Disclaimer: I don't own the challenge; that belongs to Lee. Buffy and Angel and respective characters belong to Joss Whedon, and Ocean's Eleven belongs to Warner Bros.

Feedback: Please do.

Challenge: Basically, redo the basic plot of Ocean's Eleven with Buffy and Angel characters. Angel should take the place of Danny Ocean, and Connor as Linus Caldwell. The other characters are up to you.


Other Requirements:
Keep the running gag of the Rusty character always eating/drinking something.

All characters should be at the jobs they were in the movie (Frank a dealer in a casino, Basher in the middle of another heist, Rusty teaching movie stars how to play poker, Danny/Angel in jail, Livingston working freelance for the FBI, etc.)

AN: This chapter primarily focuses on the pasts of Buffy, Angel, and their associates in this timeline. I've based it slightly on the shows, but details are changed to make it more of a thriller series than a supernatural series; I just hope you all like the result

Angel's Eleven

As Wesley and Connor drove back to the warehouse where their group were constructing the duplicate vault, Wesley's mind was already in overdrive as he thought back over what he remembered of Angel and Buffy's 'relationship'.

They'd first met around nine years after Angel gave Connor up for adoption, when Angel was twenty-six and Buffy around a decade younger. Seeking a reason for his life after breaking away from the gang, Angel had eventually decided to keep an eye on their activities and intervene if things ever went too far; it had taken him a few years to re-trace them, but he'd eventually found them in Buffy's home town of Sunnydale, attempting to blow up the Bronze- the town's local youth disco.

Needing a contact from inside the school to help him, he'd checked over the school records for a likely candidate, and had eventually found Buffy. A quick bit of independent investigation into her background had revealed that she had been expelled from her last school in Los Angeles for burning down the gym. What wasn't made public, however, was that in the process she had, practically single-handedly, taken out a gang of teen killers and rapists who had mounted an attack on the gym in the middle of the school dance, and had been tormenting the city for the last few weeks. Most of the students had managed to evacuate, but it had been Buffy who'd sealed the gym off after setting the wooden tables on fire by dousing them with alcohol and stealing a friend's cigarette lighter.

However, even though Buffy had saved several innocent lives with her actions, the school officials were unwilling to admit to the presence of the gang for fear of being blamed for their presence. Records had been doctored to make it appear as though a fight had broken out and Buffy had burned down the gym while drunk, and she was expelled. Her parents had divorced shortly afterwards, her father staying in L.A. while Buffy, her mother, and her younger sister Dawn went to Sunnydale, where Joyce Summers had found a job in charge of an art gallery.

Then Buffy had met Angel, and, well…

Wesley chuckled slightly as he drove.

The two of them, according to all sources, had fallen in love straight away. It had taken the two of them a while to admit it, of course, although most of it came from Angel's side; Buffy just wasn't sure why an older man like Angel would be interested in her, while Angel felt he couldn't be with Buffy after everything he'd done in his life. After a confrontation with Angel's old gang leader- an individual who merely called himself 'the Master'-, in which Angel's past had been revealed, Buffy had assured Angel that she didn't care about what he'd been, only what he was, and the two had dated for nearly three years, investigating various crimes that took place around Sunnydale that the official police either weren't investigating or were being prevented from looking into.

The two young lovers had often been joined in their investigations by Willow and Oz (Then a shy genius and a solitude-seeking guitarist respectively). Another member of their amateur deductive team was Willow's childhood friend Xander, who had often protested about Buffy and Angel's relationship because of the age gap, but had gradually come to accept it. They often turned to Rupert Giles- the school librarian and an old acquaintance of Buffy's mother- for any extra information that was required in their investigations; he was particularly helpful in their dealings with Ethan Rayne, an old college acquaintance of Giles with a bizarre fixation with attempting to summon demons via human sacrifices. They also had a few run-ins with Spike and Drusilla, Spike now nursing a heroin addiction that made him nearly as mad as Drusilla, but the more-than-slightly debilitated mental state of the two convicts made them little real danger to the group.

Then, after Buffy's graduation ceremony, Angel had broken up with her, feeling concerned about his continued presence in Buffy's life after a near-death battle with Sunnydale's insane mayor had left Buffy with a broken arm and leg. His hope was that, with him gone, the gang-related activity in Sunnydale would die down, as the 'Master' had primarily moved there to try and tempt Angel back into the group, and Buffy and her friends

After the break-up, Angel had moved to Los Angeles, where he had met a man called Francis Doyle, a gambler with underworld contacts and a desire to do good, and the two of them had set up a detective agency, primarily to deal with crimes organised by the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart.

Cordelia- a girl from Sunnydale who had occasionally helped them in their investigations after she was nearly killed by a stalker- and Wesley himself had joined them shortly afterwards; Wesley, an old college friend of Giles', had been recommended to Angel by Giles for general knowledge after Wolfram & Hart began to include more advanced scientific weapons in their 'arsenal'. After about a year in the big city, the four of them had met Charles Gunn, a rogue vigilante on L.A.'s streets, and had helped give him a purpose after most of his gang- including his sister Alonna- had been killed by a gang that was so high on PCP that Wesley doubted they would have noticed a missing arm.

Meanwhile, back in Sunnydale, Buffy and the gang had continued their private investigations, using some money Xander and Willow had acquired from their parents to set up the business as an actual agency, mainly run by Giles, with Anya, Xander's money-obsessed new girlfriend, acting as the secretary while the others were at college. It was at about this time that Spike had returned to Sunnydale on his own, varying between rage at the world and general lethargy and depression depending on how much heroin he'd taken recently, and Oz had departed Sunnydale after his HIV experience.

Buffy, attempting to get over Angel, had begun to date her psych class teaching assistant- an Iowan farm boy called Riley Finn- but the relationship had ended badly for both of them, particularly after Riley was revealed to be a new 'urban vigilante' on Sunnydale's streets, who'd been killing criminals rather than merely taking them in for questioning. Buffy had tried to help curb his violent tendencies for a time, hoping that he could 'reform' like Angel had, but he had eventually been forcibly sent to a private clinic after he nearly overdosed on steroids on several occasions.

It was at around this point that Angel had called Buffy to find out how things were, the group in a state of mourning after Doyle had sacrificed himself to save several Koreans that Wolfram & Hart had smuggled into America to use as slave labour. When Angel and his team had managed to provide the Koreans with papers that would allow them to legally live in Europe, Wolfram & Hart had planted a bomb on the ship that the agency had managed to hire, intending for it to destroy the ship's fuel supply and cause it to explode, but Doyle had found the bomb and managed to move it to another part of the ship, although it had gone off in his arms before he could throw it over the side or figure out a way to disarm it.

While talking, Buffy and Angel had realised how much they still missed each other, and, after learning that Sunnydale was still a haven for criminals, had begun to see each other again, each one taking turns to visit the other at the weekends. Their willingness to join forces at this time had proven particularly helpful, as their two groups were each forced into dangerous situations. Angel and his friends found themselves dealing with the Raiden sisters, then a skilled pair of cat burglars, while Buffy's team clashed with an insane doctor known only as 'Glory' who believed that she needed to sacrifice Buffy's sister Dawn to achieve godhood. With some help from Spike (Who had eventually kicked his heroin habit with some help from Xander and Anya), Glory had been defeated after a struggle at an old construction site, although Buffy's injuries had left her in a coma for nearly three months. The Raiden sisters, on the other hand, had been far more difficult and determined- Wesley's left arm had never been the same after they broke it while torturing him for information- but, after some unofficial counselling from Angel, they had learned to take responsibility for their actions and sided with their group. Faith and Buffy in particular became as close as sisters, although Gwen was still a bit distant due to her dislike of being touched.

Then, almost a year after Buffy and Angel got back together, Wolfram & Hart played their cards too well. Not only did their latest plot result in Cordelia dying of a virus that had been genetically engineered by the lawyers themselves, but then, trying to make Angel lose the will to fight, they had given Buffy access to certain documents that revealed Connor's existence, as well as sending identical papers to Connor. Outraged at the secrets he'd kept from her, Buffy broke up with him, and Connor, having persuaded his parents to take him over to America, had a long argument with Angel. The exact details of what was said that night were unknown to all but Angel and Connor, but it was evident that things hadn't gone too well; Connor had left that night yelling at Angel to never speak to him again.

Unfortunately for Wolfram & Hart, their plan hadn't worked out as well as it could have done. Rather than give up, Angel just became more determined to take them down, taking a mass of explosives from a contact and breaking into the main office to plant them while everyone was home for the night. The resulting explosion had caused the entire building to collapse in on itself, destroying all records of Wolfram & Hart's clients along with most of their technological advances.

Unfortunately, they were still skilled lawyers.

Having tracked Angel down, they took him to court on the charge of destruction of property. The evidence against him was strong, but the vast majority of it was confirmed by Wesley and Willow, along with an… acquaintance… of Wesley's called Winifred Burkle, to be faked. What evidence was left was still enough to get him locked up, but only for around eight years, with parole available in five with good behaviour; if the evidence had all been authentic, Angel could have received either a life sentence or death. After saying his goodbyes to his various groups, Angel had been taken away to prison, and the others had all gone their separate ways. Wesley had kept in touch with most of them, but Buffy and Dawn had practically fallen off the grid after the trial; it had been impossible to find any trace of them along his usual contacts…

And now, five years later, Buffy was dating Parker Abrams- the very man Angel wanted them to rob?

Wesley shook his head as he stared at the road ahead.

Angel had better have a good explanation for this…

As soon as he and Connor had arrived back at the warehouse, Wesley had grabbed his friend by the arm and dragged him off to the back of the warehouse, leaving Connor to talk with the others.

"Wha-?" Angel began, looking at Wesley in confusion, before Wesley interrupted.

"Tell me this is not about her, or I'm leaving," he said, glaring at his old boss.

"Who?" Angel asked, apparently genuinely puzzled by Wesley's query.

"Buffy," Wesley replied, glaring at Angel. "Parker Abrams. Tell me this is not about screwing the guy who's screwing your ex-fiancé!"

Angel sighed as he stared back at Wesley. "It's not about that," he said.

Wesley glared back at Angel; they both knew that Angel was lying.

Eventually, Angel sighed. "OK, it's not entirely about that."

"Then why?" Wesley asked, staring back at Angel angrily. "Parker may be the last person left active who achieved his power because of Wolfram & Hart- I'm not denying that- but when you bring her into the equation…."

He sighed. "You'd better have a good explanation for why you're after Parker that doesn't include her as a major factor."

Angel sighed as well, and looked back at Wesley. "Do you remember what you, Cordelia, Doyle and I said back when we first started our campaign against Wolfram & Hart?" he asked.

Wesley nodded, and Angel continued. "We said we were going to play this game like we had nothing to lose, because that way we wouldn't lose what we truly held dear. Well, I lost something... I lost someone. In a way, we all lost someone to them. "

He looked over briefly at Connor as he spoke. "True, I got someone back, but so many of us never had the same chance…"

He turned back to face Wesley. "That's why I'm here."

"Very well, here's the problem," Wesley said, looking back at Angel. "We're stealing two things now- at least a hundred and fifty million dollars, and Buffy. And when push comes to shove, and you can't have both, which are you going to choose?"

He glared at Angel again. "And remember, no matter what else has happened to her in the last few years, the last time I checked, Buffy Summers does not split eleven ways!"

Angel shrugged casually. "If everything goes according to plan, I won't have to make that call," he said, looking back at Wesley. "Trust me; I've got it covered."

He glanced over at the others, making sure they were still a good distance away, before looking back at Wesley. "Now, I've got this one stage of the plan I need your help with…"