Impressions by Doranna Durgin

Author:Doranna Durgin [Durgin, Doranna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, vampires, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780743427586
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

“I’m telling you, he laughed,” Gunn insisted. His voice reached Angel’s ears through a filter of muffled distortion.

“I rather doubt that,” Wesley said, also sounding as if he were speaking through a glass of water. “Even if he’d wanted to, which I can’t imagine, he was hardly capable.”

“Oh, really? And how capable was he of attacking me? Or do you rather doubt that, too?” When he wanted to, Gunn could really put a British spin on his words.

Numb as he was, Angel felt a familiar lump in the mattress beneath him and knew he was back at the Hyperion Hotel, in his very own room. To judge from the smell, someone was thoughtful enough to have a glass of blood nearby. Probably Cordelia. He’d have to tell her thank you, just as soon as he could open his eyes and open his mouth and the remnants of Slith poison weren’t coursing pain through his veins. Old blood coated his mouth…his own, and it tasted terrible. But his bitten tongue was already healing; he thought he might have the feeling back in his toes.

A wave of warning flushed through his body; every muscle clenched tight in spasm. He kicked somebody. Tighter…tighter…he thought his back might break…muscles screaming…release.

“God!” Cordelia said, tears quite audible on the edge of her voice. “How long is this going to go on?”

“I don’t have any information on that,” Wesley admitted, not sounding terribly concerned. “People don’t generally last this long. But it seems to me the spasms are easing. We do know it won’t kill him.”

Cordelia sat on the bed; she’d probably been the one he kicked off in the first place. “Oh, and because we know it won’t kill him, it doesn’t matter that he’s going through this?”

As muzzy as his thoughts were, Angel pretty much expected the silent response. He knew Gunn was thinking about the moment Angel had turned vamp on him. He knew Wesley had seen it too.

In utter disgust, Cordelia said, “Men are such pigs.”

Gently, Wesley said, “I’m afraid we also have other things on our mind. Important things.”

With reluctance, Cordelia said, “Because you think he was going after Gunn.” She shifted on the bed. “I wish I hadn’t just said that.”

Gunn’s voice didn’t have any of her reluctance, just a hard edge of anger. “I know it.”

“Gunn, he saved you.”

Entirely unconvinced, Gunn said, “He came for me. He just changed his mind along the way. Got distracted, maybe.”

Definitely, Angel was regaining control of his toes. Not that they’d do him any real good in a fight, but it was a start. And probably he could even have said something, anything, to let them know he was awake. Or getting that way, anyway.

But he didn’t. He listened.

Cordelia said slowly, “It’s true…he’s not right. He hasn’t been right. It’s more than just this faux Angel thing. Whatever’s going on with these other demons…I think he’s part of it. It’s getting to him, too.”

“Then we’d better stop whatever’s going on. Before it’s too late, if you get my drift,” Gunn said.

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