Chapter 4

A/N: Hey so sorry about the last chapter being so short but I swear the one after this one will be long and filled with drama goodness. Thanks for sticking through the short chapters.

When they walked in they were met with the worried faces of the scooby gang. THey all knew that Cordelia would only comeback to Sunnyhell if it was important and about Angel. Xander didn't know whether to be concerned or happy that Angel needed Buffy to save him.

"Hey guys." Cordy said trying to lighten the tension.

"Cordy, what brings you to good ole Sunnydale? Demons galore or is it the hellmouthy bite no wait I know its the stench of death isn't it? I told you guys we had to do something about that." Xander tried to lighten the mood but somehow his jokes were always at the worst time.

"Uh quite right. What brings you here? Pleasure I hope." Giles said coming out of his thoughts by Xander's joke.

"Actually business." Cordy knew they knew that it wasn't anything good but they still hoped.

"Oh, well is it a demon cause we're really good with those. Or you know a vampire, but I suppose Angel could deal with that himself. Oh um is it an end of the world apocalypse cause you know we haven't had one as of late, so I'm thinking we're due. Or not I mean it would be good if there wasn't but you know, there usually is." Everyone was looking at the her. "Sorry."

"It's quite all right Willow. Uh Cordelia what do you need help with?" GIles had been in his own world yet agin when Willow had started to babble.

"Angel's being driven insane by Darla who's recently come back from the dead as a human because this evil law firm, who hate Angel and want Angelus back, cause their evil. So they brought her back to you know give him a happy. Which hasn't worked he's just you know turning into a mix of Angel and Angelus. So we were kinda hoping that Buffy could come and knock some sense into him." Cordelia finished expecting the scooby gang to react like it was normal life cause it was, but Gunn who had been silent the entire time was expecting them to gasp and be surprised and not know how to deal with it.

"Oh. So no apocalypse?" Willow asked hoping that it was indeed a apocalypse and not Darla.

"No, at least not yet, but we'll call you when we have one." Cordelia knew that wasn't what Willow wanted but that's what was happening.

"So, Darla back from the beyond. Thats not at all surprising, well except for the human part that's shocking cause you know last time we saw her she was all catholic school girl and out to kill Buffy, you know except in the non-traditional way." Xander stopped, getting the vibe that he wasn't doing anything to help.

"I'll have to consult with my books." Giles started gathering books involving anything Darla, prophesies, resurrection spells, and evil law firms.

"I'm gonna go do the helping thing, cause it would be bad if Giles's head exploded." Cordy nodded and Willow raced around after Giles making sure he didn't tip over or drop anything.

"Um where is Buffy?" Cordelia asked glancing around the apartment.

"Oh the Buffster, went to go check on Dawnie and her mom. She should be back any minute." Xander got up while saying this and walked over to the couch and picked up one of the hundreds of books that were around him and started to read.

Cordelia came around to sit on the floor and picked up one of the books. She might live in LA and be a part of Angel's team now, but she still knew how to be a scooby. It's not like you could forget, all the time with them is pretty much etched into your brain from all the terror you go through.

Gunn just stood there and then decided that these people didn't really care what he did. So he went to the couch and sat down next to the guy who had made jokes the entire time. He would have picked up a book but research really wasn't really his thing.

"Hey buddy. Just cause we don't know you doesn't mean you get to slack off." Xander said handing Gunn a book. Ok so maybe they did care what he did.

Cordelia smirked behind her book.

1 hour later

The door opened and in walked Buffy. She had her back to the them. "Hey guy's, sorry I took so long. What's.." She turned around to find Cordy and some other guy she didn't know in her living room researching with the rest of the gang. The gang murmured some responses to Buffy not paying much attention to her.

"Explainy." Buffy said as she looked around the room. Her eyes landed on Giles but when he didn't look up she stared at Willow.

"Hey Buffy. You really should do something about that death smell." Cordy said hopin gto get a reaction from Buffy.

Buffy ignored her and continued to stare at Willow until she looked up at met her eyes.

"Oh. Me? Can't you know Giles or Xander explain." Buffy shook her head no and crossed her arms.

"Well as you can see Cordelia came by and this is...um.. I actually don't know his name, but he came with. They need help in LA. So you know here we are doing the helping thing. "

Buffy nodded. "Apocalypse? Demon? Spell? Research?" Buffy asked coming around to sit on the other side of Xander, who was still pretending to read.

"No, No, No, and No." WIllow was being avoidy and what else could it have been unless it was Angel himself.

"Is he...?" Buffy couldn't ask.

'No he's undead and fighting." Willow answered.

"He's not..?" Buffy couldn't say that either. Jeez you'd think she was losing her voice.

"No his grr's in check." Being Willow she did her impression of a vampire vamping out, because she didn't want to find herself in a position where she too couldn't talk.

"Then what?" Buffy asked. She couldn't think of anything else that Angel would need her help with.

"He's losing his mission and Cordy and Wes think it'll help if you were there to help him find it again." Willow said purposely not mentioning Darla.

"Sure I''ll be there." Buffy couldn't believe she did that, but that's what her gut said to do, so that's what she did.

"Great." Cordy said finally looking up. "We can leave tomorrow."