// Where the Heart Is
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Angel S5 AU drabble: Post-"Soul Purpose." Angel wins and loses the showdown.
Angel is no Doyle, nor Cordelia, and never Lindsey. The gun is not his weapon (bullets cascading; Faith's face); he wishes for the staccato incantation of Wesley's gunfire.
The machine's light dies. The tentacles recede as the tattoos unink themselves. Angel's reflexes are too fast (the heart), the swordpoint unerring. Lindsey's eyes, never leaving his (close your eyes), the portal (open).
"Say hello to the senior partners for me," says Lindsey: trickle of voice, torrent of blood (Judas goat and sacrificial ram).
Angel walks inside and out of the portal, the hole in his heart standing open, eyes wolf-yellow.
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