Buffy paced. Which was really inconsiderate when you thought about it because she, of the Having-a-Body variety over there, was just flaunting the fact that Cordelia couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Well, actually, she could. But it didn\u2019t make her feel better.<\/p>\n
She could pace and she could walk and she could talk and she could scream but nobody but Buffy could hear her and nothing–Nothing<\/i> made her feel any better about what was happening here.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo let me get this straight,\u201d said Buffy, after she\u2019d paced enough to make Cordelia feel sorta dizzy, \u201cAngel, my vampire ex who was previously all up in the business of saving people, is now working for an evil law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cordelia nodded, \u201cHeading it up… That\u2019s about the gist of it. He sounds so… Tired.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve talked to him?\u201d Buffy blinked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHello, coma,\u201d Cordelia rolled her eyes. Shock or no shock, Buffy really needed to pay attention to the storyline here. \u201cCan\u2019t do much of the talking when you aren\u2019t in control of your basic bodily functions. And I can\u2019t get on his wavelength, remember?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo vampires have a wavelength?\u201d Buffy wondered aloud, then, off Cordelia\u2019s look, \u201cRemember when I was hearing people\u2019s thoughts back in high school? I couldn\u2019t hear Angel\u2019s… He said it was \u2018cause he was… Y\u2019know, dead. No brainwaves. Or wavelengths.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019ve done the astral projection thing on him before and it worked,\u201d said Cordelia, thinking back to her 21st birthday when she\u2019d jumped into Angel\u2019s body to get him the message about her vision and the girl she\u2019d wound up saving in her head. \u201cBesides, Fred\u2019s totally human. And, as far as I remember? So are Wes and Gunn… They\u2019re wavelengthed up the wazoo, I just can\u2019t get on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you\u2019re here,\u201d Buffy sighed.<\/p>\n
Cordelia\u2019s patience, fraying at the edges, had just run out. \u201cLook, I get that you\u2019re all mopey because your saving the world days are over but–Man up! I need your help, Buffy.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a split-second, Cordelia wondered if tough-love was the wrong approach.<\/p>\n
Buffy\u2019s mouth set in a grim line and she almost flailed about the fact that she may have lost her one shot forever, was doomed to live out the rest of her potentially short life listening to the sad lamentations of a vampire who thought he\u2019d fucked up. Truly.<\/p>\n
She was on the verge of begging, literally, and that was really the lowest Cordelia Chase would ever go consciously…<\/p>\n
Until Buffy nodded. \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll help.\u201d<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n