Chapter 3

-7:30 pm

A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update! I've had a lot of…stuff…going on in the past few weeks. First two weeks I had writer's block then I had to deal with changing classes at my school were on block scheduling, so we change classes every 18 weeks. Then, my cat broke his leg somehow…but don't worry! He's had surgery and will be fine! Anyway back to the story.

Buffy and the Scoobies all sat in the living room, preparing to leave for LA. Buffy glanced around, someone was missing….Spike. She then heard a knock at the door.

"I'll get it!" Buffy said, and raced towards the door. She opened the door to see Spike. She gave him a 'why the hell are you late' look.

"Don't give me that look, love. I ran into a demon, and decided you wouldn't mind me being a couple minutes late," Spike said.

"A couple minutes! Your thirty minutes late! We could've been on the road already!" Buffy exclaimed. Spike rolled his eyes and lightly pushed past her into the living room.

"Can we leave now at Dead Boy Jr. is here?" Xander whined. Willow slapped Xanders' arm.

"Don't be mean. We don't want you two all the way there," Willow said.

"You don't have to worry about that, Red. I brought my own car," Spike said and walked outside. Buffy thought about it for a minute, and then followed him out. Xander looked confused. And then something more bizarre happens… Dawn walks out right behind them. Now Xander was really confused.

"Okay, are we missing something here?" Xander asked. Willow shrugged her shoulders and grabbed some of the luggage to be packed into the car. Xander shook his head and grabbed a cooler and followed Willow. When Xander walked out, he saw Buffy and Dawn climbing into Spikes' Desoto.

"What are two doing! I thought we were all going to try and fit into Giles' car!" Xander said.

"Well, I know we all won't be able to fit. With me and Dawn in his car, the rest of you can fit better," Buffy said as she climbed into the passengers' seat. Giles, who has been quiet the whole time, spoke.

"Well, I don't mind, as long as we get there," Giles said and started his car. So, Xander, Willow, Tara, and Anya all squished into Giles' tiny red convertible, with such protest as "Hey that was my foot!" and "Ouch!'. And they were on there way.

-Spikes' car

-9:00pm

"Bored…so bored…"whined Dawn from the backseat.

"Are we there yet?" Buffy said. Spike glared at them both.

"Sorry, I'm kinda tired, not driving as fast as I usually do," Spike said.

"Then can I- " Buffy started.

"No," Spike said, "My car, my rules. Rule Number 1…I drive, not you."

Buffy gave him the puppy eyes, but knew it wouldn't work, so she sighed and glanced out the window. Dawn stared blankly at the ceiling of the car, mumbling 'bored…' from time-to-time, not following the conversation.

After a few minutes of silence, Buffy asked "So how long until we get there?"

"We'll get there when we get there! Your driving me crazy!" Spike yelled. Buffy backed off and smiled.

"Ya know ya love me," Buffy said, still smiling. Spike didn't reply, only started to drive faster. Buffy went back to watching the landscape roll by out the window.

Hyperion Hotel parking lot

10:45pm

Buffy felt someone nudging her shoulder. She opened her eyes slowly.

"Wha..what?" she said sleepily.

"We're here!" Dawn said. "Wake up!"

Buffy opened her eyes, her head shooting up and her and Dawns' heads collided.

"Ouch!" they both exclaimed and rubbed their heads.

Spike laughed. "Nice going, geniuses,"

Buffy gave him a 'shut up before I stake you' look.

Feeling a bump rising near her hair line, Buffy jumped out the car, with Dawn behind her. Giles had pulled in next to Spikes car. Seeing Buffy get out, Xander tried to push the door of Giles' car open; it wouldn't budge. Buffy say him turn around, say something to the others, and they all pushed o the door. When they did this, the car door flung open, and all of them toppled out. Buffy and Dawn laughed.

Giles gets out of the front seat of the car and looks down at the four on the ground. "You know, the door was, locked."

"Why didn't you just unlock it when we started pushing?" asked Xander

"I wanted to see what would happen if I didn't" Giles gave them all an evil grin.

"This is fun and all now Xander could you please get your elbow out of my back" exclaimed Anya from underneath him.

Still giggling, Buffy walked over and helped her friends up; they all walked up to the entrance of the hotel together, leaving Spike to get the luggage.

Buffy and the Scoobies opened the door to the hotel and walked in. They looked around the lobby; to there left and right were stairs that Buffy assumed led to the rooms upstairs, in front of them they saw a round, red couch in the middle of the room and a desk to the left which a young girl with brown hair was currently sitting behind. As if she knew people were looking at her the young girl lifted her head up to look at them.

"Oh, hello you must be Buffy, hi I'm Fred, we spoke on the phone." Said Fred while walking over to them and extending her hand.

Buffy shook Fred's hand. "Nice to meet you, Fred. These are my friends, Xander, Willow, Anya, Giles, and this is my sister Dawn," Buffy said , pointing to each of them. Just then, someone burst through a door and came bustling, rambling on about something, he was talking to fast for anyone to understand.

"Umm, Wesley…" Fred whispered. Wesley stopped talking and looked up.

"WESLEY!" the group exclaimed.

"Is that really you? You look…different," said Xander.

"Well….thanks…I think," Wesley replied.

"Well, now that introductions are made, what exactly is going on?" Giles said, nodding towards Wesley.

"Well, I think Angel should explain" Wesley said. Just then, Angel and Cordy came through the backdoor, Angel carrying a battle ax covered in a strange green goo.

"Nice job distracting the vamps Cordy, made fighting that demon a hellava lot easier," Angel said as they entered the lobby.

"Nah, it was nothing, kinda easy. I mean, how hard is it to dust a bunch of dummies. Of course, I'm not as good as…Buffy…Oh my god! Buffy!" Cordy ran towards Buffy and gave her a big hug.

"Hey Cor, I like your hair. Is Angel right? You kicked some vampire butt?" Buffy said.

"Yeah, I taught her a few things, figured she should know how to fight," Angel said.

Angel looked around at the gang. "I guess you didn't bring Spike," Angel said.

As Angel said that the lobby door opened and in walked Spike with a bunch of suitcase and bags hanging from him.

"Miss me Peaches?" said Spike as he walked down the stairs and put the luggage down.

"Never" Angel almost growled.

Buffy looked from one to the other. Man was this going to be fun.

A/N: Ok, that's the end of this chapter. I know to you probably hate me for leaving at a cliff hanger but that is what I do. And I like to a say thank you to my friend Kristen who helped me write this chapter.

(Kristen's Note): Yea, I did most of it, hehe.

(WritinGirl15): Did not! You just typed most of it but I gave you the ideas.

(Kristen's Note): Did too! I made up the funny parts, because you have no sense of humor! Haha! And if you people want to check out my stories to come, here's my username: XxVampire-HeartxX