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Willow lay sprawled on her bed, the soft green quilt bunched unevenly beneath her, as if her body had collapsed rather than settled. A shaft of moonlight cut across the floorboards, catching on dust motes that drifted lazily, mocking the heaviness that pressed down on her chest. The air smelled faintly of old books and laundry, comforting yet hollow. The open textbook on her nightstand was unread, its pages drooping like tired wings.
Her eyes burned from crying, though no tears came now. She just stared upward, tracing faint cracks in the ceiling, mind circling the same broken refrain. He’s gone. He’s gone. He’s not coming back. Each word landed like a bruise inside her, dull and unrelenting.
The knock at the door barely registered. A muted thud, almost part of the house breathing. Willow swallowed, throat thick, and muttered without turning her head, “Come in.” Her voice was flat, stripped of its usual brightness, drifting somewhere between invitation and indifference.
The door creaked open. Leather creaked too — a sound that didn’t belong in her safe, cluttered space. The air shifted as a figure lingered on the threshold, bringing with it the faint scent of smoke and rain-damp stone.
Spike stepped into the room with the casual insolence of someone who had never respected boundaries. The light caught on his pale cheekbones, the cruel set of his mouth softened only by curiosity. He tilted his head, studying the redhead stretched out and hollowed by grief.
For a long moment, Willow didn’t move, didn’t even look at him. The world could have burned outside her window and she wouldn’t have noticed. All that existed was the ache in her chest and the stranger at her door, shadows shifting as he closed it behind him.
Spike’s boots thudded softly across the room. Leather and smoke clung to him, alien in this fragile, girlish dorm space. He stopped by the bed, head cocked, eyes drinking her in. So small. So broken. So unbearably ripe.
“Red,” he murmured, voice thick velvet, low and rough enough to scrape her bones. “Tonight… you’re mine.”
Before thought could catch, he was on her. His weight bore her down into the mattress, hand fisting in her hair, lips and fangs trailing her neck. She gasped, tried to protest — but grief made her pliant, her chest arching upward, desperate for something.
The bite tore her skin and the world exploded. Pain, then heat — molten, rushing through her veins, flooding every nerve with fire. Her cry broke into a moan, hips lifting against him involuntarily. Spike growled into her throat, drinking deep, body grinding in rhythm with every swallow.
Her hands flew to him — not pushing away but clutching, pulling him closer, nails raking leather and skin. Her thighs parted beneath him, wrapping around his hips, drawing him down as though her body already knew what her soul resisted.
When he tore his wrist and pressed it to her lips, instinct overwhelmed thought. A shiver of fear passed through her, quickly drowned by the surge of hunger. Willow seized it with a hunger that startled even her. Her tongue traced, her lips sealed, her teeth tore. His blood filled her mouth, thick, copper-sweet, intoxicating. She swallowed greedily, urgently, moaning into him as if feeding was orgasm, as if drinking him was sex.
Spike groaned, grinding harder, the bed frame creaking with their rhythm. His free hand slid beneath her shirt, finding her skin, her breast, teasing, pinching — feeding and touching until her body arched and shuddered beneath him. Blood slicked their mouths, their hands, staining sheets, dripping down her throat like a profane anointing.
And then something inside her broke open.
Magic.
It erupted with her climax — candles bursting to flame in their holders, the window rattling in its frame. Symbols seared faintly across the ceiling, carved in light, runes she hadn’t consciously formed. Her eyes snapped open, glowing green-gold, power crackling from her fingers even as she clutched his hair, pulling him down harder onto her throat.
She bit back, sinking her teeth into his neck, drinking as he drank, moaning against his skin. Spike snarled but didn’t stop — couldn’t stop. They were bound now in a frenzy, blood and lust tangled, violent, mutual, unrelenting.
Their bodies writhed together, feeding and grinding, until the line between them dissolved. She felt his thoughts — raw hunger, possessive fire, lust like claws — as clearly as her own. He felt hers — grief twisted into ecstasy, the dizzying swell of magic, the violent bloom of rebirth.
They climaxed together, a shared shuddering quake that ripped through flesh, blood, and magic at once. The lights in the dorm flickered, then blew, plunging them into darkness lit only by the glow of Willow’s eyes.
For a breath, they lay tangled, soaked, the world outside muted and distant. Willow’s chest rose shallowly, her mind a whirl of ecstasy and power. She flexed her fingers, nails scoring his arm, sharp, hungry, alive.
Her eyes snapped open. Not yellow, not wholly vampire — but burning, green-gold embers threaded through with feral amber. Magic and demon fused in one gaze, radiant and terrible.
A ragged breath tore from her chest, half-snarl, half-gasp. She sat up with sudden strength, forcing Spike back a fraction, her mouth smeared in his blood. The sound she made next was low, guttural, more beast than girl.
Hunger hit her like lightning. The scent of blood in the sheets, on his skin, in her own mouth — it was unbearable. She lunged, lips crashing to his again, drinking what still trickled from the wound at his throat, sucking greedily. Spike’s eyes widened, then he growled, gripping her waist, letting her feed.
“Easy, pet,” he rasped, though his own hips were grinding into her still, leather rough against her bare thighs. “You’ll tear me apart at this rate.”
But she didn’t stop. Her hands dug into him, pulling him tighter. She rode the frenzy of taste and power coursing through her veins. Sparks of green fire danced across her fingertips where they clutched his shoulders, searing faint marks into his skin.
Spike hissed at the sting — not pain, but thrill. “Bloody hell… you’re not just a biter, are you? You’ve got fire in you.” His grin was wicked, smeared in blood. “I’ve made myself a proper little goddess.”
Willow tore back from his throat, panting, eyes blazing with demonic hunger and sorcerous light. For a heartbeat, she felt the weight of what she had become — the room still humming, the scent of iron and sweat clinging to her skin.
“More,” she growled — not a request but a command.
Spike tilted his head, eyes shining with delight at the monster rising in her. “Oh, Red,” he whispered, voice hoarse with lust and triumph. “What a beautiful beast you are.”
Her smile was feral, blood-streaked, radiant. The grief was gone. In its place: hunger, magic, desire. All of it blazing outward in waves that made the room itself hum.
The sheets were ruined. The dorm was ruined.
Willow Rosenberg was gone.
And Spike — for once — looked like a man staring at the sunrise, unable to look away even though it would destroy him.