Hey! I'm sorry about the confusion. I didn't know anything about the Hypernion. That part is going to be AU. The Fang-Gang owns it and keeps it as a normal hotel for extra money and run Angel Investigations in the finished basement of it. Sorry!

Buffy and Angel stood staring at each other for what seemed like hours. A loud commotion at the front door drew their attention away and towards the noise. Three men came barreling in, bloody and out of breath. 

"Gunn! What happened to you three?" Fred asked sounding worried, she came out from behind the desk to examine them.

The tall African-American standing in front of Buffy was about to answer until her saw her and seemed to think better of it. Gunn looked at Angel, asking him with his eyes if it was okay to talk about it in front of the petite blonde standing in front of him. Before he could say anything Buffy asked them a question.

"Did you have a run-in with the Beast?" She asked to everyone's shock. They just stared at her a moment, until Wesley came to his senses and answered her.

"Yes, we did." He paused for a moment before continuing. "It's good to see you again."

"It's good to see you again to Wes. Surprising, but good… I think." Buffy said in reply, sounding a bit skeptical of what she was saying. "What do you guys know about the Beast? Giles gave me some info, but anything you know could be useful."

"Why don't we go into the back to discuss this? It wouldn't be good to have a customer her any of this." Angel suggested, finally finding his voice after seeing Buffy again for the first time since Willow had brought her back.

"That sounds like a good idea." Gunn said.

"I'm just going to go back to my room now." Buffy said, trying to escape the awkward situation she found herself in.

"Why don't you come with us? We can pull our resources together. It might help all of us." This coming from Angel, who was staring at Buffy again.

"Ummm…. ok." Buffy said, not seeing a way out and knowing her had a point. "Just let me go get something from my room real quick." Buffy turned around without waiting for them to say anything. 'Oh my God. I am not prepared for this! How am I supposed to act around him? Concentrate on business. That's a good idea.' She thought to herself before entering Spike's room and waking him up.

"Bloody hell Slayer!" Spike said, quickly sitting up on the bed where he had been deep asleep before she started shaking him. "I was asleep! This better be damn important."

"Angels here. Some friends of his had a run in with the best. Were gonna go have a meeting with them right now, so get you're lazy ass up and come with me." Buffy ordered before going to his closet, grabbing a black shirt and tossing it to him to put on. Spike deftly caught the shirt and just stared at it a moment before putting on.

"So, the grand Poof is here? I thought I sensed him, but I didn't believe it." Spike told her.

"Yeah. Do you think he would notice if we didn't go to this meeting?" She asked him, not yet knowing how to deal with Angel being there and the feelings that came with him.

"We need to go. As much as I would like to avoid seeing him again, he could have some useful information, and we are here to save the world…again." He told her, for once being the voice of reason.

"Fine." She huffed before walking out the door. With Spike at her side Buffy headed towards the lobby again. The only person in there was Fred, who was sitting behind the desk again. When Buffy and Spike walked in she gave them a curious look and directed them to the meeting.

"Everyone else is downstairs in the investigations center. They told me to tell you to meet them there. Just go into the office behind me and down he stairs and that where they will be." She paused for a second, looking at Buffy who was making her way to the office. "Have we met before?" She asked Buffy

"Not that I know of." Buffy threw over her shoulder. She made her way down the stairs and stopped suddenly at the bottom casing Spike to walk into her. Buffy lost her balance and fell, Spike landed on top of her and they heard all talk stop and felt everyone's eyes on them. They rushed to get up and turned to face everyone. Buffy turning red as a tomato from embarrassment, she looked at Angel who simply smiled at her before turning to look at Spike who looked right back at him.

"While I would say it's good to see you again Poof, but well, I'd be lying." Spike said to Angel causing Angel to glare at him.  

"Well I certainly can't say it's a pleasure to see you either." Angel responded. Buffy glared at the both of them knowing that what they were doing wasn't leading to anything good.

"Stop it, both of you. We have a world to save so lets get down to business cuz quite frankly, I want to be out of here and back in Sunnydale relaxing as soon as possible." Buffy told them, drawing their attention away from each other and onto her.

"I agree with her." Gunn added. "I don't like having to worry about the end of the world, but first I want to know who the hell you two are. You," he said looking at Buffy, "look familiar."

"I'm Buffy, and you are…?"

"My names Gunn. I work for Angel Investigations. So, you're the famous Buffy the vampire slayer?" He turned to look at Angel for a moment before turning back to face Buffy.

"That would be me. Jeez, I really do have a reputation if people in L.A. know about me. This isn't good. I'm supposed to be totally secret. All well."

"Oh no, we know about you because Angel cakes here used to brood all the time because of you." A green demon with little horns said to Buffy. "I'm Lorne by the way. There's no need to go all slayer because of me either." He said cautiously. "I help out here." He turned to look at Spike. "And who might you be?"

"Spike."

"Vampire?" Gunn questioned.

"Yes. You planning on making something of it?" Spike said.

"Not unless you try to kill us all." Gunn told him. "You sure do have thing with hanging out with vamps, slayer."

"Yeah, well what can I say? I don't try to make a habit of it…it just sorta happens…but only twice! And the first time I didn't know he was a vamp!" Buffy defended herself.

"Now Angel never told as that part." Lorne said looking at Angel. "You were talking about Angel cakes here, weren't you?" He asked, just to make sure.

"Yup." Buffy told him.

"Can you not call me that?" Angel requested of Lorne.

"On to more important business." Buffy started, "What do you say we start this meeting?"

"Good idea. Lets go into the conference room." Angel said, leading them into a back room with a circular table with chairs placed around it. They all took a seat before Buffy realized there was still someone there who she didn't know. She looked at Connor for a minute something about him seemed familiar.

"Who are you?" She asked him.

"I'm Connor"