Chapter 3 Miracles. The gang decides to ask assistant of someone Spike knows in LA that is good with possessions on powerful beings. Angel wanted to use the Hoover duster, but is convinced by Gunn that Spike may have a good idea.

"Spike where is this guy?"

"Wait! Be patient."

"He better do what you say he does," says Gunn.

"She will."

"What?" Angel turns furiously around.

"The guy is a girl. She's really good with the magic's and sorts."

"Spike," says a girl with reddish brown hair that comes from behind him. Before Spike could turn around the girl grabbed him and tosses him into a trash can. Angel and Gunn laugh. "You must be Angel. Come into my office." Angel and Gunn look at each other then at the girl. They see her disappear into a dimensional door. The guys shrug and follow her.

As they enter, they appear in a very beautiful furnish and spacious office. Gunn pulls Katherine off his shoulders and looks around.

"Please sit." Chairs came out of no where and Angel and Gunn are force to sit. The girl with her own powers move Katherine over to a holding cell made of glass.

Before the girl could begin to talk Spike enters the room. He glares at the girl and she gives him a little smirk.

"Nice that you could join us Spike," says the girl. "Please sit down." Another chair grabs Spike and pulls him toward the girls desk next to Angel.

"I like her a lot." says Angel with smile to Spike. Spike glares at Angel.

"Alright, now that we are all here lets get down to business." A book comes floating to the girl. It falls on top of her desk and opens at a particular page. "Here it is. A god was incarcerated into...with the crystals of umm... Yes here. Who summon the god?"

"Knox," says Gunn. Angel and Spike look at Gunn in shock.

"What?" the both said at the same time.

"And where is this..."

"Dead."

"You killed him," says Angel. Gunn nodded.

"Well this is a problem," says the girl.

"Isn't there another way?" ask Angel.

"Maybe."

"Then what?"

"She hasn't much time," says the girl. "You see the god inside of her is very powerful one for the powerful body that it is fighting to take control of. The god may over power her and no one will be able to stop her."

"How long does she have?" ask Angel getting up from his chair.

"It depends on her. If she can fight it then it may just give us a chance to construct a plan to get the parasite, that is the god, out of her and return it from whence it came."

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The next day, the doctor lets Fred go. Wesley is signing the last couple of papers for her release as Lorne and Harmony take her out to the exit. Gunn meets them at the entrance. Fred immediately gets up and hugs him. Wesley heads over to the entrance.

"Gunn," says Wesley. Gunn releases Fred and helps her sit down. "Where is Angel and Spike? Did they contain the parasite?"

"Um, yes and no," says Gunn.

"What?"

"It's a long story. Angel and Spike got it cover. They told me to take you guys some place safe."

"Why?"

"Gunn, what's going on?" ask Fred. She knew Gunn is not telling them everything.

"Parasite has gotten into somebody," Gunn explains. "She's a witch and slayer."

"How did this happen?"

"She's one of Fred's neighbors. She must of thought some one broke into your apartment when..."

"Oh my gosh..."

"It's Katherine."

"Where is she?" ask Wesley.

"Angel and Spike are with her," says Gunn. "They found someone that can help extract the parasite."

"If only we knew how it got out of me?" says Fred.

"Sugar plum don't stress yourself about that," says Lorne.

"Lorne is right. You are still very weak." Fred gives a half smile to Wesley and nods her head.

"Well, lets go," says Gunn leading the group out.

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Angel and Spike are in the other dimension researching with their only hope of retrieving the parasite out of Katherine. Spike begins to get frustrated and gets off his chair putting the book down. He goes up to the holding cell where Katherine is being kept and sighs.

"Tamara, are you sure it won't hurt her being frozen like that?"

"Certainly not," says Tamara. "She is well preserve like in the story of Snow White. It keeps her in a sleep state. We don't want the god to wake up." She walks up Spike and puts her fingers on her lips. "Shhh."