I think they were equally important in different ways, at different times. Cordelia, and Angel, gave Wesley a home and made him feel needed when he desperately needed both.

Lilah wanted him, when no one else did, even though she had dozens of reasons not to.

He would have done the same for an intern.

He'd have gone *into* W&H on purpose to save an intern? I don't think so. He went in specifically to save her ass.

More for himself than her.

How is admitting to the people you want, deep in your heart, and the woman you've been dreaming of for quite some time, that you love someone they regard as Satan's Right Hand, something done for yourself? I fear I don't see that at all.

I suppose one could say that he was trying to paint the best possible picture of events, but that doesn't mesh with how he spoke of it, first in rebuking Fred, and then to Gunn, when he was more than half-shocked at her showing up in Home.

Illyria's getup is better if you scroll down to this [link] pic.

He'd have gone *into* W&H on purpose to save an intern? I don't think so. He went in specifically to save her ass.

Been a while since I've seen that episode. I'd forgotten that he went in for her, thought he was in there and found her.

How is admitting to the people you want, deep in your heart, and the woman you've been dreaming of for quite some time, that you love someone they regard as Satan's Right Hand, something done for yourself? I fear I don't see that at all.

How is it for anybody else?

How is it for anybody else?

In the sort of abstract respect sense, I suppose. Nothing that does anyone any concrete good, especially with one party in theory dead and beyond caring, but still something that's for the other person.

Connie! Slap my hand now!

t slap!

Lilah-Wes was one of the big things that got me through the Connor season.

Lilah-Wes was one of the big things that got me through the Connor season

Absolutely.

No, no, Lilah/Wes was part and parcel of the deliciously fucked-up numminess that was the Connor season(s).

Cordy/Connor didn't bother me, I think it part, because I knew it was designed to bring misery, and it wasn't portrayed in any shippy kind of light, or as if it were in any way right. I suspect I like to see the Hairloaf in pain, because I think him catching sight of it was all I needed to be all aboard the painful S.S. Bonbon.

That said, I hated a lot of stuff here and there, for a while, and Wes/Lilah kept me tuning in, when nothing else did.

How is it for anybody else?

It's not done selfishly, because it's hard. It's done because of someone else, because of their impact on your life.

It's not the easy way out, nor the gentle.