I woke with a start. My dream had basically been a recap of the confrontation with Spike and Buffy and it hadn't even explained anything. Sighing, I climbed off of the couch and looked around. Angel still wasn't back. Frowning I debated searching his room for something about Buffy. Or Spike. After all it was obvious that they meant something to him. He had to have at least something and maybe it would be better then asking him to his face and possibly getting yelled would be just my luck.

Shaking my head, I walked over to his room and immedeately went over to the box that was at the foot of the bed. Popping it open, I grabbed the first thing that looked promising. A small leather book. Frowning I sat cross legged on the ground and opened the book. What I saw shocked me. It wasn't a journal exactly, but rather it spoke about different people. Or to be specific vampires.

I flipped through it, looking at the names and I eventually came across Buffy. She hadn't been a vampire for more then a few years. It said that she had been killed or rather turned by a vampire named Kralik. According to the journal some Council had purposely set him after her because she was...wait. That couldn't be right.

"She was the Slayer before you." Madeline's voice said from behind me and I jumped, looking over at her angrily. "Giles got upset because you mentioned her."

"If you want more answers, I think that Giles is the person to go to." Jhon said from the other side of me. I nodded and closed the book, carefully placing it back where I had gotten it before I closed the box and went back out to the living room just as Angel walked in.

"Hey." I said, waving slightly before letting my hand drop. "Where've you been?"

"I was dealing with an errand." He answered, going to sit on the couch.

I nodded and sat next to him. "I actually have something that I need to do. I'm going to go talk to my mom. It's probably best if I do it by myself considering."

"Are you sure?" Angel asked, completely believing the lie. "She hasn't called or anything."

"Yeah, I'm sure." I murmured, looking down at my lap. "I can't stay at your place forever. Besides, she's still my mother. She'll come through."

"I hope that's true." He said, looking at me with a serious expression before he gave me a small smile. "Good luck."

I returned the smile and nodded before standing and heading for the door. "I'll be back later. Either because I still don't have anywhere to go or because I've come to pick up my stuff."

"Caroline." Angel's voice made me turn to face him. "Be careful."

"Are you seriously not going to kiss him?" Madeline said from beside me as I nodded to Angel. "Come on, you know you want to."

I turned and left the small aparment type place and headed down the street, rolling my eyes at Caroline. "He's a vampire. I'm a vampire Slayer. Do you really see that working out?"

"You could always just do it for fun." Madeline said, a wicked smirk crossing her face.

"No, I can't." I snapped, walking a bit faster. "That's not who I am."

"You're such a buzzkill." Madeline whined before disappearing. I shook my head as I neared the school. Giles would most likely be in the library. I headed there and upon entering and catching sight of the Watcher I felt slight fear rise in me, but I forced it down.

"So, you're still alive, are you?" Giles asked, his voice bored.

I crossed my arms and glared. "I want to know about Buffy."

Giles's expression darkened and I noticed the crossbow that was very well in his reach. He didn't move towards it though only glared and waited for me to speak again.

"I know she's a vampire and that she was the Slayer before me. I know that Kralik turned her and is still out there." I said, dropping my arms and walking towards him. "I don't however know the specifics and I have a feeling that they're important."

"It won't do you any good to know." Giles said, his tone cold. "After all you're just a Slayer without any training. What would you do with it? You can't stop Kralik."

"I want to know and I think I deserve to know." I snapped angrily.

He stared at me in silence for a moment before finally speaking. "If you can beat me, I'll tell you."

For the first time since walking into the library I felt doubt flit through me, but I shoved it away. Something inside of me was telling me that this information would be really important later on. "Fine."

Giles looked at me in slight shock before he quickly grabbed the crossbow, aiming it at me with deadly speed. However, I had expected that to be his first move and had dropped into a roll as he fired. As soon as I was out of the line of fire, I leapt up and vaulted myself over a table with my hand, kicking Giles with both legs as I came around. He wasn't able to duck or get out of the way, but the kick didn't seem to faze him too much. He swung the cross bow around and I quickly dropped down onto my side, kicking up at the crossbow as he fired another shot. The arrow went over my head and the crossbow flew up out of his hands and I quickly kicked him back so he couldn't catch it.

He quickly regained his balance as I got to my feet, grabbing the crossbow and throwing it to the otherside of the library since the goal wasn't to kill him. Giles lunged at me, leaping over the table and grabbing my legs. We tumbled down to the ground and I gasped as my head hit the table and then the ground. A moment later Giles was overtop me and throwing a punch at my face. This time I could tell that he wasn't going to pull his punches and he very well might kill me for all I knew. I managed to bring my arms up to block my face and quickly slammed my elbow into his ribcage with as much power as I could. He groaned before grabbing my wrists and pinning my arms over my head with one hand before bringing back his other to punch me painfully across the face.

I groaned and tried to ignore the pain in my jaw so I could think. I trapped his leg with my own and brought my head smashing into his before I twisted my hips, shoving him off of me. He lost hold of my wrists and I disentangled myself from him and stood, throwing a quick kick at his stomach. It connected and I dropped onto my knee on top of him, causing him to groan in pain again. Once he was down I grabbed a nearby chair, breaking it on the ground and lifting a rather sharp piece of wood and moving to position it over his heart, but his hands grabbed my arm holding it off before he rolled so that he was now over top of me and pushing the make shift stake towards my heart instead of his own. My wrist screamed in pain as I tried to hold him off. He was much stronger then me though and I was having trouble figuring out what to do. I couldn't headbutt him because he was too high up and that would just end with me impaling myself.

"Fine." I ground out. "You win." He didn't let up. "I said you win. I give up." He still pressed it closer towards my heart when he was suddenly ripped off of me. I frowned in confusion and sat up. Angel had ripped him off of me and was now pinning him to the wall.

"Are you okay?" Angel called over his shoulder.

I took a deep breath and pushed myself up to my feet. "Yeah. I'm good."

"Angelus." Giles growled. "Don't you have better things to do?"

"No. I really don't." Angel said, yanking the stake Giles still held out of his hands and tossing it to me. "Now, I'm going to let you go and then we'll leave."

"Angel, I haven't..." I started angrily, but he cut me off with a glare. "Fine."

Angel looked at Giles for a moment more before letting him drop to the ground. Giles gave him a nod and then turned to glare at me before he turned and walked away, disappearing behind the bookshelves.

Angel sighed and walked over to me, grabbing my wrist and tugging me towards the exit. I followed and was surprised when he stayed silent. He didn't speak until we had reached the sidewalk and were far away from the school. "What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking I would get some answers." I told him and felt irritation when Jhon and Madeline appeared next to me. "I knew you wouldn't tell me if I just asked and I didn't think attacking you would've been a really great way to go about either."

"So you go get into a fight with Giles?" He demanded, his tone calm, but obviously angry.

"I knew he would have the answers and I wasn't originally going to get into a fight with him either." I said, crossing my arms over my chest. "He said that if I was able to beat him in a fight then he would tell me."

"And you nearly got yourself killed!" This time Angel's voice did get some volume.

"It's not like I expected it to go down like that, Angel." I snapped, turning away from.

ANGEL'S POV

I felt a warm feeling in my chest as she said my name. It was the first time she had said it. The feeling only lasted a moment as the anger and worry filtered back in, though I did try to keep my voice a bit more calm. "You should never have fought him, you should never have gone to talk to him, and you shouldn't have lied to me."

She spun around and fixed her angry green eyes on me. "You aren't my father and you have no right to tell me what I should or shouldn't do."

"Don't you get it?!" I demanded. "He was going to kill you. If I had believed your story about going to talk to your mother then you would be dead right now. You might act like you don't care if you die or not, but if that was true than you would probably have wound up killing yourself already." She was silent and I saw tears brim her eyes and realized she was close to crying, but she quickly got a hold of herself. "Look, I'll tell you whatever you want to know. I know more of the story then Giles does anyways."

She nodded and it looked like she was going to turn and walk away but I was surprised when she suddenly threw her arms around me, burying her face in my shoulder. A moment later the aroma of her blood was excruciatingly strong. I wanted to bite her, but at the same time I didn't. I wasn't sure how or why, but this girl was special to me in some way.

CAROLINE'S POV

I took another moment to get myself under control before I pulled away from Angel and turned to head to his place. He kept pace with me and we were soon sitting on his couch.

"So then..." I started looking up at him. "What exactly happened?"

(Hey guys. Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I had rehearsals and a camping trip and sadly I had writer's block so..yeah. But I hope this chapter makes up for it. I decided to give a little information on how Angel feels around Caroline. Hope you like it. Please review.)