After the Fall: Integration

[butterfly]

And I may just go to bed after posting this.

Previous parts found here.

And I've changed the format. Each section now contains two double-drabbles. After five of these, I'll move up to four sets of doubles, I think.

Interrogation

"I trust that you've been enjoying your stay." Lilah sounded as arrogant as ever. It was enough to make even a saint mad as hell. And as recent events had proven, I was no saint.

"Yeah, being a prisoner is wonderful. Didn't I kill you?" And I can hear the bitchiness in my voice and I know that bringing up someone's death is over my usual line, but I'm beyond caring. I want out and there might be a way to use her.

"Wolfram and Hart wouldn't let that stand in the way of their plans." Lilah didn't stop smiling, but there was a brittleness about her. I'd spent most of my life finding vulnerable spots without trying and I'm even better at it when I pay attention. She's focused, but I'm sure that I can break that.

"Too bad for you. Where are Angel and Wesley?" She lost the smile. One of them is her weak spot? "I know that you know."

"They're working for us." She broke out an incredibly fake grin. "Well, technically, Angel's my boss. He's running the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram and Hart."

I bit my lip, then took a chance. "What about Wesley?"


Investigation

Trying to ignore his past had failed.

Spectacularly.

After last night, Katie definitely wouldn't go out with him again.

So, pretending had failed.

Again.

He should have learned his lesson last time - no magic lasts forever. And no matter how real this life felt, he knew it wasn't.

So he was left with no choice - he had to go to LA. He needed to find Cordy and make certain that she was real. Find Angel and see if there was a family resemblance.

Fortunately, the weekend was coming up. He just had to get through Thursday and Friday's classes - he had that lab in Bio. - and then he could finally start the hunt.

He'd miss Jake's big party, but there was always another one coming up. Of course, he didn't know how long it would take to find her. He had class Monday afternoon and…

Tracking had been much easier before he'd had a life. When he could lose himself in the search and not allow himself rest until he found his prey.

And when he didn't have to worry about calling his mom every week so that she wouldn't worry.

He'd made a good son.

Comments

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor poor Connor. Maybe these false memories will kinda tie him to the real world, though? Keep him from going all vengeful/suicidal again? I'm going on the theory that W&H did a Dawn with him, so hopefully he'll feel a bit more connected to people. (I was going to write, "people outside the MoG", but then he never really was connected to the MoG, except for Cordy, and she was using him. So... yeah.)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He still remembers them - feels them. So even though he's telling himself that it doesn't matter, that it's not real, he's still going to class and hanging out with his friends and calling his mom every week. Because that's his life, too, even though he thinks now that the other is more real.

Thanks for the feedback.

hm

[random-uther.livejournal.com]

the dual memory thing is interesting but as the person above mentioned, it's sort of a "dawn" thing, though with dawn, the memories for everyone else were implanted. for dawn, there are no other memories to burn through.

i was wondering how else the writers could bring connor back. what if, somehow, he got an internship with wolfram & hart, purely by accident (angel and co not knowing, it being a huge company), and ended up working there, with only angel knowing what really happened, but no one else, including connor, knowing anything?

or maybe both.

ah well. your story just got me to speculating. i mean as far as what the writers will end up doing, anyway.

Re: hm

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's a great compliment to be told that your writing makes people think about things.

And yeah, I really want the writers to bring Connor back.