Note: For the record, this has NOTHING to do with the current storyline on Angel. I thought of the Faith thing first (Or Darklight did), so they're the moochers, not me!

Willow was sitting alone in the living room when the phone rang. Buffy and the others had gone out to get food, while the Halliwells and Cole went sightseeing around Sunnydale with Xander as a tour guide. She was thinking about the whole situation when the phone rang, disturbing her thoughts.

"Hello?"

"Willow, good. They left a few hours ago. I forgot to call, so they should be there any minute now. Sorry."

"Cordelia?"

"God, I said I was sorry. Want more do you want?"

"How did you ever become a secretary?"

"Good question. Still trying to figure that one out myself. Anyway, you should be keeping an eye out for Angel and Faith."

"Wait. Angel's coming too?"

"Yea. Things are going to get interesting up there. Hey, if Xander and Angel start fighting, do you think you could videotape it?"

Willow shook her head, but agreed after she saw the mental image of an Angel/Xander catfight.

They said their goodbyes and Willow went to look out the window. A car came down the street and she tensed, thinking she saw Angel and the more than slightly insane Slayer. But it went past the house without incident.

She was standing in that position for a couple of minutes when another car, this time a black convertible, pulled into the driveway.

"Oh, this is going to be fun." She said under her breath. "Showtime." Willow went to open the front door.

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Buffy and the others came barreling through the door, with the Halliwell sisters on their heels. They had gotten home about the same time, and they had brought food. Buffy entered the kitchen first, and saw Willow pouring tea for Angel and Faith. She stood speechless in the doorway for a moment, before she realized what she was seeing.

"Oh. Hi. Angel, Faith. Why are you in my house?"

"Willow called. You ok, B?" Faith caught herself. "Jeez, Sorry about that. You don't like me, I gotta remember that. So. Down to business, right? What's the newest?"

Buffy just stared. Everything was surreal, almost comical. Her ex and an evil evil-fighter were drinking tea at her kitchen table. Amanda chose that moment to orb into the kitchen, right in front of where Faith was sitting. The other Slayer yelled and jumped up, while everyone else didn't even blink. That really didn't help the surreal-ness.

Angel looked puzzled. "You have a whitelighter? Hm. Did you come with the Charmed Ones?"

Amanda nodded. She was confused, but she didn't dwell on it. There were more important things going on than the impossibly cute.. vampire. Whatever.

"What's a whitelighter? Is she evil?" Faith fell into a battle stance.

Phoebe snorted from behind Buffy.

"What?" Faith asked, turning towards her. "What's so funny? And who are YOU?"

Buffy smirked. She loved when her enemies got all confused and upset. She turned to see what the whitelighter would say. But Amanda wasn't even smiling.

Everyone crowded into the kitchen. Piper gave her explanation of the events that had led them to gather into a kitchen in Sunnydale. Now their group had grown from her and her sisters, to a whitelighter, to the Slayer and her 'Slayerettes,' to an ensouled vampire and another Slayer. And they were all there to save her husband. Ok, maybe they wanted to help out the world too. But still.

Next, Piper consulted Amanda. "So? What's going on up there? Has he gotten any better?"

"Good news is, that the girl, Jessi, and her mother, have made a full recovery. Bad news, Leo's gotten worse. Piper, we don't have much time."

"Ballpark figure?"

"12 hours."

Faith had pretty much figured out the situation, at least to the point where she could start giving orders.

"So. We have less than 12 hours to save witchy's husband. I say we go kick some ass."

"It's not that simple." Cole spoke up. "Our asses were the ones getting kicked last time. We need a better plan."

"Hey. This might work." Tara had been absent from the conversation until now. She walked past the group into the center of the kitchen and set the Book of Shadows down on the island.

"If we combine your powers with Buffy's and Faith's, literally, we could be able to make this work."

Everyone crowded around her as they formed a plan. Piper hung in back, the news still hitting her hard. She didn't know what she would do if they couldn't save Leo.