AN: Thank you for the reviews. I just want to say that in a previous chapter I mentioned that Joyce was in L.A. for her cancer and I just want you to know that she is still there. BTVS doesn't belong to me.

"Go, Buffy, I can take care of Giles." Willow stated and before she even finished Buffy was out the door.

Buffy ran out the front door and turned in the way she thought the distraught brunette. She was using slayer speed to try and catch her. It was hours later when Buffy returned to the Magic Box with a defeated look on her face. Most of the gang was gathered around the circular table but Faith was pacing back and forth in like a caged lion. The agitated brunette slayer stopped and stared at her sister slayer as she walked in dejectedly.

"W-where is she, Buffy? Come on, Buffy, where is she?" Faith asked her voice full of concern.

"I… I tried, Faith. I really did but I couldn't find her. I am so sorry." Buffy apologized looking down but her head snapped up when she heard the cussing and a sound of glass being broken.

"DAMN IT! THOSE FUCKERS!" The rouge slayer yelled as she threw another chair in no particular direction.

Unfortunately, Riley walked in at that moment and Faith, not thinking clearly, had decided to place blame on the soldier. Faith charged at her unsuspecting victim and started to punch him but was pulled off by Buffy before she could even a fist on him. Buffy was struggling to restrain the enraged brunette while Faith was still trying to get at Riley. The blonde's grip on her sister slayer was starting to slip when Giles shot Faith in the shoulder with the tranquilizer gun. Faith was starting to feel herself weaken but it didn't stop her from trying to hurt the ex-Initiative agent and as she fell into slumber she was still cussing. Riley got up from the floor and didn't look happy about being tackled by the brunette.

"She's insane." He seethed.

"I know she shouldn't have attacked you, Riley, but Lilith is missing. Faith isn't taking it so well." Buffy responded sympathetically as she carried the unconscious brunette to the couch in the back room.

"Oh, what happened?" Riley calmed a bit

"Giles and her were training when he said that she got this far away look in her eyes and she started fighting like it was life or death. When she came out of it, Giles was unconscious and she fled. I ran after her but I lost her. God, why did this have to happen." Buffy explained as her boyfriend pulled her into a hug.

"It'll be okay, Buffy. I'm sure she will come back when she's calmed down." He said trying to sooth her.

"Maybe you're right but I need to do something. I'm going to patrol and hope that I find her beating up on some demons or something." Buffy pulled away and walked out the door.

She was looking for demons where she had been last night. Hearing a noise coming from one of the buildings, she went in expecting to see a nest of vampires but all she found was a brown robed monk tied to a chair. The blonde ran straight for the innocent prisoner and was asking him if he was alright as she was getting him loose. Buffy noticed that his eyes kept going to something behind her. She caught the kicked aimed for her head and threw the young women away from her but the high priced blonde woman stood up without any effect from the throw.

"Get your hands off my holy man." She stated before dodging Buffy's hook and threw the blonde slayer into a wall, cracking the wall on impact.

Buffy staggered up and charged the mystery blonde woman. She tried to hit the other blonde with a right hook but it seemed to hurt the slayer more than her. Buffy then tried a kick to midsection but nothing happened. Hit after hit and nothing seemed to be working on this strange demon until the blonde demon sighed in boredom and slammed her fist into her blonde annoyance's ribs then her jaw causing her to break through a pillar. After the pillar gave way, the ceiling over top the demon collapsed on top of her. This gave Buffy a chance to pull the dying monk from the building but they only got as far as the gate before he couldn't go anymore.

"No, come on, we need to keep going in case she gets out of that rubble." Buffy urged.

"You must protect the key." The monk said as he wheezed.

"Hey, hey, stay with me. What's this key?" Buffy was trying to stop the inevitable.

"My brothers and I were tasked with protecting it from the Beast (Cough) but she found us. In our last act, we sent it here to you for protection. We made it into flesh (Cough) and sent it to you in the form of a sister." His breathing was getting worst as he fought to keep alive.

"Dawn." Buffy whispered then asked another question, "Does she know?"

"No, she is an innocent." The monk's voice softened at the end as he died and Buffy was left shocked.

Lilith was walking down a busy street with her arms crossed and her head down. She fled from the Magic Box scared of being punished like in her dreams and losing Buffy had been easy for her to do. After hitching a ride, she arrived at her destination. There was a tall building in front of her and as she walked through the front door a female voice spoke.

"Welcome to Angel Investigations, we help the helpless."

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