Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel. They both belong to Joss Whedon who so cruelly has kept Buffy and Angel apart. This is just my way of getting over that fact.

A/N: And here comes another chapters. Thankfully we have just three more chapters to go... And of course then there is the epilogue.

Also guys, first year of med school is over so just three more to go WoW is that a coincidence or what (I swear I just thought of this now). SO anyways do tell me how awesome I am for finishing my first year of this horribly stressful year. I do love being praised ;).

K now sit back and enjoy...

Spike watched in chilling horror as she disappeared.

Angela closed her eyes as she found herself being pulled into a vortex of some kind.

"You can open your eyes now Angie"

Angela peeked through her lashes at the white nothingness surrounding her. Her eyes widened as she whipped around to look at her new friend.

"Where are we?"

"My home" Kathy said enthusiastically. She hopped and skipped to the middle of the room and turned around, clapping her hands together with glee.

"Do you like it?"

"Um" Angela looked around herself. "Sure, I mean it is very white... but… pretty."

"Hmm…" Kathy mumbled dreamily, and seemed to get lost in her thoughts.

"So, what do we do…' Angela asked. "You know to stop all the fighting… Umm Kathy" Angela had listened to Kathy and had come with her. And yes while Kathy's place was nice, although a bit too bright… time was running out.

Monsters were attacking her friends and her mom was nowhere to be seen. Angela did not like it and most certainly had to do something about it.

"KATHY"

"Huh" Kathy finally looked at Angela. "Oh sorry, I kinda got lost in the moment."

"That's cool, I do that sometimes too." Angela nodded. "But we really need to help my friends."

"Yes, of course." Kathy smiled. "But I think we might need your dad's help for it."

"My dad"

"Yes" Kathy said, before frowning in concern. "Oh dear! They didn't tell you did they."

Spike was still in shock .

Walking in a daze to where he had last seen Angela, he stumbled down onto his knees. A look of pure torture painted his face as he let out a sound filled with anguish.

Angela had disappeared right in front of his eyes, and he had been unable to stop it. He had promised the slayer that he would keep her safe and had failed. Spike always kept his promises, even as a soulless monster, he had always kept his promises, and yet he had failed when it had mattered the most.

His 'nibblet' was gone and he didn't even know if he would see her again.

"SPIKE"

A rough push shoved him onto the carpeted floor face first.

Turning his head as if in a blur, he saw Angel looming over him as he ripped the head off a bringer.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed, William?" Angel growled as he threw away the body of the now decapitated bringer.

"I…"

"Looks like we came just in time." Buffy panted as she came and stood by Angel.

"Yeah, seems that way." Angel agreed, glancing around.

Bodies of Bringers and other demons lay scattered amongst piles of vampire dust. Joyce was trying to console a petrified Mike, while Mandy was tending to a rather nasty gash on Eric's forearm. An exhausted looking Cordelia was sitting on the floor, taking deep breaths as she unconsciously patted her swollen belly.

"She is not here!"

"What," Buffy turned towards a perplexed Connor. "Who?"

"Angie" Connor frowned, "She is not here."

"Of course she is" Buffy said with a laugh.

"No she is not." Connor insisted. "I can tell."

"He is right". Spike finally got up, looking at Buffy with haunted eyes.

"I…" Buffy licked her suddenly dry lips. "I don't understand."

"I am so sorry slayer."

"Spike" Buffy said with a catch in her voice.

"Speak now boy!" Angel snapped, his normally stoic face turning tense.

"Where is she?" Buffy asked with hysteria cloaking her voice. "Spike- Where- Is- She?"

"She" Spike mumbled. "She… she just disappeared… she was talking to this…"

"No" Buffy cut him off. "No" She shook her head fervently.

Angel placed his hand at the small of her back, which she violently flung away.

"Please tell me you are lying Spike" She asked in a soft scared voice. "Please tell me you are lying… Spike please."

Spike gave her a dejected look.

Buffy took an unsteady step back. She felt numb all over.

"What happened?" Angel asked, his calm voice veiling the storm inside.

Spike swallowed as he tried to recant.

"Umm… everything was fine until… this thing, umm… no… Mandy was telling me that I have a soul and I umm… then Dru came…"

"You have a soul"

"Drusilla was here"

Buffy and Angel spoke simultaneously.

"It was the first." Mandy said, striding over with Eric by her side. "She was posing as the vampire Drusilla." She shrugged. "Spike realized that it wasn't her and…"

"That was when all hell broke loose." Eric completed.

"And Angela."

"She" Spike gulped. "She was in a safe place. We were all trying to make sure of that. She and Mike both… But it was so chaotic and then when I saw her… she was talking to someone, except there was no one" Spike furrowed his brows. "And then she was gone."

"The first must have taken her with it."

"But how?' Connor asked. "I thought it was incorporeal."

"Before she left," Spike remembered." She said something about making everything right."

"Oh God" Mandy swore.

"What"

Mandy raised her hand to her face and held her head in it. "Free will." She gasped.

"Huh" Buffy breathed tiredly. "Mandy, say something that I understand please."

"The first, it can't do anything on it's own, neither can it force anyone to do it's bidding, coerce yes but not force. But if it has a medium, a willing soul, who chose to be at its side, then…"

"You mean…" Buffy paled. "You mean that Angela chose to go with the first."

Mandy gave her a grim look.

"But why would she do that." Connor wondered out loud.

"The first manipulated me into almost killing myself." Angel spoke. "Angela… Angela is just a kid."

"If it hurts her…"

"I don't think you need to worry about that." Mandy said, but without the relief that should have followed.

"What do you mean?" Buffy asked.

"If the first wanted Angela dead, it wouldn't have taken her hostage." Angel realized.

"No" Mandy looked grim.

"It wants her alive, and on its side."

Wow the first wants Angela to team up with her... thats bad :( ... Who knows whats gonna happen next.

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