Chapter 2-

Serenity had seen very little of Spike as of late, as he was off with Doyle. Spike didn't tell anyone else about his new 'friend', and Spike told her she can come meet him the next time he stopped by his apartment.

She was trying to make use of herself as a new employee at a low firm, but didn't find anything she could do, so she went to see Angel.

Once she walked into his office she was greeted by thousands of visuals of his last hundred years or so. She acted like she hadn't seen anything and advanced to Angel's desk where he seemed bored in his current duties.

"What you got there?" She asked.

"Um..nothing. Boring demon stuff." He answered.

"Right..." She said.

"Did you get a chance to meet everyone around here?" He asked.

"Didn't need to. I know who they are." Serenity said nonchalantly, twiddling her fingers.

She took a seat in a chair in front of Angel's desk.

"It must be hard." She said.

Angel looked up. "What?"

"Giving up your son like that."

"You know about.."

"Conner. Yeah. Don't worry though. Focus on bigger things and you never know, Wolfram and Hart might slip up and you'll see some old friends."

Serenity left Angel's office feeling a little prophetic, wondering how she knew all this. She had no idea what she was talking about with all the future talk. She did know about Conner though. Somehow she thought that she could break Angel's hard exterior if he knew they shared a secret. They would only have one more secret to share in the course of their time together.

Doyle arranged for another meeting with Spike, so Spike called Serenity over.

Serenity stayed in Spike's house while he went out to get himself and Doyle some beers. While Spike was gone, Doyle showed up. Upon his entry in the house, Serenity realized that he wasn't who he said he was. He was infact, Lindsay McDonald, former Wolfram and Hart employee. She decided to show him her interesting approach to his real identity.

"Hi, you must be Serenity." He said.

"Yes. Hello Lindsay." She smiled and walked towards him.

Taken back from this interesting situation, he showed no facial reaction to his exposure.

"Now, you wouldn't go around telling anyone about that little fact now would you?" She said sweetly.

"I don't kiss and tell." She said.

He looked at her with a hint of amused confusion before she opened the door and let herself out.

Spike ran into her on his way in, and didn't bother asking questions and just nodded. He walked in to find Lindsay standing n the same spot that Serenity had left him in. He was smiling to himself. He snapped out of it when he noticed that Spike was staring at him like he was insane.

"Uh, I met Serenity." He stated.

"So I see." Spike said as he opened a beer for himself, leaving Lindsay to get one for himself.

Serenity went back to Wolfram and Hart with a new secret. She was like a vault. All this new information coming in, but nothing leaving. She was keeping something from everyone, even her once beloved Spike. But, that was over now. It was time to move on to more productive things. It's no use wallowing over what would never be. She was needed for bigger things. Like protecting Lindsay. This psychic thing was getting out of hand, and feeding her with the piles of secrets that she now had to accommodate into how she acted with people. Oddly enough, she didn't get all her information at once. She would get pieces upon different meetings. She knew now that she had to see Lindsay again.

Over the next few weeks they would meet and talk hidden in corners and such so no one knew they saw each other. She knew Lindsay was up to no good, but not one of the Scoobies prompted her for information, so she didn't admit to knowing any.

Serenity was sitting in Wesley's office when Eve, the groups liaison to the Senior Partners approached her. Serenity was doing some research on her psychic abilities.

Eve was doing some research of her own.

"Hey Serenity. What you go there?" She said smoothly.

Serenity could have told her to cut the small talk, but she wasn't sure how much she knew about her powers.

"A book." Serenity said blankly.

"It would seem that way wouldn't it." Eve said sweetly. Sweet, the way Lindsay would shower Serenity with lies about who he is. Sweet, the way Serenity would act towards those whose secrets she kept, and to those she kept them from.

suddenly Serenity was awash with images of Lindsay hiding out with her in her closed off office at Wolfram and Hart. Sometimes he would stay hidden with her under her desk all night, and leave just before morning. People would come into the office and under the desk they would laugh, in light guilt and simple pleasures.

Seeing Eve, and suddenly wishing she were hiding away with Lindsay made everything fall together.

Eve eyed her suspiciously. She had planned an excursion and check into Serenity's private life, but changed her mind and decided to go home early. Other plans were brewing, and starting something new might endanger anything that had already been set in motion.

Eve indulged greatly in her life. She took pride in knowing she had what no one else could have. Or so she thought.

Around the office's, everyone seemed to have a lot of trust and friendship with Serenity, no one doubted her and she fit in well. She didn't do much at the firm, but sometimes got to spin around in Angel's wheelie chair. Spike didn't often come by the firm to be tormented by Angel and his 'flunkies', Serenity sometimes dropped by his house to supply blood or company.

Serenity had of recent spent more time with local empath, Lorne. She was careful not to sing around him for fear of all those secrets piling up inside her, quickly falling out.

Everything was perfect, which just by thinking it can lead to the explosion of the happy world.

The currently coma Cordelia, was no more. She decided it was time to wake up. Angel, he steadfast soldier was at her side moments after she awoke, with Wesley trudging along behind.

After a quick introduction back in Angel's office, Serenity had all the information she needed on Mrs. Cordy and her past with Angel, Conner, and mystical pregnancies.

That was also the day that Lindsay approached her in a very odd scenario.

Serenity was leaving Spike's house, having told him of Cordy's revival. She was walking back in an alley, as people from Sunnydale tend to do, and ran into Lindsay.

"Funny seeing you here." She smiled.

But he didn't.

"What's wrong?"

"You know about the plan...well, tonight it's going down. I want you out of he building tonight. I'll message your office 10 minutes before so you have time to get out." Lindsay said.

Serenity nodded.

"Cordelia woke up. The Powers are leading them straight to you. Be careful." She said.

He touched her cheek and stepped backwards into the shadows.

She continued back to W&H to await Lindsay's call.

Cordelia and Wesley were looking up tattoos that are used for hiding oneself from surveillance. Cordy, who already didn't much trust Serenity cornered her and began questioning her.

Angel came to her defense and silenced Cordy.

Spike came by to check out Cordy. Lindsay had told him that Cordy was evil, and not to be trusted, so he took a bite out of her. Angel came to defend Cordy as Eve and Serenity watched from opposite ends of the hall.

"Who told you she was evil?" Angel said forcefully slamming Spike up against a window.

"Say's his name is Doyle. Has visions. Dresses like an urban cowboy, has some funny tattoos." Spike said.

"Lindsay." Angel and Cordy said at the same time.

Serenity's eyes popped out of her head and she ran to sit beside her phone and await Lindsay's call.

Eve took out her cell phone.

Then Angel and Cordy grabbed Eve.

Lindsay called her then. He told her to leave the building. Then she told him that she knew he was dating Eve.

"How long have you known?" He asked.

"Weeks ago." She said.

It was then he knew that she was a patient girl that would never tell his secrets, even to him.

Eve wasn't strong. She would crack under pressure. She didn't care about anybody but herself, and that's why Lindsay was in danger. Serenity thought when she saw Angel interrogating her.

Sure enough, Harmony jumped Eve and she spilled everything.

"It's a fail-safe built under the building. It was made in case you double crossed the senior partners." She said.

"Harmony, watch Eve, if she moves-eat her. I'm going to get rid of our little Lindsay problem." Angel said.

Angel started making his way downstairs and Cordy met him halfway, insisting that she come as well.

Sure enough, once in the room Lindsay was standing on the platform, waiting for Angel to show up and defend his troops.

He had expected Angel, and he expected Cordy, but he didn't expect this.

Cordy pulled Serenity out from behind her, her hands tied and a bright red hand mark across her face.

"Cordy! What are you doing?!" Angel asked furious that she had tied up one of his friends.

"She knows something and she's not trustworthy! Can't you see!" Cordy yelled, flustered.

"What's his name!" Cordy shrieked at Serenity.

Serenity looked at the floor while Lindsay looked down at her, concealing his personal panic. It's not like he loved her. She was a fun girl. Trustworthy. He didn't love her. He would always go back to Eve at the end of the night. Serenity knew it too.

"What's his name!" Cordelia yelled again.

"Cordelia stop it!" Angel said.

"His name is Lindsay. I'm psychic, you moron!" Serenity said trying to conceal the fear in her own voice.

Cordy didn't seem to find this a good enough reply.

"It's true Cordy. She even knows about Conner." Angel said.

"I bet you guys are real buddies. Sleep over and all sorts of family activities. Well, here's an outsiders perspective-get your head on straight! Eve and Serenity are not on your team!" She yelled.

Serenity was stuck on the floor and barely able to see the expression on Lindsay's face while he watched her struggling, and tied up, because of him.

Upstairs, Wesley managed to lift the concealment spell that kept Lindsay hidden from the Senior Partners and his tattoos began to lift above him.

A flashing light and whirlwind appeared above them.

"I think the senior partners would like a word." Angel said.

Lindsey looked up and saw a portal forming in the air above him.

Serenity cringed and knew what was coming.

Once Lindsay was taken up, Angel made Cordy take off Serenity's chains from her hands. Cordy was appalled that Angel would trust some new girls word instead of hers.

Once safely in her bed and away from prying eyes, Serenity cried for the first time since arriving at W&H.

That night, Cordy left, and Eve was kicked out of the building.

What was going to happen to Lindsay? He'll find a way to make his way back to Eve. Maybe Eve will get eaten by a giant Praying Mantis. In a perfect world.