Romany ([info]romanyg) wrote,
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Things Once Done Gladly, AtS, A/S, Adult

Okay, I've been missing from LJ-land. I still owe comments, and I owe charity fic. Took a quick peek this morning and saw that someone needed comfort fic. This is nothing new (to me), just a little something from ye olde epic that may never get posted in its entirety. This is for [info]kita0610 who requested comment porn. So it's Connor-flavored A/S.

Title: Things Once Done Gladly
Author: Romany
Pairing: Angel/Spike
Rating: Adult (explicit sex)
Length: 1,392 words
Spoilers: takes place after AtS 5x18, "Origin"
Warnings: slash, use/abuse of the word "Da", Connor-flavoring, possible schmangst
Disclaimer: All belongs to Joss, ME and such; all for fun, not for profit.
A/N: Thanks to [info]netweight for the look-over.



Spike stood by the kitchen counter, downed a beer, and said, “Well, guess that’s it then.”

“You’re sure the Reilly’s are back home? You made sure that they were inside the house and everything?”

Spike sighed and got another beer from the refrigerator, “Yes, Angel. I went in, tucked them into bed and told them each a bedtime story.” With that, he rolled his eyes.

Not always the swiftest center of the Apocalypse on the planet, Angel said, “Really? They invited you in?”

Spike went over to the couch, sat down nice and comfy, “Was only going to see them to the door. But the lad invited me in. Made a big production of it.” He took a swig. “Reads too many Anne Rice novels, I’d say.” He paused. “We hung about his room a bit.”

Angel sat down opposite him, “You did? You did that?” Spike could see nervousness, the wonder shimmering about his face. Didn’t want to know, but he leaned forward anyway.

“Look, Angel, I know this thing isn’t a thing,” and he paused to point between himself and the old man, “Or whatever word of the day you’re using.” He leaned in further. “But the boy’s a bit young. Even for you.” He took another swig. “I won’t be stalking him for you.”

Suddenly, Angel was across the coffee table, face inches away from Spike’s. “What are you suggesting?”

For once, Spike felt calm about this. “Lad smells like you. What am I supposed to think?”

Angel pushed Spike back on the couch, held him by the lapels, and said in that dangerously calm voice, the one that always prefaced a fist, “I would never do such a thing.”

“I believe you’ve hopped on the jailbait wagon before, Angel. Don’t tell me you grew a pair of morals about that over the last few years?” Spike grinned up at him while managing to keep his beer upright. Priorities. “Boy’s a bit of a looker, wouldn’t you say?”

Angel’s fist, that had yet to strike, just hovered in mid-air with that last statement. His eyes widened. “Spike. Spike, you didn’t...” He sat back. “Jesus, you didn’t...”

Spike sat back up, “No. No Angel, I didn’t.” He shook his head and said, “See, I’m not all about my dick.” He downed the rest of that beer. Priorities, again. “We talked about you mostly. Lord, he wanted to know all about you. Like I said, what am I supposed to think?”

Angel said, still looking shocked, “C’mon Spike, you’ve got a better nose than that.”

And Spike shook his head, “Yeah, I usually do.” He thought about it for a second. “Think I need another beer.”

From the refrigerator he said, “You know, the really odd thing about it is, he smelled like family. But he’s human.” He came back to the couch, plopped down next to Angel. Stayed quiet a bit.

Suddenly Spike, incredulous, turned towards Angel, “Is he a wee little Liam? One of your descendants or some such from your catting about as a man?” He snorted, “Connor Reilly, can’t get any more mick than that.” When Angel didn’t reply, he turned back to his beer, “Must be it then.” He closed his eyes and laughed softly, “You’re watching over the family tree.”

And then his more than a century as a demon came crashing into him in that room. Not only the things that he’d done, and done gladly, but the things that he couldn’t do now, the things that were taken away. With a catch in his voice, he whispered, “I’ll never have that.” He shook his head. “You lucky sod.” All he could do not to caterwaul or tear into the bastard right there. Just held his beer because his throat was too tight to drink it.

Angel’s hand cupped Spike’s chin, turned it towards him until Spike looked up into those brown eyes that had been shocked and angry just minutes before. Would call it compassion now if he thought the bastard would feel it for him.

“William,” Angel said simply.

And that wall between them shimmered, came perilously close to appearing as the illusion it really was. “Da,” Spike said. “Fuck you, just...Oh, Da.”

And the wall, she came a-tumblin’ down.

“Shhh,” Angel said while hugging Spike into his chest. “Will, hey.”

After Spike quieted, he said into Angel’s shirt, “You’re still a bastard.” But his arms, embracing that broad back, only held on tighter.

Angel smiled and said, “Don’t I know it.” And with that, he brought Spike up and kissed him, soft. Reached around and took the bottle away from him, placed it on the coffee table. Kissed Spike for a bit. “I’m a real shit,” he said, pulling back slightly, brushing one hand against Spike’s cheek. And with that, he avoided any avid agreement Spike might have made by kissing him again.

Soon Spike pushed a willing Angel back on the couch. He whimpered against his mouth, on top of him, grinding, “Want you.” He rose up, straddling Angel, threw the duster to the floor, pulled off his shirt. “Enjoying the view?” he said while slowly rolling his hips into Angel’s bulge.

Angel had his hands behind his head, ground his hips back up into Spike. “Oh, yeah. Why don’t you work it a bit?”

And Spike didn’t mind obliging. Not this. So he continued undulating against Angel, alternating rhythms, ran his hands along his chest, played with his nipples, got’em good and hard. Felt Angel’s hands grab his hips, heard him hiss, “Yeah, like that. Work it.” So Spike threw his head back, one hand feathering his neck, the other coursing down towards his waistband, and really got going. Then, through the haze, he heard Angel say, “No. Too fast. Slow down. Fuck, slow down.”

So Angel pushed Spike back and said, “Take the rest off.”

Never taking his eyes off of Angel, he unlaced, kicked off the boots, wriggled out of the jeans. “Maybe we should take it back there,” Spike said, nodding towards the bedroom.

Angel nodded in agreement and shed his clothes along the way...

Angel was on his knees behind Spike, driving in hard, relentless. “You feel that?” he ground out, balls slapping hard against Spike’s arse. Angel reached down, gripped one bum cheek, pinched it hard. “That’s my ass. Mine.”

“Fuck, yeah,” Spike panted into the crook of his elbow, one of his hands reaching up to pull himself. “Oh fuck, yeah.” Argue about whose arse it was later. ‘Cause this? This was a fullness that pushed him past all hunger, all pain. This was a bliss that drove him further than his face in the pillow. This drove him past that voice that always seemed to be screaming inside his head. This drove him home.

And Angel’s voice, behind him, rose as his hand ran down Spike’s back, “Fuck, Will. Oh Jesus. Will.”

Sent Spike right over the edge it did, made him clamp down hard on Angel’s cock as he came. Angel didn’t last long after that. Just collapsed on top of him, ground Spike into the wet spot, shuddered a bit.

Angel didn’t roll off but rather rolled them both to their sides, mouthed Spike’s neck, his ear. “Will. Jesus.” Shuddered a bit again. He pulled out but kept on spooning Spike, wrapped his arms around him, nuzzled his neck a bit more. “God, that was just...”

Spike sighed, pushed himself back into Angel, nestled. “We never had a problem in that department, Angel.”

Now Angel sighed, slowly ran a hand across Spike’s chest, pulled him into a tighter embrace. “I know,” he whispered. “I wish...”

“Don’t,” Spike warned. Knew Angel was going to bugger it with his mouth. For wishes? Wishes were dangerous things. “Just don’t.”

He rolled about to face Angel. Looked at him for a bit as Angel looked back. “Hey,” he said and kissed him. “Should get going, yeah?”

Angel’s face crumpled slightly, “No,” he said, “ Stay.”

“Alright,” Spike said softly. “Alright.”

And they said nothing for a good long while. But eventually Angel said, “So, what did he say about me?”

Spike laughed, “You want to know? Nothing bad, if you can believe it. Thought you were kind of cool, and fuck all but that’s a quote...”

And so they talked like that into the night...
Tags: ats/btvs fic, fic, jossverse fic

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[info]chrisleeoctaves

September 29 2005, 18:52:15 UTC 6 years ago

I still think you give tremendouisly good Spike. It just *sounds* like him.

And, I feel sorta...flushed. What's that all about?

“Yeah, like that. Work it.”
That's what I'm talkin' about.

This is, like, a bit from a longer piece?
Yeah, baby, yeah.

And, as always, so happy to see you here...although I can only imagine how busy your life is! (I hear you, honey!)

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 05:49:36 UTC 6 years ago

Yep, the busy me. My older girl has strep. Whee!

Thank you. The Spike-patter, I do try. And Angel, for all his supposed awkwardness, wouldn't shy away from being a "talker". He seems like he'd have his moments, the big Alpha. *g*

[info]lynnenne

September 29 2005, 19:09:23 UTC 6 years ago

You! You're... I love you. Spike in Connor's bedroom. Talking about Angel. And Angel wishing he could go into that house, see the posters on Connor's wall, the photos on his dresser drawer... *flails and dies*

“I’ll never have that.” He shook his head. “You lucky sod.”

*cries*

And the afterglow. Fuck, Romany, the afterglow. You are brilliant. I cannot wait to read the whole thing.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 06:10:27 UTC 6 years ago

I blush. I blush like a blushing thing.

Yes, why would Angel bypass an opportunity to have some of that, even if it's vicariously? How could he?

And yes, afterglow. Not really considered IC for them, is it? But the true challenge of writing s5 through A/S glasses is that, yes, as the season progressed, there was that growing connection between them. Well, the connection was always there but their acknowledgment sure wasn't.

It's easy to write the "one-time" angry, needy fuck for them. And much more in character, I suppose. But those moments where they connect and veer off only to connect again? Just constant careening, but, hey, it's contact with somebody.

They're both so old, so lonely in ways that neither would ever admit to anyone, leastwise each other. And one of the tragedies of the season is that they were on their way to getting past all the old crap, but they never got a chance to play it out fully.

[info]lynnenne

6 years ago

[info]romanyg

6 years ago

[info]lynnenne

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[info]romanyg

6 years ago

[info]alizarin_nyc

September 29 2005, 19:25:26 UTC 6 years ago

Whoa. This is amazing stuff.

Glad you shared. Wonderful Angel/Spike with the Connor question between them.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 06:22:09 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! I don't think that Angel would ever confide the truth about Connor to Spike. But he wouldn't be able to resist using him for that errand.

[info]julissak01

September 29 2005, 19:26:07 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, man. Spike visiting Connor, Angel desperately wanting to know how is, just. MAN. Why have you left us, Romany? COME BACK and write more. Now. ;)

“Must be it then.” He closed his eyes and laughed softly, “You’re watching over the family tree.”

Ouch, ouch, ouch, but so much love. And the hot sex, we can't forget that, no sir. Loved this, hon, muchly.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 06:26:54 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! Yes, trust Spike to hit the target but miss the bullseye. And trust Angel not being able to resist that last--or so he thinks--glimpse of Connor through Spike's eyes.

These two are just a glorious accident continually happening. I enjoy writing them.

[info]empty_mirrors

September 29 2005, 20:16:53 UTC 6 years ago

just a little something from ye olde epic that may never get posted in its entirety

It better had do if that was a taste of it. Yum and wonderfulness. More please. :-D

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 06:30:37 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! I'll try. *g* Actually, it's mostly done, I just need to pound it, ever so gently, into shape. It's kinda globby.

[info]a2zmom

September 29 2005, 20:37:17 UTC 6 years ago

Wonderful. Hot and wistful and just a bit broken. Gah.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 06:32:33 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you. Angel was so, so broken in s5. But he kept on till the end, the big lug. *cries*

[info]amerella

September 29 2005, 20:54:44 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, very nice. Angry and then sad, twisty and lingering.

“No,” he said, “ Stay.”

I must say, generally the request of 'stay' in a fic turns me off, because it's so overused. This, though, it felt new, and I just, yeah. It worked. This whole thing worked. Thanks for sharing.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:22:12 UTC 6 years ago

Is 'stay' overused? Eeep. I did not know that. Serious, my lesson for the day. But thank you for saying that it worked here. *breathes big sigh of relief*

And I'm always happy to see you. You post so rarely these days. *clings*

[info]amerella

6 years ago

[info]romanyg

6 years ago

[info]makd

September 29 2005, 21:19:32 UTC 6 years ago

Ditto what everyone else has said. Just...wonderful. Thank you -- and I hope we'll see the entirety someday soon.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:23:36 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! Yes, it's almost done. I imagine people will be skimming through the parts that I've already posted. *g*

[info]meko00

September 29 2005, 22:25:53 UTC 6 years ago

This was very good. Thanks. :-)

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:25:02 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! And, mmm, coffee... I'm on my fourth cup and hanging from the chandelier. *vibrates out of this dimension from all the caffeine*

[info]shadowscast

September 29 2005, 22:56:27 UTC 6 years ago

“I’ll never have that.” He shook his head. “You lucky sod.”

Awww. *sniff*

Seriously.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:31:30 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! Just something else that Angel has that Spike doesn't. There are two vampires with a soul; two vampires with a child that shouldn't...um, yeah, still only one of those.

[info]skipthedemon

September 30 2005, 02:17:06 UTC 6 years ago

Thought you were kind of cool, and fuck all but that’s a quote...

Post-origins Connor. I love him. Wee!!

I'm really glad you posted this.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:33:30 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! A Connor with both memory banks working? What's not to love?

[info]rainkatt

September 30 2005, 04:23:19 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, yes. This is the stuff.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:36:32 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!

[info]redbrickrose

September 30 2005, 06:28:47 UTC 6 years ago

Wonderful. You get such tenderness between them, and yet it still in character. It's still them and the character voices were perfect. I loved the Connor stuff, Angel wanting to know about and not really telling Spike, but Spike coming pretty close to figuring it out anyway.

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 22:42:35 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! Trying to create any tenderness between these two is difficult because they're about as far away from bubblebaths and candlelit dinners as you can get. But, man, they need something, don't they? And, at this point in time, who else do they have?

And Spike would always know when Angel's not giving him the full story. But how could he possibly guess the truth? The truth is too sad and too ridiculous.

[info]elizaria

September 30 2005, 09:00:36 UTC 6 years ago

Oh oh... you are the bestest!! How you manage to make the afterglow between those two shine I'll never know, I just enjoy it to death :D

And making them be caring and their kind of affectionate without making it seem like there never was any hurt in between them -- adores you so much for it.

Wheeeee!

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 23:05:21 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! There is much too much hurt between them for all that to go poof and bye-bye. But there's also too much affection between them for that to go poof and bye-bye either. I can't imagine them any other way.

[info]silverjaime

September 30 2005, 09:52:36 UTC 6 years ago

Brilliant - gorgeous and hot and tender and sad all at once. You got the characters' voices spot on and a great mix between their past and what they really mean to each other.
I really REALLY hope that you give us the rest of this story soon!! Please!!

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 23:13:53 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! There's so much, good and bad, between these two that anything they do or so would only be simple on the surface.

And the story's almost done. Really. Hopefully it will make more sense when it's all together.

[info]lostakasha

September 30 2005, 12:55:46 UTC 6 years ago

Add me to the chorus of needing more of this fic -- it's terrific. More! More!

[info]romanyg

September 30 2005, 23:17:04 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! I tend to write at a glacial pace, but the whole thing is *almost* done.

[info]anelith

October 1 2005, 01:02:44 UTC 6 years ago

I have, I believe, two other snippets of your A/S fic stored away in a binder somewhere -- I can't retrieve them at the moment because they are blocked by a bunch of junk from our basement renovation project. But when I saw this fic with your name in the [info]su_herald it immediately made this a red-letter day.

Is it possible that those other fics were part of the larger story? If I recall correctly, one was called, "His Body a Boat."

Whether or not they all tie together, this story is exceptionally good.

[info]romanyg

October 1 2005, 16:53:50 UTC 6 years ago

Wow. Thank you. Yes, "His Body a Boat" is one of mine. It's not part of this series but it's parallel, if that makes any sense. I'm just flattered that you remembered the title.

*watches head expand like a balloon and float away*

[info]viciouswishes

October 4 2005, 07:06:52 UTC 6 years ago

Love your Spike voice.

“You’re watching over the family tree.”

Then it really would be an Anne Rice novel.

I like this. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy and hot and bothered at the same time.

[info]romanyg

October 6 2005, 18:10:23 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!

Then it really would be an Anne Rice novel.

Oh, Spike so read the early Vampire chronicles. And I can see him, totally pissed at Willy's, telling any demon who'd sit still long enough that *he* was the one who ran into Anne Rice at some dive in San Francisco and that she just arsed up the story, especially the not being able to shag part. Because any vampire worth its fangs would stake himself good and proper before facing an eternity of celibacy. What kind of unlife is that? And the demons would roll their eye-stalks at him and tell him to have another one and to shut up.

[info]trepkos

October 8 2005, 18:20:11 UTC 6 years ago

Aw... that's just... aw!

[info]romanyg

October 9 2005, 07:07:16 UTC 6 years ago

Wow, you came over and read me? Thank you. I blush.

[info]wellifnotwisely

October 13 2005, 14:04:23 UTC 6 years ago

I’ve long been preoccupied with the narrative possibilities of Connor as a bridge connecting Angel and Spike, and Spike as a bridge between Angel and Connor. Your story explores this theme beautifully and brilliantly. May we beg for ye olde epic to be posted? In whole or part.

[info]romanyg

October 15 2005, 16:47:49 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! Yes, I've been interested on how Connor affects the relationship between Angel and Spike as well. Connor changed Angel's (un)life so profoundly and yet he's blind to some of the parallels between Connor and Spike. But, maybe, not completely blind.

Yes, ye olde epic is *almost* done. It just needs to be tightened up a bit.

[info]ex_dovil323

October 19 2005, 06:50:42 UTC 6 years ago

How did I miss this?! How?!! God, I love your Spike/Angel, just...yeah!

*buys you a pony*

[info]romanyg

October 19 2005, 18:29:06 UTC 6 years ago

Hee! I'm a nefarious person and I posted this whilst you were away. *rubs hands together in malicious glee*

But I thank you for tracking this down anyway. I like to make people work! Make them trek across the icy plains after great, elusive herds of fic. And you are victorious! This one wandered off, bleating for it's mother, and you nabbed it!

*runs away with my pony before you change your mind*

[info]amavel_bel

November 20 2005, 23:02:16 UTC 6 years ago

I just love fics that explore some tenderness between Angel and Spike and yet manage to be so believable. Plus, the sense of family and using Connor to make them bond was a great idea. Congrats for this masterpiece.

I friended you. Hope you don't mind ;-).

[info]romanyg

November 23 2005, 19:38:01 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, and I apologize for the lateness in my reply. Yes, I don't believe that it could be angry words and fists between them all the time. Angel pretty much ignores people he has no use for. And Spike would just get bored if it was one way all the time. *g*

Why would I mind? Friends are always good! I friended you back.

[info]treadingthedark

December 14 2006, 07:00:32 UTC 5 years ago

Loved this. Everything about it.
Thanks for writing.

[info]romanyg

December 16 2006, 03:58:16 UTC 5 years ago

What a delightful surprise in my inbox! Thank you for reading!
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