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3rd Person's POV

Drusilla runs her hand across the lid of an elegant wooden box labeled 'Holy Water'. She sings quietly as she lifts the lid and takes out a small crystal pitcher.

"The lamb is caught in the blackberry patch..." She turns around and slowly approaches Angel, "My mummy ate lemons. Raw."

She kneels next to him. Angel is tied to the posts of her canopy bed by both wrists high above his head.

"She said she loved the way they made her mouth," She runs her hand down and up his chest, "tingle. Little Anne."

She lets some of the holy water trickle onto his chest. It steams and burns like acid. Angel jerks his head back in pain and stifles a scream.

"Her favorite was custard... brandied pears."

"Dru..."

Drusilla stares at him sternly standing up quickly, "Shhh!... And pomegranates." Climbing up onto the bed she crawls behind Angel, "They used to make her face and fingers aaall red."

She reaches over his shoulder and lets more holy water dribble onto his chest. Again Angel grits his teeth in pain, but won't let himself scream out loud.

"Remember? Hmm? Little fingers. Little hands. Do you?"

Angel sits shivering in pain, "If I could..."

Drusilla interrupts angrily, "Bite your tongue!... They used to eat cake, and eggs, and honey... Until you came and ripped their throats out."

She pours the rest of the holy water onto his chest, and Angel screams out loud in agony.

...

"And dose two, dey also know you are de Slayer?"

Buffy nods nonchalantly, "Yep."

Kendra scoffs going back over to the desk, "Did anyone explain to you what 'secret identity' means?"

"Nope. Must be in the handbook."

"Right after the chapter on personality removal."

"Buffy!" Laney scolds.

Buffy rolls her eyes sighing before looking at Kendra and groans, "Be careful with that thing!"

Kendra picks up a crossbow, "Please. I'm an expert in all weapon."

The bolt flies off of the crossbow and breaks a lamp beside Laney's head. Laney lets out a  startled scream.

Giles hearing the noise and scream from the main room hurries into the doorway of his office.

"Is everything alright?"

Laney nods glancing over at a sheepish Kendra who sets down the bow, "Y-Yeah, it's okay. Kendra killed the bad lamp... and almost me."

Giles nods slowly checking over Laney once more before leaving back out the room, "Be careful you all."

Kendra grimaces as Laney gives her a reassuring smile as she begins to pick up the pieces of broken glass.

"Sorry! Dis, uh, trigger mechanism is different. Perhaps when dis is over you can, uh, show me how to work it."

Laney nods eagerly, "Heck yes! And then you can give me some fighting pointers!"

Kendra agrees.

Buffy glances at the two and shakes her head, "When this is over I'm thinking pineapple pizza and teen video movie fest. Possibly something from the Ringwald oeuvre."

Kendra frowns, "Your life is very different dan mine."

"You mean the part where I occasionally have one? Yeah, I guess it is." She carves at a stake angrily.

Laney groans, "Buffy seriously relax..."

"De tings you do and have, I was taught, distract from my calling. Friends, school... even family."

"Even family?"

Kendra nods answering Buffy's shocked tone, "My parents, dey sent me to my Watcher when I was very young."

Laney frowns, "That's so sad... and lonely."

Buffy nods, "How young?"

Kendra shrugs, "I don't remember dem, actually. I've seen pictures. But, uh, dat's how seriously de calling is taken by my people. My modder and fadder gave me to my Watcher because dey believed dat dey were doing de right ting for me, and for de world."

She puts down the stake and gets a sympathetic look from Buffy and Laney.

"Please, I don't feel sorry for meself. Why should you?"

"I don't know, I... I guess it just sounds like Laney said. Really very lonely."

"Emotions are weakness, Buffy. You shouldn't entertain dem."

"Kendra, my emotions give me power."

"They're total assets!" Laney adds with a grin.

Kendra picks up her knife, "Maybe. For you. But I prefer to keep an even mind."

"It's good to have an even mind too, Ken-doll. But I think the best thing is balance. It's all about emotion and mind. Using the two and learning control and power."

Kendra smiles at Laney in thanks.

Buffy sighs and puts down her knife not really hearing anything Laney had just said, "Mm. I guess that explains it."

"Explains what?"

Buffy plays with the stake, "Oh, well, when we were fighting, uh, you're amazing!"

"Totally badass."

Buffy shrugs, "Your technique, it's flawless, it's, hmm, better than mine."

Kendra nods, "I know."

"Still, I woulda kicked your butt in the end."

"Oop..."

"And ya know why? No imagination."

Kendra rubs her blade more vigorously, "Really? Ya tink so?"

Kendra puts down the rag as Buffy puts away her stake as Laney pulls out a rice krispy and starts eating it while sitting on the table nearby.

"Oh, I know so. You're good, but power alone isn't enough. A good fighter needs to know how to improvise, to go with the flow. Uh-uh, seriously, don't get me wrong, y-you really do have potential."

Kendra holds her knife ready, "Potential? I could wipe de floor wit you right now!"

"Please do it..." Laney mumbles to herself receiving a glare from Buffy, "Oops too loud?"

Buffy looks Kendra in the eye, "That would be anger you're feeling."

"What?"

"You feel it, right? How the anger gives you fire? A Slayer needs that."

They both look over at Xander as he walks into the office.

"Excuse me, ladies."

Kendra looks down at the floor while he grabs a book from the desk. Xander notices her knife and freezes.

"Nice knife."

Buffy and Laney watch as he leaves the office and Kendra stands straight once more.

"I'm guessing dating isn't big with your Watcher either."

"I'm not permitted to speak with boys."

"Unless you're pummeling them-" Suddenly, Buffy has a realization, "Wait a minute."

"What?" Kendra and Laney ask in unison.

"That guy! The sleazoid you nearly decked in the bar."

"-You tink he might help us?"

"I tink we might make him!"

"Buffy!"

...

Drusilla kneels between Angel's spread-apart legs and holds the little pitcher of holy water above him.

"Say 'Uncle'..." She lowers the pitcher, "Oh, that's right, you killed my uncle."

She is about to pour some onto his chest again when Spike comes in.

"That's it, then."

Drusilla looks up at him.

"Off to church." He smiles.

Drusilla stands up and grins, "It makes pretty colors."

Spike scoffs, "Pft! I'll see him die soon enough. I've never been much for the pre-show."

He reaches up to untie one of Angel's bonds while Drusilla puts away the holy water and gets Miss Edith.

Angel chuckles, "Too bad. That's what Drusilla likes best, as I recall."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Spike tenses up as he steps over to the other bond.

Angel shrugs, "Ask her. She knows what I mean."

Drusilla has come back to stand behind Spike's shoulder, and he turns his head to face her.

"Well?"

Drusilla turns to Angel with a small smirk, "Shhh! Grrrruff! Bad dog."

Angel smiles darkly, "You shoulda let me talk to him, Dru. Sounds like your boy could use some pointers. She likes to be teased."

Spike has finished untying the other bond and throws it to the floor.

"Keep your hole shut!" He stands over him.

"Take care of her, Spike. The way she touched me just now? I can tell when she's not satisfied."

"I said SHUT UP!"

He grabs Angel by the throat, lifts him to his feet and holds him against the bedpost.

"Or maybe you two just don't have the fire we had."

Spike's eye twitches in anger before he bursts, "That's enough!"

He pounds his other hand into the wooden railing of Drusilla's bed, grabs the piece that broke off and holds it up to stake Angel.

Drusilla yells out, "Spike, no!"

Spike holds back. Angel tries to goad him on with a stare. Drusilla steps over to Spike and gently puts her arm on his shoulder and snuggles up to him.

"Shhh."

Spike chuckles humorously, "Oh! Right. Right, you almost got me! Aren't you a 'throw himself to the lions' sort of sap these days. Well, the lions are on to you, baby. See, if I kill you now you go quick, and Dru hasn't got a chance. And if Dru dies your little Rebecca of Sunnyhell Farm, the little trainee, and all her mates are spared her coming-out party."

He squeezes Angel's throat before smirking, "You know I'm still a little confused about the whole situation. Do you wanna the Slayer or the Slayerette... maybe both?"

Angel glares at Spike as Spike sees something spark in his eye.

"Ahhhh I see now... something special about her huh? Maybe I need to see for mysel-"

"Don't even think about it. If you touch her- either of them..."

Spike chuckles.

Drusilla stares at the two now bored that they were speaking of the two nobody humans, "Spike, the moon is rising. It's time."

"Too bad, Angelus. Looks like you go the hard way. Along with the rest of this miserable town."

He keeps holding Angel against the bedpost as he and Drusilla engage in a passionate kiss.

...

Back at Willy's bar, Buffy shoves him up against the shelves of liquor bottles.

"Ah! Honest! I don't know where Angel is!"

"What about this ritual? What have you heard?"

"N-nothing! I-it's all hush-hush!"

Kendra groans, "Just hit him, Buffy!"

Buffy retorts to Willy looking away from Kendra, "She likes to hit..." Buffy nods over to Laney who stands leaning against the bar while spinning a knife in her hand, "And she's a little angry you lied to her... so what are you gonna do?"

Willy glances over at Laney and his eyes widen in fear as he gulps seeing her wave at him with the knife, "You know, m-maybe I did hear something about this ritual." Laney pretends to slice her neck with the knife and he clears his throat nodding, "Yeah, i-i... I-it's coming back to me. But, uh, I'd have to take you there."

"Let's go." Buffy starts to drag him out of the bar.

"Wait what?" Laney says staring at Willy confused, "Wait wait wait... You're willing to go? No... that's weird. Something is off Buffy."

Buffy frowns, "What? He told us. Your bad cop thing worked."

"Yeah but why would he go with you? He's a snitch. He outted Spike... Spike will kill him and you're literally delivering him to his own killer. Is that not weird?"

Buffy shrugs, "I don't have time for weird. There's no time for a little inkling of what if. I follow the signs."

"Yeah well I follow my intuition and gut."

"Your intuition and gut is going to get Angel killed. We need to go now."

Laney's jaw clenches in anger as she grips the knife tightly in her hand. She felt a tiny bit of pain as she looked down seeing a small amount of blood leak through her fingers. Opening her palm she sees the sharp end of the knife in her palm. Sighing she throws the knife on the counter and shakes her head.

"You're the boss, Slayer..." Laney smiles condescendingly.

Kendra stares at the two feeling uncomfortable.

Buffy purses her lips and shakes her head. Just when they were slightly getting along they took four more steps back in the wrong direction.

"Alright then. Let's go."

Kendra steps forward, "First we must return to de Watcher."

Buffy stops, "Excuse me? While we run to Giles, this whole thing could go down!"

Kendra shakes her head, "But it is procedure."

"It's brainless, you mean!" Buffy retorts, "If we don't go now, Angel could die." She starts to walk away once more.

Kendra scoffs, "Is dat all you're worried about? Your boyfriend?"

Buffy stops again, "No, it's not all, but it's enough."

"It's as I feared. He clouds your judgment. We can't stop dis ritual alone!"

"Agreed."

Buffy looks at the two in pure shock, "Are you two listening to me? He could die!"

Kendra shrugs, "He's a vampire. He should die."

Laney holds up a finger from her uninsured hand, "I wouldn't go that far..."

Kendra frowns, "Why am I de only person who sees it?"

Buffy just stares at her a moment before turning around again and heading for the door with Willy in tow.

Kendra chuckles, "Are you dat big a fool?"

"Yes... yes she is."

Buffy glares at Laney for a moment before shaking her head at the two and shoving Willy out ahead of her. The blonde Slayer leaves Kendra and Laney behind in the bar.

Kendra exhales in annoyance, "Good riddance, den."

Laney sighs crossing her arms over her head, "You know we have to help her."

Kendra frowns, "Is dis how you all work all da time?"

Laney shrugs with a nod, "Yeah usually she'll be fine then get over cocky and need a little bit of help. Hence the Scooby Gang and I coming to save..."

"But you don't have Slayer powers yet... aren't you completely risking your life when she goes rogue."

Laney looks down at her bloody hand sadly, "You get used to it, Ken-doll."

"You two seem to fight a lot. Are you sure your friends as she calls you all?"

"We're... complicated. But Angel... he's good now. And he's like my best friend. Like Cordy. He's really special to me. And we don't leave anyone behind. Ever. So are you gonna help me help them or what?"

Kendra nods placing a hand on Laney's shoulder, "You're a good friend. A loyal friend. Anyone would be lucky to call you as such."

Laney smiles before shaking her head, "Not you making this moment all gushy. Ugh let's go before I start crying."

Kendra laughs as Laney quickly walks away.

...

Inside the nave of the church, Spike walks up the main aisle from the altar with a burning incense censer.

"Eligor. I name thee. Bringer of war, poisoners, pariahs, grand obscenity."

He turns back to the altar. Angel and Drusilla are both strapped together to a chain that hangs from the ceiling. Angel's right hand is tied to the chain above his head.

"Eligor, wretched master of decay, bring your black medicine."

Drusilla mutters, "Black medicine."

Spike sets the censer down on the altar and picks up the Du Lac Cross with his gloved hand.

"Come." Spike holds up the cross upside-down, "Restore your most impious, murder child."

Drusilla nods, "...murder child."

He grabs the downward-pointing tip of the cross with his other hand and yanks down, pulling out a dagger. He lays the rest of the cross back on the altar.

"From the blood of the sire she is risen."

He takes Drusilla's left hand and raises it to Angel's, and she clasps it.

"From the blood of the sire, she shall rise again."

With one swift stroke Spike stabs the blade through their hands. Angel screams in agony. A blindingly bright pink light emanates from their wounds. A pulse of energy spreads out, and then the light dies back down to a faint glimmer as Angel's strength begins to ebb from him into Drusilla. She droops backward, feeling Angel's energy flow into her.

"Right, then! Now we just let them come to a simmering boil, and remove to a low flame."

Willy barges through the door and strides into the nave with the vampires and assassins escorting Buffy close behind.

Willy smiles, "It's payday, pal. I got your Slayer."

Spike angrily strides up the aisle to meet him, "Are you tripping?! You bring her here?! Now?!"

Willy frowns confused, "You said you wanted her."

Buffy sees Angel and Drusilla tied together at the altar.

"In the ground, pinhead! I wanted her dead."

"Now, that's not what I heard. Word was there was a bounty on her dead or alive."

Spike scoffs, "You heard wrong, Willy."

Buffy whispers as if pleading, "Angel."

"Yeah." Spike steps over to Buffy, "It bugs me, too, seeing him like that. Another five minutes, though, and Angel will be dead, so... I forebear. Don't feel too bad for Angel, though, he's got something you don't have."

Buffy glares angry at Spike, "What's that?"

"Five minutes. Patrice!"

The cop from the job fair that Buffy fought earlier, lets go of Buffy and draws her gun. Buffy struggles to get loose from the vampire holding her. The other door suddenly bursts open, and Kendra comes in doing a series of backflips, ending in a flying double kick, one foot to the back of each of the vampire's heads. They fall to the floor, pushing Buffy into Spike and knocking him down. Kendra lands on her feet, ready to fight. She wastes no time running over to Spike as he gets up, meeting Buffy there to fight him.

Spike looks at the colored girl and stares in disbelief, "Who the hell is this?!"

Kendra grabs him by the shirt.

Buffy grins, "It's your lucky day, Spike."

"Two Slayers!" Kendra decks him.

"No waiting!" Buffy jabs him.

Spike falls but quickly gets up. Buffy breaks off to fight Patrice, leaving Kendra to take care of Spike. He ducks a roundhouse kick from her. Buffy faces off with Patrice. She extends her arms down, and a blade slides out from each sleeve.

One of the vampires gets up from the floor next to them and starts to reach for Buffy when a bolt impales him. He falls and turns to ashes while Laney looks on from the door, holding up a crossbow. Buffy gives Laney a grateful nod before turning to the cop.

Buffy and Patrice begin to fight hand-to- hand. Patrice thrusts one blade, then the other at Buffy, but she catches her arms and holds them up while she knees Patrice in the stomach. Buffy follows up with a kick to her face and sends her stumbling back into the wall.

Spike lands a punch on Kendra, knocking her down, and she scrambles to avoid his follow-up kick.

The other vampire gets up also, and in runs Giles runs to engage him. He swings an axe at him, but the vampire grabs it, and they struggle over it. Giles swings at the vampire and hits him in the face. Willow jumps up onto his back and starts choking him with her arm.

Xander runs in, spots Norman, and begins to taunt him.

"Hey, larvae boy!"

Norman sees him and grins.

"Yeah, that's right, I'm talkin' to you, ya big cootie!"

Norman smiles and starts after him. Xander scrambles for the doors and carefully steps through as he closes them behind him to avoid stepping into the puddle of liquid adhesive Cordelia has poured there. She still has the bucket in her hand.

"Welcome, my little pretties!"

Norman comes under the door as a mass of mealworms.

Back inside Giles punches the vampire twice while Willow keeps holding on. Laney fights another vamp slamming the crossbow across his face.

Kendra jumps over Spike when he tries to knock her legs out from under her. She tries another roundhouse kick, but he blocks it. He uses the momentum of the block to spin around and hit her again.

Patrice gets back up and comes for Buffy. She ducks a kick from Buffy and lunges at her with her blades, but Buffy handily blocks her. She swings at Buffy's face with one, but Buffy ducks out of the way.

Out in the hall the mealworms have gotten stuck in the adhesive and Xander and Cordelia begin to stomp them.

Inside Kendra swings at Spike and is blocked. Spike lands another hit on her. Buffy punches Patrice in the face and sends her staggering back into the wall again. Spike punches Kendra again, and follows up with a roundhouse kick. She hits the floor and scrambles back up again.

Laney stabs the vamp with an arrow and looks forward noticing Kendra getting knocked around. At least Laney knew a little bit of Spike's fighting style a bit even though she didn't have the full strength of a slayer. What she was thinking was so risky but she wanted to save her friend.

"Switch! Help Buffy with the cop!"

She bends over and Kendra rolls over her back to face Spike.

Spike grins looking down at Laney as she holds up a crossbow to his chest, "Ohhh hello little Slayerette... I'd rather be fightin' you anyway."

Laney smirks moving the crossbow down past his stomach as he purrs almost excited, "Glad the feelings are mutual."

Spike chuckles looking down at the arrow pointed at his pelvis then shakes his head. He slaps the crossbow from her hands and goes to backhand her but she grabs his arm and pushes his back. He steps forward once more and goes to jab at her but she blocks it, then kicks him in the face and again in the gut. He doubles over and falls to the floor. He looks up at her as she stands in a fighting stance.

He laughs shaking his head while wiping a small bit of blood from his lip, "Now I'm having fun."

In the hall Cordelia and Xander continue stomping away. Cordelia starts to become super angry as she thinks about the bugs in her hair before and stomps harder.

"Die! Die, die, die! Die!"

Xander puts his hand on her lower back to calm her.

"I think he did, Cordy."

She drops the bucket and they run off.

Spike slides his leg under Laney's and swipes hers from beneath her. She falls to the ground as he knees her in the gut. She elbows him in the face and pushes him away as they both quickly stand once again.  He blocks a punch from her then lands a punch to her stomach and face.

She blocks his next swing and holds his arm while she punches him three times in the face. She grabs his coat and pulls him around and shoves him over several pews making him fall into the wall.

Behind another pew Willy gets up. Spike growls as he stands back up and sees Willy trying to sneak out of the church. He rushes over and grabs him by the back of the neck.

"Where are you going?"

Buffy signals to Kendra that no one was around Angel. Kendra nods and throws Patrice into a wall.

"Go ahead."

Buffy nods thanks and seizes the opportunity to run to the altar and pull the dagger out of Angel and Drusilla's hands.

"Now, there's a way in which this isn't my fault!" Willy says nervously.

Spike growls, "They tricked you."

"Mm-hm! Well the two... the short one and the Jamaican one... they were duplicitous!"

"Well, then I'll only kill you just this once."

He goes for the bite but freezes hearing Drusilla weakly call out to him.

"Spike!"

Spike looks over at her and sees Buffy trying to untie them. He lets go of Willy and rushes over to the altar, grabs Buffy and shoves her to the floor. He backhand punches her as she gets back up, knocking her down again.

Willy wastes no time running out of the church past Willow and Giles, who are still fighting the other vampire. Giles has him held back by both arms and Willow has a stake raised to kill him.

"Hold him steady!" Willow retorts.

She plunges the stake into the vampire's heart and he bursts into ashes, leaving Giles all dusty.

Xander and Cordelia run into the back of the nave as Willow pats the dust off of Giles.

Patrice throws Kendra over a knocked-over pew and climbs over after her. She swings at Kendra twice, but misses both times when Kendra ducks. She swings again and this time slashes her in the arm. Kendra grabs her wound and looks down at it.

"Dat's me favrit shirt! Dat's me only shirt!"

Now Kendra is really mad, and she kicks Patrice in the back of the knee, making her lose her balance. She grabs Patrice by the arm and throws her into a cabinet in front of the organ, smashing it to pieces and knocking her out.

Kendra runs over to join the others just as Laney comes up as well. Spike takes a torch from its wall hanger and throws it into a pile of old drapes, setting them ablaze.

"Look out!" Xander says pulling Willow and Cordelia back.

A fire cuts off the Scooby Gang from Buffy and Angel. Spike grabs Drusilla and pulls her away from the contraption holding her to Angel.

"Sorry baby we gotta go."

As he carries Drusilla away, Buffy crawls to Angel and checks in him for a moment before standing up and grabbing a heavy lamp that had a plug connection. She swings the plug around in a circle over her head before throwing it and knocking Spike in the back of the head with the light. He flies forward into an organ as the whole wall begins to collapse and fall on top of him and Dru.

Buffy smirks watching, "I'm good..."

Turning back to Angel who groans, Buffy gives him her full attention. She smiles sadly as she looks down at him. Her fingers lightly tracing his face. Kendra watches through the flames and can't help but finally see that Buffy was in love with the vampire. She didn't completely understand but she understood how to help and care for others.

Laney and Kendra hurriedly find a way through the fire without getting burned. They quickly run up to Buffy and Angel.

"Let's get him out." Kendra says as she kneels down and helps stand him up.

Laney looks around making sure there would be no other surprises. She glances at Spike and Drusilla who had been under the entire collapse and sighs. Hopefully this would be the end.

Angel groans in pain as he stands with the help of Kendra and Buffy. Laney turns around pats his shoulder lightly.

"Good to have you back."

"Thanks short stack..." He mumbles out with a low pained chuckle.

"I regret my decision to help." Laney jokes as she moves out the way allowing the two Slayers to drag Angel out the building.

Quickly following behind, Laney peeks once more at Spike and shakes her head.

'What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really actually kind of sad he's really gone?'

"I need to get my brain checked..." She mumbles to herself.

"Let's go Laney." Kendra yells.

"Coming!"

...

Laney stands in the hall of the abandoned apartment building, waiting. She sighs messing with her rings as she leans against the wall bored. Hearing a low squeak of a door, Laney quickly hides behind the corner nearby and watches as Buffy leaves the room. She waits a minute until she is certain the Slayer is gone, then slowly moves from the shadows.

Taking a deep breath, Laney raises her hand to knock but gasps as the door opens before her knuckles even graze the wood.

"H-hi..."

Angel smiles painfully as he looks at Laney, "Hi."

"How'd you know I was there?"

"A feeling..."

"Oh..." Laney frowns confused.

Angel chuckles painfully, "I'm kidding I can smell you."

Laney smiles before giggling, "Oh! You're so annoying!" She pushes him slightly.

Angel lets out a pained groan holding his chest. Laney gasps holding his shoulders pushing him inside his room.

"Shoot! I'm so sorry." She wraps her arms around his side and helps him over to his bed, "Here you need to lay down, and stay down."

Angel sits on his bed back against the wall as Laney stands beside the bed. As she moves away, he grabs her arm gently pulling her back.

"What happened to your hand?" Angel asks as his thumb lightly runs over her bloody knuckles. Yet he couldn't see any cuts or scrapes on them he wondered where the blood came from.

"Oh... um I just had a little mishap with a kitchen knife that's all." Laney stammers out as Angel flips her hand over in his and looks at the open cut on the palm of her hand.

"Little? Laney you could bleed out." Angel retorts roughly as he begins to breathe stepper and harsher.

Laney shakes her head, "I'm okay. It doesn't even hurt anymore... are you okay? Do I need to go?"

Angel takes a deep breath then looks up at Laney's concerned stare. He looks back at her hand and shakes his head.

"No... there's a first aid kit in the bathroom..."

Laney nods and quickly rushes to get it. She walks back into the open area and sits at the chair in his 'living room area.' Just as she struggles to open an alcohol wipe packet, she feels Angel walk up beside her. He kneels down in-front of her with a pained grunt.

"Hand..."

"Angel get back in bed. I can here to make sure you were okay. Not the other way around."

"Hand." Angel says sternly making Laney roll her eyes and place her hand in his.

"You're overreacting... it's nothing but a flesh wound."

Angel chuckles shaking his head, "Is it?"

Laney nods looking at him confidently until he places the wipe on the cut. She whimpers biting her lip, trying to pull her hand away.

"Hey! I'm sensitive."

"I know. Sorry..."

Laney glares playfully as Angel smiles at her.

"How are you doing?"

Laney frowns confused for a moment, "I'm fine."

"Not just from today. This week. How have you been?"

Laney sighs looking off to the side, "I miss him a lot. He's gonna come back... right?"

Angel stares into her eyes seriously, "For you?"

Laney nods biting the inside of her cheek.

"He'd be an idiot not to."

Smiling softly Laney nods as Angel continues to clean her hand. He continues fixing up her hand as they sit in the room with a comfortable silence.

...

Cordelia walks down the hallway to class as she messes with her nails. She glances up and sees Xander coming her way. Gasping she quickly turns around to go the other way but hears his footsteps become hurried. He grabs her arm and holds onto her shoulders making her freeze in place. 

"We need to talk."

She scoffs and crosses her arms over her chest before turning to an open classroom and walking inside. Xander looks around hoping no one noticed them both going in a room together. He follows behind her and sighs as they stand far away from one another.

"Uh okay... here's the deal. We don't have to run every-time we see each other in the hill."

"Right." Cordelia nods, "Okay why should we run?"

"What happened... there's a totally good explanation for it."

"You're a pervert." Cordelia suggests with a smile.

"Me?"

"Yeah."

"No no no no I seem to recall k was the jumpee my friend."

Cordelia rolls her eyes as they both step closer, "As if. You've probably been planning this for months."

"Right I hired a bug man to kill Buffy, and hurt your best friend so I could kiss you. I hate to burst your bubble but you don't inspire me to spring me for a dinner over at Buckee's Fondue hut."

"Fine whatever..." Cordelia goes to walk away but slides back into place, "You know what the point is... don't try it again."

"I didn't try it!... Forget about the bugs okay, the memory of your lips on mine makes my blood run cold."

Cordelia glares as they get even closer, "If you dare breathe a word of this-"

Xander scoffs, "Like I want anyone to know."

"Then it's erased."

"Good..." Xander shrugs.

"Good."

Within seconds, the two kiss feverishly. Both realizing something had always been there underneath all the hatred and teasing. But both also realizing that if Laney knew about this... she would probably hate them both.

Yay finally an update y'all!!! What do we think of this chapter?!

Also don't be upset I'm gonna be skipped a couple episodes here and there just because some of the first two seasons felt like they had a ton of filler episodes. But the main ones I'll try to stick with.

Fav character at the moment?

Fav duo?

Fav trio?

How do we feel about Kendra?

How do we feel about Buffy and Laney's frenemy relationship?

Angel and Laney's friendship is literally so cute

Future predictions?

Any special requests...