Story Notes: takes place post-chosen and ignores the comics, in an au s5 of angel where cordelia wakes up from her coma. in the ats timeline we’re at 5.08 destiny but having watched it recently or at all is not necessary! the spike/other and buffy/other warnings are very brief buffy/faith and buffy/spike/faith and also with extenuating circumstances so pls bear with me. hope you enjoy this :) also on ao3 under the user derekmaliknurse. 
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