Buffy was walking down the hallway to her room. She was wearing grey sweatpants and a black t-shirt. It was a cloudy day today which meant an all access pass for vampires today. She staked five on her first patrol of the day.
Buffy stuck the key in the hole and opened her door. She saw Angel watching tv in the same clothes as yesterday. He was laughing. Angel looked at her. "Did you know that 'Friends' is on for an hour every three hours?"
Buffy held back a giggle. "I don't usually get a lot of time to watch tv, so no."
"Where'd you go?" Angel inquired, a little worried. Buffy could definitely take care of herself, but since he didn't know what the 'big bad' was, he wanted to make sure she didn't have any mishaps.
"Patrolling. It's gonna be completely cloudy with constant vampire showers today." Buffy walked to the couch and sat down. "Have you heard anything?"
"No."
Buffy looked annoyed. "Come on Giles. You're King of the Research. Mr. Yea Research."
"Buffy, it's not like he's doing it on purpose."
"I know. It's just. Is no news good news? No news means nothing extremely bad was found. Yea. But also, no news means haven't found anything, which can be a number of bad things. Not so yea."
"We should try to find something out."
"I tried getting something out of this one vamp but he pretty much was like 'die Slayer die.'" Buffy slouched further down on the couch. Suddenly, the phone rang. Buffy jumped up and ran towards the dark wooden table it was lying on. "Giles? ... What? ... Okay... Do we know who? ... All right. Thanks." Buffy hung up the phone. Angel looked at her with anticipation. "Okay, it's a vampire eighty years younger than Dracula. He's having some sort of shin dig tonight which we have to get to because they have a captive."
"Do we know who? I mean, not that it matters."
"No, Giles said he couldn't get it out of the guy. So I say we find a vamp and make him give us the low down on this party." Buffy left her apartment and started down the hallway.
Angel grabbed his coat and followed her. "Buffy, why would a vampire tell a Slayer about a party that will probably be filled with vampires?" Angel asked. Buffy stopped. He was right, of coarse. "How about, I go and find something out."
"Right, the vampire thing. But I want to go and get some slaying in. So let's meet back here in twenty minutes," Buffy suggested, looking at her watch.
"I don't have a watch."
"You don't have a watch? How can you not have a watch? You don't do that 'meet in o four hundred hours' in LA?" Buffy questioned.
"We're not the military Buffy. Look, I'll just make my way back when it feels like twenty minutes."
"Feels like twenty minutes? That's your solution?"
"It's all I got," Angel stated.
"Then we'll go with it."
They left the apartment building and went separate ways.
After about ten minutes, Buffy met with her first vampire. He was dressed in a Harley Davidson jacket with a red bandanna around his head. He looked like an Aerosmith fan due to the hairdo. The girl was wearing a short blue plaid skirt and button up white shirt. Is Britney Spears your idol?
They turned left, walking through the park. Buffy looked both ways and ran across the road. She pursued them a safe distance behind where she wouldn't lose them but they wouldn't think someone was following. I can't attack him with all these people around.
Suddenly, as if the Gods heard her, it started to rain. It came down heavily, with no soft drizzle to start with. Everyone in the park started scampering, trying to cover their heads as they ran to shelter. The vamp removed his coat and put it over the girl's head. They sat on a bench and just looked at each other. Then he went in for the kill.
Buffy ran towards them and grabbed him by his shoulders and tossed him off the bench. The vamp looked up, in a daze. "The eighties called, they need the hairdo back." The vamp snarled and jumped for her. She used his momentum to throw him to the ground.
She moved towards him. He threw a high punch, which she blocked. He resorted to a backhand punch but Buffy was a step ahead. She blocked it and snap kicked his stomach. As he was bent over in pain she slammed her elbow into his back. He fell to the ground. Then Buffy got knocked over because someone jumped on her back. Buffy looked up and saw it was the girl. "No," Buffy stood up. "He's not human." The girl turned to Buffy; her face was vamped out. "Although I see that's not a problem."
The girl ran forward and threw a punch to Buffy's face. She blocked it but missed the left knee that jabbed into her stomach. Then she felt a force hit her jaw. Buffy blocked the next punch and threw two to the girl's face. She did a roundhouse kick and knocked the vampire back. Buffy almost slipped on the wet grass but was able to gain some stability as she pulled out her stake. She noticed the guy disappeared.
She fell to the ground again. The guy vamp rolled her over and lay on top of Buffy. "Looks like you're gonna die." He bared his fangs and lowered them to her neck. Buffy jolted her head up, hitting his. She freed her right arm and gave him a right hook to the jaw. She flipped to her feet.
"See, I have a problem with that scenario." She staked him through the heart. She turned to the girl vamp, but she disappeared as well. Buffy's senses kicked in, making her look up. The vamp was making her way onto Buffy. She held her stake up and nailed her in the heart. She turned to ash before Buffy landed hard on the grass. "Great. I'm cold, wet and these are my favorite sneakers." Her white and light blue sneakers were now distributed in mud. She got up and brushed her butt off. When she looked at her hand it was covered with mud. "Oh man!" Buffy looked at her watch. "And I have to meet Angel in ten." She picked up her stake and went looking for one more vamp.
Angel was in an alley with one male vampire. There were two but a piece of wood did a little subtraction. The guy tried kicking Angel in the stomach but he blocked it. Angel side kicked him in his back. The guy slammed into the side of the building. Angel swept his feet out from under him. As he tried standing up, Angel did an inverted crescent kick to his face. The vamp lay there then jumped up, backhanding him in the face. Angel blocked the next punch and open hand punched him in the nose before giving him a backhand punch.
Angel took notice of the vampire's watch under his black suit's sleeve. "Can you give me the time?" Angel asked. The vamp roundhouse kicked, Angel grabbed his foot and flipped him to the ground. He staked him in the chest. Angel walked away as the guy turned to ashes. He was soaking wet from all the rain that started halfway through his fight.
I have to meet Buffy soon and I still have no information. Angel walked out and nearly ran into a man in a black tuxedo. Angel knew he wasn't human. They sure do take advantage of the weather conditions. He followed the guy.
The man turned down a back street; Angel did too. The man took his left hand and placed it around Angel's neck once he rounded the corner. "Why are you following me?" he asked.
"To get information."
"About what?"
"The event going on tonight," Angel said, sounding safe in his element. He had on a smirk.
"What event?"
"The biggest event for us undead to look forward to." The guy loosened his grip and let him go. "Thanks for cooperating. I would've killed you in a second but I figured I couldn't get any knowledge if you were dead."
"You, kill me? Who's following who here?"
"I'm following you, but you haven't been undead for over two hundred years. And I, being Angelus-"
"Angelus?" he asked in fear.
Angel knew that would get his attention. "That's my name. My invitation was lost in the mail and I figured you might know where and when this is going on."
"How am I supposed to know that you're really Angelus?"
Angel smiled, showed his vampire side, and ran the guy into a wall. "Are we done or do you need more convincing?"
"No, I'm good."
"Damn, I was just getting started." Angel let go. "But again, I need the info. So where is it?"
"It's at Lenity's fortress. He's in search of a bride. From what I hear he's found one of prestige."
Angel punched him in the stomach but held his head to keep eye contact. "I didn't ask for details. Where is it?"
Buffy was leaning against her building. She looked at her watch. "So much for your feeling." She folded her arms and kept her eyes open for nearby vamps. Her glance was caught by Angel, making his way to her. "Hello Mr. Ten Minutes Late."
"I said I didn't have a watch."
"But you did have a feeling."
"I got information about the party, what'd you get?" Angel asked matter of factly.
"Wet and dirty. But hey, three less vamps in the world."
"Congratulations," he said in his monotone voice.
"I'll expect streamers and confetti soon."
"Maybe sooner than you think. The thing is a party held by a vampire called Lenity. I've heard of him. Not the most laid back of vampires. Anyway, he's looking for a bride, supposedly found a potential, and is having a party for it."
"Okay so let's get there, save the person, and kill the vampire."
"You make it sound very easy."
"That's because no matter what, it isn't. So I say it happily to make me optimistic. Doesn't usually work."
"Crappy."
"Yeah, but I live. So far." After a beat of silence Buffy said, "Let's go get pretty." She opened the door and they headed to Buffy's apartment.
Buffy opened the door and was greeted with a punch to the face. Angel saw the attacker and kicked him in the stomach. Two more descended from the apartment.
"What the hell is going on?" Buffy asked.
"We came to retrieve you." The vampire who was kicked responded.
"Where do you plan on taking me? Hawaii? Australia? I hear France is nice this time of year."
"To see our master."
"Does he own a private island?"
The second vampire, who was big and mucular like a boxer, punched Angel and sent him flying down the hallway. Buffy watched Angel slam into the wall, crumbling the sheetrock. She looked back to the boxer. "You break into my home, hit me, then punch my friend. You have no idea how dead you are."
Buffy punched him in the face and ducked one of his. She kicked him in the back twice, making him lose balance. She tried kicking again but her foot was grabbed and he flipped her. Before Buffy landed she kicked him in the face and got in fighting stance. She punched four times in the gut and ended with a punch to the jaw. He picked her up and held her tightly. Her legs scrambled, slowly drifting from the ground.
One of the vamps set a needle in her left arm and injected her with something. Once it was removed she side kicked and hit him in the abdomen. She fiercely kicked the boxer in the groin; he dropped her like a ton of bricks. She swiped his feet out from under him and staked him through the heart.
"What's going on? The elixir should've worked by now," the third vamp asked.
The first vampire got up from the ground. "I don't know."
Buffy kicked him in the head and then again in the stomach. She turned to the other and her vision started blurring. She closed her eyes and opened them, the objects more distorted. Her body slowly swayed and she finally fell to the floor.
"About time. Who knows what she would have done to us." The third vampire picked her up and carried her in his arms.
Angel's eyes slowly opened and he could see the vampires walk past him. The elevator door shut before he could stop it. He got up, wincing once he felt his body throb from the harsh landing, and continued to the stairs.
Angel ended up on the first floor. He looked around and saw no one. He was about to run outside when the elevator opened. There they were, the two vamps. They walked towards him, without a second thought.
"You are not taking her."
"Really?" Angel went to kick him but he blocked it, punched him, spun around and punched him again. The other vampire took Buffy and left.
"No!" Angel yelled in protest. The vamp pulled his arm and brought his head to his fist.
"Pleasure fighting with you." He walked out.
Angel slowly stood up and ran out. They were gone. "Buffy."