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excited

Welcome!
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!