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Cunning wasn’t a word that many people would automatically use when describing Spike. But he was. You had to be to survive years of living with Angelus; of being one fourth of the Scourge of Europe.
He’d learnt fast how to survive and to care for Drusilla, his sire and it was cunning that kept him from being broken by Angelus.
And now his cunning had bought him here; to the Slayer’s inner circle, closer to the one has has wanted since first setting his eyes on him.
He would take Xander; break him, turn him and make him his own.