something wrong?” Angel continued to stare at the door to their office. Cordy and Wesley looked at each other in concern, then, each surreptitiously reached for stakes they kept handy for weird or Angelousy situations. Angel felt his childer nearing, as they got closer, he picked up another smell. Blood, at least two different kinds, blood from one of his childer and human blood. At first, Angel wondered if they had just come from feeding, then he realized that the blood was fresh, like, from the source fresh. It was also familiar. He just couldn’t place why it was familiar. Angel tensed, the door to his office opened. He was shocked at the sight before him. Dru entered the office, maneuvering carefully through the door, so that she didn’t disturb her burdens too much. And burdens they were, she was caring two bodies, one over each shoulder. The Angel Investigations crew froze, not sure what was going on. Dru made her way to the couch in the corner and deposited her cargo carefully, before straightening and turning to Angel. Cordy gasped in shock, Angel turned to see what, beyond the weirdness of the scene, had caused the reaction. One of the men Dru had carried into the room was Spike, you could tell because, beneath the blood, his platinum bleached, blonde hair could be seen. His face and body were covered in bruises and cuts. The other man, battered and beaten and….Xander?!? “Daddy, the stars told me that Spike and the Kitten were in trouble. Miss Edith told me to go get them and bring them here, so that you could take care of them.” Dru said proudly, and then a look of concern crossed her face. Concern? “Daddy, I think something is wrong with the Kitten, on the inside. He didn’t wake up at all when I brought him here and I smell more blood than he has on the outside.” Dru said, with uncharacteristic clarity. Angel focused on the boy, opening up his senses. And he smelt it, and heard it. Blood was pooling somewhere on the inside of the boy. That was bad. “Cordy, call an ambulance, tell them we found someone who had been beaten and we think he may have internal injuries.” Cordy rushed to make the call, her hands shaking. “Dru, where are you going?” Angel asked, when he saw the vampire headed out the door. “The stars say I am done here. I brought you Spike and the Kitten to take care of and now, I can go back to my jungle and be with my new love.” Dru said simply, then turned and left. Angel was stunned for a moment, then turned to Wesley, “Help me get Spike downstairs.” Wesley balked. "We’re going to help the vampire that tried to kill you several months ago?” “He didn’t try to kill me, he just had me tortured, there’s a difference. Willow says he has a chip now; it prevents him from hurting humans. And, he can’t be up here when the paramedics get here. Never mind, I can get him downstairs by myself. You stay up here and help Cordy direct traffic, when the emergency personnel get here.” Angel picked up his shockingly light childe and carried him down the stairs. He laid Spike on his bed and quickly set about drinking as much blood as he had on hand. The only way Spike was going to heal quickly, from the state he was in, was if he had sire’s blood. Angel went to the bedroom, bit open his wrist and held it to Spike’s mouth. The blond vampire’s instincts took over and he began to feed. It didn’t take that much sire’s blood to jumpstart his healing, so Angel removed his wrist from Spike’s grasp. The younger vampire quickly fell into a healing sleep/coma that would last several hours. Angel left Spike a note and went upstairs. The paramedics had arrived and were working to stabilize the boy. They soon had him loaded onto the gurney and headed out towards the ambulance. Cordy was elected to accompany Xander to the hospital, while Angel and Wesley would meet them there. When they, Angel and Wesley arrived at the hospital, they found Cordelia standing outside an exam room crying and looking in while doctor’s and nurses swarmed over Xander. “How is he?” Angel asked quietly. “Not good, they said he is bleeding internally and has been for awhile, but they’re not sure where he is bleeding from, so they will need to do exploratory surgery to find and repair the damage.” Suddenly, an alarm sounded from one of the machines that had been hooked up to Xander and the hospital staff called for a crash cart and began CPR. Angel caught a nurse who was leaving the room, “What’s going on?” “I’m sorry, I can’t….” The nurse words halted when she saw Angel’s eyes flash yellow. “His heart stopped beating; he has lost a lot of blood. They’re trying to resuscitate him now. If they are successful, they’ll rush him into surgery to find and stop the bleeding.” The nurse swiftly left, to continue whatever task she had been assigned. Angel, Cordy and Wesley stood there, stunned. They could only watch as Xander was worked on, cringing when his body arched, at being shocked with the paddles. Angel’s vampire hearing picked up one doctor’s voice as he muttered to his colleague, “We`ll have to call it soon. One more shock, if he doesn’t come back, I’m declaring him.” Angel had watched enough television to know that this meant, that if Xander’s heart didn’t start beating after the next shock, they were going to declare him dead. He watched, as the doctor’s shocked Xander with the paddles again. He waited for the boy’s heart to start beating. And he waited. Part 3 Back to Fiction Index Reviews? Email Me |