All right, here is the second chapter. PLEASE review! If anyone wants to beta-read the next chapter I would appreciate it and send it to you as soon as it's written.

As they entered L.A. at about nine o'clock and they started looking for their hotel. Not seeing it coming up anytime soon Buffy turned towards Spike.

"Giles reserved the rooms under fake names. He thought it would be better if no one could find out where the Slayer and her ensouled vampire friend were staying." She explained to him. He looked at her, his expression telling her he thought Giles was just a tad bit loony.

"What are the names?" He asked, turning back to the road.

 "I am Nicole Smith and you are Mike Duff." Buffy told him. "He wanted the names to sound as normal as possible. So Spike and Buffy wouldn't have really worked."

"Spike is a perfectly normal name!" He saw the look she gave him that seemed to say 'Yeah right.' "He could have used William!" Spike said in his defense.

"Oh, yeah. William the Bloody would have worked wonderfully! Doesn't stand out at all." Buffy said to Spike.

"No need to get so sarcastic." He said, grinning at her.

"Is that the hotel there?" Buffy asked pointing to a hotel at the right with a sign in front that said Hypernion.

"Looks like it."

"Doesn't look to bad from here." She commented. " I thought Giles was going to put us in a rat-infested motel to keep our profile low, but this looks nice."

The Hypernion was several stories high with a nice looking out door pool and garden in the front. It had a nice yard and circular driveway so people could get out at the front doors with flowers lining it.

"I'll go check in while you park the car and bring the bags in." Buffy told him.

"How come I get stuck carrying in the bags? You have super-strength, you carry them!" Spike complained.

"Yeah I could, but I don't want to. So you have to. I'm going to sign in, I'll meet you in there." With that she hopped out of the car and entered the hotel before he had the chance to say anything.

As she walked to the front desk she looked around the hotel and decided it looked nice enough to stay in for a couple days. The lobby had marble floor and a high ceiling. ' We'll have to see what the rooms are like.' Buffy thought to herself.

As she reached the front desk a woman with long brown hair spoke to her. 

"Hi, welcome to the Hypernion Hotel, I'm Fred. What can I do for you?"

"I have reservations for two rooms." Buffy told the woman

Fred stared at the petite blonde in front of her for a moment. She looked familiar, yet Fred knew she had never met the girl. Maybe she had just seen a picture of her.

"What are the names?" She asked the blonde.

"Nicole Smith and Mike Duff." Buffy told Fred. Fred typed the names into the computer in front of her.

"You have rooms 14 and 16, they are connected rooms." Fred told Buffy before handing her two keys. Just then a bleach blond man wearing a black trench coat and carrying several bags came in and walked towards them.

"Did you get the rooms?" He asked the blond.

"Yup!" She confirmed. "Rooms 14 and 16."

"If you need anything there will be someone here all night or you can go to the room directly across the hall, room 15. The two men staying there live here, so if you need help with anything just knock on their door." Fred told the two people standing in front of her.

"Thank you." Buffy said before she and Spike walked off in search of their rooms. When they found them they went into their respective rooms to change into more comfortable clothes for a patrol.

After changing Buffy opened the door that connected the two rooms and skipped into Spikes room. Spike finished putting his shirt on just as she came in and currently sitting down putting on sox and shoes.

"Almost ready? I want to get this over with and go back to Sunnyhell as soon as possible." Buffy said to Spike. He stood up, grabbed his jacket and led her out of the room just as the door across the hall shut. Buffy got a familiar tingling sensation in her stomach that usually told her when He was near, but ignored it and continued walking out the hotel door.

Spike and Buffy patrolled for about two hours and only staked one vamp when they decided to head back to the hotel at about eleven o'clock. They got back to the hotel without trouble and went into their rooms to get into their pajamas and go to bed. Buffy had put on light blue pants with a tank top to match that showed her stomach. Spike came into Buffy's room as she was brushing her hair.

"I'm going to sleep. Don't wake me up at eight in the morning like you usually do. As sun-proof as this hotel appears to be I would rather be safe than a pile of ash waiting to get sucked up by a vacuum." Spike said to her before retreating back into he own room.

Buff's stomach growled at her, reminding her that she hadn't eaten all day. She decided to look for a vending machine around the hotel. She thought she had seen one just around the corner on her way in from patrol. She went to see and found one there. She bought a bag or Ruffles and decided to look around the hotel while she ate.

She made it to the lobby before she stuck her hand in the bag and didn't feel anything. She looked down into the bag to see if she was missing any. She walked right into a tall, dark figure, right in front of the desk where Fred was sitting,  that appeared to have been reading mail until she had run into him. He placed his arms on her arms to steady her, not realizing that she had slayer balance and wouldn't have fallen anyway.

She looked at the man to thank him but stopped short, shocked when she saw his face. He looked at her, just as shocked. She was the first one to speak.

"Angel?" Buffy questioned, not really sure she was seeing him

"Buffy?" Angel asked, sounding shocked.