{"id":10745,"date":"2016-12-04T20:42:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/?p=10745"},"modified":"2021-01-01T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:42:04","slug":"disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goteamfiction.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/04\/disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"Disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: Disclosure.<\/b> Sequel to Resolve<\/b><\/a><\/i><\/span>
\nAuthor: <\/b>Califi<\/span>
\nPosted: <\/b><\/span>
\nEmail<\/b><\/a><\/span>
\nRating: <\/b>Hard R<\/span>
\nCategory: <\/b>Angst<\/span>
\nContent: <\/b>Hmm…. Cordelia moment<\/span>
\nSummary: <\/b>An unexpected visitor adds to the angst…<\/span>
\nSpoilers: <\/b>in place of Disharmony… two nights later…<\/span>
\nDisclaimer: <\/b>The characters in the Angelverse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt. No infringement is intended, no profit is made.<\/span>
\nDistribution: <\/b>Just tell me where<\/span>
\nNotes: <\/b>Harmony never turned up. the clothes didn’t happen. C\/A are still estranged.<\/span>
\nThanks\/Dedication:<\/b>to and For everyone who gave the love of that other 3 vignettes.<\/span>
\nFeedback:<\/b>Must admit, gears my Muse up to write more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

She just walked in.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then, that was Darla all over. Brazen bitch from hell. Would have been nice to know she wasn\u2019t dust, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

Would have been even nicer to think that Angel had dusted her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until now, Cordelia had assumed he had.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bastard.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The surprise had quickly turned to fear: the others were out dealing with a vision. Cordelia just had<\/em> to stop to wash her face, and re-apply makeup that had been smudged by the intensity of the vision that had ripped through her half an hour earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luckily \u2018having a chat\u2019 was uppermost in Darla\u2019s mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taunts and sneers regarding Cordelia\u2019s place in Angel\u2019s life.<\/span><\/p>\n

How it had been so easy to lure him away \u2026. Wanting her<\/em>. Every single moment had been filled with that want\u2026 need.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wasn\u2019t the fact that she was now standing here proof of that? Her darling boy couldn\u2019t dust her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t want to.<\/span><\/p>\n

As she strolled nearer, her boasts dripping from scarlet lips, Cordelia backed away a step at a time. Most of her concentration towards making it to the weapons cabinet before Darla remembered she had fangs. Refusing to let her words tear into her very soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catching on, Darla changed her tactics, circling Cordelia and slowly herding her away from the only chance she had of at least trying to defend herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you want to know what your Champion<\/em> was doing a few hours before he saved your pathetic little lives?\u201d Darla purred, suddenly appearing in front of her and gripped fragile arms in a hold that would leave bruises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cordelia stared back, wondering how she knew, and a satisfied glint appeared in cold blue eyes. \u201cOh, I know everything<\/em> that goes on here- it\u2019s called pillow talk,\u201d she whispered conspiratorially, smiling when Cordelia\u2019s eyes widened in shock.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince he took me to his bed that night, he can\u2019t get enough of a woman that knows how to please him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A choked gasp escaped Cordelia\u2019s trembling mouth; then her back straightened, eyes narrowing into slits. \u201cPfft. A well-used skank, don\u2019t you mean?\u201d Darla\u2019s mouth tightened, followed by her hands until the bones in Cordelia\u2019s arms creaked warningly, and then she was shoved roughly away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catching her breath, Cordelia rolled onto her hands and knees, groggily shaking her head that had connected sickeningly to the hard marble floor. Scarlet-painted toenails on dainty feet clad in strappy heels appeared in her line of blurred vision a moment before talons threaded through her hair and yanked her head up. Her neck felt the strain, upper body half rising to ease it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving in until their noses almost touched, Darla grinned like a cat that\u2019d got the cream. \u201cYou think he came back for the mission? For you?\u201d her free hand smoothed Cordelia\u2019s hair away from her face, then slid down to encircle cold hard fingers around her exposed throat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe came back to you to protect me<\/em>.\u201d Hazel eyes met blue unflinchingly. \u201cKeep thine enemies closer,\u201d she quoted with a sibilant hiss, and her fingers tightened.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then dust blinded Cordelia for a second; her body suddenly free and falling to the floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Large hands replaced small and eased her up. Blinking hard to remove the dust, her gaze finally locked with anxious eyes black as pitch. For a long moment the connection remained, then:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t ever<\/em> put your hands on me again. Got it?\u201d shrugging Angel\u2019s hands off, she climbed shakily to her feet, stepping over the dusty remains on the floor and made for the exit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her life, for now ensured, she finally allowed Darla\u2019s revelations to sink in.<\/span><\/p>\n

But she refused to think too much about it right now. His betrayel. Of how inexplicably it hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not with Angel\u2019s guilty eyes burning a hole in her back.<\/span><\/p>\n

~*~<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Califi<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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