Helplessly, Anne tried to remove the knife from Buffy, free her, do something to help her mother, but everything was useless, she glanced at the others; Angel, Spike Faith and Dawn were punching, kicking or slashing against the force field, Piper, Phoebe and Paige were using the Power of Three to open a door through it helped by Wyatt, Chris and Willow; Robin, Nikky, Xander, Giles and Leo split trying to find out if the force field had an end, maybe it was some sort of wall but they came to the conclusion that it was like a huge capsule around the place.

Buffy was getting weaker every second, her blood made a puddle on the ground; she saw the sad, hopeless glance in her daughter's eyes who was sobbing kneeled close to the puddle.

"I'm sorry…" Anne whispered looking down at the ground, and then lifted her face to face Buffy, her face wet with tears, "it's all my fault," continued louder, "if I hadn't come here in the first place…" "I'd had ended here anyway," Buffy cut her off speaking weakly and panting, "if you hadn't come… I would be here alone… without hope… but you're here… you all are…"

"But I can't do anything! And the others can't either!" Anne cried harder.

"They'll find a way… I trust them…" Buffy glanced at her family and friends then back to Anne "and I'm not easy to kill," joked in spite of the pain.

"That's touching," interrupted the evil Entity, "and sorry to interrupt but I want results and I want them quick," he moved close to Buffy and pushed the knife deeper, she closed her eyes, trying not to scream; the entity was smiling wickedly, however the smile faded when he heard the noise of fighting, he turned to see what was causing that.

The force field had been breached, Spike, Giles, Robin, Nikky, Chris, Wyatt and Leo were fighting against the bringers, uverbamps and demons.

The entity let go of the knife's handle and turned his attention to Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Willow and Faith who started to surround him; Piper tried to blow him up but only managed to make him move back, she repeated this until he was away from Buffy.

Angel and Dawn took the opportunity to help her, Angel working on the shackles, and Dawn gently pulling out the knife, when she got it out she used her jacket to cover her sister's wound, slowing the bleeding.

Angel grew frustrated when he couldn't do anything to the shackles, "these are too strong, I can't break them," said pulling one to no avail.

"Maybe you can use the knife, he made both the same way…" suggested Anne.

Angel took the knife that Dawn dropped to the ground and with it tried to break the shackle making sure not to hurt Buffy, and it was working, he managed to free her left wrist and started with her right.

The entity noted this and wanted to stop him but the witches and rogue Slayer were giving him a hard time.

After a couple of minutes Angel broke all of the shackles and was carrying Buffy, they shared small smiles to each other, then Angel broke eye contact lying her on the ground and focused on her wounds, her stab was still bleeding under Dawn's jacket; "Leo!" Angel called the whitelighter who hurried to their side, immediately working on the Slayer's wounds, he started with the stab knowing it was the more serious. The now familiar gold light appeared from his hands, Angel, Anne and Dawn were expecting to watch it magically heal in seconds, but nothing was happening.

"I can feel a dark force retaining my powers…" Leo told the others, he moved his hands to the bite mark on Buffy's neck, he had no problems healing that one, he then healed all of her wounds, finally returning to the one in her abdomen, but that one kept bleeding.

"That knife was created with demonic energy, and that's preventing me from healing it…"

"Don't worry about me, the others may need some healing…" Buffy said feeling less weak than before, but still not at her best.

Leo nodded and went to help the others who fought against the demons, they defeated all and were wounded, nothing serious, in no time they were all healed and joined the Sisters and Faith against the entity.

They weren't doing very well, they were getting exhausted; and on the other hand the entity looked as if nothing had happened, the only difference was that now he was angry.

He lifted his arms and threw everyone away as if they were nothing but dolls, calmly he walked to the puddle of blood, retrieved his knife and bled his palm; when a single drop touched the blood on the floor, it enlightened; it was a bright white light that turned into small flames.

The flames moved forming a circle, and inside of it, a pentagram.

The others charged forward to attack, but the entity lifted one of his hands and threw them back again, not taking the eyes off the symbol.

The flames turned black, the ground was being engraved by the flames, when those faded, a seal was revealed.

The Entity turned to the others with a wicked smile, "Welcome back to the Hellmouth."

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tbc

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Sorry this was short, but soon more to come.