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For the record and I am not a Bangel fan. I am a HUGE fan of the actor James Marsters and I love his portrayal of Spike. I love the character of Spike. It's all about Spike for me and I know that in canon, Spike wants Buffy so I am a Spuffy fan. I am an avid reader of Spuffy fan fiction. Angel is okay. Angelus is way better and so much fun to write.
I had to write this story though. From the moment I watched the Angel episode: Not Fade Away, this story had been forming in my imagination. The main idea in my head was that Spike deserved better than Buffy. She wasn't good enough for him. He deserved to find someone who would return his love in equal measure. The idea of a beautiful, souled vampire coming to LA and falling in love with him was what I thought he deserved.
I waited over a year before I actually started writing it all down. Mostly because I had not written any type of fiction for years and I didn't think I could do the story justice. Then one day I just sat down and started it. Once I began, ideas and thoughts just came to me.
I had written the first 4 chapters and you'll notice the fixation on Spike's boots. When I was at chapter 4, I got stuck so I spent time searching the web for anything about James (which I do often). I found an article detailing one of James' Q and A sessions at a convention. I think he was in Australia? Some one asked what his idea of what should happen to Spike that would be good for a movie. He mentioned the idea of losing a big battle (in my version, they neither win nor lose that battle in the alley), he finds the girl of his dreams and loses her (in my version, he meets the girl of his dreams, but you'll have to read “A Perfect Fit” to see if he keeps or loses her), and he sees a pair of boots, but doesn't have the means to buy them in the beginning, but some how gets them in the end. (Which I had planned for my story). I was floored, but it was enough to get me writing again.
I had a vision of what Candy looked like and what her vampire name was right from the start. Almost like she was begging me to tell her story. She was a nurse in WWII and she had served in Anzio, Italy. I have to say that I love history, but my focus has always been US and French history. I knew a bit about WWII, but nothing about campaigns in Italy. So I had to research Anzio in that time period.
I had written about 8 chapters and I had such a clear thought on what Candy looked like. I even spent a few minutes searching sites for a model/actress that looked like her, just to solidify her in my mind. That night my husband came home with a vhs movie as he often did. We've got this great thrift store that has a huge collection. It was an old black and white movie that I had never seen. It was called Laura. My eyes nearly bugged out when Gene Tierney came on screen. I wanted to yell, that's Candy! Only Candy is a little shorter, a little curvier on top and a few years younger. In certain scenes you could even tell that her eyes were blue. I checked the back of the box and could not believe the movie was from 1944. The exact year that Candy was turned! When I did a search for photos of Gene online, I was even more amazed when I saw color photos.
Here she is: 
I have more pictures in my scrapbook.
One last thing. No Candy is not a Mary Sue, LOL. If I wrote a mary sue story, it would be a girl name Dawn LoveJoy with extremely long hair and violet eyes. She would meet James at one of his meet and greets and he'd fall instantly in love with her. LOL! She'd be practicaly perfect in every way and be best friends with some top movie executive that would eventually get James a starring role in a block buster movie. We'd...I mean...They'd make millions and live happily ever after. I've got no jones for a ficticious vampire. James on the other hand...
That story will never get written because I have too much respect for the actor and would never write a story about him. I won't even go to his events because I am a happily married woman and I like him way to much to get that close : ) Not that he'd give me a second glance cuz I'm not all "sued" up.
My husband is drop dead gorgeous and gets mistaken for an actor all the time. We live in Southern California. I've had to fight off the girls AND guys for years. I thought it would get better when he got older but nope. I am truly living my Life!Sue right now. I don't need to write myself one of those.
It is my goal to become a published author. I thought it would be a good exercise to write an OC and I had a lot of fun doing it.
