Cordelia/Doyle: It's a Pretty Good life
Typical. After I bitch about not being able to do any of my ficathons, I finish one... Warning for fluff.
Title: It's A Pretty Good Life
Author: Hathaway (switching pennames for a change since writing Doyle under the name Doyle is too confusing for words)
Pairing: Cordelia/Doyle
Rating: PG
Notes: For illmantrim. She wanted an AU with Doyle and Cordy surviving until Not Fade Away. Naturally this kind of AU involves a ton of changes to the existing timeline, both major and subtle, which I dealt with by ignoring them completely and going for the schmoop.
She hugged Wes and Gunn as they left, hard enough that she was sure she cracked at least one rib each. Not because she bought into Angel's thing about none of them walking away from this. God, no. They'd come through all these years and a ton of big fights together, hadn't they? More or less intact, and that thought made her bite her lip and squeeze Wes tighter.
They'd get through this. Cordelia just - wanted to be sure that her guys knew how much they meant to her. That was all.
Lorne was already gone, quiet and down like she'd never seen him. "Take care of yourself, babydoll," he'd told her, his arms around her and gone so quickly it was like hugging empty air.
And then there were three. Her, Doyle, and Angel, the original Angel Investigations, standing around in Spike's gross little apartment and trying not to look like they were saying goodbye.
Doyle cleared his throat. "Well
Title: It's A Pretty Good Life
Author: Hathaway (switching pennames for a change since writing Doyle under the name Doyle is too confusing for words)
Pairing: Cordelia/Doyle
Rating: PG
Notes: For illmantrim. She wanted an AU with Doyle and Cordy surviving until Not Fade Away. Naturally this kind of AU involves a ton of changes to the existing timeline, both major and subtle, which I dealt with by ignoring them completely and going for the schmoop.
She hugged Wes and Gunn as they left, hard enough that she was sure she cracked at least one rib each. Not because she bought into Angel's thing about none of them walking away from this. God, no. They'd come through all these years and a ton of big fights together, hadn't they? More or less intact, and that thought made her bite her lip and squeeze Wes tighter.
They'd get through this. Cordelia just - wanted to be sure that her guys knew how much they meant to her. That was all.
Lorne was already gone, quiet and down like she'd never seen him. "Take care of yourself, babydoll," he'd told her, his arms around her and gone so quickly it was like hugging empty air.
And then there were three. Her, Doyle, and Angel, the original Angel Investigations, standing around in Spike's gross little apartment and trying not to look like they were saying goodbye.
Doyle cleared his throat. "Well