crazysoulless
Scooby
Both vampires connected with her dual nature and loneliness and saw her as a ray of light. She suffered emotionally and physically and was inspired and felt genuine happiness and learned a lot about life and love from both Angel and Spike.
For Angel, she was the embodiment of the “innocence” he would never have and represented all of the victims of Angelus, helping her was like starting to make amends. The world-traveled vampire with a bicentennial learned selfless heroism and how to live in the world from a California ingénue. She was the first person he truly loved in over 200 years. He staked his sire for her. She was his first time making love despite being sexually active since the 1700s. He experienced true happiness with her and lost his soul. He said her name as a mantra to try to stave off the soul extraction. He was sent to Hell and still loved her 100 years later. She freely offered all of her blood to cure him which lead to an erotic embrace. She could sense him when he was human and from hundreds of yards away. His bite is her only physical scar. He kissed her in the sunlight. He gave up his humanity for her. They each mourned in exile for months over the other’s untimely death. She could enter his dreams unaided by hallucinogens or magick. He gave her a Claddaugh ring which he remembered as a symbol for love, friendship, and loyalty in his mortal youth in Galway. He dreamt of their wedding in a Cathedral and walking hand in hand into the sunlight. He gave her up because he believed she deserved better than him. She nursed him back to health after the Sire Restoration ritual and his return from Hell. She was the first Slayer to willingly lose her virginity to a vampire. He’s the most notorious vampire in history and she’s the most legendary Slayer. The Powers That Be aligned their destinies so that they joined the fight against evil within twenty-four hours of each other and the Universe chose for them to survive the War on Magicks.
With Spike, he loved her without a soul and showed more compassion and tenderness than some souled humans are capable of. He got a soul for her. He was a Clockwork Orange experiment and she suffered suicidal depression from being cast out of Heaven via dark magick. A sadomasochistic sexual affair with him was her only reprieve. He saved her from the death dance exactly one year after explaining that all they‘ve ever done is “dance” and that every Slayer has a death wish. He cleaned her bloodied hands that clawed out of the grave. He gave her the strength to face Caleb and find the Scythe. He healed her heart enough to say “I love you” for the first time in four years. He was tortured by a Hell Goddess to spare her emotional pain. She believed in his ability to conquer the trigger and deal with having a soul enough to remove the chip. He continued loving her even when she hated him. He changed to try to be worthy of her. He stayed watching her quasi-daughter and irritating friends for five months after her death out of respect to her memory and regret that he had failed to keep his promise to protect Dawn while Buffy fought Glory. Spike stood by her when all of her friends abandoned her and mutinied against her. He said “she will come for me” as a mantra and didn’t fall into despair when kidnapped and tortured because he knew Buffy believed in him. He jumped heart exposed into courting her despite the hurt of having already been in love with a woman who loved and was bedded by Angel.
For Angel, she was the embodiment of the “innocence” he would never have and represented all of the victims of Angelus, helping her was like starting to make amends. The world-traveled vampire with a bicentennial learned selfless heroism and how to live in the world from a California ingénue. She was the first person he truly loved in over 200 years. He staked his sire for her. She was his first time making love despite being sexually active since the 1700s. He experienced true happiness with her and lost his soul. He said her name as a mantra to try to stave off the soul extraction. He was sent to Hell and still loved her 100 years later. She freely offered all of her blood to cure him which lead to an erotic embrace. She could sense him when he was human and from hundreds of yards away. His bite is her only physical scar. He kissed her in the sunlight. He gave up his humanity for her. They each mourned in exile for months over the other’s untimely death. She could enter his dreams unaided by hallucinogens or magick. He gave her a Claddaugh ring which he remembered as a symbol for love, friendship, and loyalty in his mortal youth in Galway. He dreamt of their wedding in a Cathedral and walking hand in hand into the sunlight. He gave her up because he believed she deserved better than him. She nursed him back to health after the Sire Restoration ritual and his return from Hell. She was the first Slayer to willingly lose her virginity to a vampire. He’s the most notorious vampire in history and she’s the most legendary Slayer. The Powers That Be aligned their destinies so that they joined the fight against evil within twenty-four hours of each other and the Universe chose for them to survive the War on Magicks.
With Spike, he loved her without a soul and showed more compassion and tenderness than some souled humans are capable of. He got a soul for her. He was a Clockwork Orange experiment and she suffered suicidal depression from being cast out of Heaven via dark magick. A sadomasochistic sexual affair with him was her only reprieve. He saved her from the death dance exactly one year after explaining that all they‘ve ever done is “dance” and that every Slayer has a death wish. He cleaned her bloodied hands that clawed out of the grave. He gave her the strength to face Caleb and find the Scythe. He healed her heart enough to say “I love you” for the first time in four years. He was tortured by a Hell Goddess to spare her emotional pain. She believed in his ability to conquer the trigger and deal with having a soul enough to remove the chip. He continued loving her even when she hated him. He changed to try to be worthy of her. He stayed watching her quasi-daughter and irritating friends for five months after her death out of respect to her memory and regret that he had failed to keep his promise to protect Dawn while Buffy fought Glory. Spike stood by her when all of her friends abandoned her and mutinied against her. He said “she will come for me” as a mantra and didn’t fall into despair when kidnapped and tortured because he knew Buffy believed in him. He jumped heart exposed into courting her despite the hurt of having already been in love with a woman who loved and was bedded by Angel.
