Erica - All done and edited. I changed up/added some stuff in to make everything flow a lot better. Hope you like. Check it out. Let me know. Love you.

Faith was standing in the middle of kitchen, waiting for a bag of popcorn to be finished, when she heard a knock on her door.

"Come on in," she called.

Xander walked into her apartment. "You know what I like about this place," he asked her. She raised one eyebrow at him. "I like how all of our rooms are like mini homes." He turns around her apartment. "Living room." He turns a little more. "Kitchen." He turns a little more. "Bathroom." Then he makes his final turn. "Bedroom."

"Xander, this place used to be a hotel. This is probably one of their suites."

"Yeah, but what I really like is how they don't forget about any rooms at all. Especially the most important ones." The microwave beeped in the background at them.

"Xander what are you trying to say?"

"Absolutely nothing," He says defensively.

"Mmm hmmm," Faith mumbles, not buying it.

"Five by five." She could hear the smirk in his voice.

He walked up behind her before she could grab the popcorn, and he grabbed it. "I also like the room service of popcorn."

She slowly turned around to face, leaning back against the counter.

"Oh really?" She leaned in to kiss him, but he put a finger up to her lips, and said only one word.

"No."

She felt a little offended, but more angry at him for refusing her. "And why not," she questioned him.

"Do you remember when you and me had sex?"

She did. "Yeah. There was nothing wrong with it," she replied with her very own smirk.

"No," he agreed.

"Well yay! Then lets go," she tried to kiss him again, but was refused. Again.

"There was definitely nothing wrong with what happened with us, but I don't want to do anything with you ... until you go on a date with me."

She got what he was trying to say. He wanted a little something more with her. "Are you asking me out Xander?"

"Yes I am." There was a moment of silence before he spoke again. "Faith?"

"Yes?"

"Will you go to the movies with me?" He closed his eyes faking fear of being rejected.

"Yes," she replied.

Xander leaned in to give Faith a kiss on the cheek. Then he walked toward the doorway, and stopped, turning around.

"How's 7:30," he asked her before leaving.

"Five by Five to me." She was still smiling minutes after he had left.

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Xander walked down the hallway, now going toward Angel's place to check on him and his sister. He could hear two male voices talking, and he figured it was Spike and Angel. He thought about the time in between Dawn losing Buffy, and then getting her back. It must be the same way for Angel, but instead he killed Kathy, who was the only person who ever loved him no matter what stupid things, well I guess sins, he committed.

Kathy huddled in the corner afraid to move, even though she clearly knew Liam was not going to hurt her. She still didn't want anybody else near her. The only person she would actually talk to was the blue woman, who's name was malaria, or something like that, it at least rhymed with malaria.

She tilted her head a little bit to get a better view of the door. She noticed it was the Pirate who was walking in. He seemed friendly, but she still didn't want to talk to him. She also liked the man with alarmingly bright hair, but she didn't trust him because he was a brit, and father said never trust them.

She also liked the woman Faith. Maybe because it made her think of her own faith, and Liam liked her enough too. The Dark guy was nice... she hadn't heard his name yet, but he didn't seem like an animal like father said the dark ones were.

"How is she," the pirate asked Liam with concern.

Kathy wondered who they were talking about.

"Kathy ... is fine. She still won't talk to anyone but Illyria though."

Illyria! That's her name, she thought. Then she said her name over and over in her head, about twenty times to make sure she'd remember it. After she was done she realized that the pirate had left already, and surprisingly that made her a little sad. The bright haired one came out of the kitchen then, and sat down next to Kathy in her corner.

"Eat this, love. You must be hungry," he said to her.

She only looked at him, wanting to talk, but not being able to. She turned her head away. She didn't want to eat even though she was hungry. All she could think about was Liam feeding from her.

"Please pet, you need to eat ... even if you don't want to."

This time when she looked at him she looked in his eyes, and decided the British can't be that bad because she could see genuine good in him. She took the plate of food, and huddled in her corner with it, beginning to eat . The bright haired one got up and walked back into the Kitchen. She could hear him talking to Liam.

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"Angel, you need to talk to her about what life is like now. It's not like the old days anymore. You need to tell her about this century, and about who you are now, instead of letting her be in that corner all the time."

"I know Spike, it's just I don't know how to say that stuff ... you know I'm not good at it."

Spike didn't reply, opting to just sigh at him. After a minute he walked out of the kitchen, and then out of the apartment.

Kathy watched from her corner chewing on her food, and thinking how good a cook the bright haired one was.

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Illyria watches Gunn as he goes about shaving his stubble.

"Your hair has gotten longer," she comments.

"Not by much Illyria. It will be fine for a while longer."

"I can cut it for you," she offers, holding up a pair of scissors in question.

Gunn looked at her with a smile on his face. "Have you ever cut hair before?"

"No."

"Then I think it's fine for now." He rinsed his face off in the sink, and looked up. "How do I look now?"

"Less offensive."

He laughed at that, and dried off with the towel she gave him.

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Faith and Xander were sitting in his apartment chatting about the movie they'd just seen, and the diner they both had eaten together. It was very cute.

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Spike tossed and turned in his bed waiting for the moment of peaceful sleep to come, but he couldn't stop thinking about Angel and Kathy. They must have been close. When she looked up at him in the lab, instantly Angel had put his coat around her, and told everybody to leave, and we all listened. We didn't ask a single question, Spike deliberated.

There was a small knock at the door. He could hear a soft voice calling him. He could tell by the Irish accent who it was.

"Bright haired one," Kathy called through the door

"You can call me Spike love," he said opening the door to her. "Come in."

Spike made sure to have purchased pajama bottoms for the sake of everybody else in the building, even though Angel thought it pointless because he still didn't have any underwear.

When Kathy first came here she would sneak off to everybody's rooms at night. Only because she didn't feel safe at night with Angel around her, but she wouldn't leave the apartment in the daytime - go figure. She walked over to Spike's bedroom, and dumped herself on the end of his bed. She took his blanket, wrapping it around herself like a cocoon.

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Kathy liked sleeping in the other's beds because it gave her this sense of clarity. The reason she liked Spike's was because he talked in his sleep and he revealed things nobody else would tell her, because they thought Liam should. Also, she found out about Spike's past - like about Drui, and Buffy, and apparently he really cares for Angel - which is Liam's new name.

She refuses to call him that, because it reminds her too much of how she used to call him an angel, before he had turned on her. So every night, she would learn more and more about her brother. As the days went by she found herself becoming less and less afraid of him.

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The next morning -

Angel woke up early, expecting to find his sister in her corner waiting for him, but when he got up he realized she wasn't there, or in his apartment at all, for that matter. He raced all around the hotel, nobody was in there apartments either. He ran into the lobby, and realized he heard people in the direction of the kitchen, so he walked up to the door and opened it ... .... ....

Kathy had made everybody breakfast, and was talking to them animatedly.