A/N: Okay so I usually only update my stories once a week but I got so many great reviews so quickly that I decided to update this one a little faster. I'm such a sucker for praise! This chapter starts off a few of our other characters, but we will get back to our favorite Wiccas I promise. Okay, here goes nothing, hope you all like this one as much as the first…
The Return
Chapter 2
By shiney1983
Buffy and Dawn were walking in the front door, of their new house, which Xander had helped them to build and which, not by coincidence, looked exactly like the one they'd had in Sunnydale, when they both stopped cold and fell silence.
Buffy couldn't believe it. She never thought she'd see him again, but here he was sitting in her living room, in the shadows like he belonged there. Well, maybe he did, but that wasn't the point right now.
"Angel?" she choked out, barely above a whisper. They'd been through so much, all the pain and loss, and yet her heart still leaped when she saw him. It made her fell like a sixteen-year-old girl again, far from the woman she had become.
The younger Summers just glared at the dark haired vampire with her arms folded defiantly across her chest. She had always liked Angel, but there was no way he would hurt her sister again, not if she could help it.
Buffy noticed Angel's arm was in a sling. As she moved toward him, another familiar voice came from the darkness between them. "Hello, love."
Dawn let out a squeal then, and leapt toward the blonde vampire. She embraced him like a little kid who's just seen their long lost parent. Spike winced slightly, but placed one arm around the girl. Dawn noticed as she got closer that one of his eyes was blackened, swollen shut, and that his face was bruised and beaten as well.
Not taking his good eye off the slayer, Spike said simply, "Hey Bit."
"Spike!" Buffy said incredulously, her mind racing to catch up. This was quickly becoming more than she could handle, and in true Buffy fashion she was starting to get mad. "What the hell--"
But before Buffy could get too far in to her rant someone else walked in from the kitchen, "Hey B."
"Faith!" Now Buffy was upset and she turned her anger on the rogue slayer. She turned toward Faith, "Haven't you guys ever heard of breaking and entering?" This earned a smirk and a snort from Spike, and Buffy turned on her heels to glare at him, and then turned back toward Faith.
"Besides, I thought you were headed to L.A. to 'scope things out' not to bring visitors back with you," she said exasperatedly gesturing towards the two vampires.
Faith opened her mouth to respond, but before she could Angel rose and took a step toward Buffy as he spoke, "There's something bad, Buffy, we need your help."
"It's always business with you, isn't it?" Dawn questioned indignantly from her spot next to Spike.
Spike nodded in agreement, "Yep," he remarked, and then added sarcastically, "That's our boy."
Angel looked momentarily toward Dawn and Spike then back at Buffy. "Buffy I--" he started, he took a step forward, she moved back.
She crossed her arms exactly as her younger sister had done before and said determinedly, "What do we have to do?"
Angel exhaled breath he didn't need, and moved back toward the chair. He did so with a small limp. He motioned for Buffy to take a seat on the couch, and as she sat he began to fill the Summers women in on the battle royale they'd just had in taking on Wolfram and Hart…
TO BE CONTINUED…
I'm not sure yet which pairing I'm gonna use for Buffy in this story yet, so I left all possibilities open. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter as much as the first, and don't forget to r/r and spread the word. I live for feedback. More to come soon-shiney1983
