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[osborn_heir]

ooc: Set after this and before this. The thread with Lindsey isn't done, but I wanted to go ahead and get this out so the timeline doesn't get held up. Plus I have time to actually write it tonight versus my schedule will be weird tomorrow. Thanks to Logan mun for letting me npc!It's been building for months now, but he's been fighting it as much

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Phone call Friday morning

[queen_c_tm]

ooc: Hope it's okay to do this here. It seemed easier than putting up more posts!

While riding home after seeing the oracles, Cordelia takes Angel's advice and calls Harry. It's only dawn in LA, but should be late enough in New York that he'll be awake. She hopes. If she wakes him up, she'll feel bad, but Angel has her worried. He didn't make it sound like Harry was dealing very well.

She hits his speed dial number and waits for him to answer.

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He's reclaimed his phone by now. The calm that settled over him was kind of strange. He was talking to Sirius and Jean-Paul about taking away some memories. About how life had come down to expecting the worse and usually getting what you expect. Angel hadn't told Kara what happened, and so far Harry hadn't either. He couldn't find the words.

He was trying to study, but mostly he was sitting at his desk, books open but unread, and trying to figure out what memories he would have removed if Sirius could do it. Jean-Paul went out to search for Cordy. Sirius offered to find out if she was dead or not, and Harry wasn't sure he wanted confirmation.

The phone rang, jarring him out of his thoughts, and when he saw the number he thought it must be another hallucination. After all he was expecting the worse. Picking it up on the second ring he said quietly, "Hello?"

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"Hey, baby brother," she teased, smiling. "What's with the whispering? You in a library or something?"

Angel said he'd been having a hard time lately, so she was trying to keep things light.

"So, I went to see some oracles on Tuesday, and they didn't let me out until this morning. If I thought I could kill them, I would. I'm sorry if you were worried."

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He waited until she finished speaking to check his phone to make sure it was on, and that her name was on the caller id. Check and check. It wasn't a hallucination. Cordelia was really back.

"They kept you for three days?" He asked, and she was greeted with his normal tone now. The shock was starting to wear off. "I thought...I mean, vanishing in California I figured..." You were dead. He doesn't finish the thought.

"Did they help you? If they kept you for three days did they at least figure out how to help you?"

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"I don't know if they meant to keep me that long. It only felt like an hour, but it's kind of this other dimension where time moves differently, so I was gone longer than I thought. I'm sorry if it freaked you out. If I had known how much time was really passing, I would have gotten out of there sooner."

Or tried. The oracles didn't exactly let her leave whenever she wanted.

"They did find a way to fix me, though. The visions will still hurt, but they won't kill me anymore. So you're stuck with me for at least another 50 years."

Unless a demon or vampire kills her before then, but we're trying to be optimistic here!

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"Thank God," he said, as he exhaled the breath he had been holding. She was back. They fixed her. Miracles do happen, and they wouldn't have to grieve another loss. His vibrant and beautiful sister was going to live to have wrinkles and grey hair. Possibly before he did even. That made him smirk a bit.

"It's fine. I mean, yeah we were all freaked out and worried, but it's worth it. You're going to live, and that is fucking amazing."

He was starting to think they were never going to catch a break. There had to be a price to it, but if she wanted to tell him what happened she would. Harry was good about not pressing for information.

"I love you, Cordelia. I hope you know that. It was really freaking me out to picture my life without you in it."

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Cordelia, have gray hair? Please. She would be coloring it until the day she died. As for wrinkles, well, she'd deal with that when she got there. She wasn't totally averse to cosmetic surgery.

"Yeah, I guess it's kind of amazing. I didn't have to become a demon again, which is good. They made me an oracle instead. I have no idea what that's going to mean, but at least it's better than becoming a vampire." Had she mentioned that backup plan to him before? Probably not.

She couldn't remember now if he'd ever told her he loved her, at least not in so many words. She's known how he felt for a while, but this might have been the first time he'd actually said it. It was sweet. Smiling, she leaned back in her seat and looked out the cab's window as they drove along the coast.

"Well, you can stop freaking out now, cause I'm not going anywhere. And I love you, too."