"Well that takes care of the cleaning. The place looks pretty spiffy now." Willow stripped off her rubber gloves and looked around. The place was spotless. Just then Giles walked in the front door with Dawn and Rona. "One exorcism completed. And we got our first paycheck." Dawn seemed really excited about it. The rest of the slayers gathered around to hear what happened. While Rona and Dawn filled them in on the details Giles went to talk to Willow. "Is she back yet?" Giles was talking about Buffy. She had left the morning after they got there to look for leads. "She stopped in for a shower but she left again. She took Faith with her this time. I wouldn't worry too much yet, she just really wants to find Angle."
Giles left the girls in the lobby and went upstairs to check on Xander and Robin to make sure they hadn't killed Andrew. He walked down a couple halls and finally found the room they were working on. "How's it going in here?" Xander looked up from what he was doing and answered "This is the third room we've had to fix windows and holes in the walls. There's one that I want to save for when we have more money. It has a huge hole in the floor. Other than that we're doing good so far. Materials for repairs are going to cost a pretty penny. How did the exorcism go?" "It went ok just a routine casting out. We're going to have to take on as many cases as we can to get this place up and running again. You've done a good job with what we have but repairs for the rest of the hotel will have to wait until bills are paid first." Xander just nodded knowing that they were in a tight spot. He turned around and went back to work. "Andrew don't touch the power tools!"
A little later Giles was back at the books looking at the past income. It looked like Angle had managed to barely level out most of the time. There were a few times where the case was big enough to bring in a couple thousand but it really didn't help in the long run. They didn't touch the college fund setup in Connor's name. No one knew who he was but Faith and Willow, and they wouldn't tell. In any case money was tight and not all of the slayers could help out on cases because of school. Buffy and Faith hadn't found Angle yet and they wouldn't stop until they did. That meant actual investigating and exorcisms could be done during the week after school but vampire and demon nests had to wait for the weekend when the other slayers could help. It was odd that they hadn't found a clue as to where Angle might be yet. But in a city the size of LA it would probably take weeks to find him. Looking back at the books and the pile of bills on his desk Giles sighed and started to plan a budget hoping they really wouldn't need it.
Three Weeks after That
Dawn was in the kitchen eating a sandwich when it came on the news and about scared her out of her wits. She went running up the stairs as fast as she could, "Giles flip the TV to channel five." Giles watched in shock as a rouge slayer killed two pedestrians and escaped the police. "The young woman was identified as the patient who escaped from St. Brewsters Psychiatric center this morning. Diana is armed and dangerous, should you see her call the police immediately." Giles switched the TV off and picked up the phone hoping that Buffy would answer the phone. "Hello?" "Buffy thank God, listen we've got a major crisis." "Is it Dawn I'll be right there." "No it's not Dawn in fact she's standing next to me. A slayer is killing people down town. It's not one of our girls, she escaped from a psychiatric facility this morning and I think she's gone off the deep end. I might have a couple theories I'm going to go to the hospital and investigate. You just find her, restrain her if you have to but don't kill her. Actually bring her back to the hotel if you can. If I'm not back put her in the cage in the basement."
"Dawn watch the phones, if it's an emergency send the girls out in teams of two otherwise take messages." Giles put his coat on and left the hotel. At the hospital he went through her files and started watching the tapes of her sessions. Daine spoke in a succession of languages that astounded Giles; Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Russian, Spanish, Mongolian, Romanian, the list kept going; it was amazing. It turned out that she was having dreams about slayers witch normally wouldn't drive a person insane but coupled with the trauma from her early child hood and now having slayer strength she was out of control. She thought she was every one of the past slayers. He thanked the receptionist and went back to the hotel. It would take a lot of time to get her to calm down let alone back to normal but he wanted to help her.
Buffy got off the phone with Giles and looked behind her at Faith. "He's not talking, put him down. That was Giles, something important in going down we can come back for this sleaze bag." "Only if I get to hit him again when we get back." "I don't see a problem with that at all." Faith dropped the guy on the floor and they both left the empty club. "So what's going on that we have to leave our only lead." "There's a crazy slayer killing people down town." They got into Angle's car and Faith drove them to the grocery store that she had last been sighted in. From there they tracked her on foot.
"She knows we're following her." "Well she does have slayer senses B. What I want to know is who else is tracking her." They had spotted some one else a couple of times but they never got a good look at him. They were almost on her when they heard a fight around the corner. They ran in to a building following the sounds to the basement. They went to see what was happening and stopped in their tracks when they saw her. She had Spike chained up and was injecting him with something. "Yellow makes you weak. Brown makes you sleepy." "Any idea what's going on B.?" "Not a clue. Giles said not to kill her so we should probably knock her out and chain her up in the back seat. We can dump Spike in the trunk." "Ooh B's not to happy with her ex honey." Buffy just glared at Faith for a second before heading toward the girl who still hadn't noticed their presence. She knelt down next to her and spoke in a soft voice; "I love what you did to Spike. Chains really suit him." Daine looked up at her and smiled before speaking in Swahili. Of course Buffy just smiled and nodded not knowing what the younger girl was saying.
Daine stood up and backhanded Buffy then launched herself at Faith. Faith and Daine traded kicks and punches furiously as Buffy watched from the ground winded from the unexpected attack. Slowly she got up and regaining her balance joined the fray. Five minutes and several broken ribs later Daine was tied securely in the back seat. Faith drove them back to the hotel and helped Buffy up the steps. "You wait here I'll get Rona and Amanda to help me carry her in." Dawn who had been behind the counter rushed over and immediately started questioning her sister. "Not now, I'm having a hard time breathing. Just get Giles." Giles came running out of his office followed by Dawn and reached Buffy as she blacked out.