"Doyle?" Cordelia couldn't believe her eyes. He looked the same as he did right before he died. His face was still in demon mode. She hugged him.
Willow didn't know what had just happened Hades gave them the girl along with someone Cordy obviously knew. Spike stepped into the corner as everyone entered the room.
"Doyle?" Cordy and Doyle pulled away.
"Hey, Angel." Doyle put his face back to human mode. The three hugged, as Gunn and Wesley watched confused.
"We missed you." Angel said.
"You have no idea." Cordelia added.
Wesley cleared his throat.
"Uh, Doyle, this is Wesley and Gunn. Guys this is Doyle." Angel introduced.
Wesley shook his hand and spoke, "I've heard a lot about you."
Gunn simply shook Doyle's hand and said hi.
"Hey, so this is the new Angel Investigations?"
"Yup." Cordelia beamed.
Doyle surveyed the room.
"Hey, Oz."
Oz nodded his head in reply.
"Hello, Buffy."
"Hi, it's nice to see you again." Buffy replied.
"It's nice to see myself again." He replied.
Cordelia took his right hand in hers. "Oh, I'm sorry. Doyle, this is Giles, Xander, Willow, Anya, Jake, Hamilton, Ryder, Scout, and Will."
"Hi."
"Ok, um, sorry for interrupting, but I'm a bit confused." Scout said. "Who are you?"
"Oh, Jake, Hamilton, Ryder, Scout, and Will are new to all this. Jake's the new slayer." Giles explained.
"Oh, I was…am a good friend of Angel and Cordy. I gave my life to save them and about 100 people."
No one knew what to say.
"Excuse me." Everyone turned toward Willow. Willow's hands were on the once dead girl's shoulders. "How do we call Blake to show him who we have?"
"BLAKE!" Anya exclaimed.
"Yeah, old enemy of Spike and Wesley." Xander explained.
"Calling him is easy." Anya picked up two ingredients from the spell they had just performed. She muttered a few words under her breath and threw the powders. There was a puff of blue smoke and Blake appeared.
"What do you want?" He growled.
Spike stepped up behind the girl as Willow turned the girl to face Blake. "I have a present for you."
Blake stared as the girl rushed to him. "How?"
"Hi." Anya said.
"Anyanca?"
"Hi, Blake. Yeah, me and Willow here did it."
Much to everyone's surprise the large demon hugged the girls as he thanked them.
"So all is repaid then? No, killing and all?" Spike asked.
"Not you at least." Blake replied. "But Wesley still owes me. You took my world, so I shall take yours. Your slayer shall fight me to the death in one month's time. If she wins I will leave you alone, if I win you shall die as well." Blake and the girl disappeared.
Ham hugged Jake, as everyone looked at Wesley, who simply left the room.
"Buffy, why don't we go patrol?" Jake suggested.
"Okay." Buffy replied, as she followed Jake, Ham, and Angel out of the room.
"You guys want a ride back?" Ryder offered.
Will and Scout nodded their heads. Spike left the house and everyone else scattered.
Later Cordelia and Doyle are sitting on the porch talking.
"I really missed you." Cordelia said leaning her head on his shoulder.
"I know. It's funny, I missed you, buy it's hard to miss someone when you're watching over them."
"You were watching over me?"
"Yup, I saw when you received your first vision. I saw when Angel accidentally called Angel Doyle, and you in the hospital. I've been keep an eye on you two."
"Why did Hades let you come back?"
"Don't question the PTB, Cordy. Everything happens for a reason." Doyle kissed her.
The next day Will and Scout woke up early. They were about to check on Ham and Jake, when there was a knock at the door. Will opened it to find Ryder, Ham and Jake.
"Hey, guys. What's wrong?" Will asked.
"We all have to go to the dean's office." Ryder explained.
"What happened?" Scout asked.
"We're in trouble." Jake stated.
"I think someone saw us come in last night." Ham said.
"Damn." Scout said.
"Yeah, well, I'll be in bigger trouble, since he's my dad." Ham groaned, as they walked down the hall.
Jake knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
Jake opened the door, they all walked in quietly. Not only was the dean there, but so were Finn and Wesley?
"Sit down." Dean Fleming commanded.
Jake, Will, and Scout sat on the love seat in front of the desk, while Ryder and Ham shared a seat.
"Last night at about three am, I saw Hamilton and Jake trying to sneak into the dorms. Finn also saw Will, Scout, and Ryder arrive at 1 am, which as you all know both times are after curfew. Now Mr. Pryce came to me this morning and explained why. Now is it true what he said?" Dean Fleming asked.
"That would be?" Ham asked.
"Hamilton, don't get smart. He said that he's you're personal trainer." He paused and glanced at Wesley. "What would you need a personal trainer for?"
Ryder remembered what Finn had said. "Fencing."
"Fencing?" Dean Fleming asked.
"Yeah, we were fooling around one day and Finn came in and mentioned that the school used to have a team. And after I fought with him (the dean looked at Finn who smiled sheepishly) I realized that I really liked it." Jake added.
"Yeah, then the day after we were wandering around town and happened to come across Wesley. We talked and he mentioned that he could give us fencing lessons." Ham explained.
"Is that true, Mr. Pryce?"
"Absolutely."
"Well, I'd love to meet some of your students."
"Actually I bought three of them with me." Wesley said. "Could you please close the curtains." Dean Fleming gave Wesley a funny look. "Uh, two of them have a rare skin disease in which the UV rays from the sun are fatal to their skin."
Finn got up and closed the curtains, while the kids moved the furniture. Wesley opened the door to the room Dean Fleming uses as a waiting room. Spike, Angel, and Buffy walked in. Angel was carrying a black sports bag.
"This is William, Angel, and Buffy." Wesley introduced. "Angel and William are more advanced than Buffy. Though that is only because Angel and William have been training for a few more years than Buffy, would you like a demonstration?"
"Please."
Angel leaned down and unzipped the sports bag; he pulled out two foils and tossed on to William/Spike. Spike caught the sword at the hilt, and spun it around so that the blade pointed upward. They faced each other.
"Now they don't spar with a timer, we are more about technique. Oh, and a small warning these two are very energetic, so be careful to stay out of their way."
Spike and Angel started. Spike struck at Angel first. Will and Scout had never seen the two spar before, so they had surprised looks on their faces. Finn couldn't believe his eyes they were way better than him. The dean kept a straight face the whole time, until Spike jumped onto his desk. Angel swung the foil at Spike's feet, so Spike flipped over him. The dean looked a little annoyed by their showing off. As Angel spun to face Spike, Spike knocked the sword from Angel's hand.
Finn applauded. "That was, well, awesome."
"Uh, thanks." Angel breathed, pretending to be out of breath.
"Well, I'll let you take classes with Wesley, but I want you back by curfew." Dean Fleming announced.
The Rawley kids thanked him.
"Now go, you all have class in a half an hour." Finn said.
Finn and Dean Fleming left with Ryder, Will, and Scout.
"So?" Ham asked Wesley once the others were gone.
"Well, your patrols will have to be cut short. We'll talk about it later." Wesley told Jake.
Finn hadn't meant to eavesdrop, but he was concerned about his students. "Patrol? What's going on?" He thought.
"William? Why did you call Spike William?" He heard Hamilton say.
"He used to be called William the Bloody." He heard a girl say, he assumed she was Buffy.
"Nice." Jake said. "I think I'll stick with Spike."
"Good bloody idea." Spike answered.
"Can we go now?" Angel asked.
"Excellent idea." Wesley said.
Finn heard them leave; he walked away from the office just as Jake opened the door. Finn disappeared into his office.
Jake looked at Ham. "Do you think he heard?"
"Yeah, I do."
That night while the Rawley kids were at the house, Finn was looking into Wesley, Spike, Buffy, and Angel's backgrounds. He tried Spike first, but didn't find anything. Next he tried Angel, he started to give up after an hour, but then a site popped up. He clicked it and got a history of vampires site. He couldn't believe his eyes. The site told him that a vampire named Angelus was 240 years old. Finn clicked on a link to a picture; it was a painting of a vampire. The vampire looked like the guy, Angel, who was Wesley's student. Finn printed the picture and information out. Using that site's search, he typed in "Wesley Wyndam Pryce," but didn't get anything. When he tried Buffy, the word "slayer" appeared. He was confused, so he clicked on the word.
Meanwhile Jake and Buffy are working out while Xander and the Rawley boys were doing research on Blake. Giles dumped another large pile of books on the table.
"What are you doing?" Doyle asked walking into the room. He and Cordy were holding hands.
"Researching Blake, grab a book and join us." Xander said smiling. He then tossed a book at Doyle, who barely caught it. Suddenly Oz got up from the table and headed toward the basement. Willow looked out the window and followed.
"Where are they going?" Scout asked.
"Um…well." Was Xander's only response.
"He's a werewolf." Anya said, as she sat next to Xander.
"Anya to the rescue once again." Xander said. He kissed her cheek.
"What?" Will asked.
"Will, Scout, this group is a bit unique." Ham sad. He then gave them the whole run down. Doyle who was left out explained himself by shifting his face in and out of demon mode. Will looked out the window and realized that the sun had set.
"We should go, we don't want the dean after us again." Ryder, Will, and Scout left as Ham, Gunn, and Angel left with Jake and Buffy to patrol.
As Jake and Ham walked to their room later that night, Finn caught them in the hall.
"Hamilton, Jake, hold up a second." They stopped and turned around. They both had looks on their faces as if they were in trouble.
"Don't look at me like that you're not in trouble. Can we talk in private for a moment." Finn led them to his office. He closed the door behind him. "I want to talk to you about Wesley and his students. Do any of them seem a bit weird to either of you?"
"Define weird?" Jake asked.
"Unusual, different."
"Not really." Ham replied.
"Nope." Jake said.
"Not even Angel or William?"
"Well, Will's British, but then so is Ryder, so no." Ham said.
Jake smiled.
"I'm serious." Finn showed them the papers he printed out. "This isn't your friend, Angel?" He spoke as he showed them the picture of Angelus from the 1900's.
"How could it be?" Ham said.
"Yeah, Angel's 27." Jake said.
"Okay, how about this." Finn showed them drawings of William the Bloody.
"Oh, come. Will has a Billy Idol obsession, a William the Bloody obsession." Jake explained.
"I heard you call him Spike." Finn objected.
"That's his nickname. Angel a Will grew up together, Angel named him that as a joke." Jake explained.
"And Buffy, how does she fit in?"
"Angel and she used to date, and have stayed friends." Ham told him. "Are we done now?"
Finn stepped away from the door. He watched Ham and Jake walk out.
In their room, Jake grabbed her cell phone and called Wesley, but Giles picked up. "Hey, Giles, I thought you'd like to know my teacher, Finn knows that Spike and Angel are vampires. No, he doesn't know that Buffy and I are slayers. Okay. Bye."
Finn held everything. "Slayer?" He thought, but from what he read on the site and in Jake's case. "It can't be..." He thought. "But then that would explain what I saw on the last day of the summer session." He walked toward his office. Suddenly he stopped in the middle of the hall.
"So Jake's a girl?" He whispered to himself.