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 7

Angel, Kate and Jasmine sat on the sofa in the middle of the lobby trying to formulate a plan that wouldn't get them all killed. They figured the best course of action was for Jasmine to call Penn and have him meet her somewhere other than the hotel. Angel and Kate would be waiting for him to arrive, would tranquilize him, bring him back to the hotel, and then put him in the cage that was still in the basement of the Hyperion Hotel. They all knew there was the possibility that Wolfram and Hart would be monitoring Penn and the plan would get shot to hell, but it was a chance they would have to take.

Just as they were getting up and getting ready to leave, the door to the lobby swung open and Sara and Emily walked through the door. Angel just stood there, not knowing what to do or say. Kate immediately became very fascinated with the pattern on the floor, and Jasmine continued to walk over to where she had placed the weapons she had gathered earlier.

"Hi Angel." Sara said walking down the stairs towards him.

"Sara, what are you doing back? I though you and Emily had left for good."

"Me and Emily talked about it and Emily kept telling me that we should not have left and we should let you really explain yourself. I realized that, you were either crazy and we needed to call the people in white coats. Or that you were telling the truth, and we understand why you lied. Emily really stood up for you by the way."

Angel looked at her very skeptically. "Ok, so we don't exactly understand what is going on but if you were a vampire, and are now human and good and help people, we understand why you wouldn't want any one knowing about the fact that you used to kill people. I have known you for a while Angel and, if you were not this changed man before me, you would have already killed both me and Emily. If these people are really as dangerous as you say they are, then me and Emily are safer if you know exactly where we are. Just because we wouldn't have been living here, doesn't mean that they wouldn't still come after us." Sara explained to him.

"I am glad you came back. And you are right, it is safer here. I don't know what I was thinking asking you to leave, it was stupid of me. Here you are safe…or will be once we get the sanctuary spell back up and running."

"Sanctuary spell?" Emily asked.

"Yea," Kate said, "it's a spell that makes it so there can be no violence what-so-ever. No fighting, no bombs, no shooting. Nothing at all. The only problem is its really hard to do."

"No its not. I could do it easy." Emily beamed.

Every one stared in shock at Emily. They couldn't believe what they had just heard. Emily could do a spell?! The only one that wasn't surprised was Jasmine.

"I knew there was something different about you when I came in earlier. You are a full-fledged witch, aren't you?" Jasmine asked.

"Yes I am, and have been since I got out of middle school. Melinda's older sister is a witch and we stumbled in on her doing a small spell once. We blackmailed her into teaching us. Said that if she didn't we would steal all her stuff and show it to her parents. Me and Melinda were really fast learners." Emily said trying not to look at her mother.

"You mean to tell me that you have known all about this!?!" Sara said practically yelling at her daughter.

"I knew that vampires existed, and there were big bad forces of darkness, but I didn't know Angel used to be a vampire. Me and Melinda never really looked into stuff like that. We basically stuck to magic. Sorry I didn't say anything before Angel, but mom was already mad and, well, I kinda didn't want her mad at me too."

Angel just laughed and walked over to Emily. "I understand Em. Trust me, I do." He gave her a little hug and then stepped back and looked at Jasmine. "So, want to help Emily set up the spell before we head out?"

"Yea sure. Doing a little magic is always fun!" Jasmine said.

"So wait, you are a vampire and a witch?" Emily asked.

"I wouldn't say straight up witch, but I have been known to dabble a bit."

"Cool."

Emily and Jasmine walked off to search the hotel for the supplies they would need, leaving Kate, Sara and Angel alone in the lobby.

"So," Sara asked, "what's the plan to catch the bad guys?"

"Well, we find Penn, bring him back here, get all the information we need out of him, and then figure out where to go from there." Kate told her.

"You know, as head chef of the restaurant that Wolfram & Hart are going to be at, I have all the contact information from them. Maybe we could use that to figure out where the individual lawyers live."

"That sounds great Sara. I am glad you are willing to help. This is going to be very dangerous and I want you to be on your guard at all times. We will figure out how to make the restaurant safe for tomorrow. In the meantime, let's get ready to go get Penn." Angel said leading Kate and Sara to the weapons cabinet to get the tranquilizer guns. Everything was looking up…well as up as it could be at the moment… and they hoped that all would go according to plan.

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