This is the chapter before the last. I hope everyone enjoys this. :D

Angel comes walking into Giles house. Both Cordy and Giles jump up from the living room couch.

"Angel! Are you alright? Wait -- are you, you?" Cordelia asked keeping her distance.

"Yes I'm fine Cordelia. Where's Doyle?"

"Willow and Oz took him to the magic shop about an hour ago to undue the spell. Looks like it worked." Cordelia replied smiling.

"Angel is there something wrong?" Giles asked.

"Buffy and Anne had a fight. I think she could really use someone close to her." Angel replied seeming worried.

"Anne?"

"That's Kathy's real name. I heard her shout it." Angel replied. Giles headed towards the door and put on his jacket.

"I'll go find them." He said patting Angel on the shoulder before heading out.

"Thank you." Angel said. He walked over towards the fireplace seeming angry with himself. "I should of stayed. If Anne's anything like her mother, she probably ran off." Angel hit's the wall of the fireplace, which made Cordelia jump.

"You can't see everything. You're just a vampire like everyone else... That didn't come out right." Cordelia tried to think of something else to say when Angel beat her to it.

"I thought I was out of the tunnel." He said, and slumps down onto the sofa.

"Sure you did... because the tunnel is - you know, it's something we all... Are we talking real tunnel or symbolic? Just give me that much." She asks.

"I-I saw the light at the end of the tunnel - that some day I might become human. - - Have a family." He looks towards Cordelia than back to the ground. Cordy sits down beside him with a sigh.

"Yeah. We all got a little cocky, didn't we? - It's gonna be a long while though, from what the kids say - until you work your way out - until we all do."

Angel smiles over her last comment. "Thanks."

"Hey what are -- friends for?" She replied rubbing his back and returning the smile. He looks to her and his smile suddenly vanishes. Angel inspects Cordy's huge black eye.

"What happened?"

"Spell gone wild on Xander Harris. No big. Just gives me a better reason to go shopping for some new sunglasses." She replies smiling brighter.

Angel strokes her bruised area gently with his thumb still inspecting it. He suddenly captures her eyes as they lock, they both hesitate for a moment as they both leaned slowly towards each other for a kiss but are suddenly interrupted by the door flying open and Cordelia quickly jumps up.

"Xander!" Cordelia froze in shock scared to move.

"Cordelia. Oh Cordelia I'm so sorry." Xander heads towards her and wraps his arms around her. Cordelia doesn't move an inch as if her whole body is in shock. Faith walks slowly in from behind seeming to be hugging herself. She has some cuts and bruises to her cheeks, Angel sees this but doesn't move from the couch. They all four appear to be in shock.

Meanwhile at Sunnydale high school Anne walks in wandering around. She heads into the library telling herself some of the stories her mother told her about that place, and how much she learned and grew from just that small room.

An image came to her from one of her favorite stories as she looked towards the library table,

Everyone seems to be inside the library discussing the new source Xander seemed to have brought in.

"What's going on?" Oz asks walking in with Willow next to him.
"How come evil girl's in the mix?" Willow added.
"Anya witnessed an Ascension." Giles replied.
"Oh, okay then." Willow said.
"What about the spiders? The Mayor had a box of spiders that he had to eat. The Box of... I want to say Grav-Locks?" Buffy brought up trying to understand everything.
"Gavrock." Giles answered.
"It doesn't ring a bell." Anya seemed confused by even the word.

Anne smiled slightly remembering that and heads out into the hallway. She wiped the tear that rolled down her cheek as she headed down the halls. She finally headed inside the restroom upstairs and just looked at herself for the longest time in the mirror. For a moment she began to remember everything that's happened and how most of it was her fault, she suddenly punched the mirror as hard as she could shattering it to pieces. She looked down at her hand all bloody and she began to cry.

Back at the mansion Buffy is now resting her head on Spike's shoulder as he lets her. The two have just been sitting their on the couch in silence, thinking about what has happened, what is to come and what they must do to fix all that has happened. It's only been almost three weeks and Buffy never imagined finding herself to be this close to Spike in such a short amount of time. She hated herself for it, as almost as if she's betraying love itself. But then again, deep down she feels it's right, that there's nothing wrong with it. Buffy let out a small breath and slowly lifted her head up from Spike's shoulder still facing the fireplace.

"You ok?" Spike asks softly.

"Yeah." She softly replies. "I have to fix this."

"We both do." He replied.

Buffy sighed, "Why are you doing this Spike?" She asks now facing him. "How do you know Anne is really going to give you Drusilla?"

"I don't." He responded.

"Then why?" She asks but before he could answer Doyle comes rushing through the door.

"Where is she? Where's Anne?" He asks worried.

Both Buffy and Spike look to each other both having the same look. For once in there life, they both knew exactly what the other was thinking-- as a feeling came slamming at them like a herd of cattle. Something was wrong.

Anne rapidly began to open the cupboards to find something she could wrap her hand with to stop the bleeding. But she couldn't find anything except Ammonia and Clorox. She slammed the cupboard with her hand and pulled off her jacket. She then ripped her sleeve off her shirt and wrapped the cloth around her hand.

Back at the mansion Doyle threw down a map and sat in front of it. Doyle dusts the map with the powder he brought from the magic shop. Several individual dots glow in various places on the map, but there is a heavy concentration of glowing dots in the center of the map.

"What's that?" Spike asks looking towards the center.

"That's the hell mouth. Sunnydale High." Buffy replied shocked to see all the dots in that one area.

"Anne's there." Doyle snapped.

"How do you know." Buffy asks.

"The red dots her." Doyle answered.

"She's bloody going to kill herself." Without hesitation Spike bolted out of the mansion, Buffy right behind him. Doyle tried to follow only to be left behind. And not knowing where the school is, he stops and hopes they get to her in time.

Anne's jacket appearing to be shoved underneath the restrooms door as the door is locked. She begins to pour some Ammonia into a bucket she found underneath the sink. She then grabs the Clorox and begins to examine the bottle. She then pours it inside the bucket as a cloud of air begins to fill the room. She backs away coughing trying to breathe, but the air thickens. She falls to the ground fighting for air, but it continues to thicken as she began to tear up from the burning pain she felt at her lunges and eyes.

Buffy and Spike quickly rushed inside the school not sure where she was at; both worried for her safety. Buffy rushed back and forth down the halls noticing Spike wasn't with her. He paused for a moment then sniffed the air.

"Buffy!" He shouted and he rushed upstairs, Buffy quickly followed after him.

Inside the restroom Anne slowly began to loose consciousness and she looked up to the cloud of smoke coming from the bucket. Questions filled her mind as to why this was happening to her, but all she could do was blame herself. She slowly closed her eyes as her world faded to black.

Spike and Buffy stopped on top of the stairwell looking both ways as to where she could of possibly gone and Spike suddenly looked towards the restroom. He tried to jiggle the handle open both he and Buffy finally breaking the door down. Buffy began to back away from the smell, coughing over the air that came shooting out. Without it harming him, Spike rushed into the restroom.

Buffy waited impatiently away from the door for Spike, and not a moment to soon he comes out, carrying an unconscious Anne in his arms.

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