ultra_fic | Day 26 of the 30 Day Shipping Meme

Day 26 - A pairing that you hated and ended up loving?

The only pairing I can think of that kind of fits this is Cordy & Angel.

I don't think I can say I ever hated the idea of these two together, more that it didn't make sense to me and I wasn't comfortable with it. I kept thinking, if Angel was so devoted to Buffy, how could he be with Cordy? Doesn't that just make her second best? Then I got to thinking about Doyle, because initially I was all about Cordy/Doyle, until of course the character died, and there wasn't even any chance of resurrection later, as with so many other Jossverse characters, when poor Glenn Quinn passed away in real life.

So, by the time we got well into Season 3, I was coming around to the idea that both Angel & Cordy should be allowed to move on (I actually prefer the idea of Angel not being so hung up on Buffy, since I've been a Spuffy shipper forever! lol) and I really wanted them to work. I hated suddenly teenaged Connor screwing it up!

In Season 5, when Cordy wakes from her coma (or rather doesn't but appears to) and comes back to help Angel one last time before she must go, well, the kiss good bye almost broke my heart! I wanted them to get happy ever after when it was all too late for it to happen *sigh*