That was just all kinds of fun, wasn't it ( Read more... )

I was on my own again. Cordelia had gone off with Wesley, probably to talk about some important hero stuff like they always used to, before the big mind-wipe and the mass death and everything. Faith had gone somewhere with Spike. I was a little sore about being ditched; at the moment, Faith was the only person I was comfortable being around, but my ( Read more... )

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"I was just fuckin' with you. Makin' sure you was payin' attention. Okay, I'm totally lyin'. I had no clue what you was talkin' about. Can't say I'm up on all the Brit speak. But yeah, I'll definitely take some Jack D and smokes. Now let's get the hell outta here."I nodded t'Faith and wished it was dark enough t'go out, ( Read more... )

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"Sounds like Wes does too."

Wes does what too, I asked silently, but the quite meaningful looks that kept centering around Connor did a good deal of answering. So something had happened regarding Cyvus Vail's spell that had reconstructed reality on Connor's behalf. I had always operated under the assumption that once ( Read more... )

Chaos. Complete and utter chaos. Why didn’t that surprise me? This place attracted chaos. It was like some chaotic magnet.

I wasn’t sure how to deal with it this time around. Gunn was gone. Dead. By Illyria’s hand, if Harmony was to be believed. We were all shocked. I knew I wasn’t alone there. The sudden appearance of both Faith and Connor wasn’t ( Read more... )

"Yes you are correct. One is enough... for tonight."

The words weren't meant for me.

For the first moment in an achingly endless series of them, the words weren't meant for me. But somewhere inside me I sort of wished they were. So that Illyria could keep trying to tear me down, so that I could continue to fight through it and find some way to ( Read more... )

Good thing it was finally night 'round here, so's I could leave the soddin' hotel and go get me my fags and liquor.

'Course, I didn't have any money t'pay for 'em, so's I told 'em t'charge it t'Angel Investigations and walked out with my bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and quite a few packs of Marlboros in the other ( Read more... )

I was moving towards one of the enclosed spaces upstairs, when the newly-mortal thing shrieked below me.

"EVERYBODY COME QUICK!!! ILLYRIA KILLED GUNN!!!!!!!!"

"Fool."

Yet, they gathered. I stood apart from them upstairs, watching them mewl about, whispering so loudly it made my head ache. They believed...believed"No ( Read more... )

"Did you not understand the words spoken to you, mortal? My hands were not the ones to pull the life-force from that decaying, rotting body. I wish they had been, for then my life would have some sense of justice to it!"

Ok, first of all it was not my fault I was mortal again, and it is so not nice to call people names like that! And...she had ( Read more... )

The words the half-breed had spoken still swam within my ears along with those of The Shell and Wesley. All of them, turning, betraying me. Had they forgotten so quickly my stance at the Great Battle as the Heavens themselves opened up for us? Had Wesley's last memory as his life faded in my arms been destroyed ( Read more... )