Chapter 2

" Well are you going to say thanks, or just sit there with your mouth hanging open catching flies?" Buffy said with that cute little smirk on her face.

" What..." Angel tried to reply, but started to cough up some blood.

" Take it easy, just lie back and rest. Me and my girls got this one covered."

" Dad!" a voice called out behind Buffy.

Connor came running up. Buffy gave Angel and look that let him know that he was going to have to explain later.

" Thought I told you to go home?" Angel said to his son.

" Boy you got a lot to learn about being a parent.", Connor replied, " Since when to kids listen to anything?"

" Get him over to the corner, I'll grab Spike." Buffy said.

After getting Spike and Angel out of the middle of the fight, both Connor and Buffy jumped into the middle of it, joining the fight with Faith and the army of slayer's. Buffy and Faith were working together like a well oiled machine, hacking and slashing any demon that stood before them. Connor was holding his own as he helped some of the junior slayer's take down more of those Minotaur looking demons.

" Looks like the boy takes after his ol' man." Spike said.

" Yeah," Angel coughs back. " Makes a father proud."

" Let's just hope he aint as much a poof."

" I hate you Spike."

" Back atcha ya peaches."

Meanwhile, as the battle dwindled down, the dragon that ate Illyria was having some trouble digesting its meal. The beast roared in pain as it came crashing back down to the street. As the two vamps and the group of slayers looked on, they saw Illyria ripping her way out of the dragons stomach.

" Is she on your side?" Buffy asked Angel, as she came back to check on the two vamps.

" Yeah, that's our big blue." Spike answered.

With Illyria now rejoining the fight, the battle was near an end. What remained of the Wolfram & Hart army was now either being picked off, or was running with what looked like a tail, tucked between its legs. Spike and Angel just laid back and tried to regain they're strength. Angel closed his eye's and gave into the exhaustion, he knew when he awoke that the war would be over.