A/N: OK I haven't updated in like years (ok not that long) so I'm sorry but I have been extremely busy recently, however school is ending soon and I've got over 6 weeks off so as long as I don't get too much work I should be able to update a lot more frequently, oh and please let me know if you are still reading this, cheers!

You may have noticed that the chapters seem to be getting shorter and shorter, let me assure you that this is not intentional and as soon as I get back on track they'll get back to their origional length, I promise :D

Disclaimer: Joss and M.E.

Summary: After just moving from Britain a girl with unusual abilities meets the scoobies, a pre-chip Spike and unsouled Angel.

Warning: Nothing

Rating: PG-13

Spilers/Timing: (see previous chapters)

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"Hello, lover"

"A-Angelus, what are you doing here? I thought you and Spike skipped town?"

"Changed my mind"

"You promised" She glared at Spike cursing herself for ever trusting them in the first place.

"Aww, are you upset because the Big Bad broke his promise?" Spike pouted and tryed his best to look pathetic, he was surprisingly good at it.

"So how've you all been?" Angelus asked it as a general question to the whole group but his eyes were fixed on Chloe. Buffy caught his gaze at Chloe, and decided to introduce them, keeping things as light hearted as possible, hopefully they would get bored and wander off somewhere. She may not like Chloe, but that wouldn't stop her from protecting her from Angelus, she knew what happened to people he took an interest in.

"Oh this is Chloe, she's -" Buffy was cut off by Spike's short, clipped tone.

"We know who she is Slayer, and she knows who we are"

"What are you talking about?"

"Why don't you ask Chloe" Buffy turned to Chloe, clearly waiting for an explanation.

"Erm, a while ago I met them when walking back to my house, and they introduced themselves" Chloe managed to cover up her flustered interior by her usual cool exterior after she got over the shock of Spike dropping her in it, her eyes sent daggers in her direction, and she was given a customary cocky smirk back from him.

"Oh I think we did a little more than that. Say have you seen her neck recently Buff?" Angelus decided to get back into the conversation again, and stir things up, just a little bit.

"What's he talking about Chloe?" Chloe knew there was no way out of this so she lowered the neck of her jumper and allowed them all to see Angelus's bite mark.

"You were bitten by Angelus, and you clearly knew who he was, and you didn't think it was worth telling me?"

"Look it wasn't like that"

"Save it, I really don't want to know" Buffy stormed off and the others were left in shocked silence, it took a lot for Buffy to storm off and leave her friends in the company of two master vampires, especially these two.

"Uh oh... Whatever are you going to do now? Your slayer has wandered off and left you all alone..." Spike gave an evil grin but he was just playing with them, if he killed any of them the slayer would forget all promises made to them and her anger would most likely be fueled by grief, giving her the distinct advantage over them.

"Spike, leave them alone" Chloe took a couple of steps forward, placing herself between the scoobies and the vampires.

"Are you giving me an order Chloe?" Chloe contemplated on using her magic and getting them all the hell out of there, the longer she stayed there with them in front of the others the more chance the scoobies had to see exactly how much control Angelus and Spike had over her. She slwoly slipped her hand into her pocket to pull out a crystal, she could do the spell without one but it would take longer and she really needed to egt away from them as soon as possible.

Suddenly Chloe found herself pressed between a very hard wall and a very pissed Angelus.

"What were you just about to do them Chloe?" He slipped his hand into hers and pulled out the crystal and waved it about a bit in front of her face, before dropping it on the floor and smashing it with his foot. "No Spells. Now you see quite eager to get away from me so I'll cut you a deal, you and your little friends can be on your way, as long as you give me something in return..."

Chloe had suspected this, he wanted to get her in an even worse situation with the scoobies by letting them see er offer her neck to Angelus without putting up a fight. Chloe tried to work out her options but no matter how hard she thought she only appeared to have one option, and that was exactly how Angelus wanted it to be, though he wasn't counting on one thing. Buffy.

Buffy had been furious when she had first found out about Chloe betraying her to Angelus and Spike, and she was furious with Angelus as well, she was the one he was supposed to be interested in, not Chloe, yet after the initial shock and anger had worn off she realised that she had just made one of the biggest mistakes of her life, and left her friends in the company of two deadly killers.

As soon as it dawned on her exactly what she ahd just done Buffy spun round and ran as fast as her feet could take her to the alleyway she had left them in, when she heard voices she breathed a silent sigh of relief and slowed down, making ehr way up the wall of one of the surrounding buildings. She didn't have a plan as such but she knew she had to save them.

She took her stake out of her pocket and aimed carefully, right at Angelus' heart in his back, which was currently showing clearly to her as he had Chloe pinned up against the wall, she drew her arm back slowly and threw it with as much power and speed she would have achieved if she had used the crossbow.

The stake went hurling through the air and was now inches away from Angelus' back and he still hadn't given any sign that he had noticed it, none of them had. For Buffy things went in slow motion, if this didn't work she wouldn't have much of a chance left to save ehr friends, but the stake got closer and closer and she grew more and more confidant, sure that it would reach its intended target.

Only that's not exactly how things went...