DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters in this story, Joss Whedon owns them all. Jasmine, Sara, and Emily are mine though!!!!

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CHAPTER THREE

Angel honestly didn't know what to do. He didn't want Kate to get hurt and, of course, he didn't want to die either. But what he was really concerned about was Sara and Emily. He had taken down the sanctuary spell a few months after W & H had been defeated. He hadn't seen a use for it any more. But now there was no protection for them. Taking down sanctuary was easy, but putting it up was the difficult part. When it was first put up it had taken hours for Lorne to get it up and running properly. Angel knew that he would not be able to do it alone and Kate would have no idea what she was doing. Angel didn't even know if he had it written down anywhere. He was now kicking himself for taking it down and, in turn, letting his guard down.

Angel hadn't realized how much time had gone by until Sara and Emily walked through the door. Angel jumped a little again but was happy to see that they were safe.

"Hey you two, how was your day?" Angel asked trying to keep things normal as possible.

"It was ok. Melinda wasn't in school today so mom came and picked me up on her way home from work. And, because Mel wasn't there, it was a boring day." Emily told him throwing her backpack down near the stairs. Melinda was her best friend and in almost all of her classes. She was also Emily's ride home at the end of the day.

"Oh stop being so dramatic Emily. You don't need Melinda there to have a good day in school." Her mother said to her.

"Do you know why Melinda wasn't in school today?" Angel asked. He was being overly paranoid knowing that the best way to get to himself and Kate was to go through their friends.

"She had a wedding to go to this weekend and her family isn't getting back until late tonight. So she wasn't there. She should be in school tomorrow unless she talks her parents into letting her stay home to rest." Emily informed him.

"Oh ok."

Emily walked into the kitchen to get a snack and then took her backpack upstairs to her room to start her homework.

"Angel, is everything ok?" Sara asked him. She could tell that he was very tense and on edge but she didn't know why.

"Yes, well…I don't know. Kate just got this new case that she wants me to help her with and it's a pretty bad one. Really disturbing. We think it might be a copycat killer." Angel told her. He couldn't tell her anything more about the case because he didn't want her to continue to ask questions.

"Oh my. I am sorry sweetie. You finally get a case and it's not even an easy one."

"My cases are never easy Sara. But this one…I worked a case like this before and it didn't exactly turn out the way we wanted it to."

"I'm sorry." Sara said putting her hand on Angel's shoulder trying to comfort him.

There was a long moment of silence between the two. They just both sat there, not saying a word to each other.

"So," Angel said, "how was your day today?"

"It was good. We had a lot of people for the lunch crowd. We also started preparing for this banquet we are doing tomorrow for this new company that just came into town. We aren't supposed to be telling people about it because I guess the company wants to surprise every one else and take the city by storm. Or something like that. That was what we were told. But apparently these people are pretty important." Sara said.

Angel could tell that she wanted to tell him more so he simply asked her who the new company was.

"Ok, you didn't hear this from me; mainly because I could get into a bit of trouble. It's a law firm called Wolfram & Hart. Apparently, this law firm had been in LA before and fell on some pretty hard times. Lost a lot of its employees and it building collapsed due to an earthquake a few years ago. But they rebuilt the building on a different location than the original one and are going to announce their arrival sometime later on this week."

The case Kate and Angel were working popped back into his head and he knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that Penn was also back; and it was because of Wolfram & Hart's return.

"They already have." Angel whispered to him self.

"They already have what?" Sara asked him. She was slightly concerned by the way he was acting.

"Announced themselves to the world." Angel said.

He got up and started pacing in the lobby again. He didn't know what to do. He thought of Connor. Going to UCLA and probably completely unaware of W & H's return. He thought of trying to get a hold of him and warning him. But he wasn't sure if Connor would even answer a call from him, let alone believe him. Then he thought of Gunn and Spike, safe in NY and Italy.

"Angel are you ok?" Sara asked getting up. "What's going on?"

"I have to call Kate. Can you go upstairs and get Emily, we all need to talk." Angel asked her.

"Sure." Sara went upstairs to get Emily like Angel asked. She was very concerned at this moment. She had never seen Angel act this way about any case he was working on. He was always concerned for Sara's and Emily's safety but this one seemed to have him more scared than she had ever seen him before.

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