Title: Back to the Drawing Board 5/?

Arthur: Krystal (krazystar15@aol.com) and Christen (PurplehaysC@netscape.com) (if you want get a quick response from Christen then email her (during the week) at 23405@sjamail.net)

Disclaimer: These Characters belong to Joss Whedon, except anyone you do not recognize.

Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.

Comments: this is my third Buffy and Angel crossover fanfic and I want all the comments good or bad you have!

~J~

"Cordy? Gunn? Fred?" Angel asked as he came running in to the hotel.

"Angel?" Fred asked shocked as she came out for the office.

"Yes, it's me. Where's Connor?" Angel asked.

"Don't know, he's a no show." Gunn said as he came down stairs.

"How about Cordy?" Angel asked.

"And we don't know." Fred said.

"He won't…" Angel started to say.

"Who won't?" Gunn asked suspicious.

"You're saying Connor left no clues about where he was going?" Angel asked ingoring his quesetion.

"No, kind of  like you did. Where were you any way?" Fred asked.

"I was… in the ocean."

"Why?"

"Connor put me there with the help of Justine."

"He did what!" Gunn said shocked.

"You heard me, I was just found and brought here."

"Why would he do that?" Fred asked.

"He thinks I killed Holtz."

"Did you?" Gunn asked.

"I'm not stupid enough to kill the one person that my son loves." Angel said annoyed.

"Then why does he think you killed him?" Fred asked.

"I don't know." Angel said.

"I may be able to help you with that." Wesley said as he came in with Justine.

"So going hard at the school work?" Buffy asked as she came into Dawn room.

"That's all I ever seem to do why?" Dawn asked.

"Well you left so early this morning for school, you came home late becaue of school and now you're doing school work. I'm starting to see a theme." Buffy said sitting down on Dawn's bed.

"Well I'm a student that's what I do." Dawn said tyring not to look at Buffy.

"But there's a problem in this whole student theory."

"Really what's that?"

"The problem is your principal called wondering if something was wrong. Seems you weren't doing much paying attention today. I think the word he used was "she'd be better off if she just didn't come today" So is there something you want to tell me?"

"Not particularly."

"Well you're going to tell me because if you're still freaked out about…" Buffy started to say.

"Don't worry I'm not." Dawn said quickly.

"Then what is it?"

"It's… it's nothing it was just a bad day all right."

"No it's not all right. I can't have you not talking to me because when you do that you risk putting everyone in danger."

"Believe me there's no danger involved in this."

"Really? Then why can't you tell me what it is?" Buffy asked mad.

"Because… Because it's involves a guy and I didn't want to bring it up because everyone around here is so down and I didn't want to be the only happy person around here." Dawn said.

"This was all about a guy?" Buffy asked laughing.

"What's so funny?"

"I was worried about a guy? It's just. I was thinking you were depressed or in danger but it was just a guy." Buffy said still laughing.

"Yeah now can you leave me alone."

"Sure but one question is he of the undead?" Buffy asked smiling

"Ok, get out now!" Dawn said as she threw a stuffed animal at the door as Buffy closed out it.

Connor got up from the table and decided he was going to see what this town was really like. He grabbed a stake and headed out. He passed the high school and headed to the graveyard. He heard someone coming up behind him, a vampire. He could tell that right off the bat. He quickly got it down on the ground and staked it. It was so easy, he couldn't understand why it was so hard for other people to fight them.

"Didn't know any one else could do that." Buffy said as she came up to Connor.

"Do what?" He asked trying to lie.

"Stake a vampire so quick and with such easy."

"I didn't do that." Connor said trying to leave.

"Yeah you did I just saw you. So how are you?"

"None of your business."

"Look we both are trying to get rid of vampires maybe we should get to know each other."

Connor could hear other people coming up. "I'm not trying to do anything." Connor said as he started to run off.

"What was his problem?" Willow asked.

"He doesn't want to be friends." Buffy said sarcastically.

"I wouldn't try to be friends with him, met him earlier not the nicest person." Xander said.

"But he kills like… like Angel used to." Buffy said.