Another Life
Jun 14, 2007
AU. What if Cordelia never started working for Angel after they met at the party in City Of?
The Uninvited Guest
Apr 15, 2007
When I started reading this, I didn’t think I was going to recommend it. And then I got to the Connor POV section, and I fell in love. I wish more people wrote first person Connor as well as Yahtzee does. (Well, okay, I wish more people wrote Connor, period, but that’s not important right now.) At first this story made me kind of angry, and then it made me want a sequel. One narrated by Fred, Connor, and Angel.
AU set after Angel S3, where things went a little differently, and BtVS S6, where things went a lot differently.
Snow has begun to fall from a few clouds in the sky, but there is a patch in the distance that shows stars. Winifred points toward it. “See that?” she says. “That’s Andromeda.”
“Andromeda?” I do not know this word, or why she would be pointing at the sky. So for the next several minutes, I stand and listen to her as she tells me the legends of the people she sees in the stars. Winifred is always patient with the things I don’t know. She remembers what it’s like to be different in the world, not to know all the rules. I don’t have to explain things to her; Winifred just understands, without words.
As she gestures at the heavens, she tells me about the princess chained to the rocks, and the horse that could fly. And she teaches me the name of Orion, who was a hunter, like me.