I don't own the rights to Buffy, Angel, or Stargate SG1, except in my dreams.

Chapter Twenty Nine.

"Angel, you didn't tell me we had visitors." the woman said.

"That Eve, is because they are visiting me, not you." Angel said patiently.

"Come now Angel, when the original slayer from Sunnydale pays a call it's an important event. One the Senior Partners would like to know about. You understand don't you, Buffy?" she said turning towards the Slayers. She froze for a second when she saw their eyes. "Now that is something new."

"If you would like to leave now Eve, my friends and I have several things to do."

"Wait a moment, Angel, it might be a good thing she's here." Buffy interrupted.

"Thank you for understanding." Eve said with a smile.

"No." Buffy said, shaking her head, "Thank you. We didn't know how to contact your senior partners. Problem solved."

Looking startled Eve asked why they wanted to contact the Senior partners.

"Just to tell them that things have changed and they are no longer welcome in this dimension. They have plenty of other dimensions to play in, for now, but not this one. To put it in a way you might understand, there had been a very hostile take over, and the previous management is no longer involved, in anything."

"You can't just tell the Senior partners what to do." Eve blustered.

"Yes, we can," Xander confirmed. "put it this way, unless your senior partners are stronger than the First was, they better stay out of our way."

Shocked, Eve couldn't believe what she'd just been told. "The First? No one can hurt the First. It is the Alpha and Omega. It is evil personified, immortal and all powerful."

Buffy smiled, "Now it's all dead as well. Now run back to your masters, and tell them this from the Slayers Council, we killed the First, so they wouldn't be any real opposition, more of a training exercise than anything meaningful. But we'll offer them a deal, they can keep the law offices open, but only the law offices, anything supernatural goes on and, well, I think you get the point. And I'm sure they will.

Come on Angel, we have some things to do, times a wasting, and I'm sure Eve here has got a lot of talking to do."

Eve could only watch as Angel led the others from his office, wondering what these changes would mean to the firm, and more importantly to her. She didn't think it would be good, not good at all.

As the door closed behind them Xander smirked at Angel, "You really liked that didn't you, Deadboy?"

With a half smile Angel admitted that he had. "Eve really gets on my nerves sometimes, well most time actually."

"Don't worry I think you'll find things will be a lot different, if you stay." Xander said.

"You could be right," Angel said nodding. "Harmony, set up a meeting with the others, two o'clock?" he glanced at Buffy and Xander, Buffy nodded. "Yes, two o'clock, in my office. I'm going out for a while."

"Okay, boss, two o'clock, consider it done." Harmony replied.

"Oh, and Harmony, I want you at the meeting too, it also concerns you." Angel added.

Harmony looked confused, which of course was usual for Harmony. "Okay, if you're sure." She said, keeping an eye on the slayer.

Buffy smiled at Harmony, actually smiled, "Don't worry, it's nothing bad, and it could be very good for you."

Harmony nodded as Angel led them to his private elevator.

Angel led them into Cordelias hospital room, they were surprised to see Wesley sitting there reading to Cordelia, from a fashion magazine.

Looking up when he heard the door open, thinking it was one of the nurses arriving to check on Cordy, he was surprised to see Angel, Buffy and Xander. Then he noticed the eyes of the Scoobies, and slowly slid his hand into his jacket pocket.

"It's OK Wes, they're not demons, the magic at Sunnydale did it to them." Angel told him.

"If you're sure, Angel." he said, relaxing slightly.

"How long have you been here?" Angel asked.

Glancing at his watch Wesley said, "About five hours, I took over from Spike just before sunrise. Gunn will be taking over in another hour."

"That's alright Wes, you can go now, we're having a team meeting at two o'clock, you should get some rest. I'll take over. Buffy and Xander think they have something that could cure Cordy."

Feeling hopeful, Wesley asked if he could stay, after a glance at Buffy and Xander, and seeing they had no objections, Angel agreed.

Buffy and Xander approached Cordys bed, Xander shook his head when he saw her close up, "You guys better hope she's in a good mood when we wake her up. If she's not, and she sees her hair, well, you know Cordy."

Angel and Wesley winced, seeing for the first time how Cordy would not appreciate people seeing her with her hair like it was now. Angel wondered if there was time to have someone brought in to deal with it.

Buffy took a small device from the bag she was carrying, she activated it and a beam of light was produced. She adjusted the beam until she was satisfied with the size, then ran the beam over Cordy.

Wesley was fascinated, he'd never seen anything like it. He was about to ask about it when Xander caught his eye, shaking his head. Realising it wasn't the time, Wesley nodded and continued watching.

Buffy and Xander studied a small display, talking quietly, finally they turned to Angel, "Something's wrong here," Buffy said. "according to our readings there's nothing physically wrong with Cordy. Her body is in perfect shape, except for some muscle loss from being in a coma. There's no brain damage, or anything else that could cause this."

Wesley thought quickly, if there was no physical reason for the coma that meant that the coma had to be caused by, "Magic." he said. "But Wolfram and Hart had their best mages examine Cordy, they found no trace of magic."

Xander nodded, "Didn't they? I think they found magic and decided not to do anything about it, the better to keep you and Angel leashed. I guess now we know we can take care of it now."

Buffy agreed, "Whistler get your butt here, right now!"

The familiar shape of the balance demon appeared. Angel and Wesley were surprised to see how cowed he appeared. "Yes, Slayer, what do you want."

"This isn't a natural coma, is it?" Buffy asked pointedly.

"No Slayer," Whistler said, shaking his head. "It was necessary for the plan involving Angel."

"Well," said Xander, "since that plan is no longer necessary I think it would be a nice gesture for the Powers to wake Cordy up, don't you?"

"Besides," Buffy said, "I hope they do realise that if Cordy dies, they will die as well."

Swallowing hard, Whistler nodded, saying, "I'm sure that won't be necessary, I'll give them the word straight away." Then he disappeared.

"Buffy, I don't think you should threaten the Powers, who knows what they might do." Wesley said warningly.

Angel shook his head, "I don't think the Powers will do anything, I'll explain at the meeting this afternoon."

Suddenly the light in the room increased to an almost blinding level, then retreated back until it was bathing Cordys body in a shifting spectrum of colours. Finally the light faded and the room returned to normal.

Cordy opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was Xander, staring at her. "Hey, dweeb, what are you staring at?" she asked.

Quietly Xander said, "Your lovely green eyes.