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crossoverficTitle: Hunter/Hunted, Chapter 9: Bargains
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vikingprincess
(chapters 1-8 by bothvikingprincess and adarkershade_x)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel and X-Men(Comics, main 616 universe)
Characters: Angelus/Rogue, ensemble from both X-Men and BtVS/AtS
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.
Updates: Every two weeks
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 click for deaths explicitly mentioned in this and other chapters.
Comments: Yes, please!
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:
Rogue looked up at Angelus,, the red bleeding out of her eyes to be replaced by sorrowful green, even as her skin faded and the horns she’d acquired from touching Lorne vanished as though they’d never been. “Monsters are always alone,” she told him, voice not as steady as she would have liked, and Rogue turned to scoop up her pillowcase sack, then started walking out of the alleyway.
“I’m not a monster,” Angelus said, frustrated. What did it take to crack her open far enough that she’d let him inside? Why couldn’t she just admit that they belonged together… that she was his?
Rogue shrugged at that, and looked back at him for an instant, her eyes fathomless and dark. “Who says Ah was talkin’ about y’all?”
( Chapter Nine: Bargains )
Authors:
vikingprincess (chapters 1-8 by both
vikingprincess and adarkershade_x)Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel and X-Men(Comics, main 616 universe)
Characters: Angelus/Rogue, ensemble from both X-Men and BtVS/AtS
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.
Updates: Every two weeks
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 click for deaths explicitly mentioned in this and other chapters.
Comments: Yes, please!
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:
Rogue looked up at Angelus,, the red bleeding out of her eyes to be replaced by sorrowful green, even as her skin faded and the horns she’d acquired from touching Lorne vanished as though they’d never been. “Monsters are always alone,” she told him, voice not as steady as she would have liked, and Rogue turned to scoop up her pillowcase sack, then started walking out of the alleyway.
“I’m not a monster,” Angelus said, frustrated. What did it take to crack her open far enough that she’d let him inside? Why couldn’t she just admit that they belonged together… that she was his?
Rogue shrugged at that, and looked back at him for an instant, her eyes fathomless and dark. “Who says Ah was talkin’ about y’all?”
( Chapter Nine: Bargains )
