Alexa went into action staying close to Angel's right side during the fight. "I really don't like zombies," she said, as she snapped one's neck. "They keep coming back."

"Lex, duck," Angel said, as he swung his sword over head and decapitated the zombie behind her.

"Thanks, Liam." She shot a glance over to see Wesley, Gunn, and Fred fighting alongside Spike. "Why are the humans fighting?"

"Because that's what they do." Alexa went down as two zombies jumped her from behind, and Angel went to help her. "Yep, just like old times."

Flashback

A pub, in a small village in Europe.

"Hello, Angelus," Spike said to him, as Angelus came up to him at the bar. "Care to see what I have done with my evening?"

"Sure, why not?" Angel sat down next to him. "What have you done?"

"Angelus, I want you to meet, Alexa." Spike then motioned to the young woman sitting not far from them over a dead body. "She's one of us now."

"You sired her?" Angelus then looked over at the woman as she got up, stepped over the body, and came up to them. "She's rather plain."

"No, she is not," Spike sneered, as he put an arm around her. "Alexa, I want to introduce you to Angelus."

"Angelus," Alexa said, as she looked at him with hungry eyes. "Hmmm, sounds nice." She then shot a glance around. "Can we go find some more food?"

"Sure, pet, why not." Spike then led her towards the door and Angelus followed her.

Present day

"I'm getting really tired of this," Alexa said, as she snapped another zombie's neck, and turned around to find no more zombies. "Hmm, that works." She looked over at Wesley, Gunn, and Fred. "I still don't understand why you are working with humans, Liam. They kill our kind. We feed off of them."

"We have changed a lot since you last saw us, pet," Spike said as he came up to them. "Well for starters, we both have our souls."

"What?" Alexia looked at both vampires with a look of total confusion on her face. "How did this happen?"

"I got cursed by Gypsies and Spike asked for his back," Angel said, as he wiped the grime off of his hand onto his coat. "I've been off human blood for a very long time."

"This is not possible." Alexia ran a hand through her hair as she began to pace. "You are Angelus and William the bloody. Two of the most feared vampires in the entire world. You gave up all that power for what?"

"We have our different reasons." Wesley cleared his throat and Angel looked over at him. "Right, Alexa, I want you to meet Wesley, Gunn, and Fred."

"Can I eat them?"

"No, you can not."

"It's going to take me a while to figure out your new ways. Much longer than it took for me to learn of my new life as a vampire."

Flashback

Angelus watched as Spike began to teach Alexa the basics about how to make a kill. A hand running along his arm, brought Angelus attention to Darla. "Hello, Angelus," she said, as she slide up next to him. "How does the night go?"

"Spike sired a young woman," Angelus said, and Darla's face fell when her gaze came across Alexa. "She's learning rather quickly."

"Why did he sire her?" Darla asked, as she turned away, so that she didn't have to look at Spike and Alexa. "Doesn't he think of Dru when he does things like this?"

"I don't think he was thinking of Dru when he did sire her." A body then bumped into Angelus and he turned to see Alexa. "Alexa, this is Darla, my sire. Darla, this is Alexa."

"I'm going to find me some company," Darla said, as she stepped away from Angelus, leaving them alone.

"Will you join us for supper, Angelus?" Alexa asked, after she watched Darla depart.

"Yes, I will."

Present Day

Angel took Alexa up to his office and she was shocked by all that surrounded her. "You work here?" she asked him, as she looked out the windows at the busy L.A. streets. "I might have been wrong about you Liam. You still have some power."

"It's not that bad of a life, really," Spike said, as he came into the room and sat down on the couch next to Angel. "We still get to fight evil demons and the like."

"Where's Darla?" Angel's face fell and Alexa soon wished that she hadn't brought it up.

"Darla's dead," Angel replied, as he got up and went over to look out the window. "She first got killed by a slayer then got back to life by Wolfram and Heart, as a human. Dru then turned her back into the Darla we knew. She was carrying our child and she killed herself to bring our son into the world."

"I have missed a lot." Alexa went over and sat next to Spike on the couch. "I heard about the Master and that's when I came looking for you guys. I missed you in Sunnydale and missed the slayer as well."

"Which is a good thing," Spike put in. "Slayers are not fun to come across. They tend to kill our kind."

"Life without you both was hard for me at first. I was traumatized by the fact that you both looked back at me and didn't see me. You didn't come back for me. You simply left me there to die." Alexa shifted in her seat, and a tear ran down the side of her face. "I was able to escape the fire and I lived in solitude for many years in a cave. I ate the unfortunate loners that would seek out my cave for solitude. I moved on once the villagers started to notice the missing people. I made my way to the new world and started over."

"The new world, gave people who didn't want to be known, a chance for that," Angel said, as he leaned back against the window. Alexia began to tense as she saw the beginning of a sunrise through the glass. "Gave them a chance to have a life that they would normally not have." Angel then noticed Alexa's posture and turned towards the window. "We're okay. The windows were made to protect our kind."

"And since we're talking," Spike said, as he looked over at Alexa. "Tell us more about your life. It's been a while since we last saw you."

"What much do you want to know?"

"How about you start from the beginning?"

TBC

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