Aw! Poor Spike!

I know! It was a wretch writing that. Thanks for another wonderful review!

Didn't they explain about the soul curse and everything?

Silly Veronica.

This isn't good, is it?

Too bad she didn't ask Willow to curse Lianne mars with a soul, that would have been the best strategy, i guess.

The key word here is 'curse'. Angel is cursed with his soul. It's why he spent a century feeling guilty and remorse. Inflicting Lianne with that wouldn't be the right thing to do. Willow understands that. It's one thing to re-ensoul someone who's used to the idea of feeling remorse for being a mass murderer, it's another thing entirely to shove that soul down some vamp for the first time. That's my reasoning anyway.

Argh, a bit violent there with the traitor...:/

nice work overall.

I hope violence doesn't bother you too much, because the scale does go up in later chapters.

Wonderfully nice chapter, there.

The end...perfect.

Thanks. I was really happy with it as well.

oooh, another buffy plan is going to explod on her face :-)

hehehehe.

i still wonder what was up with giles when he refused fred. Did he really, or was she, somehow, saved wihtout telling them or something?

Wonder wonder....

Maybe it was because willlow was unavailable (in another dimension/Dead) at the time.

The way it seemed to me was, Buffy's camp didn't trust Angel's, so they didn't want to get involved and that's why they didn't help Fred.

Good. Sad that your gunn still doesn't consider angel as his friend, but that could be expected.

So this is post NFA?

If you'll recall, Gunn stated his feelings towards demons during the season three episode, "That Old Gang of Mine". I merely extended that reasoning here. His experiences since then have changed that opinion some, but he still essentially doesn't like demons. And yes, this is post NFA.

hum.. less awkward than i htought it would be. Ok, going to read it, though i quite prefer the buffyverse to the angel one, so...:/

Thanks. I'm glad it's better than you expected. I like Buffy characters more as well. However, when I imagined this story, Angel and his crew were the ones that seemed to fit the most. Of course, I had to put Xander and Willow in there, just to make things easier on me. They're my favorite characters on the shows.

"The lawyer stopped behind another pillar and fired his own ganked assault weapon so Xander could escape the rapidly diminishing cover his own pillar provided."

Ganked, as far as i know, means "killed"
Try "purloined", "pilfered" or "looted" if "stolen" isn't good enoughf or you.


nice new chapter.

Thanks for the review. I genuinely appreciate any and all spelling and grammar corrections you guys offer. It feels like you've got my back. In a literary sense anyway. However, in this case, the use of "ganked" is correct. I know because I wasn't sure how to spell it -I'm an atrocious speller and couldn't live without a spell check of some kind- so I typed it into google and read the definition on the urban dictionary. There are, like, eight different definitions, one of which refer to being killed by a higher level being in an MMORPG. So I guess we're both right.

Thanks again for the great review. Please, let me know if you perceive any more mistakes on my part.

Ah Veronica... Your mom wasn't great when you were human, what makes you think she would be as a vamp?

Denial.

Yeah, that's gotta hurt. I love how Illyria's going to make sure Darrel's okay, or at least avenged. Poor baby!

Aww, poor Veronica. She can't always be strong, no matter how much we want her to be. The same for Illyria, though, she is wicked strong. Hmm, I'm hoping for a confrontation between Veronica and her mother. Well, not a "confrontation" like a fight or anything, but some mother/daughter talk... Please?

Well, at least they're not going in completely blind.. They know about her mom.. I wonder how this is going to work.. Hmm.. More please!

As much as I want Illyria to fight on the good side and possibly accept her soul for what it is, I still wanna see a ruthless warrior in battle! Besides that, nice chapter. Too bad Wallace froze up. I hope, in the future, that changes and he saves her.

I couldn't picture a future in which Illyria ever doesn't fight her enemies ruthlessly. But we'll find out in the forthcoming Angel Season Six comic from IDW press! Aw yeah! Sorry about that comment. I'm just a little excited. Buffy Season Eight is amazing and I'm really looking forward to any and all crossovers Darkhorse and IDW will put out.

Yay! I hope Willow got Angel to un-rationalize what he did to those kids. Cool, it makes up for the pain I felt reading the last chapter. I loved the last part with Illyria too. It must be so confusing being her/him.

Thanks for the chapter!

I'm glad you feel better. Sorry to have done that to you. As for Illyria, yes, I would imagine it would be very confusing. Don't worry about Angel. He's very aware of what an ass he was.