Chapter 17.

They walked towards the sword, still very cautious in case another demon or two jumped out at them.

"Well, all it needs now is to be in a stone." Angel said

"Yep," Buffy replied "Now to get out of here without our little demon army seeing us."

Yeah, shouldn't be to difficult" Angel answered.

Buffy and Angel went through a few more tunnels which all looked the same. They finally got back to the place where the portal had opened.

"It's about time we got back here" Buffy said "This is the spot, right?"

"Yeah of course it is." Angel replied.

"Ok, well shouldn't we being going poof back to our reality or something?"

Yeah, we should be." Angel said.


"Where are they?" Willow asked, "It's been over six hours!"

"Maybe time moves differently there. Oz put in,

"Maybe." She replied

"Perhaps they didn't find the sword before something ate them." Fred thought aloud. I mean I love them as much as the next person here but they're not invincible. "

"How can you even think that?" Dawn shouted, "Buffy died twice and is still standing and Angel. He's pretty amazing to be able to live this long and not have been killed or staked. And he went to hell and came back! They are coming back, with the sword, and if they are not back in 3 hours I'm going to find them!" Dawn exclaimed

Everyone in the room smiled at her, feeling proud of her that she would make a stand to do something when things were not looking good.

"I'm coming in with you Dawnie" Xander said and stood next to her and hugged her shoulders"


Angel and Buffy lent against the wall of the tunnel thinking how they could get out of this dimension.

"Maybe if we write a spell and get some herbs we could make a portal!" Buffy suggested

"Yeah, with the herbs and other magick supplies I carry in my duster!" Angel replied sarcastically

"Sorry, just thinking out loud" Buffy said "Anyway I haven't heard you come up with any ideas, genius."

"Well, I keep then to myself" Angel answered

"Mhm." Buffy replied.