"What the fu-" Spike began. The ground shook harder and Buffy tripped over a figure that Charli had put on the edge of her pentagram. Spike caught her and they both fell to the floor. Dawn fell from the doorway that she had moved to just before the earthquake began. Charli had jumped up and held onto a metal bar that was above the doorway to the kitchen. She flipped over it twice and landed on the platform above the stairs just as the ground stopped shaking. "What was that for?" Spike asked.
"The earthquake or Charli?" Giles asked brushing himself off.
"Both," Spike replied.
"She knew that's why she was here, it had to be." Charli sighed, and then continued, "I did that so I'd be ready to fight that big ass demon and to avoid the big ass crack that was newly made just now."
"Don't talk like that!" Buffy scolded.
"Why I can tell you do," Charli said coolly then looking around the old hotel. She saw that almost everything had fallen of the selves a nice big crack was in the floor where you could now see… something dangerous. "Buffy did you miss all of what I just said you know the demon part?" Charli said rolling her eyes over to the crack where everyone looked to see a brand new demon crawling out of it.
"This isn't Sunnydale…" The demon growled.
"Nope sorry but now your going back to hell." Charli said un-amused with the demons presence. She drew her sword and slammed it through the beast's heart.
"I am saying this unofficially but I think we have a new Hellmouth. Isn't it just?" Angel pretended to be ecstatic as the demon fell back into the crack.
"I wonder where it could be?" Wesley mumbled looking around.
"I think I know someone who could tell us." Charli told him as she put her sword back into the scabbard, "And I'm gonna go find out." She smiled.
"Charli! Wait I'm going with you." Angel said stopping her, she didn't say anything but waited on him to get his leather trench coat on. The pair walked out the door not saying another word.
"Who were they going to go and see?" Xander asked Gunn.
"Have no idea," He replied scratching his head. Buffy made a quick decision to follow them, she left Dawn's side quickly and ran out of the hotel. She saw Angel and Charli driving down the road in Charli's Mustang and Buffy looked around quickly, she saw Xander's car and decided to borrow it. She didn't exactly have a driver's license but she didn't care she drove as fast as she could looking for Angel and Charli. She almost sped past Wolfram and Hart where she saw the blood red Mustang that they had gotten away in. Buffy put the car in park and turned it off she took out the keys and jammed them in her pocket. 'Now how I am supposed to find them?' She thought as she walked inside the office building. 'I could just follow the broken bodies…' She thought running up the stairs that were full of stunned attorneys. 'She has been using magic again.' Buffy thought angrily as she rushed around the corner to see an open office door and inside she saw Angel holding a woman up by her throat and Charli holding her sword to her chest.
"Charli! That's a human!" Buffy exclaimed without thinking.
"Yeah and I'm going to kill her because I want to…okay that's really the truth but she's evil mom!" Charli said poking Lilah harder without breaking skin.
"So this little woman is the Slayer? I pictured her… taller." Lilah smirked.
"You have nothing to be happy about." Angel said squeezing her harder.
Lilah coughed, "Kill me I don't care, but you can't kill all of Wolfram and Hart not when I'm not the one you're after." She choked out.
"Really?" Angel asked.
"I've heard this song before Lilah you are trying to send us on a wild goose chase, we've grow wise to your tricks, they don't work anymore." Charli smiled.
Buffy looked confused, so she didn't say anything. Charli took the sword and made a long cut down Lilah's face and then another down her arm. "Are you ready to talk now?" Charli asked smiling.
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Charli, Angel and Buffy walked back into Angel Investigations about 2 and a half hours later with new information. "What happened?" Spike asked as he sipped on some pig's blood from the fridge.
"We are now living on a new Hellmouth. Lilah told us that it turns out that it shifts every few thousand years. The old one will close and can no longer be opened, the new one will be very active for it's first year after it's activation. Unless she lied but I don't think she'd do that to us." Charli explained putting the sword back into the weapons cabinet.
"How did you get all of that out of Lilah, assuming it is all true?" Wesley asked.
"Mental and physical torture, and I know she wouldn't lie not after that." Angel replied.
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It was beautiful, a wedding under the stars, Charli, Cordelia, Willow, and Anya were the bridesmaids. Oddly enough Angel, Conner, Xander, and Giles were the groomsmen. The bridesmaids were gorgeous. The dresses were silver and strapless with sequins all over them, the girls all had their hair up in curly updo's. Charli's hair was now bleach blond again, she smiled as she saw the bride. The bridesmaids were pretty but they didn't match the bride. She had her blonde hair curled with clip in sequins in it and her dress was white and glittery with thin fake diamond straps. The groom was handsomely dressed in a traditional black and white tuxedo. After the bride got to the end of the isle and they said they're vows they both said I do and kissed.