This story is set a little over a year after the series finally of Angel and 2 years after the Buffy finally.

-Buffy and her boyfriend Steven were walking along the streets of New York, they were suppose to meet this guy for Steven's work and they were running a little late after Buffy had decided to do a little shopping along the way. She had been living in New York for six months now. Europe had gotten boring after a while and she had started to miss America so her and her sister had moved back to the States, mainly New York. Buffy was certain that she was going to hate it because of the cold but she had been wrong, she loved it, and the shopping had a lot to do with it.

-She was officially retired form the slaying business, now she spent most of her time teaching slayers here in New York. All of her friends were here too, they were now part of the new council that was run by Giles, everything was going great for everybody, even Dawn, who had done a lot of complaining when Buffy had told her that she was to attend a normal school instead of slayer school which she had been attending in Europe. Now she was almost all cut up on the time she had missed because of all the demon fighting that they had done in Sunnydale, she was about to start college in Columbia in 4 months. Buffy was terribly proud of her.

-Buffy had been particularly busy enjoying having a normal life, well as normal as possible for her. She dated, a lot, she didn't want to tie herself down just yet. Her and Steven had been seeing each other for a little over a month, which was the longest she had been seeing one person since she had retired.

-Buffy was so cut up thinking about how her life had changed that she wasn't paying attention to what Steven was saying.

-"Buffy, are you listening to me?" He asked concerned.

-"Oh! Sorry I was thinking about something else, I'm sorry", she apologized.

-"It's alright. So like I was saying, this guy that we're meeting, my company's dying to hire him, apparently he's one of the best lawyer in town."

-"Why wouldn't he want to work for you guys?" Buffy tried to look interested in all this business stuff. This was proving to be kind of hard because most of the time she had no idea what he was talking about.

-"It appears that, he is very specific as to who he takes on as client. From what I've heard he's some kind of good Samaritan, he only works for people with an extra clean reputation."

-"what's wrong with your reputation?"

-"Nothing, I think. But rumour has it that he likes to dig around in people's past to make sure before discussing anything."

-"Well, if he wanted to tell you that there was no chance in hell he'll work for you, then why would he ask for me to be there." Buffy questioned.

-"From what he told me, he already had plan with his girlfriend today, but since I told him that I really needed his help he asked if I knew anyone that could keep her company while we talked, and well, who's better than you for small talk."

-"Thank you, I think."

-"It shouldn't take that long anyway. He's in or he's out. We're almost there. Start looking out okay."

-"I don't even know what he looks like. How…" Buffy paused. She had this weird feeling in the pit of her stomach. She decided to shake it off, this meeting was important for Steven she couldn't screw it up because of some bad food.

-"Buffy, are you alright." He noticed she had stopped talking in the middle of a sentence.

-"Yeah I'm fine. Probably just some bad food." The two of them kept walking. Buffy was getting worried, the more she walked the worst it got. She got thinking, the feeling wasn't new, she used to feel like that when…

-She never got to finish her thought, she saw him.

-"Angel!" she murmured.