Midnight came out, leaving Rei inside resting on the table.

"Is she alive?" John asked

"Barely" Midnight answered

"Good, I'll just kill her myself then!" Angela said walked towards the door

"Not in my club" Midnight said as he pushed her back with his powers

"Not a good idea to piss him off. This is his house" John said as he put his hand on her shoulder

"She has the spear. Who ever has it controls the world, remember?" Angela said

"Yes we all know the textbook mythology on it. She's not going anywhere. So you two can relax. Go home" Midnight said

"I'm not going anywhere!" Angela yelled back

"John, take your friend home. Take her to her home, take her to yours, but you two can't stay here. And she really doesn't want to see you" Midnight looked at John

"Kinda figured that" John replied

"You entered her soul and took something from her"

"What?"

"Your friend seems to have more questions than you do that this point. So why don't you answer them" Midnight said as he walked back through the door

John walked Angela to her car. She opened the door slowly.

"Get in and I'll drive you back"

John got into the car and looked at her for a second, he knew she was mad to say the least.

"I need a drink" Angela said

"I got that at my place"

"Are you inviting me over Mr. Constantine?"

"No, you said you wanted a drink, and rather than go to a bar where seedy guys would use cheesy come on lines, you can you have a drink at my place, a place free of seedy guys, half breeds, and demons, but plenty of alcohol."

"Not sure about the seedy guys part" Angela said as she drove off

Inside John's apartment, the two were doing shots.

"I thought you were taking a new lease on life" Angela said as she poured herself another drink

"I am, I'm not smoking am I?"

"Only when you go to hell"

John raised his glass and smiled as he drank his shot. Angela laughed a little and got up with the bottle. She stumbled around his apartment and fell onto his bed. She touched the sheets and sat up a little.

"When was the last time you washed your sheets?"

"If you haven't noticed I've been kinda busy with the going to hell and saving the world bit."

"Cleanliness is next to godliness"

"I'll just take them down to the river and beat them with a stick just to make you happy"

John walked over to her, and stood at the foot of his bed. He seemed to remember this playing out before.

"We'll fix things in the morning" John said not moving

"What do you mean fix things?"

"We'll get the spear back, fix your sister's burial spot. And I'll let you strangle her too, but if she kicks your ass it's not my fault. I did warn you"

"Stop being so selective on what you tell and don't tell me."

John walked away and started closing all his shutters. Angela felt something strange and turned around, she reached into one of the corners of his bed. She reached down and picked something up from under this bed.

"What the hell is this?" Angela asked

John turned around and saw in her hands, aside from a bottle of booze, was a small red apple with a million little needles stabbed all around it. It floated almost above Angela's hand. The color had left John's face. He walked over to it slowly. He reached out for it and stopped.

"Get rid of it" John said as took the bottle from Angela and took a large gulp.

"What kind of freak job is this John! I know you've got some weird stuff in here as it is, but this one is seriously freaky!"

"Get rid of it! Throw it out the window, just get rid of it!" John yelled

"Why? Why does this bother you so much?" Angela then felt something strange. She looked at the floating apple and it glowed for a moment.

"You were lovers," Angela began in a trance, "She waited for you, and waited for you, but you never came back. She left this here for you. It's was her calling card. She knew you knew how to use it. But you never did. You came back a week later. She was gone. She was gone."

"It was a long time ago"

"No, you never tried to contact her afterwards. She was angry. She was alone. You betrayed her" Angela reached to pull one of the pins out

"NO! Stop!" John knocked it out of her hand. The apple rolled away into the corner. But Angela looked up at him, and held the small pin in her hand.

"Shit" John ran his fingers through his hair and took another sip.

Rei's eyes opened up. She tried to sit up. She saw the spear laying there on the table nearby. She motioned for the spear to come to her but it didn't. She moved her battered body and tried to get off the table. Her silk kimono was loose on her. It revealed a large tattoo oh her back. She fell and struggled to get back up. Clinging onto the table she pulled herself up.

"Just let me do this, just let me" Rei called out as she got up, her tattoo glowed for a second, and she stood up. Wobbling she picked up the spear and placed it back into her kimono. She fixed it and then walked a few more steps and picked up a small disc. Chanting something, she smashed it and a portal appeared before her. With whatever strength was left, she threw herself through it and disappeared.

Angela got up holding the pin in her fingers and took the bottle back from John. She took a sip and looked at him.

"What are you afraid of?"

"Nothing, when you pulled the damn pin out it was like an alarm clock in her head. If she was unconscious she's awake now"

"It's a pager then"

"Yeah a demon hunter pager. You're not suppose to use it unless you absolutely need to. She comes flying in here, ofudas flying and sword slicing"

"Is your shotgun afraid of a few pieces of paper?"

John turned to face Angela. He walked closer to her and stopped. Looking her in the eyes he moved closer.

"My shotgun is just fine"

John leaned in closer as Angela froze. His skin brushed past her cheek as it always did before, and he reached to get the bottle from her. He looked at her and sat back down onto the bed.

"We were lovers, years ago, she was younger and I was younger, more arrogant and she, she was demon hunter extraordinaire, so powerful, so secure I knowing what to do. But she had this frailty about her. We weren't lovers that long. It was only the weekend, and on Monday it was over"

"Why?"

"I had to go, you know save the world from evil and stuff. I must have smoked an entire carton while she was here"

"And drank her to death. She was drunk." Angela felt it from the pin in her hands, "She was drunk and you took advantage of her. You are insufferable! No wonder she's mad at you. But there's something else"

"We were both drunk!"

"Typical of a man! So this is a regular occurrence for you then. Bring a girl home, get her drunk, then have your way with her, forget to call, disappear for a week and wonder why she's mad at you! I'll let her kill you then I can kill her!"

"That's not what happened! We were both drunk!"

"Well you can get as drunk as you want alone" Angela grabbed her jacket and headed out the door.

John took another gulp and then threw the bottle across the room. He fell back onto his bed and looked up at the ceiling.

"This is why I live alone"