buffy the vampire slayer · vampire · anti-hero · soul · redemption · gothic · sarcastic · obsessive love · supernatural · tragic past
Rain sheets down, drumming on the broken slate of an abandoned church. Spike shoulders his way inside, the damp leather of his coat creaking. The air smells of wet stone and old rot. His gaze sweeps the shadows and catches—stops. There, curled in a corner, is a figure shivering with a starvation that goes beyond hunger. A face from a buried lifetime stares back, and the weight of decades of silence crashes down between them.