Riley did not look at them.

'How could you', Dawn demanded. Riley still avoided her eyes.

'Dude I though we were your friends', Xander said. Riley looked up at them.

'I'm sorry about Smith if he scared you, he thinks he's the big man (Smith's face tightened) we're not here to torture you.' Xander breathed out a fake sigh of relief.

'Oh thank God, I guess smashing glass on us and gassing us was all for nothing, now we can all just skip home.'

'This is no joke Xander; we need the slayer and Spike.' Xander made a face.

'Spike?....but he's..dead.'

Riley frowned.

'He's what?'

'Dead, he died in the final fight; he sacrificed himself to save the world.' Riley laughed

'Spike risk his own neck, never.'

'He had a soul', Dawn chipped in.

'Was he still sleeping with Buffy?'

'No but they had a thing.chemistry..they loved each other.'

'But I thought it was just...'

'Things changed when he got back, Buffy fell in love with him, but that's not the point why did you bring us here?'

'We got a tip of that Spike had been given a particular amulet, which is dangerous, and he has been chosen as Buffy's champion.'

'How do you know all that?' Xander asked suspiciously.

'It doesn't matter how we found it all out, but we also know a prophecy was made about a vampire with a soul, we think this prophecy is not for Angel after all but is for Spike..but if he's dead, I don't know the guy we kidnapped..'

'Whoa, Xander interrupted, kidnapped?'

'Yeah we watched Giles as he met up with an American man, we kidnapped him after Giles had left, he told us everything that had been happened in L.A and that you were leaving for there tomorrow.'

'And how much did you have to torture the guy before he told you all that', Xander asked. Riley looked a little offended.

'I didn't torture him..exactly, I just punched him a bit (Xander snorted) he failed to mention that Spike had died but.. (Riley paused as though suddenly remembering something) he said Buffy didn't know and that she might not react well when she finds out, Riley muttered to himself, the guy was a bit annoying he went on and on about all this crap...'

'Annoying?' Xander said looking meaningfully at the other guys. Giles frowned but then it seemed it hit him just as it hit Dawn and Kennedy. 'Was this guy blonde', Dawn asked quietly.

'Yes', replied Riley without paying much attention.

'And did he say anything about he knew all that information', Kennedy asked moving closer to Riley.

'He has been living in L.A, I don't really know much about him he was wearing a hood over his face, course we tore it off when we were threatening him.'

'Did he cry when you threatened him ,and keep mentioning Star Wars and Star Trek and (Xander grinned)..loser stuff like that, he added catching himself, anyway did he say his name was Andrew?' Riley seemed to have woken up.

'Yeah as a matter of fact he...'

'Giles, Xander cried, why didn't you tell us you were meeting Andrew in London.'

'I-I didn't know it was him, he was disguised like Riley said and he put on a voice, I think he was trying to do Spike's voice he kept saying bloody hell in the most terrible cockney accent I've heard in all my life.'

'Really, he sounded American when I spoke to him', Riley said.

'He is American, he didn't come to England with us, but instead went to L.A to help out, that was the last we heard of him', Giles explained.
Meanwhile back at the BNB they were staying at Buffy and Willow were having a drink and taking a trip down memory lane. It was emotional, and sometimes hard to speak of the hard times they'd been through ,Willow choked when she remembered Tara's death, and Buffy found herself heartily wishing her mum and Spike were alive to see how different their lives were now.

'We've had some pretty good times too, lots of giggling moments', Willow said grinning.

'Yeah I suppose so.'

'And at least we can definitely say we were never short of things to do', Willow added. Buffy smiled. There was an awkward silence. Willow checked her watch hastily.

'Um so.er.I do you think the other guys are back from whether they went, I think I heard them leave.but then I don't remember much after that', Willow said thoughtfully. Buffy looked up, realising how strange that was. Willow seemed to be thinking the same thing because they stood up at exactly the same time, and without another word ran downstairs. They pushed open the door of the kitchen and gaped at the mess that greeted their eyes. There was glass everywhere and the room smelt funny, it seemed to create a sort of bliss in Buffy's head...no, she snapped back to her senses. Willow was taking deep breaths next to her.

'You ok Will', Buffy asked.

'Yeah I.for a minute there I felt like I was floating, but I'm ok now which is more than I can say about this place, it's been thrashed and Dawn, Kennedy and Giles are gone', Willow said worriedly.

'We have to go and find them, they've been kidnapped and I've got a funny feeling we were gassed too and lost our memory temporally..infact I can remember it all there was this guy dressed up like he was from the military or..',Buffy eyes widened and she looked at Willow.

'Oh no, not the iniative, it couldn't be Riley wouldn't kidnap.'

'Well it's a bit strange that they got kidnapped right after Giles came back, they must have followed them, that is so what the Iniative would do.'

'But how are we going to find them', Willow asked nervously.

'Follow me.'