A/N: so sorry to anyone who was waiting for an update but life has gotten a little hectic, thanks a million to everyone who reviewed I sooooo appreciate it, it was so cool. Please keep it up and anyone else I'd love to hear what you think and if you have any suggestions cause I'm totally up for feedback. Thanks and enjoy (I hope).

Chapter 5

Kathy looked on as Buffy and Spike continued to talk. She smiled slightly knowing that they had reached an agreement in their relationship and thankful that this at least was one area where she would not intervene. Angel however was another story. Even from outside the hotel she could hear his deep and dark thoughts, she could feel the despair and complete lack of hope and knew that trying to pull him back from it could be a challenge. Still, she thought, that's what I'm here for. She smiled, thinking of the perverse pleasure she would get from kicking her brother up the ass and pulling him out of his funk!

With that thought she grinned and walked toward the lobby where the others had joined Buffy and Spike. It was obvious as she approached them that they were discussing the events of the last year. The Sunnydale gang were looking on shocked as Wesley described the details of what had happened to Cordelia, although he was careful to use the non-Connor version. The Scoobies' shock turned to sorrow as they were told that Cordelia had died. Gunn continued the story as he detailed the story of Fred and the destruction of her soul, all done to make way for Illyria. Each of the newcomers felt pangs of guilt as they realised the torment and trouble the LA gang had gone through in the last year and how they themselves had done nothing to help. Convinced that the takeover of Wolfram and Hart meant that Angel and friends were walking too fine a line, they had abandoned them and brushed off their calls for help and this was the result.

'Good God,' Kathy thought, 'Could they be more depressing!?'

With that she approached the gang, knowing that she had better get them thinking about something else otherwise they would wallow in their misery. Kathy headed to the door of the hotel and stuck her head outside.

"Angel," she called, "we're ready to start if you are?"

Angel entered the hotel and took up position behind the rest of the gang, pointedly avoiding Buffy and Spike. He stood with his arms folded, a grim expression on his face, and stared at Kathy.

"So," He said, "are you going to tell us what's going on and why we're all here?"

Kathy smiled to herself, she had missed that look, although this was the first time it had ever been directed at her, she remembered how it had always gotten him a quick reaction in the past. Everyone seemed to find the grim hard stare directed at them through those dark brown eyes intimidating especially coming from such a large and menacing person, 'well', she thought, 'everyone except me!'

Kathy started by repeating what she had already told the LA gang, that the PTBs had sent her, that she was the new seer and that she herself had some supernatural powers. Once she had got the Scoobies up to date she paused.

Buffy immediately jumped in, "I understand how this effects Angel and everyone but what has this got to do with us? We've never had a seer and to be frank we've never needed one, so why are we here?"

"Ok here's how it works, with the demise of the Black Thorn and the LA branch of Wolfram and Hart there is now a power vacuum in LA, there is no single demon or group of demons with sufficient power to take their place. So, there is going to be the mother of all fights for that position, anyone who has even an ounce of power is going to do their best to try and ingratiate themselves with the Senior Partners in the hope that they will elect them their new deputies. Ingratiating themselves however, usually involves mass destruction, raising of various demons, carnage and, if they're very good, generally corruption of the human psyche." Kathy finished with a sarcastic grin on her face.

"Ah," said Xander, "business as usual then"

Kathy laughed, "pretty much, except LA is substantially bigger than Sunnydale so imagine that and multiply it. Although I'll be getting visions they really will be only for the big stuff, the things that are directly related to the Apocalypse the other every day evil we can just walk out onto the street and find. That's where you guys come in. Think about it, we have a major battle ground, filled with all types of demons and vampires in numbers that we can't possibly cope with, in order to deal with it we'd need an army, and an army of super strong people. Wonder where we could get that from?"

Giles looked at Kathy in amazement, "When you called me you said you could help with the girls training but I thought you meant that you could help them like a Watcher not send them into battle, these girls are still new to the whole slayer world, we can't just send them out into what you've just described!"

"But that's just it Rupert, they need the training and the experience and where else could be better? And it's not like they'd be going out alone, we can send them out in groups and with some of the more experienced fighters. Anyway it's still a hell of a lot better than the way slayers used to be trained; hell it's better than when I was learning to fight!! And it's needed, if we allow another Black Thorn group to get a foothold in LA then we might as well give up now, we'll have no chance when it comes to the End of Days. Besides, its been decreed from On High!"

Kathy threw her arms up in the air and rolled her eyes to heaven, she was really not in the mood to have this argument. Although she had know that there would be a big discussion she just wanted to get on with it and actually start doing something. It also didn't help that she could feel their mistrust and doubt regarding her; it was giving her a headache.

Angel looked at her, "You want Buffy and all the Slayers to move here, train, fight and prepare for the eventual Apocalypse, for us here to just go back to the way things were except with a whole bunch of teenage girls around and for us all to just say sure no problem?! In case you hadn't noticed but they've established a base in England and we were in the middle of taking down the Senior Partners. Sorry but I'm not sure anyone is really going to agree to this, you're just wasting your time."

The rest of the gang looked at Angel, his voice was hard and cold, all emotion was gone from it and the look on his face suggested that he meant every word he had just said. All who knew him knew that this was one of those occasions where he was not going to change his mind no matter what reasonable arguments Kathy threw at him. Wesley lowered his head; he turned to Kathy thinking that if they left the discussion till later then maybe it would go better, just as he was about to speak Kathy smiled.

"Tough," she said with a cheeky grin on her face, "You think you get a choice in this? You're a Champion Angel, as is Buffy and Faith and now all the other Slayers and you guys don't get a whole lot of say in the matter. The PTBs have spoken and you have to follow. So tough, I'm sorry if this doesn't fit in with your plan of, what was it again, oh yeah, getting killed, I'm sorry if you're not in the mood to go back to fighting, to earning your redemption but you don't get a choice. You can go storm off and sulk, all of you, but you know in the end of the day you'll come back and do this because it's the right thing to do, and that's what makes you champions. No matter how much you don't want to do something you still do it if it's for the greater good because that's the people you are, you don't belong to yourselves you belong to the fight. So shut up, stop moaning and just get used to the idea cause I'm jet lagged and tired and really not in the mood for this."

Kathy looked at everyone as they stared at her. She laughed at the shocked looks on their faces, they could not believe that someone had spoken like that to Angel and gotten away with it.

"Dang girl, I don't think anyone has laid out the situation that bluntly before, you're really not pulling punches here are you? The fact that you're willing to look the big boss in the face and yell at him especially when he's in one of his moods means that you go up a whole lot in my books." Gunn looked at her with newfound respect in his eyes. His comment also earned him a glare from Angel from which he recoiled.

"Well that is a tad bit more forceful than I would describe the situation but picking up and moving here is a big step and quite frankly not one I'm sure I'm willing to take." Giles said with a frown.

Buffy stood up; quickly glancing at Angel she thought it better to speak first before he could.

"Kathy, we can't just move here, things are too complicated and we're all over the place as it is. I'm in Rome, Giles is in England with the girls, Willow in south America and even if we did want to come here what about the girls, we can't just bring them over here, the authorities might have a problem with it."

"Look, money isn't an issue cause I know you have access to the council's millions, as for the legalities Gunn still has all the knowledge that got uploaded into his head so that should be a breeze, the only thing stopping this is you and to be quite honest I'm not sure why!"

Kathy was really beginning to rant now. The stubbornness of the group was frustrating and she was getting pretty mad. Just as she was about to speak again Xander stood.

"Kathy's right, this is the right thing to do. Look I know I'm probably the last person you'd think would be campaigning for this, I've made my feelings about Angel and Spike pretty clear but I think this is something that we should do. We've been fighting demons for so long now that I actually think it might be nice to have a goal, you know. Normally we just tackle what comes at us but here we get to be the ones to make the first move. I think I'd like to be on the offensive for once. Anyway I miss having my friends around and it'd be nice to have the Scoobies back together and maybe even get a few new ones. I think we should consider it"

"Look that's all I'm asking for, just think about, ponder the idea for a while. But guys, we do this and we do this right and we can caused some major damage."

Kathy thought that getting them to think about the idea was all she was going to get for now and that would have to do. She looked at Angel and raised an eyebrow, inquiring as to whether this was okay for now.

Angel looked back at her, realising that she had told them all about the mission but again had managed to avoid any questioning regarding herself. When he had first met Doyle he was willing to wait to find out his life story but he had been through too much and had too many people turn on him for him to let that happen again, he wanted to know about her. Obviously there was some connection between her and Giles; maybe that was where to start.

"Before I even think about this," he said, "I want to know more about you, why were you picked and how do you know Giles. And enough with the cryptic I want straight answers."

Kathy sighed; she should have known she'd only get away with so much. "I know Rupert because he was a friend of my family's. I was raised by Watchers, well semi retired ones, we lived in Cork and they trained me there. Rupert used come and visit when I was growing up, although I haven't seen him since I was about sixteen he's been a little busy what with Buffy and all. The Bringers killed the people who raised me last year; I guess they didn't want to leave any loose threads. I've been on my own ever since."

"You said the people that raised you, they weren't your parents?" Angel asked.

"No, they weren't, my real parents died along time ago."

Angel looked at her, "you still haven't told us why you were picked to be the new seer, what makes you different?"

Kathy looked at the ground, and bit her lip. "I've already told you Angel, this is not the time for this conversation. You're not ready to know everything about me just yet. I'm sorry."

Spike laughed "Well luv you just said the one thing that means you'll have to tell us now. Sorry but there's no way we're going to let you get away with that."

Kathy looked at him aghast, realising what she had walked herself into. She sat down with a thump.

"Crap," she muttered, "fine, but don't blame me when you guys freak out."