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Quick and Bitter, Slow and Sweet by Miss Murchison (R)
Fandom: BUFFY
Pairing: Spike/Tara
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
missmurchison
Author Website: Chiaroscuro
Why this must be read:
Tara needs help killing a demon some friends of hers called up by mistake. Spike wants a spell that will make him stop loving Buffy. With some concern on Tara's part they make a deal to help each other out but sometimes things don't turn out like planned, especially when a certain manipulative ball of energy has a plan of her own.
Tara had no illusions that Spike was "reformed." Giles had used that word once in a puzzled, wondering tone, but Tara had rejected the description. There was nothing in Spike to reform or redeem. He was a demon, not a human, and it was absurd to talk about him as if he'd consciously rejected human values and was somehow coming to accept them again.
Spike had nothing resembling a human conscience. He didn't care about people in general, and Tara could see no reason why he should, any more than she should care about vampires as a species. But for the few people that Spike had inexplicably come to love, there was nothing he wouldn't do, from letting himself be tortured by a hell god, to risking his life in battle, to keeping his promise not to smoke indoors, to apologizing for a sarcastic comment about a sensitive teenager's new outfit. And Tara suspected that it was those small courtesies that cost him the most. He adored making grand gestures; petty annoyances drove him mad.
Quick and Bitter, Slow and Sweet
Pairing: Spike/Tara
Author on LJ:
missmurchison Author Website: Chiaroscuro
Why this must be read:
Tara needs help killing a demon some friends of hers called up by mistake. Spike wants a spell that will make him stop loving Buffy. With some concern on Tara's part they make a deal to help each other out but sometimes things don't turn out like planned, especially when a certain manipulative ball of energy has a plan of her own.
Tara had no illusions that Spike was "reformed." Giles had used that word once in a puzzled, wondering tone, but Tara had rejected the description. There was nothing in Spike to reform or redeem. He was a demon, not a human, and it was absurd to talk about him as if he'd consciously rejected human values and was somehow coming to accept them again.
Spike had nothing resembling a human conscience. He didn't care about people in general, and Tara could see no reason why he should, any more than she should care about vampires as a species. But for the few people that Spike had inexplicably come to love, there was nothing he wouldn't do, from letting himself be tortured by a hell god, to risking his life in battle, to keeping his promise not to smoke indoors, to apologizing for a sarcastic comment about a sensitive teenager's new outfit. And Tara suspected that it was those small courtesies that cost him the most. He adored making grand gestures; petty annoyances drove him mad.
Quick and Bitter, Slow and Sweet