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Title: Number of...
Author: girlpire
Rating: R or FRM
Pairing: Angel/Spike
Disclaimer: This story is based on the "Angel" series, with which I am not affiliated in any way. Joss Whedon is my master, etc.
Distribution: Please do not archive this story anywhere.
Summary: The easiest way to keep track of Spike and Angel's relationship: make a list.
Warnings: Sexual situations between two dudes.

Author's Notes: This is one of the stories I was writing for [livejournal.com profile] winter_of_angel but didn't get finished in time to post on my day. But I was home sick from work today, so I thought I'd finish it. The style is inspired by the story "Nine Days" by Suzanne LaFetra. In my "What should I write?" poll, 31 people voted for slash, 24 said the guy with Angel ought to be Spike, and 5 said it ought to be rated R, so I'm fulfilling those requests, as well as incorporating these two prompts from [livejournal.com profile] bitchy_kat and [livejournal.com profile] shapinglight: angel losing spike and then finding him again and "something to do with cars?" Heh.



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Number of...

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...humans Angel killed on his first night as a vampire: 4

...humans he killed the next night: 13

...humans he killed the night after that: 22

...victims' faces he remembers from those first three nights: 39

...their names: 3

...people he left alive in his entire hometown before he and Darla finally moved on: 6

...survivors he tracked down and killed later: 6

...books Angel has collected in his personal library that mention that first massacre of his: 19

...books that actually give him the credit for it, whether seriously or as documentation of a rumor or legend: 13

...books that credit a mysterious plague: 5

...books that give the credit to Darla: 1

...books in his library that name Angelus the most brutal, violent, and artistic vampire to have ever lived: 17

...books naming him simply the most evil: 9

...books naming him the most handsome: 22

...books that call Spike the most handsome: 4

...authors that Angel agrees with about the handsome thing: 4

...times he's mentioned this to Spike: 0

...humans the average vampire kills per year: 283.5

...humans Angelus killed per year (on average) before he was cursed with a soul, including village massacres and rampages and birthday parties: 806

...female vampires that he sired over the course of about 250 years: 20

...ones that Darla immediately staked: 14

...other ones she would have staked if she'd known about them, but didn't because she was already dead when he sired them in Sunnydale: 2

...ones she did know about but didn't stake, including Drusilla: 1

...ones Angelus himself staked because he got bored with them: 3

...male vampires he sired over the course of about 250 years: 2

...male vampires he thought of as his own get: 3

...ones he killed, including Lawson: 1

...ones Kate killed, including Penn: 1

...ones he could never bring himself to kill, no matter how angry or frustrated he got, because he felt sort of - it wasn't love (or it hadn't always been) - affectionate towards them, or maybe even proud, not to mention there was the handsome thing, which he, in fact, never mentioned: 1

...humans Spike killed on the first night that he was a vampire: 0

...nights he spent as a vampire before he first met Angelus: 12

...humans he had killed in those 12 nights, including his mother: 14

...demons he had killed, including his mother: 1

...years Angel spent as a vampire before he first met Spike: 127

...humans he had killed in that time: 102,362

...demons he had killed: 209

...nights it took for him to seduce Spike after Darla bet him, for fun, that he couldn't do it: 6

...pounds Darla owed him because it took less than a week: 1,000

...humans she killed for the money: 3

...nights in a row that Angelus spent getting drunk and alternately trying to forget and trying to remember what Spike's body had felt like under him, the sounds he made, the way he smelled: 8

...times Spike tried to approach Angelus and talk about what had happened between them: 1

...conversations about what had happened that were barely begun before Angelus punched Spike in the mouth and went out to get drunk: 1

...times Spike brought it up again: 0

...times over the following 18 years that he thought about kissing or groping Angelus just to see what would happen: 907

...times Angelus thought about doing the same to Spike but refrained: 1,024

...instances when they both had these thoughts at the exact same moment but avoided acting on them, usually by abruptly making up a reason to be somewhere else: 531

...nights (total) Angelus and Spike spent having sex with each other in the entire time they lived together before Angelus was cursed with a soul: 1

...years Angel regretted not having had Spike again at least once before the curse: 105

...years Spike missed having Angelus around because he actually enjoyed his company (usually), and - although he wouldn't have admitted it - there were times when he would have liked to ask his advice: 105

...years it took for them to finally find their way back to each other and continue the relationship they began 123 years ago because of that silly bet: 105

...souls between them now: 2

...weeks it takes after Spike becomes recorporealized at Wolfram and Hart for him and Angel to fall into bed together: 12

...bottles of whiskey they drink first: 4

...hours they spend passed out in Angel's penthouse before they wake up: 11.5

...minutes of the encounter (total) that they can remember between them: 3

...arguments they have over the next couple of days about whether or not anything sexual actually happened: 5

...souled vampires in denial: 2

...days it takes for them to work up the nerve to try it again, consciously: 6

...bottles of whiskey they drink first this time: 1

...false starts: 3

...minutes the whole sexual encounter spans between the third false start and both Angel and Spike coming entirely too soon, without any actual penetration and very little removal of clothing: 8

...pairs of ruined pants: 2

...minutes of sulking afterwards: 34

...bottles of whiskey drunk while sulking: 1.5

...excuses they come up with while sulking and drinking for why it didn't last very long: 6

...very good reasons why they ought to go again: 6

...false starts this time: 0

...minutes it takes Angel to fully undress Spike without breaking their kiss: 3

...places on Spike's body that Angel kisses on his way down to a kneeling position, if both nipples count separately: 13

...times Spike has jerked off since he became corporeal to fantasies of Angel doing exactly what he's doing right now with his tongue: 27

...times Angel has jerked off to fantasies of doing this to Spike since Spike became corporeal: 34

...minutes it goes on until Spike worries he'll embarrass himself again and pulls away: 6

...minutes it takes Spike to get Angel naked: 0.5

...curses Angel gasps consecutively when Spike takes him in his mouth: 3

...minutes this lasts until Angel has to pull away: 5

...steps to Angel's bed: 16

...steps they manage to take before deciding the floor is closer: 3

...times they roll over, trying to determine who gets to be on top, before Spike gives in: 4

...regrets Spike has later about letting Angel top him: 0

...people Angel informs about his new relationship with Spike: 0

...people Spike informs about his new relationship with Angel (just to see what it sounds like out loud): 1

...people who are too drunk at the time to remember later what that blond guy in the bar was talking about, except that it had something to do with anal sex and big foreheads: 1

...sexual encounters Angel and Spike have within the next three days: 0

...sexual encounters they have on the fourth day: 4

...sexual encounters on the fourth day which take place in Angel's office: 2

...sexual encounters on the fourth day which take place in Angel's penthouse: 1

...sexual encounters on the fourth day which take place in Angel's parking garage: 1

...cars in Angel's motor pool, which are all beautiful and fast and shiny: 12

...cars Angel decides, while he's going down on Spike in the parking garage, that he's going to fuck Spike in: 12

...days it takes to manage this: 7

...times they get caught on Wolfram and Hart security cameras while doing it in one of Angel's cars: 3

...times they get caught on Wolfram and Hart security cameras while doing it somewhere in the Wolfram and Hart building: 8

...dollars a security guard makes by selling the tapes until Angel finds out and fires his ass: 820

...porno movies that Angel now owns, including the 11 of him and Spike: 12

...dollars Spike spends on a used digital video camera with a portable tripod after watching his 11 movies with Angel: 218

...drinks it takes to get Angel to strip for the camera: 9

...times Angel and Spike watch the video of Angel stripping together: 6

...times Angel watches the video by himself: 8

...drinks it takes to get Spike to strip for the camera: 0

...videos they end up with of Spike sucking Angel's cock while Angel holds the camera and whispers things like yeah, just like that, fuck...: 12

...days it takes before Angel finally lets Spike top him: 36

...days it takes before Angel realizes he's sort of in love with the bleached menace, that he sort of has been for a very long time: 36

...days it took for Spike to realize this: 8

...people that they tell: 0

...people that know anyway: 4

...times Angel tells Spike that he loves him, that first time he lets Spike take him: 1

...times he thinks it: 19

...times Spike says it: 1

...times he thinks it: 27

...orgasms Angel has with Spike inside him before Spike finally lets himself come: 3

...days Angel is sore afterwards: 2

...times he tells Spike to stop looking so damn smug already: 4

...hours Angel keeps Spike tied to the bed to exact his revenge: 7

...protestations Spike makes about this turn of events: 0

...arguments Angel and Spike have during the first two months of their romantic relationship: 274

...serious ones: 6

...arguments (of those 6) that became serious because one or the other of them mentioned Buffy: 6

...times Angel apologizes for what he said: 6

...times he is actually sorry: 4

...times Spike apologizes for what he said: 0

...times he is actually sorry: 6

...times they have loud makeup sex within earshot of Wesley: 12

...times they do it on purpose because it's kind of funny: 11

...conversations Spike and Angel have about the first time they had sex 123 years ago: 3

...reenactments of that first time, because they've been reenacting it in their heads for years: 3

...conversations about their first time that include Angel confessing that it started with a bet: 0

...times he finds himself wondering if Spike already knows: 8

...times he finds himself wondering if Spike would care, if it would even matter at this point, considering that what they have now is real anyway, regardless of how it started: 8

...times Angel, out of nowhere, initiates very intense and lengthy sex with Spike while remaining mostly quiet and extremely submissive, almost like he's giving himself to Spike to make up for something, although Spike has no idea what it could be: 8

...fucking incredible orgasms Spike has (on average) each time Angel does this: 4

...questions he asks: 0

...months their relationship lasts before they break it off over something entirely childish and stupid: 3.5

...nosy friends who butt in, much to Angel's annoyance: 4

...days the breakup lasts: 9

...days they spend having makeup sex: 2

...days, including the 2 days of makeup sex, that Spike and Angel are back together before they break up again: 2

...days the breakup lasts this time: 3

...pacts Spike and Angel finally make not to break up again, ever: 1

...weeks before they break up for the third time: 5

...nosy friends who butt in, much to Spike's annoyance: 4

...near-death situations that force Spike and Angel to spend several hours in a broom closet together, which leads to mutual handjobs and getting back together: 1

...relieved nosy friends, who may or may not have staged the near-death situation for specifically this purpose: 4

...hours it takes one night for Angel and Spike to drive from L.A. to the Sunnydale crater: 2

...minutes they spend just looking at it before either one of them says anything: 16

...times, including this one, that Angel has ever told Spike exactly how proud he is of him: 1

...self-deprecating jokes Spike makes about saving the world by wearing tacky jewelry: 3

...conversations, including this one, that they have ever had, where Buffy's name comes up and it doesn't turn into a serious argument: 1

...bottles of whiskey they drink while sitting on the hood of the car and looking at the crater: 3

...minutes of real contemplation they give to the idea of not going back to L.A., of disappearing, of going out on their own and just doing whatever the hell they want: 20

...reasons they don't: 6.68 billion

...half-drunken toasts they make - to life, to death, to love, to souls, to redemption, to blood, to humans and demons and slayers and fucking enormous craters that used to be towns where all of these things lived, and to each other: 1

...hangovers in the morning: 2

...words Angel murmurs into Spike's ear while pulling him closer, just before dropping to sleep again: 3

...words Spike mumbles back: 3

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Date: 2008-02-25 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilithbint.livejournal.com
Oh this was wonderful,
it sums up their relationship in... 154 lines!

Date: 2008-02-26 08:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks! that's more or less what i was trying for. :)

Date: 2008-02-25 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kidcyclone.livejournal.com
This is so lovely. Funny, sweet and really touching- and so easy to picture my two favorite vampires doing exactly this. Thank you!

Date: 2008-02-26 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you. :D i was worried about the format, but i'm glad you like it.

Date: 2008-02-25 11:12 pm (UTC)
elisi: Clara asking the Doctor to take her back to 2012 (Spangel together (hands) by amavel_bel)
From: [personal profile] elisi
You, my dear, are something approaching a genius with words!

Date: 2008-02-26 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
oh stop, i'm blushing. :D and thanks for the rec!

Date: 2008-02-25 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] globalfruitbat.livejournal.com
I really liked this. I love fics wherein Angel and Spike act as human and real as they did on the show, where the people around them who love them root for them and where silly, wonderful, heartbreaking things happen. Yay!

Date: 2008-02-26 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
yay! \o/ i'm glad you liked it.
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Date: 2008-02-26 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you! i was really hesitant to try the form, but once i started it was hard to find a place to stop. i'm glad you thought it worked. :D

Date: 2008-02-25 11:53 pm (UTC)
lynnenne: (spangel intimate by lynne)
From: [personal profile] lynnenne
Great job! I think this is my favorite part:

...near-death situations that force Spike and Angel to spend several hours in a broom closet together, which leads to mutual handjobs and getting back together: 1

...relieved nosy friends, who may or may not have staged the near-death situation for specifically this purpose: 4


Hahahahahahaha. Nicely done. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks! i think all four of the nosy friends would be in on it, but the idea? is totally fred's. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zoesmith.livejournal.com
OMG!! That was so funny and clever!!
Angel so would keep a library with the books Angelus is mentioned in!! I loved the bet between Darla and Angelus about him seducing Spike. 1,000 pounds?? Lol!
And I would really love to get my hands on those tapes…

authors that Angel agrees with about the handsome thing: 4
Awww!! He loves his boy so much! :)
times they have loud makeup sex within earshot of Wesley: 12
times they do it on purpose because it's kind of funny: 11

It’s always Wes isn’t it? He’s too easy to tease.

I could quote so much more!! That was brilliant! Thank you for the laughs and the beautiful ending :)

*hugs*

Date: 2008-02-26 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you!

And I would really love to get my hands on those tapes…

you and the better half of fandom, dear. :D

it IS always wesley! he's easy, but i think also angel knows he's going to be cool with it. :)

Number of...

Date: 2008-02-26 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shay2.livejournal.com
...times I will read this again: 50+

Funny, sad, and sexy. It was great.

Shay

Re: Number of...

Date: 2008-02-26 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks! i'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] denny-dc.livejournal.com
well done.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you. :)

I am not worthy.....

Date: 2008-02-26 01:44 am (UTC)
ext_2333: "That's right,  people, I am a constant surprise." (Bones: these people solve crimes)
From: [identity profile] makd.livejournal.com
Fantastic, touching, funny, and very, very, entertaining. :-)

[Salaams.]

Re: I am not worthy.....

Date: 2008-02-26 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks! i've got my fingers crossed that the next thing i write won't be fluffy. i'm trying to figure out where my angst went off to...

Date: 2008-02-26 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyvirgo1956.livejournal.com
You know when it comes down to it Spike and Angel despite their history really do care for each other. If the words could be counted it would go into the billions on the way they feel for each other. Soul or not. So you did a nice job with this.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
well i'm glad you liked it. :) and i agree, there's definitely a connection between them.

Date: 2008-02-26 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kindredspirit75.livejournal.com
That was bloody brilliant, darling. Kudos.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks much! :)

Date: 2008-02-26 03:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bitchy-kat.livejournal.com
loved it! thanks for using my prompt :)

Date: 2008-02-26 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
glad you liked it! thanks for prompting me. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treadingthedark.livejournal.com
This was just fabulous.
This part:
...times Angel apologizes for what he said: 6

...times he is actually sorry: 4

...times Spike apologizes for what he said: 0

...times he is actually sorry: 6
Just said so much about both characters.
Fantastic.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks! that's actually the part that i thought of first and that made me want to write the story in this format. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carinas-carinae.livejournal.com
Fantastic, beautiful, original, sweet, funny, terrific, and I'm putting it in memories. Oh, and I love your banner, by the way. That was my favorite of the four as well.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks, i'm glad you liked it! and this is my favorite layout i've ever had. :D

Date: 2008-02-26 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] krichira.livejournal.com
Very, very nice. I like the numbers and I like how obsessive they both are when it comes to each other.

And I also like your new banner. *admires*

Date: 2008-02-26 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you! and yeah, this layout is definitely my favorite angel layout i've ever had. :D

Date: 2008-02-26 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com
Fantastic, funny and completely them.

...humans Angelus killed per year (on average) before he was cursed with a soul - including village massacres and rampages and birthday parties: 806


His birthday? Their birthday? Did he get an invite? The thought just cracked me up.

...people who are too drunk at the time to remember later what the blond guy in the bar was talking about, except that it had something to do with anal sex and big foreheads: 1


HA! I can hear Spike's entire drunken confession.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks!

the birthday thing - heh. i'm not sure what i meant there... i think i meant his birthday, but it could be parties he just happened across and decided to crash. either way works, really. :D

spike's drunken confession is one of my favorite parts.

Date: 2008-02-26 04:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] of-too-minds.livejournal.com
This is wonderful. It's funny and sweet and heartbreaking and hopeful. Touching. I adore it.

Thanks for the lovely spangely goodness! *smooches*

Date: 2008-02-26 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
oh, i'm so glad you liked it! :D

Date: 2008-02-26 05:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eyezrthewindows.livejournal.com
I really enjoyed this. It's *different*. And despite it being written differently, it really summed up their relationship really well without going into detail.

The hell'd you manage that?? lmao.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
i'm glad you liked it! i think the form requires just enough detail to get the big picture of their relationship... like, it matters that they break up three times, but it doesn't matter why. stuff like that. :)

Date: 2008-02-26 05:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angelstoy.livejournal.com
incredible idea!!!! Awesome story!!!

Date: 2008-02-26 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks much!

Date: 2008-02-26 06:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lifefailsme.livejournal.com
That's just wonderful, sums it all up!

Date: 2008-02-26 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you! :)

Date: 2008-02-26 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cafedemonde.livejournal.com
You really are amazing!

Probably the most creatively daring and artistic writer in the fandom. When I see something posted by you, I know it'll be good and different, something special, to be remembered.

I do love how your brain works.

Date: 2008-02-26 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
*clings to this comment* thank you so much. i do try to make storytelling interesting. i think it's because i feel like i don't have any stories to tell in this fandom that haven't already been told, so i have to take old ideas and give them a new face in order to make them worth reading again. like this story? if it had just been limited third POV, past tense, like most stories are, it would have just been another spangel story - nothing special at all. but the form makes it fun. :) i'm really glad you noticed that i like to do things like this. lists, second person POV, present tense, ridiculously lengthy repetitions with subtle changes... i gotta have 'em or i'd feel like a complete hack. :D

Date: 2008-02-26 09:12 am (UTC)
ext_15392: (joy spike)
From: [identity profile] flake-sake.livejournal.com
Brilliant! That was so funny, cute and beautiful! I loved that Spike always felt sorry for their arguments but never apologized.
If you didn't exist one would have to invent you! *pets the genius* :)

(The new layout is very pretty btw)

Date: 2008-02-26 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thank you! spike's nonapology is my favorite thing in this story. :)

*is petted*

my layout! i luff it. :D

Date: 2008-02-26 09:51 am (UTC)
shapinglight: (Spangel - animated)
From: [personal profile] shapinglight
Wonderful, as always. You captured the essence of both characters so well.

I couldn't really choose a favourite part, but Spike's non-apology could well be it. That is just so like him.

Date: 2008-02-26 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlpire.livejournal.com
thanks! the non-apology part is actually the first part i wrote - it's the reason i wanted to use this form for the story. fitting the rest of it into the form was the hard part. :)
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