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Sanguine Revival 29/? (Spike/Dawn, Angel/Wes, Adults Only)
AUTHORS: Salustra and Cathelin
E-MAILS: Salustra: goddess_salustra@juno.com ; Cathelin:
cathelinn@yahoo.co.uk .
TITLE: Sanguine Revival 29/?
RATING: FRAO, Adults only,
PAIRING: This Chapter- None
SUMMARY: This chapter:- A little look at what happened to Giles and
Riley; Dawn plays hooky from school; and Angel and Wes have an
interesting 'conversation'
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SPOILERS: Through Season 5 BtVS: Fool For Love, and Season 2 Ats:
Darla.
CONTENT: mentions of torture; het sex, slash sex, bdsm, bloodplay.
DISCLAIMER: We adore playing with the pretties, but we’re just having
fun. No money made, don’t sue us!
FEEDBACK: Yes please.
Length: 4,770 words
Giles stirs a little as the door opens. He only half-opens his eyes.
He's pulled deep inside himself, trying to hang onto his sanity through
this ordeal. Unlike, he's very much afraid, the soldier strapped down
next to him. Riley has been moaning and whimpering for the past few
hours. Giles has noticed the beds brought in, and some other
preparations going on past his ability to see without his glasses. He's
sure the beds aren't for them. They've not even been let up from these
bondage frames since they were brought down here. Riley jerks his head
up too as the door opens. He starts to breathe faster, panick rising in
him. He's not sure how much more he can take of this treatment.
Entering the basement Darla looks around, nodding her approval. "Bring
them in." She moves out of the way as two burly minions follow her in,
each with a slight limp form over their shoulders. They carry their
burdens over to the beds and deposit them. "Gently!" Darla snaps.
"Sorry Mistress." The minions murmer, shuffling a little fearfully.
Lindsey steps in after, settling the figures more comfortably on the
bed, pulling covers over them. He starts to secure them with
restraints. Collars are locked on their necks, secured by a long chain
to the beds. Their hands are secured in restraints connected by short
chains to belts. The restraints are medical-grade, lined with neoprene
and a fabric layer under that to keep them comfortable. "They're
settled, Mistress," he says at last.
"Good." Darla nods. She gestures and her maid Miela steps forward. "I
want you to check on them in an hour. See to their needs and then
report to me." The quiet girl bobs a curtsy, mumuring her
understanding. Darla turn back to Lindsey. "There was no problems with
the pick-up?"
"None. It went smoothly. Really, you'd think with everyone else
disappearing they'd've been more on guard." Lindsey can't help a little
wicked grin.
Riley manages to lift his head and focus on the bed. "Willow? Tara?" He
exclaims brokenly.
Giles snaps out of his withdrawn state. Anger fires through him, and he
opens his eyes. "You filthy undead whore," he says. "Don't you dare
touch them."
"Oooo. Fiesty." Darla says liltingly, turning to look at him. Her eyes
glint wickedly as she smiles sweetly. "And who's going to stop me?
You?" She shakes her head and laughs merrily.
Giles realizes it's not rational to do this, but he's hoping if he
keeps Darla's attention on him, she won't harm the girls. Maybe he can
buy some time for Buffy to find them. It's a slender hope, but it's all
he can hold onto. "Someone will. You got killed once, you bitch, and
you'll get killed again."
"Tell me Watcher." Darla says, slinking closer. "Who do you think is
going to do that?"
"Buffy."
"What? Your precious Slayer?" Darla laughs again, the sound tinkling
girlishly. "She's too busy falling apart to pose any threat to me."
"Your Sire underestimated her too. And where is he now?" Giles puts all
the confidence and venom into his voice that he can manage.
A wave of anger passes over Darla's face before it smoothes out into
her expression of mild amusement. "But she didn't manage to kill him
without help now did she?" She asks. "And... didn't he kill her first?"
"A mere techincality."
"A technicality which is quite important I would say."
"She was an inexperienced Slayer then. She's gotten a few apocalypses
under her belt since that time. She'll take you out."
"You really think so?"
"I do." Giles sets his face into a determined mask.
Lindsey grins and shakes his head. "Damn, you Watchers are a resistant
lot. No wonder we've never had any luck getting information out of you."
"Why would you want to get information out of the Watchers?" Darla
scoffs. "Their information is practically useless."
Lindsey shrugs. "We've always wanted to get our hands on some potential
slayers and test them."
"Ah." Darla nods. "I'm sure the scientists were salivating over at
Wolfram and Hart." Darla emphasizes the name of the law firm for Giles'
benefit.
Giles makes an almost growling sound in his throat. Then he focuses
back on Darla. "How the mighty have fallen. The House of Aurelius
allying with *lawyers*?"
Raising her eyebrow, Darla smirks at the attempt at taunting her. "I
would rather be an ally of a large power like Wolfram and Hart than an
employee of a wannabe power like the Watchers."
Giles hangs onto his anger, using it to cut through the fear. "The
Watchers are an ancient and venerable order. And at least it is still
intact. While your house consists of what...? You, an insane Drusilla,
and a gelded Spike. So much for your mighty order."
"A gelded Spike?" Darla smiles viciously. "Are you sure about that?"
"Yes." Giles lets a similarly vicious smile pass his lips. "Otherwise
how would I have tortured him so prettily before he left for Los
Angeles?"
Matching Giles' tone, Darla continues smiling. "I really wouldn't
remind me of your actions if I were you."
Giles knows the danger he's courting. But he has to keep the girls safe
as long as he can. "He makes the loveliest noises when he's being
tormented."
Darla growls quietly, moving closer to him. "Don't push me Watcher."
"Do your worst, bitch. Angelus did better."
Grinning, Darla seems to pull a knife out of nowhere. "Yes, but who do
you think taught him?"
Giles tries to keep the fear from his eyes as Darla moves in. Riley
whimpers and pulls at the bonds, and Lindsey settles down with a
chuckle to watch his dark Mistress work.
(Meanwhile, back at Angel's mansion...)
"Pleeeese Spike." Dawn whines, a truly champion whine that tells you
she's been trying for a while now. "Pleeeese let me stay home with
you." Dropping her school bag, she grabs onto the bannister with both
hands, looking down the first few steps to where Spike is looking up at
her with amusement. "I don't want to go to school."
Spike chuckles. "Now, now, pet, must maintain a little normalcy." He
steps up closer, leaning in to cup her cheek and kiss her. His other
wicked hand slides up under her skirt and cups her ass. Moaning, Dawn
arches into his hand, submitting to the kiss. "Mmmmm. Good girl." Spike
pulls back a little, still stroking her. "You be a good girl and I'll
have a treat for you when you get him." He brushes his lips against her
lips, then softly on her neck.
"A treat?" She asks as she bares her throat. Loosing the bannister, she
runs one hand down his chest to cup his crotch in a clear indication of
what she thinks that treat will be.
Spike chuckles. "I see where your mind is, you little minx." He hardens
a bit at her touch. Then he swats her lightly on the ass. "Off to
school with you."
"You like it when I'm naughty though." She gives him a coy look.
"Instead of being a good girl, I could be your bad girl instead?"
Spike grins, lifting her chin with his fingers and nipping lightly at
her neck with blunt teeth. "Bad girl it is. *After* school."
Making a pleading sound she rubs him lightly and tries begging again.
"Please Spike, I want to stay home and fuck some more. Please fuck me."
Over the last week or so, Dawn has found she really enjoys talking
dirty. "You could pound into me right here?" She wheedles, tapping the
bannister, "Don't you want to bend me over and screw me right here
where Angel or Wesley can find us?" Her language is totally at odds
with her apprearence - denim skirt embroidered with flowers, soft pink
shirt, and a long braid over each shoulder.
Spike growls softly and leans in again. It's really hard for him to try
and keep discipline on her, Especially since he'd really rather do
exactly what she's suggesting. She's been learning how to tease him,
tempt him. He's fully hardened now at her touch and her naughty words.
"My, my, what a bad little girl you've turned into."
"Your bad little girl." She answers breathily, leaning into him in
turn. "Your little...slut." She rubs him again, more firmly this time.
"Fuck me Spike, let me show you just what a slut I am for you."
Spike groans and kisses her fiercely. He cups the back of her neck with
one hand. "Now I see why I used to drive Angel spare." He can smell her
arousal, feel her nipples harden under the soft shirt. "Always teasing
him, begging for attention."
Dawn whimpers and shamelessly rubs against him, wrapping her arms
around his neck. "Want you." She moans. "Always want you. Always
touching me, fucking me. Please Spike, fuck me hard, let me suck your
cock. Please."
Spike can feel his resolve weakening to send her off. His hand slides
up under her shirt and cups her breast. "Bad, bad girl. It seems I am
going to have to punish you properly." He grins wickedly and kisses her
again.
Moaning again, deep in her throat, Dawn pushes her breast into his
hand. Tilting her head, she opens her mouth to suck hungrily on his
tongue. Spike responds to her hungry kiss, taking in the feel of her
sweet body against his, her supple breast against his hand. He moves
his hands down, bending a bit, grabbing under each thigh and lifting
her. "Going to take you back to my room I think."
Wrapping her legs around his waist, Dawn shivers at the heated look in
his eyes. "Oh yes, please."
Turning over completely onto his stomach, Angel presses his face more
harshly into the pillow. His cock has been hard for hours listening to
Spike 'getting Dawn ready for school', and he can see no relief in
sight.
Spike pushes up her shirt, his hands stroking over her soft skin, his
hands finding her breasts. His thumbs work in circles over her
hardening nipples. She's so responsive to him, so eager. His tongue is
thrusting hard now into her, his own cock pulsing with need but he
wants to taste her first.
"Spike. Yes. Spike." Dawn starts to chant. "Fuck me. Spike. Yours. Fuck
me. Spike."
Spike growls and pushes up from the floor, lifting Dawn and placing her
more squarely on the bed. It only takes a minute to skim out of his
jeans and t-shirt. Dawn's panties don't survive as Spike rips them off
easily. He lifts her hips with his hands, pulling her to him as he
kneels on the mattress. He plunges into her, pulling her onto him,
rocking his hips to bury deep inside her.
"SPIKE!!!!" Dawn shrieks at the sudden and deep penetration.
"Oh god," groans Angel. "Here we go again."
Wesley has been awake, puttering in the upstairs study. The suddened
impassioned cry makes him jump. He isn't entirely sure he wants to know
what Spike is doing to make her cry out like that. He's been much too
aware of her loveliness and youth and her obviously awakened sexuality
as it is. Not that he can blame her. If someone like Spike had paid him
attention at that age he'd have been just as wanton as she is now.
Spike gathers Dawn onto his lap as he remains on his knees, thrusting
hard into her. "My sweet slutty girl," he murmurs.
Placing her feet on the mattress on either side of his hips and bracing
her hands against the headboard, Dawn pushes back hard into his
thrusts. "Your slut." Spike groans and buries his face against her
neck, kissing and licking the tender skin, smelling and hearing the hot
pulse of her blood underneath the pale skin. Arching her head back and
sideways, Dawn moans loudly. "Oh please." She gasps. This wasn't the
first time she'd offered her neck to him, but maybe, just maybe, this
time he'd bite her. "Please."
Spike growls, his eyes sliding amber, his face crackling as it shifts.
She tempts him regularly like this. It takes all his willpower to just
scrape the fangs lightly over her skin. The pleasure drug drips into
the thin cuts as her blood wells up in small droplets. He licks them,
tasting her in a completely different way. His growl becomes feral.
"PleasePleasePlease." Dawn's whole body arches closer, her thighs
trembling as she tries to keep her hips raised.
Spike growls again, moving one hand to grip in her hair, fangs gingerly
pressing on her skin. He wants to bite her so much, but he's unsure if
he could really control himself if he did. The very clear threat of the
bite is enough to make her come and Dawn shrieks his name again, her
body tightening in orgasm. Spike howls, lifting his head from her
throat, feeling her tighten on him. He keeps thrusting, letting her
ride her climax all the way, then he eases her back onto the bed. He's
still hard with want but he's not sure he can trust himself right now.
"More." She gasps, wrapping her legs around his hips, pushing against
him even as her body still tingles from her climax.
"God you are insatiable." He kisses her shoulder, his hard cock still
buried inside her.
"You love me that way." Dawn giggles, dragging her nails down his back.
"I do." Spike captures her lips, kissing hard. "I love you just this
way."
In the next room, the sound of Dawn's giggling moan tells Angel that
it's the end of the brief pause in their 'fun'. In desperation, he gets
up to go downstairs - maybe being further away from them might give him
some kind of reprieve. He hopes. Once downstairs, Angel takes refuge in
his study, making a valiant effort at trying to read the paper.
Wesley picks up his cup of tea, heading into the study, intending to
try to do some research. He's managed to block out most of the sounds
from upstairs. Dawn is so.... young. But then again, he was doing
fairly sexual things at that age. He blushes a little, recalling his
experiences at school. He's lost enough in thought that he doesn't
really see Angel as he moves in and sits at the desk. Shuffling his
paper, Angel crosses his legs, wishing that *he'd* taken the desk
before Wes arrived.
Wes looks up, startled. "Ah, Angel." He clears his throat, coloring
more. "I didn't see you."
"No problem." Angel smiles weakly, dropping his paper into his lap.
"So...er... busy day planned?"
Wes shifts a bit in his seat. "Just doing some research. Trying to get
a more powerful location spell to find our missing, um, colleagues."
"I see. Any luck at all?" Truthfully, Angel isn't all that bothered
about finding either Giles or Riley, and from what he'd heard happened,
he suspects that Anya has returned to Arash'mahar and taken Xander with
her.
Wes pushes up his glasses, rubbing his finger along the bridge of his
nose. "Not really. The more powerful spells are rather arcane, and I'm
not even sure the materials are obtainable. But I'm still researching."
Wes fidgets a bit more as a particularly loud feminine moan comes from
upstairs.
Angel winces at the sound. "Um. I'm sorry you have to deal with
listening to...um..." Angel runs his hand through his hair
uncomfortably.
Wes coughs and looks down at the cup of tea. "Well, yes. They do
seem... energetic." He fights the urge to adjust himself under the
desk.
"That's one way to put it." Angel remarks dryly. Sighing, he drops his
head back against the seat. "I suppose you'll be glad when we head back
to LA?"
"I do feel very out of place here, yes. Though there have been several
developments here I'm not entirely unhappy with." Wes is now intensely
aware of Angel, his arousal getting stronger. The change in their
interaction made it hard to maintain his former barriers about this
when around Angel.
"O...oh?" Angel coughs and tries again. "Oh?"
"Yes." Wes looks at his hands, knowing he can't possibly say anything
looking at Angel. "Such as, well, um, what you and I have been doing."
Biting his lip, Angel finds himelf looking anywhere but at Wesley.
"About that...er...well." He can feel himself flushing as dark as his
vampire circulation allows, as he clears his throat again. "I mean..."
His stuttering is interrupted by the doorbell.
Wes is startled again by the doorbell. He uses the excuse, though, to
stand and move to get the door. There is a small package lying on the
doorstep. He picks it up, looking at it. "Odd. No proper address. Just
your name, Angel."
Angel's attention is suddenly riveted on the package as Wesley walks
back into the room. "Oh Gods no..." He whines.
"Another package from Darla?"
"I have a horrible feeling it is." Angel holds his hand out to take it
reluctantly. Every time he thinks that things can't get any worse, one
of Darla's awful little presents turns up.
Wes steps in to hand the package to Angel. "You could just leave it
unopened."
"But then the bitch would only call me." Angel shrugs fatalistically.
"So I may as well see what she's send this time." Without thinking,
Angel drops the claws on his right hand and uses the thumb nail to slit
open the tape.
Wes looks at Angel. The casual use of his vampire powers was something
new. Was all this just the reaction to Darla's prodding? He looks
inside the box as Angel opened it. There is a study leather paddle with
a note attached to the handle.
As the scents in the box hit him, Angel closes his eyes and growls.
Over the smell of high quality, oiled leather, he can smell Darla and
Lindsey, or more accurately, the scent of them and sex.
Wes instinctively takes a step back at the growl. "What's the matter?"
"Lindsay fucking MacDonald. What else?" Angel snarls, unaware that as
the side of his lip rises, it reveals one pearly white, *sharp*, fang.
Wes shifts a bit from foot to foot. Having Angel act in real life the
way he'd fantasized about is both exciting and a little frightening. He
really should be more wary of enjoying Angel's newfound boundaries but
he couldn't help it.
Picking up the note, Angel holds it gingerly between thumb and
forefinger, glaring at it.
"What does it say?"
"I dread to think." With another beleagured sigh, Angel unfolds and
reads it. He starts to growl again before it suddenly cuts off and he
starts to splutter.
Wes can't help it, he looks at the note. It reads, 'I think that pretty
little Watcher of yours could use a paddling. I warmed this up for you,
darling.' Wes coughs and has to suppress a little whimper. He doesn't
suppress it enough though. Angel suddenly stills and Wesley finds
himself pinned by Angel's dark eyes. Wesley looks at Angel. He then
drops his eyes. He can feel his pulse thudding, can feel himself hard
inside his trousers. He knows he should say something, do something,
but he can't.
"Wes?" Angel asks, voice low. "What was it you were saying before?"
"That I was enjoying the, um, way we were interacting here." Wes' voice
is a hoarse whisper.
"Is that so?" Angel watches the other man as he drops the note back
into the box and strokes one finger over the paddle.
Wesley nods again. Without thinking, his arms move position, his hands
resting almost clasping at the small of his back. "Yes." He clears his
throat. "I've had, um, thoughts about something like this. For a long
time."
"Is that so?" Angel asks again, continuing to caress the oiled leather.
His mien changes ever so slightly, so that he suddenly seems larger,
more powerful in his chair.
This time the ex-Watcher is unable to suppress a soft moan. "Yes." He
fidgets, getting much harder as his eyes watch Angel's fingers on the
paddle.
"What *exactly* have you been thinking about Wesley?" Angel asks, with
the tiniest growl in his voice.
Wesley shivers. "Do I really have to say?"
"Yes, you do."
It feels so strange to Wes, so unnatural, to have to voice his desires.
To speak about all those perverse little dreams he'd stroke himself to
alone in his apartment. "I..." He stutters. "I used to think about you
taking me. Forcefully. All sorts of ways."
"Really? How interesting." There's a wicked glint in his eye as Angel
watches Wes fidget and flush. "Go on."
Wesley groans at Angel's words. "And, well..." He looks at the floor.
"About you biting me." That was a big taboo for Watchers. Fantasizing
about the sexy powers of vamps was never a good idea. He squirms,
hoping Angel won't keep pushing.
No such luck though, "Biting you?" Angel raises his eyebrows at that,
before the narrow contemplatively, "Biting you how? Where?"
"Angel, please..."
"Tell me." Angel insists.
Wes looks up at Angel, then quickly down again. "I've had many
fantasies. I shouldn't. You're a vampire, and I used to be a Watcher."
He groans again. "I read up on you before I came to Sunndydale."
"Did you indeed?" Angel smirks wickedly, "And what did all those
oh-so-proper Watcher books tell you about me Wesley?"
"Some of them are not so proper." Wesley coughs. "I used father's
access to see some of the private collection."
"That was very..." Angel his drums fingers against the side of the box,
"...naughty of you." And then against the paddle.
Wesley whimpers. "Yes." His hands now clasp. firmly, behind his back.
"There were some rather descriptive accounts about you and your
relationships. For instance, with Spike. And with Penn. And some
specualtion as to your tastes."
"My tastes?" Angel chuckles. "Surely such speculation wasn't really
needed for the chronicles?"
"Well a Watcher was moved to different assignments after you, I mean
Angelus, noticed him and propositioned him at a ball."
Laughing lightly, Angel finally lifts the paddle out and setting the
box aside. "I see."
Wesley whimpers again. "Yes." Wesley avoided voicing the type the
chronicles had hinted at. Blue-eyed, brown-haired, slender. With
glasses. Or the fantasies that had assualted him from the moment he
read that pasage.
"And how did reading those things make you feel?"
Wesley feels naked under Angel's stady gaze. He wriggles again, not
wanting to have to say these things. Not wanting to admit to all the
dark desires he'd so ruthlessly suppressed and chained all these years.
"I felt it would be very dangerous to get too close to you." He looks
up, then back down again.
"And yet..." Angel says quietly, his voice dark, "Isn't that exactly
what you've done?"
"Yes. I thought I had enough self-control, enough restaint. And, of
course, I knew about the curse. I thought it was safe. Safe enough."
"Safe? Safe from what?" Angel rubs the paddle over the palm of his
other hand. "Safe from me fucking you? Killing you? What?"
"Yes. From all of it." Wesley closes his eyes. "From everything that
was in those pages. The pain and the pleasure and the whole lure of it."
"The *lure* of it?" Angel asks, his voice coming not from the chair,
but right next to Wes' ear.
Wesley groans. "Yes." His body is tense, he holds himself tightly. He
feels like he's being stripped bare. "There was a sketch in there.
Spike, bound, bent like a bow. Expression of painful bliss. And a
gloved fist in his hair."
Angel growls angrily at that, the thought of some horrible stuck up
Watcher seeing his William submitting like that. His growl escalates as
he remembers that *he* never wore gloves. "Darla." He spits out a name
as if its another word for 'Bitch'.
Wesley flinches a bit at the tone. "I always thought it was your hand."
"No." Angel bites out. "I never wore gloves, not even outside, I liked
to shock the upper classes with some small rebellions." He smirks
nastily. "Made it easier to hide other things." His demon is clamouring
against the bars of the soul-cage. It would have been bad enough if it
*had* been him in the sketch, but that it was Darla... As much as he
had always hated it and chaffed against it, the truth of the matter was
that Darla had ruled their little family, and iron hand in dainty silk
and lace gloves. But that was knowledge only held by their family, to
the outside world it appeared that Angelus was in charge, as it should
have been in the societies of that time. The fact that someone had seen
his Sire and his Childe in what must have been a private moment...
Well, suffice to say that it was a good job for the Watcher that he was
long dead. "Tell me Wesley." Angel growls. "Who was it who was spying
on them?"
Wesley looks up, confused. "It was one of yours....Angelus', I mean.
There was a sketch pad among some effects you apparently had to abandon
at some point. The sketch was one of those in there."
"And what did you think Wesley? Looking at a drawing of my boy,
submitting so prettily to my sire? Knowing that I had drawn him like
that? Hmm?" Angel draws the tip of one fingertip along Wesley's jaw.
"Did it make you wish you had been there to watch?" His eyes are
flecked with amber as he stares into Wesley's wide eyes. "Or
perhaps...perhaps you wish it was you that I was drawing?"
Wesley shudders hard at the feel of Angel's fingertip. That was it, of
course, exactly what he'd imagined all these years. "Yes. I wish it was
me."
Leaning back, Angel smiles wickedly. "I see." Stepping back slightly,
Angel moves around the slighter man to stand behind him, one hand
coming to rest on his joined hands. Wesley groans and drops his head
forward. This is so dangerous, he knows. Each step forward along this
path is sheer madness. The closer he gets to the forbidden dreams he's
held tight all these years, the closer he is to losing himself, or at
least the idea of himself he's lived with for so long.
"Do you know what Darla told me?" Angel asks, almost conversationally.
"What did she tell you?" Wes asks automatically, not sure he wants to
know the answer.
"That she was actually training Lindsey as a Pet, not for herself...but
for me."
"For you?" Wesley blinks.
"Mmhmm." Angel hums. "For me. Because she knows that he's just my type.
Fair, blue-eyed, and gagging for my cock. Like Penn. Like Spike." He
pauses to lean in, his cool breath fanning over Wes' neck. "Like you."
A soft whimper comes from Wes. The truth of the statement is evident in
Wes' still hard cock. No sense in denying it. "Yes." He shivers. "I
can't help it."
"Naughty boy." Angel purrs. "That's what my William used to say. That
he couldn't help being bad." Angel walks back around to face him. "I
used to have to punish him when he was bad." Using the paddle, Angel
lifts Wesley's chin up until their eyes meet. "Am I going to have to
punish you for being naughty Wesley?"
The purr sends a hard shiver through Wesley's body. "Oh, god, Angel..."
"He used to say that too." Angel smirks.
"You know I can't say no to anything right now." Wesley looks at Angel.
"You know right now I'd agree to anything you asked."
"I do." Angel nods slowly, solemnly, then smirks. "Strip."
Wesley begins unbuttoning his shirt, hands fumbling with the buttons.
He manages to get it off and toss it aside, then he skims out of his
trousers. He's shaking by the time he gets the last bit of clothing
off, standing naked in the cool air of the study.
"That was quick." Angel comments, still smirking. "Eager are we?"
"You just like making me say it." Wesley shifts uncomfortably. "Yes."
"Let's see if you're still eager for punishment once it begins."
Angel's eyes glitter as he pats the paddle lighty against his other
hand. "Bend over the desk."
Wesley steps back over to the desk, pushing aside his piles of papers,
stretching over the smooth polished dark wood. This is all eerily
familiar and so very surreal, the stuff of late-night fancies made real.
((Author's note: This is unfortunately the end of what Cathelin and I
had written together. Hopefully she'll be available soon for us to
continue this story...))