"Call Giles and Xander in London, tell them we are okay." Buffy ordered to Dawn as they got into an apartment complex on the top of the hotel. They rented the whole floor, knowing they might be there a while.
Illyria helped Buffy drag in the two vampires and laid them down on the single beds. Illyria stared down at the vampires, just watching them as Buffy stared at her, a little confused by her.
"Buffy… that's Fred." Willow said faintly, finally recognizing the girl beneath the…blue. Buffy just cast a curious look to Willow and Willow realized Buffy had never met Fred. "Fred was part of Angel's gang; she was very interested in magic when I came to bring back Angel's soul…. I thought she was coming onto me…" Willow stammered the last part, blushing slightly. "I do believe she was actually with Gunn for a while but I think she and Wesley were a thing…"
Dawn stood in the kitchen part of the flat and talked to Giles, answering the numerous questions. She mumbled a yes and no, not even knowing answers to some of the things Giles was asking. She looked absently over to Willow and Buffy, whose clothes were torn and they were covered in dirt.
Buffy and Willow jumped back, seeing bright blue light emit from both the vampire's bodies as they lifted into the air. Willow's eyes closed, "There is a strong magic in here… it is not a dark magic…"
"What is it doing Will!" Buffy cried out, worried about the two vampires. She loved them and did not want to see them gone after the battle, the self sacrifice Angel and Spike had put themselves through.
Willow said still, trying to concentrate and read the magic that was surrounding them. "They… it…..returning…" Willow's eyes shot open as she looked from Buffy to the two vampires on the bed, "They are becoming human…"
Illyria turned back to Willow and Buffy, her head cocking at them curiously. "That is impossible, only the vampire with a soul gets to become human… and Angel said he signed his chance away." Buffy gasped, looking to Angel, her first true love and wondering why he had signed away the chance to become a human.
"That can't be… how can both of them become human? Especially if Angel has no way of…" Buffy stammered before the blue light flashed brightly, shooting through the room and then the room turned back to the night darkness.
"Actually Giles… you and Xander might actually want to come down here." Dawn said into the phone and then hanging it up, not paying attention to the reply that Giles shouted out to her. She walked into the room where they all stood. "What just happened?"
Dawn looked around and only heard silence. Buffy and Willow were both on the ground, leaning on each other, sleeping. Illyria was on the ground at the end of Spike's bed. Dawn wondered what had just gone on but saw Willow and Buffy were still breathing, probably just sleeping.
Dawn shrugged, seeing there was an empty room, and since everyone was asleep out there, she would get a room to herself. She smiled happily, going into the room. "Night then." She said to no one unparticular, closing the door and going to bed.
Buffy moaned, sitting up. Her back ached as she looked around, remembering the last day and looked down at the ground. She saw she had slept on hard ground and moaned, stretching her back, wondering what had made her so tired as to collapse on the ground. "Oh yeah, that's right, apocalypse."
Dawn already sat at the kitchen counter, eating a bowl of cereal. Buffy looked curiously at Dawn who shrugged, "There was a store next to the hotel, I figured to get some food. I found some blood as well, for Angel and Spike." Dawn told Buffy, pointing to the refrigerator with her spoon. Buffy just nodded tiredly.
Willow got up soon after Buffy, scuttling into the kitchen lazily. She opened up cabinets and then the fridge. "Wow… we have been staying here a day and it already resembles a Summer's kitchen." Willow smiled at the sister and then reached over for the box of cereal on the counter. "Yum." Willow said, smiling.
Illyria walked into the kitchen slowly, watching the three girls. She hadn't been around females very often, considering she had followed Wesley and enjoyed his company more than the others.
"The two vampires are breathing." She told them in her voice, staring at Buffy. "You are a vampire Slayer, you are supposed to kill vampires, yet you show compassion to the two ones you saved."
"What?" Buffy asked, totally forgetting the bright light that came after the two vampires. She scrambled out of her seat and made a way for the two beds. She ran over to Angel, grabbing his hand and then letting out a surprised cry, scrambling back.
"What is it?" Dawn asked, running behind Buffy and standing behind her.
"There hands… are….warm…" Buffy stammered, used to the coldness of their body, never having any heat to it. She noticed another thing as she walked back over to the beds, looking at both of them. "They are breathing." She pointed to their chests, which now moved up and down, breathing in air. Needed air.
"Impossible, only one vampire is supposed to become human."
"Then there is a consequence to come… there always will be" Willow muttered.