"E-e-e…" Lindsay stuttered pathetically.
"Eve! Great to see you. Get out." Angel said in his strong voice.
"Ooh, so threatening, Angel. You're harboring my criminal." Eve said, in a squeaky demanding tone.
"Eve, I'm serious. Get out." Angel said.
Illyria looked up again, dazed.
"There's too many people here, you crowd my space." She looked down again.
Lindsay tried to hide behind the reception desk while Angel stood up to Eve for him. Then Angel turned at him.
'Lindsay, you spineless wimp, why in the world am I defending you. Have at him Eve." Angel said, walking back upstairs.
Eve came down the front steps as Conner came back in with sandwiches. He was looking down and talking, "I know no one eats, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to…." He looked up. "Um, I see your busy around here. Full house." He shoved a sandwich in his mouth. 'Hey, Smurf girl, lets go out back and have some sandwiches, and leave these crazy partiers in here."
"Sandwiches?" Illyria looked up. "I will go with the miniature soldier." She stood up and followed Conner, murmuring, "Do they look like witches? Do we need weapons to eat these objects?"
Eve continued to advance on Lindsay, unphased by the audience.
"You left me. They told me you were dead." She looked over at Angel. "He, set you up for death." She looked back at Lindsay. "I would have gone after him, but then Merl told me you were alive. You bastard. You never came back for me!"
"Wolfram & Hart was destroyed-where was I supposed to find you?" Lindsay pleaded.
"I trusted you."
Then she did something very unexpected. She flung a fireball at Lindsay's head.
"Woah!" Angel intervened. "Newly furnished hotel lobby! Do you mind keeping the fireballs outside?"
Ignoring Angel, she threw another one at Lindsay.
"Stop!" Lindsay shouted, dodging the large swarms of fire heading for his head.
He was laying on the floor now. "Angel! A little help!"
"I thought you would come back for me. Serenity was dead and I was what you had left!" She screamed, standing above him.
"Wha-how did you know Serenity was dead?"
"I, uh, I didn't, I mean if you weren't with me, you must have snuck away with that psychic freak." Eve said matter-of-factly.
"You! You killed her!" Lindsay shouted.
"Shut up! Shut up! You killed her! Not me! She sacrificed herself for you to be with me! Don't you see that?"
"You're insane!" Lindsay said, still on the floor.
"Um, Lindsay, bad choice of words, from where I'm sitting." Angel added.
"I'm going to end it. Here's your choice. You can die, and be with the dead girl, or you can live and be with me." Eve said, as she aimed another fireball at Lindsay's head. "I won't miss this time." She said.
"Oh, yes, you will." Yelled a woman from behind Eve. She rushed up to her, faster than she could turn around, and threw her across the room.
Angel gasped loudly. "Does new furnishings mean NOTHING to you people!" He exclaimed, exasperated.
"Sorry, Angel, I'll kill her without hurting the walls." The woman laughed.
"Serenity?" Lindsay asked.
"In the flesh. And when exactly did Eve get fireballs? You'd think we'd have picked up on that. Oh well." Serenity said and lifted Eve off the ground, and carried her to the back exit where Connor and Illyria were experimenting with lunchmeat.
"Hey, Angel!" Serenity shouted. "Is it alright to tear up the trees with her body thrashing about?"
Angel nodded and Serenity threw Eve yet again, but this time into a palm tree.
"What a poor, defenseless tree." Connor said sardonically from the sidelines.
"Does it have feelings?" Illyria asked.
"Depends who you ask." Connor answered.
Eve wa slaying on the floor, with tree marks imprinted on her back. "Ouch. Stop." She looked up at Serenity. "How did you get here?"
"Magic." Serenity said, and kicked Eve in the face. "Get out."
Then, as Lindsay and Angel came to join in watching from the sidelines, Eve disappeared.
"What's I miss?" Angel directed at Connor.
"Chick on chick tree fighting."
"And no one took pictures?!" Angel said sarcastically, and went to Serenity's side.
She turned to him.
"Happy to see me?"