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Ouroboros by Selena K (PG-13)
Subject: Angel/Sandman (PG-13)
Title: Ouroboros by SelenaK
Pairing: Gen; Connor & Lyta Hall
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selenak
Author Website: Fanfiction Page
Why this must be read:
To me, the character with the most potential for a fascinating post-Not Fade Away storyline is Angel's son Connor, andselenak takes all those possibilities and runs with them in "Ouroboros." It only makes sense that he should cross paths with Lyta Hall, in the aftermath of Neil Gaiman'sThe Wake and Mike Carey's The Furies. This is a fascinating, densely plotted, and brilliantly written story and has one of the most chilling twists on the Connor-canon that I've ever encountered. (I never tire of saying this: Selena is so evil, she is almost Joss). I first read this without knowing Sandman canon, and the story is laid out clearly enough to make sense to a Jossverse newbie as well. One of the truly outstanding fan stories I've read, bar none. I can't do better than to quote the opening:
Connor wasn’t sure what he had expected to find. He hadn’t been sure he wanted to look for Cordelia at all, or how he felt about her. He remembered kissing her the first time as surely and intensely as he remembered kissing Tracy. He remembered that Cordelia tended to have cold feet and was always hogging the covers, which was different from Tracy or the other encounters which might or might not have happened in the life he had chosen. He remembered Cordelia teasing him about being eighteen, and her brown sparkling eyes and wide, wide smile, which made you feel you were swept up in that radiance which was hers.
He remembered her telling him to kill.
Ouroboros
Title: Ouroboros by SelenaK
Pairing: Gen; Connor & Lyta Hall
Author on LJ:
selenakAuthor Website: Fanfiction Page
Why this must be read:
To me, the character with the most potential for a fascinating post-Not Fade Away storyline is Angel's son Connor, and
selenak takes all those possibilities and runs with them in "Ouroboros." It only makes sense that he should cross paths with Lyta Hall, in the aftermath of Neil Gaiman'sThe Wake and Mike Carey's The Furies. This is a fascinating, densely plotted, and brilliantly written story and has one of the most chilling twists on the Connor-canon that I've ever encountered. (I never tire of saying this: Selena is so evil, she is almost Joss). I first read this without knowing Sandman canon, and the story is laid out clearly enough to make sense to a Jossverse newbie as well. One of the truly outstanding fan stories I've read, bar none. I can't do better than to quote the opening:Connor wasn’t sure what he had expected to find. He hadn’t been sure he wanted to look for Cordelia at all, or how he felt about her. He remembered kissing her the first time as surely and intensely as he remembered kissing Tracy. He remembered that Cordelia tended to have cold feet and was always hogging the covers, which was different from Tracy or the other encounters which might or might not have happened in the life he had chosen. He remembered Cordelia teasing him about being eighteen, and her brown sparkling eyes and wide, wide smile, which made you feel you were swept up in that radiance which was hers.
He remembered her telling him to kill.
Ouroboros
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Wow.
Flails.