Shine Down by LadyYashka
Chapter: Chapter Thirteen: Man In The Box

10/31/2008 06:38 am
Dumb bitch Buffy needs to suffer! other then that good chapter.
Thanks. :)

08/07/2007 03:30 am
oh BUffy is digging herself deeper and at this rate will never get Spike back
She'll get him back, someday, maybe. ;)

Robyn
09/13/2006 04:07 am
I loved Wes’s comment to Buffy, Giles, and Willow about their disbelief that Angel could be doing something wrong.

vladt
07/19/2006 05:38 am
good update, thank you. with any luck, angel will get his due.
Don't worry. Angel will get what he deserves. =)

Tamara
07/18/2006 03:42 pm
*grabs Buffy and shakes her hard*
I believe that is something we have all wanted to do a time or twelve. =)

07/18/2006 03:20 pm
:o oh my... buffy pull your head in and realise that angel is a bastard! and wow.. hamilton.. i hope angel screws up and gets stuck with whatever the needle has in it..!!
Buffy has, in my opinion, always had this idealized vision of Angel in her head. It is time she realized he's fallible.
What can I say? I actually liked Hamilton. He's evil. =)

Miss Lesley
07/18/2006 03:07 pm
This is an execellent story. I do my happy dance every time I see that it has been updated. I love that you update often and with nice solid chapters. The story is well thought out and put together. And each chapter forwards your story’s plotline. I give this story 10 stars with 3 snaps up.
However, I am very confused after this chapter. The way that you are portraying the L.A. gang, Angel and Buffy are out of character at some points. And Buffy boy she needs to keep thinking instead of opening her mouth. Now each one of the L.A. gang has been saved by Angel, over the pass 3 years.
Gunn almost lost his soul and life over a car. Constantly put up with his abuse about not wanted to work with Vampires, Gunn choosing his crew over Angel.
Fred from Pylea, plus he provided her with a safe haven to recover.
Wesley he helped to become a man, a demon fighter and helped him to become more comfortable with himself.
Queen C. he protected when she would have ended up demon food on a number of occasions.
But hear they sit and condemn him because he took their memories of his son. That’s friendship for you and the fact that none of them can even try to understand why a father would do it to protect his son shows that these people are not really all their. After all they all choose of their free will to work at W &H, surely they knew it came with price tags they could not see.
But the person who takes the cake in this chapter is Wesley. He made Angel's actions seem petty. In my opinion Wesley is living in a glass house. After all when he found the prophecy saying that Angel would kill his son. Like an upstanding friend, I am sure he called a meeting with Angel or even the others to discuss what he found with them and decide the best way to act and everything worked out in the end. Oops nope that's not true, Wesley after keeping the information to himself and vaguely doing an so called investigation and listening to a man who has hunted and hated Angel for years came to the conclusion that Angel would do the unthinkable and kill his son. So instead of either confronting deal with Angel or taking his evidence to the group so they could come to a decision after all several evil, eviler and down right destructive groups are after the child. Wesley knocked out Lorne, stole Angel’s baby. Then not 10 steps from his door, ends up losing the baby to the evil people he trusted instead of his friends, which was a direct result of the boy being raised in an hell dimension and having a life he was never meant to, therefore it is no wonder that when Connor returned he was very unstable. Let’s say I can see why Angel did not ask his permission to take his memories.

Don’t get me wrong, I am in the middle on what Angel did, I understand why the group would be upset that he took their memories about Connor, but then again none of them have kids and who knows maybe if they did and after seeing what was happening to there child because of this world they choose as an adult to enter and fight in they might decide that no one friend or not knowing about their child was the only way to keep him safe. So if a parent is willing to keep their child safe, why not wipe friends memories clean.

Now Queen C, took the wrong approach with angel and she messed up her intervention with him. And in spite she choose the most nasty way to let the cat out of the bag.

I do hope that Angel does have a grand plan, and if he does not then I hope that he can be redeemed and brought back in the fold.

Thanks for writing this story.
Boy did you have a lot to say! =) And I do thank you for taking the time to do so. Your comments helped me write this next chapter. I am glad you like this story and I hope that you continue to enjoy it. Thanks again!

07/18/2006 02:26 pm
oh angel is so in over his head...i dont think he really understands what he's doing and in some misguided way he probably thinks he's doing a good thing but he's completely motivated by jealousy and bitterness *sigh* great update though, cant wait for more :)
Don't worry. There is a reason for Angel's behavior. He's an idiot. O.k so that's not the reason in the story. It is just my opinion! ;)
Next chapter is up now. Hope you like it!