You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
[The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. >> Scott Westerfeld]
i_willpout, sonata_adagio, howbig_canitbe and likes_wood used/referenced with permission
Angel’s entire life has been turned upside down. His hotel has been remodeled and outfitted with things like a flat screen TV, a DVR, a DVD and probably several other things with capital letters that he doesn’t recognize. In the past week he has learned a few new things about the hotel.
*Just how far sound carries
* The water heater can and is often emptied.
*A functioning pool is obviously a necesscity.
*As is, apparently, a walk-in closet the size of a small hotel room
*The power of a pout when on a cute, blonde girl who could possibly kick his ass
*Humans still never cease to amaze and disappoint him
*Sweet tea has enough sugar in it that he can taste it
*Closed doors don’t really mean anything to some people
*Cellphones have cameras
*The exact definition of a Bow Chica Bow Wow room
Some things, he wishes he hadn’t learned.
He has a family again. He’s sitting in his room listening to them. Lucy, Jill, Scarlett and Hellboy are all downstairs in the lobby. He can hear their laughter and their words. The girls tease Hellboy and he never would have thought the big red demon could take it as well as he does but even he has to admit, he’s not a danger to them. In fact, he’s fit rather seamlessly into this little family that Angel has had foist upon him. He doesn’t mind, in fact sometimes his chest aches from it so much that he thinks his dead, withered up heart is going to explode. It’s an emotion that he was pretty sure he’d never allow himself to feel again after he lost Cordy, Gunn, Fred and Wes. He loves them and it fills him up more and more everyday.
Angelus, however, hates them. Every single one of them. Except Hellboy and if he’d ‘get off his pansy ass and grab his fucking destiny by the horns, pun intended, he’d be an alright guy’. Of course in Angelus’ point of view, alright guy means the guy most likely to destroy the earth and the human race along with it. He spends several hours a day filling Angel’s head of the things he’d do to the women in the hotel if he got loose and those give him nightmares when he does sleep. From experience, he knows that eventually Angelus will back down. He won’t hate them any less but he’ll stop pushing as hard. He just has to listen a little while longer.
And even if Angelus doesn’t back down, Angel has a family again. He has people that barge in on him and talk to him. He has people that depend on him and curl up next to him, people that don’t care if he’s a vampire and people that enjoy his company. It wasn’t something he ever asked for; it wasn’t even something he was sure he wanted but it’s something he won’t trade now that he has it.
A smile quirks up the corner of his mouth when hears Scarlett yell from downstairs.
“Hey! Super Stealth Guy! We’re gonna watch a movie that I’m sure you’ve never seen before-“
Lucy interrupts and yells “Because it was made this decade!”
“So why don’t you get your sexy ass down here and watch it with us!” Scarlett continues, laughter bubbling at the edge of her words.
Angel shakes his head, gets to his feet and yells back “I’ll be right down!”
i_willpout, sonata_adagio, howbig_canitbe and likes_wood used/referenced with permission
Angel’s entire life has been turned upside down. His hotel has been remodeled and outfitted with things like a flat screen TV, a DVR, a DVD and probably several other things with capital letters that he doesn’t recognize. In the past week he has learned a few new things about the hotel.
*Just how far sound carries
* The water heater can and is often emptied.
*A functioning pool is obviously a necesscity.
*As is, apparently, a walk-in closet the size of a small hotel room
*The power of a pout when on a cute, blonde girl who could possibly kick his ass
*Humans still never cease to amaze and disappoint him
*Sweet tea has enough sugar in it that he can taste it
*Closed doors don’t really mean anything to some people
*Cellphones have cameras
*The exact definition of a Bow Chica Bow Wow room
Some things, he wishes he hadn’t learned.
He has a family again. He’s sitting in his room listening to them. Lucy, Jill, Scarlett and Hellboy are all downstairs in the lobby. He can hear their laughter and their words. The girls tease Hellboy and he never would have thought the big red demon could take it as well as he does but even he has to admit, he’s not a danger to them. In fact, he’s fit rather seamlessly into this little family that Angel has had foist upon him. He doesn’t mind, in fact sometimes his chest aches from it so much that he thinks his dead, withered up heart is going to explode. It’s an emotion that he was pretty sure he’d never allow himself to feel again after he lost Cordy, Gunn, Fred and Wes. He loves them and it fills him up more and more everyday.
Angelus, however, hates them. Every single one of them. Except Hellboy and if he’d ‘get off his pansy ass and grab his fucking destiny by the horns, pun intended, he’d be an alright guy’. Of course in Angelus’ point of view, alright guy means the guy most likely to destroy the earth and the human race along with it. He spends several hours a day filling Angel’s head of the things he’d do to the women in the hotel if he got loose and those give him nightmares when he does sleep. From experience, he knows that eventually Angelus will back down. He won’t hate them any less but he’ll stop pushing as hard. He just has to listen a little while longer.
And even if Angelus doesn’t back down, Angel has a family again. He has people that barge in on him and talk to him. He has people that depend on him and curl up next to him, people that don’t care if he’s a vampire and people that enjoy his company. It wasn’t something he ever asked for; it wasn’t even something he was sure he wanted but it’s something he won’t trade now that he has it.
A smile quirks up the corner of his mouth when hears Scarlett yell from downstairs.
“Hey! Super Stealth Guy! We’re gonna watch a movie that I’m sure you’ve never seen before-“
Lucy interrupts and yells “Because it was made this decade!”
“So why don’t you get your sexy ass down here and watch it with us!” Scarlett continues, laughter bubbling at the edge of her words.
Angel shakes his head, gets to his feet and yells back “I’ll be right down!”