Angel sat on the bed in the one room motel room. He looked around, it was far from homely, it's was dirty, old, looked like it was about the fall to pieces, the wallpaper was old fashioned, the carpet worn.

"It's not much but it's a roof" she explained sitting on the bed in front of him. He didn't talk; he didn't know what to say he just stared. She still had the lumps on her forehead; her fangs were showing as she couldn't close her mouth properly. Her eyes were the evil yellow colour. "didn't your mother ever tell you it was rude to stare?" she asked trying to make a joke but failing miserably, he could tell by the sound of her voice that she was afraid, his vampire senses took over and he could smell the fear.

"What happened?" he finally asked. She sighed and began to cry he pulled her in to his arms and held her close as she sobbed the whole story…

Stacey walked down a dark, damp, cold alley, she had chased a vampire down here. Why do they always run? Why can't they be the evil creatures their supposed to be and just fight? She asked her self walking slowly down the alley and looking around. She stopped hearing a noise behind her; she slowly turned her head to find the source of the noise.

"Dumb rat" she said seeing it scurry across the floor. She turned her head around again to look in the direction she was going previously. The vampire she had chased stood right in front of her. He didn't give her brain time to process what was happening before he lunged at her neck. He sank his teeth in deep, feasting on the slayers blood, it was so thrilling and the rush he felt as the blood passed his lips and went down in to this throat, to his stomach, it was amazing.

"And you fed on him?" Angel asked

"no" she said coming out of his arms for the first time since he had hugged her "I gave up for a split second I didn't care whether I lived or died, I deserved it I should have died, I should have let him drain me, but I realized if I died more people would suffer the same fate as me and die by the hands of his creature so I staked him"

"And then?" Angel asked anxious for the rest of the story.

She banged the door, not her normal bang; she was too weak for that. She had walked the 15 blocks to the only place she could think of. Lindsey's.

"Stacey" he said as he opened the door. He saw the blood on her hand where she had the wound covered over. He caught her as she fell through the door. He carried her and put her on the couch.

He stood starring at her for a minute, she was close to death he felt the coldness of her body as he carried her.

"Help" she said faintly. What was he to do? There wasn't time to get her to a hospital; he did the only thing he could think of. He rushed in to his kitchen and went to the draw; he opened it and clanked around looking for a knife. He went in to the living room with the butcher knife and slit his wrist.

"Drink" he said holding up her head as she was too weak to do it herself. She was in no state to argue, he put his wrist to her lips and she drank.

"When I woke in the mornin I was fine, I felt so refreshed, so alive"

"Human blood does that to you" Angel agreed.

"I've got a soul" she explained "apparently slayers can't be turned in to full vampires they keep their souls. I got in contact with the council"

"So you're like me?" he asked. She nodded in agreement. "Have you drunk any blood since?"

"No, not even pig's blood. I wouldn't know where to start. Lindsey's out there looking for a cure"

"There is no cure" Angel told her

"I know that, he knows that, he's just in denial" she explained she held up her hand to show a ring on her engagement finger.

"This is a joke right?" Angel asked getting off the bed and smiling at her waiting for Lilah and Lindsey to jump out of somewhere. "Come on I mean fair enough you lied to me, but you were still you, you didn't change anything about you, and I know you. You'd never date someone like Lindsey let alone marry him"

"does it look like a joke to you?" she asked "look at me Angel, I'm an un-dead American, I'm a vampire, this is no Wolfram and Hart stunt, it's the truth, I lied to you once I wouldn't make that mistake twice" she told him. "And as for the whole Lindsey thing, I love him, as hard as that is to believe I do!" He stood staring again; he didn't believe this was happening. Your gonna wake up any second. He told himself starring at her. Her game face showing, she shook it off.

"Maybe you should go" she told him walking to the door and opening it. He didn't want to go but he knew he wasn't helping the situation.


"if you ever need a friend, anything, a place to stay, money, help, anything" Angel said leaving the room. "You know where I am". She gave him a thankful look then she closed the door. She fell to the floor and she broke down in tears.