wesleynotponcy: (reading: important research)

The last time Wesley had woken up in the hospital, it had been Karla who had been waiting by his bedside. The time before that, Giles. It was fair to say that neither of them had been as intimidating a sight to wake up to as Angel.

"You all right?" Angel asked, right off the bat once he noticed Wesley stirring.

Wesley nodded, managing with some effort to pull himself into a seated position – though more so due to the blankets pulled taut around him than the surprisingly minimal damage he could immediately discern. "Cordelia?" he asked.

"Got slammed with visions of all the pain and suffering in the world at once. Now she's been sedated and unresponsive," Angel answered, not mincing words. He held up the scroll. "This'll fix her?"

"It should," Wesley said, reaching out to accept it from him. "Would you, ah." He winced. "Get me a wheelchair, please?"

One translation and unbinding ritual later, Cordelia was awake, and the three of them in their newly officeless state set up shop in her apartment. )

[[nfb, nfi, stuff under the second cut up until wes' theatrics taken from angel 1x22 "to shanshu in la," and up early 'cause i may not be at a computer for the rest of the day. aaand done now, yes.]]

wesleynotponcy: (?: WTF?)
The translation was not going well.

It didn't make much sense, was the thing. There were so many different languages, mainly demonic, and every time Wesley thought he'd made sense of a word's origin, he found it referenced elsewhere, in a different context, that disproved the entirety of what he'd already pieced together.

After hours of this, he finally forced himself out of the office long enough to pick up a cup of coffee and several texts that might aid him in the translation. By the time he returned, even more determined to return to work and finally piece this together, it was dark outside and he hadn't a clue where Cordelia was. He picked up his phone to check if he'd missed any calls, but --

Hmm. The cabinet was open. The one where he'd stored the prophecy just before going out. He knew he'd locked it before leaving. Had Angel opened it?

Wesley set his phone and the books down to retrieve the scroll. But just as he opened the cabinet, his priorities shifted. Because the scroll was missing, and in its place was a small, crudely-constructive explosive.

And then it went off.

[[nfi, nfb. totes taken from angel 1x22, "to shanshu in la."]]
wesleynotponcy: (conv: pretty serious)
As it turned out, the word that had been so difficult to translate turned out to be translatable after all. It wasn't, as Wesley had thought, Aegean, though the syntax had seemed to match up quite closely to the Eteocretan texts he had on file. Rather, it appeared to stem from the ancient Majars instead, making it proto-Hugaric. And it meant...

''Death.'' )

[[nfi, nfb. totes taken from angel 1x22, "to shanshu in la."]]
wesleynotponcy: (pos: conv)

In Fandom, it was snowing today after over a week of holiday-themed festivities, and it was Christmas.

In Los Angeles, meanwhile, neither the weather nor the holiday seemed particularly relevant as Wesley pored over the scroll that Angel had stolen from Wolfram and Hart the week before. He'd managed to identify it – the Scroll of Aberjian – and locate the selection that pertained to the vampire with a soul, but actually deciphering what it said about Angel was proving difficult.

More accurately, it was proving maddening. )


[[La la la, dialogue mostly taken from Angel 1x22 "To Shanshu in L.A." NFI and NFB.]]

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