Nothing Left To Lose: An Irritating Remnant

[ffutures]

Drabble, pure (but somewhat AU) Buffyverse for once, the third in this series in which You're Welcome went rather differently...


This is the third in a series of drabbles in which Cordelia deliberately chose to become Illyria's new shell during "You're Welcome".

An Irritating Remnant
By Marcus L. Rowland

The Shell was psychic; Illyria knows what is to come. When the boy is hit by a van she is there to intercept it and break the demon driver's neck. By the time she gets back the boy is climbing to his feet, his so-called parents amazed by his survival.

"Connor Reilley?"

He nods warily, then steps back as she drops the driver at his feet.

"You and your parents are hunted by demons. There is great danger."

An irritating remnant of the shell's personality prompts her to add eight words: "Come with me if you want to live."

End

Comments please before I post to archives. I'm headed to bed.

later edit Title and appropriate bit of the story changed to "An Irritating Remnant"

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

That's a fun line to abuse, isn't it? I liked it when S. M. Stirling's The Sunrise Lands had Captain Thurston, rescuing his wife from a Seattle given over to famine and cannibalism after the failure of all post-gunpowder technology, tell a group of soldiers, "Come with me if you want to live." Especially after I watched the first two Terminator films and got the reference!

I find myself thinking that the composite entity who appears in these drabbles ought to be nicknamed . . . Cordillera.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a nice one, especially for a character called Connor!

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Cool! I didn't know that. Stirling wrote three pretty darn good "T2" follow-up novels that contain some ideas and premises later used in "T3" and "TSCC."

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I like that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!