I know this has taken waaaaaaaaaaay too long, but I had a lil trip to Washington D.C to check out a college and then some fun shopping in New York so I was busy. I'm back to the swing of things now and here's ur next chapter in this story. Enjoy, cuz the end is drawing near!!!!!!!

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Angel and his men all entered the building in black Armani suits, waiting for the opportunity. Then, Angel's cell phone rang.

"What?" He asked.

"Nice to talk to you too. Sorry I couldn't be there for the demise you had planned for me, but I had other things to tend to. Like your Dona. You see Angelus, if you go to Charleston street=, you'll find her limo nd her sister in the street, dead, hopefully."

"Where is Dona?" He growled and his men turned to him.

"Oh, yes, her. Well, she's in a safe place. If you want her back in one piece, you will adhere to my wants. Are we clear Angelus?"

"I will kill you, Rileno." He groaned.

"Yes, yes, get in line. I will call with my demands. Don't worry, I'll kiss your Dona goodnight for you." And the line went dead. He bellowed from his soul and his men gathered around him.

"Charleston street. Hurry!" He yelled and they all fled to the cars.

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"Dawny?" Xander called, weakly.

"I'm fine. Where's Buffy?" She asked, getting up from the ground. "Where's Faith?"

"Wait here with Willow. I'll go see what I can find." He commanded. He walked to the other side of the limo, not knowing what to expect. What he saw broke his cold heart. Faith lay in the street, in a puddle of her own blood, holding a haqnd to her wound. She was alive, just barely, taking short and shallow breaths.

"Xander? What did you find?" Dawn yelled.

"Nothing, stay over there Dawny. Just take care of Willow." He answered back, putting a hand to Faith's wound to help stop the bleeding. He pulled out his phone to all an ambulance and requested immediate help. He could hear tires screeching in the distance and knew someone was coming.

"Hold on Faith, help is on the way. You can't die on us. You can't die on Buffy, she needs you." He sniffed. Faith's eyes looked blank and he could tell she was struggling to stay awake. Soon, all the cars he once heard in the distance came to a screeching hault in front of them and Angelus and Spike jumped from the cars.

"Oh bloody hell! Who in the fuck....." Spike started, running to Faith and kneeling beside her to hold her broken form in his arms. "Hold on, baby. You're going to be fine. Just hold on, help is one the way." He comforted. Angel tore his gaze from his love's sister and walked to see Dawn jump up and into his arms, sobbing.

"They took her Angelus. She is gone. What are we going to do?" He cried.

"Do not worry, dawn, I will get your sister back and the people who did this will pay."

The ambulance pulled up and soon enough, Faith and Spike were on their way to the hospital with

Willow, Xander and Dawn in tow. Angel stayed behind att he crime scene. He had to find his Dona before she was hurt or before her hurt himself.

How could he have been so stupid? He should have known to have kept her watched. In the middle of his brooding, his cell phone rang.

"What?" He shouted.

"Nice to speak to you too, Angelus. I have what you have been looking for. Come by yourself to the old factory on the warf. If I so much as think that you are not alone or are planning something, your Dona will be dead. I want what is owed to me, I will collect tonight and the collateral is Buffy. See you soon." and the phone died. Angelus took the phone from his ear and hollered into the night. He would kill that bastard. He would make him feel the way he was felling right now.

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In the hospital the gang, including Xander with a bandaged arm, sat waiting for the doctor to give feedback on Faith.

"I can't lose her too," Dawn sobbed. "I can't do this alone Willow."

"Shh, she'll be fine. Angelus will find her and bring her home. Just you wait. Faith is going to pull through also. Then we will pay Rileno back for his deeds. In full." Willow affirmed.

"Are you the Donatella family?" the doctor asked.

"Yes, how is she?" Spike asked, standing. The doctor gave him a woeful look as he made eye contact.

"She's alive barely. We were able to stop the bleeding but in surgery, she slipped into a coma. There is a 50-50 chance of her pulling through this. You can go in and see her, but pray that she wakes up because the longer she's gone, the less of a chance it will be of her returning at all. I'm sorry, and I wish her the best." The doctor completed before sulking away. They all sighed and held tears back and filed into her room, to stay with the wounded Donatalla sister.

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Angel walked into the warehouse unfrightened and determined. He had nothing to fear. His life was nothing. He wouldn't fear anything until he hda his Dona back in his arms. He was almost robotic.

"Rileno!" He yelled. "Where are you?"

"Quiet, your Dona is asleep. So glad you could make it."

Where is she?" He asked, bluntly.

"Around. You see, you are on my terms, not your own and you will not make demands here. You are in no position to." He smiled.

"What do you want?" Angel asked.

"What I've always wanted. Your death and your empire. Looks like I'll have both tonight." He said, pulling a gun. Angel quickly knocked it out of his hands and Rileno fell to the ground.

"Did you think you would get away with this. You know me better than to fuck with me. You've crossed me and now your life is in my hands! You will not have that or anything else, when I leave this place." He roared before stomping Rileno into the ground.

"You want to know what's sad? She killed herself for me. Katalina killed herself because I didn't love her. Because I was so in love with Dona. She gave herself to me every possible way a woman could and I didn't even think twice about it afterwards. She holds nothing to Buffy. Never would. The ironic thing is that she felt my treatment of her was better than settling for you. She would rather die than be loved by you." He whispered into Rileno's ear as he held him by the throat. Suddenly, four men came around to face Angelus holding their boss. He whispered into Rileno's ear,

"See if you can find you love in hell!" He sneered, before snapping his neck and letting him fall to the floor. Gunn, Penn and a few other men came from nowhere and dealt with the men challenging their boss. Angel sprinted up the creaking stairs of the warehouse, shouting his beloved's name.

"In here." She replied weakly and Angel found her bound to a bed and weak. He gasped in horror as many things passed through his mind from her position. He stared at her before she cleared her throat and spoke.

"Umm, hello, anyone home? Yea well, can you untie me cause this is uncomfy and I really wanna eat something." She h whined. He smiled, and blinked back tears when he heard the evidence that she was fine.

"I thought....I thought he had....oh God! I love you so much Dona. I'll never let you out of my sight again."

"I'm glad to here that honey, really I am, but that a little too much time. How's Faith?" She asked, suddenly afraid.

"I don't know. When we arrived they took her to the hospital. Everyone else is fine. Come on, I'd feel better if you got checked up also."