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[doyle]

My Angel Book of Days is finally done, if this bloody connection will ever let me on long enough to post it (the one time in twenty it logs on it cuts me off after two minutes, grr).

Anyway, the fic came out at 8100 words, so it's on my site.

Title: See How They Run
Author: Doyle
Pairing: No pairing (hints of Lilah/Lindsey, Lindsey/Eve)
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: Between Habeas Corpses and Calvary
Author's Notes: The original intent was for this to (mostly) mesh with canon, but as it
was written before I could see Power Play and Not Fade Away, it probably contradicts a lot of what's revealed in those episodes.

The Challenge
Written for: Mer/stakebait
Requirements:
Character: Lindsay
Genre: request was: dark, humour, drama or romance. It turned out drama with a bit of
humour and arguably some of the other two.
And: Lilah or Lorne
Restrictions: No Eve sex please and
Spoiler Max Level: S5-aired
Rating Max Level: NC-17


See How They Run

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

> “This stops anything from knowing we’re here?” she said.
> “So says the Serthinian Collection.” The marker was out of ink. He tossed it aside.
> “That means the Senior Partners don’t know where I am.” Her voice was very small, very lost.
> “If it makes you feel better, they probably don’t care,” Lilah said brightly.
> Eve flashed big, wounded eyes at him and he was thirteen again, stuck between two warring sisters.
> “Lilah, go take a shower or something,” he said. “I’ll look for bandages.”
> “I want a shower too,” Eve piped up.
> Lilah smirked. “Honey, we only met a few hours ago.”
> That should’ve pushed her into actual tears, but Eve crossed her arms. Lifted her chin like a brave little soldier and said, “And if I wanted to have sex with you, that’d be a problem.” She gathered up the lipsticks and said, “I’m going to do the bedroom,” sweeping out without looking at them.
> Lilah was startled into laughter. “What was that?”
> He dropped back onto the couch, one heel going up on the coffee table. “She’s copying you. Heard one time they’re made that way, liaisons. Not much personality of their own so they find somebody to be. Just means she’s young.” Then, sitting forward as it hit him: “She’s really young. Couple of days, tops.”

Mmm. A really interesting look at how Eve could have become wannabe!Lilah. (I'm sure you've read jennyo's Identity in Motion (http://www.imjustsayin.net/jennyo/identityinmotion.html).)

> We could always say she covered herself in runes and ran away.”
> He mulled that over. “We talking selling her or sacrificing her?”

*giggles*

> “It doesn’t work with normal blood,” she said. “Even human blood. There has to be a power there. A witch, warlock, seer…”
> “Or somebody whose soul belongs to Wolfram & Hart.” And then the pieces fell together. “That’s why you needed me.”

Mmm. Interesting, the idea of there being power in your blood by virtue of being W&H. (*has visions of Hamilton*)

> “Then we go to another dimension and hide,” she said, very slowly and clearly.
> “For how long? Forever?”
> “I was going for ‘until somebody kills the Beast’.”
> “What if they don’t? What if it just keeps coming?”
> “It hasn’t attacked any of our other divisions,” Eve said. “It only showed up here after you arrived. I think it hates you.”

*grins*

> “Never been a cheese fan,” he admitted. “Had this dream once where…”

*LOVES*

> “That’s impossible,” Eve said again.
> They ever got out of this, he was going to rent this girl The Princess Bride.

:D

> “How can you see more? You want me to sing?”
> “Might work. Not how I usually do this, though. Tell me something deeply personal.”

*grins* esp. 'cause the "sweetpea" was so Lorne

> going to kill you, and don’t try subverting that, that never works, there’s this hilarious thing about the father killing the son…

*grins*

> Lilah pointed at a piece of jewellery on one of the trays, a chunky amulet on a chain. “What does that one do?”
> The demon behind the stall delicately picked it up with one antenna. “This, ah, it absorbs and contains a soul until such time as it is, ah, released.”
> “Absorbs a soul.” Lilah nodded. “So it kills the wearer.”
> “Most, ah, destructively.” It leaned forward, all six of its eyes bulging. “For best result? Feed it the soul of a champion. Nothing will be, ah, left in its path.”
> “We’ll take it,” Lindsey said grimly. “How much?”

Mmm.

> Bunch of my guys worked on The Matrix. Taught Keanu everything he knows.”

*laughs*

> “Lindsey, where are you going to go?” Eve asked.
> “Back to his life,” Lilah answered for him. “He knows the Beast can’t touch him. Useful thing about being fated to die. It makes you otherwise pretty unkillable.”

:)


Love all the ways you wove in continuity and character motivation and plot throughout the story.

I also love the title.