Title: Vanity
Author: [livejournal.com profile] fenderlove
Pairing: Spike/Angel
Warnings: R! Not worksafe. Manpire-on-Manpire sex, blood, and bodily fluids.
Summary: Hundreds of years in the future, Angel realizes that he and Spike are going through some changes.



There had never been a time in all his centuries of vampiric unlife that Angel had been as glad to not be able to see his own reflection as he was now. As he raked a hand through his hair and felt clumps come away in his palm, Angel could no longer deny that his physical appearance had changed. Spike actually attempted to reassure him that he appeared normal when Angel had asked.

If Spike is trying to raise my self-esteem, Angel thought as he stared at the brunette locks laying against his now pallid, waxy flesh, then it has to be pretty bad.

Angel knew his fangs had permanently distended, and yet he couldn't remember exactly when it had occurred. He vividly recalled when it had happened to Spike, however, mostly because the younger vampire had freaked out the moment he couldn't retract his canines. Touching the skin around his mouth with his clawed fingertips, Angel felt the deep divots of heavy wrinkles and wondered how long it would be before he had nothing left of his human appearance.

Hearing the battered pickup truck ramble up the gravel driveway, Angel grabbed his book from the couch, trying to ignore how his sharp nails easily tore into the paper, wanting to appear at ease as Spike entered the cabin.

Carrying several grocery bags, Spike pushed the door open, the hood of his sweatshirt hiding his face in shadow. He dropped the bags onto the coffee table and shrugged off his hoodie, revealing his white complexion and elf-like pointed ears. Spike's brow was beginning to show signs that his gameface would soon be permanently visible like his grandsire's, and the skin on the tip of his nose had pinkened and was a little more upturned than it had been a century earlier. At least he still had all of his hair, much to Angel's dismay.

"Have any luck?" Angel asked, peering into the grocery bags.

Spike nodded, "There's a fella that the local hunting lodge that can get us some more blood." He took out a carton of cigarettes and a six pack and put them both in the fridge, "Gave me a decent price too."

Sighing heavily, Angel leaned back, "That's good news. Maybe we can stay here for a few months."

"That'd be better than our other stints at any rate," Spike picked up his computer and settled on the couch next to his beleaguered companion.

The world had changed, and it was becoming clearer that it was leaving the two vampires behind. They were withdrawing out of necessity more than any want to do so. For the first time, Angel sympathized with the Master, imagining that all the bluster about paying homage to the ancient vampires by remaining underground in sewers and abandoned caverns was really about hiding his countenance away from the reminders of what he once was. Had the Master been a handsome man? Did he really embrace the day that he could no longer easily slip between the worlds of the living and the dead?

It had been nearly seventy years since either vampire had found another of their kind or any other demons at all. Tales of vampires and monsters were once again part of campfire stories and old world superstition, and Angel only found camaraderie in Spike. They argued. They drank. They fucked. They fought. They fucked some more, and in the end they would just sit on mattresses, hotel beds, couches, crates, even a beanbag or two over the years, and they would talk about all manner of things until they both fell asleep.

"Do you want to watch a movie?" Spike's long nails tapped against the screen of his hand-held computer. "Daruma-Plex has that werewolves-in-the-navy flick as a free download tonight..."

Angel closed his book and asked, "You want to just fuck for a while?"

Thinking it over for a moment or two, Spike nodded, "Yeah, okay."

"Try not to sound so enthusiastic," Angel groused as he shrugged off his shirt, watching as Spike undressed.

Kicking off his jeans, Spike let out a short laugh as he laid back on the sofa and reached over to pull Angel on top of him, "Hey, don't get your knickers twisted because I don't beg for your cock like a trained poodle every time you get the urge."

Angel placed a hard kiss on Spike's neck as his fingers lazily trailed down over the expanse of smooth flesh until he was cupping his hand over the smaller man's sex, gently squeezing. Letting out a soft gasp, Spike rested his hands on Angel's shoulders, feeling the playful bites and nips along his jawline.

"You're not wasting any time, are you?" Spike teased as Angel's head sunk lower placing kiss after kiss down his torso.

Angel ignored the taunt, biting down on Spike's left hipbone and licking along the shallow curve of his pelvis as blood trickled across his skin in small rivulets. Maybe it was the fear that Spike would leave him that made Angel so keen to give pleasure first before receiving it; maybe after years of being one another's sole companion that Angel found his feelings had deepened more than he would ever admit. It wasn't love, couldn't be, but it might be something akin to it. Love's distant yet sexy cousin, perhaps.

Gripping Spike's ass hard enough to leave little pinprick gouges from his nails, Angel lifted the blonde's hips, swallowing down Spike's hardened length. Spike moaned loudly, thrusting himself deeper into Angel's mouth.

"Damn," Spike hissed and thrashed a bit when Angel's fangs sliced into tender flesh.

Blood beaded from the scratches, dripping onto the tattered tartan couch cushion while Angel began tonguing Spike's slit as precum bubbled up to mingle with salvia and sangre. The very tip of a sharp canine dipped into that tiny opening, and Spike arched his back as his orgasm (he hoped only the first of many for the night) jolted through him. Angel roughly grabbed the back of Spike's head and forced a kiss, using his tongue to push all of the blonde's own spendings into his mouth. Sputtering and choking, Spike finally gave into the forceful, penetrating kiss, tasting his spunk, blood, and Angel's spit.

Spike pouted, looking terribly put out, "I call dirty pool, old man. You topped me over too quick!"

Angel smirked as he pressed his body on top of Spike's, stealing yet another fangy kiss, "All's fair, Wills... Besides, we have all night... and all day, actually."

It was during another round hours later that Angel noticed something different about Spike's eyes. Though his right eye was still a bright, cornflower blue, a splash of red had bloomed nearest the pupil of the left. In another year or two, Angel would only have memories of what those eyes truly looked like, memories that would become flowery and distorted as the decades flitted by, and he idly wondered how Spike remembered his eyes. Did the poet recall a deep, chocolate gaze or a stare the color of raw earth? Angel couldn't remember if Spike had ever pointed out the transition in eye color; it wasn't likely that he ever had as Spike preferred to ignore the fact that they were both physically more monstrous. They had only each other to gage the effects of vampiric aging as Spike had crushed the webcam on his computer with the pad of his thumb long ago, and neither had had their photo taken if they could avoid it.

"What are you doing, you great poufter? Trying to have a soulful staring contest?" Spike wiggled around beneath Angel's weight, feeling a tad weirded out by the sudden scrutiny.

Placing a clawed hand playfully over Spike's mouth, Angel answered good-naturedly, "Shut up and spread your legs."

"Bet you say that to all the blokes," came a very indignant, muffled reply.

The physical changes would continue to come, but they hadn't changed much personality-wise. Angel took great comfort in that as he and Spike were settled in bed as the sun began to rise over the woodland, though stories of vampires with cloven feet did keep him awake.

"Would a vampire with hooves have to be shoed like a horse?" Angel muttered to himself in a half-awake state.

Spike lifted his head, his peroxided hair sticking up in messy curls, and mumbled, "Whatever you've smoked, you should have shared," before falling back to sleep.

Angel reached down to stroke Spike's hair, wishing he could stop time from progressing. It was vain and selfish of him, but he didn't want to be ugly, didn't want to watch Spike lose his handsomeness, and didn't want to be relegated to living in a dank sewer to hide away from the world like the Master. At least this was one thing he and Spike could share and not fight over.


x-posted on [livejournal.com profile] nekid_spike and [livejournal.com profile] darker_spike.
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From: [personal profile] snowpuppies


Excellent. I'd never thought of this scenario, but I love how it played out, here.

*applauds*

From: [identity profile] dorians-kitten.livejournal.com


I love that as funny and sexy as this was it was thoroughly dark. Our poor boys really ought to be sweeter to each other.

*sigh* The thought of Spike losing that pure blue soulful stare hurts my heart.

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Thank you so much! It hurt me to write about Spike losing his pretty eyes, but it's an inevitable with Jossverse vampires. :(

From: [identity profile] shakensilence.livejournal.com


As I slowly step my foot into slash that didn't have any girl in it anywhere for me to relate to I find that I don't really care about the sex... it doesn't do anything for me (but most written or screen sex of any kind doesn't do anything for me so I guess it really doesn't matter now does it?) but the concept of this story was great. Of course Angel and Spike would change over time and it would bother them. Poor guys! Oh for Spike to lose his beautiful blues... ouch!

Well written and thought out but I would expect nothing less from you. You are one of my absolute favorite fanfic authors. (Hence being the first straight m/m slash story I've read. I knew it would be good.)

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Sometimes the sex can represent anything but the actual sex; sometimes it's to demonstrate the comfortability and ease both people feel when with one another; sometimes it's an avoidance of talking, a distraction from reality that can still be thoroughly enjoyed by both parties while they waltz through the denial of their situation. It can also just be campy fun for two manpires who can do a myriad of sexy things. ^_~ I tend to not write sex scenes that much; it's too hard to not be silly about it. XD

You are one of my absolute favorite fanfic authors.
Thank you so very, very much! That means quite a lot to me! :D

From: [identity profile] shakensilence.livejournal.com


You are completely right about the sex thing... which is why I still read it at all... otherwise I would skip it altogether. I write it sometimes... poorly... but I try... and I usually am trying to convey something else with the scene other than sex.

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


I'm hoping to get the last chapter of Paper Pusher up tomorrow if I don't have to run any unexpected errands. Whoohoo for finishing up my to-do list! XD

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


It's getting there at any rate. The art seems to take the longest and yet it holds my attention more, and every time I start a fic, I have to remind myself not to write it out by hand. I'm a very fast typist, but it's counter-productive to write it all out and then have to type it up. One day, I'll remember this! XD

From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com


Funny and incredibly sad at the same time. I loved this line: Love's distant yet sexy cousin, perhaps.

From: [identity profile] theladymerlin.livejournal.com


I've occasionally thought about Angel and Spike aging into vampires that looked like The Master and then very quickly put it right out of my mind. *shudder* Having said all that you would have thought I would hate this but it was wonderful, amusing and quite sad. Thank you for remminding me what's truly important. Not the outer package, it's the personality that counts. :)

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


The aging part of the Jossverse vampire mythos is something that has always really intrigued me. The whole point of being a vampire is that you are forever ageless and as-you-are, but you'd think that more vampires would show concern about that little point not being true. It could be because most vamps have never seen a truly old vampire like the Master, or maybe they hope it won't happen to them. I think Angel did ask, "I'm not going to get a bat nose like that, am I?" or something. XD

Thanks for reading! :D
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"Would a vampire with hooves have to be shoed like a horse?" Angel muttered to himself in a half-awake state.

Spike lifted his head, his peroxided hair sticking up in messy curls, and mumbled, "Whatever you've smoked, you should have shared," before falling back to sleep.


Heeeeeeeeeeee.
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From: [personal profile] lokifan


Wow - how sad! The denial and worry there is really well done. Love the concept and you wrote it so well :)

From: [identity profile] fenderlove.livejournal.com


Thank you! It was a plot bunny that had been kicking around in my head for a while. :D
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