The Initiative Headquarters, Eight months ago.

Riley, Graham, and Forrest had brought back the dead body of the unknown demon to the Initiative headquarters beneath the U.C. Sunnydale campus where it was taken by gurney from a hidden entrance and brought inside. The three men followed the gurney, which was soon joined by Dr. Angleman and Walsh, through a lit hallway to an elevator. They then took the elevator down a few levels before the psychology professor ordered Dr. Angleman to take the body of the demon to the labs for examination while Walsh debriefed the three of them. Nodding their heads, the three agents then followed Walsh while the body was taken away by Dr. Angleman and his attendants. However, Riley and Graham couldn't help but look at each other as they recalled Buffy and Faith's warnings, before glancing over at the body which vanished into a hallway behind a security door.

When Borzan's body was brought into Room 314 of the secured area, it was placed next to another body that was covered in a white sheet. In the meantime, Dr. Angleman drained the black blood from the body into test tubes for testing, and a large beaker which would be refrigerated for testing at another site, while waiting for Walsh to finish debriefing Riley and the others. It was an hour later, the headless body now cold, when Walsh walked into the room and nodded her head at Dr. Angleman. The doctor then picked up a scalpel while Walsh was putting on some gloves, and then started Borzan's autopsy. Dr. Angleman stepped back in surprise at the stench that wafted out of the body while Walsh covered her nose and examined the black coloured organs. She took out the organs one by one, alongside the doctor who shook his head and got his bearings once again, until the body itself was empty.

He turned around to weigh some of the organs on the scale behind him, so he didn't see Walsh taking a step back. However, he did hear the gasp that escaped her mouth, and Dr. Angleman turned around to witness Borzan's body turning a pale grey colour before it disintegrated into dust on the table. Dr. Angleman then stared at the organs on another table while Walsh looked at the organs on the scale from behind his shoulder. They had turned grey and then disintegrated into dust as well.

All except for the black heart which was glistening under the overhead fluorescent lights. The both of them then took a step back and gasped.

The heart had just started beating steadily as Walsh and Dr. Angleman looked up at each other with their eyes wide open, and then at the heart pumping without a body or blood. Stepping forward cautiously, Walsh reached out with her gloved hand and placed it on the beating heart. She lifted it, and then a small smile appeared on her face. She looked at Angleman and ordered him to place the heart in the body that lay across from the empty table where Borzan's body had once laid.

"Maggie," said Dr. Angleman, his face unsure of what he was being asked to do, combined with this feeling of dread that sent a chill up his spine while looking at the beating black heart, "I don't.. I mean… look at it. I think we should study this phenomenon first and…"

"Open Adam up," said the Professor as she stared at Angleman, "our boy has a human heart… he needs one from a demon. A very powerful demon… and like you said, this heart is beating without a body. Can you imagine the power?"

"Which is why we should run tests," said Angleman as he stood on the other side of the table facing Walsh, "before we do anything."

"We can debrief Adam when he wakes up," said Walsh with her eyes opened wide in awe as she stared at the heart, and then at Angleman once again, "I want this in him. Now!"

Putting away his doubts, Angleman pulled away the sheet that was covering the part human, part machine, and part demon monstrosity that lay on the table before him. Walsh was here the entire time holding the black beating heart in her hand, while Angleman was operating on Adam, eventually pulling out his heart surgically. Placing the red heart on a table, Dr. Angleman then reached out for and was handed, the black beating heart which was then placed into the cavity. With Adam's blood on a bypass machine, the jet black heart was then connected, and before long the bypass machine was shut off with the rhythmic 'beeping' of the heart machine proving that the surgery had worked.

Adam was, for all intents and purposes, still alive. When suddenly, he started to crash. Angleman looked up at Walsh whose eyes were glassed over while looking down at Adam and shouted at her to get to the defibrillator behind her. However, Walsh didn't move, instead, she just stood by Adam's side with a sneer on her face before looking up at Angleman who rushed past her and grabbed the defibrillator. Turning around, as Dr. Angleman pulled the device that was on a cart to the other side of the table where Adam lay, Walsh headed for another table, trudging along as the machines gave off a long beep indicating that the new heart had stopped beating.

"Clear!" yelled Angleman as he shot an electrical charge into Adam's chest with the paddles while Walsh, unknown to the doctor, was pouring all the black blood the doctor had extracted into a large syringe. Angleman was about to shock Adam again when Walsh told him to step back. The doctor looked up at the Professor, and narrowed his eyebrows at the glassy-eyed woman. He stared at her face, and then at her hands… particularly at the syringe of black blood, "Maggie?"

"He will rise," muttered Walsh as she injected the body with the black blood, just as Angleman reached out and yelled for her not to, that they needed to experiment on the blood. But it was too late; by the time he grabbed her hand, the syringe was empty. However, a few seconds later, Adam's heart started beating again. Angleman looked at the beeping machines around him while letting go of Walsh's hand, but turned back to look at her when he heard a crash. He stared at a dazed Walsh, who was looking at the broken syringe on the floor, and then at the black blood from the heart on her gloved hand.

"Maggie?" asked Angleman.

"It was strange," said Walsh, her eyes narrowed in confusion while looking at her hand, and then up at Angleman, "it was as if I was looking out of my eyes, but I wasn't in control."

"Maggie, that's the very definition of possession," said Angleman as he looked at the body of Adam, and then back at Walsh, "I…"

"This is a good thing," said Walsh as she looked at her hand, and smiled before looking at Angleman. She reached out her gloved hand and told him to take it off, and test whatever remained of the blood. She then turned her head towards Adam, and said that he was going to be powerful, "I felt it, the darkness, the powers… such incredible power; my God, Adam will be such a great weapon."

"Maggie," said Angleman with worry in his voice while he put on a pair of gloves, and then carefully peeled off Walsh's black stained gloves, "I need to take you to get checked out. You were just possessed… I saw the signs, and…"

"This.. what just happened does not leave this room," hissed Walsh.

"You know the protocols for exposure to an HST," said Angleman, "Maggie, you…"

"You will do nothing," hissed Walsh as she walked around the table while Angleman continued holding her hand, "this is a gift for us. The ultimate weapon to make those fools at the Pentagon happy, but… but Adam is so much more. He is my son."

"Like Riley's your son?" asked the doctor.

"The both of them are near the peak of their conditioning," said Walsh with a sneer forming on her face, "and soon, Riley will join his brother. The two of them will lead the way in stopping the HST infection in this world."

"Maggie," said Angleman as she pulled her hand away before turning around and heading for the door, "please, I…"

"You tell anyone?" said Walsh looking over her should as she placed her hand on the door handle, "I will kill you."

As the door closed behind Walsh, Dr. Angleman looked at the body of Adam, and a shudder went through his body. There was a part of him that was screaming what they had just done was unholy, but he quickly set his thoughts aside before getting back to work on the glove. He knew that Adam had to be observed for months, at least until they received an important part; the left hand of a Polgora demon.

Sunnydale, Four months later.

It would be four months later, with Graham and Riley occasionally joining both Buffy and Faith on their Slayings, that the two initiative members finally understood that the two Slayers were beyond anything they thought. The girls were strong, agile, and healed very fast; and so Riley and Graham suggested that they join the Initiative. Especially since their missions complemented with one another.

"And you guys can help us with understanding some of the things that are out there," said Graham while Riley nodded his head. Both he and Graham had just watched the two Slayers kill a nest of vampires before making the offer - to which Buffy said that she was willing, while Faith declined, saying that joining the military wasn't her style.

"But you won't be joining the military," assured Graham who was walking next to her with his arm around her shoulders.

"Even so," said Faith before she glanced over at Buffy, "maybe one of us should be on the outside. You know what I mean?"

"Let them think that there's only one Slayer?" asked Buffy as Faith smirked while nodding her head.

"In case things get out of hand, I'll pitch in," said Faith, "besides, I'm guessing that if they happen to see a second Slayer… I'm the one who's going to be cut open and examined."

"That's not gonna happen," asserted Riley.

"Still," shrugged Faith as she circled around to Graham's front, "you know what they say about Slayers after a kill?"

"What?" asked Graham while Buffy chuckled as she held on to Riley's hand.

"Hungry, and horny," smirked Faith as she grabbed the man by his collar, and then pulled him away, "guess which one I'm feeling now."

As he watched Graham being taken away, Riley waved at his friend before turning to Buffy. She told the young man that she was just hungry. It was a few days later that, Buffy was introduced to Walsh. The Slayer was surprised to learn that her psychology Professor was the leader of a secret para-military organisation. As for the surprised Professor, she revealed that she had heard of the Slayer, but she believed that the tales were just a myth. So to see Buffy in front of her was awe inspiring. However, even before finding out that Buffy was a Slayer, there was a part of Walsh that did not like the influence that she seemed to carry with Riley, neither did she like the influence that Graham's girlfriend had on him. However, Walsh did not know about Faith being the Slayer as agreed. Instead, the Professor told Buffy, especially after hearing of her exploits, that she would work on getting clearance for her to work alongside them in the Initiative.

Sunnydale, Six months later.

And after two additional months of background checks, Buffy was finally a part of the Initiative. It was soon evident to Walsh, that Buffy was a liability thanks to all the questions she had been asking. Unknown her, it was the same questions that Faith and the Scoobies had wanted her to ask, especially those connected to the experiments being carried out on demons. It was those experiments that brought Buffy's thoughts to Spike and Borzan. While she wasn't worried about Spike… she and Faith were concerned about Borzan; especially since the Initiative were the ones who took the body away.

But since Buffy and Faith didn't want to tell anyone else in the Initiative, other than what their respective boyfriends already knew, that they were present at the hospital that day. Buffy tried to ask questions, but she was shut down by Walsh who insisted that whatever went on in the labs was none of her concern. However, from Walsh's reaction, Buffy could tell that there was definitely something that Walsh did not want anyone to see… especially her.

And it made her suspicions grow that they were doing something to Borzan's body.

However, Buffy didn't know how bad it was. And neither did Faith, the other Scoobies, or the Initiative itself. None of them realised that Borzan's heart was already in Adam's body. It was a total of six months after Willow left Sunnydale, that Buffy was in the Initiative. And all of her questions had made her a target for Walsh, who was afraid that her questions would uncover Adam. So in her second week with the Initiative, after finally killing the Polgara demon that she and the initiative were ordered to kill by Walsh, Buffy was nearly killed.

It was that later that night that Buffy left the Initiative after Riley and Graham found out what happened; Walsh had told the both of them a fabricated story about Buffy going off on her own with one of the new camera mounted headsets and a weapon.

But she died. At least, that;s what Walsh thought.

It wasn't long before Buffy's face showed up on the screens behind Walsh, screens that she claimed she had been monitoring ever since Buffy left. It would be after both Graham and Riley left Walsh behind them as she screamed at them to return that the Professor would slink back to the secret lab. Angry at what she left as her life's work falling apart, Walsh proceeded to walk Adam up from his slumber. However, things didn't go as planned when Adam woke up and then got off the bed before demanding to know what happened to him.

"I….." croaked Walsh as she was lifted up into the air by the hand that was gripped around her throat, "Ad… Adam."

"Adam?" asked the monstrosity as he tilted his head, and then looked away as if he was thinking. He then looked at Walsh, whose face had started to turn pale, "no… not Adam. That was what you wanted to create. I can see… I can see the data you put into my mind. Amazing things you humans are capable of.. a human-demon hybrid, simply amazing."

"Stoooop!" Walsh tried to scream as she squirmed.

"I must know more about this new form you have given me… let me see your name… my database says you are Professor Maggie Walsh," he said.

"Yes," said Walsh as Borzan placed her feet on the ground, and loosened his grip around her throat, "I… put the beating heart into this body and…"

"Ah, yes," said Borzan with a sneer as he looked Walsh up and down, "I know I am missing vital information, and.."

"Data disks about everything you… or Adam was supposed to be, plus tactics, and other miscellaneous information you need to know," said Walsh as she pointed at a counter where there were ten data disks stacked on top of the other, "I…."

"Pity that I could not take you with me," said Borzan as he stared at the disks, and then at Walsh, "it seems I do not have the capability to bring you and I back to Hell."

"Hell?" said Walsh as she opened her eyes wide, "I…."

"I would have preserved your soul… such a dark soul you have," said Borzan as he brushed his fingers on her cheek, "only such a soul would dare play around with something they do not understand. Thanks to you, I will bring Hell to this world. I will open the Hellmouth and then have my kingdom here. I will rule in Acathla's stead."

"I…." said Walsh as tears gathered in her eyes. She was looking into the face of a madman talking about bringing Hell to Earth. And there was a part of her that knew he could do it… and all the while, she was asking herself, 'what have I done?'

"But I must first gather myself," said Borzan, "I will absorb your data disks, and then I will come up with a plan. I will take care of the Slayers and their friends, and then I will find my 'It'. I will chain her as I build a great demon army, and then… and then I will beat her into submission as she screams while hell takes over this world."

"No, no," said Walsh as she shook her head. She wanted to scream, she wanted to scream for Buffy to help her… but her mouth was dry and Borzan tightened his grip. Her eyes opened wide as he pulled his arm back, and then there was a squelching sound as he pushed it forward. Walsh looked down at a half-demonic arm that went through her chest, and she rolled her eyes back.

Borzan then pulled his arm out of her chest and walked to the counter calmly. He stole the disks and then made his way out of the Initiative base… killing one guard after another before they could do anything. He stepped out into the sunlit sky with the disks in his hand. He pulled out a map from the database in his mind and headed to a secluded area where he could spend time gathering his forces in secret, and absorbing all the data that he was about to install into his mind.

Sunnydale, Eight months later; Present day.

And it would be two months later, a total of eight months had passed since Willow left Sunnydale that Borzan finally had everything he needed ready. His army of vampires was prepared to move into the city. His army of demons was already captured by the Initiative and was about to escape from the crowded cells in a few days. And Borzan himself had already targeted the Slayers and their family. The only one he wasn't able to find was his 'It'… he couldn't find Willow.

Not until, one day, he stepped out of his lair into the sunlit day with a smile on his face. He looked up at a plane flying overhead, and his smile turned to a laugh.

While Borzan was looking at the plane flying overhead, Willow had her head on the window looking out over the wing. She turned her head to Althanea who was seated right next to her and told her that she could feel his evil from all the way up in the sky. Althanea held Willow's hand tight and reminded her that all of them were going to take care of Borzan for all time. Willow then looked out the window and caught her own reflection. She saw the rage in her own eyes, rage which was building as her eyes turned black. Willow tightened her hold on Althanea's hand as she closed her eyes and felt the magic growing around her.. she felt her anger increasing her own telekinetic powers until the plane started to shake.

Althanea heard the screams around her as the plane swung to and fro as if hitting turbulence. The seatbelt light came on as she turned to Willow and released her hand. The witch then put her arm around Willow's shoulder and pulled her close.

"Shhh… Willow," said Althanea. She felt Willow's telekinesis, combined with a bit of magic, flare up as the plane started to shake violently while she whispered in her ear, "Willow, calm down. You can do it, regain control. Remember what Ariel taught you, Willow. Come on, honey. Shh… control yourself."

Almost immediately, Althanea felt Willow's magic drop, as did her telekinesis, until the plane was flying steadily. While the cabin erupted in applause for the Captain and his Co-Pilot, Willow opened her eyes and whispered that she wanted Borzan dead.

"I want to kill him," she whispered as Althanea held on tighter to the young woman, "and then I want to visit them. I want to visit mom and dad."

"You will," said Althanea as she looked out the window while Willow leaned into her, "we'll win, Willow. We'll win."

TBC.