Author's Note: And the drama continues . . .

I sprinted as fast as my legs could carry me. I could feel Angel's presence nearby and I knew I had to get to him before he did something that he would regret. I had to find him and see him!

My phone rang and I quickly placed it to my ear without slowing my pace.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"I've got Giles and Xander here, but Angel is not picking up his cell."

"I figured." I replied. "I'm getting close to Angel right now. Willow, keep everyone there. I'll be back as soon as I get Angel."

"Will do." She answered.

I hung up and pushed my body even harder. I needed all of my slayer strength now if I wanted to get to Angel.

My Angel radar went off when I entered the Sunnydale cemetery. It was eerily quiet and I wondered if all the Vampires got wind of the approaching apocalypse. I carefully moved my way through the rows of tombstones until I saw him.

Angel.

He was sitting on the tombstone that he and I always sat on whenever I went patrolling with him. I could see anguish on his face and it pained me to see him like this. I was about to call out to him when I saw he had something in his hand. Something wooden and pointy and—

Oh, God.

It was a stake.

"Angel!" I screamed and ran over to him and jumped onto his chest forcing us to both fall onto the ground. As we were falling, I saw the stake fly out of his hand.

There was a moment of silence as we both sat up.

I struggled to catch my breath, but once my met his eyes, anger reigned supreme. I slapped him clear across the face.

"Angel, what the hell were you thinking?!" I yelled.

He just kept staring at me with a puzzled expression on his face.

"Buffy?" He said my name like a prayer, like it was the only thing keeping him here.

"Angel, don't ever do that again!" I growled and then I gently placed my hand on his cheek.

"How can this be?" He whispered, grabbing my hand and squeezing it. "Buffy, you're—"

"Long story short, Cordelia brought me back to life with a spell." He and I stood up and after a few seconds, he roughly pulled me towards him in an embrace.

"I—I thought that I had lost you." He whispered.

"I'm back and I won't ever leave you again." I promised. "And when this whole mess is over, you and I are going to have a long talk about what you tried to pull with that stake."

"What did you want me to do?" He asked. "You died and I died with you. I couldn't go on without you."

I looked up at him.

"Angel, I—"

My phone rang again.

"Yeah?"

"Ah, so you are alive."

I froze.

The Evolver was on Willow's phone.

"What do you want?" I hissed.

"You better come to the school." He informed me, side-stepping my question. "There is, after all, a lot of blood here."

My heart stopped beating.

"What did you do to them?"

"Wouldn't want to miss the look on your face when you see their lifeless bodies."

He hung up and I turned to Angel.

"I think—he killed them." I choked out.

"What?" Angel asked.

"We've got to get to the school!" I yelled and began to run again.

I just hoped that I wouldn't be too late.

Author's Note: Review please! Will Buffy make it to her friends or is it already too late? Find out next chapter!