Have You Any Idea – Details


Have You Any Idea

This is a short prose piece written to let me play out some of my ideas about Angelus.

Summary
How hard was it to train Spike?
Spoilers
None.
Period
1882
Written
August 2001
Word Count
720 words
Rating
All Ages
Characters
Angelus, Will

Teaser

Have you any idea how hard it is disciplining young vampires?

They are arrogant, self-centred, cocky little brutes with a monstrous tolerance of pain, bodies that heal far too quickly and absolutely no sense of guilt.

You can flog them so their bones powder, or rape them into the floor until they can’t walk, and all they feel is anger. You can chain them up and not feed them for a month until they will beg and promise anything just to be allowed to feed.

But the second I let him out of that door he’ll be following his own will again. Without a second thought for what I’ve tried to teach him. Or that it should be my will he follows.

You will obey me!’

My. Will.

Have you any idea how hard it is to discipline young vampires?

Drusilla would be shivering with anticipation. Penn would be hanging his head in shame. Each and every one of the countless minions I have had over the years, I can say with total confidence, would have been quaking with fear.

But this is William. So he is just standing there in front of me and fidgeting.

Keep still, boy!’

Read on…


Disclaimer

Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, and all the characters in them, are the property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, Twentieth Century Fox, the WB, UPN, and just about everybody else on the planet except me. I acknowledge this fully; and I promise I’m only playing with them without hope of profit. I will put them back in the box carefully when I’m done and apologise if they got a bit hurt while I was using them. But come on, they are vampires, they can probably take it.

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