Title: With Every Decision
Genre: Drama/Angst/Horror
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Spoilers: Read the Prologue.
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Angel blinked rapidly. His eyes trying to focus, as they did he noticed two things. One he wasn't drunk anymore. Two he's sitting in his old room at the hyperion. The hyperion's gone, destroyed during the alleyway battle with Wolfram and Hart. Where he lost Gunn, where he lost Wesley, where he lost his grandchilde's faith, what little there was to begin with.
Angel tried to stand but found out he couldn't, couldn't stand, couldn't move, couldn't talk. 'Guess there's a third thing to notice.' He pondered confusedly in his mind. 'What game are the senior partners playing?' He continued to think, trying to rationalize his sudden appearance in a long forgotten building. Forgetting just moments ago of the wish he made.
"It's not the senior partners doing, Angel." a familiar voice spoke. Out of the shadows came Anya, now with blond hair.
Angel peered confusedly at the demon turned human turned demon turned human again, killed apparently resurrected and then turned demon again.
Anya touches her blond hair. "Hmm…I forgot what I looked like as a blonde." She murmurs distractedly, not even paying attention to the frozen vampire anymore as she walks around his room.
She nods, "Nice place, very dark. Better then Spike's crypt." She reconsiders, "Except for the downstairs."
She turns to Angel and meets his confused gazed. She walks over to Angel and kneels before him, putting a comforting hand on his knee.
"Is this comforting?" She nods to her hand. "I never got if it's comforting or sexy to put your hand on someone's knee, and although you're really built. I only play sexy games with Xander."
Angel rolled his eyes.
"You made a wish, Angelus. Do you remember? To change one thing in the past, just one thing that would change your future. It's always up to the vengeance demon, up to them on how things change, what changes. What I do now, it can't be undone. Once I do it, I'll be human. No pendent to break, there will be no way to change it back. See when I died, I was given a chance by 'D'hoffryn. He has pull in the after life, and I struck a deal with him. A chance to start over, but I had to give him something in return. To get me back and just lose me again, well I have to do something great for his trouble. I keep you frozen, and I'm going to let you watch. Watch what I change, so you'll understand. So you won't hurt him." She raises her fingertips to Angel's eyes, her serious and saddened darting back and fourth, looking into each of his eyes individually.
"Look." She placed her fingertips on his eyes and he saw.
TBC…