Contribution for the Wes/Lilah Ficathon

[lillianmorgan]

Title: In the Memorandum
Author: lillianmorgan
Setting: mid-NFA
Pairing: Wesley/Lilah
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: All owned by ME and Joss. Poop.
A/N: So this is for 50thousandtearz who wanted Wes using that really cool thingamabob-sword on his arm and a public makeout scene and didn’t want fluff or wangel. Preferred Rating: up to R - definitely nothing beyond that. Hope that

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[elisi]

Goodness, how busy have you been? This is fic number... what in the space of about a week?

Anyway: Lovely, lovely Wes/Lilah... and poor Wesley, yet again trapped! Sorry I'm so incoherent, but it's *very* warm here and my brain is melting. But I enjoyed this hugely! Thanks! :)

[lillianmorgan]

Thanks, yeah I know. There has been a distinct lack of sleep of late!
Thanks for your comments. Wasn't sure where to put the story, but then post-NFA seemed to work best and to sort out my lack-of-Wes issues!

[frimfram]

So this is what you've been doing with your time in hiding! Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I loved the description of Lilah's scandalously slutty suit, and the moment when their eyes met, before she slipped her mask on.

But this: And it was a bit similar to the kisses he remembered, but also a bit different; tempered by how he had lost her and how he had lost himself. Incredibly beautiful.

So hell ain't all bad, huh, Wes?

[lillianmorgan]

So this is what you've been doing with your time in hiding!
Well, sorta!
Thanks very much for your comments :)
I loved the description of Lilah's scandalously slutty suit, and the moment when their eyes met, before she slipped her mask on.
I loved that suit and beneathgulmissy made this wonderful banner of Lilah from Home as I was writing it which inspired the description. I think the moment they met again would be beyond words, but something that would grip the imagination, if that makes sense.
So hell ain't all bad, huh, Wes?
Oh and most definitely no *g*

[sottovoce10]

Loved this fic, Lillian. I settled into the opening paragraph and dialogue with Holland Manners with a huge smile of pleasure. Poor Wesley trying to gather his wits and figure out what was going on. The almost escape and by the end, back to the table again with the intimation of rounds to come. Very nicely done ;-)

[lillianmorgan]

Thanks very much for your lovely comments. Holland Manners seemed to be the best to unnerve Wes, just for his relaxed menace.
Glad that everything else worked for you, I'm sure W&H could never be down and out.

[thedeadlyhook]

Oh, this is amazing. I'm just adoring this picture of life-after-death Wes and Lilah. Seems fitting, somehow.

But for some reason, it's the clockwork world aspect that pleases me most, the idea of contractual obligation:

Wesley didn’t know why they’d left the weapon with him, but it was a case of waste not, want not. Even with a trap neatly concealed behind the exit sign. As to the document, he tried to pry his eyes away from it, knowing the minute he started to read, he’d be even more bound to this confusing set-up. Ignorance, in this case, was bliss. And somehow the nagging feeling that Wolfram and Hart contracts were all about perpetuity, even for him, was evolving from a naïve belief that he was immune, to a rather more worrying sensation that this was indeed, if not Dante’s, then certainly the more sinister version of Wolfram and Hart’s Hell.

Yummy. That's just... deliciously mean. And somehow very in character, Wes caught in a trap he tried so hard to avoid by... simply trying to pretend it wasn't there.

Taking her hand in

[lillianmorgan]

Thanks so much for your lovely comments, they mean a lot!
But for some reason, it's the clockwork world aspect that pleases me most, the idea of contractual obligation:
Wow, that's a really nice and perceptive way of putting it. I like the clockwork idea.
And somehow very in character, Wes caught in a trap he tried so hard to avoid by... simply trying to pretend it wasn't there.
Very apt as well. The consequences of their actions loomed so large in, er, Consequences that we all saw them but the irony and tragedy is that the characters didn't.
Oddy enough, this also makes me think of that Sparmony scene in "Destiny."
Heh. Two for the price of one :) And it does sorta explain Spike's motivations too, I suppose - just the happiness at seeing someone who seemed to want him, rather than everyone else who didn't!

[skylee]

Wes/Lilah! Always thought she's a better match to him than Fred, and this fic shows why. ;)

[lillianmorgan]

Thank you :) Yes, Wes went so dark didn't he? And the fact that he had that potential in him, meant that Fred might never really understand him, I suppose, although they'd probably try at it. Wes and Lilah certainly were a fiery pair :)