Buffy pulled on her jeans and tank top. She grabbed a stake and headed out the door.

"Hey Buffy, how you doing today?" A girl asked her as she headed out the door.

"I'm fine, I've got a little errand to run, and then I'll see you at Double Meat. Look, Lorie, I know you care about me, but I'll be fine, I've handled loss before. Nothing different."

"Buffy, you lost your sister, the only family you had, and you act like losing loved ones is an every day occurrence. You're never home at night, you work double shifts all the time, What are you keeping from me?"

Buffy turned to her roommate. "If I tell you you'll think I'm crazy."

"Try me!" Lorie cocked her head to the side in a way the reminded Buffy of Spike.

"I'm a vampire slayer. I kill the undead. I fight demons. I save the world almost every week. I've died twice. I was in love with two vampires, and they both died. Any thing else you want to know?" Buffy snapped.

"Get out of my house! You are a sick retarded freak! You need mental help, and I don't want you staying in my house."

"About an hour later night had fallen and Buffy was carrying a box of her things. "Nice one Buffy, now where are you going to live?" She asked herself.

"You can always come stay with me." Buffy spun around at the sound of that familiar voice.

"Angel!? Is it really you? I thought you were dead. I was scared I lost you forever. Please don't leave me."

"Buffy, I never died, I moved to Transylvania with Tatiana and Spike. We needed to leave you to live your life. But I need to tell you a few things. Spike and Tatiana got remarried, and they want desperately to have a child. I was sent here by the watcher's council to turn you, to make you one of us. I have to do it, to save your soul." Angel looked at the ground.

"I won't let you."

"You will, you won't stop me, even if you wanted to you couldn't. It will all be over soon." And with that Angel bit into her warm flesh.