Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Wesley Wyndham-Price
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: PG to PG-13
#01 - Ring
Her finger was bare now, the long-remembered band of silver put aside forever, but she could look at that emptiness and smile because her heart was now his to fill.
#02 - Hero
It was the strength of his mind that Buffy trusted to save the day when the battle seemed lost.
#03 - Memory
It's times like these, when he moans in his sleep and whispers apologies to an infant long-gone and a friend turned away, that she mourns their hidden scars.
#04 - Box
It was a simple thing, fashioned of pine and plain edges, but the box and the stake inside were cherished more than any other possession he owned: too private to hand over to the Council museum, and far too precious to be hidden away.
#05 - Run
Sunnydale was lost in the distance and Los Angeles merely a distant memory as he drove, trying to outlast the pain.
#06 - Hurricane
Dance with me, Wesley, while the wind drives away the dust, a command he could not refuse, a desire he didn't fight.
#07 - Wings
Her hair tangles damp and gold on the pillow, her shoulders flex beneath his hands; together, they fly.
#08 - Cold
He Watched, her clouded gaze chilling his soul, as time and fate take their Chosen.
#09 - Red
Wesley never favored red, too brash and bold for his taste, until it dripped (life-proof) from her hand.
#10 - Drink
Merlot for Fred and sanguine for Angel, they hold their vigil together seeking comfort in the shadows.
#11 - Midnight
She smiles as the clock strikes twelve, and he falls beneath her spell once more.
#12 - Temptation
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned, rhymes of the past and the dark-magic proof of his newly-risen Slayer before him, forbidden Codex open still, Help me, Father, to sin again.
#13 - View
She watches him sleep, glasses slid low beneath his tousled hair, and marvels that the bane of her past came to be the comfort of her present.
#14 - Music
The radio is silent as they dance, Buffy dodging while Wesley feints, but their blood hums the toon in its stead.
#15 - Silk
When she's like this, slim body bound in silken ropes and face twisted in rapturous agony, he wonders why Angel and Spike ever let her get away.
#16 - Cover
He still hides behind his texts and she still pretends an ignorance long gone, but both can see the truth beneath.
#17 - Promise
He doesn't declare the love she doesn't want, but he does offer a simple pledge in its stead; when she is gone he will make sure she is left to rest in peace.
#18 - Dream
It's claddaghs and blood and a blue-skinned demon swirled together, two nightmares merging into one.
#19 - Candle
Faith's ghost is all around them, in the shadows that fill her eyes and the sharp stabs of pain as the wax drips on his chest, but it's the flickering light reflected in Buffy's eyes that frightens Wesley the most.
#20 - Talent
Spells and facts drip from his mouth like honey, but the thick, heavy pleasure of his tongue between her thighs is sweeter by far.
#21 - Silence
When the battle ends there is stillness, and he wipes his blade clean as she pockets her own weapon.
#22 - Journey
She always thought she'd see Europe with Angel, but that dream died in a cloud of ash and it's the Wyndham-Price estate she calls home.
#23 - Fire
When the smoke clears the portal is gone, but she's burning brighter than ever.
#24 - Strength
It takes a strong man to live with the ghosts in her bed, it takes a stronger man to walk away; Wesley has always been weak.
#25 - Mask
When his face smoothes into bland expressionlessness, she fights the urge to scream.
#26 - Ice
Buffy's breath slides warm and damp over his lips, and he feels the last of Cordelia melt away.
#27 - Fall
He gave up heaven and redemption long ago, but serving Hell has it's own rewards.
#28 - Forgotten
Wesley knows he should feel guilty for holding close the knowledge of that one, forgotten day, but Angel gave up his claim to her long ago.
#29 - Dance
The prom is years past, but she still longs for colder arms and a quiet heart when Wesley pulls her close.
#30 - Body
Body, rest, and motion: it's an uneven cycle, but two out of three ain't bd.
#31 - Sacred
Slayer blood to start the fire and Slayer soul to seal it back, how could he have known it would hurt this much to save the world?
#32 - Farewells
The headstones march in single-file, hers the last in a long line of summers past, his tears the only record.
#33 - World
If I gave you the world, would you forget tomorrow?, she smiles, I forgot tomorrow long ago.
#34 - Formal
Her lover is dying and he won't help, and precise words layered in offocial statements do not soften the blow
#35 - Fever
If this heat were of a demon's making he could find the cure, but Buffy is a fever he cannot quench.
#36 - Laugh
He smiles when Buffy laughs, his own joy too weak to take wing.
#37 - Lies
He doesn't ask where she's been when she comes home smelling of smoke and oil, and she doesn't question his habit of disappearing for hours at a time: Spike or Lilah, it's all the same.
#38 - Forever
Eternity isn't so long to suffer when you've spent your life regretting the choices that kept you apart.
#39 - Overwhelmed
Buffy alone is a lot to handle, and Dawn is more than an aging former-watcher can take.
#40 - Whisper
When he's alone and the offices of Wolfram & Hart go dim, Wesley wonders how he drifted so far from the man Buffy used to know.
#41 - Wait
Waiting may be the hardest task, but Watching is a thousand times worse.
#42 - Talk
She hears (forget Angel), she listens (forget Riley), she obeys (forget Spike); she wonders if it's the voices in her head or the one sharing her pillow she understands most clearly.
#43 - Search
Conbing every inch of the ruins for the artifact was simple, findng what it takes to keep Buffy with him is impossible.
#44 - Hope
When Fred died he stopped waiting for justice, and when Angel left he stopped looking for redemption; with Buffy, he's still hoping for love.
#45 - Eclipse
The moon is full, but shines red through the blood in her eyes.
#46 - Gravity
Wesley considers his decision carefully, but Buffy far outweighs any remnants of loyalty binding him to this earth.
#47 - Highway
As the road stretches black and smoothe for hours Wesley can finally sleep, and that's when Buffy takes the wheel.
#48 - Unknown
Hard to write her ending in the Chronicles, harder still to explain to Dawn why you couldn't save her.
#49 - Lock
Take the old self and bind it away, grow a harder heart and a thicker skin, live to fight another day -- for both of you there are countless lives tossed aside, and forms grown too thin to shed again.
#50 - Breathe
His hair is greying and lines ring his eyes, but he breathes in her arms every night.