Attention

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Title: Attention
Author: hawkedup

Summary: This takes place during the events of Angel: After the Fall between issues #9 and #10. It was for a challenge at the Angel IDW board in which I had to focus on Fred-llyria and how they were dealing with the situation. In this story Lorne is trying to convince Illyria to relenquish her lordship over Berverly Hills so Angel can unite the city easier.

Rating: PG
Warnings: Mostly dialogue. No action.
Length: ~ 1,500 words
Disclaimer: Based on characters and situations portrayed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer created by Joss Whedon, Angel created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt, and Angel: After the Fall created by Joss Whedon and Brian Lynch.

Characters: Illyria. Fred. Angel. Lorne. Groo. (briefly: Cordellia, Connor, Spike, Spider, Richard Wilkins, and Wesley.)

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Business as Usual

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Title: Business as Usual
Author: lilachigh
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Me except Agnes who is all mine.
Summary: Spike mentions the lady who runs a teashop in the local garbage dump in The Replacement. So please meet Agnes Pringle, English spinster and reluctant vampire. All Agnes wants is an quiet unlife, but being Spike's friend this is unlikely. Things are complicated for Agnes just now - Buffy has died, Dawn is grieving and Spike is devastated. And Agnes has received the one thing we all dread - a letter from the bank manager.


Chapter 23 Plans


Agnes Pringle eyed her destination from across the street. She was standing in the shade cast by the Sunnydale Library, but on a day as hot and sunny as this, the road in front of her was a death-trap. Even her trusty umbrella wouldn’t completely protect her.

Agnes sighed. She’d received a letter from the Sunnydale Bank that morning, asking her, quite curtly, she considered, to please arrange to speak to the manager about her account. Agnes had used Willie’s phone to ring and ask for an appointment late in the afternoon, but a very brisk woman had told her that the only time available was noon.

Agnes had found herself apologizing for disturbing the woman but then, when she’d hung up, she’d got cross. She was a customer! Even if she was of the vampire persuasion, shouldn’t she have some say as to when she saw the bank manager? But, to be fair, he was sure to be a very busy man and she thought she knew what he wanted to see her about.
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