Sorry it's been so long. RL's been crazy! My husband was out of work (and just got a new job this week) so I haven't had a lot of time to write, and what time I've had went to other projects. But now I have time (including 3 solid child-free hours every morning) and a real and desperate need to get this story-outlining process ready (as well as some practice on action scenes), so I'm back to the fic.

As for Chaotic Attractors... the time away has cleared my head, and I'm re-vamping the thing. The ultimate story I wanted to tell is intact... but that story changed somewhere between writing Chapter 4 and Chapter 5. Also, I actually went and read After the Fall and watched all of Buffy. :P This is why one should not post writing before one is at least 5 chapters in!

At any rate, outlining the first volume as we speak, it'll get us to the same place I'm at in Chapter 6 but in a more concise manner that'll make more sense with what's coming down the line. If you've liked the fic so far you'll probably love what's to come: more and better Fred and Wesley, more Illyria being, well, Illyria, some surprises, and a much, much more concise and reasonable explanation of time travel.

This should be the only restart I'll need. I usually have to do this once with projects; my initial ideas always lead to something better. :) I know now why the story needs telling, and why in this way, and why I'm spending so much time on a project I won't ever get paid for! Beyond the joy of writing, of course.

Keep checking; I'll make some waves when I've got enough ready to post. :)

Sorry, it's been over a month! Augh! Been working on some projects I hope to actually make money with, and then my husband went into the hospital last week. He's fine, all is good, but been busybusy.

Working on Chap 7 and beyond. Going in this week to test run a writing process on this fic that should make things get written faster. Fic is handy since I can skip the character/setting making processes (which I have down pat) and get straight to the plot-planning process (which can be harder). Once I've got it nicely outlined the thing should flow... I keep getting stuck going "wait, how was I getting from Point A to Point B here?" And given that I knew how I was doing that from Chaps 1-3... they flowed easily. :)

Incidentally, I'll be doing a bit of a re-write on Chapter 2 at some point, but nothing major will change except some reasoning for things that already happened. :P I plan to give the entire fic an editing run or two once it's all written anyhow, to have a "final" form for, err, posterity. Or contests, or... whatever. :)

Back to work!

In which the team races against time to save the world.

( Chapter Six )

In which the team investigates what the prophecy really means and Sahjahn puts a plan into action. (Scenes from "Loyalty" quoted)

(Ugh, another late update. I'm facing a huge cliff in the story--the point at which it'll start to deviate strongly from the show. I can reference what happened, but things are going to vastly change next chapter. It's kinda scary.)

( Chapter Five )

In which Wesley and Fred's first date has an unexpected turn... (scene from "Couplet" quoted)

This took a while because I wasn't entirely sure how to get from Point A (the first scene) to Point B (the last scene)... I have a process in place now, so posting should happen more quickly.

( Chapter Four )

In which Angel Investigations attends a rather odd ballet and both Wesley and Illyria must take the initiative. (Scenes from "Waiting in the Wings" quoted)



( Chapter Three )

In which Fred explains what is happening and begins to implement a plan. (Scenes from "Billy" and "Waiting in the Wings" quoted.)

In which Illyria decides she doesn't much like the way things are, and makes a demand of the Powers That Be. (Scenes from "A Hole in the World" and "Shells" quoted.)

To friends new and old, welcome to Chaotic Attractors!

This is an Angel fanfic series in four parts. It's still in progress but I have the plotline planned out through to the end. The four parts will be "The Strange Attractor," "The Toroid Shape," "The Limit Cycle," and "The Final Point." Obviously, I'm writing "The Strange Attractor" first.

This series will contain spoilers up through After the Fall volume #2 (which obviously came after "Not Fade Away"), and is an attempt to answer a very simple question: if Wesley and Fred had gotten together around the time of "Waiting in the Wings," how different would things have been? What that happened in the later seasons of Angel was preordained and what was by choice? Can one still hit the beats that prophecy demands and yet change the future?

The fic will travel from after Season 5 back to Season 3, and then through Seasons 4 and 5 back to, well, after--definitely changing the ending of the series. This is a decidedly Wes/Fred fic, but there's also definite aspects of Wes/Illyria, and possibly other pairings. This is wish fulfillment of a sort--I always thought Wesley and Fred should've been together--but things will not neccesarily be happy and fun. This is PG-13 for the moment.

For those who're here because I'm writing this--what the heck? Since when do I write stories about other people's characters? Well, for one thing, the writer's block that's plagued me for years has finally broken, and the words are coming out in a flood. The Angel characters are people whose heads I can get into, and I have Fred on one shoulder and Illyria on the other going "write this, write this." Those who know me know what that means, and how impossible it is to ignore. :) Don't worry, the novels will get written, but with how prolific I'm being I somehow doubt this fic will suffer for it. I wrote 15,000 words on this thing in three days!

Anyhow. I will post the Chapters as they are finished (written, with a few editing passes) and open for comments and the like. There may be occassional "reality" interludes--I'll try to make it clear which is which.

I'll also be posting this to various communities, so if you checked me out from there--welcome! Sorry things are so bare for the moment. I'll be adding as time passes.

And now, on to the fic!