Chapter three in my fanfiction series. This continues from Hospital Questions. This one is a bit shorter but I hope you all enjoy it. -smrogers

We entered the room and I immediately took a seat beside the bed. Giles lay quietly, not moving much and making small moaning noises from deep within his throat. For a second, I thought he was unconscious, and then he turned to look at me.

"Buffy?" His voice was scratchy and his tone was weak. I reached out and put my hand on his.

"I am here. We are all here." He tried to sit up but once he moved too quickly, alarms went off and his face mirrored the pain he felt. "No, don't try and move. You'll hurt yourself."

The doctor came in for a second but left shortly after. Nurses were in and out as they checked monitors and marked things down on the clipboard at the end of the bed. Willow walked to the other side of Giles. She looked down at him and frowned. I knew she cared for him and I knew she wanted to do something to help him, but, for now, all we could do was wait.

"We have to get ahold of Angel. I had made arrangements to meet him in Ohio and if we are not there, he will come for us. What can I tell him?" I looked down at Giles and hoped he had the energy to advise me.

"Tell him… we were… delayed. We are… coming." Giles breathed in heavily before relaxing into the still looking pillow. I nodded and looked up at Xander.

"I will go make the phone call. You two will be ok here, right?"

"Go, Buffy. We will call you if we need help." Xander touched my shoulder before I left the room. The nurses' station wasn't too far away and I noticed Dr. Mallery watching me as I asked for a phone. His eyes followed me as I reached for the receiver then dialed the number Angel had given me. A few seconds later Angel's voice rang inside my head.

"Buffy?"

"How'd you know?" I frowned and kept my back turned.

"I just had this feeling. What's wrong? Why'd you call? Did something happen?"

"Yes, but I want you to stay there. I don't know when we will be there but I want you to wait for us there. Can you do that?" I waited for a response and heard only silence. He was alone and I couldn't hear even a breath, considering he doesn't even breathe. "Angel?"

"I will wait, but only for two days. If you are not here within the next two days, I am coming."

I considered this. "Fine. Angel, thank you."

"I love you, Buffy."

It had been so long since I had heard Angel tell me he loved me. We were no longer together. I had not thought of him in a romantic way in several years, yet the yearning for him filled me. "I love you, too, Angel. Wait for us."

I hung up and turned to see Dr. Mallery standing behind me. "Buffy, I contacted the police and they are at the sight now."

"Thank you." I said, unsure if that was the right thing to say. He nodded and turned away. "Dr. Mallery?" He stopped and turned to me again.

"Yes?"

"Will the police need us there or can we stay with Giles?"

My genuine concern made him smile. He reached up and put his hand on my shoulder. "I will request you stay here. I can have them send the bodies to the morgue wherever you are staying in Ohio, if that is where you want them to be buried."

I frowned, thinking for a moment. "I will have to discuss this with all of us. If you come back in a few minutes…."

"Of course, I will give you the time you need."

I watched as Dr. Mallery left. When I returned to the room, I noticed the head of the bed had been raised and Giles was attempting to drink some water. I requested tea for him and sat down on the foot of the bed.

"I was just talking to the doctor." This silenced them and they all looked at me. "It's not about you, Giles, but about the crash. He told me that he notified the police and they are at the sight right now. I asked him if we needed to be there…."

"What did they say?" Willow asked.

"We don't. He said he would keep us here and they could send the bodies to wherever we are having the buried."

"Which is…?" Xander asked, looking at me.

"I'm not sure. Two days ago I would have said Sunnydale's finest cemetery. Now, I have no idea. Should we bury them in L.A.?"

"Sounds reasonable, unless you want to bury them in Cleveland?" Willow looked at me and shrugged.

"What would you do Giles?"

His eyes met mine and I saw the sorrow in his. I matched it with mine and he frowned. "L.A. sounds good."

"Then it's settled. We have them sent to L.A. The doctor will come in later and see that it is taken care of."

"We were just talking about the attack." Willow said.

"Yeah? What do we know?"

"Not much. All we are sure of is that we were attacked by a group of demons."

Xander stood up. "They seemed to pick a pretty good time to attack. I mean, so soon after the destruction of the hellmouth…"

"Are you saying they came to kill us because we destroyed the hellmouth?" I asked.

"Unless they were already coming." Willow looked up at me. Giles moaned and rolled his eyes.

"Of course." Xander said. "They were attracted to the energy given off by the hellmouth. When the hellmouth was destroyed, they were already coming. When they saw us fleeing… kill kill…" Xander sat back down and looked quite proud of himself. I smiled but turned to Giles. He seemed to be in thought but before the thoughts could merge, Dr. Mallery walked in.

"We ready?"