"Hey, princess!" Jack walked into the sleeping quarters. He looked over at Buffy's bed and saw her lying away from the door, facing the wall. Jack walked over and sat down beside her bed. "Princess, do you want Chinese or pizza?"
"I'm ok. Don't really feel like eating." Buffy sniffed, and Jack could tell she was crying.
"Buffy, it's been a week since that night. Come on, get out of your mopey state and get happy."
"Jack, go away." He sighed and walked out of the room. Jack picked up his coat and left the headquarters. He got inside his car and headed towards the enemy's hide out.
* * * *
"Angel?" The vampire looked up as Harmony entered his office.
"What?"
"There's a really cute man here to see you."
"Send him in." Angel looked back down at his paper work, not looking when the man entered.
"So do you betray your friends everyday, or is it just a small time hobby?" Angel looked up and saw Jack O'Malley. He remembered that this was Buffy's partner, the one with the silver eyes.
"I don't betray friends."
"Okay. So what does that make Buffy?"
"I don't know. I don't know her, not anymore."
"Don't give me that. She told you exactly what she had been doing. She didn't even have to, she could've not even come to see you that day. Iggy, Myles, the CIA and I all told her not to, but she wanted to. She blew her cover by coming here that day."
"What?"
"Right now, she has nine assassins going for her head. Terrorist groups would do anything to get their hands on her right now. At any given time, Buffy could be killed."
"The why did she come?"
"If you can't figure that out, then you're not even as close to as smart as she said you were." With that, Jack walked out of Angel's office.
* * * *
"Jack." As he came in headquarters, Jack saw Iggy, Myles and Buffy all rushing around. Iggy came up to him first. "We've got a problem, big problem."
"What's up?" Jack slid off his jacket and walked over to the biggest plasma.
"The terrorists known as Malibanva, the ones that Veronsiky was in with, have contacted us. They are going to bomb the Mayor's office unless we give them what we want." Myles's face was stony.
"What do they want?" Jack looked around, but the others all stopped moving. "What?"
"They want me." Jack looked at Buffy.
"No, out of the question."
"Jack, the head has put a go on the trade." Iggy looked sullen.
"What? No. Buffy knows too much, how could they do this?"
"Jack, we have a plan." Myles reached out and put his hand on Jack's shoulder.
"I'm listening."
"Malibanva is a client of Wolfram & Hart. We can use them to get to the group. the mayor is hosting a party tomorrow night, that's the deadline for the trade. We'll do it then, but we'll cause a distraction and deactivate the bomb, which will be in the sub level. From there we're going to have to make it look like I died, then we'll be home free."
"Okay, I'm with you until the part about you dying."
"We'll copy my DNA onto some bones and set them in the mini explosion we'll set up..."
"No, I mean, why do you have to die?"
"I'll take this one." Iggy got up. "With so many terrorists chasing Buffy, we can hit two birds with one stone. We'll give Buffy a new look and continue our work elsewhere."
Jack sighed. "You know this will mean you cannot contact any of your old friends, ever?"
"I know." Buffy's eyes were calm. "But they're my past, I have to create a new future."
"Ok then, let's get cracking." Jack got up and joined the others.
* * * *
"Boss?"
"What Harmony?" Angel, Lorne, Gunn, Fred, Wes, Spike, and Connor turned to see Angel's secretary hovering at the door.
"There are, um..." She looked back outside. "Four people here to see you.'
"Send them in." Angel turned fully to see Buffy, Myles, Iggy, and Jack walk in, all dressed in casual clothing. "Back again."
"Mr. Angel." The employees of the law office flinched as Buffy uttered those words. "We have a business proposition for you."
"Yeah, what's that?"