Back in the Day: Caledonia.

[cadhla]

Title: 'Caledonia'
Written For: violetsmiles
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2,053 words
Spoilers: Midway through season one of 'Angel', very much for 'Hero'
Request: Angel and Doyle, not necessarily slash, drinking is key

Comments

[vylit]

Thank you! Their interaction is lovely, and I love the foreshadowing of things to come. =)

[cadhla]

I'm glad you liked it -- thanks! I'm very ish on 'Angel', and spent a good chunk of the morning reading Doyle quotes from season one to try and get him right.

Annabelle, in the Gaelic, means either 'joy' or 'peace'.

[wolfling]

Lovely atmosphere to this piece. :)

[ladymondegreen]

I like it. It's part sad Irish wake, part kitchen party, and it's got the same feel as some of Neil's death comics.

Nicely done.

You won't kill me for comparing you to Neil will you?

*hugs*
LMG

[stakebait]

Okay now I'm all sniffly. 'Course it doesn't help that I'm a complete sucker for that song, even if I did filk it about lycanthropy. First time I heard it Gwen was playing it on the harp at MilPhil, and I got teary then too.

Anyway.

I love this and the people smelled of nothing at all as a first subtle ominous sign... of course I knew what was going on before Angel did, but I *still* got shivers. And I like him not knowing, it walks the line between the dense thing he's got going episodically and dream logic and not *wanting* to know.

ice and whiskey on his tongue, ancient stone and older sky, loam and loneliness and the quiet madness of the heath

I adore this and whole concept of the blood of Saints on tap. That it's borderline blasphemous just makes it better.

“Cordelia would’ve hated this,” he said, watching the singers as they laughed, losing the melody and punching one another in the arms. “She’d have called it tacky. I don’t know why you’d want her here

[ascian3]

Nice. I love the mix of earthy and otherworldly that you have going here - it has a genuinely dreamlike feel to it.