Harrogate (Post NFA Angel fic)

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Title: Harrogate
Series: The Tea Shop Detectives
Author: ELG
Fandom: Angel & Buffy fandom
Category: Angst/Drama/Hurt-Comfort/Action. Possibly pre-slash, not sure yet.
Rating: Mature Audiences/NC-17 for Het, ex-slash and what could be pre-slash
Summary: Willow and Giles are sent to save what they can from the aftermath of Angel’s fight with the Circle of the Black Thorn. A higher power seems to want Wesley brought back to life and Gunn saved, but for what purpose? With a mystery of his own to solve, Giles takes a healing Gunn and disorientated Wesley back to England with him and Willow to continue their recovery there. In the meantime someone in Harrogate is murdering witches.
Characters: Giles, Gunn, Wesley, Willow. (Guest appearances by Cordelia, Fred, Illyria, Angel, and Angelus and cameo phone calls from Faith, Buffy, Dawn and Andrew).
WARNINGS: Violence, explicit Het, the inevitable slashy implications.
Season: Post-S5 of Angel.
Spoilers: Everything up to Not Fade Away on Angel and then I'm just making stuff up.

Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five, Part Six, Part Seven, Part Eight, Part Nine, Part Ten, Part Eleven, Part Twelve, Part Thirteen, Part Fourteen (final part)

Title: Harrogate (will eventually have a proper title which I’m sure will be really catchy but doesn’t right now)

Series: The Tea Shop Detectives

Author: ELG

Fandom: Angel & Buffy fandom

Category: Angst/Drama/Hurt-Comfort/Action. Possibly pre-slash, not sure yet.

Rating: Mature Audiences/NC-17 for Het, ex-slash and what could be pre-slash

WARNINGS: Violence, explicit Het, the inevitable slashy implications.

Season:  Post-S5 of Angel .

Spoilers: Everything up to Not Fade Away on Angel and then I'm just making stuff up.

Summary: Willow and Giles are sent to save what they can from the aftermath of Angel’s fight with the Circle of the Black Thorn. A higher power seems to want Wesley brought back to life and Gunn saved, but for what purpose? With a mystery of his own to solve, Giles takes a healing Gunn and disorientated Wesley back to England with him and Willow to continue their recovery there. In the meantime someone in Harrogate is murdering witches.

Characters: Giles, Gunn, Wesley, Willow. (Guest appearances by Cordelia, Fred, Illyria, Angel, and Angelus and cameo phone calls from Faith, Buffy, Dawn and Andrew).

Ships that pass through this fic: Wesley/Lilah, Wesley/Fred, Gunn/Fred, past references to Willow/Tara & Willow/Kennedy, Giles/Ethan & Giles/OFC, Wes/Gunn possible sex in the past and Wes/Gunn and Wes/Angel crushiness, and some pre-ship implications of Willow/Faith, and an obscene proposal from Angelus.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Quotes from Music & Silence by Rose Tremain (1999), (c) Chatto & Windus 1999; and ‘Newsreel’ from Shooting Script by Adrienne Rich from The Faber Book of 20^th Century Women’s Poetry Edited by Fleur Adcock, (c) Faber & Faber 1987.

NOTES: The ‘Haven Tea Shop’ in Harrogate and ‘Black Cat Bookshop’ in Knaresborough are completely fictional and are not supposed to represent any present or past tearooms or bookshops in those or any other locations.

OTHER NOTES (only bother reading these if you really do have a lot of time on your hands): This fic was the result of a dream I had where Wesley, Gunn, Giles and Willow were sitting in a teashop in Harrogate discussing supernatural doings while Wesley was squirrelly and scribbled on a napkin and a woman came around and said ‘more tea, dears?’ I liked the idea and bored bka0711 telling her all about it but then had another dream that was clearly set in the same world but where they had now moved on to a different place, so I wrote that down, and then realized I needed to write the beginning of the story first, so did. The only reason it’s set in Harrogate is because that’s where they were in the dream. Hastings would have made more sense as I’d been watching ‘Foyle’s War’ but my subconscious is apparently as geographically challenged as I am so Harrogate it was. If my subconscious is reading this and would like to send me any more dreams it would be nice if Wesley was naked in them, preferably making out with Angel, and the setting was something like Bristol or Bath, which I could actually write about without the need for lots of research. There will be other stories in this series as soon as I can snag one of Hermione’s nifty time-turner thingies.

DISCLAIMER: ANGEL and its characters is the property of Joss Whedon (Mutant Enemy), David Greenwalt (LazyDave), Fox, and the WB network. No copyright infringement is intended. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no money exchanged hands. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author.