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sevendeadlyfun ([personal profile] sevendeadlyfun) wrote2008-05-23 09:24 pm

In the Company of Monsters

Pairing: Angel/Riley

Rating: NC-17

Summary: In the company of monsters, bravado stands guard on the thin line between life and death.

A/N: Post-NFA and incorporating comics canon up to this point. Written for [livejournal.com profile] spankspike who asked for Angel/Riley without grudgefucking. Also written for- [livejournal.com profile] kink_bingo outdoor sex prompt and [livejournal.com profile] tamingthemuse prompt #96-keckle.

***Comics Canon Spoilers***L.A. was dragged into a Hell dimension, Angel shanshued and Wes is W&H's ghostie go-to boy (a la Lilah). As Riley hasn't appeared (yet) in any of the comics, I'm making liberal (and how!) use of him here. However, I fully expect to get Jossed.***End Spoilers***



“You look like shit.”

The words aren’t sympathetic. They’re to the point, almost bold. In this new world, having an opinion at all is almost an heroic act. Angel stops walking, the soft droplets of demonic blood echoing as they crash from his knuckles onto the pavement. But he won’t turn around. In the company of monsters, bravado stands guard on the thin line between life and death.

“Riley Finn,” he says tightly.

He glances towards the keckled chains above them and flexes his fists. He isn’t sure what Buffy’s toy soldier can bring to the fight. He knows he hasn’t got much left. The healing magic takes time and that’s something he doesn’t have much of these days. The streets of this hell dimension are littered with the innocent dead, urban graves that condemn him as he walks by.

“Heard you sent this place to Hell,” Riley responds conversationally. “Gotta say that the before and afters aren’t much different. Does that mean L.A. was always hell?”

“Lifestyles of the shallow and monstrous.” Angel shrugs. “Do you know anybody here who hasn’t sold their soul?”

“Well,” Riley says thoughtfully, “I’ve never sold my soul. I think the warranty just expires once you die.”

And then he hears it; the subtle sound of bone and muscle reshaping itself into the lean, monstrous features of a predator. For just a moment, Angel stretches and tries to force the planes of his face into its familiar demonic shape. He still forgets. The glamour fools everyone. Even him.

“So you’re dead.” Angel answers flatly. It’s work, keeping any trace of inflection from creeping into his voice. “Hope your Sire gave you the three-penny tour and don’t do anything evil in my line of sight. Giving Buffy your ashes would just be…okay, it wouldn’t bother me. But she’d get all upset and then I’d have to comfort her…huh. Still not seeing the downside here.”

“Stop,” Riley whispers in his ear and oh, he’d forgotten the ability to move like that, to be so easy inside a body that never hurt. Angel sees Darla standing before him, those ridiculous feathers in her hair, offering him immortality and he takes it because his humanity is tenuous at best. He shivers, Riley’s cool breath teasing across his flesh and bringing him back into his all too human body.

The prickles of sharpness along his neck draw a moan from Angel, and he knows he should shake Riley off. His blood is alive, filled with the heat and lust that only human life contains. But he needs this. He hasn’t had this closeness since before L.A. went to hell. He spends his days with the ghost of his personal Judas, fighting a losing battle against the lords of this hell dimension and his own frail human form.

He’s earned this. He tells himself that as he turns around and pushes Riley into the wall. The cool coppery mouth opens underneath his insistent lips and the fangs tease around the edge of his tongue. He wants to bleed for Riley, misses bleeding for Darla, for Dru and Spike, the blood of family on his tongue and under his fingers.

He’s not stupid. He has to stay in control. His hand strays quickly to the thick cock riding against his hip. Riley’s eyes flare under his gaze then flutter close.

“Lots of things to do here in hell,” Angel murmurs, fingers working to free Riley’s erection from its camouflage prison. “Meet interesting new demons. Kill them. Die. Fuck your ex-girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. Lots of things to do in hell.”

Riley laughs and it’s a rusty sound, a gate-hinge that refuses to open. His hips pump upwards, restless and searching. His prick, finally freed from his pants, juts outwards and slides across Angel’s hand.

“I don’t want to be what I am,” Riley tells him coolly. “But I’m not willing to die either.”

“No one wants to die,” Angel replies, dropping down to his knees in front of the other man.

His lips wrap around the bulbous head, his tongue swiping almost delicately around the small slit. The slight trace of pre-cum coats his tongue, a bitter flavor that lodges in his throat. Angel moans, hands working frantically at his zipper. Two hundred years had robbed him, stolen his memories of how urgent living desire could be.

He’s remembering now. His cock is alive, throbbing insistently with need. He slides his mouth as far down Riley’s prick as he can go, gagging as it the fat head butts against his throat. He needs to breath, he needs to come, he needs to die.

No. He shakes his head and Riley growls, a low rumble that vibrates the shaft in Angel’s mouth. Angel groans, working his own cock with one hand as his other moves up to tug sharply at Riley’s sac. The tightening skin loosens fractionally but the vibrations continue; sympathetic quivers rack Angel’s body and he can feel the beginnings of his orgasm tickling and teasing inside his balls.

Riley grabs a handful of his head, pulling his eyes up. Angel stares into inhuman eyes, and he thinks he can see a spark of humanity inside the dead gaze of Riley Finn. He closes his eyes, suckling voraciously at the cock between his lips.

The increased suction is too much for Riley. He howls out his pleasure as his hips pump forward. The tepid spurts of semen on his tongue are exciting, almost forbidden. The thick liquid overflows his mouth, dripping out onto his face and Angel comes, cock spitting gouts of hot semen onto the slimy wet pavement.

He’s breathing hard, kneeling on the ground and covered in come. Not exactly the M.O. of a Champion. He looks up at Riley and he can’t stop the smirk he feels creeping across his face.

“You want to know the best part of this?’ Angel asks, not waiting for an answer. “When I figured out we were being watched by Wolfram & Hart’s non-corporeal representative.”

He isn’t actually sure Wes watched them, but the faint gasp from the shadows is confirmation enough. He stands, discreetly zipping and buttoning his trousers. Why he’s bothering with discretion now now that the party’s over is a mystery even to him.

Riley meets his level gaze and nods once. There’s no need for a big conversation, no sentiment attached to a sloppy blowjob in a dirty alley. Angel resumes his patrol, trailing sated vampires, aroused ghosts, and the fragments of his hard won humanity in his wake.

[identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com 2008-05-24 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
so, angel/riley's my slashtp. did you know this? you should um. write it more.

yeah.

and angel going down = bulletproof kink. *nods*

[identity profile] sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com 2008-05-24 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I heard a rumor that you were an Angel/Riley fan... :) And for you? Anything. I'm your biggest fangirl. For reals.

[insert obnoxious fangirling]

I'm thrilled that you like it. It's funny that I write tons of Spike because I enjoy writing Angel so much. I actually 'ship Spike but almost all of my gen fic revolves around Angel...I wonder what that says about me?

Thanks, hon! And I miss you at FmK. Nobody brightens up that naughty nook like you!

[identity profile] ash-carpenter.livejournal.com 2008-05-24 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Fantastic, loved every damned word. Hot and harsh.

Very poetic too, somehow. I absolutely adored this: "In the company of monsters, bravado stands guard on the thin line between life and death.

[identity profile] sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, sweetie! I rather like the idea of a vamped Riley and a human Angel. It just sounds poetic, in a weird way. That might explain the poetry that crept in...it came from the pairing. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[identity profile] zoesmith.livejournal.com 2008-05-24 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh honey that was awesome! I really love reading stories set in season 6!

I was pleasantly surprised to see vampire!Riley. Him and and Angel are so very very hot together! And I just loved it that Wes was watching!!

Thank you for this! :D

[identity profile] sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Like I said, Riley hasn't shown up in any of the comics (yet) so I felt free to abuse him without destroying canon. However, I expect the very next issue will JOSS me but good. That's how these things go, right?

I adore the comics and I can't figure out why so few people are willing to incorporate them into fandom or fic. I mean, I'm still madly writing in the TV canon, but when I find a way to incorporate comics canon, I will. Besides: bank-robbing lesbian Slayer? It rocks.

And I'm glad you enjoyed it. Look for some Wes wankage stories soon...can't let Ghost!Wes go to waste. Hee!

[identity profile] kidcyclone.livejournal.com 2008-05-24 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You write the best dialog... and you have the best descriptions- very gritty and terse. Vamp!Riley is a stroke of genius. Everybody is so much better as a vampire. Also, you wrote a very hot scene with Angel going down for Riley Finn- you made me like reading Angel going down for Riley Finn. Are you some kind of sorcerer?

[identity profile] spankspike.livejournal.com 2008-05-24 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes!!! That hit the spot very nicely. And you may have noticed that I have quite the unbridled love of dirty alley!pron. So check that kink right off the list, all buttons pushed!!!

And Riley vamped was hot as hell, but nothing was as hot as Angel just willingly dropping to his knees and providing 'ol Vamp!Riley a sweet suck job. *goes to a happy place* Of course the absolute cherry on the sundae was Wes enjoying a little voyeuristic wank job during Angel's walk on the naughty side. Of course voyeurism is yet another huge kink for me.

I don't know if you intentionally set out to fit so many of my kinks in her but you've certainly done it!!! Thank you so much. I owe you one!

Funny thing is that the first thing I thought when I finished reading it (and squirming in my seat!) was that Jen would love it. But I see she got here first anyway.

Thanks again!! I'd offer you some custom naughty but I know I'm not so good with the Spander. :-(

[identity profile] sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm...a Xander virginity story would hit my kink. You know I'm a WHORE for first-time stories. But only if you're feeling it. If not, no big. I had a great time writing this and it was a fun challenge. Angel/Riley is hella hard to do without either:

1.) making it a grudgefuck or 2.) going wildly OOC

So figuring out how to avoid those two evils? Hella fun. I'm glad you liked it! :)

*sheeps you with twu wuv sheep*

[identity profile] xenachakram12.livejournal.com 2008-06-30 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Hey! Thanks for pointing my way to this!

Yay for vamp!Riley. Too hot. I'm impressed that you can make this pairing believable, because it's guh-so-hot, but very unlikely.

Angel on his knees for Captain Cardboard?? *little death*

Nice!

[identity profile] sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com 2008-07-02 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I agree that's it wildly implausible, which is why I had to set it in the comics canon. It's almost impossible to fit in (believably) in the timeline of either show. But, thank you! I'm glad it was both believable and hot. :)

[identity profile] brunettepet.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I loved this: And then he hears it; the subtle sound of bone and muscle reshaping itself into the lean, monstrous features of a predator. For just a moment, Angel stretches and tries to force the planes of his face into its familiar demonic shape. He still forgets. The glamour fools everyone. Even him. Angel's so weary and diminished in this scene, craving the power Riley holds seems plausible.

Wes hovering in the shadows brought a whole new level of heat to the delicious, erotic scene. The last line is wonderful.

[identity profile] sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you enjoyed this. It was definitely a challenge for me to write Angel and Riley without it being some sort of grudgey, hatey type of thing. However, I absolutely love comics canon and it gives Buffy writers whole new worlds to play in (if they choose to). That freedom really made this story possible.