It's been two months since Angel met Nev and she gave him The Book of Death. Two weeks after he got the Book of Death for the ritual of reincarnation, he read there that this ritual could be done in only three chosen days in this exact year. On one of these days he would bring back to this world the guardian angel that was the only way to keep them safe.

As for his life. He and Spike were going well, but Spike was getting broodier by the day. Angel was thinking of bringing him to Nev. Maybe she'd be able to cheer him up. She seemed to have that effect on people…well you know what I mean.

Spike was cursing again. Two months and he hasn't heard from her. He wanted to ask her so many things. He wanted to know how Buffy was, if she was married or if she was still single. But after that night she disappeared.

Flashback

"Spike?" she said stricken

He moved closer to her ready to hug her but as soon as he got near enough she hit him with force, he was sure, she didn't possess six years ago. It hurt! She hit him twice more until he was lying on the ground and she was pointing a silver stake at his heart.

"Who are you and how do you know about Spike?"

"I am Spike!"

"Wrong answer, Spike died six years ago." The stake was piercing his skin

"Sodding hell Red, I popped out of an amulet in Peaches' office. Geroff."

She stared at him with surprise and slowly stood up. When he followed her off the ground she chocked a sob.

"Oh my God! You are Spike!" she seemed thoughtful for a minute.

"SPIKE!" She screamed as if she had just realized the situation and threw herself at him, enveloping him in a hug.

He was surprised to say the least, but happy that she was so glad to see him. There was only one thing he could do. He hugged her back.

"Haya, Red!"

She moved away from him and he could see the tears on her face.

"I thought you were dead!"

"Well, I am not, so here." He said smiling.

She smiled back and turned her back on him. His face fell. Was she walking away from him? After few more meters, she stopped and turned around.

"Well? Why are you standing there, we don't have enough time to catch up on till the sun rises."

End Flashback

And now he was "brooding" like stupid poof, because the information for Buffy was so close and he couldn't have it.

Angel saw Spike sitting on the sofa in his flat cursing under his nose.

"What's going on?" he said gaining his childe's attention.

"Nothing!" he wasn't sure if the news that Red was in town should be out for now.

"Buffy called!" informed Angel with note of concern.

"Really?"

"Yes, she said… Spike did you know that Willow disappeared after we fought the first?"

"What?" he jumped from the sofa That is not good!

"She just disappeared. She's been announced dead but they are still looking for her."

"Why are they calling now?"

"Because they are desperate. She hasn't called, she hasn't written. It's just like, what did she use to call it, ah poof."

Spike nodded

"Like she never existed?"

"Yes!"

Uncomfortable silence followed.

"What happened with the ritual?"

"That's the other thing that concerned me. It didn't work."

"It didn't work? And you're telling me now? Why?"

"I've been trying to translate that part in the book that says about the person that's doing the ritual."

"Well?"

"I can't. I was using the oldest dictionaries of Egyptian dead languages. I checked all of them. I talked to demons and people who are specialists in these areas, no one has ever heard of this language."

"Great, and now what?"

Angel thought about it for a minute.

"Oz." he said finally

"Oz? Wolf boy? What does he have to do about it?"
"He is working at the library I told you about."

"And?"
"We are going there. He can help us."

Spike followed his sire out of the building. First Red, now the dog. Something's not right.

Twenty minutes later Angel was walking with The Book of Death in his hand and Spike following him close behind. It was late, around midnight, but he was sure the library would be open.

Ding!

The bell above the door announced their arrival. Angel looked around but there was no one to be seen.

"Oz!" he called going further in the library.

"I'm coming. Oh hi Angel what are you doing he… Spike?"Oz launched at Spike but Angel caught him.

"Easy there. He's a good guy."

Oz stopped struggling.

"Oh! Alright then, how can I help?"

"Remember when I was asking about The Book of Dead?"

"Yeah…"

"Well, it was about ritual that could bring us a protector. Some sort of Guardian Angel."

"Let me guess. It didn't work."

"Well yeah, and we have tonight and tomorrow night to do it."

"Right. Come with me."

He lead them through the book shelves right to the very center of the library where were located two big and one smaller sofas and a big table. Oz moved to the bundle on one of the sofas and shook it lightly. It stirred and groaned.

"Come on, Nev. Get up its late."

"Oz?" she said sleepily

"Yeah, it's me, and Angel is here too."

Spike looked at the girl that was sitting up and snorted lightly. What? She could help them? Right.

"Angel?" she muttered and yawned.

"Yes, I'm here."

She sat up and straitened her kneel length T-shirt.

"What are you doing here?" she motioned for them to on the chairs at the table.

"Actually, I came for help. The book doesn't work."
"What do you mean it doesn't work? It was in perfect condition when I gave it to you."

Spike couldn't help but chuckle.

And that was the moment she actually realized that Angel had brought someone. A sexy someone. She came closer looking him from head to toes and smirked.

"Nice!"

Spike arched his eyebrow looking at Angel.

"She can see energy fields. I think she likes yours."

He explained.

"Well, yeah that too." Said Nev earning a laugh from Oz. "Now, what's the problem with the book?"

"I tried to do the ritual for summoning the protector but it didn't work."

"Well, what does the performer's description say?"

"That's the problem, I can't translate it. It's like the language it's written on doesn't exist."

And there comes silence. Oz was watching Spike intently, Spike was watching Nev intently, Angel was watching Nev intently, and Nev was chewing a pencil and looking at the ceiling. Suddenly her head snapped looking directly at Angel.

"Let me see."

He put the book on the table and opened it with the key, Nev flipped through the pages to find what she needed.

"Aha! Here it is blah, blah, blah; the guardian will come when the one who can see and the one who suffers prays to the moon. It looks pretty clear to me."

Angel and Spike looked at each other.

"You can read it?" said Angel

"Of course I can read it. What's the point in having a book if you can't read it?"

Spike snarled and got up for a round of pacing around the room.

"What does it mean?" he said finally looking at the girl.

"Well, it's quite simple…Who are you?"

Her smile grew big when she saw his annoyance

"Spike." He said with narrowed eyes. He didn't like her, she was too happy.

She smiled nervously and turned to the book.

"It means that I have to perform the ritual."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it says the one who can see, and I see energy fields and the one who suffers, and that's what my name means."

"Right. And a nineteen year old girl can do it." Spike said sarcastically

"Well, I don't know about that, but I can do it."

Oz tried hard not to laugh at the expression on Spike's face when he turned to Angel.

"I think I'm missing the point here."

"Oh, I think the point is very clear." Chuckled Oz

Angel and Spike stared at him.

"Well?" Spike said "Enlighten me!"

"Well, the point is that she is not nineteen years old."

And then silence… again.

"OK. Let's do it." Said Angel pushing himself off of the chair. "Spike and I are going to get our stuff and bring them here, so that we can perform the spell tonight,"

"Alright, I'll be waiting here and drinking coffee."

As soon as they left the library she jumped on her feet and looked at Oz seriously.

"Call Willow, I want thirty vampires on watch at the outskirts of the city. We don't need demons coming in town while I'm doing the spell."

"I'm going!"

Half an hour and three cups of coffee later Nev was lighting candles on the table and Spike and Angel were trying to help by arranging the items for the spell correctly.

"Ok. I think we are done."

She inhaled deeply and looked at the three men… well you know what I mean, in the room.

"Step back, it's going to get nasty."

She started chanting.

"The Osiris Ani, whose word is truth, praiseth Osiris Khenti-Amenti Un- Nefer, and saith:- Hail, my Lord, who dost hasten through eternity, whose existence is for ever, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, Sovereign, God of the Gods, who live in their shrines,... gods... men. Make thou for me a seat with those who are in Khert-Neter, who adore the forms of thy KA, and who traverse millions of millions of years... May no delay arise for thee in Ta-mera. Let them come to thee, all of them, great as well as small. May this god give the power to enterin and to come forth from Khert-Neter, without repulse, at any door of the Tuat, to the KA of the Osiris Ani. Hear my plea, for thee is calling. Protect me, protect everything dear to me. God of the dead ones, keeper of souls. Send me the guardian. Let my voice lead you through the shadows. Come to me!"

Angel gasped, Nev's eyes were white, not black like Willow's used to become when she was doing a spell. And the spell itself so much bigger and dangerous than these that he had seen. Light was surrounding them. The ground under their feet started shaking.

"I call upon you angel of protection." Her voice changed as if she was being possessed. "Fill my soul!" the ground cracked. "Corrupt my mind!" the windows broke. "Be my voice, be my eyes!" books started falling. "Be my consciousness!" everything went quiet. Her voice returned to normal. "Be my heart!"

Golden light shot out of the place where her heart was (still is). Moments later the light turned in to a crystal sphere and fell in Nev's hand.

Silence, what a beautiful sound… unfortunately not permanent.

"What is that?" shouted Spike

"Well…"

"Don't tell me e did this whole ritual for a sphere with things in it!"

"This is not a sphere with things." Nev raised her voice. "This is the guardian. True the system of operation is complicated but reliable."

"Alright then. How does it work?" said Angel taking the sphere

"Usually, at lest that's what they say, it chooses a carrier. In our case this is emergency so it will work again. So when it chooses a carrier he or she has to find the people who possess the power."
"What power?"

"Well, you see the symbols." She glared at Spike "in the sphere. They represent the seven sins, the seven virtues and the four elements of nature."

"Right, some guardian it is…"

"This is not the guardian. The guardians are the people whom are given the powers; the sphere just protects the symbols."

Angel sat on a chair and sighed.

"It's never easy, is it?"

"No, I don't think it is." Said Oz

Willow just got a call from Oz. she was told to put thirty vampires on watch at the outskirts of the city. She knew something important was happening but Oz refused to tell her what. She went to her sanctuary and stormed through the door.

"Silence! She shouted through the rising voices of the living there vampires.

The got quiet and stared at her with anticipation.

"Drake!" she motioned to him to follow her to her office.

As soon as they entered she said.

"Get thirty of your vampires; I want them on watch at the significant places at the outskirts of the city.

"May I ask what are we looking for?"

"Don't let anyone enter the city. I want everything to be demon free this evening. Am I clear?"

"Crystal!"

"Get going… oh and Drake… be careful."

"Yes, boss!"

When he closed the metal door she slid on the chair.

"God! I wish they told me what's happening before someone gets killed."

Two hours later.

"Drake?"

"Boss everything was surprisingly clear this evening. There wasn't even a squirrel near the town!"

Silence!

"Boss?"

More silence!

"Boss, are you there?"

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry. I was just thinking. Thank you, go eat."

"Right. See you in the morning."

Click.

"God! Why me? Why do I always get to carry the bad news?"

Spike didn't like Nev, not one bit. She was smiling she was joking, and she seemed to like him too. He had to get out of here.

"Come on pops let's get going."

"Actually…"

Damn I'm going to really hate that girl.

"I was hoping you could stay for a while, a friend of mine is wearing disturbing news and I think you should hear them."

The doors of the library opened violently yanking the small bell. Five vampires walked in and surrounded them. Spike and Angel attacked them only to be stopped by Nev and Oz.

"Wait, they are with the friend I told you about."

She motioned for a blond vampire to come closer.

"Where is she?"

"She is coming, with all due respect, keep these two…" he cocked his head to Angel and Spike "… in line. She's pissed off enough for bringing the bad news."

"Drake!" female voice shook the windows.

"In here!" he shouted back and stepped away.

In few seconds a redhead woman stormed in, her eyes narrowed... she stopped dead in her tracks. Angel and Spike were here.

"Willow?" the dark vampire managed to say before he rushed to hug her." We thought you were dead!" he whispered in her hair.

"You did?" she arched an eyebrow looking at Spike.

"He did. They told him you disappeared. What was I supposed to say, hey Peaches funny thing, I just saw Red two months ago, she didn't seem very dead to me. Let's party!"

Willow raised her hand to stop him.

"Spike, I didn't say anything."

"Yeah, but you were thinking it."

She laughed and waved with her hand.

"Come 'ere!"

He smiled at her and hugged her. Angel's jaw dropped. Spike was hugging her, her friends were desperate to find her, and Spike was hugging her.

"Close your mouth Angelus. You are attracting flies." Said on of the vampires with a scar on his upper lip.

"Antoan? What are you doing here?"

"I am with my clan. We bring news."

Before Angel cold say something Willow cut in.

"This reminds me. Why do I always get my men killed, because you don't tell me what's the freaking problem?"

Angel opened his mouth to say something but Spike hit him in the ribs.

"Be quiet mate, you don't want to piss her off." He whispered

"Willow, take a deep breath! Now did anyone get killed?" said Oz shaking with laughter.

"No, that's what the problem is. There wasn't even an ant getting in the city."

"That's bad!" concluded Nev

"Bad, why the Sodding hell is it bad?"

She glared at Spike.

"Every single night the demon population of the city increases. There is migration every minute. Think about it. If there is nothing coning in or out, there must be something scaring it off."

"So, what are we going to do?" said Oz

"Hmmm."

Spike was getting frustrated. What did they mean? What could they do?

"What we always do. We put a watch in the city and we search for… things."

"Wait. Slow down, I am really confused. Put a watch? Search?" Angel really didn't like the sound of that.

"Yes!" said Nev as if this was the most normal thing. "Now. Let's get the positions…"

"Will I have to send someone to get killed?" said Willow sarcastically.

"No, call Wave; tell him to position his men."

"It's getting dangerous, isn't it?"

Nev just looked around the room and smiled sadly when she set her eyes on Spike.

"You have no idea!"

You have absolutely no idea.

A/N: Review, tell me what you think. Tell me if you like it. I'll be waiting for you my fiends.