DISCLAIMER: The Buffy characters belong to God, aka Joss Weedon. The Interview With The Vampire Characters belong to Anne Rice.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is the first fanfic I've written in a long while, and I'm really self-concious about it. I realize it's not as good as it could be, but I did the best I could under the present circumstances.
WARNING: This fanfic contains material which might be objectionable or disturbing to some readers. Hell, it's probably disturbing to most readers!
For violence, profanity, a little bit of sex and other adult topics, this story (albeit reluctantly) is rated R.
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Archivist's note: Having reviewed the content, I would rate the material at PG-13, as a caution to any younger readers.
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Thanks to all the people who helped me finish the fic: From beta-reading to giving me quotes. Couldn't have done it without ya!
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Part Five
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Part 5
* * *
Drusilla cowered in the corner. Angelus towered over her like some sort of menacing giant while she whimpered. Her memories attacked her and the shock of seeing him had her nearly paralyzed.
That was the scene Claudia saw when she ran out into the hallway. She stood there, shocked for a couple of seconds, but recovered quickly.
'' Louis! Spike!'' She cried out as Angelus lifted Drusilla up and brutally shoved her against the wall.
'' For god's sakes, Dru, hit him!'' Claudia screamed as she ran toward Angelus. Drusilla was still whimpering, still in shock. Her mind couldn't deal with something like this so quickly, and to stand up to Angelus was something she couldn't even fathom.
Claudia, on the other hand, shoved him away from Drusilla. He staggered for a bit, then got his balance back. However, before he could attack, a voice rang out.
'' You bastard!'' Spike yelled, jumping at Angelus. They wrestled on the floor for a couple of minutes, and Angelus laughed and said,
'' Finally you have grown two!''
As a response, Spike grabbed him by the ears and slammed his head repeatedly against the floor.
At that exact second, expertly played piano music rang throughout the mansion. Claudia froze.
An image of twenty years ago flashed in her mind; long, pale fingers teaching her how to skip across the ivory keys...
'' It can't be...'' She said to herself. Then, a voice she'd hoped never to hear again; laughing, a light tone.
'' You never did learn how to play this piece properly, you know.''
Her anger, a red hot wave flashing across her mind, overtook her and she raced to the parlor. The piano was indeed occupied by Lestat. '' Where is Louis? I'd like to catch up on old times with him!'' He said.
'' Leave, Lestat.''
'' And miss all the fun?'' He continued playing, and at that moment, Louis came in the house.
'' Claudia? I didn't think you knew how to play this piece....'' He trailed off as he saw their guest.
* * *
Spike and Angelus had knocked down every painting and plant in the hallway while Drusilla watched it all from a distance, eyes transfixed, darting back and forth in a barely subdued panic.
Then, in a second, it was over. Spike was on top of Angelus, hitting him. Angelus reached over for a piece of a frame from a knocked-down painting and plunged it into Spike's heart.
He turned to dust immediately.
* * *
Lestat got up from the piano, suddenly turning angry. His face clouded over as he walked toward Claudia and Louis.
'' Lestat,'' Louis started, '' I don't want to kill you again. Please.''
Lestat scoffed. '' You have done it twice! I see not why you'd hesitate to do it a third time!''
''C'est fini.'' Claudia spoke up, walking over to him. She put a hand to the side of his face. '' You've haunted me for so long. I'll do anything to make that go away.''
Lestat traced her fingertips with his fingers.
'' Do you remember how I taught you how to play? Une magnifique etudiant, ma Claudia.''
''I've not been able to touch a piano since.'' Suddenly, he let go of her hand, and walked over to Louis.
'' And you, Louis. You've betrayed me. I loved you.'' He attacked Louis, toppling him to the ground, but Claudia grabbed a heavy vase and broke it over his head.
* * *
Angelus got up, shook what was left of Spike of his suit, and walked towards Drusilla. She watched, without a word, as he stepped on Spike's ashes.
'' Daddy....'' She whispered. Angelus grinned.
''Now you know who you have to obey, don't you, my little whore?'' He asked. She looked at him straight in the face and said,
'' You killed my Spike.'' She said it without any emotion.
'' Of course I did. And I'll kill you too, if you don't listen to me and go on acting like you have, consorting with pansies....'' He yelled, but she didn't shudder or whimper. Her normally not-quite sane eyes were even farther away from lucidity then usual, but there was something hard in them, something that made Angelus uneasy deep in the depths of his subconscious.
''No.'' She said quietly. '' You killed my Spike, you bloody bastard!'' She screamed and pushed him, and he was momentarily too stunned to move. Drusilla was acting like this? Attacking *him*? '' That's what he always called you, you know.'' She told him as she punched him.
It was the greatest shock of Angelus's life. He'd dismissed her as weak as a child, but now he was beginning to see that he'd calculated wrong. Gathering his wits, he backhanded her. She stumbled, but stood back up and hit him again.
'' He said I was his vampire queen! He loved me, and you went and ruined it! Mean, bad daddy!'' She screamed, attacking him. Angelus defended himself, but he began to grow uneasy. She was a vampire and she was a strong one at that; and the way she fought, it wasn't just lashing out in madness. It was good, clean punches.
'' You're just weaklings! Letting love ruin you, acting like humans!'' He yelled, but she grabbed a painting that had miraculously fallen in one piece, and hit him with it. He put his arm up to block it, and felt the bone crack. He cried out in pain. '' Fuck this... you're not worth it!''
He ran out of the hallway. Drusilla didn't run after him. She stood there, stunned, and then collapsed, sobbing. Her fingers clutched the dust that had been Spike.
* * *
Louis jumped up, holding Lestat. He grabbed his shoulder with one hand, his neck with the other and twisted. The cracking sound of the bone breaking was heard, and Louis let him drop.
'' Do you think he's dead?'' He asked. Claudia shook her head. She grabbed a big letter opener and brought it clean across his neck a few times. Blood flooded the carpet, and she grabbed his now detached head, tossing it away.
'' Now he's dead.'' Louis looked at the violence in the room, took Claudia by the hand, and the two walked away.
'' You always go for the neck, don't you?'' Louis asked.
Claudia smiled.
'' And carnage always brings us together, doesn't it?'' She said. They stepped into the parlor.
'' I feel no pity for him any more. It is strange,'' Louis admitted,'' but I feel like I've made my peace.''
* * *
It was only a few minutes to sunrise. Clutching his broken forearm, Angelus dived into someone's stables to wait out the day and recuperate.
He had planned on killing those two annoying newcomers, maybe William too, or Spike, as, for some insane reason everyone had taken to calling him, and bringing Drusilla back into his servitude. Her transformation disturbed him and his failed plans annoyed him.
Feeling his arm begin to heal, he thought.
* * * '' So there are no vampires in Transylvania, no Count Dracula?''
'' Fictions, my friend. Nothing but vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman.''
Louis and interviewer, Interview With The Vampire
* * * The End
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