Part 1/% : ...And the past came back

Flick was bored there had been no vampires tonight, and with the summer holidays just started she had a lot of excess energy.  “Oh come on I’m bored, just one” she pleaded with no in particular as she leapt over a gravestone and landed heavily on the other side.  She scanned the graveyard and noticed a figure standing by Buffy’s grave. It was five years to the day.  At first glance she thought that is was Angel, she’d relented on her ultimatum after Spike and Willow had got together. Thought that was completely different story all together.  Angel had never really got over what had happened no one had.  But the as the years had gone by things had moved on it didn’t do well the stay in the past.    Angel had stayed in LA working with Cordy and Wesley at their PI firm.
As Flick got closer the figure at the grave turned out not to be Angel it was smaller and female.  “Hey” Flick called out reaching for her stake
The figure turned round “Flick”
“KATIE! What are you doing here?” Flick exclaimed as Katie got to her feet
“I thaught I’d come pay my respects and see what you are up to, plus mom said I could spend the summer here before I start at college”
“So you’re definitely going then”
“Yes I’ll be matriculating at Sunnydale U” she said with a grin
“And your Dads okay with this”
“Nope! But he can’t stop me, he wants me to go to Harvard or Yale but I want to come here”
“I suppose the Hellmouth has its appeals”
“Plus I won’t have to do magic in the back garden anymore”
“Yeah you can do it in the front”
“Fun…ny”
“So how’s New York”
“Nothing much to mention graduation went with out a hitch, unlike yours.  Mom’s better now Dad is taking care of her she’s accepted it now I think.  The last five years have been hard. Katherine’s mom’s remarried at last and has and left to start over again in Canada, though you probably heard about that.”
“Oh yeah Stephanie was raving about that”
“So how are things here?“
“Henry's book shop is doing well, Despite the name Kavanagh's Books, it’s a good cover for us though, Sarah and Anya help out.  Although Sarah’s illness is taking it’s toll she cant go out during the day any more, some day’s she’s no quite with it she’s developed quite an obsession with insects”
“Insect’s”
“Yeah killing them mainly, but also seeing them when there not there It’s getting not funny.  The number of time she has got Stephanie’s house fumigated! But apart from that she’s doing okay.  Willow’s got the job as M.E.  Which turns out to be a rather perilous job, four time’s in the past week her cadavers have woken up on her!”
“Eeek”
“I promised that I’d pop round on my way home”
“I’ll come along.  I’ve dropped my stuff off already.”
“Did you hear about Spike”
“Oh! Yeah, Willow e-mailed me I nearly died.  Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.”
“It’ll certainly be an interesting event”
They were so involved in their conversation that they didn’t notice the vampire on the roof following them, as Katie bent down to tie her laces.  The vampire hoisted his rifle and aimed it at Flick’s neck getting the laser sight just right.  When Katie looked up and saw the beam.  As he fired Katie pulled Flick to the floor and the shot hit the wall.
“What the…” Flick snapped and she landed on the ground next to Katie but stopped when the bullet went whizzing past hitting the wall approximately where her head would have been moments earlier.  She looked up scanning the rooftops she saw the Vampire making a quick exit running over the rooftops.
Several vampires appeared from down the ally they were suddenly surrounded. Flick handed Kate a stake “I Hope you still remember how to use one”
“Don’t worry about me”
“I’ll take these three you take the other two”
Flick punched the closes vamp in the face sending him flying back into a dumpser, she the kicked the second in the shins and staked him the third leapt at her, flick fired her gun at him mid air he landed on her knocking her to the floor sending the gun clattering out of the hand, just as he was about to bite her he erupted it to dust
Katie successfully managed to evade the first vamps attack sending him flying into the wall; she ducked the second’s punch and staked him. The first was getting to his feet when Katie noticed the vamp on flick; just as she had decided to help he erupted to dust. Katie didn’t notice the vampire behind.
“DUCK!” Flick yelled and Katie dropped to her knees picking up flick’s gun, as flick through a take into the hart of the vampire, Katie got to her feet, and they both tuned on the last vampire who had just got out of the dumster. The vampire turned and ran
“Coward” Flick yelled after him taking the gun from Katie and fireing, the vamp never made it to the end of the ally.
Katie nelt down to examine the bullet it was a small plastic dart the needle had been broken off and was leaking a clear liquid that smelled faintly of fish.  Katie pulled a small plastic bag out of her pocket and placed the dart in it.
“Since when have Vamps been shooting tranq darts” Katie asked Flick shrugged
“Let’s get this to Willow and we can find out what they were trying shoot you with”
 
Part 2/% : Spoil my fun!
“YOU MISSED!” Anna yelled, getting up and walking over to the vampire “how hard was it, all you had to do was fire the dam thing and get out of there.  Do you know how hard it is to get that stuff?  The trouble I have to go to extract that stuff from the frigging puffer-fish, the smell is so hard to get rid off”
“Yes mam”
“You’ll go and get the slayer and bring her here using any mean’s necessary.  Then you’ll go back and get rid of all of the evidence of our earlier attempt.  I want the Slayer here ALIVE!!”
“Calm down” Faith said
“Don’t,” Anna said as she flounced down on the bed focusing on the curtain opposite and scowled.
Faith handed her the remote “Why don’t you have some fun while I go out with the boys and make sure that they do it right this time”
“She’s no fun anymore, all she dose is sit there and mumble about angels, she even tried to kill herself. It’s boring” Anna said as the curtains drew back.
“We’ll bring her to you”
“I’m bored of her and I’m bored of chasing Flick and her cronies round Sunnydale we never get anywhere.” She got up and went to the glass and tapped it the figure in the far corner of the room paid no attention to the noise.  
“I want to do something fun something different”
“we’ll get them bring them here, Flick and Sarah”
“NO No”
“You don’t want them here”
“Oh yess I do but after that, when there are no slayers except you, you know which is the winning team”
“Like what”
“I’ll let you know” she said turning back to the glass and tapped it agin but still the figure did not respond, But kept on staring into space.  The figure barely resembled it’s former self.  Her blond hair had grown long and was pulled back into a raggedy braid, her once lean figure was thin and sunk in on it's self.  The straight jacket was securely tied but the occupant had long since stopped fighting.  The NG tube that had been forced on her when she had given up the will to live stood out against her gaunt face. Behind her Hazel eye was another story, cut off from reality.  She was happily married and they had a daughter and she had just started school and everything was perfect at 12:30 am, beep, beep, beep………
 
Part 3/% : Los Angeles
“What no!” Wesley exclaimed
“Yes” Cordy hissed
“You broke it”
“Did not”
“There fixed”
Cordy looked unsure as the coffee machine sprung into life and promptly died with a splutter and squirted out a few drops of a brown gunk.  Wesley picked up the cup at looked at the liquid in the cup.
“Is that coffee” Gun asked as he walked into the room taking the cup from Wesley and peering at the gunge at the bottom
“Where’s Angel”
“He’s in his office” Wesley said
Gun walked over to the door, “I wouldn’t go in there” Cordy said, “He’s in a crappy mood”
“Why”
“It’s today, you know five years ago Buffy died right there in his arms so he’s in his annual foul mood”
“Oh
“AAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Cordy yelled as she was assaulted with a vision of Flick discovering henrys dead body and the being attacked and captured by Faith “Faith’s got Flick” Cordy managed to gasp before another wave of vision assaulted her, Flick was locked in a room with someone else, but the Flash ended before she could get a good look at the other occupant. The vision the flashed to the events five years ago Buffy running away from the warehouse, then a shot of someone holding a rifle and aiming it at Buffy’s back, and firing”
“Are you okay”
“That was strange, Flick is being held by Anna, but Anna is holding someone else and Buffy was shot”
“What!”
“I thought she was dead”
“she is”
“Tell us exactly what you saw”
“Maby we should get Angel”
“No need I’m here”
“It was Faith she’s killed Henry and she’s going to kidnap Flick”
“I’ll call” Wesley said reaching for the phone
“Then I was in this cell there was some one there someone I know but I just cat remember it’s there but ahh!” she let out a short groan of frustration “and them it was five year’s ago when we went to save Sarah’s mom and Buffy” she paused and looked at Angel “Somebody shot her I think it was that guy that was with Anna in the beginning”
Wesley began to dial, Angel sat down and resumed his brooding pose
“If I could only work out who was in that room it feels important”
“It’ll come to you it always dose”
*****
Willow was sitting in front of her computer typing up her reports “Are you going to be any longer pet” Spike said as he moved to massage her neck
“Nearly there, but it’ll never get finished if you keep that up” Willow said but was soon lost in the sensation of his fingers doing their magic on her neck.
“Can I come in” Flick said as she came in followed by Katie
“And this is what ME’s do in their offices” Katie said with an amused look on her face
“Katie when did you arive”
“Just tonight, but as usual something strange happens” Katie said as she pulled the plastic bag out of her pocket
“Yeah some vamp tried to shoot me”
“A vamp with bad aim” Spike quipped
“How do you put up with him!”
“Patience!" Willow said giving him a look "Let me see,” taking the bag from Katie
“It’s a tranq dart”
“It was one of Anna’s men”
“What is she playing at” Willow said holding the bag up to the light and squinting at it
“I don’t know.  She’s just completely dotty” Katie replied
“But dotty enough to have slipped through our fingers for the last five years” Flick said looking around.
“Give me a few hours”
“I’ll give you a hand” Katie said, “It’s nice to know nothing changes.  I’ve been here not two hours and there’s already something going on.”
“I’ll go wake Henry up” Flick said and left
“Have fun”
****
She was so not looking forward to having to wake Henry up at this hour.  Though he was her watcher, he did not like being woken up in the middle of the night he invented not a morning person.  He had been her watcher since she was eight, when he had come to her house and told her parents that she had a destiny.  Her father had promptly thrown him out of the house but it was her mother who had, had to explain it her sister was a slayer and that it tended to run in the family she had hopped that it wouldn’t happen to her.  There was no escaping it that when she became of age she would have to fight or die so her father left.  Her mum and Henry constantly argued on how she should be raised.  So she had managed to get some semblance of a normal life she had gone to school and had extra circular lessons with Henry after school.  Then her plans to go to university had fallen through when she had been called on and shipped to Sunnydale.  Where she had ended up in Sunnydale U it was no Oxford, but duty calls magnitudes larger.
Flick stood outside the shop when some thing hit her from behind not hard enough to knock her out but hard enough to wind her she fell to her knees gasping for breath.
“Is the Slayer hurt”
“No! She’s not,” Flick said as she sprung to her feet ignoring the pain in her back.  She was out numbered there was at least ten if not more.  Flick noticed the two trying to come up behind her and spun around her and staked the first vamp the second moved before she could stake him but delivering a vicious kick instead.  She took out two more in quick succession, sending one flying into the garbage cans with a deafening crash.
Henry was awoken by a crash from outside and groaned “bloody dog’s” but then herd the sound of a vampire disintegrating and sat up straining his ears he could hear the sound of a fight going on and the sound of yet another vampire meeting a dusty end.  He pulled on his dressing gown and went to the already half open window sure enough Flick was fighting of five vamps but he could see one on the roof of the opposite building he was levelling his rifle trying to get the laser site on Flick.  The beam was on her when he yelled “On the roof”
Flick looked up when Henry yelled out.  She made a quick scan of the roof tops, but is was too late the sniper had fired and the dart lodged it’s elf in her arm.
Henry ran out of his room and down to the shop floor. He ignored the phone that had just started to ring.  He fumbled with the lock on the door to get it open.  Faith grabbed  Henry as he steped out of the shop pinned is arm it behind him pushing him against the wall “Hello watcher.  You won’t be for much longer!”
The drug was working quickly she felt warm it was spreading from her arm.
“Go to hell” Henry yelled as he saw flick wavering unsteadily as two vamps grabbed and she made no move it stop them.
“No we’ve saved that for Flick” he said pulling on his arm again and dropped her voice to a whisper “Buffy’s already there, Anna’s had so much fun but it got boring.  Now she has us all together.  Think about that!” He said as she stabbed him straight through the heart.
The warmth was slowly eclipsing her consciousness she felt her self falling but some on grabbed her and held her up and she saw, Faith stab Henry but she couldn’t make her limbs move or a voice work she wanted to scream as Henry slid to the floor, and she slipped into the warmth as it took over.
Henry gasped he wasn’t sure whether it was from the pain or from the realisation that Buffy was still alive and had been for the last five years, and he was to go to his grave with that information
*****
Sarah was stalking around the house with a can of bug spray in one hand and a fly swat in the other determined to find and put an end to the fiend that was causing the racket.  Then it dawned on her that insects don’t ring they buzz.  Sarah looked down at the phone frowned and picked it up
“Shut up” she yelled into the phone
“Sarah” Wesley asked
“Who’s speaking”
“It’s Wesley, Can I speak to, Stephanie”
“Why”
“It’s about Flick”
“She’s patrolling now try her mobile” and with that she hung up and pulled the cable out of the socket “you wont be making a racket any more.
“I don’t know her mobile number,” he said but the line was dead he tried again but the phone was engaged “I think she’s put the phone of the hook”
“We’re leaving” angel said grabbing up his coat.
“Are you sure going back to Sunnydale after all these years”
“Yes” came his blunt reply “Gun stay here a hold down the fort”

 
Part 4/% : ...Why don’t you?
“Coffee” Spike said coming in carrying to cups of machine coffee
“Thanks you’re a gem!” Willow said
“I’ve got to get going the Sun’ll be up soon”
“It’s going to be a while before we’re finished” Katie explained
“Yeah I’ve nearly got it, It’s mixture I’ve isolated one of them it’s Spironolactone it’s quite a powerful muscle relaxant there’s another I’m running a search I’ll see what it turns up”
The phone began to ring “Could you get that” willow asked
“Hello, home of the dead” Spike said Willow looked up and glared at him
“Spike” Angel asked “What are you doing there”
“Who is it” Willow asked taking in Spike shocked look getting up to take the phone.
“Hello”
“Angel!” Willow asked surprised it had been Five years and not a word.
“Is everything okay”
“Yeah, Is that why you call five years nothing then, ring out of the blue to ask if we’re okay”
“Yes, No Cordy had a vision”
“Okay!”
“That flick was captured by Anna”
“Oh god, she left here hours ago to go and see Henry”
“She’s not there or answering the phone, Wesley spoke to Sarah she said that we could ring her mobile but I don’t have the number.”
“I’ll do that”
“Call us back when you have”
“What does old mopey have to say for him self”
Katie couldn’t contain her giggle.  She had never really met Angel.  After the funerals she had gone back to New York with her parents.  Sarah and Stephanie had stayed behind to help Flick and the other’s. She hadn’t been aloud; she had only been thirteen at the time.  With Juniors death her mom wouldn’t her out of her sight and refused to accept what had really happened blaming it all on Sarah and Anna.  She had only now been able to come back.  She had been communicating with them for years without her parents knowing.
Katie knew that Angel never got over Buffys death especially that she had died in his arms.  Nobody knew how she died the doctor said that she had had a brain haemorrhage due to a blow to the head she had received during the fight; this had caused the apnoea. The autopsy had confirmed this; Joyce had wanted her buried quickly.  She didn’t want to know how she had died, just that she had.  Though Katie had only met Joyce as a vampire what she had herd about her, told her that she must have come to terms with the fact that her daughter was going to die long before it happened.  Much like Sarah and Anna’s mom had come to terms with the fact that Anna had killed her own father.
Willow was beginning to panic as for the fifth time ‘the cell phone you are trying to contact is unavailable at the moment’
“what’s up pet” Spike asked
“I think something’s happen to Flick” willow said dialling Flicks phone again
Spike sniffed and then scowled and sniffed again.
“What’s up?” Katie asked looking at him curiously
“Something’s burning”
Willow went over to the window that separated the lab from the autopsy bay it was that one-way mirror stuff so that in the dark you cant see through it she turned the light on in the autopsy bay to find it filled with smoke
“You’re right”
“How come the fire alarm didn’t go off,” Katie asked
“We need to get out of here” just then the computer beeped it had come up with the information.  Willow quickly inserted a disk and saved the data.
“Ready”
“Yep” Katie said tying a wet mask around her face Willow got the idea and did the same
“Where going out of the building not going in to surgery” Spike quipped
“You might not have to breathe, but we do”
Spike took Willow’s hand and Katie took Willow’s as the opened the door to the Autopsy bay the way out was through there and then down the corridor he led them through the room the smoke was thick he could barely see two steps in front of him.  But he made it to the door on the other side, Willow and Katie were coughing he could feel the heat coming off the door the way out was blocked the door was red hot the window was blacked out with the soot.  He yelped as he put his hand on the doorknob it was blazing hot.  “We can’t go that way”
“There’s a sewer access in the store room” Willow choked
“I know”
“Of course you do” Katie wheezed
They made it into the sewer’s only to be met by two vamps that had been waiting for them.
“It’s Spike and his human pet”
“I might not be able to kill humans but I have no problem with you”
He kicked the first vamp in the stomach and punched the second in the face. While Katie and Willow looked around for something to use as a stake, they found what looked like half a chair.  Snapping of one of the legs and tossing it to Spike, who made quick work of the two vampires?
“Anna really doesn’t want us to find out what is in her little concoction”
“A visit to the watcher I think”
 
Part 6/% : All together now!
Flick woke up she was lying on a cold metal floor. She tried to get up but she couldn't move.  She felt like she had been asleep for days.  The world spun foggily, she was so dizzy the floor felt like it was moving, even though she knew it wasn't.  She rolled onto her back after a few minutes.  The dizziness soon subsided, enough for her to open her eyes.  She was on the floor of a room. The ceiling was white with fluorescent lights behind panels embedded into it.  Three of the walls were grey, as was the metal floor.  One of the walls was clear with a red curtain on the other side.  On the opposite wall was a door with a small window and a closed slot near the bottom. Sitting in the farthest corner of the room was a figure she was quietly mumbling to her self.  She lay there for a long moment before deciding to get up.  Still, her body refused to obey.
Someone had removed her socks and shoes.  She frowned trying to remember who might have taken them. Finally she managed to sit up. The simple movement made her head spin.  Her limbs felt like dead weights as she moved. Her left shoulder ached. She remembered Henry yelling at her and looking up then a searing pain in her arm then she had felt sleepy.  Flick gasped at the realisation that she had been drugged it had to be Anna no one else would go to the trouble
High on the wall above the large glass wall was one of those clocks she remembered you could get in banks.  They clearly tell you the Date and Time at a glance.  The second part, the date in 10 days time when your check would be cashed, was broken.  It told the date from a week ago.  She watched as the date rolled over.  It was midnight.  The clock beeped five short beeps then a long one a mechanical voice announced, "12:00am."  She watched as the seconds clicked over. 02:00:01, 02:00:02, 02:00:03, 02:00:04, 02:00:05, 02:00:10, The ticking of the clock became loud, so loud she was unable to block it out. < Stop it >
Then she remembered she had be shot with some kind of drug and that Faith stabbed and killed Henry she tried not to cry at the knowledge she’d do that later when she was out of here and then she’d hunt faith down and she stoped her self there, she wasn’t going to sink to that level < I have to get out of here > Flick forced herself to her feet. Her legs felt like jelly and instantly gave way under her. < Okay! Standing is not an option, > she crawled over to the figure in the far corner.
Her blond hair was pulled back into a raggedy braid, she was thin and sunk in on herself.  The straight jacket was securely tied around her thin frame.  The NG tube stood out against her gaunt face. Her Hazel eyes were dim and unfocused “Angel don’t go” she mumbled
It was like she had been shot.  It grabbed her by her very soul, the realisation that this was Buffy.  She had only ever seen pictures of her.  Willow and Xander had a few.  The person sitting in front of her was a shell of what she’d once been.  Flick had heard about all the things that she’d done.  How everyone had upheld her memory after Giles and Joyce had also died. “Buffy” Flick said barely above a whisper
“So Slayer you found the other one, haven’t I done well? All three Slayers together at last” Anna said.  She was very much Sarah’s twin but time had now separated them.  Sarah had grown up and become a woman; Anna was still stuck in her youth.
“You BITCH!”
“Charming, we’ll as you have now probably gathered by now that you are not going to die take comfort in that.”
“You’re just going to keep me here indefinitely”
“Yep, Oh your watcher.  According to my Friend here was an easy Kill so were going to look for more of a challenge” With that she drew the curtains and turned out the light the only source of light was from the clock that glowed.
Flick slumped to the floor next to Buffy and began to cry she had no words to describe how she felt, she could scream and run around and thump the wall’s but that would do no good.  So she just sat there and cried she cried for Henry she cried for what had been done to the former slayer she cried until she could cry no more.. Flick latched on to the dim hope that they would try and get her back.  Everybody had thought Buffy was dead because the doctor said so, there was a grave and documentation.  Flick had none.  One thing she had learnt over the years was never to underestimate the resourcefulness on the remaining Slayerettes.
 
Part 7/% : Five years on and still we research.
Outside in the alleyway beside Henry’s shop the grate covering the entrance to the sewers was pushed aside and Katie and Willow climbed out.  “Katie you get the door” Willow yelled
“It’s okay it’s only dawn,” Willow yelled down the manhole
“Only dawn” came the gruff response from within the manhole
Katie opened the door “Okay” she yelled back
“Okay” Willow yelled down the manhole
Spike ran out of the manhole and through the door all most flying into the back room. Willow was about to go in when she notice something poking out from behind the trash cans further down the alley. Curiosity got the better of her and she walked down the alley slumped against the wall was Henry she knelt down beside him; he was bleeding from the gaping wound in his chest.  “Henry, Henry, HENRY” she screamed shaking him “You cant be dead you just cant” Willow yelled breaking down
Katie heard Willow’s cries and came rushing out of the shop and found Willow cradling Henrys limp form “Spike call 911” Katie yelled
“Why what’s going on”
“It’s Henry he’s dead” Katie said “Oh my god where’s Flick”
******
Willow was sitting in one of the large leather armchairs in the back of the shop.  Her face still streaked with tears.  They had all spoken to the police.
“She was coming here to tell Henry about the vampire that tried to shoot her with a tranq dart” Willow explained to Stephanie as she arrived with sarah.
“Oh! God”
“We have to go and find her”
“Let’s wait until every one gets here”
Willow sat down at the computer in the corner and began to look at the information on the disk,
“What did you think you were doing sneaking out like that?” Stephanie yelled at Katie
“I just wanted to have a look around” Katie spat back
“ENOUGH!” Willow yelled. Everyone stopped talking surprised at her “I’ve found out what was in the dart.  It was a mixture of two drugs. Spironolactone which is a muscle relaxant and Itraconazole, which is an Adrenal suppresser and a third, I’m going to have to do a bit of research on this one.  The structure looks familiar”
“How is this drug going to help us find her, that is if she is still alive”
“She its obvious that she wants her alive or she wouldn’t have drugged her”
*****
They were racing against the Dawn, Angel was determined to get to Sunnydale before it came but he was losing the battle as the sun peaked above the horizon, some days he thought that it would be so easy to just let the dawn come and take him.  It had been five years since she had died, he had never thought that he would out live her he had always assumed, hoped that they would go out fighting side by side, but no she had died in his arms and he hadn’t even noticed it thinking she was sleeping. He should have known that she was lying there dead in his arm he should have noticed earlier he could have done something instead he stood there and watched helpless as she died.

*****Flash back*****
Angel looked down at Buffy asleep on his shoulder she looked so peace full, but the closer he looked she was too still.
“Buffy” he said quietly giving her a nudge nothing happened, “Buffy” he said a little louder giving her a firm shake still nothing.
“What’s up?” Xander asked
“It’s Buffy.  I think there’s something wrong she won’t wake up”
“Come on Buffster, Wakey! Wakey!” Xander said prodding his friend. She just slumped to one side her head lolling forward
“BUFFY!” Angel yelped in horror scooping her up into his arms
"I'm a doctor let me have a look" Jessica said
Angel laid her down on the floor of the van.  Jessica felt for a pulse and found none checked for breathing and found none.  She knelt down beside her raised her hand in to a fist and brought it down hard, on Buffy's chest.
"Get us to the hospital. NOW! Any of you know CPR"
"I do!" Xander said
All that could be heard all the way to the hospital was
"1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and breathe 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and breathe 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and breathe"
*****End Of Flash back*****

“Pull over” Wesley said pulling Angel back to the present
Angel pulled the car over to the side of the road, he didn’t move for what seemed like hours. Until he let out a sigh and got out and moved to the top as Wesley moved into the drivers seat and put the top up.  It wasn’t exactly easy for any of them to go back to Sunnydale shortly after Buffy’s death and the events shortly after Cordy’s life had fallen apart when her father had been arrested for tax evasion and they had lost everything so she had left Sunnydale with little intention of ever coming back but now five years later there she was heading back.
Wesley had didn’t want to come back either after the fire that had so very nearly clamed his life and that had left him with permanent scars as soon as he had been well enough he had left he had no reason to stay he had been fired, one of his charges was dead and the other had changed sides. So he had up and left with out a word.  Now the were going back to face everything that they had tried to run away for all theas years  
Part 8/% : Captives
Flick had stopped crying and was now busying her self with examining the room she had been striped of anything that could have been used as a weapon or a means of escape.  < Why I’m I looking if in five years Buffy couldn’t get out of here you cant >
“Stop it” she yelled at her self < I must be positive >
Flick had walked around the room too many times to count; it was grey with no way out.  There was a small bathroom but nothing she could use, the sink was like the one’s you get Mac Donald’s that are automatic.  The light’s were on a timer on at 8am off at 10pm food came through the slot at 9am, 12pm and 8pm.
She slid to the floor next to Buffy “Well my name is Felicity Grace but every one calls me Flick.  You must be Buffy Summers.  I’ve herd so much about you, mainly good I might add.  Can you even hear me?  Well I don’t care I’m going to talk to you anyway. Xander Once said that I could even out talk Cordy, Not sure weather that was a compliment or an insult.  Well let’s move on to one of my favourite subjects, me.  Henry says that you didn’t know that you were going to be the slayer until it happened.  I’ve known since I was eight when Henry came and dad left.  I still got to go to school and had a relatively normal childhood.  Except I got to learn how to fight and spent my weekends learning about demons and vampires, so I always knew that one-day I would be the slayer.
It was when I was making preparations to go to college.  That Henry said that it was time, and that I had to move to California.  Mum didn’t come, she’s still in England, she visits sometimes, and it’s safer for her there.  So I came here just after everyone thought you had died.  Then there was the fire.  Nobody really recovered from that.  I never knew those who died.  From what I have been told Giles must have been a fine Watcher it was an honour to have met him.” Flick paused remembering it wasn’t until week’s later what she was helping Willow, Xander and Cordy pick through the ruins of the house that she had found a photo of Buffy and her mom Buffy’s mum had been the one she had staked to rescue Katie from. Flick sighed thinking it best to leave that out.
“From what I have been told Oz died when the floor gave in under him when he was trying to fend off a vampire so that Willow and Xander could escape.  Junior died when the ceiling came down on him when He was carrying Katherine out, she had fallen pray to a Vampire.  It took a long time but we had the graduation to worry about.  That went disastrously well, I had one of those bizarre dreams that you just get used to having you were in it and you told me what to do, and with Stephs contacts.  Well you could say that graduation went off with a bang.  After the summer, when we all went to college, we all came together and have been that way ever since.  Sarah couldn’t stay in her mother’s house too many memories and lives with Stephanie who looks after her.  So Stephanie moved in and now finally Katie’s here.  After Junior’s death her grades started to slip and she was put back the grades that she had been jumped.
It has taken Willow along time to get over Oz but has found happiness in with that strangest person, Spike but he’s under strict orders that if he steps one toenail out of line I’ll stake his ass!” Flick then grinned “On the other hand I probably wouldn’t.  It wouldn’t accomplish much apart from making him hopping mad and not able to sit down for a month.  Being a slayer I should know that the Heart dose not reside in the ass.” Katie was positive that she had seen a glimmer in Buffys eye and decides to keep on talking
“I’ve been told that you and Angel were very, very close.  I have to say that you certainly know how to pick ‘em. Not that I’ve ever had a conversation that consisted more that a few words. He moved to LA shortly after well anyway I haven’t spoken to him for a very long time”
“He’s Alive” Buffy whispered her voice barely audible
“Come again?”
“Angel”
“Oh yes he’s very much alive, well as alive as a dead person can be”
Buffy then began to cry loud racking sobs “don’t cry” Flick said feeling foolish as she said it taking Buffy into her arms
 
Part 9/% : We just keep on going!

Willow and Katie had long given up their search for the drug and had begun preparations for a location and guiding spell. Anya had been given the task of tracing it down as the computer ran search
“So what we do now” Xander asked
“Okay you two do the spell we’ll sort out weapons.” Stephanie said
Willow and Katie Sarah were left to do the spell.  While the rest of the group went upstairs to where Henry had kept his weapons.  The Chest was locked.
“The key it’s down stairs, I’ll go get it” Sarah said and disappeared back down the stairs
Willow and Katie were in the middle of the spell, when Sarah came down.
“Aurella we call to thee.  We seek what had been lost to us.  Please reveal it to us” Willow and Katie chanted and the pendent they were holding glowed a bright pink then back to purple.
Sarah watched them from the doorway transfixed only to be broken by the sound of breaking glass coming from the shop. Willow, Katie and Sarah all trouped in to the shop front only to be met by an army of Vampires lead by there none vampire leader Faith.
They were dangerously out numbered more than four to one.  Willow and Katie retreated the way they had come Sarah quickly following suit.  Only to be followed by Faith who started to invite the vamps in.
"Hey what's taking you so long?” Xander yelled down the stairs
"Uh! we have a problem"
"What kind of problem" Xander said coming to the top of the stairs
"Uh! That"
"Ah! Guy's we need help down here"
The group of vampires split in half, Half going up the stairs and the other half advancing on Willow, Katie and Sarah.  They always carried crosses Katie had a stake with her three vamps advanced on them.  Katie who had spent her years in New York learning how to fight and the years before that fighting with her brother launched into the fray, catching one off guard and rammed the stake home.  Willow was fending off two vamps with he cross while Sarah fumbled with the door to the closet under the stairs.  In it would be the brooms.  Katie was not faring as well she had skill but just not the strength to fight vampires.  She was doing no damage just holding her own.
*****
Outside Angel pulled his car to a screeching halt as he saw a group of vampires break into the bookshop. They all dashed out of the car grabbing weapons from the trunk and headed into the bookshop.
*****
Up stairs Spike ripped open the lid to the chest.  Stephanie began to hand out the weapons inside.  Spike met the vamps that came up the stairs.  The first three were dispatched easily.  The three remaining were less easy the first went after Stephanie who lunged with a wooden sword impaling him and he burst in to dust.  Xander was defending Anya from the other two.  Stephanie went to help him and between them they made quick work of one, the other decided to make a run for it but Angel who was at the bottom of the stairs caught him and staked him.
Sarah had managed to get the closet door open and pulled out a broom and handed one to Willow and took one herself.  Willow snapped her broom in half and went after the vampire that was directly in front of her.  He grabbed her stake and yanked it out of her hand and threw it across the room.  He then grabbed her but he erupted before he could do anything thanks to Spike who had come down the stairs.  The rest of the group had gone to aid Katie who was tiring.
Spike leapt over the banisters to help Sarah who facing it off with a vampire and Faith.  The vampire viciously backhanded Sarah in to the wall.  Her head collided with the wall and she was out.  Spike picked up the broom handle that Sarah had been using and staked the vampire, Faith scooped Sarah up Spike reached out to grab Faith but before he could complete the move the chip kicked in and pain rocketed through his brain. Faith laughed and ran out the back taking Sarah with him.
“Noooo! Someone stop her” Spike yelled clutching his head
Stephanie ran out after Faith only to see her drive off.  Willow dashed to Spike side “Are you okay” she said toucing his head
“Yes” Spike said as he enveloped Willow in a tight hug.
Stephanie came back in she was crying, “They got her” she sobbed and slumped to the floor next to an exhausted Katie.  Xander and Anya sat down on the steps Xander rapped his arm around Anya.  Angel looked around the room slightly puzzled he had seen Spike try and save Sarah staking a vamp in the process but when he had tried to grab the Faith something had cause him great pain, not that the first wasn’t confusing enough.
Willow got to her feet and walked over to angel “Hello, It’s nice to see you again, It’s nice to see you all again” she said turning to Cordy and Wesley
“We’ve got to get Sarah, we can be happy that the Vampie’s back later” Stephanie snapped
“Stephanie they came to help”
“Oh yeah another vampire is going to be a great help” Stephanie yelled then turning on spike “like this one”
“It wasn’t his fault” Willow snapped back
“Oh! no no of course we all go leaping to the defence of a vampire who let Sarah get captured”
“I did not, I have bloody migraine to prove that I tried” Spike said moving on Stephanie
“Faith for all intents and purposes behaves just like a vampire but is NOT she is still human thus taking Spike out of the equation” Katie said trying to end the argument
“I’d be more worried if he had” Xander said
“Yeah because then the chip wouldn’t be working and he’d murder us all in our beds”
“Chip” Angel asked
The room suddenly went silent, every one looking at Spike and Angel as Spike turned to look at Angel. “He doesn’t know dose he” Anya asked
“Yeah old spike got a chip in his head which means that he cant kill any more”
There was another silence that was only broken by the sound of Angel laughing and everyone just looked at him shocked nobody had ever seen or heard him laugh before “If I had known this would stop him brooding id have told him earlier” Cordy said
“you knew”
“Uh yes willow told me ages ago” Cordy said
“And you didn’t grace me with this piece of information”
“We told her not to” Willow said
“Not that this reunion isn’t heart warming and all but we have more pressing matters”
“yes right”
“good, now you three” Stephanie said turning to them “Willow said some thing about a vision”
“We came as soon as we could”
“Of course you had to wait until sunset”
“hey, we could have stayed in LA” Cordy snapped
“Okay, Fine I suppose you can help”
“This vision did it give us any idea where they might be”
“I think it’s an old hospital”
“The old metal institute, it has to be, just like Anna” Stephanie said sarcastically
“What would Anna want with Flick”
“I don’t know, I don’t think that there’s a prophecy or something, Anna’s never displayed any world destroying tendencies before”
“World destroying tendencies”
“You make it sound like someone one day decides to destroy the world”
“Maybe she has”
“I say we look into it”
“Yeah okay, we’ll all look to that and find away to stop her,”
“This metal institute, we need all we can get” Stephanie said “I’m going to shut the shop for the day” with that she left
When Stephanie was out of ear shot Cordy asked “Is she always that abrupt”
“Not usually, there’s been a lot it the last twenty-four hours, Plus the fact that he’s a Vampie doesn’t help” Katie said nodding at Angel “Yeah it’s been nearly five years and still she wont be in the same room as Spike, It’s not like he’ll bite” with that Katie laughed at her own joke, Willow gave her a evil look.
“Good one Katie” Xander said giving Katie the high fives
“Watch it”
Just then there was a loud crash and the sound of screaming
“WHAT THE HELL”
They all rushed into the shop and out the window they saw several demons looting and burning the shops opposite.
“Go” Stephanie said and Spike left shortly followed by Angel. Katie tried to get past Stephanie “Oh no you don’t” she said giving her a push back. Willow handed her a loaded gun and she left followed by Xander
Willow stood in the doorway and began to chant, the rest hid behind the counter.
Fight scene
They all stood out side the bookshop and watched numbly as it burnt “We’ve got to get moving” Angel said
“yes I have weapons at my house” Stephanie said
“It’s the getting there that’s going to be fun!” Katie said as she looked around at the looted street and the fires burning, and listened to the sound of destruction, of breaking glass, yells and screams.
 
Part 10/% : Present’s and Explanation’s
Faith walked into Anna's chambers.  Anna was standing by her open window watching as destruction rained down on the town below the little fires here and there, The destruction that she had allowed, by simply putting out the message that the slayer was gone.   "Job done"
"Not Quite, But" she said the door opened and a burly vamp Carried in Sarah's unconscious form and placed it on the floor at her feet.
"Oh! You gem"
"Thanks"
"We must make plan's to move" she said closing the window “It’s getting to rowdy here”
"Yes"
"But first I have a little unfinished business"
"You sure do" Faith said leaving
Anna looked down at her sister; she bent down to take a closer look at the bump on the back of Sarah's head.  She watched intently as her sister came awake. Her hand's and feet were tied she wasn't going anywhere "Hi Sis" she said placing her self directly in Sarah's line of sight
"Anna" She spat
"Long time no see"
"So how are we" Anna said getting up and looking down at Sarah
"All the better for seeing you" Sarah replied coldly
Anna brought the heal of her shoe across the side of her head it mad a sickening crack as it impacted with her skull sending her sprawling across the floor.  Sarah pulled herself up so she was leaning against the wall
"Why did you get your lackey's to bring me here"
"I'm moving"
"Moving"
"Yeah I have accomplished all that I could ever want here"
"You have"
"I have."
"What have you done with Flick"
"You really want to know" Anna asked.  Sarah nodded.  Anna grabbed her by her hair and dragged her across the room to a wall that was covered by a thick red curtain. "You sure" she asked as she pressed the button on the keypad.  The curtains parted sending light flooding into the room on the other side.  Huddled in the corner were two girls one with red hair who was cradling a blond girl.  The one with red hair was Flick she looked up, with a look of deep sorrow as she saw Sarah.  Anna hauled Sarah to her feet, Stand for the slayer's.  Sarah gasped and her legs gave way Anna let her fall to her knees.  Tear's rolled down Sarah's faced filled with horror and dismay.
"Do you know want to know how I did it"
Sarah was too stunned to answer.  So Anna ploughed a head any way "You see it was a mixture of three drugs. Spironolactone which is a muscle relaxant, Itraconazole, which is an Adrenal suppresser, and Tetrodotoxin, which is a poison.  It effects the cardiopulmonary system, and if taken in small enough doses it can simulate a death like state for up to seventy-two hours.  With a Little help from the mayor at the time she came into my possession.  But it mustn't have worked or some cosmic accountant got his figures wrong and another slayer popped up.  I have managed to keep two under my control now I have all three under one roof and you to"
“Why!” Sarah gasped
“Don’t you see now the world a slayerless and will be for another forty or so years, one can do a lot of damage in that time, so much so that maybe the next slayer wont be able to put it back together again”
****
They dashed in the front door, slamming in shut in the face of the perusing pack of vampires, they all collapsed to the floor gasping for breath
Not sure what to put here
“Are you sure that this is such a good idea maybe we should wait, formulate a better plan” Wesley asked
“NO WE’VE BEEN FORMULATING BETTER PLANS FOR TOO LONG, WE HAVE TO ACT”
“Don’t you think that’s what she wants you to do?”
“Anna doesn’t think she never did, what do you think she’ll do to Sarah, she’s always wanted Sarah to join her, If we don’t do something we’ll have two Anna’s to deal with...” Stephanie yelled before she broke down into tears.
“And now we know where she is, We’ve never known that, we can put an end to this once and for all” Katie finished
 
Part 11/% : Sickening Realisations
She didn’t know when the world had fallen so completely apart.  Everything was tumbling down around her she fought she kicked she punched she did everything within her power to try and pull it all back together again but it was two steps forward three backwards it was hopeless.  Nothing she did any more made a difference; she was stuck in the monotony of life as she watched the people around her die and could do nothing about it.  
How could something so completely identical to her self be so different? So the opposite?  But yet so the same they were twins they came from the same place they were made of the same stuff they both had the same dangerous intelligence, she had thought these things she had thought about uselessness of the battle they fought nightly, a war that would never be won that there would be no victor only victims.  
How many slayers had there now been hundreds thousands maybe even millions but the number of Vampires could triple that for everyone staked there would be another, for every slayer there would be another. A careful balance that kept the world from falling; now this dangerous intelligence had fathomed a way to tip the balance; and surly the world would fall.
Sarah watched as her good friend for nearly five years take care of her predecessor the girl that she had assumed died helping her. Was now alive and alive for the pure sake of it she had denied death because her death would right the balance, and now her friend faced the same fate, denied death because of their birthright
****
They proceeded into the building opening door after door not finding any sign of life more rather death. The creepy thing was the building was being kept up the windows had been boarded up from the outside, but the offices had new furniture and blinds.  The floors polished the walls painted but it was dark, they made there way out of the administrative sector into the nurses quarters.  Each room was furnished differently obviously lived in if that was what you could call it.
"Let's split up"
"You three go find Flick, and me and Katie'll go find Sarah" Stephanie said
"Okay Xander go with them" Angel said
"Willow how's that thing"
"This way" Willow pointed, and they headed off in the direction of the wards.  Whereas Stephanie's group went the other way, the white grey corridors seemed to go on forever, Until the pendant glowed bright pink.  It pointed to a door. "Here" Willow said.  They were in a corridor where all the doors were the same.  Willow raised her hand to open the panel in front of the window on the door.  She drew it down and peered in "Flick, Flick are you in there" she called giving the door a loud tap
"WILLOW" came a cry from inside the room and she was at the window "How did you find me"
"Magic" Willow said holding up the pendant
"Is Angel with you"
"Yes" Willow said pushed Flick never asked about Angel
"He need's to get in here now"
"You two" willow called to the two vamps that were checking out the rest of the corridor.
"Yes pet" Spike asked
"Do you think you could brake this door down"
"I don't know I've tried" Flick said
But Spike and Angel were all ready giving the door all they had.
****
Stephanie, Katie and Xander were wandering some where between lost and hopelessly lost it had been grey corridor after grey corridor until Xander turned a corner and came face to face with Faith.
"What are you doing here"
"What should have been done along time ago" Stephanie said
“And what was that” Faith said as few vampires came up behind them
“Anna”
“Well then let us escort you to her quarters”
****
Patrick pissed off he hated his un-life.  He had the stunning job of taking the food to the Slayers.  Not that he didn't admire Anna's plan the world would be a safer place with out slayers, but it came down him to make sure that they stayed alive.  He had to feed them, check on them, but now he had a new slayer to take care of it made things more problematic.  She was still a fighter it had taken nearly three years for the other one to give up fighting and a further eighteen months to give up the will to live.  His job had been easy for the past couple of months.  He still got to stretch his culinary muscles so it wasn’t all that bad.   He sauntered down the corridor not noticing the trio thumping the door until it was two late.
"Hey" Willow called; Spike and Angel set off after him
He set off at a run but did not have the foresight to put the tray down and Spike ploughed in to him sending the tray flying "My soup" he exclaimed
"I'll give soup,” Spike said hauling him to his feet
"What are you doing"
"Well I want to know how to get in to the room were the Slayer are kept"
"Can’t tell you that"
"You will” Angel said pulling a stake out
Willow cringed and looked away as Angel and Spike extracted the information from the vampire.  She went back to talk to Flick she was not at the window she looked trough the window the wall opposite was glass with a red curtain on the other side.  She couldn’t see much apart from the grey walls on either side.  “Flick you okay” she called out but was interrupted by the sound of a vampire disintegrating.
“Got it, stupid prick had it written down” Spike said smoothing out a piece of paper “Oh, one, one, three” he said as he punched the digits into the key pad and the door swung open.
Willow dashed in but stopped a few steps in.  Flick was not alone in the room she was kneeling next to a figure.  Flick saw heard them enter and got up but the figure growled at her leaving “It’s okay were going now.  Angel’s here, He’s come to take you home”
Willow’s eyes grew wide with what she saw but her brain was rebelling angst the image, as the image before her emblazoned it’s self on her brain, she felt like she had been punched, as she sickening realisation flooded through her, Grief, Joy, Hope and Despair all hit her at once, she thought she would collapse but she was frozen in the moment standing mere feet from her best friend that she had loved like a sister, who she had grieved for.  She took in her emaciated form, her gaunt lifeless face but her eyes told the tale, they had lost that spark, that no matter how bad things got, it had always been there,
She remembered the funeral it had been so final all those years ago Buffy had died in the line of duty, but now her she was alive.  How? How was it done she remembered watching as the doctors had fought to save her life and failed them pronouncing her dead, as the coffin had been lowered to the ground.  
This person in front of her wasn’t Buffy, couldn’t be Buffy.  It had to be some trick that Anna was playing.  Willow watched as Angel cradling Buffy’s limp body
“Angel” the figure croaked barely above a whisper
That one word confirmed it, and the dam broke and she began to cry not feeling as spikes arms slipped around her
He didn’t. He couldn’t. He wouldn’t believe it, but he did as he took her into his arms and she spoke his name.  She was alive he could hear her heart beating, feel her breath on his neck, but the woman he held in his arms wasn’t Buffy, that had been taken from her it was just a shell, her once beautiful figure was no more than skin and bone, her face was gaunt and drawn the NG tube that had been forced on her marred her face.  He looked into her eyes; those eyes that could look deep into his soul were blank and lifeless.
He was filled with a wild rage, angry at himself for not knowing that his one and only love of his 250 plus years of his existence hadn’t died in his arms five years go, and furious at the person who had done this, he could smell what the vampires had done to her repeatedly over the years especially the one that they had killed outside in the hall and with that his demon features came to the fore. He let out a cry, it wasn’t a scream, or a growl, or howl but it was filled with the pain of the moment.
Flick quietly left to room not entirely sure what to do. She stopped mid step when she heard it the sound chilled her.
****
Anna looked down at her sister who was looking defiantly up at her as she dealt another blow with her foot sending her sprawling across the floor.  When there was knock at the door “WHO IS IT” Anna yell and marched over to the door “This better be important” nearly ripping it of its hinges
“We found them wandering around”
“Ah, Stephanie how nice to see you and little Katie how are you doing these day’s.  Oh and even Mr Harris.  Do come in,” She said
Stephanie, Katie and Xander were forced through the door into her room they “Sarah ‘you okay” Stephanie asked seeing her crumpled form
“Yeah” she wheezed and rolled over into a more comfortable position.
“Well now I have you all together”
“Want to show you something” Anna said as she reached for the remote.
Sarah slumped back knowing there was nothing that could be done.  She had what she wanted. The sound sliced through the air like a knife as the curtains drew back and the whole room was speechless.  Sarah shivered as she remembered that sound from her dream all those years ago.  Angel was cradling Buffy.  Spike was Holding Willow.  Flick was watching from the door her attention was soon turned to that on the other side of the glass.  Anna was standing looking on stunned Sarah was slumped against the wall badly beaten; Faith and a couple other vampires were holding Stephanie, Katie and Xander.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING” Anna Screamed
Anna’s scream snapped everyone to attention.
“We have to get in there!” Willow said
“You can’t break the glass!” Flick said
“Willow you take care of Buffy get her out of here”
“We’ll go get the others”
“Oh no you wont” Anna yelled turning and yanking Sarah to her feet in front of her.
Stephanie realised what she intended to do and began to struggle violently, as did Katie this drew the attention away from Xander and Faiths grip on Xander slackened enough for him to escape.   He dashed across the room to help Sarah he knocked her from Anna’s grip only to place him in it.  Anna shrugged and said “Okay you go first then” Her Vampiric features taking over as she bared her fangs and bit deep into Xander’s neck.
“NOOOOOOOOO” Willow yelled as Spike pulled her into an embrace so she could not see his lifeless form fall to the floor.
Katie and Stephanie were helpless to do anything and stood there in shocked defiance.  Flick mustered every thing she had and marched out of the room determined to find Anna’s room and rescue the rest, the rest followed suit unable to watch any more.
Several vampires later they were at Anna’s door.  Willow waited outside with Buffy who was still unresponsive even though they had removed the jacket all her muscles had atrophied through lack of use and malnutrition.  She was light event to Willow’s small frame.  The door was soon gone unable to stand the combined rage of two vampires and one slayer.  The room inside was carnage the floor was covered with a mixture of Blood and Dust.  Stephanie was kneeling over Katie Cradling her arm Katie was gasping for breath she was laying in a pool of her own blood.  Faith was sprawled on the bed the canopy of the four poster bed had collapse on to her.
A framgment of a long ago conversation sprang into Sarahs mind as Anna clamped her bloody wrist to her mouth “You know it, it’s in you. we’re the same, we’re twins, You’re going to get it to, were twins, it’s in the blood”

Anna was oblivious to the rest of the room as she Forcing her twin to drink from her the will was going out of Sarah’s eyes falling into oblivion.  Before all will was gone.  With all her strength, this surprised her that she possessed it. Launched Anna and herself onto one of the waiting post she didn’t feel it go through her but she heard it go through her Twin.  Then all was silent.  It was finally over.