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Cordelia Chase ([personal profile] letsbe_clear) wrote in [community profile] self_inflictedexhile 2013-08-03 08:12 pm (UTC)

[She shrugs.]

I grew up in Sunnydale - Hellmouth - graduated from Sunnydale High after the mayor tried to ascend into some kind of creepy snake demon and devour us all as the main course. That would turn you off to any town, I couldn't afford to go to college so I decided I wanted to be an actress and took off to LA.

[She pauses, taking a sip of her drink.]

There were these two guys, Angel and Doyle. Angel was an old friend from Sunnydale but he was doing the hero thing - fight the good fight, all of that - and he started a PI business so that the he could help the helpless more easily find him. He needed a secretary, I needed a job that actually paid, so we started working together. Doyle was vision guy, Angel's connection to the Powers that Be. He would have a vision, Angel would save the day, I would send the invoice.

[sounds easy enough.]

That is until Doyle died, trying to save Angel. Before he did, he kissed me, and passed his visions on to me. I didn't realize that was what he was doing, but it was basically one minute I'm grieving, next I'm having images of pain and suffering shoved into my brain.

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