The texaswookie sighs as he finds himself once again trapped inside the start of his story. "Here we go again," he complains as he looks around. He looks up in time to see the Malfoy family walk in with their wands drawn. "Great, the reception area of W&H." The writer complains as several spells suddenly shoot from the wands.

"You know what is required of you do you not muggle?" Malfoy Sr. sneered out at him as he waved his wand around and shot another blast at the writer.

"Alright, Alright! I the author being blessed to be Texan and not British can't be JKR and I'm not Joss either so there's no way that I can own anything here!"

"Better, now leave us." Draco said smugly as he strode by the writer.

(Yeah I brought back the torture disclaimers since they seemed so popular last time around)

"So what are we looking at this time around?" Angel asked as he looked at the folder that Gunn had in his hands.

"Hard to say man." The dark skinned man admitted as he scanned the file. "The guy that wants us to represent him is Lucius Malfoy. He's supposed to be a rich and powerful wizard that joined up with a Dark Wizard."

"I thought that the idea was to weed some of the less savory business out?" Fred asked from where she was sitting. "I don't really think that this is really what we had in mind."

"Normally you would be right, but he sent us a letter detailing some of the things that happened while this dark wizard was in power, and if even half of this stuff is true then the guy and his family are actually lucky to be alive."

"What was the name of the dark wizard?" Wesley questioned the others curiously.

Gunn skimmed his files till he found what he was looking for. "His name was Tom Marvolo Riddle, A.K.A Lord Voldemort." Gunn replied with a smirk. "Some name huh?"

"Voldemort?" Lorne, Wesley and Angel all said in shock sitting up in recognition as they heard the feared name being mockingly tossed around.

"Um yeah why someone that you guys knew?" The former street tough questioned as he saw the fear that the others had in their eyes. He hadn't really thought that there was anything that could make the entire group get cold feet like they currently had. THey had faced the beast head on without heitation yet at the name of this wizard they stopped.

"He was a very dark wizard that wanted to kill off the entire non wand waving humans for starters." Wesley explained to the young man. "He used England as a start off point and had intended to continue on to the entire world after he was done. While he may not have planned on destroying the world he would have made life extremely difficult had he actually managed to accomplish his goals. The sheer amount of bloodshed that he would have created would have been close to that of World War two and that's only if he held himself back." The two Americans looked in shock as they listened to the potential threat that the wizard had been.

"And that's only the basics that are known about him sugar plums." Lorne added from where he was sitting. "He once made me do a reading for him." The demon shivered as he remembered that particular person and what he had gotten off of him. "His soul was all hacked up, and what there was of it there was darker than Angel cakes here jacket. In a way it was a lot like reading Angelus. In other words not a place that you really want to tell your friends about or ever go back to. Send my family there yes, but not my friends. What I did read of him though showed him as the one responsible for the deaths of all sorts of people. I nearly went to find someone that could scrub my mind after going through that." He admitted to them. "I really need a drink now after remembering that particular experience though." He said as he headed over to the wet bar to find something that would calm his nerves.

"Yeah I've heard of some of the things that he's done, none of it was really all that good." Angel solemnly agreed with the other two. "He liked to recruit heavily from some of the various so called darker creatures. From what I understood werewolves, some type of fear creatures and serpents were his favorite to use in the last wizard war. I heard that he tried to get some vampires and demons on his side but that there wasn't any that were all that interested in working with someone who was to likely to kill you after the smoke cleared. The fact that he was a human also worked against him as well. He preferred to work with things that could somehow still claim that they had humanity in them."

"That's well that's just disturbing," Fred told the others with a sick look, "and your saying that this guy wants us to defend him?"

Gunn shook his head at this. "No, one of his former followers wants us to represent him in the courts." He explained to the young woman.

"And what was his level of involvement in this war?" Wesley asked the man. "Was he really heavily involved with Voldemort or was he merely a person used as a scapegoat?"

"From what I can tell of all this man he was a bit of both. He worked hard on getting this dark Lord of his to power however when the chips finally fell the guy his wife and his kid all went and helped out the good guys. Not to say that they didn't help the bad guys plenty that is. The man's house was used as a home base for the dark wizards, the kid helped setup the death of a very important person in the wizards society which made it possible for there to be a large power vacuum that the bad guys were able to use to their advantage, the only one that doesn't have any real major crimes being presented against them is the wife." Gunn told them as he began flipping through the file examining the man's family. "In fact, according to one of the heroes of the final battle part of the success of the battle was the fact that she told everyone that he was dead buying the hero the time he needed to surprise everybody."

"So he's a good bad guy then?" Fred questioned him.

Gunn sighed and nodded. "From his accounts of the dark wizards living in his house it was closer to a home invasion than anything else. We could probably use that to support us in the legalities when it comes to court."

"Well get him down here so that we can start hammering out the details of his case then the sooner it gets done the sooner we can ourselves less or more for doing it." Angel ordered.

Gunn nodded and pressed a button on the phone. "Harmony, you can send the Malfoy family and their companions in now."

"Sure thing boss." The ditzy vampire chirped. The double doors buzzed open and a group of figures strolled through the doorway.

Angel looked up and had to contain a growl as he saw who had entered. Striding in as if they owned the place with sneers on their faces and money clanking by the purse strings of their robes was what looked like two human versions of Spike at different ages. One of them was a teen, while the other was a man in his mid forties. Each of the figures had platinum blonde hair that had been expertly gelled and had the same stormy eyes as Angel's grandchilde. To the vampire with a soul it was looking at what Spike could have been and what he would have been had Dru left the young boy alone. The woman in the middle might have been what a female version of Spike would have been. 'This was going to be a long case if they all looked like alternate versions of Spike.' The vampire thought to himself mournfully. The leader stopped before them and clasped his snake head cane behind his back as he addressed the group. 'Yes, this was going to be one of those days.' The vampire decided as he listened to the English speaking magic users drawl out a hello at him.

"These people want us to help clear them of all the charges that are piled up against them for their part in the war Angel." Gunn told his boss for the benefit of the new arrivals. "They are wealthy enough to use our full abilities if they should so choose."

"If they're so wealthy, then why don't they just have some wizard lawyers deal with the legal problems that they currently have?" Angel asked curiously wanting to understand the reasoning of the family better.

The older gentleman sneered at the vampire that stood behind the giant desk. "The defenders are not interested in representing any member of the Malfoy family. We require the best and intend to pay for the best. That is why we are here."

"Because no one else would dare to take the case?" Angel returned mockingly to the wizard not liking his tone and more than willing to meet him insult for insult. "Gunn what's your opinion?"

The dark skinned man nodded his head in acceptance of the group. "He didn't want to destroy the world and he did help the good guys in the last war. The whole family might be filled with supremacists but in the end they did the right thing and that at least means we ought to give them a chance."

"What are the chances of actually winning?" Wesley questioned them.

"Pretty good actually Wes." Gunn returned. "Potter, Granger, Hagrid, Lovegood, and even Weasley have all agreed to testify in their defense. All three are considered high ranking members or victims with their testimonies it will make the trial easier for us. The fact that they don't actually like any of them and have a really bad history means that their word will count for even more."

"Do it then." Angel told him with a nod from the others as they added the family to the list of people that they represented.