"Oh my God… oh my god… oh my god… Wes… Wes… Wesley!"

Wesley and Gunn came running downstairs when they heard Cordelia's scream. She was in the floor crying. Her vision came too late.

"Oh, my!"

"She is dead… look… what… I… I… found"

Gunn held Cordelia in his arms and she gave the piece of paper she was holding to Wesley who read it and looked concerned.

"He wrote it. Cordelia… we… we have to call Sunnydale. They have to know he is going there… for Willow. She is the only one able to curse him again"

"Go. Just… go, Wesley. Gunn can stay here with me."

Wesley ran out of Angel's room to the lobby of the Hyperion. He took a deep breath and dialed Sunnydale. Giles was the one to answer the phone.

"Hello. Mr. Giles. It is me Wesley."

"Wesley, how are you? How are things in Los Angeles? "

"I'm afraid I have bad news for you"

"Something's wrong?"

"Yes. It is about Buffy. "

"What about Buffy? Some prophecy?"

"No, Mr. Giles… I… Buffy… She is… she is dead, Mr. Giles"

"WHAT? Are you crazy? Buffy is not dead."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Giles. She is here in Angel's apartment… she is dead. She… she... released Angelus. We have reasons to believe he is going after Willow."

Wesley heard noises and was shocked to hear in the other side of the line.

"I. AM. NOT. DEAD!

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"Buffy? Buffy?"

"Yes. Wesley. It's me. Very much alive. What is this about me being in Angel's apartment?"

"Buffy. We… me and Cordelia… you are downstairs in Angel's bed with a broken neck. Angel… I think he warned us Angelus will be after Willow."

Buffy felt the taste of bile in her mouth. Angelus was released by someone who looked like her.

"This can't be. I'm here. Very much alive. Something is up. Wesley, get your people here."

Buffy put down the phone and turned around.

"*Giles*, what hell is going on?"

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Angelus arrived in Sunnydale thinking everyone knew he was back. He saw the little note soul boy left to his friends. He debated for a while if to leave it or not, but decided he wanted them terrified he was back. They could not do anything against him.

He should have been there by morning, but he decided to go to some people he knew that could help. He had taken some protection so the soul wouldn't be back in the body for a while.

He went to the Slayer house so he'd see for himself the pain of her friends after knowing she was dead. Maybe, with luck, he'd be able to catch the little witch and finish his torment once and for all. With her dead, nobody would be able to curse him again. Maybe he should turn Willow. It would be good to have a vampire witch just like Linda around.

"Looking for something?"

Angelus was hidden behind a tree in front of Buffy's house and was so distracted with his own thoughts of appreciation for their pain that he didn't feel her coming.

*What. It could not be. She was… she was dead.*

"You! I killed you!"

"Well. It seems they don't do Scourges of Europe like before"

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"You should be dead!"

"You know. Another master vampire… and *he* had punch fruit mouth… said the same thing to me, but what can I say. I have this tendency to flank the written and thwart death. Whatever you killed it was not me."

"Humm… so I'll kill you again. More fun"

"Willow will curse you again"

"She will try… "

"She will succeed. She knows you did something to block Angel's soul. She also knows it will end in two more days"

"Do you think you can survive it?"

"Yes. We can. We will."

"I'll see you around"

He had turned around when she called him.

"Angelus…"

He saw everything black.

While holding a small dart gun, Buffy looked at the monster wearing her lover body.

"You didn't think I'd let you go, did you?"