ANGELUS

Angelus mentally congratulated himself for a job well done. He had gone in and out of the Hyperion unharmed. That, and he had found Faiths weak spot.WESLEY.Sure all that crap soul-boy had lectured her about came in useful. But he had found what really pushed her buttons. And if he played his cards right he could probably get her to do anything he wanted.

But he had to get this 'master' out of his head, if somehow he can really had stolen Angel's soul, that would ruin all Angelus's plans. Especially since he was planning on killing 'master' the moment they meant. Idiot actually thinks im going to obey him. It will be the day Angelus save's another puppy that he will take orders from some-thing else." Woah where'd the puppy memory come from...repress...repress"

"ANGEL!"he heard a young voice call, as he looked around for the source his eyes rested on them and a slow smile spread across his face. "Dawnie" he murmured watching as the girl Angel hadreplaced as his 'sister' all grown up come running across the street towards him.

"Omg! Angel you don't know how happy I am to see you, it dark now- and I was scared because I don't know how to fight--I mean Buffy started training me--but see the whole thing with the potentials happened–and she doesn't have time– and my dads late–and" Dawn rambled

"Woah, woah slow down Dawnie, hey don't worry I'll take you to the hotel and you can call him from there. And then one of my team will drop you of ok? ." he said smiling.

Dawn smiled back, she hadn't realized how scared she was until she saw Angel. Her eyes grew watery and she blinked back tears "Thank You" she said, putting her head down embarrassed.

"No Problem lass" Angelus said, using Angels old nick-name for the brat. It supposedly worked seeing how Dawn's face lit up once again and she threw herself in his arms.

Angelus stared at the girl who would occasionally look back to see if he was still walking behind her. She was so much more different than the needy little 13 year old he remembered crawling onto to Angel's lap. But then again he hadn't remembered her, something about her not being real but some sort of god key?

'Yeah..that's how Buffy died' he mentally reminded himself.

Buffy, Buffy..sweet Buff would do anything for the clueless 16 year old in front of him...even die. Angelus went over that thought in his head, he was originally going to use Dawn as a late night snack but hey what better way to get Buff to come to him?

Change of plans.

BUFFY

Buffy walked through the house, checking on everyone progress. Kennedy was training the girls in the backyard. Buffy saw her swing and hit one of the girls...hard. 'Note to self..have a TALK with Kennedy' Buffy mentally chided herself.

She kept convincing herself that it was the right thing to do to send Dawn away, if it was completely up to her, Dawn would be living far..far away from here. Probably Ireland.

She paused 'where did Ireland thing come from?' she shrugged it off and went to go eat something in the kitchen, when she got there she saw Willow reading one of the old information books. "Hey Wills" she greeted digging into the fridge.

"Watcha doin?" She asked as she found what she was looking for and emerged from the fridge with a bottle of juice in her hands.

"Oooh I found this really interesting passage about how a slayer once decapitated and removed the backbone of a Pliuyte" Willow replied, but after receiving a blank look from her friend flushed a deep red. "Pliuyte is a sort of really large lizard that lived in the mountains caves of Scotland." she tried to explain.

"So it's like a dragon?" Buffy asked placing her drink down and grabbing one of the glass cups from the cupboard.

"Yeah, except without the fire-breathing and long snout, and the wings. And basically everything else that relates it to a dragon" Willow stated matter-of-factly.

"Okay, fine it's nothing like a dragon, I was trying that time Will's I really was." said Buffy, in a mock hurting voice. She was about to walk away with her glass in had when she noticed the piles of letters on the end table. "Huh, maybe I should look at those?" she asked meekly, already knowing the answer.

"Umhmm," Willow replied, nodding sympathetically at her friend. "The bills aren't exactly going to pay them selves."

"I know, but it should at least be in the slayer benefits package" Buffy grumbled, grabbing the stack and on her way out. " lets see what my devoted supporters have to say..bills, bills, bills, bi..no wait" Buffy stopped and looked at the familiar sandy-like paper envelop. the was nowriting on it."I wonder ..." she ripped open the envelope and took out the paper inside.

All color left Buffy's face as she tried to stop her hands from shaking but to no avail. The glass cup in her hand fell to ground with a loud shatter. But Buffy didn't hear anything. She didn't notice Xander barging down the stairs. Or Willow run out of the kitchen. Buffy paid them no attention as she grabbed the car keys and started towards the door her destination clear in her mind.

"Omg Buffy What Happened!" screamed Willow worriedly glancing from the remains of the cup to the girl currently putting on her jacket. Xander apparently noticed to.

"Buffy? where-are-you-going?" Xanderaskedin a low voice, he was starting to get uneasy.

Without even a second glance or a pause of her pace Buffy said the one thing that was on her mind as she walked out the door, leaving 2 clueless people in her wake.

"LA"