Tilte: When two become one.

Author: Ayana

Raiting: G

Category: Romance and AU and maybe some OOC

Content:

Summary: At Fred and Gun wedding, Angel and Cordelia muse at the long path they attended to end where they are now.

Spoiler: None, all the ATS show at the end of the 4th season and all the BTVS show. And some use of the events of the ATS 5th season.

Disclaimer: Like for Largo and the others not mine. Mutant enemy etc….booh

This part is from Gunn and Fred POV

Gunn was felicitous, now Fred was really his thanks to Cordelia and Angel, he watched the couple who stands in a dark corner and whispers in each other ears, and they seem so joyful. He had watched the evolution of their history, how they grown as friend step by step then the Darla episode and ultimately the rebound.

The first time he has seen him, he saw just the bloodsucker and in Cordelia a superficial Barbie doll nothing else slowly he learned to watch over the decorum.

Angel is a tortuous and deep character, for the first year he didn't see anything in those soulful eyes, neither emotions or feeling but Cordelia saw so many things in those eyes, she seemed able to read him.

She had not been judicious every time sometimes she hurts him and others she ignore him but at season change she was more than able to read and understand how he thinks and how he can react but if her feeling had grown in a year, for Angel she was just a secretary, a pain and somehow a friend, as Wesley put it Buffy was the only thing important, the mission he abandoned her remorselessly letting Cordelia dealing with the consequence.

Cordelia had been right they were the only thing keeping him from falling but it was what he was looking for, falling in the dark and cut all the humanity he had gained.

At the opposite Cordelia embraced the Mission, she became her, and we became her family her anchor what make her stand and never give up.

I saw her brightest eyes slowly been clouded by the sorrow and the pain the roundness of the adolescence fade as the trait of the woman she will be start to evolve.

I watched her helpless when she dropped of because of the violence of the visions, Wesley started maturing during this epiphany, he was let alone with Cordelia to deal with the mission at this time they weren't the closest thing I had, the family that care and fear for me.

He trained alone and asked me to help him, he felt responsible of the girl et she felt the same, in their road of growing up I was included as a member of this family, the coldness and the entrenchment behind his book the only way he knew to help but I never succeeded to understand the Barbie doll, she was unreadable, we hadn't be able to hide anything to her except during the Holtz episode but at the opposite we failed to notice she was dying.

I think I really noticed the way the vampire felt about Cordelia when he jumped trough that portal to save her and then after the ballet when her boy toy appeared.

At time I didn't understand but now I think I can, she loved him but she blinded herself telling he was just a friend the best friend she ever had, she didn't want to loose him.

Because she walks and talks and acts as the Cordelia we have always known, I forgot that she was a demon now and her life may become longer and she must remain by Angel side.

She promised him to be with him until he shanshu, Wesley told me that but in our line of work we don't talk about future to much.

Gunn gaze travelled through the crowd and finally stopped at Wesley and Lilah. He didn't love the lawyer she was a heartless bitch, but Wesley seemed really to care about her and so did Cordelia and Faith. Lilah and Cordelia weren't Fred What they had to face made them strongest and at the same time more careful about their affection, Cordelia gave it completely to us the Fang Gang and extended it to Faith and Lilah when they became part of the family. Lilah is walking straight to Cordelia and Angel, how can he trust her, I don't know. I was at Eve office waiting for her. We had a meeting with a new clan of demon when she walked at her old office a secretary walking beside her taking some note at the agenda and trying to organize the planning of the new CEO assistant.

FRED

When I met her the first time she looked so shallow, we were sucked in Pylea and all what disturbed her was the fact she hadn't be able to have a decent shower.

At time I didn't know any one of them but when I came back in this dimension with them, I learned few things about them.

The immense knowledge of Wesley, the fighting skills of Gunn the combination of both skills in Angel and from Gunn I learned about the rampant hardness of Wes.

And Cordelia, she was the seer, the whining the one we must save every time Angel Achilles' heel.

I was the one who brought the challenge torch back in Pylea, he was fighting for her sack but she didn't seem to really value what he did. She was too fond on The Groosalug and my crush over Angel grown up this time.

She didn't stop speaking about shampoo and bubble bath like the most important thing in her life, the three men watched her with leniency. Then Angel learned about Buffy death, all of them seemed shocked but Angel was devastated.

She forgot about the shower and didn't think about changing her cloths, while Gunn left for his apartment when Cordelia told him, I watched the ex-watcher retreat in his office and I stood in the lobby watching helplessly my hero fall.

I was amazed she didn't babble endlessly, she just told she was there for him and she stood silently letting him mourning about the love of his unlife.

She didn't leave his side that night, the girl, Willow I think, followed Gunn upstair when he showed her a room before leaving.

Ultimately she remembered my presence, her look, found me and without raising her voice she asked for Wesley who emerged of the office.

"Can you take care of her, please?"

"Sure."

"Thank you"

I saw something I never thank she would have possessed, kindness and concern.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, thank you"

"You need to rest. Pick out a room and stay."

"And you Cordelia?"

"Me? I'll be okay, stop freaking out"

I saw, love and friendship. But when her gaze found me again he was undecipherable.

He left the group and travelled to deal with the loss at his way and when he came back everything was ok, for a while until the moment when Darla made her comeback, pregnant and very angry.

I became aware of how much she meant to him when he tried to explain himself first. Despite the complex situation he was seeking for her absolution.

And when Connors is born she became a mom and I became an aunt…..

Fred was standing with Gunn near the bar they were speaking to Buffy and Spike but Gunn was the one discussing about some slice and dice Fred mooned, her look travelled around the crowd dwelled on her parent and then on Wesley and Lilah.

My heart flinches when I saw them; sometimes I wonder how life with Wesley could have been. But these thoughts never last.

The watcher, I, once knew disappeared with the chaos caused by the prophecy of Niazan. He became harder and darker too alike Angel.

I must agree, Lilah suited him more than I would never been able to. She really knows the demon world and accounts it not like me or Gunn both of us have known the existence of this world but we just fought against it.

I'm a scientist I can appreciate how they fit on their surroundings but five years in Pylea and an unfortunate meeting with Angelus the myth I had kept in mind when I first met Angel broke.

"I wish you joy and happiness with Gunn"

"Thank you, Wes."

"Take care of her Gunn; I improved my skill in the fighting if you hurt her…

"I know, Angel and Cordelia have already gave me this threat"

"Oh...

"Yeah."

"You did your job as protector can we get some fun now."

no beta and english is not my mother tongue so Gomen, Sorry whatever.