Blue Moon Rising: Fanfic: "New Choices" by Hjmugillecuty

RATING: FRC [GF]

SUMMARY: Wolfram and Hart is now AI.

SPOILERS: Up to and including "Home".

PAIRING: Wes/Fred

DISCLAIMER: These characters do not belong to me; they belong to their original creators and I make no profit.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Season Finale! I might go back and do one of these for "Deep Down" and "The House Always Wins". I think those are the only ones I missed. Archive permission granted to Whole New World and Blue Moon Rising. Enjoy.

Fred's POV:

Wolfram and Hart is ours? That magnificent science laboratory with its gallons of chemicals and mountains of equipment is mine to play with and do with as I, as we, choose? The things I could do with that laboratory and the knowledge of its scientists are staggering. We could develop amazing anesthetics, regenerate organs and limbs, open portals and explore the other dimensions, we could even look for a cure for cancer. There is so much good we could do.

And Wesley could do research. All the books and prophecies are available to him now. All that history and a lot of the future that he could explore and discover. But even with all that at his fingertips, I didn't think he'd take the offer. I didn't think I would either. Apparently Charles was going to accept it, even if the rest of us didn't.

But Angel seems to have taken the decision away. He took the deal. He's in charge of the LA branch of Wolfram and Hart. Although I guess it's not Wolfram and Hart anymore. It's Angel Investigations on a large scale. The building, the personnel, the files, and all that wonderful equipment are ours. Ours to play with, ours to do good with. I can hardly imagine all the good we can do maybe branch out from LA and help the world again.

Because we didn't end world peace, we ended an attempt to take away the free will inherent in every person around the world. That woman, that Jasmine, was trying to destroy our right to choose whom we will be, to make the decisions that affect our lives. What we do, who we love, those are choices we get to make, no one else gets to make them for us.

Lorne seemed so happy, singing in our new lobby, he's going to love working here. I wasn't as sure, until he spun me into Wesley, and right then I realized that whatever choice Wesley made, mine would be the same. Because I trust him, I trust his judgment and motives, and I want to be near him. Because through it all, through everything we've done since he brought me back from Pylea, I still love him.

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