Winifred Burkle paced back and forth in her office. She was trying to come up with a solution to make Spike corporal again. So far she had absolutely no idea of what to do. The look on Spike's face didn't aide her thinking.
"This isn't exactly helping is it luv?"
"Oh sorry I pace when I get all flustered. It helps me think sometimes." Fred said apologizing. "Ok so let's take a step back. What do we know about the amulet?"
"Well it's certainly mystical; most amulets are now a days. It sucked me into it then spit me out again here as a bloody ghost." Spike stated trying to be helpful.
"You're not a ghost at least I don't think you are anyway. As far as I can tell you're alive but not really."
"So is that your scientific theory then?" Spike said impatiently.
Fred was about to answer when Spike suddenly disappeared. She walked down the stairs into her lab. Knox was working on a device that could detect the residue of ghosts so she could locate Spike or any other dead people at Wolfram & Hart. Judging from all the people that have died here she was going to have trouble finding him.
"How is it coming?" Fred asked optimistically.
"I'm almost done. Could you hand me that screwdriver over there?"
Fred walked over to the toolbox to get it when a handprint scanner on the wall got her eye.
"Hey Knox, what is that scanner on the wall for?"
Knox broken away from his work glanced up at her.
"That's the lock for your personal vault."
"I have my very own vault?"
"Yeah it's a dimensional storage room. It can hold pretty much anything you can think of."
"Is that anything in it now" Fred asked beaming with anticipation.
"Just top secret inventions, stuff that lowly people like me can't know about." "Even though I built half the stuff that's in there at least I think I did. They would erase our memories so we wouldn't remember what we built."
Fred had to see what was in that vault. Maybe there was something that could help Spike. She walked up to the wall, placed her hand on the scanner and watched as the doors opened.