Subject: [DarkSlash] Fic: Darkseer (Angel/Hellblazer Crossover: Cordelia Character Study)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 07:07:17 -0000
From: "sycoraxil <sycoraxil@yahoo.co.nz>" <sycoraxil@yahoo.co.nz>


Summary: Who is puppeting Cordelia? And why does she want to hurt
the person she loves? In Caritas one night, she gets up to sing, and
her choice of song disturbs one of the bar patrons.

Setting: Alternate Future Season 4 Angel.

Disclaimer: Old Johnny here is taking leave from DC's Hellblazer
series. Think slightly weathered, morally ambiguous working-class
mage from the wrong side of the United Kingdom and you've got the
right bastard in question. Joss and WB own the Angel characters.
Luba gave me the idea when she introduced me to comics fanfic.


Oh, shit. I don't like the looks of the tracery of time around
Cordelia Chase and what it implies. It's an occupational risk with
precogs. Sooner or later, they end up gaining enough foresight to
use it to their advantage, and against others. It begins with playing
the stock market, but then it turns into selecting one particular
causal sequence to hurt anyone who you believe has wronged you. And
if you survive long enough, and gain enough experience at
precognition, you use it to engineer your own ascent to power and
descent into ethical savagery and corruption.

I never thought it'd happen this quickly with her. It was different
with Doyle, he had some sense of perspective, but someone's puppeting
Cordelia and I don't like her chances of survival if it's allowed to
continue for long. Sooner or later, she'll over-reach. I can see a
whole series of futures for her, and none of them if she continues
down this path, and none of them end in her recovery.

It gets worse. It's that First bastard, he's getting too ambitious.
He wants absolute multiversal power and the fabric of spacetime
cannot take things on this scale. So in one scheme of things, Buffy
Summers and Angel fight apocalypses and never get together, in
another, Buffy is confronted with a hit team to counter her own
Scooby allies, and in another she's the agent of destruction herself.
And he's behind it all, pulling the strings, across worlds untold.

Then I hear the song that Cordelia has chosen to sing and Lorne
tenses and looks at me. And my blood runs cold, because I know why
she's chosen it as well as he does, and it's a theme for the
apocalypse. Unrequited love turned bitter poison. I've seen a lot of
wild and dark things, but this woman scares me to several shades of
hell.

Chris Isaaks
"Wicked Game"

The world was on fire, no-one could save me but you
Strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
With you

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you
No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
With you

The world was on fire, no-one could save me but you
Strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you
No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love (this world is only gonna break your heart)
With you

Nobody
 loves
 no-one