Chapter 1
The last few minutes of the spell
"Okay, so we're all set huh? Ready to do this?" Dawn was looking very sick when Faith said this. "Hey Dawn lighten up we'll be ok!"
"If you say so, let's get it over with..please," Dawn croaked out.
"Okay. Everyone sit in a circle around the star. Remember that this will be painful so be prepared. And it'll take awhile to do, so be prepared to feel like your being ripped apart for about 15 minutes.. Hold onto your bags, and don't let go. All of us will be transported to the hotel and then I will go to Dead & Evil Hellfirm." Buffy said, making a weak attempt at a quip to make Dawn feel better.
"Hold hands. Now Buff we begin the chant." Willow said from her space on the floor between Dawn and Robin.
"The world corrupt
We have to fix it.
Send us back to the day which changed everything.
Let time alter and we shall be back to June 5th.
Send Us Now!"
With a flash of brillant gold and white the 11 friends went twirling back to 10 months ago.
"Wow that was a shock to the system." Marco said as they hit the floor of Angel Investigations Headquarters, or what was AI Headquarters. Now it was bare, with no homeyness, nothing. You could never tell Angel had lived there. Even the windows and doors were boarded up like it was condemned. Well, at least they could stay there and Angel could move back in without a problem.
"Well you guys get settled here. Don't move anything in, we don't know if Angel will leave and we don't know if we can stay, or what rooms were their's before." Buffy said, while surverying the playing field. Needed a girl's touch, but it'll do nicely.
"What will you do Buffy?" Giles said looking over Dawn who looked like she could pass out from the shock very easily.
"Get to Angel. Make them see the right way. I'm Buffy, and in this time Angel and Spike are good, they love me and they will trust me." She turned to go then said so quietly that they almost missed it, "I hope."
20 minutes later, Buffy's entering the W&H building.
"Hey Harmony, is Angel around?" She asked sweetly.
"Yeah he's in his office." She said through clenched teeth, even if she was way wigged by Buffy's abrupt appearence.
"Thanks." With that she turned and walked into the office just in time to watch Spike's re-entry into the land of the living. No one noticed her so she stood in the doorway, watching them, studying them. They all looked the same, except Angel didn't gel his hair in this time. It gave him a major sophisticated look, not his usual broody one.
"Spike..." Angel spit out.
"Spike..." Wesley practically dripped with curiousity.
"Blondie Bear?" Harmony appeared at her side, excited beyond reason.
"Spike, what are you doing here?" Angel asked walking up to him.
"Wish I could tell ya mate. I bloody well don't know. Where am I anyway?" Spike looked around the room, not recognising it.
"So what your like Angel right?" Wesley asked, stepping forward.
"He's nothing like me." Angel said through clenched teeth.
"No he's not like you at all Angel. I mean Angel would never kill me. But then again Spike would never kill Dawn. Guess you two are the same after all." Buffy said finally walking away from the door. "Oh don't look so surprised, geez."
"Buffy?" Spike timidly asked running for her, and right through her, causing Buffy to start laughing her ass off. She collapsed into the nearest chair holding her side.
"Your incorporeal, moron!" She said through her merth. After she quietened she got right down to buisness. "I'm Buffy. You know that, but what you don't know who I really am. I am the Queen of Angels, and am from May 18th, 2004. From now till then you guys make some really bad decisions and end up killing me and Dawn. As well as many other people. You guys are the ones behind the apocalypse to end all apocalypses. Your the bad guys. And staying here is the cause of it. You need to leave now. And I mean now, before your contract seales itself in gold and before you start making the wrong decisions." Buffy finished staring at all of them.
"What do you mean? Here at Wolfram & Hart we have inside access. We have awesome resources and we can meet awesome people. We also have everything we could ever want. Money, cars, housing. Everything is here." Wesley said. Everyone, save for Spike and Angel who couldn't stop staring at her, shook their heads in agreement.
"You stay here innocent people die. You stay here and Fred dies. Gunn dies. Wesley goes insane. Lorne becomes an alcoholic. Angel turns into a puppet. Spike falls out of love with me and kills me. Angel kills Dawn. You all are working for the enemy. And you are all in real danger." She blows across the palm of her hand and a peice of paper appears there. It's starting to be encrusted with gold. "What's it gonna be? Money, resources and power? Or your and the ones you love's lives? 5 minutes to discuss then your chance is gone." Buffy stepped to the side, letting them talk it over. Spike slowly walks over to Buffy, shocked as hell.
"I kill you? a-and Angel kills Nibblet?" Spike asked tentatively.
She looked at him under tear glazed eyes. She studied the man she loved more then life itself, more then Dawn, more then anything. Then his hateful words replayed in her mind I hate you, Bitch. You ruined me. Now I'm the vampire I once was, and you, your nothing more then a scab beneath my shoe. You always said we were equal. You were wrong, Slayer. I'm much better then you'll ever be. Your beneath ME! and with that he had slit her throat. She choked back the sob and fought against the tears but one got through her barriers. "Yes," she croaked out.
"And I really fell out of love with you? Never, I can't even imagine my time before I loved you." Spike was looking at her with such love and devotion in his eyes that she couldn't hold back the tears and they fell freely. He wanted to hug her and care for her, but being incorporeal he couldn't.
She stopped crying after a minute and looked up at him again. That same look was still in his eyes, but this time it didn't want to make her cry, it made her determined. Determined to see this through and determined to never let the bleach blond before her to stay in her life forever. If she was going to live forever, who better to spend eternity with? Slowly she nodded then looked over at the group huddled in the middle then down at the paper in her hands, almost completely encrusted in gold.
"Time's up. Evil or Good? Money or Life, your call. And make it fast, or the Senior Partners will make it for you." Buffy said walking back over to them.
Angel cleared his throat, straightened up and looked her square in the eyes. "We'll leave. Lives are more important than power. Give me the contract." Buffy handed it over and with one last look at his co-workers, who all nodded once, he tore it in half, then he did it again.
"Your free. Now you have 12 hours to pack everything, bring all the texts, supplies, anything you can carry. Only 12 hours to say goodbye to any would-be friends. Only 12 hours then the Senior Partners figure it out and come after your blood. Meet me at the hotel, your hotel, in 12 hours or it's back here for you. Now Angel, one question. Me and my crew, there's 11 of us, need a place to crash for the coming year. Any room at the hotel?" Buffy asked looking deep into his chocolate eyes.
"Yeah, sure. So see yah soon." Angel and the others turned to leave but Buffy's voice halted them.
"12 hours or we all dissappear and everything turns back to how the fates wanted it orignally. Oh and Angel, do you want Harmony to be your secretary at Angel Investigations, what with Cordelia being all dead."
"Whatever, and Cordelia's not dead." Angel looked at her with ice in his eyes.
"No, not yet, a coma is the correct term. But soon she will be. As it is she's living in Heaven, time there doesn't go back, they are still the people from the future, and Angel, Cordelia's not free anymore. She's found the man she wants to spend eternity with, me too." With that Buffy dissappeared and everyone stared at the spot she was previously standing in, then turned quietly to do the fastest packing job they'd ever do.
Buffy had only gone invisible. When they left she cried and looked over to where Spike still stood, pondering Buffy's last remark. She reappeared and walked over to him. "C'mon. You and I need to talk." She left the room and, as she knew he would, he followed.
10 minutes later a little cafe outside of Wolfram & Hart.
"Spike I love you. And I know you don't believe me, but the moment you first wrapped your arms around me and held me when I was so lost, I knew I was head over heels for you. I'm going to live forever, I want to be with you. And that sounded less cheesy or weird in my head." Buffy looked into his deep blue eyes and her heart melted at the shock and pure bliss she found there.
Spike just sat there looking at her. He was so far gone that he didn't think he would ever find his way out of the clouds. His eyes and brain and heart were spinning. She loves me He wanted to sing from the rooftops. Instead he looked at her and, because he couldn't touch her, he whispered. "I love you to, my beautiful Buffy."
"Oh that's Queen Buffy now." She giggled and then remembered his current state. "Oh your kinda tied to Wolfram & Hart as of right now, but when I make you corporeal again you'll become untied and free to go whereever. But as of right now, you can't leave L.A. You can, however, leave W&H, so you can move into the hotel. Wow it's going to be awkward in there huh? You, me, Angel. Not to mention Harm is going to be his secretary. Talk about major wiggins." She laughed and then sipped her coffee.
He stared at the love of his unlife as her words sank in, I'm tied to Wolfram & Hart? Weird. Oh wait, bloody hell. Buffy, me and Angel living under one roof. That's going to suck. "Oh well, we can make it work. I mean if Angel tries anything then kick his brooding ass." He laughed and she giggled. God he loved that sound.
"We gotta get back to the hotel. The Scoobs are expecting us, and we need to move our stuff in. Well we can't do that till later, but oh well. We still gotta fly." She then stopped thought about something and burst out laughing, her pun was too much.
He sighed and followed her out into the sunlight, it felt weird but he didn't fry given the whole him not wholly being there and all. It still felt weird to him. Actually this whole thing felt weird to him...
To Be Continued.....
A/N Next chapter the whole gang re-unites and everyone moves in to the hotel. Plus Angel finds out who Cordelia loves now. And the AI gang get an unexpected visitor. Or two..
The last few minutes of the spell
"Okay, so we're all set huh? Ready to do this?" Dawn was looking very sick when Faith said this. "Hey Dawn lighten up we'll be ok!"
"If you say so, let's get it over with..please," Dawn croaked out.
"Okay. Everyone sit in a circle around the star. Remember that this will be painful so be prepared. And it'll take awhile to do, so be prepared to feel like your being ripped apart for about 15 minutes.. Hold onto your bags, and don't let go. All of us will be transported to the hotel and then I will go to Dead & Evil Hellfirm." Buffy said, making a weak attempt at a quip to make Dawn feel better.
"Hold hands. Now Buff we begin the chant." Willow said from her space on the floor between Dawn and Robin.
"The world corrupt
We have to fix it.
Send us back to the day which changed everything.
Let time alter and we shall be back to June 5th.
Send Us Now!"
With a flash of brillant gold and white the 11 friends went twirling back to 10 months ago.
"Wow that was a shock to the system." Marco said as they hit the floor of Angel Investigations Headquarters, or what was AI Headquarters. Now it was bare, with no homeyness, nothing. You could never tell Angel had lived there. Even the windows and doors were boarded up like it was condemned. Well, at least they could stay there and Angel could move back in without a problem.
"Well you guys get settled here. Don't move anything in, we don't know if Angel will leave and we don't know if we can stay, or what rooms were their's before." Buffy said, while surverying the playing field. Needed a girl's touch, but it'll do nicely.
"What will you do Buffy?" Giles said looking over Dawn who looked like she could pass out from the shock very easily.
"Get to Angel. Make them see the right way. I'm Buffy, and in this time Angel and Spike are good, they love me and they will trust me." She turned to go then said so quietly that they almost missed it, "I hope."
20 minutes later, Buffy's entering the W&H building.
"Hey Harmony, is Angel around?" She asked sweetly.
"Yeah he's in his office." She said through clenched teeth, even if she was way wigged by Buffy's abrupt appearence.
"Thanks." With that she turned and walked into the office just in time to watch Spike's re-entry into the land of the living. No one noticed her so she stood in the doorway, watching them, studying them. They all looked the same, except Angel didn't gel his hair in this time. It gave him a major sophisticated look, not his usual broody one.
"Spike..." Angel spit out.
"Spike..." Wesley practically dripped with curiousity.
"Blondie Bear?" Harmony appeared at her side, excited beyond reason.
"Spike, what are you doing here?" Angel asked walking up to him.
"Wish I could tell ya mate. I bloody well don't know. Where am I anyway?" Spike looked around the room, not recognising it.
"So what your like Angel right?" Wesley asked, stepping forward.
"He's nothing like me." Angel said through clenched teeth.
"No he's not like you at all Angel. I mean Angel would never kill me. But then again Spike would never kill Dawn. Guess you two are the same after all." Buffy said finally walking away from the door. "Oh don't look so surprised, geez."
"Buffy?" Spike timidly asked running for her, and right through her, causing Buffy to start laughing her ass off. She collapsed into the nearest chair holding her side.
"Your incorporeal, moron!" She said through her merth. After she quietened she got right down to buisness. "I'm Buffy. You know that, but what you don't know who I really am. I am the Queen of Angels, and am from May 18th, 2004. From now till then you guys make some really bad decisions and end up killing me and Dawn. As well as many other people. You guys are the ones behind the apocalypse to end all apocalypses. Your the bad guys. And staying here is the cause of it. You need to leave now. And I mean now, before your contract seales itself in gold and before you start making the wrong decisions." Buffy finished staring at all of them.
"What do you mean? Here at Wolfram & Hart we have inside access. We have awesome resources and we can meet awesome people. We also have everything we could ever want. Money, cars, housing. Everything is here." Wesley said. Everyone, save for Spike and Angel who couldn't stop staring at her, shook their heads in agreement.
"You stay here innocent people die. You stay here and Fred dies. Gunn dies. Wesley goes insane. Lorne becomes an alcoholic. Angel turns into a puppet. Spike falls out of love with me and kills me. Angel kills Dawn. You all are working for the enemy. And you are all in real danger." She blows across the palm of her hand and a peice of paper appears there. It's starting to be encrusted with gold. "What's it gonna be? Money, resources and power? Or your and the ones you love's lives? 5 minutes to discuss then your chance is gone." Buffy stepped to the side, letting them talk it over. Spike slowly walks over to Buffy, shocked as hell.
"I kill you? a-and Angel kills Nibblet?" Spike asked tentatively.
She looked at him under tear glazed eyes. She studied the man she loved more then life itself, more then Dawn, more then anything. Then his hateful words replayed in her mind I hate you, Bitch. You ruined me. Now I'm the vampire I once was, and you, your nothing more then a scab beneath my shoe. You always said we were equal. You were wrong, Slayer. I'm much better then you'll ever be. Your beneath ME! and with that he had slit her throat. She choked back the sob and fought against the tears but one got through her barriers. "Yes," she croaked out.
"And I really fell out of love with you? Never, I can't even imagine my time before I loved you." Spike was looking at her with such love and devotion in his eyes that she couldn't hold back the tears and they fell freely. He wanted to hug her and care for her, but being incorporeal he couldn't.
She stopped crying after a minute and looked up at him again. That same look was still in his eyes, but this time it didn't want to make her cry, it made her determined. Determined to see this through and determined to never let the bleach blond before her to stay in her life forever. If she was going to live forever, who better to spend eternity with? Slowly she nodded then looked over at the group huddled in the middle then down at the paper in her hands, almost completely encrusted in gold.
"Time's up. Evil or Good? Money or Life, your call. And make it fast, or the Senior Partners will make it for you." Buffy said walking back over to them.
Angel cleared his throat, straightened up and looked her square in the eyes. "We'll leave. Lives are more important than power. Give me the contract." Buffy handed it over and with one last look at his co-workers, who all nodded once, he tore it in half, then he did it again.
"Your free. Now you have 12 hours to pack everything, bring all the texts, supplies, anything you can carry. Only 12 hours to say goodbye to any would-be friends. Only 12 hours then the Senior Partners figure it out and come after your blood. Meet me at the hotel, your hotel, in 12 hours or it's back here for you. Now Angel, one question. Me and my crew, there's 11 of us, need a place to crash for the coming year. Any room at the hotel?" Buffy asked looking deep into his chocolate eyes.
"Yeah, sure. So see yah soon." Angel and the others turned to leave but Buffy's voice halted them.
"12 hours or we all dissappear and everything turns back to how the fates wanted it orignally. Oh and Angel, do you want Harmony to be your secretary at Angel Investigations, what with Cordelia being all dead."
"Whatever, and Cordelia's not dead." Angel looked at her with ice in his eyes.
"No, not yet, a coma is the correct term. But soon she will be. As it is she's living in Heaven, time there doesn't go back, they are still the people from the future, and Angel, Cordelia's not free anymore. She's found the man she wants to spend eternity with, me too." With that Buffy dissappeared and everyone stared at the spot she was previously standing in, then turned quietly to do the fastest packing job they'd ever do.
Buffy had only gone invisible. When they left she cried and looked over to where Spike still stood, pondering Buffy's last remark. She reappeared and walked over to him. "C'mon. You and I need to talk." She left the room and, as she knew he would, he followed.
10 minutes later a little cafe outside of Wolfram & Hart.
"Spike I love you. And I know you don't believe me, but the moment you first wrapped your arms around me and held me when I was so lost, I knew I was head over heels for you. I'm going to live forever, I want to be with you. And that sounded less cheesy or weird in my head." Buffy looked into his deep blue eyes and her heart melted at the shock and pure bliss she found there.
Spike just sat there looking at her. He was so far gone that he didn't think he would ever find his way out of the clouds. His eyes and brain and heart were spinning. She loves me He wanted to sing from the rooftops. Instead he looked at her and, because he couldn't touch her, he whispered. "I love you to, my beautiful Buffy."
"Oh that's Queen Buffy now." She giggled and then remembered his current state. "Oh your kinda tied to Wolfram & Hart as of right now, but when I make you corporeal again you'll become untied and free to go whereever. But as of right now, you can't leave L.A. You can, however, leave W&H, so you can move into the hotel. Wow it's going to be awkward in there huh? You, me, Angel. Not to mention Harm is going to be his secretary. Talk about major wiggins." She laughed and then sipped her coffee.
He stared at the love of his unlife as her words sank in, I'm tied to Wolfram & Hart? Weird. Oh wait, bloody hell. Buffy, me and Angel living under one roof. That's going to suck. "Oh well, we can make it work. I mean if Angel tries anything then kick his brooding ass." He laughed and she giggled. God he loved that sound.
"We gotta get back to the hotel. The Scoobs are expecting us, and we need to move our stuff in. Well we can't do that till later, but oh well. We still gotta fly." She then stopped thought about something and burst out laughing, her pun was too much.
He sighed and followed her out into the sunlight, it felt weird but he didn't fry given the whole him not wholly being there and all. It still felt weird to him. Actually this whole thing felt weird to him...
To Be Continued.....
A/N Next chapter the whole gang re-unites and everyone moves in to the hotel. Plus Angel finds out who Cordelia loves now. And the AI gang get an unexpected visitor. Or two..