BtVS / Angel - Spiked

[ffutures]

Small AU idea for Angel S5 and Spike's return - not a story. Spoilers for Angel S5 so behind a cut...



Having apparently died, Spike returned as an intangible ghost. We've seen dead people return in an intangible form before, of course, but previously it was really the First Evil. So what if it's the First this time too?

What would the First gain out of this? First, it may just be trying to distract the Angel crew from other problems - they're already on morally ambiguous grounds at Wolfram and Hart, so giving them an additional problem to handle keeps them off balance. Second, it may be able to con them into using precious time and resources to try to "rematerialise" its body. Third, if they do somehow create a body it can really mess with them, pretending to be one of the good guys until the right moment. And later mess with the Watchers and Slayers when Andrew sees him, and he and Angel visit Rome.

So all of this is presumably planned with an apocalyptic finale, such as the events of Not Fade Away, in mind. Angel is easily led that way, of course. So what happens next after Angel says he wants to kill the dragon...?

Comments

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

I can't image that the First-as-Spike would attack Angel et al. Also, as Angel has apparently signed away his reward killing him is probably not the object. (Unless the signing away is the catalyst to receive the reward, however one wants to write that.)

Given that the First failed in the primary objective of destroying the Slayer line, I would figure that it's likely looking to find all the actual Slayers. So, with some sort of sleight-of-hand, it saves the day, probably actually causing Angel, and hopefully Ilyria's, deaths in the process.

The apocalypse in Not Fade Away struck me as particularly 'human' in the way the senior partners are. It's not a prophectic. The First would working toward something on a grander scale. The Slayer prophecies from the end of season one don't go further than the calling of all the Slayers, so anything is up for grabs, there. Working its way into the new bureaucracy for a while.

Ah, but I think your question now. If that apocalypse in the point of the First's appearance as Spike? Take control over the hoard? Which would be battle between the Senior Partners and the First. In keeping with the dramatic ideal that the Good Guys win, they would be pretty much evenly matched and possible end up sucked into a different dimention.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That wasn't quite what I was thinking, but it's certainly one use for the idea. Lots of others out there.