All Roads Lead Back
Chapter Six
Angel had been calling Giles repeatedly until he finally agreed to take his call.
"Giles" Angel sounded relieved "I need your help, you might be our last hope. My friend Fred, Winnifred Burkle, she uh there's an entity trying to take over her body. Illyria"
Giles remained silent
"Are you there?" Angel asked
"I cannot help you" said Giles unconcerned
"I don't think you understand Rupert! This thing is liquifying my friend's insides to break free! Wesley says if anybody could help it's you or Willow" Angel said angrily
"I'm afraid Willow is quite unreachable" said Giles
"Giles this is an emergency. Can't you give me Willow's number?" He asked through gritted teeth
"Unfortunately, as I said she's unreachable. She's currently in the Himalayas" said Giles
"Himalayas? I thought she was in South America?" He asked
"She's not on this plane" said Giles
Angel sighed heavily "What do you mean she's not on this plane? You just said—"
"She's currently honing her skills with some Astral projection" said Giles
"Astral projection? Well, is there any way to get her astral over to L.A.? Giles, this is an emergency." Angel ranted
"Just a moment" said Giles
"Don't put me on hold!" Angel bellowed
"Angel, are you still working for that law firm?" Giles asked
"Yeah, I'm still at Wolfram & Hart . What does that have to do with anything?" Asked Angel
Giles scoffed a little "Do not try to insult my intelligence Angel, you sold your soul to the Devil by agreeing to become the CEO of hell incorporated. We cannot help you. Do you understand?"
"Yeah. I understand" said Angel hanging up the phone and throwing it against the wall "We're on our own"
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Andrew shifted in his seat uncomfortably.
"Tell her" said Dawn irritably
"Tell me what?" asked Buffy
"Seems like you had a visitor earlier tonight" said Dawn
Buffy frowned a little "Who?"
Andrew looked at Dawn pleadingly, he didn't want to tell her through sheer fear of her reaction. Although he had conveniently 'forgotten' to mention to Dawn that a bleach blond vampire also visited. Andrew whimpered as Dawn grabbed his ear and twisted it a little.
"Hey!" Andrew cried
"Who was it?" Buffy asked
"It was Angel" said Andrew
Dawn released him with a satisfied smile.
"What was he doing here?" She asked
"He was looking for you, he was on a mission to recover a demon head when he heard about you and The Immortal" said Andrew rubbing his ear
"What did you tell him?" asked Buffy, pacing the apartment
"I didn't tell them anything, really" said Andrew
"Them?" Buffy asked
"He had uh an associate with him" Andrew lied
"Okay… did he say what he wanted?" Asked Buffy
"It's kinda obvious" said Dawn "He's totally jealous you're dating The Immortal"
"Dawnie! How many times? I'm not dating him! He has good intel on that demon we've been looking for" said Buffy
"Uh-huh… I go dancing with all of my demon informants too" Dawn chuckled
"I was blowing off some steam!" Buffy protested "Did he say where he was going?"
"He left, I kinda told him maybe it was time for him to move on" Andrew whimpered
Buffy stood silent for a moment "Good… okay. So I need to get some sleep. Goodnight"
Buffy made her way to her bedroom and closed the door behind her.
"Is she always this weird when it comes to that Angel guy?" asked Andrew
"You have no idea!" Dawn laughed "So who was the associate that he brought with him? Was it that British guy who used to be a Watcher
"Uhh yeah… I think he was British" Andrew stammered
"Wesley" Buffy shrugged "They're really gone?"
"I think so, we could send a patrol of girls out" Andrew offered
"It's just… Giles said he was evil. Possibly soulless. This isn't his usual M.O" Buffy sighed
"Maybe he's not as evil as we thought?" said Dawn
"Maybe"
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Three Weeks Later*
"Buffy we have to talk about Angel…" Giles started
"What about him?" She asked
"The seers in the coven called, there's something rather apocalyptic happening in Los Angeles" Giles continued "One particularly powerful seer said that Angel is bringing down Wolfram and Hart from the inside"
"So he's not as evil as we thought?" She asked echoing her sisters words from a fee weeks ago
"It seems that this has been all a rouse to get the Senior Partners to think he was on board with them" said Giles "Buffy, this is serious. Angel has angered an ancient evil…"
"Okay, get me some slayers they need back up" said Buffy
"We're too late" said Giles
"What?" Buffy stared at him
"Los Angeles has become hell on earth" He told her
Buffy felt like the wind had been knocked out of her "I have to go there, I have to find him"
"Buffy…"
"It's bad, I know that but I have to go" she stammered
"Angel is dead" said Giles
Tears sprung to Buffy's eyes "You don't know that"
"We have it on good authority that Angel along with his team… there was a battle and they died" Giles said softly
"Oh my god" Buffy cried
"That's not all…" said Giles
Buffy looked at him with tears streaming down her face.
"Spike was with him" Giles said in a voice barely above a whisper
"Spike?" Buffy swallowed
"It would seem that a few weeks after Sunnydale he materialised at Wolfram and Hart. Bound to it as a spirit for some time" said Giles "Then he was made corporeal again and went into battle with Angel"
"This is a joke right? There's no way those two would fight on the same side together" Buffy cried
"I'm afraid it's true. Spike also… he's dead"
Buffy's head was swimming not only had she lost Angel. Her first love… and then Spike came back, didn't tell her and then died again before she ever knew he was back.
The room around her went fuzzy and started to spin. She heard Giles call out her name as she hit the floor.