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Angel's not very good at public relations. He hates dealing with public relations. This is why Cordelia always handled people, and why he had a department to handle that when he was running Wolfram & Hart. Something, however, needs to be said before things get out of line. And if he doesn't say it, who will?

Here goes nothing.

"If we wanted to eat you, we would've already," is probably not the best way to start this, but it's certainly one way to get everyone's attention. "Most of the vampires here in Taxon have been here for a long time, some of us pushing a year, others two. The only evidence you'll find against us can be placed during times when we were glitched. None of us can control that. If anyone's at fault for the things we've done while glitched, it's the hamsters. If we're to be held accountable for those actions, then by that logic, you should be, too, for the things you've done when glitched out of your mind and acting on impulses that you've otherwise got under control.

"I'm not saying that your fear isn't justified or that you don't have reason to be cautious. You do. We're predators, specifically designed to hunt you down. The point is that we don't. Letting paranoia and fear control you is only going to make things worse. We want to survive as much as you do; getting rid of our means of survival is not paying us the same respect we're paying you.

"Many of us have been around a long time. We haven't lived this long by being so stupid as to do what you expect of us. Most worlds have vampires that have gone unnoticed, because we don't get involved or cause trouble... with a few exceptions here and there." Like him, back in the day before that gypsy curse. "Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone. There's no reason to ruin how well we've been cohabitating in Taxon, just because we're all stuck in the same building. If anything, we should be working together to find a way out."

( ooc | i'm heading out the door to a concert, but wanted to get this up before i left. will hit tags when i get home later tonight. ♥ )

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"You don't know how bad it got," Angel snaps with an intensity in his voice that wasn't present before. It's every bit the tone of an overprotective father and someone who's lost too much and seen too much, all rolled into one. "He was going to kill himself. I couldn't-- I couldn't let it end like that for him. He deserved better than me."

She was going to argue. She really, really was. And then -- he was going to kill himself.

And all Buffy could think about was seeing Dawn in the hall, blood dripping down her arms. She swallowed, hard.

"You stopped him, then. With all that...undoing?"

"I did. And I'd do it again."

Angel, you really need to curb the messing with time habit. Seriously.

"To save your -- your someone who's so important to you? Of course you would. And again and again and again."

She may be thinking about Dawn, at the moment.

"You'd be surprised by the lengths I'd go to and have gone to to save someone."

Chewing out a mystical conduit to the Powers That Be: Not the best life choice, but he'd do it again.

"No, Angel." Her voice was firm. Affectionate, in its own steeled and harsh kind of way. "I don't think I would be. No matter what the length."

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