The ghosts from the medical bay were willing to help and Xander showed them how to speed dial each of the Scoobies and recorded a message they could send. Like a ghost in a sweet little apartment in Los Angeles that a Bracken Seer named Doyle had found his friend and Angel, former vampire with a soul, was now living in after kicking out it's resident mean ghost and freeing her son Dennis' ghost, they couldn't talk, but they could communicate and operate physical objects. Relieved to have a solution to helping him monitor for mystical energy, Xander finished getting ready for his date and headed out to pick up Cordelia.

"Ah, Xander, nice to see you." Charles Chase greeted the young man responsible for the smile on Cordelia's face, a young man he was enjoying getting to know and was looking forward to mentoring. "Only a couple of weeks until school finishes for the year and your internship starts. Ready for it?"

"Terrified I'll let you down." Xander admitted. "But determined to learn everything you can teach me. Thank you for the opportunity, I really do appreciate it."

"I think you're going to do just fine." Charles assured him. "You just need to commit, work hard and spit shine my shoes every day." Charles said seriously.

"I'm willing to do everything but the last one." Xander answered firmly and a gave grin in return

"Good, not a suck up and not an easy mark." Charles nodded as Cordelia came in the room.

"Daddy, you can have Xander's time and attention at work, on the clock, right now he has to pay attention to me." Cordelia raised her eyebrows at Xander, who snorted. "Like that's a chore." He shot back and held out his elbow. "Ready to go, oh most gorgeous one?" Cordelia hooked her hand into his elbow and smiled. "Let's go show how much your dancing's improved, Doofus."

Charles waved the couple off before turning to his wife. "I've never seen her so happy."

"She's nicer and he's developing a backbone and self confidence, while discovering what being happy feels like." She smiled back. "They're good for each other." Together they watched Xander hand Cordelia into his car and the two of them drive off. "I think it's going to be a good summer."

Xander parked near the Bronze and the two meandered down the sidewalk towards it, talking about nothing really important, just a pleasant conversation. On the ride over Xander had filled Cordelia in on the theft from the museum and what the statue actually was and now the conversation had shifted to less potentially world ending topics. They were entering the alleyway leading to the entrance to the Bronze when a loud voice reached them around the corner.

"Johnathan, are you sure you're alright?" A voice asked anxiously. "Because you're looking kind of pale again, the way you get when you haven't had enough."

"That's Harmony." Cordelia murmured, recognizing the voice of her friend.

"It's not that I haven't had enough, Harm, it's that my last meal isn't setting well with me. This is still trial and error, figuring out what works and whatever that thing was, it's left me nauseous."

"That's Johnathan." Xander murmured back. "Sounds like he might be having some health problems, I hope he's alright." The two tried to tune out the conversation as they approached the door of the Bronze, but Harmony especially, was loud.

"Are you going to be okey? Maybe you need to eat something else, it might fix the problem."

"Or it could make it worse. Right now I don't feel like eating anything." Johnathan started to say.

"You can feed on me, I don't mind, honest."

"Feed on her?" Xander looked at Cordelia, who looked startled at the phrasing

"I told you, Harmony, I refuse to feed on people! Especially after what happened the last time, I could have killed you!" Johnathan's voice was rising too.

"But you didn't, you stopped! What happened isn't your fault, Johnathan. You're not a monster and I trust you! Feeding on those things, whatever they are, sometimes helps you and sometimes doesn't and whatever you fed on last night obviously wasn't good for you. But you already know that feeding on me, won't hurt you."

"But it might hurt you! We have no idea if repeat feeding might cause a problem, we don't even know what to call what's happened to me, the only thing I could find that could to explain it comes out of fantasy books and sci-fi and comics! I refuse to feed on humans! Please stop offering yourself to me, Harmony, I can't risk hurting you!" That comment was said in a near bleat of fear. "Please, Harmony, I know you want to help and God knows I have no idea why you haven't at the very least broken up with me after what happened, what I did to you -."

"You didn't know you'd been changed by that thing, Johnathan." Harmony insisted. "You didn't know why you couldn't eat regular food anymore and you were starving! You didn't hurt me!"

"But I made you loose consciousness! Small animals die when I feed on them and even those weird creatures lose consciousness! The thing that did this to me was feeding on a little kid! It was a monster and if I start feeding on people than I'm a monster too!" Johnathan's voice sounded strained and like he was near tears. "I'm a vampire for God's sake, Harmony!"

"Oh boy." Xander muttered.

"So much for our date." Cordelia answered. "They were supposed to be gone, how could they come back and the way Johnathan's behaving doesn't sound like the vampires we're familiar with."

"Unless there's more than one kind." Xander sighed and headed around the corner, Cordelia beside him, there in the alleyway was Johnathan Levinson and Harmony Kendall. "One the spell didn't affect. Hi, Johnathan, can we talk to you?"