A/N: Thanks to the people who've reviewed the story so far. I really appreciate it!

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Inside Charles Townsend

"Wesley!" Buffy, Faith and Anya said in unison as they swung the doors open to the last room in the building.

A rugged British man looked up at the girls as he took off his glasses, "Hello girls." He placed his book and glasses down on the desk, "How are you doing?"

The girls entered the room, each heading towards the couch facing Wesley, "Great Wes." Buffy replied.

"That's great to hear."

Each girl sat on the couch, Anya sat on the left, Buffy in the middle and Faith to the right of Buffy.

Wesley stood to his feet, "Look, I know I've been here only a few days, but can you be ever so politely tell me, what the bloody hell is this?" He grabbed the small device lying on the desk and held it help for the girls to see, "I mean what kin..." He was cut short as he wavered the device close to his neck, causing it to give him a slight shock, "Oh dear god!" He yelled as he fell to the floor.

The girls laughed at Wesley's clumsiness.

"Careful with that Wes." Anya said as Wesley slowly stood to his feet.

He shook it off, "I'm all right." Finally standing on his two feet, he grabbed something from behind the desk, "I would also like to ask, Five thousand for a little vest?"

"We need those." Faith replied.

"Yeah, they're made especially for us." Buffy added on.

"What?" Wesley said in shock, "You're all beautiful, but you're crazy."

The girls only smiled at him as they walked towards Wesley, "Wesley come here." Anya wrapped her arm around Wesley's as she led him towards the couch.

"Have a seat Wes." Buffy patted to the vacant spot next to her, of course Wesley sat down. Now he was in between Anya and Buffy.

Anya looked at him, "Wesley."

"What?" He replied a big grin on his face.

"Sorry for not letting you in on the details, but we do what it takes." Faith snapped her fingers.

Wesley looked towards Faith, "So what do I have to do around here?"

"You do the most important job of all." Faith answered.

"What's that?" Wesley questioned.

Buffy placed her arm around Wesley's shoulders, "You connect us to Charlie."

Just then a ringing noise sounded off. Wesley realized what he had to do, he pressed a little button near them.

"Good morning angels." An enthusiastic voice said from the small speaker box sitting neatly on the desk.

"Good morning Charlie!" They all said together.

"Wesley, I hope the angel's aren't being too rough on you."

"Oh no, they were complete angel's" Wesley smiled at the girls before looking back at the speaker box.

Changing the subject, Charlie commented on the girl's work in Mongolia, "Great work In Mongolia angels, but I'm afraid the case is taking a new turn."

Wesley pressed a button near the stack of books on the small coffee table. The large map of the Old World, suddenly shimmered away, and revealed a large TV screen, "What the?" Wesley had never seen anything like that in his life, "I know I'm watching something here tonight."

The girl's giggled at Wesley before looking back up at the TV screen, it showed the United Sates government seal.

"Angels I like to introduce Ethan Rayne, senior director of the FBI." The image of the seal soon faded way and revealed a man in his late 40's seating proudly behind his desk, "It's a pleasure to meet you." Mr. Rayne said.

"Pleasure." Anya replied as her response.

"Hi." Buffy waved her hand at Mr. Rayne.

"Hello." Faith said.

Wesley only saluted Ethan Rayne.

"Over the years, the Townsend agency has worked on several projects for the burro, but never one with so many innocent lives at stake." Charlie informed them.

Wesley grabbed the red folders off of the coffee table and handed one to each girl.

"Great job Wes." Faith commented as the girls switched folders, Wesley gave the wrong folder to the wrong girl.

"Angels you are aware of the federal witness protection program." Charlie added on.

Buffy glanced at the few papers inside before replying, "sure, it's people who are in danger, and given new identities for protection."

"These identities of these people are protected by a program called Halo, hidden alias list operation," Mr. Rayne said, "The lists are encrypted on two titanium rings," Mr. Rayne's image soon faded away as it was replaced by a diagram of the Halo Rings, "The data on each ring is indecipherable on it's own, but when the two rings are read together, their codes unlock each other" He continued.

"Who wears the ring?" Faith questioned.

"The head of the US Marshall service wears one."

"Ray Carter." Buffy said softly.

The image of Mr. Ray Carter popped on to the screen next to Mr. Rayne, "Good morning."

Concerned, Buffy asked, "Hey, how are you feeling?"

"A couple of fractured ribs, but I'll live." Mr. Carter clasped his hands together.

"Who wears the other ring?"

"The head of security for the justice department, Richard Wilkins the third," A picture of Mr. Wilkins flashed onto the screen before disappearing, "Unfortunately he was killed this morning and now both rings are in the open." Mr. Rayne added

"So the list is out?" Faith inquired

"You maybe right, we know someone has contacted the major crime families with an offer to sell the list, " Images of major crime families flashed across the TV, "and one of our protected witnesses, Warren Mears, was found dead in his home."

"Angels we need to get the Halo rings back before the list is sold." Charlie demanded, he didn't want any more innocent lives to be killed.

"We'll start at Warren Mears house." Anya suggested, "see if it leads us to Halo."

The TV suddenly went back to its original form of the Old World map.

"Hey Charlie, we could really use Wesley's help on this one." Faith looked at Wesley

Wesley smiled, "do I get to drive a racecar?"

"Not today." Faith replied.

"Blow up a castle?" He asked, more enthusiastically then the last question.

Buffy sighed, "Not yet Wes."

"Well what do you need me for?"

The girls thought for a while before "Read some body language." Anya simply said.

"Oh goody!"He exclaimed as he smiled at the girls, he sure didn't know what he was getting himself into.

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A/N: Chapter 5 will be posted sometime this week...