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Completely AU.

"All right, guys. You know the plan?"

"Yep. We ran into you accidentally and decided to take pity on you since we used to be such good friends in high school. So now we're going to take you shopping for a dress to wear for the reunion. And we accidentally run into Riley."

"Good. There he is. Oh my god, Riley hi. I didn't expect to run into you again so soon."

"Buffy. How's life? Are you ready to have that talk?"

"Oh not now. The girls are showing me around the better parts of LA."

"Buffy look at that dress," Willow then pointed to red, strapless, full-length evening gown, "Go try it on."

"Okay."

"So have you ladies heard about your companion's current occupation?"

"Yes, Riley."

"So why are you here with her?"

"Come on look at the poor thing. We're just trying to be nice. After all we were such good friends in high school so we can't help but take pity on her. She doesn't even have a dress or a date for the reunion."

"Never knew you had such a good soul, Cordelia."

"Well, you never really knew me."

"Oh my god, Buffy, you look great."

"Thanks, Anya. Do you guys think I should get it?"

"You look exquisite Buffy. Do you want to be date for tomorrow evening? If you don't already have one."

"That'd be so great, Riley. I'd love to go with you."

"Here, Buff, buy the dress."

"Thanks, Will."

Once Riley and Buffy made plans they left the store to get lunch.

"Told ya he'd go for it, Will."

"Fine, he's a jerk. I just tend to see the good in people."

"No, Willow, you tend to make up the good in people."

Somewhere in LA

"Liam!!!"

When will people stop calling me that? It's not my name at least not anymore. He put on a smile and turned around.

"Yes?"

"Oh my god. How are you? I haven't seen you in like forever."

"I don't mean to be rude but who are you?"

"It's me, Kate, from Sunnydale."

"Oh. How have you been?" Right, that girl that Darla always picked on..

"Isn't it horrible what happened to Buffy?"

"Yes." He looked away so she wouldn't see the lie on his face.

"Oh I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up."

"No, really, it's all right. I hate to cut this short but I have to attend a meeting."

"Oh, all right. Would you like to go to the reunion with me?"

"Um…can I have your number and I'll think about it?"

"Sure. Here you go. Bye."

Thank god that's over. Buffy did ask…well… tell me to go with Darla so I guess I'll call her and tell her 'no'. I just hope I don't run into Darla today.

"KATE!!!"

"Oh, Darla, what are you doing here?"

"The better question is what are you doing with my man?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I finally have my chance to get Liam and I'm not going to let some high school nerd who should never get his time of day ruin it."

"Whatever. But you should be careful now. You've got competition and by the way that's my man."

Oblivous to the contending girls Buffy, Willow, Cordy, and Anya were sitting at the little café next door trying their best not to laugh out loud and bring attention to themselves.

"Oh my god Angel is going to die when he hears this."

"Do you think Darla and Kate will start stalking him?"

"I don't know. Why?"

"Well they could follow you to the same restaurant or hotel room."

"Oh no I'm not going to give up alone time. This is the first weekend we've had alone since Jessica was born and I am so not switching hotel rooms."

"Fine but be on the lookout for blondes."

"Oh are we meeting again for dinner tonight."

"Yeah, but the boys can't make it. They say it's a surprise."

"Ooh, I wanna see this one play out. Has anyone besides me noticed that people keep calling Angel 'Liam'?"

"You're right, Buff. But I guess since they don't know of the marriage they don't know about the name change either. Anyways it's better if you dump a girl why would you change your name to the nickname she gave you?"

"All right, all right. Where you guys wanna go tonight?"

"Ooh that new French restaurant near Citywalk."

After dinner in Buffy and Anel's room

"Angel, does everybody still call you Liam?"

"Yeah, why?"

"No, just wondering…oh my god you'll never believe what we saw at lunch today."

"What? Darla and Kate fighting over me?" he came over and sat down next to her on the bed. After a while the silence got to him.

"Are you going to tell me what you saw?"

"I don't need to."

"You're kidding right?"

"For someone being overly sarcastic, you're right."

"Oh god NO!!!"

"Why was Kate there anyways?"

"Well she asked me out for the reunion."

"So what'd you say?"

"Since I love you soooooo much and you told me to ask Darla. I had no choice but to obey and then Darla asked me out and I said yes so now I have to call Kate and tell her I already have a date."

"Good boy. Oh by the way Riley did ask me out."

"I'll kill the bastard if he lays a hand on you."

"You are so overprotective."

A/N – no real point except to get some stuff out of the way