Title: Innocent Child 4/7
Author: Kate R.
Rating: Hard R to NC-17
Pairings: G/E, Wes/A (us) (Eventually)
AN: Dark Fic in the beginning. Written for Shawna who asked for a fic where
Angel rescues Wesley from Wolfram and Heart.
Summary: Saving Wesley is only the first step.
Disclaimer: own nothing and no one used herein. All of them belong to Joss
and I make no money.
"Holy Shit," Giles muttered as he looked at Wesley's test scores. "He did all of these? And he's How old mentally now?"
"About 10," Angel said. "He grows faster and faster the more love we give him. Giles, your son---he thrives on love. Yet he had none before this. How did he live?"
"I suspect he managed to love himself despite all of it. And Alice Wyndham had a very big heart. There was a little love in there. He survived on that. But you are right, now he is thriving."
"Have you seen how smart he is?" Xander asked coming over. "All those things he did wrong and yet he knows the answers. Why didn't he before?"
"He did not have the love he needed to learn them," Giles said. We have given him more love in the past 3 weeks than he has had in his entire life. He thrives on love. He grows with the love we give. More and more he grows. Intelligence increases, skill increases, knowledge increases. And he is growing into other things as well. Do you see him/? He laughs when the air blows. Wesley," Giles called. "What do you hear in the air when you laugh?"
"It tells stories," Wesley answered with his ten-year-old mind. "It tells of what it hears and sees all day."
"You can hear it?" A voice asked from behind. Wesley turned to look at the man in the doorway. Older, cane, beard, nice.
"Uh-huh," Wesley said. "I heard the flame too. It said it would never burn Angel or Spike. Why?"
"Cassandra said it's hard to hear the elements," the man said.
"She is filled with hate. That's all she can hear," Wesley answered. Then looked at Giles. "Daddy? What is my name?"