A/N: THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS. I LIVE AND WRITE FOR THOSE. THEY MOTIVATE ME TO WRITE MORE. ANYWAY HERE'S CHAPTER FOUR. HOPE YOU LIKE IT.

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Buffy cursed as she got out of cab in front of Wolfram and Hart and was met by a strong gust of wind. She looked up at the sky and saw that a storm was coming.

Holding a small bag in her hand she looked up at the tall building in front of her and sighed.

Her blonde hair whipped around her face, and she cursed again as a strand caught her eye.

It seemed almost surreal that every other word that came out of her mouth was foul. Buffy rarely cursed, if not never.

It was totally out of character and Buffy knew that the stress and worry over Dawn was causing her to act like this.

She pushed the door open and was suddenly caught in the midst of bustling crowd of well dressed men and women.

No one bothered to look up at her.

"Ms. Summers, welcome to Wolfram and Hart. Angel is expecting you." A rather tall and beautiful brunette greeted her.

Buffy raised an eyebrow but decided to remain quiet.

"I'm Lilah Morgan." The woman said as she proceeded to lead Buffy towards the elevator. "Let's just say I work here."

Buffy nodded, still silent. She noted that the woman was too happy.

"Did Angel tell you why I'm here?" Buffy finally asked when the silence became unbearable and she could no longer stand watching Lilah smile happily.

"Wolfram and Hart has limitless resources which allow us to know everything." Lilah replied cryptically and Buffy frowned slightly. "Don't worry, Buffy-I can call you Buffy right? We're on your side now and knowing everything is a great advantage. It helps us prepare." She said and the elevator finally reach Angel's floor.

Buffy and Lilah stepped out. "So you know where my sister is." It was more of a statement than a question.

Lilah glanced at Buffy and smiled again. "Yes, we know where she is."

"Is she okay?" Buffy asked hopefully.

Lilah chose to ignore her question and proceeded to announce her arrival to Angel as they entered an overly large office.

Angel was standing in front of the window, completely unshielded from the sun which was now fortunately gone due to the clouds outside.

"Angel, what are you doing standing in front of the window? Do you want to become dust when the sun comes back out?" Buffy asked frantically.

Angel turned to face her but didn't answer.

"The window is made of necro-tempered glass. All the windows in Wolfram and Hart are. Angel is completely safe from the sun as long as he stays inside the building." Lilah announced with another smile.

Buffy wondered what was making her so happy. It was becoming unnerving.

"How was your flight?" Angel finally spoke.

"Angel, let's get to the point here. You have the resources to help me get my sister so I'm asking you to help me. I need to get her back." Buffy said firmly as she crossed her arms in front of her stubbornly.

Angel nodded as he took a seat behind his desk. "We're going to help you, Buffy. However, it's going to take some time." He declared.

"I don't have time." Buffy said in a softer more pleading tone. "My sister doesn't have time. She could get hurt."

"I know. We're-"

Suddenly, Angel was cut off by a lightning that struck his window. Miraculously, the glass didn't break and they were still all alive.

Buffy looked startled.

Angel remained calm.

"What just happened?" She asked.

"The building was created so it could withstand anything, even Mother Nature." Lilah announced from where she sat. "It even survived the rain of fire."

Buffy wondered why she didn't leave and why Angel didn't ask her to leave in the first place.

"It's not normal weather, is it?" Buffy asked, directly at Lilah knowing that even if she asked Angel the question, the other woman would answer for him.

Lilah shook her head as she crossed her legs. "No, something has disturbed the dimensional mechanisms that prevent one plane from merging with another. It's been like that for almost twenty four hours."

"What's causing it?"

"Our researchers suspect that someone from the other side is trying to open a portal to reach this dimension."

"It could be someone like Glory." Buffy turned to Angel.

"Didn't you kill her?" Angel asked.

Buffy nodded. "Who knows how many gods and goddesses there are like her. They could be repeating what she tried to do." She explained.

"Buffy, you're jet lagged. Why don't find a hotel and rest for the day?" Angel suggested.

The ex-slayer shook her head. "I don't want to rest. I need to know everything that can help get Dawn back."

"Take this back to your hotel. We have copies." Angel said, handing her a brown folder. "You can look it over before you come back here. It's not much."

"Thanks. Do you think I could stay at the Hyperion?" Buffy asked, knowing full well that he owned the hotel and had some of his friends stay there. It would be easier for her if she stayed there.

Angel looked somewhat startled.

"That's not a good idea. Lilah will arrange for you to find a good hotel." He said as inconspicuously as possible.

Buffy stood in front of his desk stubbornly, a suspicious look on her face. "Is there something you want to tell me because I got to hand it to you, you're acting really weird, like you're covering something up?"

Yeah, I'm hiding something. Angel thought to himself. Spike.

Angel sighed. "Buffy, don't be difficult. Come back in the morning when you're less exhausted and maybe we can find something that will help you get Dawn back."

Buffy nodded grudgingly, still not convinced with Angel. She decided to let his somewhat insulting statement slide.

In the morning, she was going to set things straight with him.

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Spike walked to the direction of strange cloud, cursing himself for being too damn curious.

He could see lightning strike at every direction and he muttered something about finally becoming human and getting himself killed by a lightning.

He shielded his eyes with his arm as a strong gust of wind came into his direction. He looked up and saw that in the middle of the cloud, a small really noticeable hole was forming. He assumed that it was where the lightning came from.

He wondered what Angel found about the anomaly. When he called him the day before, Lilah had explained to him that it was nothing to worry about and in due time, their researchers would find something and hopefully stop it.

The area had been sealed off within a ten block radius.

"Hey!" Spike yelled when he saw a boy at least eighteen standing in the path of the lightning, just waiting to be struck.

The boy didn't budge or acknowledge Spike and he yelled again.

Still nothing.

"Bloody teenagers. Getting themselves killed." He muttered as he ran to the boy and pushed him to the side just in time before a lightning struck either of them.

"What the hell are you doing?" The boy asked as he pushed Spike off of him.

"I could ask you the same, junior. Are you trying to get yourself killed? Because if you were you should have plastered a sign on you forehead so I didn't have to bother to try and save you." Spike said angrily as he yanked the kid off the ground.

"No one asked for your help." He said stubbornly.

"Well, then, you just go on, stand there and get fried. I'm off." Spike said sarcastically as he began to walk away. There was no point in trying to save someone with a death wish.

He figured that he might as well make himself scarce and out of danger.

Suddenly the sky rumbled and the hole in the grey clouds opened wider. Lightning began to strike fiercer than before.

Spike was suddenly mesmerized as he looked up. Luckily, the lightning seemed to go the other direction.

The portal continued to open, and heavy rain fell on the streets, almost as if willing a flood to form.

He looked over at the direction of the boy. He was still there, his eyes upturned to the dangerously opening portal.

"We have to leave!" Spike yelled and the boy looked at him, a stubborn look on his face as he shook his head at the blonde ex-vampire. "Don't try to be stupid! Get yourself killed another time!"

"I'm not leaving. We have to stay!" The boy argued.

"Have to? Have you totally lost your senses?" Spike yelled. "I just became human. I'm not getting myself killed!"

The boy gave him a strange look and Spike mentally reprimanded himself for the slip. "I have to stay! Something is coming. I can feel it!" The boy explained.

Spike shook his head, deciding that the boy, whoever he was, had definitely lost his sanity.

And if the boy was right that something was coming, Spike didn't want to be in the path of whatever large and presumably highly dangerous creature that was bound to come out in no time.

"It's just a storm! Don't be an idiot!" He coaxed, not even believing his own words anymore.

He turned to finally leave for good but the boy caught his arm, with a surprisingly strong grip. "Look!" He yelled as he pointed at the sky.

Spike looked up, just as equally curious. Why he was compelled to stay and witness the event was beyond him.

A red swirl of light rapidly touched the ground and in front of them two beings materialized.

The larger figure, which Spike suddenly recognized as a girl, was on her knees clutching a small child in her arms as if shielding her from something.

The girl's long dark hair was covering both their faces and they both looked equally filthy.

The strange ray of light vanished and the storm calmed and the lightning disappeared but the cloud remained overhead.

The girl looked up and Spike gasped, unable to believe his eyes. "Dawn?" He choked his words as he instantly ran to her.

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"Fred, did your team find anything on the storm outside?" Wesley Wyndam- Pryce asked as he stepped into Fred's laboratory which she liked to call her office.

The petite Texan girl, now dressed in a sterile white lab coat looked up from her experiment. "It's a portal and whatever it was that tried to get through finally succeeded." She said somberly. "Two of them to be exact."

"Two?" Wesley echoed as he readjusted his glasses.

"Yes, two." Winifred Burkle or Fred to be short nodded her head as she walked to a monitor. "I had a few of my staff keep a surveillance team near the site. Being department head of the science division definitely has its perks. Anyway, this is what we found." She flicked the monitor on and a somewhat blurry image appeared on the screen. "They appear human. One is obviously larger than the other. We couldn't get a clear picture." She explained.

Wesley nodded, his face growing serious again as he opened the book he had with him and flipped the pages. "I found a passage. It warns of a great storm or tempest that will allow for a very powerful 'guardian' to walk the earth." He announced.

Fred shrugged her shoulders and slipped her hands into her coat pockets. "Wes, this 'guardian' could be anything. Does it even mention what it's guarding?"

Wesley shook his head as he snapped the book shut. "I'll have do continue further research. Maybe I'll find something." He said.

"Oh, and before I forget, maybe you'd be interested to know that there were two other people in the site. The team didn't get a clear shot of them either. The lightning kinda fried our surveillance." She said somewhat apologetically.

Wesley nodded. "Did they at least find where the first two creatures went?"

Fred beamed. "Yes and no. The surveillance van was grounded but what's interesting is this." She flicked the remote again and the front of the Hyperion appeared.

"So, Spike was one of the two other people at the site. I wonder what he knows about these creatures. I'm sure he has contacts in the demon world that still report to him despite his current human state. We should go to the Hyperion as soon as possible." Wesley declared rather calmly. Unfortunately, Spike had the brilliant idea to cover the two creatures with his duster which didn't give Wesley or Fred a glimpse of the beings at all. "But who's the boy?"

Fred shrugged. "I don't know. He seems familiar." She and Wesley stood there, their eyes cast on the boy with a too long hairstyle who eerily resembled Angel.

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A/N: THERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER THAT BRINGS SPIKE AND BUFFY TOGETHER. THEY WILL MEET REAL SOON BUT FIRST I NEED TO ASK A FEW THINGS FROM YOU GUYS.

A) DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO BRING FAITH BACK BECAUSE IM STILL DEBATING THAT IN MY HEAD

B) WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE PAIRED UP TOGETHER? I'M NOT ASKING FOR THE MAIN CHARACTERS. IT'S A GIVEN THAT SPIKE AND BUFFY WILL END UP TOGETHER AND SO WILL CORDY AND ANGEL.

C) ANYONE HAVE ANY CRAZY SUGGESTION THEY MIGHT WANT ME TO INCLUDE INTO THE STORY?

ANYWAY THANKS FOR READING. REVIEWS PLEASE!