Title: "The Hero and the Idiot"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: PG for mild language
Summary: Dennis knows Angel is a dumbass and yearns to knock some sense into the Vampire without a soul.
Warnings: Het, Drabble
Word Count: 200
Date Written: 10 August, 2010
Disclaimer: Cordelia Chase, Dennis, and Angel are & TM Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and any other respective owners, none of which are the author; are used without permission; and may not be used without permission. Everything else is & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.

Angel is a dumbass, and Dennis knows it. It pains him endlessly that the moody Vampire is indeed the dumbass who Cordelia loves though she yelled at him that he was not that dumbass, a mistake she's bemoaned countless times. Everybody Dennis knows considers Angel a hero, but Dennis knows the truth for he sees it in his beloved Princess' anguished eyes every night.

He's the one who's there for her when she cries, who holds her though she can barely feel the ghostly whisper of his existence crawling over her skin. He's the one who dries her tears and tells her that it'll be all right, though she can't really hear him.

He's the only one who knows just how much of a dumbass Angel is for having Cordelia love him but never opening his eyes and heart to her, and though he can never tell him, he would love to also be the one who gets to kick his dead, dumb ass straight into Cordelia's bed where it belongs! Instead he holds the only real friend he's ever had through another torturous night of a broken heart and curses Angel for being the biggest dumbass he's ever known.

The End