"Look who's back." Thea says happily as she spots her brother walk into the living room.
Oliver smiles at his sister only for that smile to instantly fall as he spots the woman currently sitting with his sister, Helena.

Thea smiles not noticing Oliver's discomfort "She was just telling me all about your first date at Rousseau's.
Oliver doesn't even glance at his smirking sister as he focuses on his ex who was smiling at him "Hello, Oliver."

Oliver clenches his jaw forcing a smile, it taking everything in his not to haul this woman away from his little sister.

"Oh, Ollie..." Thea says trying to draw her brother's attention "I kind of have this pseudo-friend that's looking for a job. I was wondering if the club's still hiring."
Oliver nods "Yes, of course." He says quickly hoping that by agreeing she would leave the room and go somewhere safe "Talk to Tommy. As a matter of fact, you can go upstairs and call Tommy right now."

Thea smiles happily before thanking her brother and quickly exiting the room leaving the ex-couple alone.

Once he was sure his sister was out of hearing distance Oliver turns to the raven haired beauty "Where you been?" He asks curiously as he slowly approaches her.
Helena smiles softly before pausing "Um...Barcelona, Monaco, Budapest. I just needed to forget who I was and how much I missed you."

Oliver ignores his old feelings for the woman in front of him burying it down deep as he keeps his face void of emotion "You mean like you missed Gus Sabatoni?" As her face falls he sighs "I thought you were done with your father's organisation, Helena. Because he's serving consecutive life sentences in Iron Heights Prison. You got your revenge."

Helena looks up at him with desperation in her eyes, still to this day she was hoping to get him to see things her way "He just cut a deal with the Justice Department to testify against the East Coast family. In 48 hours, witness protecting will give him a new name, a new life, and he'll be off the grid forever. Untraceable."

Oliver steps closer and shakes his head, he knew what she was doing and he wouldn't fall for it again "I'm sorry."
"My father doesn't deserve a second chance, a second life. And I can't—I can't take on a phalanx of US Marshals. Not without help."
Oliver glares down at her slightly, not even considering what she was suggesting "No. It's murder. Not justice.
Helena rolls her eyes slightly "Look I get you replaced me with that red wearing blonde but Oliver..."

"What?" He asks cutting her off as he stared at her in shock, she couldn't be talking about the Woman in Red, he had spent months searching for any clue but yet there was nothing.
Helena frowns in confusion before sighing "Look whatever she's told you..."
"This has nothing to do with her..." He starts only for his mother to enter the room causing him to pause and plaster a smile on his face.

Five Years Ago

"And we can't ask Wesley for help because...?" Buffy asks in confusion as her and Gunn flip through files in her living room with no results. They had been looking for weeks and they had had no new leads on Angel's whereabouts, it was like he had vanished into thin air.

Gunn sights before running a hand over his scalp and turning to face the perky blonde "Not a good idea..." At her confused and curious look he raises a hand cutting her off before the words could even leave her lips "Don't ask."
Buffy groans before flopping down onto the couch in frustration "All of these dead ends make my head hurt." She moans before rubbing her head softly.

Gunn chuckles before offering her a glass of whiskey but she merely groans at the sight of the liquid.
"Ew." She mumbles making him chuckle before he turns back to the files.

As he glances down at the files Buffy stands back up and begins pacing around the room trying to force all the horrible thoughts about what could be happening to Angel out of her head "Okay...I'll call Willow see if we can get a tracker spell going."

Gunn sighs and glances up at the blonde "And if that doesn't work?"
Buffy smirks "Then we get to beat up a snitch."

Starling City – Present Day

Buffy groans at the music filling the streets, which, was clearly coming from the new club Verdant. She rolls her eyes as she watches drunks stumble out of the club onto the cold streets below her.

She scoffs slightly remembering a time where that would have sounded appealing to her, going to a club opening, but now the version of her that imagined that was long gone. It was a different life.

"B you okay?" Felicity's perky voice asks through the comms causing Buffy to shake her head away from the bright green neon lights of the club back to the roof ahead of her.

"I'm good." Buffy mumbles back before running across the rooftop leaping onto the next building's roof rolling across the concrete as she lands.
Standing slowly she quickly spots the entrance and yanks the door off it's hinges before making her way down the stairs.

"You know I could have opened that right?"

Buffy smirks slightly "What's the fun in that?" She teases her cousin before pushing open another door leading her into a long hallway, which honestly was giving her flashes of The Shining. Not really something she wanted.

"Second door on your right." Felicity informs the blonde Vampire Slayer who merely mumbles in response before making her way down the creepy hallway.

As she moves through the hall Buffy can't stop the tingles going down her back, something was off about this place she could feel it, the hairs on the back of her neck standing up straight as she wondered through the hall.

Buffy pauses as she gets to the door and closes her eyes, the second she hears a gasp of pain and a terrified sob her eyes widen, kicking the door open she watches as the metal door flies across the room. Her eyes widen at the sight before her, her target a female law attorney was currently pinning a young girl down to the ground as she raised a blade to cut her throat.

Buffy reacts quick and launches the scythe from her grasp and sending it flying towards the demon woman, the blade slices through the demon's hand causing a large wail to escape from her.

Buffy groans in agony as she feels a pounding fill her head, it felt like a hundred knives were stabbing the inside of her head.

Clutching her ears she falls to her knees before glancing over at the demon woman, grey hair was now growing from her roots and nails like razorblades began to grow from her finger tips.

"The wailing woman!" Felicity screams in her head causing Buffy to groan in pain.
"What?!"
Felicity sighs in worry "A banshee Buffy! She's a banshee, if she screams again it could kill you!"

Buffy gulps before slowly standing as the banshee stops screaming, pulling her hands away from her ears Buffy winces at the sight of the blood now on her finger tips.

Groaning Buffy takes a shaky breath before turning back to the wailing woman "Hey grandma!" She calls drawing the demon's attention away from the young crying girl who had seemed to have passed out at the sight of the blood.

"May be time to find a new hairdresser, you're roots are on display." Buffy sasses with a small smirk "I can recommend you a new one cause honey your in desperate need of some work."

The Banshee glares at the blonde "Pretty little Slayer. So young and stupid." She hisses as she makes her way towards the Slayer "We're much alike our kind."
Buffy arches a brow "Really? Yeah cause I totally see myself looking like a bad rip off of a Charmed villain in a few years." She says sarcastically before leaping over the banshee and grabbing the scythe.

The Banshee chuckles "No...we're bargainers of death. Everything we care about dies. Especially the people around us."

At her words Buffy falters slightly but tightens her grasp on the sigh as the Banshee continues "Much like your red-headed friend, or the goofy man child...or how about the ex-solider or even the blonde with glasses. All the people you care about."

Buffy growls slightly she could feel herself about to snap.

"Buffy calm down! She's trying to make you angry, the Banshee lives off pain, anger and fear...you're feeding her power"

Buffy ignores her cousin's voice in her head and focuses on the demon woman who merely smirked at her "Dead dead dead." The banshee teases "Four heads roll across the floor." She sings playfully as though she was singing a child's song making Buffy gag slightly "Lover's heads roll...one two three...handsome doctor kind and brilliant, his head rolled and soon the dark haired moose..."

Buffy's eyes widen at that, this woman was threatening all of her people, while brining up memories of people she didn't want to think about.

She could vaguely hear her cousin's voice in the back of her head but Buffy couldn't focus on it anymore as she ran forward swinging the scythe at the banshee.

The demon smirks before running at the blonde and grasping a long clawed hand around Buffy's neck.

Buffy grunts before kicking the banshee in the knee, she then kicks her in the gut before wrapping her leg around her neck and twisting through the air causing the banshee woman to go crashing to the ground.
Buffy lands in a crouch and turns to face the banshee her eyes widen as the banshee raises her arms towards her before screaming causing bursts of invisible waves to leave her hands hitting Buffy right in the chest sending her flying through the air.

Buffy grunts in agony as she hits the ground before growling and running at the banshee she leaps up kicking the demon in the chest before twirling the scythe and dropping to her knee, spinning across the ground just before driving the scythe into the demons gut.

Buffy grins as blood splatters on her face she stands ignoring the dripping blonde on her cheek and punches the banshee in the face before pinning her against the wall and hitting her again and again.

"You don't get to threaten the people in my life and life!" Buffy hisses as she continues to hit the beast long after it's death.
"Buffy! Buffy!" Felicity's voice screams through her head before suddenly it was just in her head.

"Buffy Stop!" Buffy pauses her fist freezing in mid air at the sound of her cousin's voice, she keeps a hold of the Banshee's throat.

Felicity gulps slightly as she stares at her furious cousin who was still clutching the dead demon, she swallows her discomfort and steps forward placing a hand on her cousin's shoulder "She's dead. She's not gonna hurt anyone. She's not gonna hurt us. Let her go."

Buffy gulps before taking a shaky breath and releasing the banshee, she turns back to her cousin and grasps her arm pulling her from the room "Go back to the car now Liz." Buffy orders before moving back to help the girl in the other room.

Felicity stands there stunned for a moment before sighing as she watches Buffy walk back towards her with the young girl in her arms "We gonna talk about it?"
"Nope." Buffy answers as she again drags her cousin back to the awaiting van outside.

"Dig?" Oliver calls as he enters the foundry just underneath the filled dance club only to freeze at the sight before him, Helena had Tommy pinned face first against the table in the middle of the room while she held his right arm in the air prepared to snap it like a twig at any wrong move.
"Let him go." Oliver hisses angrily hating the fact that his best friend was now in danger because of him "He has nothing to do with this."

He takes several hesitant steps forward trying not to anger the crazy raven haired woman, he couldn't risk her hurting Tommy.
"I told you." Helena hisses "Oliver, I warned you."
"Helena this isn't you." Oliver yells carefully as he spots her yanking harder on Tommy's arm.

Helena completely ignores him as she continues to try and convince him of her insane cause "My father is a mobster and a murderer. It is not like you haven't killed me like that before."
"And I tried to teach you to obtain your objective without killing."
Helena continues to glare at him with desperation and insanity in her eyes, she had truly lost her mind, Oliver could see it clearly now "By applying pressure." She continues "By exploiting someone's weakness."
She yanks on Tommy's arm again causing the young man to cry out in agony, his scream filling the room making Oliver's eyes widen in panic.

"This looks insane." Felicity points out as she stares at the insanity board Willow, Buffy and Xander had spent the past few months putting together.

Felicity adjusts her glasses before moving along the length of the board examining all of the photos and clues the three friends had managed to find already.

The red strings connecting to the question mark in the centre of the board was drawing her attention "What's that?" She asks Xander curiously as her hand hovers from the Wolfram and Hart symbol in the middle to the question mark.

Xander sighs running a hand through his raggedy hair before facing the board "From what we know so far Wolfram and Hart is funding something in Starling City something big. They've got China White and god knows what or who else in their pockets. They've got someone hiding their demons in power positions all over Starling City and I'm starting to think that it's someone with more power than China, but my guess Wolfram and Hart owes them a big favor."

Felicity chuckles slightly "Hence them being the money hoppers."

Xander smiles slightly before turning to face the blonde Smoak Summers woman, as he watches her he watches as the wheels seem to turn in her head.

"Wolfram and Hart were a law firm right?" She asks curiously as she turns to face her new-found friend.

Xander nods causing Felicity to begin tapping the board as the wheels spin in her head, "If Wolfram and Hart were a law firm mainly based in L.A then there would have had to file as a Private or Public Limited Company to blend in around human organisations. That means all the paperwork, everything that a company has to file, subject reports, payments, bills, client information hell ownership of property...there would be evidence of it. Xander everything these days is kept online, there is always a trail, if I can find something connected to Wolfram and Hart I can find where they are sending their money from...and who it's going to."

Xander's eyes widen as her words finally start to sneak in, if she was able to find out where Wolfram and Harts money was going to then they could find out about the secret project they were protecting, they could find out exactly why they were in Starling City and what they were planning "What do you need?"

Slowly a small grin crosses Felicity's face making her look so much like Buffy as she does "Xander I'm a Summers we can do anything with wifi"