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Title: Suicide's a Sin
Fandom: BtVS
Characters: Angelus/Darla, Dru
Rating: PG
Concrit: Please, in comments

Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but they will be... once I've taken over the world! Bwah-ha-ha
Note: Can you tell I've just started reading Milton's Paradise Lost?

Note: Written for a prompt at Open on Sunday – nest – but not posted there because it's too long.

Word Count: 361

After he'd killed her family, she'd run to an uncle. That family had died as well, and then a set of cousins. Angelus had been surprised when yet another cousin had taken her in, but her family's fortune had been incentive enough it seemed. After that family had screamed long enough to suit his needs, Angelus found Drusilla in the drawing room, backed up into a corner, holding a fire poker like a weapon. He swatted it out of her hands, toying with her the way a cat might toy with a mouse. “What's this now, the third nest you've found to hide yourself in since your sweet sisters died at my hands?” He shook his head slowly from side-to-side. “Haven't you learned yet that you can't hide from me? Who do you think will take you in this time?”

He waited to see if she would respond, but she kept her thoughts to herself. That wouldn't do; that wouldn't do at all. “No one,” he told her. He squatted down across from her. “What do you think you'll have to do to survive the streets?”

“I'll die.”

“Ah, but suicide's a sin. God will send you to Hell, or perhaps he already has.” He looked at her as if he cared about her answer. “Do you remember killing yourself? Do you recall how it felt when God cast you down into the lake of fire?” When he brushed his hand down her neck, she gasped. “My fingers, do they feel like flames against your skin?”

Hours later, when he rose and left her there, Darla was waiting in the street. “What about her?” she asked in a bored voice.

“I want to see what she'll do next.”

“They'll lock her away in Bedlam,” Darla predicted, “and you'll never get near her again.

Angelus picked Darla up and swung her around. “No, my pretty one, that they won't do. She's strong, that one is. You'll see.”

Darla, her feet firmly back on the ground, pushed him away. “Strong enough to escape you then.”

All her resistance melted away as he crushed her to him. “No one's strong enough to escape me.”
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Date: 2012-12-01 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Thank you. I can so see Angelus taunting Dru with Hell.

Date: 2012-12-01 03:57 pm (UTC)
ext_19622: (Angel and Cordy - hug)
From: [identity profile] xfirefly9x.livejournal.com
Very nice! :)

Date: 2012-12-01 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Thank you! ;-)

Date: 2012-12-01 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com
So good. Authentic. Really liked it.

Date: 2012-12-01 04:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Oooh, thank you! I love it when I'm authentic!

Date: 2012-12-01 05:41 pm (UTC)
lynnenne: (mood: insane in the brain)
From: [personal profile] lynnenne
Oh, poor Drusilla. My heart breaks for her.

Date: 2012-12-02 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Thank you. I really am fascinated by what Angelus might have put her through.

Lovely icon.

Date: 2012-12-01 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jerzeyanjel.livejournal.com
Wow ... poor Drusilla but I really like what you did here. How she became a vampire at Angelus's hands has always interested me. This was great! =)

Date: 2012-12-02 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
How she became a vampire at Angelus's hands has always interested me. Me too. I've written this time in Dru's life quite often. I just keep coming back to it.

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the story.

Date: 2012-12-01 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com
Nicely dark and chilling look at poor Dru's ordeal!


Gabrielle

Date: 2012-12-02 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Thank you. That's quite a compliment coming from someone who writes such wonderfully dark stories herself!

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