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Echo by vatrixsta (not rated, PGish)
Fandom: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER / ANGEL: THE SERIES
Pairing: Cordelia Chase / Xander Harris
Length: One-shot (~3,350 words)
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vatrixsta (although the journal hasn't been updated in more than seven years)
Author Website: Vatrixsta at AO3 (last updated a bit over a year ago)
Why this must be read: I'm a Buffy/Angel shipper at my core, but I have side love for Cordelia/Xander. They're a delightfully unlikely pairing and (unlike most from either series) exist pretty much outside of the supernatural world. Instead, the pairing plays strongly on the high school themes in which "Buffy" was rooted, and it does so with wit, a heap of chemistry, and a strong dose of emotions that anyone who's survived high school can relate to.
Vatrixsta's fics are always worthwhile in my experience, but in this one, she really shows where and how Cordelia and Xander shine together--the clever little barbs, the emotional confusion and raging hormones, and the underlying sense that they could've really been something if Angel hadn't needed a sidekick in L.A. I always wished that the older and wise Cordy and Xander we knew in the last seasons of "Angel" and "Buffy" had had the chance to meet again--and here, we get a taste of that.
"Can I tell you a secret, Xander?""You can tell me anything." It only took me a second to realize it was true. Damn. That did not bode well for the future of me not getting my heart smashed by Queen C.
Cordy took a deep breath. Then she said the three little words every guy dreads hearing: "Xander, I'm dead."
Had you there for a minute, didn't I?
I thought about whipping out a cross and yelling 'Back, fiend, back!' but considering it was broad daylight and the sun was actually making adorable little shadows as it bounced off Cordelia's profile, I decided she probably wasn't a vampire. Most of the other assorted monsters Buffy fought on a daily basis didn't consider themselves to be dead, so much as demonic, so Xander figured she probably wasn't going to lunge across his mom's egg salad sandwich and try to disembowel him. And if she were, would she really have tipped him off beforehand?
Obviously, it was just some kind of bad joke that rich girls knew."Sorry," I said, "you've lost me. Not an easy task, I might add, as I am King of the Non Sequitur."
"I'm dead," she repeated. "I've shuffled off this mortal coil. I am no more. Cordelia Chase has left the building. You following me now?"
I blinked at her. "Okay," I said slowly. "If that's the case, you're doing a remarkably accurate living breathing Cordelia Chase impression."
Echo
Pairing: Cordelia Chase / Xander Harris
Length: One-shot (~3,350 words)
Author on LJ:
vatrixsta (although the journal hasn't been updated in more than seven years)Author Website: Vatrixsta at AO3 (last updated a bit over a year ago)
Why this must be read: I'm a Buffy/Angel shipper at my core, but I have side love for Cordelia/Xander. They're a delightfully unlikely pairing and (unlike most from either series) exist pretty much outside of the supernatural world. Instead, the pairing plays strongly on the high school themes in which "Buffy" was rooted, and it does so with wit, a heap of chemistry, and a strong dose of emotions that anyone who's survived high school can relate to.
Vatrixsta's fics are always worthwhile in my experience, but in this one, she really shows where and how Cordelia and Xander shine together--the clever little barbs, the emotional confusion and raging hormones, and the underlying sense that they could've really been something if Angel hadn't needed a sidekick in L.A. I always wished that the older and wise Cordy and Xander we knew in the last seasons of "Angel" and "Buffy" had had the chance to meet again--and here, we get a taste of that.
"Can I tell you a secret, Xander?""You can tell me anything." It only took me a second to realize it was true. Damn. That did not bode well for the future of me not getting my heart smashed by Queen C.
Cordy took a deep breath. Then she said the three little words every guy dreads hearing: "Xander, I'm dead."
Had you there for a minute, didn't I?
I thought about whipping out a cross and yelling 'Back, fiend, back!' but considering it was broad daylight and the sun was actually making adorable little shadows as it bounced off Cordelia's profile, I decided she probably wasn't a vampire. Most of the other assorted monsters Buffy fought on a daily basis didn't consider themselves to be dead, so much as demonic, so Xander figured she probably wasn't going to lunge across his mom's egg salad sandwich and try to disembowel him. And if she were, would she really have tipped him off beforehand?
Obviously, it was just some kind of bad joke that rich girls knew."Sorry," I said, "you've lost me. Not an easy task, I might add, as I am King of the Non Sequitur."
"I'm dead," she repeated. "I've shuffled off this mortal coil. I am no more. Cordelia Chase has left the building. You following me now?"
I blinked at her. "Okay," I said slowly. "If that's the case, you're doing a remarkably accurate living breathing Cordelia Chase impression."
Echo