Fic: Blinded, Battered, and Broken

It's been an incredibly soporific day. About the only useful thing I've managed to get done is a little bit of writing.

This is my terribly, terribly late entry for the Welcome Back to the Hellmouth Kinkathon. It isn't quite finished yet - my huge apologies for the long delay! - but I wanted to at least get a start posted. I'll be doing my best to wrap it up quickly - knowing me, that probably should be taken with a grain of salt, but like I said... I'll do my best.

Title: Blinded, Battered and Broken
Author: The Deadly Hook
This one's for cindergal (aka, the former Cindermom), who requested for hurt/comfort with Spike/Buffy or Spike/Xander, Dawn or Xander friendship, Spike's lighter and rain. I promise, all of these are gonna make it in eventually, although for starters, there's going to be quite a bit of time-shifting AU weirdness.

Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters not mine; no infringement intended, and no profit is being made here.

Summary: BtVS Season 6, goes AU midway through "Seeing Red," before all of the really memorable events of that episode. In the aftermath of "Entropy," Xander is given some choices. Xander POV.

Rating: Overall rating will probably be an R. Angst warning and character death warning for this part!

( Blinded, Battered and Broken, Chapter 1 )