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"Well, here I am, mine and Alison's special place. I don't know why I bothered, she's not mine anymore. Soon she'll be Joshua's bride and I can't do anything about it.", while walking around the barn and ending up at the post where they carved their names before. It seemed so long ago, with all they had been through they hadn't returned here in so long.

As Rafe is speaking, Caleb and Livvie quietly enter the barn.

"Now what is this I hear about you not being a slayer anymore?" asks Caleb in a joking manor.

Rafe jumps, and turns around, "Yeah, you've won I guess. Alison picked Joshua, in order to save my life. If you ask me, it doesn't sound like that good of a deal, but oh well."

"So you're just going to let him win? You're going to lie down and give up to Joshua? The reason you are here is because you loved that woman. You were willing to give up your soul to be with her. That just doesn't seem like the Slayer that I know."

"And if I hadn't done that Joshua wouldn't be here either. It would have all been better if I had just stayed an angel and let this town go on with their lives."

"Rafe, I know your drunk, but try and listen to me. Your love is the type of love that can overcome anything. I tried to keep you two apart, and you still found each other. Caleb tried to keep you apart also, and that didn't work. Your love is too strong to let Joshua win. We can't let Joshua win." Livvie says, knowing that if that had happened she would not be with her love again.

"You both have forgotten one thing, Caleb isn't a vampire and you still have poison fangs."

"That's where you're wrong, Slayer," Caleb says as he shows his fangs, "and besides, if we had let this town go on without us who's to say that Joshua wouldn't have found some other way to become a vampire and get his fangs in this whole town. So stop feeling sorry for yourself and let's go kick some Joshua butt."

Rafe, Livvie, and Caleb go running out the barn door.

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"Well, it's time I guess. I wish there was another way to do this, but I have to keep Rafe safe. He deserves to have the life he never got before." Alison wonders to herself as she stares outside the window at the moonlit gardens below. So wrapped up in her thoughts she doesn't even here Jamal enter the room.

"What's up Spunky?"

"Didn't I tell you to never call me that? You betrayed me, and I don't want to see you." She yells at him and walks over and sits down at the vanity.

"Well, if that's the way it's going to be, then I'll leave and not help you escape."

"Wait! What did you just say? I thought.you and Joshua." as she turns around in the chair to face him again.

"I had you fooled, didn't I? Spunky, I may be a vampire but you are still my number one girl. So let's get out of here before Joshua comes back." He laughs. He always has had a soft spot for her, even if she did upset him when he thought she had been killed.

Jamal walks over and reveals a secret panel near the fire place. Alison takes one last look behind her as she follows him out.

As Alison and Jamal are leaving, Rafe, Caleb, and Livvie get to the Villa. They talk quietly about the plan, and then the three split up.

Back in Alison's chamber, Joshua walks in.

"Alison dear, are you ready for your wedding day? Alison? Guards!" The guards rush in with a dumbfounded look on their face. "Why weren't you watching her? I want the grounds searched.NOW!" As Joshua sends his goons off he hears a voice behind him, and turns around to see Caleb.

"So this is your plan? Well, now that you have Alison, I will send my goons off to finish the job on Rafe."

"What are you talking about? Alison is gone?" he asks, not sure if Rafe has already come in and rescued her.

"Yes, she is. It's such a pity that you have no fangs to harm me."

Joshua is suddenly grabbed by the arm. He turns around to see Livvie. "Well, Joshua looks like today is your day. You just think you are going to make a bride for yourself and then rule this town? Well, let me tell you that Rafe and Alison's love is too strong for that to happen. So, why don't you just go crawl under the rock you came from originally."

As Livvie talks to Joshua Caleb walks up behind him. Right as Livvie finishes her words Caleb bites Joshua. He falls to the floor.

"Is he dead, Caleb?" Livvie asks.

"No, he's just down for the count; we'll get Rafe in here to properly finish the job. Now let's go find Rafe, maybe he's already got Alison"

Right as they start to walk out the door and search for Rafe and Alison, Rafe comes in. "Ok, where's Alison? What'd he do with her?"

"Calm down Rafe, finish the job first with Joshua", Caleb says calmly.

"Don't tell me to be calm. Are we too late? Did he already turn her?"

Livvie speaks up "She wasn't here when we came in."

Rafe leans over Joshua's silent body, and pulls a stake out and drives it into his chest. "You need to learn Joshua, you can't keep true love apart. Now let's find Alison"