FIC: The End is the Beginning 1/1

[starlit-desires.livejournal.com]

When Ragna and I first discussed doing this crossover series, one of the issues that we both knew we would have to deal with sooner rather than later was how ATS Season Four ended. I volunteered to tackle that part, especially since she started the ball rolling with "Geek Love." So this is how Season Four ended, keep in mind that some of the events of Season Four didn't happen, and of course somethings still happened. Feel free to give me your thoughts and your opinions on this piece. Now onto the fic....

~Aaronlisa

Title: The End is the Beginning

Author: Sweetness (aaronlisa@gmail.com)

Pairing: None

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss Whedon and company.

Notes: Written for Demonic Forensics. An alternate ending of ATS Season Four.

 

            For a brief period of time, Angel had been able to experience true happiness without the risk of losing his soul. Even his demon had been content and then Wesley had been contaminated with Jasmine’s blood. He didn’t blame him for what he had done but it had still upset him. He had almost gone to Jasmine and begged her to make him blind to her true form. However, the knowledge that she had harmed Cordelia, manipulated his son, and ate people had held him back. So he and Wesley had contaminated Gunn and Lorne with Cordelia’s blood and he had manipulated his son to get him to fight against Jasmine.
            In the end things had worked out differently than he had planned. Wolfram and Hart had sent them Lilah to help bring down Jasmine. To prove their sincerity, they had also sent a powerful amulet to help shut down the First in Sunnydale. Angel had sent Connor with the amulet to Buffy, as he couldn’t see her again. He left Gunn and Lorne to protect Cordelia from either Jasmine or any of her minions. And he took Lilah and Wesley to help him search for a mystical sword that Lilah swore would help him to defeat Jasmine and end her reign. It never occurred to Angel to ask how Lilah or Wolfram and Hart had managed to keep their free will, but it had occurred to Wesley. And Wesley made it a point to ask Lilah and then to force her to answer the question. At first she had tried to laugh it off, until she saw the grim determination written on both Angel’s and Wesley’s faces. She told that the Wolfram and Hart had powerful psychics who had predicted Jasmine’s birth, which had allowed them to take precautions against her. The next thing that Angel knew was that Wesley was pulling him off Lilah. Although he knew of Wesley’s relationship with the lawyer, he knew that Wesley was only saving her life because they needed her to find the sword. The more Angel thought about it, the more he was convinced that he didn’t want to know what the precautions Wolfram and Hart had taken.
            The three of them found the sword and returned to L.A. Angel took on Jasmine by himself. She had pleaded for her life by telling him how she had achieved so much good. Angel had told him that the cost of the good she had done wasn’t worth it, then he had killed her. When he had returned to the Hyperion, it had been more than he could handle. Lilah had headed back to Wolfram and Hart, leaving Wesley to tell him the bad news. Buffy had managed to defeat the First but she had died in the process. Angel was relieved to hear that his son had survived but it felt as if something in him had died when he had heard about Buffy’s death. He walked out on Wesley before the former Watcher could tell him anything else. He decided to find another monastery to lose himself in, somewhere that he didn’t have to the Champion of the Powers that Be, or where he was surrounded by death all the time.
 
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            By running away from his responsibilities, Angel wouldn’t find out about Wolfram and Hart’s offer to Angel Investigations, or Cordelia’s first vision when she awoke from her coma, or the dire consequences of Buffy’s death until much later.
 
**END**

 

Comments

[afteriwake.livejournal.com]

I get the funny feeling that Wesley's going to be pretty important later...very good ending to the series. I think this will work excelently.

And this means I can write Dawn/Connor! Yay! (Oh, you have no idea how happy that makes me...)

Is Cordelia's vision how we incorporate the return of Darla, Dru, Buffy, etc. or is it something else?

[starlit-desires.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think you might be right about Wes, I didn't plan it that way!

And I knew you wanted Dawn/Connor so I thought it'd be appropriate that Connor didn't have to kill Jasmine and was sent to Sunnydale as a way to protect him.

Perhaps... I think Cordy's vision might be how we can have the characters start to realize that things are very interconnected and all because of Buffy. Perhaps it's Wes who finds out about Cordy's vision?

[afteriwake.livejournal.com]

I like that. Wes would be the most logical person at this point in the game.

Just finished the Nick/Faith piece to set up for Giles getting a phone call...

[tastylilgifty.livejournal.com]

Really liked it. I didn't think you'dbe able to take care of everything, but you totally did. And now I think Angel's an ass. Hee. And there's a typo in this sentence:

She told that the Wolfram and Hart had powerful psychics who had predicted Jasmine’s birth, which had allowed them to take precautions against her.

And I'm totally confused about the timeline, and how that Fred piece from before fits in. Or does it fit in at all? See? Confused. ;)

[starlit-desires.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but what's the typo, I re-read it but I can't find it (that could also be me just being really tired.)


And the timeline is that Fred left LA earlier and joined the team on CSI: Las Vegas. So that piece took place before this one. It sets up the whole crossover world in a sense.

And that's okay. I almost used Fred in this piece before I remembered that part.

Perhaps Ragna & I should have a post devoted to the having the fics in chronological order.

[tastylilgifty.livejournal.com]

Hee. Totally get the tiredness. I think the first four words are supposed to be "She told them that". And if not? Well then, color me embarassed.

Ohhhhh... got it. Yeah, Im no good with timelines unless there's like, a numbered list. LoL. And, ooh! Is there gonna be a part on why she left? Cause that'd be cool.

[starlit-desires.livejournal.com]

Yep you were right... thanks, I appreciate that.

Ask Ragna about the piece about why Fred left.

And the two of us are working on getting a numbered list for the fics.

Don't worry, it's getting confusing to me too :)

[tastylilgifty.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. I thought you were trying a new fangle grammar style or something. LoL.

I think I'll do that, actually. And I can't wait to see how this plays out!