A/N Ok this ones a little short but I thought I would update before I went to Greece for my holiday. Hope you all like it. Plz review and let me know.

"Kakeytos? Is that like Klingon" Buffy asked eyebrow raised. Xander cracked a thin smile at Buffys confusion

"No, Kakistos. He was as old as the master was and a dam sight uglier me and Dru had a run in with him back in the forties not really the type of guy you piss of if you can avoid it. Probably heard about the masters death and you're taking over the show and is hear to make you submit to him." Spike told the pack making eye contact with each of them in turn, to add emphasis to everything he had said.

"So I'm going to have to kick his ugly butt then." Buffy said as if it were an easy prospect.

"I don't think your getting the picture hear luv, Kakistos is bad news and old he's protected by an army made up of all sorts of demons vampires and even some humans all of whom are willing to die to protect him."

"Right so we start tacking them out when they're in small groups." Buffy smiled at him Spike just smiled back he knew that she was going to kill every last minion of Kakistos's there was defiantly some slayer left in her after all.

Xander and Spike jumped from rooftop to rooftop in the western warehouse district keeping their vampire enhanced hearing to full, listening for the slightest sound that might indicate where Kakistos was hiding. They neared the very out skirts of the town and were coming to the last warehouse when they heard it. Shouts of orders, fights and the sweet sound of feeding. They looked over at each other and moved out so they could get a better look at the warehouse in question. Out side there were guards between twenty and twenty five, on the roof they could make out the shapes of another five and the sounds inside led them to believe there were a good fifty still inside. The warehouse its self was quite new and looked as if it had been used to store an assortment of goods so the layout in side was most probable very open plan with hardly any sub-divides. The two met back up and then returned to inform Buffy of what they had seen.

Faith walked the cold streets of Sunnydale, they weren't cold compared to Boston but what they made up for in heat they lacked in life. She couldn't help but think how lovely the place could have been had it not had a hell mouth right under it. The biggest attraction for all the demons the planet had to offer. But what scarred her the most was the connection she felt to it, Kane had once made a reference to her power coming from the same place as the demons, she didn't like how that sounded and what it meant for her. Though at this moment that wasn't what concerned her, right now she could feel the hell mouth getting happy if such a thing were possible and she knew that that was a bad sign for anything that wasn't supernatural.

Buffy sat with Willow in the living room as Spike and Xander gave there report on the warehouse and the army that resided with in. she mused over the different strategies that could work, she had to bare in mind that they probably knew where they lived and that they had demons that could walk about in the day. Then it accrued to her, the slayer.

Xander walked round the area he had had the fight with Faith several nights previously he homed his senses in on what ever might lead him to the slayer. He couldn't for the un-life of him lock on to anything that radiated slayer power but still he walked, then all of a sudden he felt it. Buffy had described to him on many occasion we they were still alive what it felt like when a vampire was close to her. Now he knew what she meant it was like some one had just used his entrails to tie him to her. He moved in on the felling and low and behold there she was sitting out side a bar having a cigarette.

"Got a light?" he asked nonchalantly. The reaction he got was not what he expected.

"Hear you go." She tossed him the lighter and he caught it out of the air.

"So…"

"I'm so not in the mood to fight. But if you really want to…" She started to stand up but Xander put up his hand to stop her and nodded to the perch next to her she just held out her hand and he took this as his queue to sit down.

"well slayer"

"Its Faith."

"Yeah Faith, look we have a proposition for you." Xander watched her to gage her reaction so far she had stayed cool to cool in his opinion. When she didn't say anything he decided to keep going. "There's a new bad in town his names Kakistos and he brought an army of assorted vamps, demons and even some humans and trust me when I say he's worse than my lot could ever be."

"And you want me to do the dirty work for you. Are you crazy!" She said as she stood up and turned to face him, unlike how he would have reacted before, when he was human. He didn't back off and not just because his back was to a wall, it was because he knew he could take her.

"No we want to work with you to rid the town an hopefully the planet of him."

"Right I'm meant to believe you're doing this out the kindness of you heart, what shit are you smoking X."

"Ok look at it this way, your job hear is to get rid of guys like him were offering you our help, and F! you need us were quicker, stronger and prettier than you."

"Na now I now your tripin you aint no where near as good lookin as me." Xander could see her smiling and he liked the look of it on her, but what caught him of guard more was he was laughing. He felt like he was sharing a joke with a friend and when you're mortal enemies with some one that's not the kind of banter you should be having.

"So?" Xander asked.

"Come in for a drink and I'll think it over, but if those teeth of yours come any where near me." She wiped out a stake that he hadn't noticed was there through out the entire conversation.

"Ok but its your round first."

Spike stood in the ally way watching Xander and the slayer talk and ease dropping naturally and no was close to rolling on the floor laughing. Had that been the way all slayers treated the vampire that had knocked crap out of them then he would have had more notches on his bed then any other vampire he knew of. He felt he should be getting out of there and leaving Xander to find his new sex bunny.

Willow lay in the living room next to the fire on her belly staring at her laptop. 'I'm probably the only vampire that still plays computer games.' She thought to her self.

"Shit I'm dead again." She said out loud then realised there was no one in the room. She shut the lap top and then stood up stretching as she did. The silk robe she had on nearly splitting as she tensed her mussels. Then there was a loud growl from her stomach and she remembered that she hadn't fed yet, normally she would have gone out with Buffy to hunt but she had just found a new character in the game called Minsk who had a little hamster that he clamed was a giant space hamster called boo, and it was just to interesting to see what he was like. She started to walk down the stairs to get a drink when she heard Drus voice.

"Now little girl Mommies going to have to change come over hear." Willow had to cover her mouth to stop from being heard. She knew Dru had been playing down there but she hadn't known what Dru was playing that was until now.

"Need some help to discipline the little kids Dru?" She asked as she neared the bottom of the steps.