Author's note: Okay, so it's been up here before but I decided to put it into chapters...

Prologue

"Riley! Watch out! Behind you!" Willow was surprisingly strong for such a small girl. She pushed him out of the way as the vampire jumped from the roof of a nearby mausoleum and bowl her over, falling on top of her. Immediately the vamp was grabbed by Xander and thrown towards Spike, who proceeded to beat the stuffing out of him. He snarled and stumbled away.

"Willow!" Cordelia yelled, throwing the stake and Willow slammed it into the vampire's chest. He exploded, showering them all with dust.

"Well, that was just fun…" Spike dusted himself off as Faith ran from another corner of the graveyard.

She grinned. "Five over to the left and three coming up from the right." She pulled out holy water, stakes and crosses and doled them out. "Party time," she howled and ran off into the night, Spike right behind her.

"They have way too much fun with this…" Cordelia curled her lip. "C'mon Xander. We have two vamps to take out." They slipped off, leaving Riley and Willow alone.

They're so together and organized. Like the Initiative but they're friends. They don't have to do this but they put their lives on the line every night for people they don't even see. "So, Buffy's coming home in a week?" said Riley, trying to fill the uncomfortable silence.

Willow nodded, and then realized that he couldn't see her. "Yup. She's down visiting her dad. Having fun, I hear."

He nodded. "I see."

"Yup." She fiddled with the stake then froze, staring into the dark.

Riley saw the two vampires step from the shadows and grin lazily at the two humans, wondering how Willow knew that they were there. The taller of the two looked Willow up and down, making Riley's blood boil and he tensed.

"I could make you live forever, little girl," the vampire hissed.

Stepping closer to him, she ran her fingers up his chest. "With you?" she asked huskily. Riley made a move to stop her but she held up a hand behind her back.

"Yeah. If your boyfriend doesn't mind." He licked his lips. It was too easy.

"Um, no?" She plunged the stake into his chest and he disintegrated. Then she turned to the other one, a female. "How about you? Do you want to help me live forever too?"

The other vampire didn't even have a chance to open her mouth before Riley's stake ripped into her.

"Good job, Private." Willow grinned her 'Willow grin' and he wondered how she could do that. How she could be all sexy and sultry and then just bottle it up. "Let's go back to the car. I'm sure they're all waiting…" she said, breaking the silence and led the way back to the parking lot.