starlit_desires | Title: Ghost 1/1 FR13

Title: Ghost
Author: Sweetness (aaronlisa@gmail.com)
Pairing: none
Rating: FR13
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss Whedon and company.
Notes: Set during ATS Season Five.

Once he had been one of the most feared vampires in the entire world. His name had struck fear in the heart of any mortal who heard it, Slayers, and lesser demons. He had ruled the world by fear and power and by his side had been his beautiful Sire. He had been madly in love with her and he had believed that she reciprocated that love and passion. In short his world had been perfect.

And then his perfect little world had started to crack into a multitude of pieces when his Sire became ill. Her illness had fueled her obsession for her own Sire, something that had always caused him pain. Was he not good enough for her when he gave her everything that she desired? Was he not good enough for her when his life was lived only for her? Soon he was no longer the most feared vampire by mortals, Slayers and lesser demons, instead his name became a legend and he gladly became a nursemaid so that his beautiful Sire would heal. But the love that he had possessed for her started to whither from inattention, even though he fought against it every night that remained.

From the most feared vampire to the most ridiculed vampire, he became the Slayer’s pet because of a chip of plastic and metal had started to destroy him. Or more accurately what was left of him in the face of rejection of his Sire. She had rejected him because he had not been insane to want the end of the world like her own beloved Sire had. And once again, he found himself slowly falling for one of her Sire’s cast offs, even though he knew that it could never work. She was a Slayer and he was a vampire, and more importantly her heart belonged to the one vampire that he would give anything to destroy.

Once he had been a warrior, a champion of the light for his love for a beautiful blonde Slayer. He had gone willingly into his death to make amends for all the evil he had committed. And for once in his live he knew what it meant to be loved and respected for who and what he was. It was so much better than to be feared for the death and destruction he had sowed in what seemed like a past life. Now he was nothing more than a pathetic ghost forever on the outside of life, unable to participate or to affect anything. He was useless and forced to watch as life continued on without him as he haunted his one and only rival. His status as a ghost ruined his sacrifice and everything that he had done.

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