Title: The Light
Author: Shirley
Posted: 02-06-2004
Email: toppiecakes@hotmail.com
Rating: PG
Category: Angst, post-ep 5.12
Content: Cordelia/Angel
Summary: The road was long and hard.
Spoilers: None really. Maybe minor for 5.12
Disclaimer: The characters in the Angelverse were created by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt. No infringement is intended, no profit is made.
Distribution: The ST archive, anyone else just let me know where its going.
Notes: This idea just kinda sparked last night, so I wrote it. Its short, and I admit probably not very organized. Drabble-Style Short.
Feedback: Please.
Thanks/Dedication:

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The road was long and hard. But he came through in the end. By the end of the final battle, he was the only one left. All of his friends had gone, and he had finally gained his redemption. His shanshu.

He finally got to live out his days. If you could call what he had done living.

He had lost Cordelia years before. And slowly the others followed her.

He lived years beyond them. Wondering the whole time if it would have been better for him to have just stayed dead.

Now that he was a live, he had nothing to live for.

He was an old man before it finally happened. He had lost count of the years a long time ago. He was asleep. He hadn’t suffered, in theory at least.

And when it happened she was there. Waiting for him. The light at the end of the very long, very dark tunnel that had been his life.

She was right. She did see him again.

And even though it took them so long to find each other again, he wouldn’t have changed a thing.

End.