James Adamson gritted his teeth in frustration as he watched the now infamous Angel Investigations team drag the unconscious Brillcrall demon that he had hired away from its lair and into their custody. He had installed the video camera in the warehouse as soon as his lawyer Lilah Morgan had informed him of her involuntary slip of information to the vampire regarding the demon's whereabouts. Almost immediately after she had given Angel the information, she had subsequently informed him of her mistake, giving him the time to take what he thought would be effective counter measures.

Clearly those counter measures were not enough. It was obvious that he had grossly underestimated this vampire and the gang of supposed demon fighters he had with him. He hadn't expected the slayer either. Lilah had warned him that Angel had threatened her with the presence of the slayer, but since she hadn't been waiting in her office as Angel had threatened, James had assumed it was a bluff altogether, with no merit attached. It was stupid of him and now he was paying for it.

Lilah had paid for it too. Not only had she taken considerable heat from her superiors at Wolfram and Hart, but from Adamson as well. He had considered hiring someone to annihilate her, as she had proved to him to be unreliable. He soon realized that doing so would be unwise, as he still needed the protection of Wolfram and Hart as a way of keeping him from looking questionable to the human public unaware of the existence of demons. Unfortunately Wolfram and Hart was the only firm that specialized in these sorts of situations, therefore making them the only game in town.

The firm itself however, had no qualms to Adamson taking his wrath out on Lilah in more interesting ways, such as torturing her for hours. She had held up pretty well though. So well in fact, that afterwards, he decided not to ask for another lawyer. She had paid her dues and in the process, Adamson respected her more for it.

There was still the problem of Angel and this slayer to deal with however, and without his Brillcrall to complete the rest of his plan, Adamson was now inconveniently behind schedule.

"He's not the only demon out there capable of pulling this off." Lilah reminded him. She spoke slowly, so as not to aggravate any of the cuts on her lip or the swelling of her face. "The firm can give you a list of demons equally as violent and willing to do whatever you have in mind for some quick cash."

"I would appreciate that, but making the contact and establishing a trustful working relationship will take time Ms. Morgan, time I don't have to waste. I'm on a very tight schedule here. I needed that demon, and now they have taken him."

"I could send a recovery team in to attempt to recapture the demon." Lilah offered. Adamson waved his hand absently.

"No, I don't want to force a confrontation on their turf like that. You were right before. Get me a list. Find a demon even more brutal than the Brillcrall and pay him handsomely to finish my work. I don't have much longer if this is going to work."

"I'm on it," Lilah promised. She started towards the door, but Adamson prevented her from getting there.

"I want the vampire taken care of as well. That will be my demon's first task." Adamson clarified. "This guy has pissed me off. I want him, I want his team, and I want his slayer dead." Lilah smiled. Despite the previous torture suffered at his hands, she quite enjoyed Adamson. He shared a hatred for Angel and his team that almost rivaled her own.

"The team I can do, the slayer, my pleasure but Angel..." she paused and grimaced with distaste. "he's off limits to my people and to yours if you want the firm to remain a resource available to you."

"Avoid killing the vampire?" Adamson exclaimed, the anger rising within him. "You want him alive?"

"I don't, no!" Lilah retorted, equally as frustrated. "Believe me when I say that I would be more than happy to go after him full force and turn his undead ass into dust. Unfortunately my superiors have made it abundantly clear that he is needed to play a crucial role in the upcoming apocalypse. This is something the senior partners have been working on for several millennia so I doubt they would be too happy if I went renegade or one of my clients took matters into their own hands. Angel is not to be killed, plain and simple. Do whatever else you want to him, but leave him alive."

Adamson clenched his fist in incredible fury, unable to believe that he couldn't exact his revenge on the vampire the way he wanted to. Unable to hold his anger in whatsoever, he lashed out by hitting Lilah in the face and knocking her to the floor. She glared, but said nothing as she stood back up.

"Fine," he finally said after a few moments of silence. "I will get my revenge other ways. Find me a demon to replace my Brillcrall. I will handle the vampire problem."

"What will you do?" Lilah asked, not liking the insane glint in Adamson's eyes. He smiled and waved her away, mind now on other matters.

"I said I will take care of it. You just hold up your end."

Lilah nodded and left the lair, a sense of foreboding settling uncomfortably within her. James Adamson was not the type of man to take an offense like this lying down. What would his revenge against Angel entail? Was it better not to know?