FIC Hunter/Hunted, Chapter 3: Know Your Enemy (AtS/Xmen)

[vikingprincess]

Title: Hunter/Hunted, Chapter 3: Know Your Enemy
Authors: vikingprincess and adarkershade_x
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel and X-Men(Comics, main 616 universe)
Main Characters: Angelus, Rogue (het)
Rating: Adult or NC-17 (nudity, language, violence, sexual situations, death)
Spoilers: Through Season 5 of Angel, final episode. None for X-men, though there are Mutant Registration Act and Civil War connections implied, never explicitly stated.
Additional Warnings: NotAHappyFic ™ It's post-Apocalyptic in two senses, and that's never cheerful. There will be character deaths (multiple, in both flashbacks and as the story progresses. IMO, the story’s better if you don’t know ahead of time who has died, or how. If you really want to know so that it doesn’t shock you, you can peek here (deaths mentioned or implied in this chapter: From X-men: Jubilee, Gambit, Jean Grey, Shadowcat, Captain America. From BtVS/AtS: Willow, Buffy, Spike) for deaths explicitly mentioned in this chapter.
Comments: Yes, please. This is pretty ambitious and we’d love to hear from you, to keep us going!
All chapters can be found here.

Summary:
In a post-NFA world, Angel has lost everything: his Shanshu signed away, his friends dead... and his soul gone, worn to nothing but rags that aren’t enough to stop Angelus from rising to take control. Humans are hard to find, most far too fragile to have survived the Apocalypse. But a new breed of prey has emerged from the ashes... or perhaps they were there all along. Mutants. Angelus discovers that prey that fights back just… tastes better.

Nuclear War becomes the final solution of terrified humans, running scared from Homo Superior. Billions die to slaughter a few thousands... civilization will never rise again. But in the ashes of a terrifying new world, Rogue discovers that mutants aren't all that humans should have been fearing, and that demons think mutants are just a little more fun to hunt. Rogue would much rather be the hunter than the hunted.

Previously:

"Hey," Angelus’ voice carried in the stillness, interrupted only by the splashing that accompanied his treading water, "where do you think you're going?! It was just starting to get fun!"

Rogue hovered well out of reach, her meager possessions dangling from her hands and her body, even now, perfect and untouched, shining gold in the moonlight. Her throat ached abominably, but she made herself call down to Angel anyway, striving for the appearance of the same devil-may-care attitude that had washed clean away in the canal. No matter how damned she was, or how alone, she'd learned something there, so close to death. Ah want t' live, she thought despairingly. How can Ah want t' live, still? Woulda been so easy t’ let him kill me down there….

"Don't git y'all's panties in a twist, sugah," she rasped, and grinned wickedly, her eyes flashing above white teeth. "Ah got other partners on my dance card. 'Magine Ah'll work my way back around t' y'all sooner 'r later. "

Angelus had made it to solid land once more and had stopped to stare up at the flying girl. "Damn right you will." There was no emotion in his voice that time, no underlying tone or subtle mocking, just a promise.


Chapter 3: Know Your Enemy

Comments

[aguynamedgoo.livejournal.com]

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[vikingprincess]

ah, I see - my tags and the community tags weren't the same. all set now.

[aguynamedgoo.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. ^_^

[vikingprincess]

of course!