“Rebecca Summers.”
Rebecca smiled and took to the stage. The slender 22-year-old woman walked excitedly to the podium. She brushed her brown hair away from her chocolate brown eyes. She smiled at the sea of people and pulled the neatly folded paper from her pocket.
“Oh my god this is so amazing,” she said with breathless excitement, “when the Dean told me that I was nominated for the first U.C.L.A. humanitarian award I was shocked . . .”
In the audience Buffy smiled happily. She heard about the award after flying to L.A. to collect the new group of recently activated slayers and she couldn’t be prouder. She sighed and shook her head.
“I don’t get it.” Buffy said
Xander looked at her in confusion.
“It’s an award ceremony Buff. You do something good they give you a shiny trophy.”
Buffy flashed Xander a look.
“I get that,” she replied, ”I’m talking about Becky, I mean, she got moms sensibility, got my looks, DEFINITELY got dawns mouth. And after all that she turned out like Willow.”
“Hey! Sitting right here!” Willow snapped back
“I don’t mean that in a bad way Will it’s just . . . how did she get so smart?”
“Well she had good support around her,” Angel replied
“It’s a shame I have to spend so much time in Rome. I don’t get to see her that much. I hear she one of the highest marked sophomores at U.C.L.A. between that and her slayer duties I don’t know how she Copes.”
“The way I hear it he has great time management skills,” Xander replies, “or was it lots of caffeine I can’t really remember.”
“It’s a shame Dawns not with us to see this she would have . . .” Willow started
The mood on the table suddenly got a little sadder. Willow gripped Kennedy’s arm a little tighter. Kennedy smiled at her girlfriend and kissed her lightly on the cheek. Even after all this time Dawn was still a hard topic to talk about. Willow was amazed how well Becky handled herself through that whole time, then again, Becky was an amazing girl all round.
Buffy leaned in closer to Angel
“I was just thinking.” She said.
“’Bout what?” Angel replied
“This whole thing. The only reason she accepting the award now is because decades ago she sacrificed herself to save the world.”
Angel nodded. He knew he had Becky to thank. If it weren’t for her he would have lost his soul to wolfram and heart.
~Alley way just north of the Hyperion Hotel, Los Angeles – 2004 ~
“. . . Is it just me?” Spike commented as he leaned against the wall gasping for breath, “or didn’t these guys put up much of a fight.”
“You noticed that to.” Angel replied
This didn’t make any sense to Spike. Why send out the largest demon army in the world only to get them selves slaughtered. He looked over to Angel
“So what are we thinking? Cannon fodder?” Spike asked
“They weren’t cannon fodder. Their a ploy.” Angel replied
“‘Scuse me?” Spike asked
“Just be ready” Angel replied
Spike looked curiously at Angel. Maybe he had been hit one to many times during the battle.
Suddenly both vampires heard a soft whistling sound. The looked around for the source but couldn’t see anything that could be making it.
“What the hell?” Spike asked
There was a bright flash of brilliant white light and when both Vampires opened their eyes again they were standing in the last place they were expecting to be.
The white room.
Both Angel and Spike looked around defensively to see if they were being cornered for any reason. Off in the distance they saw a person approaching. As Angel’s eyes began to focus he realized immediately who it was.
“Lilah.” He said expectantly
Lilah Morgan approached the pair of vampires. She smiled at them both and proceeded to clap.
“Very, very, good,” she said in her trademark sarcastic tone, “it was touch and go for a few minutes there but in the end our heroic adventurers pulled through.”
“What the bloody hell do you want with us?” Spike replied
Lilah grinned happily at them both. From under her arm she produced the cylinder holding the Shanshu prophecy. Unsealing the end she pulled out the ancient scroll and held it lightly in her hand.
“I’m here, Gentlemen, to give you you’re reward.” She announced cheerfully, “the Shanshu prophecy says that if the vampire with a soul survives the Apocalypse he will become human, well, you both survived so one of you is going to get to be a real boy again . . . Spike.”
“Me?” Spike asked in amazement, “Angel has done a lot more good. He deserves the fancy heart beat more then I do.”
“Well unfortunately he waved that right.” Lilah replied
“Did I?” Angel replied smugly
Lilah looked confused at the brooding hero. From his pocket he pulled out a small flat disk. He rubbed his hand around it three times and said a phrase in Latin. Lilah looked at the signature on the Shanshu prophecy. The letters began to shift and the blood began to rearrange it’s self back into the signature that was originally signed.
‘Angelus’
Lilah glared at Angel.
“What do you think you’re play at?” She snapped
“Primordial Magick,” Angel replied waving the disk at her, “powerful enough to fool any demons eyes, not powerful enough to trigger any alarms. See there was something you said the first time around that really stuck in my head. You said you needed the ‘essence’ of a warrior. When I said soul you said ‘that’s one interpretation’ not ‘yes that’s correct’. So the way I understand it is you have to take the essence of the person who’s signature is on the prophecy.”
Lilah frowned. There was nothing she could do. He had managed to find the loophole in the Shanshu contract. She walked up to the hero.
“Don’t think this is over Angel.” She said angrily
Angel shrugged.
“I never do.” he replied.
Lilah quickly trusted her hand towards Angel. With a look of pain Angel arched his back and screams as a plume of black mist streams out of his body. The mist travels through Lilah and is directed at Spike. As the mist hits spike he begins to glow. The more mist that enters the brighter he gets until Spike gives of a giant explosion of light which returns them to the alley way.
Spike struggles to his feet slowly. He looks around the empty alleyway displeased.
Spike shook his head. This did not look good. He put his hand on his chest and his expression changed to shock.
“I can feel it,” he exclaimed, “my heart.”
It was the most beautiful think he had ever felt in his life. The rhythmic pulsation of the muscle soothed him. This was short lived when he began to hear the sound of soft laughter.
Spike had heard this laugh before.
“Oh my god.” Spike said softly as Angel casually rolled onto his back.
Angel smiled presently to himself.
“He gone.” Angel replied
“Who is?” spike said anxiously
Angel turns to him. Spike could see the tears streaming down his eyes.
“Angelus. He’s gone.”
The Scoobys waited patiently by the backstage door. Willow grinned excitedly.
“I still can’t believe she got this,” she said excitedly, “the Scooby baby has grown up.”
Kennedy gave Willow a look.
“Will, honey, I though we all agreed not to call her that in front of her friends.” Kennedy replied
“Yeah I know but she’s, you know, she’s our little Scooby baby.” Will replied
The backstage door opened at Rebecca walked out. The gang rushed up and gave her a group hug.
“Come on lets see it.” Buffy Insisted
Becky showed them the certificate. And they all huddled around excitedly.
“This is fantastic Becky.” Xander said proudly
Xander looked up and caught Rebecca’s annoyed expression
“Sorry, Rebecca.”
“That’s better.” Rebecca replied
Rebecca felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to see Alex Whitfield standing proudly. He was a six-foot-tall man with curly blond hair, jade green eyes and glasses. He held in his right hand a teddy bear that was holding a small bouquet of roses. Rebecca covered her mouth and squealed excitedly. She jumped into his arms and kissed him passionately.
“Oh my god! Alex! I though you said you had to study for your science thing?”
“That’s my girl,” Alex replied, “Always with the technical talk. I blew it off. I couldn’t miss your big award Rebecca you worked so hard to get it.”
Rebecca smiled. She had been going out with Alex for a year and a half now and it still felt like the first time they met. Alex looked over to Buffy for a moment.
“’Scuse me for a moment.”
Alex kissed Rebecca briefly. As Willow called Rebecca over to talk about the certificate Alex wandered over to Buffy.”
“Hey, ah, sorry to interrupt.”
Buffy turned around. She smiled at the nervous looking man
“Hey Alex. Long time no see. So how’s the physics course going. Are you still pushing the ions around?” Buffy replied
Alex laughed. He looked awkwardly down for a moment as he rubbed his hands nervously.
“Can we talk in private for a moment?” he replied
“Sure.” Buffy said with concern and lead Alex to a private corner.
“What’s on your mind?” she asked the man
“There’s something I want to ask you. I would’ve been going to Rebecca’s dad about this but we don’t know who that is and her mom . . . well . . . anyway that kinda leaves you.”
Buffy opened her eyes wide. She covered her mouth in surprise. This was totally unexpected but it wasn’t unwelcome.
Rebecca looked over at Alex talking to her Aunt. The two of them talking in private this can’t be good. After a moment they broke off and headed in different directions.
“What was that about?” Rebecca asked Alex when he came back
Alex shrugged.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Alex replied with a smile
Buffy scuttled over to willow as quickly as possible. She kept looking back at Alex as she did. Willow looked at the slayer with curiosity.
“Buffy, What is it?” Willow asked
“Oh my god Will you will not believe what Alex just asked me . . .”
Judson opened the door to his office and walked in. he threw his jacket over his chair and placed the box he got from Cairo on the desk.
“You’re a little late.” Said a man in the corner of the room
“Plane was delayed.” Judson replied as he sat down at his desk.
Judson motioned the man to sit as well and he did so.
“Didn’t you take a private plane?” the man asked
“The office needed to ferry a slug demon to Iceland for their mating season. I had to wait ‘till they steam cleaned the inside before I could get back.”
“Did you get it?” the man asked
Judson smiled and opened the box. He pulled out the Star of Asgeroth and handed it to the man.
“One, genuine, Star of Asgeroth.” Judson replied
“Oh this take me back,” the man replied examining the star closely, “ or at lest it would if it actually happened. I remember the slayer who used this to. Short girl, very grumpy, had a policy of punch first ask questions later. So are we set to go?”
“I have a meeting with the chaos demon tomorrow. If the essence is still strong we should have no problem. The crossing should go off with out a hitch.”
After he examined the star for a few minutes longer the man handed the star back to Judson. He crossed his legs and rested his hands happily on his stomach.
“I knew there was a reason I liked you Judson.” Angelus said smugly
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