6 months ago in L.A.

Kate looked at the photos on top of her office files with concern. She knew, she had to call him, the distinctive neck marks stated that this was his territory and that his help was essential. Kate picked up her cell and dialed.

"How long will it take you to come to the station?"

"Give me thirty minutes tops."

"Ok, bye"

"Bye" Angel said

"This is your lucky day" Angel said looking with disgust at the demon he had pinned on the wall. He head bumped him and left leaving it unconscious. Something in Kate's voice had drawn his attention, so he wanted to meet her as soon as possible, everything else could wait, for know he thought. . .

He entered her office fifty minutes later.

"You're soon…" she remarked taking her eyes from the police reports she had been reading and granting him a smile.

"You sounded really worried so I thought that I should hurry and get here so here I am." He declared throwing himself on the spare chair in her office.

Kate handed him, immediately, the photos she had been looking for the past hours. Angel looked pretty close to understand what had shocked her so much. These were regular vampire bites.

"Vampire…you have seen those marks before. What is the huge problem that I had to rush and get here? "

"I have more than one problem, and if you have the patience to let me explain you'll understand everything." She said irritated, what did he think that she had called him over for nothing; she wasn't some chick who was afraid of a few vampires.

"My first problem is that in the room with the man, you just saw also was a woman whose brain had been eaten. . ."

"What that is impossible, vampires might eat a heart at some point but never a brain."Angel said disturbed. He couldn't understand what was happening.

"Look there is something more disturbing than that. I have been researching and found that this is a case of a serial killer that has been murdering people for the past 30 years. Nobody could catch this guy; he has hit 14 hotels two murders happening in each hotel. That makes his kills 29…"

"Wait you said that he has murdered 29 people, well then something isn't right . . . your math is wrong" Angel looked her puzzled

"My math is not wrong, I think I can count the number of dead bodies I have on my hands. That brings us to my second problem, if my calculations are correct we are to expect a murder in the Barington hotel six months from now." Kate stood up and walked to his side of her office, she had to ask him something big because he was the only one who could make it alive.

"Look, I have to ask you something…"

"You want me to check on the hotel, don't you? It is fine I'll do it. I'll go by today to check on the environment we are dealing with"

She was so thankful he wanted to be a part of this operation, because she couldn't find anybode else fit for the job. "Thank you, very much. Now before you leave take the files with you, they might be of some help."

"You are right. I'll have Wesley look into them and I'll be in touch with you shortly. I' would like to have the forensics report when you get them; there might be something useful in them. I'll be in touch."

He shut the door behind him and headed to the parking lot. What new evil was this? And how could he defeat it? He thought to himself.