Possibilities Alternate and Infinite: Memory
Possibilities Alternate and Infinite
Procrastination plot bunnies/one-shots, a series of unrelated points of contact for Stargate/Buffy crossovers.
I don't own Buffy, Angel, or Stargate.
In this installment, technical spoilers for Angel S5 (casting/setting, primarily), re-visioning of events early in SG-1 S7, and unnecessary use of clichéd plots. Because I like them.
Originally posted: 12 Feb 10
Memory
Wesley knocked on the door to Angel's office and had to hide a smile when he heard two irritated voices yelling, in unison, "What?" Sooner or later, Angel and Spike would realize what had been evident to the rest of them for quite some time now - if they found each other's company as repugnant as they claimed, they'd simply avoid each other.
When he was sure his expression was suitably serious, he entered and found the two men facing off across the desk.
"Is this a bad time?"
"No!" Angel replied a bit too enthusiastically, and Spike looked smug. "What do you need?"
"Harmony is calling the others. I have an update on our unexpected visitor."
Angel was going to ask why that was necessary, but Wes had barely finished speaking when Fred, Lorne, and Gunn appeared at the door. He addressed Fred instead, "How's he doing?"
Fred looked concerned but not as seriously worried as she had earlier in the week. "He still can't remember much. He seems to be suffering from dissociative retrograde amnesia, which means he can remember how to do the things he needs to survive, things that require body memory, really- how to speak, hold utensils, dress himself."
"You found him some clothes then?" Spike interjected.
Fred gave him an exasperated look but otherwise ignored him. "But it's probably the result of some psychological trauma he experience before he-"
"Dropped naked into our lobby?"
Angel growled. "Spike-"
"Physically, he's fine," Fred continued quickly. "There's no trauma to the brain or other cause for the memory loss that we can find, and we've run CAT scans, MRIs - we've had in him every machine in the lab that I recognize, without anything showing up. Knox thinks we should try a couple of others, but I'm not really comfortable with that, at least not until I've had a closer look at them, since he's not in any distress. Physical distress - of course he's mentally distressed, he has amnesia. Though he is handling it better than I would have expected. Better than I would have, any-"
"Thank you, Fred." Angel cut her off. "Wesley?"
"I've got the results from the analysis of our guest's blood sample." Fred looked surprised, since, under normal circumstances, the results would have been sent to her office, and given the lack of contextual information, they weren't expected anytime soon. "Typically, searches of this sort are run through the Wolfram and Hart database first, just in case. We didn't expect anything to come of it, but there were... some interesting flags. He shows a close genetic relationship to someone on whom we have quite a complete file already." He passed the folder he was carrying to Angel. "Faith."
"How close?" Spike asked, since Angel was examining closely the contents of the folder.
"As far as we can tell, he's her father."