The Hart of L.A.

Buffy and Faith were sitting in a diner down the street from Wolfram and Hart. Having already finished their food, they were talking over coffee. Faith was currently laughing about he scene Buffy had made in the hallway. " I mean, did you see his face? He was not expecting us, or should I say you, to balk like you did." Buffy couldn't help but laugh along with her. " Well! He shouldn't have started to try and order us around like that! It was not in the original agreement." After she said that, they started lauging even harder. It was then that both of them honed in on a guy sitting at the counter, talking to a pretty blonde girl. " Come on, You should just go to this party with me, and when it's over you still don't wanna go out with me anymore, we can break it off." Faith looked over at Buffy. " You get the feeling, that he's not what he looks like?" Buffy nodded. " Way ahead of you, Faith." When the couple left, the two slayers quickly payed for their meals, and left the restaurant.

When they got outside the guy had a hold of the girl, completely vamped out. " Come on, don't struggle. Okay go ahead and struggle if you want to." Faith and Buffy pulled out their stakes, and set to work. Buffy grabbed the vampire off of the girl, and threw him. Faith caught him, and slugged him in the face. She then knocked him into the wall, and staked him. After he turned to dust they turned back to the girl, who was crying. Faith leaned down to help her up. " It's okay, you're safe now." The girl suddenly jerked away. " What'd you do that for?!" She then procceeded to vamp out, and attack Faith. Faith, caught off guard, went flying, and landed on the ground. Buffy grabbed the girl by the hair, and pulled her off of Faith. " Now, that wasn't very nice of you, was it?" She punced the girl up against a car. " Here we are, thinking we're helping you, and you go and attack my friend? I don't think so!" After saying this she promptly stakes the girl. She bends over to help Faith up, and starts to laugh. Faith glared at her. " Oh, sure! Laugh at me, go ahead!" This only made Buffy laugh harder, and soon Faith joined in. " It's just...I wasn't expecting that! Obviously you weren't either, because you went flying!" They started walking down the street towards a cemetary. Faith looked over at Buffy. " Didn't that count as the patrolling? We shouldn't have to go look for an apocolypse demon, that's going to kill us." Buffy grinned. " We have to go, and it isn't going to kill us." When Faith gives her a look she quickly adds. " Oh, he'll just kick our asses...again." They continue walking, laughing along their way.

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Angel is walking up to his office in Wolfram and Hart. Everyone else had just about left, and he was too. He just had to get his things. When he walked into his office, though he stopped. Lindsey was sitting at his desk with his feet propped up on it. Angel walked up to Lindsey very slowly. " What the hell are you doing in my office, Lindsey?" Lindsey threw his head back and laughed. " That's really funny coming from you. This used to be my office. You hated me, and Wolfram and Hart, now look at you. You're running what you've tried so hard to take down." Angel tilted his head to the side. " Didn't you already say that earlier? Starting to repeat yourself Lindsey?" Lindsey stood up then and faced Angel. " Actually, I've come to ask you for a job. You see, when I heard that you'd taken over the special operations, I was shocked. I was really disappointed in you. I'd always sort of looked up to you. Sure, you pissed me off occasionally, but I still admired you for fighting the good fight. I was never strong enough before, now I really want to help. I know things, and I could be of some help." Angel folded his arms in front of his chest. " Sure." Lindsey looked at him. " What do you mean , 'sure'?" Angel shrugged at him. " I mean, sure you can have a job. Just show up tomorrow morning, and sing for Lorne, then you can have a job." Lindsey jerked his head towards Angel. " I have to sing for Lorne?" Angel smirked at him. " Yes, you do. If Lorne tells me you're not planning anything stupid, then sure. You can have a job." Lindsey held out his hand. " Okay then."

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Fred was in her office, gathering up her things, so she could leave for the day. She was about to leave when she heard something. She looked up to see Wesley in her doorway. " Oh, hi wesley!" She gave him a really big smile. He smiled back at her. He loved her so much, but it just wasn't meant to be. First, he found her with Gunn, and Gunn had made her very happy so it had been okay. When her and Gunn had broken up, it was because of him. He should never have kissed her. Now, she was with knox, and it was eating him alive. He really wanted to be with her, but he couldn't make her love him. She always gave him her best smiles, but she didn't feel the same way. It was very discouraging. He really wanted to move on, but every single time he saw her with Knox it broke his heart a little more. " I was just wondering if you'd like to come with Giles and myself. We're trying to figure out the exact place where this death bringer is going to try to ascend." Her face fell a little. " Oh! I'd love to, just give me a minute to finish up here." He nodded and left her alone.

Fred was getting very frustrated. She thought that with hanging out with Knox, it would make Wes jealous, but he hasn't shown any feelings whatsoever! It was really starting to make her worry. She hadn't known that he'd had any feeling for her until he'd kissed her, she hadn't been able to do anything about it, because she had been in love with Gunn. She'd been spending a lot of time with Wesley now, and she really loved him. She loved him more than she thought was ever possible. She'd never loved anyone as much as she loved Wes. She'd been dropping anvils, and it still wasn't working. " Why don't you just tell him?" She jerked around to see Willow now standing where Wesley had been. She turned the color of a bright tomatoe. " I don't know what you're talking about." Willow giggled. " Oh, come on Fred! It's was obvious when I came down before, that Wesley was completely in love with you! Now, you've got the same look that I used to get when I looked at Oz, or even Tara. If you love him so much, why can't you just tell him? I never understood people who didn't just come out and say their true feelings. Buffy used to do it with Angel, then Riley, then Spike. Xander used to do it with Cordelia and Anya, and now you're doing it with Wesley." Fred turned to face Willow fully now.

" It's harder than you think. I mean, I could tell Wesley that I'm completely in love with him, and risk that he doesn't feel the same way. If I heard him say that he didn't love me anymore, I think that I would cease to exist. I like the knowing he once did. I can't tell him, Willow." Willow smiled, held out her hand, and blew a pouder at her. and whispered " Obliterus" Fred shook her head and then sneezed. " What the hell was that?!" Willow smiled. " Just wait until you see him. You'll know the right thing to say. Trust me, Fred. You'll be thanking me very soon." With that she left leaving a very perplexed Fred to finish gathering her things.