BtVS FIC: Persistence of Memory

[lettered]

This is my fic written for the Buffy/Angel IWRY marathon. It is also posted here by the lovely chrisleeoctaves.

Title: Persistence of Memory
Rating: R
Length: about 6,000
Summary: Angel thinks turning back the day he turned human (in the episode “IWill Remember You”) is one of the best things he ever did. These are the other things.

A/N: I don't think this is

Comments

Re: I'm going to take you at your word ...

[seraphcelene]

I ran out of room ... here's the rest of that thought:

I also did like:

Angel didn’t bother to explain that one. He adjusted the clock on his desk. (which is such a lovely, elegant moment/reminder of IWRY)

Angel had given up his own humanity. For Connor’s.

This was Angel’s Shanshu, this life he had given Connor, these memories that had been created, this chance for Connor to be normal. It was what he had tried to give to Buffy, too.
(LOVE LOVE LOVE up and down and all over this!!)

He’d’ve totally made a blood peanut-butter milkshake.

You’re the strangest, most un-normal thing I have. And you still make the most sense to me.

Angel had killed Connor at the shopping mall that day to save him from himself, yes, but also from everything else. (For me, this is so much the heart of this piece and the sentiment extends to Buffy as well. Awesome.)

it wasn’t really about you (I love how in the end, Angel changes that and it does really become about him)

“Well . . . the way everyone was willfully oblivious was sort of . . . endearing, after a while. No matter what I did, it was a freak accident, and I was the freak girl with the freaky . . . freaks always freakily attacking her, and freaky things happening to her freaky self, and all around, it was just . . .”

“Freakishness?”

“I was going to say a trunk full of monkeys, but okay.

(I LOVE THIS EXCHANGE!!!)

Buffy, thinking? Don’t be a moron, Angel. Dolls don’t think. They’re heads are full of sawdust. (Very, very chilling!! But feels very OOC, still, LOVE the chillingness of the ooc.)