-ANGEL'S POV (his thoughts)-

It's strange.

I've been back, well, we've all been back but I'm barely finding myself in a daze.

We're alive.

Well as alive as some of us can be.

I notice the little things as I walk around the hell hole of Wolfram & Hart. I'm not stuck noticing the evil I need to change, but the good we need to hold on to.

When I walk out of my office, the first thing I see is Harmony. As much as I nag at her, she is an amazing secretary. A bit overly peppy but I suppose that is not a terrible thing.

I turn my head and glance over at Lorne singing happily because walking through the halls of an evil law-firm never gets him down.

I have no clue what we would do without his happy-go-lucky attitude, and alto kick ass voice.

I lightly chuckle to myself at the irony of my thoughts.

I look upstairs and see Gunn talking his lawyer business with a demon that has inside connections with the Powers That Be. Gunn can get anyone to talk, he's more in this team than he thinks he is.

Then I get a bit startled by a large unnatural bang from the lab area.

"Don't worry, it's fine. Everything's fine." Fred assures everyone. "Just an experiment." She smiles and heads back into her work, jittery.

It's great having Fred back. She's an asset to keeping the team together, we've all missed her so. I just have to admit there's something off about her lately. Like Illyria hasn't completely left, like they're roommates - in a weird sense. Never the less, there's a bigger problem at stake.

I find myself walking next to a window to which I see a room with Wes and Cordy studying the books.

I wonder what "job" he's keeping her occupied with.

Wesley is a smart man. I was always jealous of the things he can figure out by just a few words in a book.

Cordelia looks up at me and smiles, weakly.

It really does kill me to lie to her. It's for her own good though, I mean, we have to figure this out with the Powers before she gets involved.

I smile back at her and head to my office to do my part. I have to figure this out. For Cordy.

And for Spike…