The masked stranger ran up to Buffy and gripped her hand lightly. Buffy looked up through half closed eyes at the face.
"Buffy, come on, you're strong, you can do this. Live, for me."
"Who are you?"
"You cannot know that or else I will disappear, lets just say I'm an Angel. Anyway girl you need to get up, Willow is going to die if you don't get up."
"No…its my time." She whispered.
"Get up. If you don't Angel will never come back."
"There's no way I can do this."
"Yeah you can. Are you just gonna lie there and let Angelus win?"
"No." She whispered. "But it hurts too bad. My ex boyfriend just staked me."
"I know are you going to let Angelus win or are you going to be strong. Think of what Spike would say." Buffy used every ounce of strength to lift herself off the stake and limped two feet before collapsing. A strong pair of arms wrapped around her and lifted her up she forced herself into looking at the eyes. They reflected blue and his face was boyish.
"You okay Ma'am?" She blinked furiously trying to stay conscience.
"I'm fine. Who are you?""
"Riley. Who did this to you?"
"Nobody just get me to…" She fell limp in his arms and he headed to the hospital.
A few hours later Buffy woke up for in the same room that she was in 'except I wasn't' she reminded herself. She felt for her stomach and winced, it had been close. She closed her eyes and sensed a vampire in the corner like she had before. 'No I haven't.' She reprimanded herself 'This is the first time and its not Spike this time either.'
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Meanwhile Faith stood facing the numerous vampires. She remembered a flask of holy water and pulled it out. The vampires charged and attacked her. She fought as many and snapped forty of their necks with in the ten minutes. In the corner where she had sat before was a crate. She ran over there and smashed it. She let them attack her and staked every single vampire.
"That was a blast." She commented heading towards Giles's house hungry enough to eat the house.