DAWN

After the initial shock and embarrassment of practically jumping on Angel, Dawn began doing the one thing she did when she was nervous, babbling "why are we walking? I though you had a car. Xander told me you named it the Angel-mobile, he heard that from Cordy, how is Cordy? Anyways, Xander named his the angst-mobile because every time were in that car something bad happens, and he considers work a bad thing by the way. There was this one time..."

After 5 min, Dawn didn't notice that they where no longer on the road, but walking in an alley between to abandoned factories. She didn't notice Angelus was now leering and sneering at her. She didn't notice 3 vampires slowly emerging from each corner. Not until it was too late.

"You know, I used to think Buff was the babbler, but you just won't SHUT-UP!" Angel yelled.

Dawn stopped and stared in shock, that didn't sound like--

"Angel?" Dawn asked slowly backing away from the scowling vampire.

" Guess again Lass!" replied Angelus snickering as a look of fear flashed over her face. She turned and tried to flee. But ran straight into the arms of one of the vampires. He grabbed both her arms and laughed as Dawn pointlessly struggled against him, Angelus's full-blown laughter echoed in her ears.

"Did you see that" he smirked shifting his face into a look of pure innocence and raising his voice to sound like a little girls. "Angel?" causing all 4 vampires to crack up all over again.

'4!' Thought Dawn. 'I cant get away from 4!' she looked around for an escape route, still struggling against the vampire holding her, his cold hands digging into her flesh.

"No use looking around for and escape route lass," Angelus said. "If your anything like your sister you'd be saying something witty by now. But then again, your not even her real sister now are you?" he mocked reveling in the doubt that flashed in Dawn's eyes. Quickly being replaced by anger.

"Buffy is going to kill you" she said calmly, trying to keep her voice from wavering. It didn't work.

"Oh don't worry lass" he replied. Dawn mentally chided herself for whimpering when he started to move closer. "That's what I'm counting on"

The last thing Dawn saw was an evil smirk and yellow eyes on the man she had looked up to for 1 year.

The last thing she heard was his laughter.

The last thing she felt, was his hand

coming into contact with her face.

End Flashback

WESLEY

"B.."

Wesley stared in shock at the 2nd slayer he had also let down. Her usually pretty face transformed into a glower as she barely glanced over each fang-gang member. Something had happened to get Buffy really angry, the only other time Wesley remembered seeing her like this was when she quit the council. And that time it had had something to do with...Angel. Wesley's doubts were all confirmed when Buffy looked straight into his eyes and asked.

"Where–is–he" she stressed each word. But she didn't have to, Wes knew who she was talking about the moment they moment she smashed open the hotel doors. Angelus. But before he could answer.

"Listen B.."Faith didn't get to finish her sentence before Buffy's fist made contact with her face and she staggered back about 2 feet. Holding her cheek and wincing in pain, as her previous wound reopened.

"Where–is–ANGELUS!" the first slayer repeated.

Wesley was trying to hold back Connor from attacking Buffy, but the boy stopped struggling against him when he heard Angelus's name.

The ex-watcher did his best controlling his voice as he said "You have nothing to do with this Buffy"

her head snapped back to him and he instantly regretted what he said .

"What?" she hissed, her voice was low but everyone heard the hidden threat in it.

"This is not your fight!" Faith replied, finally recovering from the blow. She mentally prepared for the other fist to come flying at her at any moment. But to everyone shock Buffy started laughing, a hollow sound that chilled them all to the very bone.

"I have nothing to do with this" she let out a little giggle. "Why don't you tell that to Dawn, oh no wait a minute" she dropped the laughter and flung the envelope that Wesley just noticed into Faith's hands. "Dawns sort of tied up at the moment."

Wesley looked over at the envelope, dread filling his heart. He watched as Faith stood in some sort of trance as she stared at the paper. Wesley gently eased it out of her hands and studied the hand-drawn picture.

It held a girl that looked to be tied up to a pole, her hands where tied over her head, which was covered by her hair. Her feet where also tied together. You couldn't see the girls face because of her face but you could see one of her eyes staring straight at Wesley. The artist was good, he had captured the fear reflecting the girls eyes, the blood rolling down her face. The aura of helplessness around her. But then Wesley noticed something else, on the bottom of the picture was scrawled

'SOON LOVER'

Then it dawned on him, that was Angels writing. This was Angels drawing... That girl was Dawn. When this realization hit him Wesley looked over at Buffy. "Oh god Buffy, I Should have.."

"What called me?" she interrupted "hey that would have been a good idea. " she raised her voice "Oh, hey Buffy, remember that guy who tried to ruin your life and kill you, your friends and your family? Oh yeah he's back. Just thought I'd let you know" she dropped her playfulness and headed towards the door, then stopped turned, and stared once more at the AI team. "If anything happens to my sister, " she paused "I will kill him."

"Your supposed to love him!" Faith yelled after her in panic

"And your supposed to be in jail, guess we both don't follow the rules, were similar that way you and I."

She mocked, the same words Faith had said to her a few years back she turned and headed for the door once more.

"B? B! WHERE ARE YOU GOING!" Faith yelled after her.

"Hunting" she replied slamming the door after her

FAITH

"oh god" Faith whispered, and her being not exactly the most religious girl in the world. Seeing Faith scared was enough to get the fang-gangs attention. "Oh god, she's gunna kill him. He took Dawn and now she's going to kill him"

'No she's not" a cold voice replied.

The fang gang all looked up to see Cordy, sneering down at them from the balcony above. "She couldn't do it 3 years ago, what makes you think she could do it now?"

"because," Wes said, finally turning around to look at each of the fang-gang individually "3 years ago, she didn't come back from hell"