Title: Betrayal
Author: Tracey G
Email: sissa_003@yahoo.com
Summary: Spike tells Riley about Angel. Riley doesn't like it.
Spoilers: Takes place at the end of Doomed. (The awful B/R scene at the end doesn't happen! Yeh!)
Disclaimer: Joss owns everything Buffy, I own the plot.

Part 2


Riley looked up nervously from the papers he was grading for Prof. Walsh when he heard a knock at his door. He walked over and puled it open to find a incredibly pissed out Buffy.

"Buffy, hi," he greeted her. "What are you doing here?"

"Don't play innocent with me Riley Finn!" Buffy stalked into the room. "You know why I'm here. Where is he?" she demanded.

"Where is who?" Riley asked pretending to be confused. "I don't know what your talking about."

"Oh, I think you do," she snapped. "But let me refresh your memory. You and your boys took off to LA last night, captured Angel, and now you have him locked up somewhere. Sound familiar?"

"I'm sorry, I-"

Buffy cut him off by grabbing him by the throat and backing him into the wall. "Where is he?"

Gasping for breath Riley managed to choke out, "I'll take you to him."

"Good," Buffy smiled. "I knew you would see things my way."

Riley led Buffy through a long white corridor. He stopped at a set of doors, took out a card and swiped it through the little box next to the doors. The doors opened and they walked into a room lined with built-in cages. The cages were filled vampires, demons, and monsters.

"He's over here." Riley led her towards one of the cages.

Angel, who was sitting on the floor with his back against the wall, stood when he saw them coming. "Buffy?"

"Angel." Buffy ran up to his cage and reached out to touch the glass door.

"Don't touch that!" Riley shouted. "It's-"

But it was too late. Buffy jumped back as a shock rushed through her body.

"- electric," Riley finished.

"So, I noticed." Buffy shook her head to get rid off the tingling.

"Buffy, are you alright?" Angel asked.

"I'm fine. What about you? Did the hurt you?"

"I'm fine. Really. I-"

"Alright, you came, you saw, now your leaving." Riley grabbed Buffy's arm and tried to pull her away.

Buffy eyes flashed and she whirled around. "We'll go when I say we go, got it? And don't ever grab me again."

Riley sighed and crossed his arms. "Fine." he agreed, not wanting to fight her because he knew she would kick his ass.

"Good. Now give me ten minutes. Go wait by the doors for me."

"I'm not gonna- "

"Riley, don't test me."

"Alright, I'm going. But don't try anything. This place is loaded with security." He turned and walked over to the doors.

"I'm going to get you out of here." Buffy talked softly incase Riley could still hear.

"How?"

"I don't know yet. Cordelia and Doyle are their way to Giles' now. We'll come up with something."

"Buffy, what are these people? What do they want with me?" Angel asked.

"All I know is that they capture vampires and demons and stuff like that, they call them sub-terrestrial-hostiles, and do freaky tests on them, " Buffy saw the look in eyes when she said test. "Don't worry," she reassured him, "you won't be here long enough for that to happen. As for why they went after you, you can blame Spike for that one. Riley and I were almost sorta dating and last night Spike told him about us."

"What about us?"

"Oh, pretty much everything." Buffy sighed. "Anyway, Riley said some things I didn't like and I told him off. I guess he decided to get back at me by capturing you."

"Alright, Buffy, your ten minutes are up," Riley called. "We have to get you out of here before Prof. Walsh gets back, or she'll have my head."

"Just a minute." Buffy turned back to Angel and rolled her eyes. "Don't drink any blood they give you. No matter how hungry you get," she warned. "It's drugged." She backed away from his cage. "I-I love you," she whispered.

"I love you, too," he whispered back with out hesitating.

She smiled and mouthed, " I'll be back."

When Buffy enter Giles' apartment half an hour later she could hear Cordelia complaining in the living room. "She's the one who asked us to come all the way here. She could at least show up."

Buffy walked into the living to find Giles' sitting at his desk rolling his eyes. Doyle was sitting on the couch next to Cordelia reading a magazine and Willow was on the phone talking to Xander. She saw Buffy come in and said, "She's back. I gotta go, Xand."

"Where's Xander?" Buffy asked.

"Anya was starting to get rude, so he took her home." Willow rolled her eyes. "Did you find him?"

"Yeah, considering this is all your fault," Cordelia added.

"Delia," Doyle said in a warning voice.

"My fault! How is this my fault?" Buffy demanded. "Spike's the one who opened his big mouth."

"Ignore her. She's already bitched at Spike. Notice he's not here," Doyle said. "So, did you find him?"

"Yes, I found him. Riley's got him locked up in the Initiative." Buffy told them.

"How do we get him out?" Doyle asked.

Buffy smiled sheepishly and pulled what looked like a credit card out of her pocket. "I picked his pocket."

"How's a stolen credit card going to help us get Angel back?" Cordelia asked annoyed.

"That's not a credit card." Willow walked over to Buffy and took the card form her. "It's his entrance card thingy."

"So, what's your plan?" Giles asked, speaking up for the first time. "You do realize that they'll be waiting for you once Riley realizes his card his missing."

"I know," Buffy admitted. "That's why I'm taking it back with me. Tomorrow night Me, Willow, and Doyle will sneak in using his card, get Angel, and sneak back out."

"Uh, not that I don't want to help, but why me?" Willow asked.

"I want you to do that fog spell of yours. Make it harder for them to see us."

"Why tomorrow night?" Cordelia asked. "Why not bust in there now?"

"Because if we go right at sunset tomorrow most of the commandoes will be out patroling the town."

"Sounds good."

"How could you let this happen Agent Finn?" Prof. Walsh demanded when she learned that Buffy had been in the lab and that she had stole his card. "What were you doing bringing a Slayer into the lab?"

"She would have killed me. I didn't have much of a choice." Riley rubbed his neck where a bruise was starting to form.

"She's the Slayer. She's supposed to be strong."

"She'll be back," Riley told her. "She wants Angelus."

"Him? Why? He's a monster."

"He's different. He's cursed with a human soul. She says she loves him."

"A soul? He could be very valuable to our experiment." Prof. Walsh said. "Put extra men on guard. We can't let her get him."




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