Title: Do I Know You?

Rating: PG-13: for swearing and sexual scenes (non-explicit)

Pairings: Buffy/Angel, Willow/Oz, Xander/Cordelia

Premise: Buffy's happy as a clam out patrolling one night and is cut by a demon but when she kills it some of its blood gets into her wound. In the next few days, Buffy gets mysteriously sick, and no one knows what it is. Everyone soon realizes that Buffy is dying and there is no cure for this unknown disease, and she finally dies from it. L 250 years in the future, Angel has moved to LA and is still mourning the loss of his beloved, when a demon named Doyle shows up with something to show Angel, DUN DUN DUN!!!!! Wackiness ensues!! P

Details: It's a 'Curse? What Curse?' Story P. It's sort of a mix of the last ep. of Angel (where Fred dies, I was inspired by her death scene), another story I've read by Ducks (it's on her website, GO THERE!), and my own wacky notions.

AN: Well well well, it sure has been forever since I've updated or put up a new story because my computer started acting up. It was getting persnickety and wouldn't get on the Internet, and when it did I only had time to read stories, and check e-mail before it froze. So now that my former Microsoft employee aunt and uncle have come to town and fixed the computer, I can update and post again!!!! Whoopeee!!!!! ) So this is my brand new creation that I might actually see through till the very end. (Hope and pray for that one) So here goes, and lots of feedback is a total must. (It's a confidence booster) Thanx a noodle!!

Disclaimer: Any material (songs, quotes from other stories and the show that I've read and loved) belongs to those who created them. I'll try my best to remember to cite them at the end of the chapter they're used in. As usual the whole Buffy/Angel concept belongs to the Genius that is Joss.

When Buffy woke up, she found herself looking at a white ceiling and heard two or three machines beeping annoyingly close by. She also heard people talking nearby. Buffy turned her head to see who it was and saw Giles and her mom talking to a doctor while all her friends, minus, Angel, talked in the corner of the hospital room. Willow was the first to notice that Buffy was now awake and looking at them, "Buffy. Oh my god, you're awake!" Giles, Joyce, and the doctor came into the room when they heard Willow say Buffy was awake.

"Hey Wills. …Where's Angel?" Buffy croaked to her best who was now at her bedside, followed by her friends, with the trio of adults on her other side.

"He had to go. It got kinda sunny." Oz answered for Willow.

"Buffy, honey, what happened?" her mother asked worriedly as the doctor checked her vitals and certain reflexes.

"I don't know. We were all out walking, when I suddenly felt dizzy, and then I collapsed. After that I don't remember cause I passed out." She answered almost all truthfully.

"How have you been feeling the last couple days?" Dr. Gregory asked.

"Not completely stellar. I accidentally got cut on Saturday. It's been healing kind of slowly, but it's not a big deal." Buffy told the good doctor.

"Well we're running some routine tests to try and figure out why you fainted, and to be sure you're okay now before we release you." He said before writing on her chart, and then he left, leaving the gang free to talk totally truthfully. Xander closed the door after him.

"What really happened Buffy?" this time Giles asked, equally concerned.

"We were dusting a fairly small nest of vamps when I got really dizzy and fainted. The rest is the same as what I told the doctor." She repeated.

"Maybe the demon who cut you had a hand in how you've been feeling." Giles thought aloud, "Maybe he did something to the knife and it's affecting you. Did the knife seem unusual to you?" he continued.

"Not really. He slashed me; I got the knife and stabbed him pretty good in return. He got blood on my shirt. I had to throw it away thanks to him; blood and a cut." Buffy explained to Giles.

He pondered the information and decided, "Well I'll certainly continue vigorously researching this demon. Come along the rest of you. You should be getting to you classes."

The gang nodded. "We'll call if we figure anything out, kay Buff?" Xander promised as they all left.

"I'll go see when I can take you home." Joyce said.

Buffy nodded and watched her mother's back until it was out of sight. When Joyce returned, she saw that Buffy had fallen asleep.

That Night

Buffy had drifted in and out of sleep for part of the day. When night finally fell, Buffy hadn't heard from her friends, and her mom had left to go get some of her stuff. She was reading one of the hospitals old magazines when Angel showed.

"Hey baby. How are you feeling?" he gave her a light kiss and sat on the edge of the bed holding her hand.

"I'm bored. Everyone left and there's nothing to do." She pouted. Angel gave her a look. "I'm fine. The doctors are doing tests and when they get answers I can go home. You don't need to worry."

"I always worry about you. Especially when you're in the hospital." He kissed the back of her hand and Buffy smiled at him. But then Buffy's eyes closed, her head lolled and her hand became limp in Angel's. Then one of the monitors next to the bed began beeping faster. "Buffy, baby, open your eyes. Not again. Come on Buffy, look at me." Angel gently shook his unconscious girlfriend trying to get her to wake up. Angel ran into the hallway and to the nurse's station and said to the closest nurse, "Help, my girlfriend's just passed out and her heart rate is dropping. Her doctor is Dr. Gregory."

The nurse paged Dr. Gregory and followed Angel into Buffy's room. She immediately began checking the monitors and manually checking her vitals. Dr. Gregory got to the room just as Buffy began wheezing like she was having a hard time breathing. "Get on O2 mask." Dr. Gregory ordered. Two mores nurses came in to assist the doctor, while Angel was hovering very near by trying to figure out what to do to help.

"Sir please just stand back and let us work on Miss Summers. You can't do anything right now. Please, stand back." Dr. Gregory told an anxious Angel.

Angel conceded to the doctor's orders and went to the nearest payphone to call Joyce, then Giles. He told them both what happened and Joyce told Angel to stay there and that she'd be there in five minutes.

As promised, Joyce ran into the corridor five minutes later with a bag over her shoulder. She rushed to Angel's side outside Buffy's room and dropped the bog on the floor. "Oh god! How is she? What's happening?" she asked Angel frantically.

"I don't know. They haven't said anything since I talked to you. Giles said they haven't found anything yet, and it might come down to him calling the Watcher's Council for help." Angel answered her as best he could. It was killing him that he couldn't or didn't know what to do to help his girlfriend.

After what seemed like hours (actually only 20 minutes), the doctor finally came out to talk to the nervous, waiting pair. "We've got her stabilized. Her heart rate is mostly back to normal, and all we can really do is watch her." Dr. Gregory was about to continue but a nurse walked up to him and handed him a folder. He looked at the papers and his forehead scrunched in confusion. "Huh. That's odd."

"What? What is it?" Joyce asked borderline panicked.

"It seems that there's an unknown agent infecting your daughter's blood. It's not in any of our databases and we can't seem to identify it. It's attacking her organs, blood… everything. We're going to have to keep her here for a while, run some more tests, maybe figure out how to contain it." Dr. Gregory informed them.

"Thank you doctor." Angel said. Joyce was speechless. She sat down in a nearby chair and stared at her daughter from where she sat, in complete disbelief. Angel kneeled down in front of her, "Joyce. Are you okay to stay with Buffy for a while? I need to go and talk to Giles face to face. Let him know what the situation is, and if he's found anything." Joyce nodded, climbed shakily to her feet and went into Buffy's room. Angel put the bag of Buffy's things into the room with them and left.

Angel charged into the library ten minutes later, heading straight for Giles' office. "There had to be something on that knife. We need to find out what it was, and we need to find it now!" Angel stormed to a half startled British man.

Once Giles recovered from Angel's sudden entrance he said, "We're trying as best we can. We have… wait, Angel what else happened at the hospital?" Giles figured out quickly that something was up.

The exasperated vampire/boyfriend sighed, "The doctors said there's an unknown agent in Buffy's blood, and it's attacking… everything. They have no idea what it is."

Giles' eyes held so much sadness and concern at the moment. By now the Scooby Gang had gathered outside the office door and had heard everything. Giles straightened himself up and was more determined than ever to help his slayer and surrogate daughter. "Right. I'm calling the Council to see if they can help us identify what's infecting Buffy."

"We'll keep looking in the books." Oz responded, with resolved nods from Cordy, Xander, and Willow.

"I'll hit the town. See if I can beat out any info on the demon." Angel seriously needed to kill something, and he might as well be of some help while he was at it.

Angel headed straight for Willy's Bar and marched straight over to Willy and grabbed his shirt so the slimy bar owner squeaked as he was yanked within an inch of Angel's face. "Hello Willy. You're going to give me lots of information tonight."

"Angel, hi. I swear I don't know anything." The weasley bartender wheezed.

"Funny. I haven't asked a question yet." Angel menaced, "So. Demon attacked the Slayer on Saturday. What was he?"

"I swear I don't know man. Guy probably just got into town." Willy said.

"Don't lie to me Willy. It's not healthy." Angel momentarily vamped out, and Willy whimpered fearfully.

Willy caved to the very angry vampire holding him by the shirt, "Alright, alright. All I heard was he was lookin for the Slayer. Said he was on some special mission. Didn't say who for. Was actin' all high and mighty about it too. Didn't seem like he was from this dimension. Some vamp pointed him in the direction of the cemetery. That's all I know. I swear this time."

"Don't make me come back here." Angel shoved the little man back over the bar.

Grumbling, Willy straightened his shirt and went to serve a waiting Polgara demon.