#Roger Wyndam Pryce

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Angel the Series 5x07 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7x09

[naoa-ao3]

The Burden of Fathers and Sons

Wesley is dead and Angel takes it upon himself to let his parents know. A difficult phone call ensues.

Angel doesn't want to make the phone call but someone has to and in the end he knew it would have to be him.

He'd found Wesley's parents' number in one of his old notebooks, notebooks that now felt like an invasion to handle and read. Notebooks with little scribblings and things that didn't mean anything to anyone any more.

The phone rings in his hand, the plastic cool against his face, the anticipation sour in his guts.

"Yes?" Comes an impatient voice on the other end.

Angel has never met this man. He thought he had once but he hadn't and now he's got to tell him that his son is dead.

"Mr. Wyndam-Pryce?" He asks, voice sticking in his throat.

"Unless you meant to ring someone else at this hour. Who is this?"

"Angel."

"Angel?"

"I work with Wesley." The words are dry, dead weight on his tongue because they aren't true. He doesn't work with Wesley any more.

"Yes, I know who you are. Now what do you want? Do you have any idea what time it is here?"

He doesn't and he doesn't really care. The burden of what he's got to do is suffocating him, crushing his chest. "I'm sorry." He mutters, knowing Wesley never saw eye to eye with this man, knowing Wesley had never managed to have the relationship he wanted with his father and knowing now that he never will.

"I'm sure but I'm only going to give you one more chance and then I'm hanging up. If it's terribly important, then get on with it."

He swallows. "It is."

"Well?"

He looks down. "Wesley's dead." It comes out easier than he'd thought it would. Horribly, it's too easy.

"I beg your pardon?"

There's a pause as Roger absorbs the shock on the other end.

Angel focuses on what he has to do. "I'm sorry." He say's again. "Wesley's dead."

He can hear air escaping from the man and imagines him deflating like a balloon. His only progeny. It must be a blow and Roger and his wife are probably too old to start over. Angel wishes anyone else could deliver the news. Anyone but him.

"Y-you're quite certain?" Roger sounds less pompous and irritable. He sounds fleetingly like an old man.

"Yes. I'm certain."

"I see. This will be very hard on his mother."

Angel nods bleakly. "I'm sorry." He say's again.

There's a slight intake of breath from across the ocean. "Was it in the line of duty?"

He imagines that means something to this man and his people. Duty makes their lives. Wesley had very nearly escaped all of that.

"Yes."

"I see."

Angel knows what it's like to lose a son only he got his back and Roger Wyndam-Pryce isn't going to. This is a finality. Wesley is dead for good. This is humanity in it's most enduring state.

"I. . . thank you I suppose, for letting me know. Wesley was. . . perhaps he was never cut out for field work. I'll admit to you that when he was first placed on active duty I had my doubts."

But that isn't really true, is it? Angel's seen Wesley in action. He won't again but he's seen it more than once and for all of his humanity, Wesley held his own. He'd held his own against demons and monsters and men of all kinds.

"I don't think I understood what kind of a man he was until it was too late." He admits, confessing to the dead man's father for some reason. He remembers Wesley struggling underneath him in a hospital bed and tastes shame. "But he was a good man and he was one of the most capable people I've ever met."

"Clearly not capable enough." Wyndam-Pryce sounds critical but there's defeat there too. He's lived long enough to see the end of his family. It's got to be taking a toll and Angel wonders if he has regrets too.

He wasn't a good father. Does he regret that now that it's too late to try again? Probably not and he think's that it was always probably too late for them.

"You should be proud of him." He say's, wanting to give Wesley something.

"What makes you think I'm not?" The retort is snapped and far more emotional than the man on the other end has probably ever wanted to sound. He's grieving despite things.

Angel feels the receiver becoming heavy against his face. "Wesley was under the impression that he had only ever disappointed you."

Roger makes a tsking sound. "I'm sure Wesley understood more than he let on. I shouldn't have had to tell him I was proud of him for him to know. That American need for constant validation. . ." He can hear him shake his head a million miles away. "Perhaps he spent too much time abroad. Did your own father tell you he was proud of you?"

And Angel doesn't want to think of his own father. "I didn't give him much to be proud of." He say's, just being honest.

"Well there you go."

Well there they go.

Angel feels a kind of pathetic cramping in his stomach. He can't judge this man but he does anyway. Wesley had spent his entire life trying to measure up to a man who couldn't even pay him a compliment in death.

"I. . ." And again the man sounds old on the other end. "Have you already had him buried?" He asks.

"No, we weren't able to recover the body."

There'd been too much chaos and destruction.

"I see then I'll arrange for a head stone here. It will mean a great deal to his mother."

And Angel wonders what any of it means to Roger who spent his whole life Watching and never seeing the worth in his own son. He must have been blind.

"Thank you for letting me know. . . I imagine in future you'll take more caution to protect the people you employ." It's only a little accusatory and Angel let's him have it. The man has just lost his only son and in future he will try but if there's ever been anyone he didn't think he needed to protect, it was Wesley.

He'd been wrong and now they're almost all dead. Doyle, Cordy, Darla and now Wesley. . . Fred too. . . he's failed.

"I'm sorry." He say's again, wanting the phone call to end.

No tears on the other end but he hadn't expected them.

"Yes well. . . we take a risk as Watchers. Even those of us who've left the fold." It's standoffish but it's what he's expected. Still it leaves acid in his mouth. Wesley deserved better than this man and as far as Angel's concerned, he more than measured up to him.

"If there's anything I can do-"

"I think you've done enough." Roger say's and finally he hears that there is something wet and angry in his voice, something grieving. "I thank you again for the call, good bye Angel."

"Yeah, uh. . . good bye."

The line clicks dead and Angel feels like a failure. One conversation with a man he's never really met and he's useless. Reduced to a school boy.

He imagines now he has some insight into Wesley's psyche. A life time spent trying to make a father proud. A life time failing to make a father proud.

He suddenly wishes he'd done something just once to make his own father proud of him but just like with Wesley and Roger, it's too late for him and it's too late for his father also.

Fathers and sons are tricky things. He thinks most of the time it's too late to fix things between them. It's too bad but that's the world they make for themselves. The only difference between him and Wesley is that Wesley tried.

Wesley tried and it just wasn't enough and now he's dead and no one's trying any more. No one ever really tries any more.

[gothamstreetcat]

hello, mum. it's me. no, everything's fine. I was hoping to speak with father, actually. yes, all right. hello, father. how are... I didn't realize it was so early there. i've had a bit of a... of course we have clocks in los angeles. listen, i wanted to... nothing's wrong. I just...

wanted to call...

and...

see how you were...

angel the series │ 5.07 "LINEAGE"

[enigmatist17]

Neither of them can remember what they were bickering about, words shriveling up and dying in their throats as they stare.

"Why it's that Angel fella!" Angel barely had enough chance to shove the bag in his hands into Spike's before he's embracing a familiar woman, her husband behind ehr with a happy smile. "Good to see you son."

"Mom, you're gonna break him in half!" A familiar giggle squeezed Angel's long dead heart into mush, and somehow it was Fred to pull her mother away, her smile blinding as Angel wobbled in place. "He just got back from a trip."

"Oh we know the feeling!" Fred's mother laughed, slipping an arm around her daughter as Angel shook her husbands hand. "Y'all have done well for yourselves, and picked up a new team member?"

"Name's Spike luv." Spike purred, his free hand reaching out to shake hers, going s far as to kiss her knuckles. "Pleasure is all mine..?"

"Trish, and my husband is Roger." The older woman blushed at the gesture. "You're an absolute peach."

"On my best day." He winked, shaking Roger's hand before stepping back beside Angel.

"Well, we're going to see Fred's lab before we have to leave, our flight is in a few hours," Roger tipped his head toward his daughter and Wesley, the former Watcher having plastered on a smile that didn't reach his eyes. "If we have time we'll check in with you boys."

"Sounds good, now come on you two, time's a wasting." Fred giggled, Roger and Trish both missing the absolute look of anger from Angel as she ushered them away and up the stairs across the lobby. Neither Angel nor Spike could come up with the words to register what had just happened, for now busying themselves with delivering the head they'd been able to fetch in Rome before going to Angel's office and straight to the liquor cabinet. Spike wasted no time in drinking, idly listening to Angel upgrading the trip for the Burkle's as the whiskey burns its way down his throat, trying to drown all those nasty little feelings that were beating against the inside of his chest. He doesn't have to ask how Angel is doing, the poorly suppresed anger scenting the air so heavily it made poor Harmony jump when she entered to drop some files off, the younger vampire fleeing with a nervous smile as Angel stared at the paperwork.

It's no surprise when Wesley joins them a while later, the three sitting in silence as time passed by in a blur. They don't know what to do next, what to say to the god who had thankfully fucked off for now, so they just sit and drink.

It's all they can really do right now.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, November 20

Tara smiles, turns to put down the gift and hang up her coat. BUFFY: Besides, I'm definitely not ready to, to... TARA: (turns back) Come out. BUFFY: (smiles) Yeah. I'm all ... stay-inny.

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5 Comfort Characters, 5 Tags

I got tagged by @soaringornithopter and I thought I'd play along.

I usually don't frame my comfort characters with that term, but I feel like they're the characters that I feel some sort of weird connection with that drives me into the fandom. This, I've only learned recently, is stereotypical PDA people-focused special interests behavior*. Fun times.

Benton Fraser (Due South)

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Buffy and Angel, but mostly on Angel)

Arthur (Merlin)

Steve Rogers (MCU)

Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)

Are these all characters with strong moral codes (explicit or implicit, frequently developed during the story) that decide to the do the right thing for (very different) reasons and move forward in a heroic way (results my vary) no matter the personal price? Maybe.

*this isn't what comfort characters mean for the vast majority of fandom, but it is what they mean to me and how I interact with them YMMV

(Tagging other people actually brings me anxiety, so we're going to skip that one today)

[mossomness]

Roy Dotrice, aka Roger Wyndam Pryce, died today at the age of 94. His character had such a big impact for only appearing in one episode.

[starryeyesxx]

[mycatismyfriend]

Angel the Series | 5x07 "Lineage" for @bigbad1880.

[naoa-ao3]

The Burden of Fathers and Sons

Angel doesn't want to make the phone call but someone has to and in the end he knew it would have to be him.

He'd found Wesley's parents' number in one of his old notebooks, notebooks that now felt like an invasion to handle and read. Notebooks with little scribblings and things that didn't mean anything to anyone any more.

The phone rings in his hand, the plastic cool against his face, the anticipation sour in his guts.

"Yes?" Comes an impatient voice on the other end.

Angel has never met this man. He thought he had once but he hadn't and now he's got to tell him that his son is dead.

"Mr. Wyndam-Pryce?" He asks, voice sticking in his throat.

"Unless you meant to ring someone else at this hour. Who is this?"

"Angel."

"Angel?"

"I work with Wesley." The words are dry, dead weight on his tongue because they aren't true. He doesn't work with Wesley any more.

"Yes, I know who you are. Now what do you want? Do you have any idea what time it is here?"

He doesn't and he doesn't really care. The burden of what he's got to do is suffocating him, crushing his chest. "I'm sorry." He mutters, knowing Wesley never saw eye to eye with this man, knowing Wesley had never managed to have the relationship he wanted with his father and knowing now that he never will.

"I'm sure but I'm only going to give you one more chance and then I'm hanging up. If it's terribly important, then get on with it."

He swallows. "It is."

"Well?"

He looks down. "Wesley's dead." It comes out easier than he'd thought it would. Horribly, it's too easy.

"I beg your pardon?"

There's a pause as Roger absorbs the shock on the other end.

Angel focuses on what he has to do. "I'm sorry." He say's again. "Wesley's dead."

He can hear air escaping from the man and imagines him deflating like a balloon. His only progeny. It must be a blow and Roger and his wife are probably too old to start over. Angel wishes anyone else could deliver the news. Anyone but him.

"Y-you're quite certain?" Roger sounds less pompous and irritable. He sounds fleetingly like an old man.

"Yes. I'm certain."

"I see. This will be very hard on his mother."

Angel nods bleakly. "I'm sorry." He say's again.

There's a slight intake of breath from across the ocean. "Was it in the line of duty?"

He imagines that means something to this man and his people. Duty makes their lives. Wesley had very nearly escaped all of that.

"Yes."

"I see."

Angel knows what it's like to lose a son only he got his back and Roger Wyndam-Pryce isn't going to. This is a finality. Wesley is dead for good. This is humanity in it's most enduring state.

"I. . . thank you I suppose, for letting me know. Wesley was. . . perhaps he was never cut out for field work. I'll admit to you that when he was first placed on active duty I had my doubts."

But that isn't really true, is it? Angel's seen Wesley in action. He won't again but he's seen it more than once and for all of his humanity, Wesley held his own. He'd held his own against demons and monsters and men of all kinds.

"I don't think I understood what kind of a man he was until it was too late." He admits, confessing to the dead man's father for some reason. He remembers Wesley struggling underneath him in a hospital bed and tastes shame. "But he was a good man and he was one of the most capable people I've ever met."

"Clearly not capable enough." Wyndam-Pryce sounds critical but there's defeat there too. He's lived long enough to see the end of his family. It's got to be taking a toll and Angel wonders if he has regrets too.

He wasn't a good father. Does he regret that now that it's too late to try again? Probably not and he think's that it was always probably too late for them.

"You should be proud of him." He say's, wanting to give Wesley something.

"What makes you think I'm not?" The retort is snapped and far more emotional than the man on the other end has probably ever wanted to sound. He's grieving despite things.

Angel feels the receiver becoming heavy against his face. "Wesley was under the impression that he had only ever disappointed you."

Roger makes a tsking sound. "I'm sure Wesley understood more than he let on. I shouldn't have had to tell him I was proud of him for him to know. That American need for constant validation. . ." He can hear him shake his head a million miles away. "Perhaps he spent too much time abroad. Did your own father tell you he was proud of you?"

And Angel doesn't want to think of his own father. "I didn't give him much to be proud of." He say's, just being honest.

"Well there you go."

Well there they go.

Angel feels a kind of pathetic cramping in his stomach. He can't judge this man but he does anyway. Wesley had spent his entire life trying to measure up to a man who couldn't even pay him a compliment in death.

"I. . ." And again the man sounds old on the other end. "Have you already had him buried?" He asks.

"No, we weren't able to recover the body."

There'd been too much chaos and destruction.

"I see then I'll arrange for a head stone here. It will mean a great deal to his mother."

And Angel wonders what any of it means to Roger who spent his whole life Watching and never seeing the worth in his own son. He must have been blind.

"Thank you for letting me know. . . I imagine in future you'll take more caution to protect the people you employ." It's only a little accusatory and Angel let's him have it. The man has just lost his only son and in future he will try but if there's ever been anyone he didn't think he needed to protect, it was Wesley.

He'd been wrong and now they're almost all dead. Doyle, Cordy, Darla and now Wesley. . . Fred too. . . he's failed.

"I'm sorry." He say's again, wanting the phone call to end.

No tears on the other end but he hadn't expected them.

"Yes well. . . we take a risk as Watchers. Even those of us who've left the fold." It's standoffish but it's what he's expected. Still it leaves acid in his mouth. Wesley deserved better than this man and as far as Angel's concerned, he more than measured up to him.

"If there's anything I can do-"

"I think you've done enough." Roger say's and finally he hears that there is something wet and angry in his voice, something grieving. "I thank you again for the call, good bye Angel."

"Yeah, uh. . . good bye."

The line clicks dead and Angel feels like a failure. One conversation with a man he's never really met and he's useless. Reduced to a school boy.

He imagines now he has some insight into Wesley's psyche. A life time spent trying to make a father proud. A life time failing to make a father proud.

He suddenly wishes he'd done something just once to make his own father proud of him but just like with Wesley and Roger, it's too late for him and it's too late for his father also.

Fathers and sons are tricky things. He thinks most of the time it's too late to fix things between them. It's too bad but that's the world they make for themselves. The only difference between him and Wesley is that Wesley tried.

Wesley tried and it just wasn't enough and now he's dead and no one's trying any more. No one ever really tries any more.

[hufflepufftribute]

Friends, I need fic recommendations. No smut today, we need the fluff, comfort, injured. ALL THE FLUFF. I'll tag things? IDK, thanks in advance.

[avamclean]

Chapter 6 is posted and I’ve got another chapter waiting in the wings and I’m working on the guts of next right now. 
I wrote a scene that explains why Connor is alive and with Angel and Co., but it doesn’t really fit in the story. Should I post it here?

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, March 3rd - Monday, March 4th

WESLEY: This world must be a terrible disappointment to you. ILLYRIA: Grievous. WESLEY: I'm not too impressed with it myself.

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Since you had SO MUCH FUN choosing between characters/ships you don't like: Buffy/Xander or Willow/Xander as a romantic pairing? Klaroline or Fresley? Wesley's father or Amy's mother? Klaus or Melinda May? Again---you're welcome and I love you too! xoxo

Buffy/Xander, since A) Willow’s gay and the only man I can conceivably ship with is Oz, because Woz was really good, and B) I think there was a narrow window in Season 1 where Bander could technically have happened, though I’m not sure if it could have lasted.

Fresley. Because Klaroline would need a lot more groundwork to be theoretically possible.

Wesley’s father. A raging douchnozzle, but not evil.

Klaus - he has a few moments in The Originals. May was either bland and unlikeable, or hated enough that I wanted to kill her with fire.

again, y u so mean? 

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Wesley: Sometimes, I don’t realize an event was traumatic until I tell it as a funny story and notice everyone is staring at me weird.