TITLE: Back In Town

COUPLES: Willow/Angelus

AUTHOR: Bella

DISCLAIMER: I Own none, Joss owns all except for Isabel, Jade and Rachel.

E-MAIL: bella_1399@yahoo.com

SPOILER: Buffy and Angel get a big surprise…

FEEDBACK: Yes please. If I don’t get any I won’t write anymore cuz I am very lazy and need motivation. Also feel free to give me any ideas.

DEDICATION: To Loki, she was a great help with the storyline and typing when my fingers got sore! Thanks sweetie!!

LOWDOWN: Okay, this is set 3 years after Angelus comes back, he turned Willow and they became lovers. When Buffy and the rest of the Scooby Gang tried to give Angelus and Willow their souls they bungled up the curse and with Spike and Drusilla they flee to LA. After trying all year they finally succeed just before graduation. Rest goes as series 4 Buffy and series 1 Angel. (Except for 5x5) after Angelus becomes Angel, Willow gets recruited to Wolfram and Hart and become one of their top assassins. Faith was recruited by Willow do help during the daylight hours. Now Willow and Faith are back in Sunnydale, unbeknownst to Buffy and the rest of the gang trying to acquire The Key, (Dawn) for Wolfram and Hart and a way to get Angelus back. Oh and stir up some trouble as well. So here goes….

Chapter 1: BACK IN TOWN

Willow didn’t know why she even bothered coming back to Sunnydale, or Sunnyhell as Spike was always fondly putting it. She probably wouldn’t be able to get what she was supposed to anyway. Holland had told her that there had already been quiet a few demons to try and obtain The Key, the latest being a vampire called Glory how had ultimately been dusted by Buffy. Willow’s dislike for Buffy must have been evident on her face because Faith looked at her with a smirk and a small shake of her head.

"What?" Willow asked irritably.

"You know you’re lucky we’re in a dark corner." Faith commented.

"Why?" Willow asked innocently.

"Cause you got your game face on. Thinkin’ about B?"

"How’d ya guess?" Willow asked laughing at her newfound friend. Faith only shrugged, smiling.

"You know me too well Faith." Willow smiled.

"Let’s dance." Faith said trying to break into Willow’s not-so-good mood. Smiling in agreement willow obliged Faith knowing what she was trying to do. The fast song came to an end just as they reached to floor and a slow one came to take it’s place, not deterred in the least Faith and Willow became engaged in a sexy dance with each other. A circle formed around the two girls who only smiled and sashayed even closer to each other. When the song ended the guys clapped the hardest disappointed that it had come to an end so soon. Grabbing her hand Willow led Faith over to the bar for another drink.

"Man I love doing that sort of stuff, gettin’ the guys all hot then leaving them with nothin’. Don’t you Will?" Faith asked giving Willow a sidelong glance.

"Yeah, sure. But it’s not as much fun without Angelus to watch. I really miss him." Willow said staring into her drink.

"Holland." Was all she said.

"Yeah?" Willow asked, her annoyance obvious.

"Willow, how are things coming along? Do you have the Key?"

"No, we don’t even know what this Key looks like. Besides we only just got into town, give me a break." Willow snapped. She hated Holland and if he wasn’t paying so well and so high up in the lawyer social ladder Willow would have killed him months ago.

"Willow your are not there on holiday, get the Key and get back to LA as soon as you can, I don’t want you to be distracted by that silly slayer." Holland snapped back. He was growing increasingly tired of Willow’s attitude, and told her so.

"You do want this Key don’t you Holland?" Willow asked already knowing the answer.

"Yes of course I do." Came Holland’s reply.

"Then we are going to do this my way, and from now on, I call you." Willow finished hanging up the phone.

"Way to tell off the boss Will." Faith congratulated.

"Thanks. Lets go I’m getting kinda hungry." Willow said getting up and dropping some bills down on the table for their drinks.

Willow purposely chose a park near Sunnydale U in the hopes of running into Buffy, she was itching for a fight and could feel Faith’s anxiety at the prospect of running into an ‘old friend’. Willow grinned when she saw the blonde sitting on a bench her lips pressed up to a dark blonde man.

"Well B, if this is the way you patrol then I must’ve been missing something. Or didn’t Angel like to do it this way?" Willow taunted her old best friend.

"Willow?" Buffy asked frowning, "What are you doing in town?"

"Oh don’t you worry slayer you’ll find out when I want you to." Willow smirked.

"Gee B, where’d ya get the new boy-toy?" Faith asked coming up behind the good-looking man in the army fatigues. "And where did he get the outfit?" she asked scrunching up her nose daintily.

"Faith, I wondered how long it was going to be before you popped up again." Buffy said getting ready for a fight.

"Well when I heard that Will here was coming to town I couldn’t pass up the chance to accompany her and stir up some fun. Come on B tell me how much you missed me." Faith said her posture becoming tenser waiting for Buffy to move. Buffy answered her question by aiming a punch in Faith’s gut however she saw the move coming and was able to block.

"Buffy, what’s going on?" the commando asked.

"Remember I told you about the other slayer? Well this is Faith." Buffy explained without taking her eyes off her.

"And the red head?" Commando guy continued.

"Willow." Was all Buffy said.

"Your best friend who Angelus turned?"

"Yeah."

"I see she filled you in on everything. So Buff, who is this tall cute commando?" Willow asked in a mocking tone that sounded a lot like Angelus.

"I’m Riley Finn." He answered for himself

"What, This one can talk?" faith asked wit a smirk on her face. "Well B, you’re moving up in the world. So, are you shaggin’ her to? You should be careful Riley" Willow informed the tall commando. She moved her mouth right up to his ear and whispered "She has a terrible history with men." Willow gave him a seductive smile and went to turn away. Riley was to busy thinking of what the red head had said to see the flying punch coming straight into his temple. Caught off guard he was knocked several feet from the fighting girls. When Buffy saw Riley fly she went to hit Willow but her fist was intercepted by faith who used Buffy’s momentum against her and pulled her through to kick her in the back. The hard kick to Buffy’s back sent her into Willow who sent her straight back into Faith with a rock solid punch to the jaw. Willow saw the commando get up out of the corner of her eye. Buffy was suddenly staggering back towards Willow and Willow let lose punches and kicks that each connected with Buffy. "WILL" Faith screamed. Willow looked over at her friend to see the commando holding her with a knife at her throat. Willow grabbed Buffy and emerged into her game face. "Let her go" Willow ordered. The commando faltered but held strong. "NOW. Or do you want to see Buffy dead?" She demanded angrily.

"Hey Will how bout turning her?" Faith asked smiling at her companion. Willow lowered her teeth to Buffy’s neck and snarled.

"I really don’t think so, do I deserve to spend the rest of my un-life with this blond?"

"No I guess nobody deserves that." Faith laughed .

The commando released Faith and waited for Buffy. Willow laughed back and punched Buffy’s temple with force Buffy had never seen from any vamp, she never expected Willow could be capable of such viciousness. The unconscious slayer slumped to the ground at Willow feet.

"Get it while you can Riley. She won’t be here for long." Willow and Faith laughed as they headed in search of the Key.

Lindsey and Lilah walked into Holland’s office after being summoned. "Sir?" Lilah asked cautiously. "Lilah, Lindsey. You’re here. I need a favor of the two of you. Willow took Faith to search for the Key. When they have secured her I want you two to get her out of there. Understood?" Holland was well known for getting straight to the point. And for being a major tight ass. Lilah and Lindsey both nodded and left.

"So we get to Baby-sit the Key huh?" Lilah’s voice was dripping with sarcasm.

"Yeah. Lucky us" Lindsey complained. He looked at his watch. His trial in an hour. "I’ve got trial in an hour. I’ll meet you for lunch?" Lindsey asked.

"Yeah, sure" Lilah answered before walking away.

"Angel Investigations, we help the helpless!" Cordelia shrilled happily when the phone rang early on Wednesday morning.

"Hey Cordelia, is Angel there? It’s Buffy."

"Yeah I was well aware of who it was Buffy, and of course Angel’s here it’s day here too, duh."

"Well can I speak to him?" Buffy asked ignoring her sarcasm

"Hello? He’s sleeping." Cordelia said exasperated.

"Cordelia!" Buffy snapped. "It’s important, remember his last childe?"

"What about her?" "Well she’s here. With Faith." Buffy explained.

"Okay, let me go get Angel. Hang on a tick. Man I always get the good jobs. I just hope he doesn’t wake up grumpy and want to bite me." Cordelia muttered to herself on the way down to Angel’s apartment in the basement of the old hotel he had gotten after the explosion in the old one.

"Uh Angel, I know you just went to bed and all, and. Uh, please don’t kill me…" Cordelia started.

"What is it Cordelia?" Angel sighed.

"Phone. Buffy. Problem in Sunnydale."

"Okay what line?" Angel asked picking up the cordless beside his bed.

"Uh two." Cordelia said and hurried away.

"Buffy?"

"Yeah, hi Angel."
"What’s going on? What’s the problem?"

"Oh, not much. Just a certain red-headed childe of yours who used to be my…"
"Willow?" Angel interrupted.

"Yeah, she’s in town with Faith."

"What? Why? The last I heard she was working for a law firm who know about demons and everything else. She’s one of their best; she must be on a mission of sorts. Watch your back, she might come after you and use Faith as her eyes and ears in the day. I’ll have a dig around Wolfram and Hart and call you when I find something. Do you want me to come and help?" Angel asked.

"No, that’s okay. Thanks Angel." Buffy said and hung up without saying goodbye.

"Cordelia, can you get Willow’s address here in LA for me? And possibly where she is in Sunnydale?" Angel asked stepping out of his room doing up he’s shirt.

"Yeah I can try. Why, is Willow causing trouble for Buffy and Crew?" Cordelia asked happy that someone was having a go at the blonde slayer.

"She’s up to something in Sunnydale, I’d say Wolfram and Hart have sent her there for something they need." Angel said his eyes narrowing as he thought.

"Then what are you going to do??" Cordelia asked worried at Angel’s expression.

"When I find something I’m going to pay my favorite red-headed daughter a visit." Angel said as if it were a regular occurrence for them.

"Oh, cool. Can I come?" Cordelia asked.

"Sure I’ll need you for daylight duties." Angel replied flashing a rare smile at her.

"Oh, goodie." Cordelia said sarcastically and left the room. When he was sure Cordelia couldn’t hear him Angel whispered to himself, "My Willow," He strode over to the sewer entrance and did what it said on the front door, investigate.

Angels’ first stop was to see Gunn, he needed a vampire fast. Lindsey had told him about the demons that detected vampires. Gunn was happy to spare one. At the office Gunn went in first to release the vampire and when the demon went off Angel strolled in via the under-ground car park.

The floor where Lindsey’s office was there was nobody around, which suited Angel fine; he didn’t have to explain why he was going into Lindsey’s office.

When Angel opened the door he was surprised to find to find it empty. Tacking advantage of Lindsey’s absence he walked over to his desk looking for anything with Willow’s name on it, the search for Willow’s apartment became much easier when Angel found Lindsey’s address book. Quickly flicking through the pages he found Willow’s address, home phone, mobile, pager and e-mail under J. ‘ nice try Lindsey.’ Angel thought to himself as he wrote it all down on a yellow legal pad from his briefcase. Putting the address book back in the drawer he then found a memo from Holland to both Lindsey and Lilah about going to Sunnydale to obtain the Key when Willow had found it. Well at least now he knew what she was up to. He just had to find out what the Key was.

"And just what do you think you’re doing in here? Lindsey asked from the doorway.

"Oh, nothing much. I’m just trying to find out what my favorite daughter is doing in Sunnydale, and since she works for you, you should know." Angel drawled.

"Daughter?" Lindsey asked confused.

"Yeah you know her. Willow?"

"Oh, right," Lindsey said not buying it. "Well you know that I have to call security now, right?"

"How can you when your sleeping?" Angel asked stepping up to him and hitting his head with his briefcase. Lindsey slumped to the floor and Angel left the building the same way he entered, unnoticed.

Back at the hotel/office Cordelia was waiting for Angel and looking very upset.

"Cordy? What’s the matter?" Angel asked concerned.

"I had a vision." Cordelia replied and started to cry. Angel led her over to the sofa and got her a drink.

"Cordelia, what did you see?"

"Willow and Faith and two more other blonde vamps…"
"Buffy?" Angel interrupted.

"No. Buffy is still alive, but they took your soul, and there was this 14 or 15 year old girl. Long dark brown hair, Buffy was with her and she yelled out the name Dawn as Willow and faith took her. She has something to do with the removal of your soul." Cordelia said starting to calm down.

"What could Willow want with her? She’s a child. Cordy, try and find out who Dawn is and her connection to Buffy, then look for why Willow and Faith would want her. Also can you look in some books and find out what a Key is…" Angel trailed off at the look on Cordelia’s face.

"Not that sort of key, demons?"

"Oh, right." Cordelia said laughing.

"I’ve found Willow’s LA address can you find out where she is in Sunnydale?" Angel asked.

"I’m on it." Cordelia said and dot to work.