Chapter 2 - Rise and shine

After much research (this wan't too much of a chore for Willow Rosenberg, she'd always favoured the research side of their usual excursions) they finally settled on a spell to awaken Angel. He'd been in a sort of coma for days now, possibly weeks, they had no idea how long it had taken Spike to reach them. Being a vampire, Angel would be able to survive the wounds, but first they would have to revive him.

Willow had come complete with supplies (just like any run-of-the-mill action-figure wicca should) so the spell was easily set up.

It was pretty ordinary as far as spells go; a few petals, a large amount of stinky animal intestines, a pentagle of candles, a twig and a daft sounding ritual mantra which sounded oddly like 'Oooh camel, camel, camel.' but was no doubt spelled, 'Owah K'Amell'. There was a small amount of thunder, the lights snapped out and Willow suddenly went into overdrive and started chanting words which were not in the book.

But, of course, the important thing was that Angel woke up. The slightly less important thing was that Spike saw some kind of wild rat run across the floor and attempted to have a conversation with it. His attempt failed and he vowed never to speak to said rodent again.

Unlike Spike, Angel accepted blood with ease and soon he was able to walk around. In fact, if he had ever wanted to, he could have skipped around...but that would defeat the purpose of being the ensoulled brooding type that he was.

Buffy and the others, including Angel, were now set on the task of bringing Spike back into the world of the sane. But, as Angel pointed out on several occasions, this proved difficult because Spike had never really had both feet in the world of the sane in the first place. He'd always had a toe over into insanity territory.

They tried unchaining him, but he was too weak to get up. They tried talking to him, but he never made enough sense to get a decent conversation out of. And finally they decided that magical assistance was perhaps called for.

And this is how the whole crazy business started.

A.N.- wow, that was one short chappie, huh? My humble apologies :) But, please review?

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