A/N Mara, just one idea. Okay, a lot of those are good and may, no probably will, show up in future stories but I gotta say, Xander Halliwell - yes! And soon. 😍

nidhogg32, a game crossover is a new idea for me, but as I agree that many of them have great back stories several different ones will now need to be added to my to-do list. I used to play several different games and some of the stories associated with them were better than some movies and tv shows. Keep the ideas coming, I had two ideas when I first started posting stories and that was a year and a half ago and the list keeps growing and I am having so much fun. Thank you! 😃

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"Hey, Buffy, wait up!" Willow called out when she spotted Buffy heading for the Library. Hearing her, Buffy paused and glanced back. Once Willow caught up she handed a package to Buffy.

"What's this?"

"Xander had a suggestion to help Angel and Ms. Calendar and I got it taken care of during my free period."

"Xander had an idea to help Angel? He hates Angel." Buffy frowned, confused.

"He hates vampires, Angel's not a vampire anymore because all the vampires were destroyed yesterday by his costume. As for Angel personally, Xander thinks he's a coward and very unhelpful despite claiming he wanted to help."

"Angel is not a coward, he saved my life!" Buffy exclaimed, exasperated. "And if it wasn't for Angel's help we'd have never been able to deal with the Harvest or the Master rising. Obviously Xander is jealous." Buffy decided, opening the package. "So what was this idea of Xander's?"

"A legal identity for Angel since he's human now. Ms. Calendar and I used a combination of technology, her computer and Magic to create a birth certificate and ID for him. All the paperwork is there, he just needs to pick a name and sign it."

"He has a name, Angel." Buffy glanced at the papers in the package.

"Which is short for Angelus, who was a vampire. The human that died so Angelus could walk around was named Liam of Galway. Angel needs his own name and that includes a last name." Willow replied, pushing open the door to the Library and holding it for Buffy.

"Alright, I'll take it over to him after school." Buffy set the package on the checkout desk. "Where's Giles?" She changed the subject.

"I'm here." The man in question answered, exiting his office. "I've been on the phone with the Watchers Council most of the day. They've confirmed the spell and the destruction of the vampires. The Devon Coven, an old and powerful Coven in England, confirmed the Magic worked. They felt it and several Seers that work for the Council have found no trace of vampires, anywhere. They're also going to have the Hellmouth examined and see if they can determine it's current state of being or even if it still exists. It's been a long day."

"If the vampires are gone what does that mean for me?" Buffy asked.

"Well, vampires are gone but there are other demons, it's just their total number is significantly less than the number of vampires. Some of them may seek to open a Hellmouth, so it still needs to be guarded."

"But the Hellmouth might be shut down, can they open something that's been shut down?" Willow asked.

"I didn't mean this one, I meant the one in Cleveland." Giles answered.

"There's another one?!" Buffy glared at Giles. "And I'm just now hearing about it?!"

"Life would be so much easier if I could get you to read the handbook." Giles muttered. "Centuries of accumulated knowledge and you expect me to just know all of it. Yes, there's another Hellmouth, in fact there have been a total of nine known ones. Each shut down in one way or another over the centuries and there's just one left. But you don't need to worry about it." He sighed.

"Why not? I mean obviously I'm still in school and can't just pick up and move to Cleveland to guard it, but why wouldn't I need to worry about it anyway?"

"Because they're sending someone else to guard it." Giles looked uncomfortable. "It seems, Buffy, that when you died in May, you were gone long enough for another Slayer to be Called."

Buffy felt faint and very sick to her stomach at the reminder that she'd literally died. Another Slayer being Called was absolute proof of that fact. "Another Slayer? And we're just now hearing about it?!"

"The Council felt it might be detrimental to tell you sooner. You and I, both, needed time to deal with -."

"The fact that I actually died." Buffy sat down at the Library table and a miserable looking Willow wrung her hands, not knowing how to help. "And I'd have stayed dead if Angel hadn't found me and gotten Xander to do CPR on me."

Giles glanced up. "That's not what happened, Buffy. If it had you wouldn't have been revivable. The two of them found you together, probably less then five minutes after you drowned, no more then ten. Otherwise you would have had severe brain damage that not even Slayer healing could compensate for."

Buffy stared at him. "But that doesn't make any sense, Giles. Angel would have no way of knowing if I needed CPR, he had no idea I'd drowned. So why would he have Xander with him? He didn't need Xander's help to find me, he could find me on his own with that gross smelling thing vampires do."

"Yes, he could have." Giles agreed. "But Xander wouldn't have been able to find you on his own, therefore he got help to find you."