It had been again pretty quiet seeing as mostly everyone was asleep. The only one awake would be Spike and Willow. Cordelia had fallen asleep on the chair, Oz fell asleep on Willow, Faith was asleep on Spike, Rona and Kennedy had gone upstairs for sleep, Illyria had fallen asleep on Wesley who fell asleep on the couch and gunn had crashed on the couch but fell off to the floor close to where Xander was. This is the scenery Angel and buffy had walked in on. No one even noticed they had entered at all until buffy let out an awwe.
Spike and Willow shot their heads towards the door to see Buffy and Angel hand in hand. Spike quickly grabbed a pillow and tried to move faith without waking her. The sun was just rising so everyone needed their sleep. When Spike was free he put the pillow under Faith's head. Since Willow was on the couch she just needed to gently move Oz's head while she got up. After all Oz could sleep through anything. After Willow put her book down she walked with Spike towards buffy and Angel who stood pretty much still.
When all four of them stood in a somewhat square Buffy smiled, "You guys should of slept."
Willow shrugged, "You can't sleep when the world is on the line."
Buffy looked towards Spike and smiled, "All of us slayers are beautiful when we sleep."
Spike looked back at Faith who looked so innocent and then smiled back at buffy, "I keep forgetting about this little insight of yours."
Buffy nodded and squeezed Angel's hand as she spoke, "I think we should talk. Its good that it's just you two up."
Willow looked scared, "Are you sure? I mean it can't be that bad. Things are already happening and..."
Angel smiled and cut her off, "Just let us explain Willow."
Willow nodded a little hesitant and buffy looked around, "Let's go to the kitchen."
-Kitchen-
Since it was extremely early the kitchen was empty when Angel, Buffy, Spike and Willow walked in. They took their seats in silence until Spike finally spoke, "I don't need to feel what you are to know this is going to be bad."
Buffy took a deep breath when Angel squeezed her hand for reassurance and started the long explanation. Spike and Willow interrupted a few times for questions but most of it was Buffy and Angel saying everything they knew. It took them about 15 minutes to actually understand it all and then a small silence.
Willow finally processed everything and sighed, "Well, it's a good thing you called for Oz."
Buffy shrugged, "We still don't know what his purpose is though."
Willow nodded, "What did Whistler say about him again?"
Buffy shrugged, "He said Cordy is the problem and the Werewolf solves the problem."
Spike shook his head, "Can't be as straightforward as that."
Angel nodded, "I actually agree. Maybe Oz is meant to solve one of our problems but not the Cordy one."
Willow shrugged but she couldn't speak because Spike did, "What are we going to do about the Cordy problem?"
Angel looked down, "We can't kill her."
Buffy nodded, "Of course not. We'll just have to keep an eye on her. Maybe keep her tied to a chair and have one of the slayers play personal assistant. Like we did to Spike."
Spike only glared at buffy as Willow shook her head, "I just can't believe it. I mean Cordelia was always Queen but I never knew she was this selfish."
Buffy shrugged, "Everythings game when you're in love Willow. You know that."
Willow smiled, "I guess so." After another small silence another question popped into Willow's head, "What about Faith? You think she'll switch teams again?"
Buffy was actually the one to defend her, "No. Whistler basically told me that when she lies to me it won't be a bad lie. So the way i figure it, she does soemthing wrong but she thinks she's doing something right."
Spike smiled, "So we tell her to play by the rules no matter what. We can't have anything going wrong."
Buffy looked down, "Then what do we do about our biggest problem?"
Spike sighed, "No one here is going to kill you." Buffy looked at Angel and then back down at her lap. Spike looked back and forth between the two and shook his head, "You can't be serious."
Buffy nodded, "It makes sense right. I kill him, he kills me."
Willow shook her head, "It won't come to that. I mean we can find a way of getting you back Buffy."
Buffy half smiled when she stared at her best friend. Then something suddenly popped into her head, "If you guys do find an answer you can't tell me." Due to the confused faces around the table she explained, "If I lose my soul I still remember everything. I can't afford to be able to remember how you're going to save me."
Angel nodded, "Okay, so you're out of the loop for the while. It'll all be for the better."
Buffy pouted, "Then what the hell am I suppossed to do? I can't just sit here all day and do nothing."
Spike winked at her, "You always do nothing."
Buffy nodded, "Okay, you're right but at least I'm in the loop. I come up with my plans."
Willow shook her head, "Not this time Buffy. Today is actually a free day. Train, eat, watch T.V..." She stared buffy in the eyes and sighed, "...or mope in your room until tonight when everything takes place."
Buffy smiled, "This sucks."
Angel smiled over to her, "You'll have different company all day long."
Buffy's smile got wider, "Brilliant." Well the smile dissappeared when something else popped into buffy's head, "If you guys don't come up with a plan, if there's no way then I want you to get all the girls who want to leave to a safe place. We don't have the scythe anymore and they won't have their powers much longer. I'm pretty sure the whole battle thing will clear once the big face off begins anyway. I want this war done and over with even if I'm not around to see everyone happy when you save the world."
Spike shook his head, "Don't even think like that. It's not even going to get that far."
Buffy half smiled, "Good because it's no use putting hope in me and then taking it away again."
Spike winked at her, "Never."
No one had another chance to say anything because of a loud thud that sounded from the living room. Buffy and everyone got there just in time to see Oz jump off Xander, Xander kick Gunn in the head, Gunn punch Wesley in the face, Wesley jump up surprised causing Illyria to stand up on Faith's hand.
Oz smiled at the enterence of Willow, "Domino effect. I fell off the couch."
Willow smiled and walked over to her hunny. She started checking his head over, "You okay?"
Xander stood up very tired and hurt, "He's fine. I think I broke his fall."
Gunn looked up at Xander in surprise, "You're hurt? You just kicked me in the head."
Wesley shook his throbbing head, "You just punched me in the face."
Illyria actually almost half smiled, "You moved suddenly. I thought something was wrong."
Faith stood up, "Something is wrong. I think you broke my pinky."
Buffy looked up at Angel, "For a room full of heroes these guys are a bunch of wimps."
Angel nodded, "Can't believe the world's still turning."
Spike didn't add anything because he walked towards Faith and checked her finger, "You are a wimp. Nothings even broken."
Faith shook her head and stared at buffy and Angel, "So us tired wimps want to know what you have for us."
Buffy shook her head, "I've told the story twice." She smiled up at Angel, "I'll be upstairs. Check my bruises and bites before i catch me some sleep."
Angel nodded, "Good idea."
Buffy reached up as Angel bent down for a quick peck on the lips. Spike smiled at buffy who smiled at him as she walked towards the stairs. Xander looked at Angel and then up the stairs before looking back at Angel, "Well, I think the room now knows what you guys were doing for three hours."
Spike giggled a little bit as Angel looked down. Faith shook her head and stared at Spike, "So what's going on?"
Angel sighed and lent on the wall. Spike actually smiled, "Cordelia started the end of days."
Cordelia who was actually still asleep didn't even react. Wesley shook his head, "I guess we're all evil huh?"
Spike nodded, "Yep, a bunch of evil people trying to save the world."
Xander stood up, "Excuse me. I have never once been evil. You guys are all evil."
Angel smiled, "You ate a principle and a pig once."
Spike started to giggle again but Willow spoke up, "In his defense he doesn't remember."
Spike smiled at Xander but spoke to willow, "Everyone remembers animal posession."
Willow glared at Xander, "So you remember? The dodgeball, the smelling..." Willow suddenly realized something, "...And Buffy. Oh god you so can't tell her you remember that."
Angel and SPike looked intrigued now. Angel walked a little closer towards Xander, "What happened with you and buffy?"
Xander shrugged as he started to get pretty nervous, "I smelled her a lot and I tried to eat her."
Willow shook her head, "No, not that. When you two were in the classroom..."
Xander quickly covered her mouth, "Nothing happened in a classroom Willow. Now there's a little more explanation that needs to be going on and it's not my explanations."
Faith smiled, "Can we do this in the kitchen? I need to eat."
Spike nodded, "Yeah. I could use a wake up too."
Willow shrugged, "We will only have the kitchen for a few more hours until the girls start getting up."
Angel sighed, "To the food and then to the saving the world and buffy."
Everyone nodded and quickly made their way to the kitchen not really listening to the sarcam in Angel's voice.