Since Cordelia receiving Doyle's visions was actually the catalyst for every bad thing that later happened to her (A.K.A. the Jasmine arc), has anyone written an AU where Angel or the whole A.I. team go back in time and make sure she gives them to Groo, like it was prophesized she should have? (And the Jasmine stuff can't happen then, if Groo has them.) And then in obviously still needing to be able to know what these visions are, and what the Powers That Be are trying to tell them, they convince Groo to stay with them and to become a permanent part of Angel Investigations?
Or maybe a similar idea to all of this... but one where the author thought the visions weren't that important after all (which is definitely a stance one can take, because: Jasmine arc and The Powers That Be wanting the Twilight prophecy in the comics to happen. And how many people died there?), and then maybe had Angel or the team go so far back that Cordelia never got the visions from Doyle at all?
If the former fic exists, I imagine the author had Cordelia comforted that she is useful to the team without her visions? Because while she did take them on in "Birthday," largely in seeing the alternate universe where Angel had them drove him insane, and selflessly not wanting that for him, I do think there was a bit of Cordelia not wanting to be the "Zeppo" of her team, ironically, and that's part of the reason she thought she needed them.
