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2006-09-17 03:38:03 UTC
"Insane Abot You..."
PG-13
Disclaimer: No, Joss, no...I make no claims, put that thing down!
It's all yours and ME's...
Spoilers for Angel to the bitter end...Flee at once!...
Summary: Aftermath of "The Steadfast Plastic Soldier" (at least of
the happier version...Hey, I let Buf and Spike fry in "Sunrise")
Archived at the 'Normal' Buffyverse page of the Buffy Rebecca verse,
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/buffyrebecca/index.html...Direct link at
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/buffyrebecca/lay.html
***
Part III...
Botty sworn in, Angel came up, smiling at her in the witness box...
"Ms. Summers...Hi..."
"Angel..." she nodded...Eyeing him curiously...
"Your pointy hair looks less bloody stupid..." she noted...
Oh...She looked as most of the courtroom attendees tittered...Along
with several members of the legal teams...
Uh...Sorry, boss...Illyria sheepishly stifled her grin as Angel glared
back at her...And then at Buffy, who rolled eyes...Hey, I didn't do
the programing...Blinking a bit as Nina turned to glare as well...
Hey, she's no slouch at the Glare either, Willow thought...
"Sorry...Old bit of data record popping up in my system..." Botty
apologized... "I'll arrange to delete that...You do look very nice in a
suit, Angel..."
"Thanks..." he frowned at her, relenting at her wistful look...Really
sorry... "Well, Ms. Summers, R...Who repaired you after you were
deposited in the Town of Sunnydale dumpster...?"
She eyed him...Repaired me?...
"Before or after I got off the landfill hill in LA?... 'Cause I think
before, it was my automatic emergency repair that got me going
again..."
"After..." Angel smiled... "When you regained all these parts that seem
to be working so well for you..." She smiled back, shyly
pleased...Thanks...
Well...she pondered... "First I was mailed to an engineer in
Scotland...Then he couldn't fix my motor control interface, so he had
me shipped to Japan...They do neat work on bots in Japan, ya
know?...They did most of my new prosthetics too..."
Then, I think to England for a gyroscope and some sensory repairs...And
then, Germany, I think...No, it was Switzerland...Geneva, yeah...
Well-traveled girl is our Botty...Willow noted to Buf... "Shut up..."
Buffy frowned...
"I remember 'cause I was there when Buffy came into town with the
Immortal...One of the lab techs at the electronics firm that was
repairing my primary power system showed me a photo of them together in
the paper..."
I was kinda shocked...she sighed, not looking at her twin... "I
mean...Everybody knew William was alive...And had survived the big
fight in LA with the Partners..."
Couldn't understand...I mean after all he'd done when she came
back...The soul, the thing at Sunnydale...?
"Buffy...?..." she looked over to her... "How could you leave William
for that bloody stupid pointy-haired, aristocratic jerk?..."
Not you, Angel...she hastily noted... "See, I just still need an
initial plane of reference in establishing a new character in my data
files..."
Buffy now looking round at various members of the court and attendees
staring at her...
"Then when I found out who'd arranged for my repairs..." Botty
beamed...
Ah...Angel smiled...Waving a finger...Quick glance back to catch a
beaming Nina's look...
Think she came up with this one?...Gunn eyed Illyria as they caught the
exchange...
Oh-oh...Failey looked at Herskowitz, then Childs... "She tell any of
you guys who that was..." Childs shrugging...Herskowitz attempting to
look like one who knew everything but was not inclined to say...
"And who was it, in fact, who actually arranged and paid for your
restoration, Ms. Summers, R...?"
Eh, no sweat, girl...Will smiled at the beaming Botty...
"William, of course..." she pointed to him, a loving smile on her
face... "After we found each other at the landfill, when one of the
Partners' tossed him halfway across LA to die there when dawn
came...And my systems were jarred back on...And I pulled him down to a
couple of guys who caretake the place...Really nice guys, Hank and
Joey, you know them?...The next day, from the hospital, he had me
carried over to a local guy who fixed enough of my emergency systems to
keep me going...And I was in a crate to Scotland the next day..."
She saved him from the Partners?...He got her fixed?...Buffy hissed to
Willow...Who was tearing again..."God, that's so..."
Ummn...Unimportant, next to the one who helped him get his soul
back...Yeah...she solemnly noted to her friend...Buffy giving her a
narrow look...
Even if she didn't do a thing to help him get the soul back...Willow
thought, rolling eyes...
***
"So...My client, William Soames Walthrop, arranged for your repairs,
Ms. Summers, R...Is that correct?..." Angel eyed Botty who
nodded...Absobloomingtootly...
How come Will and Angel never told us this?...Gunn hissed to Illyria as
they watched...Then eyed her narrowly as she gave a Mona
Lisa...Well...Winifred-Mona-Lisa-Illyria...Smile...
"They told you?...Not me...?"
"Will wanted my opinion...And Nina's...He was afraid even then the
robotic Ms. Summers might view it in the wrong light..."
"Now, Buffy, R...If I may call you Buffy, R..." Sure...she
smiled...Thanks... "Sure...Why would you want to sue the
man...Unman...Who'd done this for you?..."
Botty looked down...Ummn...
"I thought it meant..." she paused... "I mean...Buffy H didn't seem
interested...What with her hangin' on the Immortal's arm day and
night..."
Hey...Buffy frowned...
"So I figured...Will must be trying to say...In his poet's way..." she
sighed, smiling at her beloved lil' poet...
"But when I came straight to LA after Switzerland...He didn't...Want
to..." she started breaking up...
"Then I..." she frowned... "I lost my temper..."
Didn't know I had one till I lost it...she grinned...
A sound of chuckles through the court...Ms. Summers, R...the judge
frowned...
Sorry...
"And I went to see a lawyer...Cause William's a lawyer now as well as a
heroic human-souled vamp defender of Humanity and poet...And I thought,
since he did order me for a permanent companion...See I'd read up a
little on law...To kinda impress him...And there's a lot of cases of
women whose boyfriends and fiancees run out on them..."
Not that you ran out, Will...she called...
"Then my first lawyer...The first one I went to...Had me thrown out of
his office, saying I must be part of a joke...I went to ten lawyers in
LA and San Francisco...And finally one told me I had to be human...Or
human-souled, at least...To seek legal redress..."
But...He being a very nice man...He told me in California, practically
anything could be declared human by the right judge...
Uh...Sorry...she eyed the frowning judge...
"And so then I watched the episode of "Star Trek" where Mr. Data got
declared human...And the old "Outer Limits" episode where they tried a
robot for murder..." And I knew I could make as good a case as they
could...And I knew a case involving a robot twin of a human Slayer in
love with a human-souled vampire was sure to make headlines...So...she
beamed... "I looked up on the Net the three most brilliant...And most
headline/glory-hogging, mercenary legal minds in the USA today and got
them to take my case..."
You go girl...Willow hissed...
Another narrow stare from her companion...Whose side are you on,
Willow?...
"Didn't know you were on any side here, Buf..." she replied solemnly...
She did all that for me?...William stared at Illyria, then the earnest
Botty on the stand...
"Wil...You suppose if I invited him home and made him dinner?..." Buffy
hissed...
"Think that would count as more heroic self-sacrifice on his part,
Buf..." Willow noted...
***
PG-13
Disclaimer: No, Joss, no...I make no claims, put that thing down!
It's all yours and ME's...
Spoilers for Angel to the bitter end...Flee at once!...
Summary: Aftermath of "The Steadfast Plastic Soldier" (at least of
the happier version...Hey, I let Buf and Spike fry in "Sunrise")
Archived at the 'Normal' Buffyverse page of the Buffy Rebecca verse,
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/buffyrebecca/index.html...Direct link at
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/buffyrebecca/lay.html
***
Part III...
Botty sworn in, Angel came up, smiling at her in the witness box...
"Ms. Summers...Hi..."
"Angel..." she nodded...Eyeing him curiously...
"Your pointy hair looks less bloody stupid..." she noted...
Oh...She looked as most of the courtroom attendees tittered...Along
with several members of the legal teams...
Uh...Sorry, boss...Illyria sheepishly stifled her grin as Angel glared
back at her...And then at Buffy, who rolled eyes...Hey, I didn't do
the programing...Blinking a bit as Nina turned to glare as well...
Hey, she's no slouch at the Glare either, Willow thought...
"Sorry...Old bit of data record popping up in my system..." Botty
apologized... "I'll arrange to delete that...You do look very nice in a
suit, Angel..."
"Thanks..." he frowned at her, relenting at her wistful look...Really
sorry... "Well, Ms. Summers, R...Who repaired you after you were
deposited in the Town of Sunnydale dumpster...?"
She eyed him...Repaired me?...
"Before or after I got off the landfill hill in LA?... 'Cause I think
before, it was my automatic emergency repair that got me going
again..."
"After..." Angel smiled... "When you regained all these parts that seem
to be working so well for you..." She smiled back, shyly
pleased...Thanks...
Well...she pondered... "First I was mailed to an engineer in
Scotland...Then he couldn't fix my motor control interface, so he had
me shipped to Japan...They do neat work on bots in Japan, ya
know?...They did most of my new prosthetics too..."
Then, I think to England for a gyroscope and some sensory repairs...And
then, Germany, I think...No, it was Switzerland...Geneva, yeah...
Well-traveled girl is our Botty...Willow noted to Buf... "Shut up..."
Buffy frowned...
"I remember 'cause I was there when Buffy came into town with the
Immortal...One of the lab techs at the electronics firm that was
repairing my primary power system showed me a photo of them together in
the paper..."
I was kinda shocked...she sighed, not looking at her twin... "I
mean...Everybody knew William was alive...And had survived the big
fight in LA with the Partners..."
Couldn't understand...I mean after all he'd done when she came
back...The soul, the thing at Sunnydale...?
"Buffy...?..." she looked over to her... "How could you leave William
for that bloody stupid pointy-haired, aristocratic jerk?..."
Not you, Angel...she hastily noted... "See, I just still need an
initial plane of reference in establishing a new character in my data
files..."
Buffy now looking round at various members of the court and attendees
staring at her...
"Then when I found out who'd arranged for my repairs..." Botty
beamed...
Ah...Angel smiled...Waving a finger...Quick glance back to catch a
beaming Nina's look...
Think she came up with this one?...Gunn eyed Illyria as they caught the
exchange...
Oh-oh...Failey looked at Herskowitz, then Childs... "She tell any of
you guys who that was..." Childs shrugging...Herskowitz attempting to
look like one who knew everything but was not inclined to say...
"And who was it, in fact, who actually arranged and paid for your
restoration, Ms. Summers, R...?"
Eh, no sweat, girl...Will smiled at the beaming Botty...
"William, of course..." she pointed to him, a loving smile on her
face... "After we found each other at the landfill, when one of the
Partners' tossed him halfway across LA to die there when dawn
came...And my systems were jarred back on...And I pulled him down to a
couple of guys who caretake the place...Really nice guys, Hank and
Joey, you know them?...The next day, from the hospital, he had me
carried over to a local guy who fixed enough of my emergency systems to
keep me going...And I was in a crate to Scotland the next day..."
She saved him from the Partners?...He got her fixed?...Buffy hissed to
Willow...Who was tearing again..."God, that's so..."
Ummn...Unimportant, next to the one who helped him get his soul
back...Yeah...she solemnly noted to her friend...Buffy giving her a
narrow look...
Even if she didn't do a thing to help him get the soul back...Willow
thought, rolling eyes...
***
"So...My client, William Soames Walthrop, arranged for your repairs,
Ms. Summers, R...Is that correct?..." Angel eyed Botty who
nodded...Absobloomingtootly...
How come Will and Angel never told us this?...Gunn hissed to Illyria as
they watched...Then eyed her narrowly as she gave a Mona
Lisa...Well...Winifred-Mona-Lisa-Illyria...Smile...
"They told you?...Not me...?"
"Will wanted my opinion...And Nina's...He was afraid even then the
robotic Ms. Summers might view it in the wrong light..."
"Now, Buffy, R...If I may call you Buffy, R..." Sure...she
smiled...Thanks... "Sure...Why would you want to sue the
man...Unman...Who'd done this for you?..."
Botty looked down...Ummn...
"I thought it meant..." she paused... "I mean...Buffy H didn't seem
interested...What with her hangin' on the Immortal's arm day and
night..."
Hey...Buffy frowned...
"So I figured...Will must be trying to say...In his poet's way..." she
sighed, smiling at her beloved lil' poet...
"But when I came straight to LA after Switzerland...He didn't...Want
to..." she started breaking up...
"Then I..." she frowned... "I lost my temper..."
Didn't know I had one till I lost it...she grinned...
A sound of chuckles through the court...Ms. Summers, R...the judge
frowned...
Sorry...
"And I went to see a lawyer...Cause William's a lawyer now as well as a
heroic human-souled vamp defender of Humanity and poet...And I thought,
since he did order me for a permanent companion...See I'd read up a
little on law...To kinda impress him...And there's a lot of cases of
women whose boyfriends and fiancees run out on them..."
Not that you ran out, Will...she called...
"Then my first lawyer...The first one I went to...Had me thrown out of
his office, saying I must be part of a joke...I went to ten lawyers in
LA and San Francisco...And finally one told me I had to be human...Or
human-souled, at least...To seek legal redress..."
But...He being a very nice man...He told me in California, practically
anything could be declared human by the right judge...
Uh...Sorry...she eyed the frowning judge...
"And so then I watched the episode of "Star Trek" where Mr. Data got
declared human...And the old "Outer Limits" episode where they tried a
robot for murder..." And I knew I could make as good a case as they
could...And I knew a case involving a robot twin of a human Slayer in
love with a human-souled vampire was sure to make headlines...So...she
beamed... "I looked up on the Net the three most brilliant...And most
headline/glory-hogging, mercenary legal minds in the USA today and got
them to take my case..."
You go girl...Willow hissed...
Another narrow stare from her companion...Whose side are you on,
Willow?...
"Didn't know you were on any side here, Buf..." she replied solemnly...
She did all that for me?...William stared at Illyria, then the earnest
Botty on the stand...
"Wil...You suppose if I invited him home and made him dinner?..." Buffy
hissed...
"Think that would count as more heroic self-sacrifice on his part,
Buf..." Willow noted...
***