Angel sat on his bed and contemplated what to do. Not

just with the day, but with life. He was a human now;

he could live a normal human life, but he didn't want

to. He still had Angel Investigations to run, which

after the apocalypse was set up in the old Wolfram and

Hart building. He ran Angel Investigations, but it

wasn't the same. He could kill demons, but it was

harder, and a lot more dangerous. He didn't have the

powers and strengths he had had, and it let him

nothing.

"Hey Angel. Erthos demon again." Gunn said, "Wes and

I have located it and are ready to go when you are."

"Okay, I'm ready. I guess." Angel said glumly,

standing up and grabbing his jacket.

"Don't sound to enthused. What's up?" Gunn asked.

"Oh nothing, just same old, same old." Angel said

leading the way to his car.

"Hey Angel, ready to kill this slimy bastard?" Wes

said grinning.

"Uh huh." Angel replied.

"What's wrong Mr. Grumpy pants?" Wes said, in an

oddly happy mood.

"Nothing." Angel replied.

"Okay then, we're down in the dumps today." Gunn

said. "Angel do you want to talk?"

"No guys, really I'm fine. I just…I dunno I sort of

miss my powers that's all." Angel said.

"Oh I know how you feel." Gunn said, "Of course that

doesn't mean I want a lawyers mind again." He added

quickly, glancing at the hurt look on Wesley's face.

Gunn knew what Wes was thinking; it was the same thing

he thought of. Winnifred Berckle.

"Okay, lets go guys." Angel said starting the car's

engine.

***

The three of them got to the scene just in time to

see the slimy Erthos holding a sword over a blonde

girl.

"Hey you." Gunn yelled at the demon, "Why don't you

pick on someone your own size?"

With that Gunn jumped forward and swung his own

sword, slicing the demon's head of in one clean blow.

"Are you okay?" Angel asked the girl.

"Yes…yeah I'm fine? What was that thing?" She asked

getting up nervously.

"Don't worry about it, you need to get out of here."

Angel said. He listened to see if he could hear

anything else around, then remembered he didn't have

the super hearing of a vampire anymore. "You better

go."

The girl took of and Wes and Gunn checked out the

demons lifeless body.

"Lets get out of here guys." Angel said quickly, "I

get a bad feeling from this place."

"Oh come on Angel! This guy was rich." Gunn said

pulling out a wallet full of money.

"Hmm I didn't know demons carried wallets." Wesley

said.

"Guys come on." Angel said louder, looking around as

if something were going to jump out of the bushes. He

didn't like this feeling. Not being able to sense if

something or someone was there. He felt so hopeless,

but he still got the feeling like they were being

watched. Of course feelings like that weren't

probable.

Wes and Gunn turned around joking about who would

keep the money. Suddenly Wesley's face turned white

and Gunn dropped his sword to the ground with a clang.

"Guys? What the hell?" Angel asked. He slowly turned

around, but it was too late.

As the cold sword pierced his side, Angel dropped to

his knees. This type of blow to his side would not

have affected him as a vampire, but this was lethal.

The sword was pulled quickly back out of Angel's side.

Allowing blood to flow freely from the wound. Angel

fell to the ground, and everything went dark.