Authors note: Is it really that crap?? Wheres the reviews ppl!! Im seriously thinking about leaving this story and continuing with ones based on Spike and Buffy… They seem to get more reviews these days!!! Neways if u like it and want me to keep on going, THEN TELL ME!!!!!

Chap 5

A loose piece of newspaper fluttered past my head as I headed down an alley, taking a new shortcut to yet another of my drinking places.  The wind picks up and I swat away the newspaper, catching it in my hand.  I'm about to throw it away when something catches my eye:

FARMER DEVESTATED BY LATEST KILLINGS.

In the early hours of Sunday morning Mr Harries of Liege Manor Farm, Sunnydale found the most horrific sight in decades.  On the open plains of his farm he found a massacre of his prize-winning horses.  Up to 30 horses were killed and many are to be linked with the wild dog attacks even though experts think it may be something larger.  Only one horse survived the attack, Cruz, the famous black stallion that has won countless showing events.  The horses were said to be gruesomely killed and lain out in a line across the paddock, drained completely of blood and slashed horrifically.

I knew it wasn't a large dog or even a big cat, it was a demon.  Instantly I think of my friends back in Sunnydale.  Who was going to help them now the slayer has gone?  Worry hits my stomach hard and all I can think about is how I can help.

Since when had I started caring again?

Sometimes I think about them, struggling with the truth, knowing about the demons.  I know that none of them would walk away on this; they have gone through way too much to stop now no matter how scared or frightened they are.

Bet they are out there, searching for the demon as I am thinking about them.  God damn them!  If only I had the strength to carry on like they have.

There's one thing for sure though.

I'll never go back.

******

Stunned silence filled the room.

"W-W-What?" Giles took a seat.

"Angel, it was Angel or should I say Angelus." Xander repeats quietly taking a seat across from Giles.

There's another pause.

"Are you absolutely positively sure Xander that it was Angel?  I mean he should be dead technically speaking of course."  Giles looks up at Xander, leaning his elbows on his knees.

"It was him.  I recognised the tattoo on his back, he had a huge Hoof print in the centre of his spine and was pretty cut up."  Xander answered calmly, casting a glance at Willow.

"But – How?" Giles rises slowly from his chair and begins a slow pace across the living room.

"Gee Giles, I'll just look it up in my huge I-no-the-answers-to-all-the-questions book." Xander remarks sarcastically.

Giles glares back in return.

"Come on guys, so what if we don't know how he came back?  All we do know is that he is here and we need to stop him killing." Willow takes a few paces towards Giles, stopping his pacing.

"You are right Willow, we need to stop him.  Xander, Where did you last see Angel and what was he doing?"

"At Rest fields, eating a blonde girl." Xander shakes his head and looks at his feet defeated.

"OK…" Willow turns to face Giles.  "So what do you think we should do?"

"Well the first thing we should do is to follow him, find out where he is living, W-what he is planning, eating, everything we can."

Xander stares blankly at the old watcher.

"No-way am I following Angelus.  Absolutely no way in hell are you going to see me anywhere near that Vampire EVER again."

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"Why is it always me?  What did I do to deserve this?" Xander looks up at the sky.  "You better be saving me a good seat up there for what I do for this world."

He sighs heavily and digs his hands deeper in his pockets, retracing his steps from Giles and heading towards Rest Field Cemetery.

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Roaming onwards, the heavy bus trundles along the gritted road heading away from the place he last seen her.  The place of his death.

An angry growl issues inside his chest, rumbling throughout the baggage hold.  He knows he will find her.  There is no hiding from him.

Her name he can't remember.

All he knows is that she should pay for what she has done to him, pay for the pain he has been through, and pay for everything that has happened.

The bus passes the sign that she past only months ago:

NOW LEAVING SUNNYDALE

Come Back Soon!

******
Its been following me for days.

I first noticed it outside a club one night as I was on my way home.  I could hear the footsteps up above, running across the top of the building, following me from a great height.

But by the time I tried to see it, it had left, leaving no clue to what or who it was.

And so I continued with life, ignoring that night and thinking no more of it.  But worse was still to come.

Every night I started to get followed and sometimes when I broke into a run it kept up with me, the only clue I had to its identity.  It had to be a demon; no normal human could keep up with my slayer pace.

My instant thoughts were to the gang at home.  Had they sent a demon after me to bring me home?

No, Giles would not allow it.

So then I thought of Spike, was he chasing after me again, wanting my slayer blood?

I thought otherwise when I bumped into him at a local club and walked a short distance with him, all the while feeling my stalker nearby.

I used my slayer senses and it always told me it was a vampire (typical) but I could never get a good enough glimpse at it to be able to track it successfully.

So here I am again, walking down an empty alley feeling the familiar feeling of being followed.

I slow my pace, listening to the footsteps slow from behind so that it just keeps out of my eye range.

I stop completely.

"You know I know your there." I sigh heavily.  "Can't we get this over with and let me stake your ass?" I turn on the spot, trying to determine where the vamp is.

A soft thud sounds behind me and I grin at myself.  So finally here we are, time to kick my stalkers ass.

But when I turned around to face the demon, I started wishing I had never spoken up.

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