ice cream for freaks: buffy and angel fanfic recs

Lilah/Wesley

Aperture
by Jennifer Oksana
Lilah/Wesley, Wesley/Fred
Angst; Drama; AU Futurefic
Lilah never came back to LA after the Beast's attack. Wes gets her pictures and thinks about who he really wants.

The Appropriate Time
by Jennifer-Oksana
Vignette; post-Tomorrow
Wesley contemplates his twisted affair with Lilah, and talks with Steven. JennyO writes the best Wesley voice I've found, particularly the dark Wes of late season three.

House of Leaves
by Jennifer Oksana
Angst; Futurefic
Dawn/Wesley, Lilah/Wesley
Wesley loves Dawn, but he can't stop dreaming of a woman he doesn't remember. Interesting take on the ramifications of the Home mindwipe.

Loveless
by Jennifer-Oksana
Vignette; Character Study

'He hates her so much that he thinks up beautiful things for her to want that he won't give her. It's touching. No one else would care as much about her.' This author was responsible for turning me onto the Wesley/Lilah thing. Lilah begins to like Wesley, even as the two of them keeping hurting each other. Excellent snapshot of a very messed-up couple.

The Ninth Circle
by Mess
Darkfic; Character Study; post S3

A terrific first line - "Late evening finds Judas Iscariot and the Whore of Babylon taking a respite from the same old perversions and conducting an alarmingly civil conversation about the Antichrist." - and an intelligent, literate look at the nature of evil and hatred. Not fluffy, but then I don't think there's such a thing as fluffy L/W fic.

Sinking Is All I Had Planned
by Hold That Thought
Angst; Romance; S4
Written in drabbles (sections of 100 words each), this takes us from Deep Down through to Home. There are some really lovely parts to this.

The Solace of Hell
by missmorganpryce
Wesley/Lilah, Wesley/Darla, past Wesley/Fred
Darkfic; after A Hole in the World
Wesley takes a transfer to a different branch of Wolfram & Hart.

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