illyria is a very inspirational person (godking) wrote in utr_logs,
He laughed. It had been quite some time since he had felt so at ease with another person. It was a nice feeling. "Who ever said I wasn't willing to go through with it?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "If those are the terms, I would, of course, comply. It's a matter of honour." He was teasing, mostly. But he really would go through with it. "It certainly wasn't my intention to be cruel, my dear."
"It wasn't anyone's place to decide that," he said, shaking his head, "but sometimes people make decisions...and once they're made, it does no good to become frustrated. You simply have to make the best possible decisions with the situation you're given. I don't agree that this situation with all these potentials being granted power is right. One day, there won't be any left...I wonder if this is the outcome the First wanted in the first place...but even beyond that, some girls just aren't prepared to have that thrust upon them." He thought briefly of Dana. "But I wasn't there for that battle. I can't know what led to that decision."
He nodded at her question, looking down at his hands. "Cyborg," he corrected. "They were at least partially organic. There was magic in place that allowed one to impersonate my father to infiltrate Wolfram and Hart...to steal the Staff of Devosynn and take Angel's will...essentially make him their puppet." He spoke clinically, not really connecting emotion with the memory. "I got the staff away from him and he threatened to shoot Fred if I didn't let him do as he planned...I never even realised until after I'd emptied my gun into his chest that it wasn't my father. In fact...I was entirely sure it was him." He shrugged. He felt rather apathetic about that decision, but Faith deserved to know the sort of man he was these days. "I like to be prepared. So it is that I'm faster than you."