The Last Straw - PG-13 - Angel

[agilebrit]

Title: The Last Straw
Fandom: Angel
Rating: PG-13
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, they're Whedon's. *sob*
Written for: challenge100's "Last Straw" challenge.
Notes: Takes place during Angel 4:22 "Home." Angel and Connor's final confrontation.

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He's snapped.

Growing up in Quor-toth made him incapable of real human relationships. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten--that was his life. If it moved, you killed it. There, it was simple. Here, the shades of gray will drive you straight up the wall if you let them...and he has. He doesn't know what love is, can't comprehend it. He can't handle being in this world, so I have to send him on to the next one. It's the only way he'll ever have any peace.

Wesley's prophecy was right. "The father will kill the son."

Comments

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

very cool

Hadn't Thought Of It That Way

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

But he was right after all! Wow. Hmmm.

And I still like the idea of the W&H cafeteria running out of straws. ;)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

Re: Hadn't Thought Of It That Way

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Wes would have felt vindicated, if he'd known.

Ya know, I just thought of something...everyone was talking about Amy Acker's acting chops, and how she switched back and forth from Illryia to Fred the way she did. But what about Vince? He didn't switch back and forth in the same scene, but the Connor he played in S5 was very different from the Connor he played in S4. The kid is good.

[pondering] I might be able to work something about the literal Last Straw into a "Destiny" drabble....Then again, it was your idea; why don't you do it? It would be good practice for Drabble Tag at WriterCon. >;)

[alliterator.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Tim Minear actually said in an interview that the reason Angel had to cut Connor's throat was that the mindwipe/reality shift required blood magic - which brings everything full circle, since blood magic was required for Jasmine to be brought into the world and for Angel to go to the spider demon's world.

And I love full circleness.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

[grin] Full circleness is of the good. I hadn't seen that interview. Interesting!