Later that Night

"So Wills what do you think?" Buffy asked her friend through the phone as she threw her stuff into her slaying bag.

"I think he's a hottie." Willow said giggling.

"I know isn't he?" Buffy laughed as she zipped up her bag and then stood in front of the mirror to check her appearance.

Angel was coming by to take her on their first patrol together in Sunnydale. She had tried to convince him not to come but he said that if he didn't go with her, he'd just roam aimlessly through a strange town looking for her. And if it truly was a Hellmouth then he could get killed before ever finding her.

Buffy relented with images of Angel lying dead somewhere.

"God Willow… this summer was such a blast with Angel. I mean…we lived together for a whole two months. We both had jobs, together, and we had an apartment and everything. It was like domestic bliss. It was so weird, but comfortable too." She told her friend as she fished through her purse for her lipstick.

"I can only image how great it must have been. I mean…being with the man you love for two whole months. No adults telling you to come home, just you two." Willow said in awe.

"It was pretty great." Buffy told her friend.

"What was?" Angel asked.

Buffy turned around and saw Angel sitting on the ledge of her window. Buffy only shook her head in amusement.

"Hey Wills, Angel is here. I'll talk to you tomorrow at school? Meet me in the library before first period starts."

"Okay. Tell Angel I said HI." She told him.

"Will do. Night Will."

"Be careful."

Buffy hung up the phone and turned to Angel. "What are you doing?" She said as he climbed completely into the room.

"I figured just cause we don't live in LA anymore doesn't mean we can't keep some of our old traditions." He said with a smile.

"I guess." She said smiling as she walked over to him and kissed him on the lips. When they pulled apart she smiled at him. "Ready to go?" She asked grabbing her bag.

"Yup. Let's go." He said opening up his coat and showing her his crozz and stakes.

"Very James Bond of you." She said with a laugh as she tossed her bag out on the roof before following Angel out.

Cemetery

"So this is a pretty big cemetery for such a small town." Angel said as they walked through Restfield.

"Well it's not the only one."

"Really, how many are there then?" He asked her.

"Twelve in the city limits."

"Are you kidding me? I mean it's such a small town how can there be so many cemeteries?" He asked her as she plopped down on a fresh grave.

"Well this is the Hellmouth so you know people are constantly dying in this town." She said swinging her legs over the grave as she sat on the tombstone.

"And no one says anything? Haven't they noticed that people keep turning up dead with no blood and only two little holes in there neck." What kind of town is this place?

"Yeah but no one says anything about it." She told him. "Don't stress over it Angel. It'll only drive you crazy. Besides the less people who know about the things I do and why, the easier it is for me to do my job." She told him.

"How do you figure?" He said standing next to her.

"Well the less people who know, the less people there will be trying to do what I do and there for lest people for me to try and protect and keep out of trouble." She told him.

"But if more people knew then wouldn't it be good cause than that would keep them off the streets. Wouldn't it?"

"Sometimes I get this feeling that the people of this town know, well not know, know, but know something is different with this town. I've noticed a lot of people don't go out alone in this town. Even the teens pretty much stick together." She told him.

"Oh…"

Suddenly something grabbed Angel's leg. He looked down and noticed a hand around his ankle.

"Hold up." Buffy said pulling a stake out of her jacket pocket and hoping off the tombstone.

Angel bent down and pulled the fledgling up out of the ground and threw him toward Buffy's stake.

The vamp exploded to dusk and Buffy wiped her hands. "Urgh I hate dust." She said as she placed her stake back into her jacket.

"That explains how our apartment was so clean this summer." Angel said sarcastically.

"Ha ha. Come on, according to the newspaper there was another burial today at Crestwood." She said grabbing her bag and heading out of the cemetery.

"Image it there was a fresh burial in all twelve cemeteries one night. What would you do then?" He asked her with a smirk.

"Have Willow hack into the coroner's office website and find causes of death and autopsy reports. Go to the one's that look like vamp deaths first then hit the others." She told him.

"I guess you are really SUPER slayer." He said with a laugh as he grabbed a hold of Buffy's hand.