#68 – Nurture – After the Crater (9/?) - Grenouillenue – Angel

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After the Crater – Chapter 7 – Life of the Party

Fandom: Angel the series

Pairing: Dawn/Wesley eventually a few other pairings and even a possibility of slash

Rating: PG eventually NC-17, I’m trying to get there

Summary: Dawn goes to LA after Chosen. Spike is back to his physical form.

This chapter takes place during the Angel the Series episode “The life of the party”

 

Wesley’s POV

Tomorrow night’s the big party and I want to ask Dawn to come with me but I’m not sure if she wanted to see me, even though we talked about everything I’m not sure that I should try and get her to come to the party with me. I think I’m just gonna bit the bullet and call her.

 

Dawn’s POV

So …I’m going back to Wolfram and Hart again tomorrow night for a party. What do I wear? I mean it’s a party at an evil law firm. I told Wes that I might bring someone with me, he was a little shocked by that but I think I told him the right way. I said “I’ll be your date to the party but I might bring someone with me.” Hopefully he got the part about me being his date. I like him but I don’t want to rush into this, but I’m only 18 years old. So sue me if I want to go slow. I watched Buffy go through all her heartbreaks and I think that the whole point of having a relationship is to nurture it and not go too far to fast.

 

Wesley’s POV

So here we are at the party, everybody’s complaining about the lack of a sacrifice which apparently was a staple of the company party before we took over. I hear the elevator ping and the door opens on the silhouette of this gorgeous brunette, her hair is perfectly done and falling sexily over one shoulder and she’s wearing this emerald green knee length number fitted on top and flared on the bottom. Every man in the room including Angel and the varied demons, conversations halted it was like something out of a bad teen movie. As she turned to face the room I realised that it was Dawn, she walked out of the elevator and I walked towards her every guy there was looking at me thinking what they always did when I showed up with Virginia the patented “she’s with him” look that I got used to.

 

Dawn’s POV

As the night wore on Wesley and I got closer to where we were before the talk about Spike happened. Spike’s been hanging around Fred all night, I saw them earlier moping around the snack table and now they’re stumbling around and Spike’s reliving his glory days. I met Lorne and he told Wes and I to shake it and move our feet a few minutes later I had pulled Wesley onto the dance floor and I felt much more comfortable around him just being able be around him and be happy not thinking about our history. Apparently Lorne had his sleep taken out a few weeks back and that’s not good for empath demons so Wesley and I headed up to find his sleep. Apparently when we were gone they found a dead demon and the other demons wanted to kill Angel for killing the demon. We got back to the party just in time as we were ready to put Lorne’s sleep back the physical manifestation of his subconscious crashed the party. Think The Hulk crossed with the golly green giant. Wesley shoots the sleep into Lorne and he collapse, the giant Lorne disappears into a puff of blue smoke. As the smoke settled the elevator pinged again shocked by the unexpected noise the entire room turned and looked towards the elevator. When it opened all you could see was a shocked Xander dressed in dusty clothes looking like he hadn’t slept in days.