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Chapter 98
Deja Vu
Pairing: Angel/Spike Fred/Wesley
Rating: NC17
Author: Jane Alexander
Disclaimer: No infringement of copyright is intended. The characters belong to Joss. I’m just borrowing them. I’ll try and return them undamaged, honest!
Document version: 28 January 2005
Feedback: janealexanderxxx@hotmail.com
Archived at: http://www.foreverfandom.net/viewstory.php?sid=4394
This story is AU and is a sequel to The Guy in Question.
Warning: includes character death.
Chapter 98
The village - the same day
**************
“We have to leave now, Angel, for Fred’s sake,” Wesley said. “It’s not safe for her to stay here. It’s only a matter of time before someone notices…”
He lowered his voice.
“… she’s pregnant.”
“Then you go home without me,” Angel said.
“Sod that for a game of soldiers!” Spike said. “I’ve lost you once already. I’m not losing you again to this lot.”
“You could stay,” Angel said. “If you wanted to, that is.”
“How would we get home? Only Wes can read them bleedin’ books and work the mojo.”
Course, Angel still had to decide what he was gonna do if he found out he was gonna be a dad. Maybe he wouldn’t want to go home at all.
Yeah, that was it. He’d already decided: he wasn’t going home.
“Wes, can you give us a minute?” Spike asked.
“Er… yes, of course,” Wesley said, going to join Lorne and Fred in the living area.
Spike knelt on the floor in front of Angel and lowered his voice so the others couldn’t hear.
“I feel like I’m losing you, Luv. What’s happening to us?”
He had to face up to the possibility that having a child was more important to Angel than he was.
“Don’t you love me any more?” he whispered.
Angel looked up. There were tears in his eyes.
“Of course I do, Spike. I’ll always love you but there’s no future for us… there’s no future for me back in LA…”
“What do mean, Luv? You’ve lost me.”
“I finally figured it out. Lorne’s reading. The other Lorne…” Angel said.
Fuck! Spike had been hoping he wouldn’t.
“If I go home I’ll cease to exist when he arrives. That’s why all Lorne could see was darkness…”
“It might not mean that, Luv.”
“You know it does, Spike. I can see it in your eyes. Don’t lie to me, Sweetheart.”
“Okay, so maybe it does mean that but we don’t know when this… transition is gonna happen. It could be years…”
And Spike couldn’t bear the thought of being alone again.
“How long will I have if I go back?” Angel asked. “Four years at most. If I stay here I won’t be affected. I’ll be like Lorne… I’ll exist in two dimensions simultaneously.”
Spike didn’t know what to say. How could he deny Angel the right to his own existence?
“You could come and visit me,” Angel added, his voice barely a whisper.
Yeah, maybe he could at that. If he could get Wes to teach him to read the spell he could come and go whenever he liked. In theory.
Or, maybe he could force things along. One kiss Lorne had said…
He reached up and wrapped his arms around Angel’s neck.
“I love you, Pet. Whatever happens, never forget it.”
Then he kissed him.
**************
“Why are you all working on the assumption it’ll only be one who gets pregnant?” Lorne asked.
“Well, even if they were all at the same stage of their menstrual cycle, which statistically is highly improbable, I wouldn’t expect…”
Lorne was nodding.
“Sweetie, I’m reasonably certain they were chosen for that very reason,” Lorne interjected.
“Oh dear!”
**************
Spike’s kiss had been unexpected. It had been passionate too so why were they still kissing? How were they still kissing? Why was he still here? Angel had expected to… what? Disappear in a puff of logic?
Spike was ending the kiss.
“See, you’re still here,” he said.
Angel shrugged.
He wasn’t sure whether Spike’s expression was one of relief or disappointment.
“Why did you kiss me?” Angel asked. “Did you want me to disappear?”
“No, course not, Luv. I just wanted to prove that not everything turns out the way you expect.”
“But I shouldn’t be here… Lorne said there was nothing but blackness after we kissed.”
“Then I guess he got it wrong,” Spike said. “Let’s ask him if he’s ever been wrong before.”
Angel stood up.
“Lorne?” Spike called out. “There’s something we need to ask you.”
“What is it, Sweetie?”
“How often do you make a mistake with a reading?”
“Is this a trick question?” Lorne asked.
“No, straight up,” Spike said. “Apart from when someone puts the whammy on you, have you ever been known to get it wrong?”
“No,” he said.
“Then how do you explain the fact that I just planted a smacker on Angel and he’s still here when your alter ego said all he saw was blackness after we kissed?”
“I can’t.”
“I think I might be able to,” Wesley said, coming to join them. “Perhaps the events Lorne observes are restricted to a particular dimension…”
“Yeah, Wes. You know I’d been wondering that myself and it does make sense,” Lorne said, “as much as anything does in this crazy world. If my other self couldn’t see events in this dimension then the kiss has to happen back in your own dimension not here. But, if he saw it, then it must be going to happen. I’m sorry, Angelcakes, but this means you’re going back to LA.”
“Hey, I know,” Spike said. “Why don’t you get them women to sing for you? Then you can read them.”
“They don’t sing, Sweetie. No music on this world. Remember?”
“Bugger!”
“But I could read you, Angelcakes, and see if there’s anything I can see that my other self didn’t. We’ll have to go outside the village though. They really don’t like singing…”
“Can’t blame ’em,,” Spike said, “not when it’s Barry Mannilow.”
**************
Pairing: Angel/Spike Fred/Wesley
Rating: NC17
Author: Jane Alexander
Disclaimer: No infringement of copyright is intended. The characters belong to Joss. I’m just borrowing them. I’ll try and return them undamaged, honest!
Document version: 28 January 2005
Feedback: janealexanderxxx@hotmail.com
Archived at: http://www.foreverfandom.net/viewstory.php?sid=4394
This story is AU and is a sequel to The Guy in Question.
Warning: includes character death.
Chapter 98
The village - the same day
**************
“We have to leave now, Angel, for Fred’s sake,” Wesley said. “It’s not safe for her to stay here. It’s only a matter of time before someone notices…”
He lowered his voice.
“… she’s pregnant.”
“Then you go home without me,” Angel said.
“Sod that for a game of soldiers!” Spike said. “I’ve lost you once already. I’m not losing you again to this lot.”
“You could stay,” Angel said. “If you wanted to, that is.”
“How would we get home? Only Wes can read them bleedin’ books and work the mojo.”
Course, Angel still had to decide what he was gonna do if he found out he was gonna be a dad. Maybe he wouldn’t want to go home at all.
Yeah, that was it. He’d already decided: he wasn’t going home.
“Wes, can you give us a minute?” Spike asked.
“Er… yes, of course,” Wesley said, going to join Lorne and Fred in the living area.
Spike knelt on the floor in front of Angel and lowered his voice so the others couldn’t hear.
“I feel like I’m losing you, Luv. What’s happening to us?”
He had to face up to the possibility that having a child was more important to Angel than he was.
“Don’t you love me any more?” he whispered.
Angel looked up. There were tears in his eyes.
“Of course I do, Spike. I’ll always love you but there’s no future for us… there’s no future for me back in LA…”
“What do mean, Luv? You’ve lost me.”
“I finally figured it out. Lorne’s reading. The other Lorne…” Angel said.
Fuck! Spike had been hoping he wouldn’t.
“If I go home I’ll cease to exist when he arrives. That’s why all Lorne could see was darkness…”
“It might not mean that, Luv.”
“You know it does, Spike. I can see it in your eyes. Don’t lie to me, Sweetheart.”
“Okay, so maybe it does mean that but we don’t know when this… transition is gonna happen. It could be years…”
And Spike couldn’t bear the thought of being alone again.
“How long will I have if I go back?” Angel asked. “Four years at most. If I stay here I won’t be affected. I’ll be like Lorne… I’ll exist in two dimensions simultaneously.”
Spike didn’t know what to say. How could he deny Angel the right to his own existence?
“You could come and visit me,” Angel added, his voice barely a whisper.
Yeah, maybe he could at that. If he could get Wes to teach him to read the spell he could come and go whenever he liked. In theory.
Or, maybe he could force things along. One kiss Lorne had said…
He reached up and wrapped his arms around Angel’s neck.
“I love you, Pet. Whatever happens, never forget it.”
Then he kissed him.
**************
“Why are you all working on the assumption it’ll only be one who gets pregnant?” Lorne asked.
“Well, even if they were all at the same stage of their menstrual cycle, which statistically is highly improbable, I wouldn’t expect…”
Lorne was nodding.
“Sweetie, I’m reasonably certain they were chosen for that very reason,” Lorne interjected.
“Oh dear!”
**************
Spike’s kiss had been unexpected. It had been passionate too so why were they still kissing? How were they still kissing? Why was he still here? Angel had expected to… what? Disappear in a puff of logic?
Spike was ending the kiss.
“See, you’re still here,” he said.
Angel shrugged.
He wasn’t sure whether Spike’s expression was one of relief or disappointment.
“Why did you kiss me?” Angel asked. “Did you want me to disappear?”
“No, course not, Luv. I just wanted to prove that not everything turns out the way you expect.”
“But I shouldn’t be here… Lorne said there was nothing but blackness after we kissed.”
“Then I guess he got it wrong,” Spike said. “Let’s ask him if he’s ever been wrong before.”
Angel stood up.
“Lorne?” Spike called out. “There’s something we need to ask you.”
“What is it, Sweetie?”
“How often do you make a mistake with a reading?”
“Is this a trick question?” Lorne asked.
“No, straight up,” Spike said. “Apart from when someone puts the whammy on you, have you ever been known to get it wrong?”
“No,” he said.
“Then how do you explain the fact that I just planted a smacker on Angel and he’s still here when your alter ego said all he saw was blackness after we kissed?”
“I can’t.”
“I think I might be able to,” Wesley said, coming to join them. “Perhaps the events Lorne observes are restricted to a particular dimension…”
“Yeah, Wes. You know I’d been wondering that myself and it does make sense,” Lorne said, “as much as anything does in this crazy world. If my other self couldn’t see events in this dimension then the kiss has to happen back in your own dimension not here. But, if he saw it, then it must be going to happen. I’m sorry, Angelcakes, but this means you’re going back to LA.”
“Hey, I know,” Spike said. “Why don’t you get them women to sing for you? Then you can read them.”
“They don’t sing, Sweetie. No music on this world. Remember?”
“Bugger!”
“But I could read you, Angelcakes, and see if there’s anything I can see that my other self didn’t. We’ll have to go outside the village though. They really don’t like singing…”
“Can’t blame ’em,,” Spike said, “not when it’s Barry Mannilow.”
**************