Xander made some phone calls to some of the human and demons contracts she had made in the short in time she had been in LA. She made a list of available apartments to give to Cordelia, then pulled a scrap of paper from her pocket and dials the number on it.
"Hello? Wes...its Xander. What? No, no evil afoot or anything like that. No! Angel's not evil...yet. Look I called cause I need to ask a favor...you will! That's great! This is what I need you to do..."
Angel was gathering up weapons when he noticed Xander standing at the foot of the stairs.
"I thought..."
"That's covered, I asked Wes to go with Cordy to look at the apartments."
"Wesley!"
"Yes, look I gave him a list of detailed instructions. They'll be fine."
"Why are you here then?" Angel sighed out already knowing the answer.
"I'm going with you."
"No, you'll just get in the way ."
"Deadboy, I'm going! I won't let them know I'm afraid of them...if I want to scream girly like and hide behind you, which is okay now that I'm a girl"
Angel knew Xander was not going to be talked out of this by the look on her face.
'She looks almost cute with that expression.' Angel then shook his head to rid himself of that thought.
"Alright. But I do all the talking"
Xander nodded.
"...And the threatening." Again a nod.
"And the hitting." A pause then a small nod.
"I'm glad we understand each other." He said thinking that Xander had agreed to that far to easily.
In Xander's motel room, Angel paces as she sits on the bed. Bored, Xander lies back on the bed with a huff. The Kailiff demon comes out of the shadows from nowhere, he wraps his arms around Angel's neck. Angel growls and goes into gameface. He breaks the other demon's hold and gets thrown into a wall.
"Angel!" said Xander sitting up.
"Stay there"
Angel turns and grabs the demon, pushing his face into a wall.
"Hello, My name's Angel. What's yours?"
"Screw you!"
'That will just piss him off.' Xander thought.
Angel pulls the demons head back then smashes it onto the wall.
"My name's Angel. What's yours?" he repeats.
The demon growls, Angel smashes the demon's face into the wall again.
"Giff," the demon says finally.
"Good start. Who do you work for?"
"Never gave me his card." Said Giff smirking. Angel throws him to the floor.
"Don't know his name. But he gets his orders to me."
"Can you get a message to him?" Angel asks.
"Yeah"
Angel goes back into his human face and pulls Giff to his feet.
"Your letting me go?" Giff asked confused.
"No, I'm letting you up you were sent to collect for Xander."
"At first." Giff said looking at Xander now as a smirk came across his face.
"But I'm not seeing any money. Now Xander gets dead. As a message to the others."
"Your boss will never get his money that way. Pretty expensive message if you ask me when you add in whatever he's paying you." Xander said in a bored tone looking at her nails. Angel glared at her, someone forgot who was supposed to do all the talking.
"Xander will pay you the money. You have my guarantee." Angel told him.
"I saw, what I saw...right? You're a vampire. How come you're helping the bitch"
Angels growled and his face flickers between human and demon.
"Cause she's mine . It's a good offer, take it. On the other hand you make me want to fight some more. You get lucky you might last ten minutes. Really lucky and your unconscious the last five."
"You get the bit-" Giff broke off at the louder growl from Angel, " ...Xander to pay and she's safe."