"I've been waiting to meet you two." He said calmly, his eyes glittering with hatred and cold, calculating fury. "I've heard so much about you, I feel like we know each other all ready."

"Well you bad guys do tend to be all alike." Buffy said with a nonchalant shrug. "It gets pretty cliché. Get a plan, worship a God, try to rule the world...don't you ever get bored?"

"I'd get bored if I dressed like him." Angel added with a smirk.

"You have no idea of the mistake you've made slayer." Adamson warned her. Buffy rolled her eyes, completely unthreatened.

"And if you were any more than human we might be worried." She replied, undaunted. "It's just too bad that I can't kill you. Cause I would REALLY like that."

"I bet you would slayer. But you won't get the chance. You think I have no power just because you stopped the final phase? You clearly didn't do your homework. I may not have Galendil's full power, but I have enough to take my revenge for you on your meddling. And I plan on enjoying it." Adamson smiled, taking comfort in the idea of what he planned on doing to Buffy.

"Alright this guy is beginning to bore me." Angel stated. "What can we do with him Buffy? We can't kill him, and we have no evidence to convict him on anything beyond a traffic ticket."

"I don't know." Buffy said with a sigh. "I sure would like to beat him up."

"Well that's a start." Angel agreed with a smile.

"It's an interesting idea slayer, but you won't be able to touch me." Adamson told her, lips pulled back in a snarl of fury. He raised his hand, a small light forming within its palm. "Galendil's power may not be as strong as I had hoped, but it's enough to send you to his dimension to meet him. And I can assure you it isn't a pleasant place. Give him my regards slayer!"

With an almost inhuman cry, Adamson tossed the beam of light directly at the slayer which was now fast becoming a gateway to Galendil's hell dimension. Before Buffy could react in any way to the advancing portal, movement to the left of her caused her head to turn.

Reacting on nothing but pure instinct, Angel hurled himself in front of Buffy, unable to watch his slayer get sucked into Galendil's hell dimension.

Buffy's face went white with shock as she watched the gateway close on Angel and the vampire disappear into the hellish depths she glimpsed within the gateway.

"Angel!" She cried out after the portal had closed, unable to believe things had happened so fast. "Angel!"

"Hmm," Adamson said thoughtfully as he witnessed that particular turn of events. "Not what I expected to happen, but I hated him also so really this works out fine for me."

"Bring him back," the slayer threatened, voice ice cold, eyes glittering with tears. Her entire body trembled with unreleased fury towards Adamson, mixed with agonizing pain, loss and anger at Angel for jumping in front of the portal.

"Wish I could slayer, but if I had that kind of power left I would send you through right after him." He shrugged. "Unfortunately I'm fresh out."

Before the man could blink, Buffy had him by the throat, her hand trembling as she fought to keep herself from crushing the man's windpipe then and there.

"Bring him back." Her voice had lowered almost to a whisper and her eyes were darker now. Blood trickled down the man's neck, as her fingernails dug into it. "Now."

"Didn't you hear me?" Adamson croaked, now clearly afraid for his life. The slayer's emotional condition was less than stable, so much so that he even doubted her ability to restrain herself from breaking the hero's code of not killing human beings. "I can't bring him back, I used up all my power to create that portal. You want him back? You find him."

As quickly as she had seized his throat, the slayer let go of it and stepped back, clearly shaken by what she had almost done. She blinked a few times, attempting to compose herself.

"Get him back," she whispered, swallowing the sobs that threatened to well up within her. "I have to get him back."

"The only way to do that is by finding a way in." Adamson said smugly. "And once you do that I guarantee you'll never come out."

"I'm going in after him." Buffy said, a little firmer this time. She turned and began to head back towards the hotel to inform the others of what had happen. Before she got too far, she turned back and seized Adamson once more by the throat. "Maybe I won't come back. But if I do, you will wish I hadn't you got that?"