Authors Note: Hey all someone nominated me at Spangfuffy.com (I swear I didn't nominate myself) and whoever did I love you forever thank you so much.


Buffy was pissed. She had tried countless times to leave this godforsaken city but every time she got near the border her insides started to undergo a feeling that was strangely similar to the feeling one gets when their insides are in the middle of a tug-a-war contest between themselves and an unknown force.

What she found peculiar is that when she arrived at Wolfram & Hart for the second time, (in her opinion her two visits to the law firm were by far two too many), Angel wasn't there and in fact was accompanying a massive search party he had sent in order to find her. In turns out she had arrived at Angel's headquarters long before the ever-persevering "rescue" squad decided to head home. When confronted Angel he merely dismissed the thirty highly trained men as, "his bodyguards"; he then laughed suspiciously and changed the subject.

At this moment, Angel and his crew plus Buffy were discussing possible causes and solutions to Buffy's current predicament. Also Harmony was there but no one, including Harmony, knew why.

"I could really tell you more if you let me get her into the lab", Fred said her head rolling around in her hands as a sign of her utter exhaustion.

"I well let her go with you just wait one minute", said Angel, "One more time Buffy describe what happened on the hellmouth"

"Ok", Buffy said mumbling expletives under her breath, "It went like this, The first was planning to raise an army of super duper vamps and we had to stop it. So we turned every girl who might be a slayer in to a slayer, simple, no. Anyway while we were fighting the fight of our lives I was wearing the amulet Angel brought"

"Wait", Angel interrupted Buffy's story, "Didn't I tell you not to wear that. You could have been killed, in the non-coming back sense of the word"

"Well peaches I don't always listen to you now do I. Anyway as I was saying in was wearing the amulet and fighting the ubervamps when suddenly I started burning"

"Burning?"

"Burning", Buffy confirmed

"So I start yelling at everyone to get the hell out and everyone does, the end" Buffy intentionally left out the part where Faith had to drag Spike out of the collapsing cavern and into the saftey of the school bus because thinking about Spike was just too hard and she didn't have enough strength right now to deal with it."

There was an awkard silence as one by one everyone in the room, exepct Harmony, reconized the look on Buffy's face, a look that said she was remembering something that she wasn't fond of speaking of. Angel was the only one to know what or more specifially who that person was.

Suddenly Wesley jumped up from his seat and yelled "eureka"

"You say eureka", Buffy questined amused. Lorne gave her a knowing glance.

Wesley ignored Buffy, "I think I know what the amulet is". He then fleed the confrence room.

"Well is he gonna tell us"

A couple seconds later he was back this time so engrossed in the text he was reading he ran into the door.

"Here's an idea how about you guys wear helmets around the office." , Buffy comented sarcastically.

Wesley started to read out loud from the passage, "It says here that the Lacer Amulet, which I beleive Buffy wore, is used on enemy's as a sorda Trojan horse. One gives the amulet to thier enemy as a sign of peace and surrender and after a period of time when the amulet is activatd its sucks the, well the literal translation is essense of the person who comes into contact with the amulet into the amulet"

There was some more silence as everyone prossed the new information.

"Wait" Buffy burst, "Spike touched the amulet too."

"Well", Wesley said as he flipped pages at an alarming rate.

"Well what, What are you trying to say"

"I think maybe Buffy has a little bit of", Wesley bit his lip.

"Spit it out"

"I think Buffy has some of Spike's soul in her"





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