Chapter 5

"Where did they go?" Angel stood from his place on the couch and moved his hand back and forth around the spot that Buffy and her husband disappeared from. He'd never seen anything like that in all his years.

Joyce waved away Angel's question, smirking at his reaction. "Probably to fight some demon or another. Darryl would you mind helping me with the coffee and tea?"

He smiled. "No problem Ms. Summers."

Joyce rose with Darryl, "Now hon how many times have I told you to call me Joyce." He followed Joyce as she made her way to the kitchen to make some tea, leaving the silent Scooby Gang to sit in their confusion.

"How did that happen Giles? What happened?" Xander questioned. He doubted an explanation would calm him down much but it might.

Giles took his glasses off and cleaned them. The Council warned him about what he would probably see when he met the Charmed Ones however seeing it still shocked him. "Apparently that was the Charmed Ones and their Whitelighter. I mentioned that Buffy helped out the Charmed Ones on occasion." He eased the glasses back onto his face.

"Yea, but what was that blue shimmery thing that happened?" Faith asked her Watcher. She would have loved to say he was like a father to her…or not, her father wasn't exactly a wonderful guy. Neither were the dozen or so other men that entered in and out of her life while living with her mother.

"That was orbing. That's how Whitelighters move around, demons are the ones that shimmer. Which is another thing that the council mentioned to me. Information, they refused to tell me from whom, said that Buffy is in close contact with a demon. From what the council tells me she's unaware that this 'person' is a demon."

"How does she not know?" Willow questioned, didn't Slayers feel when a demon was near by? Before Buffy left she knew when a demon or vampire was near; she'd sense them somehow. And Faith mentioned a couple times that she felt something and no more than a couple minutes later they'd be attacked.

"There could be many reasons, she could have closed that part of her off…although how would be a mystery. The demon could be cloaking its presence or the Council could be wrong." Giles explained. "Its not as if they haven't had screwed up information before."

Leo orbed Buffy, the sisters and Cole to an alley that's behind P3. A demon was spotted around there causing trouble, when Paige scryed for it she found that it was still in the alley. Prue and Piper looked in the Book of Shadows, not knowing what to look for Grams lent a guiding hand and found what demon it was.

The demon was a Tymaria, very powerful, could multiply itself--or gave the illusion it could multiply. Tymaria's were also very fast, normally the Charmed Ones wouldn't bring Buffy and Cole along because they had their own evil forces to deal with but Leo requested they be present incase the sisters needed help.

"Whoa, Buffy." Piper smirked when she finally got a good look at Buffy. "Going for that hooker image are we?" She roved her gaze over Buff's outfit.

"As a matter of fact…yes. I went undercover today and didn't get a chance to change." Buffy explained.

"Undercover? That's not under much." Leo tried to look away from Buffy but seeing her in nothing but a short skirt and a bikini top it was hard to avert his gaze.

"Hey, she's mine Leo, stare at your own wife." Cole growled with a teasing quality in his voice.

"Yea, stare at your own wife." Piper piped up from next to her husband. She didn't mind that Leo was staring at Buffy she was just teasing him. Besides she stared at different men and while Leo rolled his eyes he knew she loved him.

A loud crash of trashcans interrupted the banter between the friends and instantly all six were poised and ready for a fight. The demon ambled out from behind a dumpster, it's slime slowly dripping down it's large hunched body.

"Eww, the book didn't say anything about slime." Paige never liked the gooey demons; it got all over her clothes and most of the time she could never get it out.

Without warning the demon rushed towards the Charmed Ones and Buffy, Cole tried an energy ball but it hardly fazed the large angry creature. Instead it just upset it. Piper froze it but it didn't stay still for long.

Leaping into action Buffy kicked at the Tymaria, "Hurry and vanquish the fucking thing." She screamed and punched it between the eyes then where its stomach was...what she hoped was the stomach anyway. Buffy then kneed it twice before backing up as she heard the girls finish the spell. During the brief fight she was cautious of her stomach, one wrong move and she could lose the baby.

"He's gonna blow." Cole grabbed Buffy and moved her and him behind the building, moments before the Tymaria exploded blue blood everywhere.

They peek around the corner, Prue managed to stop the slime and blood from hitting her and her sisters, but unfortunately Leo was in the way of where Prue sent it and he was now covered head to toe in demon goo. Cole and Buffy step out from behind the building, "You know Leo, blues a good color on you. You should wear it more often." Cole didn't even try to hide the fact that he's laughing.

Leo glared at the half-demon then rolled his angry stare at Prue who was biting her lip nervously. "Sorry Leo, I didn't mean to get you there." She scratched at her neck in embarrassment.

"It's alright." Leo smiled tightly conveying that it was anything but all right. "I'll just go home, shower and change." He left the sisters there in the alley, Paige could orb them all home.

Buffy sighed and looked toward her friends. "Do you wanna come to our place?" She popped up out of the blue.

"Joyce brought the Sunnydale team here." Cole explained to the confused witches.

"Oohhh." The sisters spoke as one. They heard stories about the Sunnydale group. It wasn't all bad, Buffy told them good stories too but they also knew why she didn't want to go home without a strong support team behind her.

Angel snapped his fingers like he just figured something out. "I bet its Cole. He doesn't seem right to me."

"Unlikely, Buffy and him have been together for a while, I don't think Cole would have been able to keep the secret that he's a demon for very long." The doorbell chimed throughout the rather large home and Joyce came hurrying out of the kitchen and opened the door. She's heard greeting what sounded like more than one person and telling them to come inside that Buffy and the others would be home shortly.

The people at the door were heard coming into the entryway and Joyce closing the door behind them. Seconds later a group of five were entering the living room and staring in confusion at the Sunnydale group sitting in the Turner's home.

"Well, never expected to see any of you again."

TBC