Deliver Us

Summary: Angel is back. There's another prophecy. It involves Spike. It involves Buffy. It involves humanity.

Author's Note: This is the sequel to Hells Angels. My idea for the name of this comes from the Lord's Prayer: deliver us from evil… Angel and Spike being turned human. Being delivered from evil, back to good and human. Since I got so many good reviews about Hells Angels (thankyou all so much, from the bottom of my heart) I decided to write a sequel. If you haven't read Hells Angels, then you might want to because you won't have much of an idea of what's going on. :) Anyway, please read and review. All opinions welcome!

Previously, Hells Angels

Angel and Spike headed off to France where Buffy was living on another Hellmouth. While helping Angel to heal from extensive wounds, Spike told Buffy, Willow, Xander and Dawn the tale of how he lived after the battle in the Sunnydale Hellmouth. When Angel was well, he made the decision to die so that he could save the world (again). He was a Black Thorn, and as long as that society was alive the Senior Partners ruled Earth and its dimension. Angel got Spike to stake him, sending him to purgatory where it was decided that Angel had fulfilled the Shanshu Prophecy and could become human. He was sent back to Earth as Liam, his once human name, with another prophecy about Spike.

Chapter One: Here's a Twist…

'Did I hear you right Angel?' Willow asked.

'Liam.' Liam replied. 'It's Liam. And you did hear me right.' He was over the moon. He was human! He was alive! He had a pulse and a heartbeat!

'I'm gonna be human?' Spike asked.

'Just like me.' Liam smiled and looked Spike in the eye. The moment was beautiful. It was like something out of a fairytale… a twisted, demonic fairytale.

'I don't want to be just like you Angel. I spent years trying to not be like you.' Spike protested. 'But this…' he pondered the thought for a moment. 'This is different.'

''You'll be human like me, Spike, but you won't be like me. We're totally different, as we were when we were human all those years ago. Spike, this is what you've been fighting for. This is what you got your soul for, love and humanity.' Liam explained.

'I didn't do it for me you git.' Spike jumped on Liam's claim. 'Sure, I did it out of love. But the love wasn't returned. Eventually I found out about a possibility of humanity, yeah, but that wasn't what I've been fighting for all this time.'

Liam watched Spike closely. 'Okay, so what were you fighting for then?' he asked.

'I don't really know.' Spike concluded after a moment's thought. 'I got a soul 'cause I wanted Buffy to love me, and the only way I could get her to love me is if I had a soul. But after that, things got complicated. I got brought to Los Angeles and then I was fighting for something else. I still don't know what, but I'm still fighting for it 'cause I haven't got it.'

'Spike, forget what you're fighting for. Take this opportunity. You can be human, and never have to worry about this ever again.'

'But both you and Spike will be around me, the Slayer.' Buffy interjected. 'You'll be around fighting all the time. You won't be immortal, so how can you stay alive? Can you still fight well?'

'Let's find out.' Spike snarled and leapt at Angel, knocking him into the dining room. Angel hit the leg of the table with his shoulder.

'Ow. This all hurts more when you're alive.' Liam complained. Spike grabbed Liam's coat and pulled him up.

'Do me a favour, don't hold back.' Spike whispered, throwing him back against the wall. Liam stumbled, trying to stay on his feet. His shoulder throbbed in a pain he wasn't used to.

He threw a punch out which connected with Spike's jaw, throwing his head in a sideways motion. He threw another, knocking it back the other side. Spike kicked out, catching Liam's left shin. He cried out in pain, leaning forwards.

'Spike… stop.' Liam pleaded. Spike threw a punch at his ex-grandsire's face. He grunted as he landed against the wall and fell to the floor.

'Spike,' Buffy grabbed Spike's wrist. 'He said stop.'

'Not so strong after all, are we now?' Spike teased.

'With a little training I'm sure I can fight stronger as human.' Liam assured them.

'Are you sure Liam?' Willow piped up. 'I mean, you took a surprise beating from Spike and didn't come out on the top end.'

'I'm fine Willow.' Liam said, getting to his feet slowly and painfully. Buffy tried to help him to a chair.

'So what's the go with the "Spike's gonna be human" then?' Xander asked as everyone crowded around.

'The Powers that Be sent me back with another prophecy.' Liam explained. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the sheet of paper. He handed it to Spike.

'Name… Liam O'Connor… Background… Irish… Born… Galway, Ireland 1969… Age… 35…' He looked up after reading out a few lines. 'They gave you a new identity.' He concluded.

Liam nodded. 'Keep reading Spike.' Liam pointed at a section underneath his details.

'Name… William Rochdale… Background… English… Born… London, England 1971… Age… 33…' He didn't look up straight away this time; his eyes remained on the page. He was interested now. They had given him a whole new identity, just like Angel. Liam. He and Liam could be the best of friends, as human. They could live, and love, and fight by Buffy's side.

'So what do you say, Spike?' Liam asked. 'Do you want it this bad?'

'Yeah, but I don't wanna go down in a fight as easily as you just did.' Spike sneered.

'We can train you both in England. Giles has some of the girls there, and every new Slayer we locate we send off for training. There's always someone new coming in.' Buffy offered.

'So we wont be here...' Spike assumed. '…With you.'

'Well, we could always train them here, right?' Dawn asked Buffy. She didn't exactly want human Spike and Angel to go so quickly. She remembered spending nights with Spike in his crypt when he had no soul, only the chip. And remembered Angel always being there to talk to.

'I guess we could.' Buffy replied.

'Ooh! It's gonna be great to have you guys here with us.' Willow jumped at the thought. 'There are so many good things you never got to do as vampires.'

'Like tan, go to the beach, comb our hair in the mirror…' Liam suggested sarcastically.

'That and many other things. There is food, for one thing.' Willow said.

'You have got to taste choc-min ice-cream.' Dawn added. 'It's to die for.'

'I'm not planning on dying anytime soon.' Liam jumped in quickly. 'I just got my humanity back, and I think that it's about time Spike did too.' Liam saw the look on Spike's face.

'I'm ready.' He said. 'What do we do?'

'Um… Vai didn't say.' Liam answered.

'Who's Vai?' Xander asked. 'A lady friend?'

'She was the one who I spoke to when I died. Se told me about the prophecies, but she didn't tell me how yours worked Spike.' Liam explained.

'Maybe it says something about it on this piece of paper.' Spike began reading below his new details.

'Liam, you haven't told us what the prophecy for Spike actually is.' Willow spoke up.

'Think I found it.' Spike interrupted. He read from the page, 'This prophecy states that the demon who has love for and is loved by the Slayer will be turned human to bring the two together.' Everyone was silent.

'Love?' Buffy asked, kind of surprised. 'The prophecy is about love?'

'I told you I loved you Buffy.' Spike replied. 'Maybe someone really took notice of what I said.'

'But I don't understand.' Buffy whined.

'You don't have to Buffy.' Liam began explaining. 'Vai told me that Spike will be turned human so that you two can live and love each other.'

'You do still love me, don't you?' Spike asked suddenly, making everyone a little uneasy.

'Yes Spike, I do.' Liam took her comment pretty well, considering the change he'd just been through. 'I'm sorry Angel, times have changed.' She explained, looking his direction.

'I understand. It doesn't matter, I have someone waiting for me.' Liam explained. 'She's a bit out-of-the-ordinary, but I think I like her.'

'Werewolf-girl?' Spike asked.

'Yes, Nina. I sent her on holiday with her family. She's in Italy, so now I can go and find her and tell her that I love her now that everything is over.' Liam was happy at the thought of him finally being able to have a stable relationship with someone.

'And what are you going to do if she doesn't want you back?' Spike asked, not knowing that Angel had met with Nina before the big show went down in Los Angeles.

'I told her that if I survived then I'd come and find her. I wasn't serious because I wasn't counting on making it, and she didn't believe it either. But I am still here, so I can go and find her. I can tell her that I'm human and we can be together again.'

'You seem awful chippy 'bout this Liam.' Spike commented. 'You've never been this happy about love before.'

'Because Nina is different Spike.' Liam shot back.

'Yeah, she's a werewolf.'

'She's someone close to me Spike. Or, she was until I sent her away. But that was for her own safety. I don't have Buffy anymore, so I found someone else.' Buffy was taken by surprise that he would come right out and say it like that.

'You're not cursed anymore.' Buffy said. 'You don't have to worry about going evil.' She smiled at the thought of her first true love finally being able to live a normal life. She couldn't, but at least she had Spike.

'So, uh, are we gonna deal with the "Spike's-meant-to-be-human-too" thing now?' Xander asked.

'You ready?' Liam asked. Everyone looked on. 'Read what it says after it describes the prophecy.'

Spike looked down at the paper he held in his hands and read out the passage underneath.

'I declare myself fit to fulfil this prophecy, as it has been advised by beings higher than myself.

I choose to return to my once human form and live, as I would have before my siring.

I wish to be made whole again to live and breathe as a human being.

Here my plea, make me that which I was.

Make me human.'

Spike looked up at his friends, gathered all around him. For a moment there was nothing.

'It didn't work.' Dawn whispered. Suddenly, Spike felt a buzzing sensation. His whole body seemed to get colder for a few seconds.

'Uh… I think it worked.' He replied. Liam, Buffy, Dawn, Willow and Xander watched as Spike slowly shimmered away.

Author's Note: If you did the math to this year for Angel/Liam's age, then you would have got it wrong. The end of the Angel series came in 2004; therefore since this fan.fic is set a little while after the battle, it is actually the same year. So if Liam was born in 1969, then to the year 2004 he is 35. Just to clear that up. So, do you like the first chapter of the sequel? Tell me what you think. I'll update quicker with more reviews… lol just joking. I'll update when I've finished typing! But I love getting lots and lots of reviews :)