*****

Willow could now admit it to herself, she has absolutely no idea why she's doing what she's doing. First she goes and has an actual conversation with an actual guy. Then she leaves the saftey of the bronze with him. Now here she is, prancing through the graveyard, like and idiot and scared to death. She used to pride herself on her intelligence. However she seems to have none now. It's all Xanders fault she thought crossly. *Oh, Willow, we're high schoolers now, we need to get out and party more. Yeah, right, if I end up dead I am so going to come and kick his ass.* She suddenly looked up as the guy she was with put a vice like grip on her arm. "Hey that hurts, let go," she pleaded with him.

"We are here," the man rasped and turned to her, but instead of the handsome face from before, he wore a grotesque mask of ridges and had yellow glowing eyes that filled her with foreboding. She wanted to scream, she really did, but couldn't. Suddenly she heard thrashing behind her and yelling. She turned around and saw another person come through the trees with the same face as the man that held her. Kicking and screaming behind her was a person she knew all to well. "Xander!!!"

"Let go of me you stupid bitch, no means no, and I said...Willow, oh my God what are you doing here?" he asked, finally managing to raise to his feet as the woman stopped suddenly.

"Thomas, this is all you brought for the Master, she is barely enough to share." Darla said laughing at the petite girl before her.

"She is better than that thing you call a human, listen to him, his mouth will make the Master angry." Thomas was angry that she would question his judgement. The girl was plenty.

Now Xander was mad. He had no idea who, or what, these things were, but he didn't like to be ignored. "Hello, we are right here, no need to talk in the third person."

Behind him a new voice joined in the conversation. "Oh, but that is one of the things she's best at. She hasn't mastered the concept of manners yet, have you Darla."

Everyone turned to face the newcomer. Xander saw the most gorgeous man that he has ever seen crouching on a head stone watching them with a sexy smirk on his face. Yes, Xander was gay, he knew it, and Willow knew, that was as far as his secret went, but he really wouldn't mind him finding out.

The blonde vampire, Darla, turned and faced him. "My Angel, you never seemed to mind my lack of manners before, in fact if I remember correctly, you were quite fond of them."

"Yeah, well things change."

"Not us, not demons."

"Look around you Darla, it's a whole new world, and I am a whole new person."

"Ah, but your not are you? Your not really a person, haven't been in quite some time if I remember correctly."

All of a sudden the death like grip the strange man had on Willow loosened and she turned to see what caused it. The man who called himself Thomas had a piece of wood sticking out of his chest. He growled and Willow watched him turn to dust. Behind him stood a new man who made her heart skip a beat. While the man on the tombstone was dark, dark hair and dark eyes, this one was light. His white bleached hair and his blue eyes that held their piercing gaze on her, making a heat she never felt rush through her body, and she knew her body was turning an embarrassing shade of pink.

William gazed at the red headed goddess before him and was struck with feelings he hadn't felt in years. Not since the spell and he realized what an insane bitch his sire, his dark princess, Drusilla had been. He mentally shook himself. *Concentrate on the task at hand and save her so that you can maybe concentrate on her later.* "Hey, you stupid poof. You talk to much. If you don't hurry up, I'll finish it myself, the stupid bint means nothing to me."

"William" Angel warned at the same time that Darla said "Spike."

"Spike, I haven't been called that in years, makes me almost nostalgic. Almost." William said.

"You too, huh? Well, like father like son. However, I never liked you so killing you won't be that hard." Darla growled and leapt at him.

Willow stepped in front of William for a reason she didn't know, just that she didn't want this mysterious man to be hurt. Darla crashed into her and they both hit the ground hard. Willow had wind knocked out of her, but looked over just in time to see Darla reach for her having had recovered already. She picked Willow up throwing her into Xander making them both collapse in a heap of arms and legs.

Darla turned to William in time to recieve a roundhouse to the face. She turned with the blow, she then swept her feet out from under her and knock William to the ground. Before he could recover fully, Angel tackled Darla and two more minions came out of nowhere and attacked William.

Willow and Xander watched the fight with wonderment and awe. Never once did the idea of why or how they knew what these creatures were cross their minds. They watched as Darla pushed Angel into the vampires William were fighting. Darla then proceeded to turn and run into the woods and disappear. Angel and William then made the two fledgling turn to dust.

William and Angel turned to the two human that still were sprawled on the ground and and they looked into the distorted faces of their saviors and the fear that left when they arrived reappeared stronger than before.

*****
Part 2:

Willow and Xander backed away from the two men that had just saved their lives. They hit a headstone and were unable to go any farther. Willow started making those vowel sounds she was so good at as Xander finally found his voice, "what are you guys?"

William and Angel looked confused for a minute but then realized they had their game faces on. Their faces melted back to their human disguises and the two actual human before them visibly relaxed. "Look we didn't mean to scare you. Don't worry, we're the good guys," Angel said looking at Xander.

"Yes, but what are you?" Willow repeated Xander guestion.

"Well," William said nervously, and switched from foot to foor, "we're vampires."

"Vampires? As in fangy 'I vant to suck your blood,' turn into bats, vampires? Xander asked with a look of amusement and disbelief on his face.

"We don't turn into bats, just that bloody poof Dracula does. Ruins the image for the rest of us he does. He went and turned to the gypsies to learn their show tricks. Damn gypsies provide us with nothing but torment."

"So you guys can't fly, that sucks."

"Not really, I have a bloody brilliant Firebird."

"Oh," Xander said suddenly realizing that he was having a conversation with a blood sucking fiend from beyond the grave. "So are you guys going to kill us now, because that would suck." He paused, "that pun wasn't intended."

Angel laughed at Xanders worries. "No, like we said, we're the good guys." He walked forward and extended his hand to help Xander up.

William moved forward to help Willow up. He grabbed her hand and pulled her flush against him, "Hey, the name's William. And you are?"

Willow felt her whole body blush at his words. "Wi..Willow, my names Willow, like the tree. My parents were nature freaks when I was born and we had willow tree in our yard, they named me after the tree, sort of like the Indians, though now it's politically correct to call them native Americans and.I'm sorry, I have a tendency to babble."

William was laughing at her as Willow glowed an even brighter red than she previously was. Xander raised his eyebrows at the couple. *So, Willow has a thing for blondy. He's not half bad, not as cute as this brunette god in front of me.*

Xander turned to said brunette god. "He's William, she's Willow, I'm Xander, Alexander Lavelle Harris actually, but don't tell anyone please. So, who are you?"

Angel chuckled again, "My names Angel, and I think I'm going to walk you, Alexander Lavelle Harris, to your house." He took his arm, "just to keep you safe. There's more than vampires that go bump in the night. William, I'll meet you back at the mansion."

"So, Angel, only one name, isn't that awfully 80's of you?" Xander asked as they walked off.

"Bloody poof," William muttered. He turned back to Willow. "Shall I walk you home Lady Willow?" he asked bowing.

Willow smiled and bowed as well, "it would be my honor Sir William."

They turned and walked towards her house and Willow asked him, "what does 'bloody poof' mean?"

William smiled at her innocence. "Angel has a thing for your friend Xander."

"How can you tell?"

"He laughed."

"Oh, good."

*****
Part 3:

Willow and Xander met in the library before school the next day, each eager to discuss their evenings and the events that happened after their separation. They walked in and said hello to Giles, the weird new librarian from England. He greeted them with a proper English nod and greeting. Willow couldn't help herself and squealed in a very childish way. He sounded like William. She couldn't help it, she now found a British accent quite sexy. Not that Giles is sexy, he's old. *Great,* Willow thought, *I even babble in my thoughts.*

Xander had a silly grin on his face. He had met the man that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. Angel had been perfect. He laughed at all of Xanders jokes, even the lame ones, and he even made a few rather funny ones himself. He was cute, had a sense of humor, and seemed to like Xander as well. If he could get the courage to do something like kiss Angel, he would die a happy man. Xander's minds now began to wander to all the dirty things that he and Angel could do. "God Wills, I just realized how much our life has changed in the past twenty four hours."

"I know what you mean," Willow said. "Yesterday we were all like oooh, pop quiz, today day we are like, oh my gosh, Vampires." Willow looked up as the librarian seemed to make a strange coughing like noise. He had a weird expression on his face, but before she could ask what was wrong the phone in his office began ringing. She shrugged it off and turned to Xander.

All of a sudden loud yelling came from the office, "she's not coming, what do you mean she's not coming..I bloody well don't care if you feel she's needed in Cleveland. oh don't give me that, Cleveland is not settled on top of the Hellmouth as Sunnydale has proven to be.the Master is lying in wait somewhere around here, what if he manages to escape. no I am not returning to England, without the Slayer here, this town needs all the help it can get."

The two children heard the phone slam and a string of very British swear words. Xander and Willow as one stood and walked to the office door as one and prepared themselves for what they knew was going to be an intense confrontation.

Giles walked out of his office after he felt he composed himself enough, as he stepped back in the library he came face to face with the two students he had just heard talking about vampires. The young man looked at him expectantly, "what was that about?" Giles began to silently curse himself again, he hadn't realized he left the door open.

"It was nothing, simply.part of a play I'm working on, yes that's it, a play," Giles said nervously cleaning his glasses. These children were innocents and couldn't be pulled into his world, wouldn't be if he help it.

Willow looked at him sharply and said with a courage that she didn't seem to have the day before. "You're lying, you mentioned the master, and those vampires that captured us last night said that we were going to be fed to the master."

Giles looked with shock at the two tenth graders before him. *They were gifts for the Master and they are standing before me now? How is that possible?* "What vampires would that be?"

"I don't know," Xander said, "getting to know people who try to kill me isn't on the top of my priority list. Angel called that one girl Darla, I don't remember the others name. He took you, do you remember Willow?"

Willow shook her head, "no, they said it, I know, but I was beyond scared at the time so it slips my mind." She then turned to Xander and grinned, "you however seem to remember everything that Angel said."

Xander blushed but decided to turn the tables on her, "really, and you weren't captivated by a certain bleached vampire, as well."

Willow now blushed and muttered to him to be quite. Willow, eager to get the attention off of her turned back to Giles, "so what do you know?"

Giles had been following their conversation with a mixture of interest and confusion both of which showed on his face. Giles proceeded to clean his glasses again, "I'm sorry, exactly how many vampires last night were there?" Giles paused finally relizing that he had all but admited that there are vampires. He mentally kicked himself, and since he couldn't do it physically, he settled for cleaning his glasses again.

Xander and Willow launched into their discribtion of the night before, "there were four," "no there were six, remember two more came later," "oh, yeah, Darla had me and guy had Willow," "then Angel and William came and saved us."

They were interrupted by Giles exlamation of "bloody hell, I just realized who they are. How could I forget?"

Willow and Xander were confused, to say the least, at his outburst, "who?"

"Darla, is the Master right hand man, she was sired by him in the 1600's and is ruthless, in the mid 1700's, she sired a man, he was named Angelus, the one with the angelic face."

He was interrupted by Xander saying, "God, yes he was."

Giles raised his eyebrows and moved on, "together they were a force to be reckoned with, but then in the 1800's Angelus was joined by a new vampire, William the Bloody, his sire is unknown but is told to be of the same line, those three and the fourth who isn't as well known, were known as the scourge of Europe they wrecked havoc and destruction wherever they went, then about a hundred years ago they disappeared off the face of the world, Darla has been around since, but no Angelus and no William the Bloody. You are lucky to have gotten away with your lives."

Willow and Xander were shocked with the fact that they men they became attracted to last night weren't the same. Willow sat down hard and leaned her head foreward so that her hair was covering her face. Xander looked crestfallen, "but that's not right, they saved us, and they killed three vampires. They walked us home to keep us safe. This isn't right, it can't be."

Giles looked at them sharply, "they walked you home? You didn't invite them into your houses did you?"

Xander looked back at him and said, "no, what type of hussies do you think we are? They didn't even take us out on a date."

Giles shook his head at the young mans antics "promise you guys won't invite them into your house until we know that their intentions are right. Vampires don't just wake up on day and decide to be good. I want to know why they suddenly changed sides."

Willow stood suddenly and looked at the librarian with a ferocity that no one knew she had, "we'll ask them what happened, but don't tell us to stay away, I trust them and will not have you telling me I shouldn't." She turned on her heel and stormed out.

Xander looked at Giles, "yeah, what she said." He turned and followed her out of the library.

*****
Part 4:

"Wow Wills, you have some claws on you. I've never seen you react that way to anyone." Xander said as he caught up with Willow in the hallway after the big production in the library. "You really like that bleached superman don't you?"

"I.yeah, I don't know why or how to explain it, but I really want to see if maybe one day.I want him to like me, as a guy likes a girl and maybe do couply things, like smoochies, and dating." Her head hung as she realized where she was in life. "I'm almost seventeen and have never really been liked or kissed or.anything."

Xander was worried about her, he had known her all of his life and she never seemed to get upset about a guy or even care about a guy other than herself. Hid thoughts were interrupted as behind him he heard the voice of the one person he couldn't stand. Cordelia Chase. "Willow, you found your self an actual guy, and what bizzaro world is he from? What about you Xander, did you finally find yourself a man?"

Xander was fuming, "What are you talking about Cordy? I haven't found a woman, but other than that, we have such a hard time finding a date because we're not into you cast offs."

"Please loser, you are a straight as a bent arrow, I have to go now, I'm getting hives from being around you two." Cordelia turned on her heel and walked away with her posse of fawning chicks.

Xander wasn't ashamed of being gay, he really wasn't. The thing was he was in high school, where he would be ridiculed and no doubt beat up beyond recognition. Cordelia knowing was worse than the rest of the school put together. However he could probably shut her up if he showed up with Angel on his arm. Oh, he was pathetic, now he was thinking of Angel as arm candy. He was almost as bad as Cordelia.

Willow turned and grabbed Xanders arm and began to pull him towards the front doors of the school. "Come on Xander, it's time we had a talk with those two vampires friends of ours."

Xander followed as she pulled him letting her lead the way to her destination, "and we are going to talk to them how, we don't know were they are. And what if they don't want to be found and cornered by us?" Xander's insecurities began to set in as he realized that like Willow, in his seventeen years he had never known anyone in a romantic way, these new found feelings scared the shit out of him and what scared him even more is, what if Angel didn't want him?

Willow stopped in her tracks, she wasn't stupid or a novice at Xander speech, she knew what was bothering him, because the same thing was bothering her when it came to William. Willow hugged Xander hard and looked at him, "don't worry, Angel likes you, I promise, William told me so, and he's known him for over a hundred years. He knows Angel, and Angel likes you."

Xander smiled at his best friend, he hugged her back and motioned for her to proceed on their way to wherever their destination was. Willow dragged him into the computer lab and said hello to Miss Calendar. The other new teacher, Willow couldn't help but wonder if there was some secret life she was leading that had to do with vampires and, what was it that Mr. Giles called it? The Hellmouth. Willow wouldn't put it past her.

Willow and Xander took a computer in the back of the room and Willow hacked onto the net. Xanders curiosity got the better of him and he asked her how she was going to find them on the net. "Last night they said that they would meet back at the mansion, Sunnydale is middle class suburbia and there are only a few mansions in the city limits. All of them are registered under the city planning department. Find the mansion that has recently been moved into or if there is none, because I'm not sure if they legally bought it, then whichever ones are vacant according to their records. If there are more than one, we'll check each one."

Xander looked at her, more than mildly impressed. "So, getting into these city plans is perfectly legal right?"

Willow ducked her head and blushed with guilt. "Um, yeah?"

Xander laughed at her and said "naughty Willow, what would William say? Well, he could be into that whole bad girl thing, so he may like it." His comment caused Willow to blush even deeper and type even faster, in hope to change the subject.

A few minutes passed before Willow finally exclaimed that she found it. There was an old mansion on Crawford street, that had just recently been bought by a William Braden. The irony of the situation wasn't lost on the two because that was their hideaway and playhouse when they were little. The attic was even headquarters to their 'We Hate Cordelia Club.' "Well we found them, I guess it's time to go visit our two potential hotties."

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Willow and Xander stood outside of the setting of so many of their childhood memories. Back when everything was simple, when the opposite sex was yucky and had cooties, back when vampires was just another one of the boogiemen that existed under their beds that would never harm them. They knew that when they walked into the mansion that their entire perspective on life would extremely altered. "Well, lets go!" Xander exclaimed way to cheerfully.

They walked up to the door and knocked listening to the hallow echo on the other side of the door. A few seconds later the door was opened and they entered slowly. As soon as they were in the door slammed and they turned to see Angel standing there. He had a crossbow in his hands and wasn't wearing a shirt. Xander immediately turned into a slobbering fool having to many hormones run through his system all at once. Willow wasn't as obvious as Xander was, but she was enjoying the view. "Xander, Willow, what are you doing here? How did you find us?"

Behind them William entered the room also sans shirt. It was Willows turn to act the blushing virgin, which she was, but maybe he would fix it soon, and it was Xanders turn to appreciate the masterpiece before him. "Bloody hell, peaches, think you can slam the door any harder?" He then finally noticed the two mortals in the room, "Willow? What are you two doing here?"

Willow finally regained the ability to make complete sentences, "We want answers, why are you the good guys, what is the Hellmouth, who is the Slayer, who is the Master, and who the hell our librarian is?"

*****
Part 5:

The three men in the room stood stunned at the redheads outburst. Xander was the most shocked out of them all, he didn't know Willow had courage to say things like that. She had two outbursts like that in one day, two more than he heard her have in the past seventeen years put together. Not only did she have the two outbursts but one was to an adult and the other was to two people who could kill her with a flick of their wrists. *Blondey over there is having a real affect on her and I can't decide if it's good or bad.*

Willow watched as the two vampires seem to have a conversation between themselves. She was growing more irritated by the second and was about to yell again when Angel spoke up. "Okay, we'll answer your questions to the best of our abilities, no promises though. Lets move to the living room. This may take a bit." He let out a sigh he shouldn't have been able to and led them to the living room.

When they entered the room the two humans saw all the mats lying on the floor and their shirts thrown carelessly on the couch. "What were you guys doing?" Xander asked and the two vampires answered simultaneously "Tai Chi."

Willow watched as William pulled his shirt on, his abs rippled, flaunting most of his assets. Willow felt herself flush and grow warm in places she didn't even know she had. *God, how can his body do that? It can't be humanly possible.and he's not. Human that is. Which is why I'm here, so back on top, I mean topic. Yeah back to the reason we're here.oh, look at his butt.no, no more looking. They are vampires and I want answers.* Willow looked at Xander, he was just as captivated by Angel as she had been by William only seconds before. However, judging by the look on his face it was going to be harder to get him to focus. Then Angel bent over to pick something up and she knew all hope was lost *Oh, no, I've lost Xander to the dark side, and is he.yep, he's drooling.*

Xander's thoughts weren't as complete as Willow's at this point *Angel, butt, Angel, nice butt, Angel bending over, mmmmmmm. Wow, William bending over, William butt, mmmmmmm.oh, shit, I'm drooling, act cool.*

Angel and William sat opposite of the humans and looked at them, unsure of where to start. That was when they first noticed their expressions, Willow was alternating, between looking embarrassed and irritated, depending on who she was looking at. Xander just looked embarrassed and was looking anywhere but at the two vampires. He was shifting nervously in his seat, that was when Angel noticed the bulge in Xanders pants and was so glad that vampires couldn't blush, because then he would be the shade of Willows hair. Also, he noticed he was aroused now as well. He was in deep shit, there was no telling how long this conversation would last. He tried unsuccessfully to will his erection away, but he knew as long as Xander was across from him, he was stuck.

William could feel the tension that was cracking in the room. Not to mention he could smell the arousals of all three of them and knew his scent was slowly but surely joining the air. He stopped sniffing the delectable scents and focused on what they were here for. What they hunted them down for. *Damn, they are either really stupid or really smart, I can't decide yet.*

No one seemed to be focusing on the point here so Willow decided to bring it back to attention. "Okay, lets start these questions one at a time, first, what is a slayer?"

Angel relaxed a little, "the slayer is one girl in the world chosen to fight vampires and the other demons that inhabit the planet. The current slayer is a girl named Buffy Summers, she is supposed to be on her way here as we speak, or she could already be here, I'm not sure yet."

Xander perked up, "wait, did you say Buffy. That's what, or who Giles was yelling about, Buffy's not coming, she's going somewhere else, Columbia or Cincinnati, no, it was Cleveland."

William stood abruptly and began pacing, "shit, she's not coming, I told you not to count on her peaches. Damn it do you know what this means? The harvest is tomorrow night, without her we have to stop her, if not we are all screwed. Fuck!" William lit a cigarette and began to puff away like a locomotive. Willow and Xander watched his actions with shock and a little bit of fear.

Angel looked at the human, "Giles, I'm guessing he's your librarian huh? He's the watcher then, are you sure he said she wasn't coming?"

Xander nodded, "Yeah, he was yelling in the phone, lost all of his famous British cool, very scary. Wait, what's a watcher?"

"Bloody hell, a Watcher is part of the bloody council, they are the bloody arses that train the bloody slayers that we have to put up with." William yelled still pacing and smoking his second, or was it third, cigarette. Both human seemed shocked at his outburst, Angel seemed angry.

"Damn it, Spike sit down now and be quiet, I don't want to hear you say bloody one more time. I know you are upset, but we can't deal with your temper tantrums right now." Both vampires eyes glowed amber and William let a growl out. However he did sit down and put out his cigarette, Angel called him Spike, he only did that when he was angry.

"What's the harvest and why do you have to stop it? Oh, and what's a hell mouth?" Willow asked, she felt scared for the first time since she had first seen their faces. William had been so sweet and gentle up till then, and when he wasn't she reverted to her formerly shy disguise.

William looked at her and seemed to visibly calm, which amazed Angel to no end. They could both sense her fear and it upset William. He never wanted this female to be afraid of him for any reason what so ever. "You live on the Hellmouth, Sunnydale is the Hellmouth. Now, the harvest is a ritual that when completed will let the Master escape his prison. Tomorrow night, a chosen vessel will be let out to feed and build the Masters strength so he can escape his prison that he was trapped in over 60 years ago. If he walks free, it will be hell on earth, quite literally."

Willow nodded, this brought up the real question that she had wanted to ask since she arrived, "so, you go guys are vampires, shouldn't you like that type of stuff. Why are you so different than the rest?"

William and Angel looked at each other and seemed to have a conversation between each other with their eyes. William signaled for Angel to start. "Over two hundred years ago I was turned by a vampire named Darla. I was ruthless and vicious, I was known as Angelus. I sired a girl named Drusilla, however before I turned her I drove her insane. Not to much longer after that, she sired this young man sitting next to me, William Braden, known at that time as William the bloody."

Xander interrupted at this point. "I'm probably going to regret this, but why were you called William the bloody, and please, no gruesome details."

William mumbled something looking at the ground his embarrassment clearly written on his face. Angel however broke out into a large grin. "My boy here was a poet, and he was 'bloody awful'" he said adding the accent on the last two words, "hence the nickname. He still writes it two, of course he doesn't know I know do you buddy." William started stuttering his disbelief and pronouncing many loud and fake disclaimers of it all being lies. Xander and Angel were laughing outright at him. Willow smiled and looked at him, "can I read some of it sometime?" William threw his hands in the air sat back and did a manly job of pouting.

Angel and Xander both finally calmed down and wiped the tears from the face. Willow indicated that Angel should continue which immediately sobered him up. "Anyway, the three of us and my sire, Darla, traveled Europe creating chaos and destruction, the usual bit of hell on earth. Them one day about 80 years ago, Darla gave me a gift of a beautiful gypsy. I drained her and left her for her clan to find. Gypsies, in my experience, are heavily into vengeance. They cursed me. Gave me back my soul. I have to live with everything I've done and I have to live forever. You don't know what it's like to have done what I've done and care."

Angel quieted and got a blank look on his face which William could tell he entered one of his brooding sessions and he knew he had to take over from here. "Angel came back to our lair that night, broken, scared and guilt ridden. Darla wanted nothing to do with him and walked out. We hadn't seen or heard of her until last night. Drusilla, well she's another story. She's an insane bitch, but she was my dark goddess and my demon loved her with every once of humanity it lacked. She was a seer and experienced in black magic. She cursed me with my soul that night as well. She went on and on about her Daddy would need me in the years to come. She walked out the next night and I, we, haven't seen hide nor hair of the stupid bint since then."

William joined Angel in his brooding, and both Willow and Xander didn't feel right interrupting them so they sat there in silence each lost in his or her own thoughts.

After almost an hour past Willow cleared her throat, "look, guys, it's dark, we need to get home, it's dangerous out there you know."

William and Angel shook themselves out of their self induced dazed and realized Willow was right. "Yeah, we'll walk you guys home," Angel said, his voice husky with emotion and guilt. "Come on Xander, I'll take you home and keep you safe." The two men left the house and headed for Xander's .

William and Willow looked at each other and began to walk towards her house, not really talking, just enjoying each others company. When they reached her house, she turned to him, "thank you for telling me all of that tonight, I know it was hard and, well, I just want to say I appreciate it."

William smiled softly, "Thank you for listening Red." He leaned forward and kissed her chastely on her mouth. He turned and his duster billowed out behind him. Willow touched her lips that tingled softly, she just received her first kiss from a master vampire with a soul, how much weirder could her life get?

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Angel walked Xander to his door and as Xander opened the door Angel spoke up for the first time since they left the mansion. "Will you go to the Watcher tomorrow and talk to him, tell him to find all the information he can on the harvest. Bring it to us as soon as possible, we need all the information we can to stop the Hellmouth from opening."

Xander nodded his consent. As Angel turned to leave, he reached out and grabbed his arm. "This Darla, did she mean a lot to you?"

Angel looked at him with a blank stare, "she's my sire." He said it as if it explained everything, which it did in a weird, complex way. Angel leaned forward suddenly and kissed Xander. This kiss had a sense a desperation and a deep feeling of passion behind it. Angel pulled away to soon for Xander's wishes. He walked away, fighting every instinct that his body had, both to fuck the human senseless or to run from the feelings that no mortal should be able to inflict on him. Feeling he shouldn't be aloud to feel. Instead he was trying not to hurt the mortal boys feelings with his desperation to escape.

Xander touched his lips that tingled softly, he just received his first kiss from a master vampire with a soul, how much weirder could his life get?

*****
Part 6:

The two vampires and the three mortals stood outside of the Bronze, knowing that tonight was going to change everything. The vampires were unsure why they let the humans with them. The watcher guy, they could care less about, it was his job and they never liked the damn council anyway, they always staked before they looked. However their two human, fascinations, as they liked to call them, shouldn't be there. They were innocents and they destroyed to many of those in their past to want to do it to these two. They knew that they couldn't stop the humans though, they would have snuck in after them, of that they were sure. At least this way they could keep an eye on them.

The vampires had already taken siege of the Bronze. The vampires who were ironically their brothers, in the vampire world that is, and know it was time to play a deadly game of family feud.

William had searched the outside of the Bronze and found only one way in that they could access without setting off alarms and their death bells. A window on the second floor that was open and unguarded. He just prayed that the four of them, five, he kept forgetting the watcher, survived, if anything happened to Willow, he didn't know what he would do. He smiled, what the hell had he turned into? A great big wanker is what, but she was worth it, he could feel it. Of course he wasn't as bad as his sire.

Angel was scared. How Darla would laugh if she knew, the Scourge of Europe was terrified. Not of the fight, or that he would win of lose, but because he was dragging a mortal that he was sure he loved into a battle that could end his life. When the hell did he start caring about others? When he received his soul he felt guilt for what he did, then he felt an obligation to humanity for his mistakes, but he never cared, until two days ago. Yeah, Darla would be laughing her ass off.

Willow reached out and grabbed Williams arm. She knew that by helping them she was giving up her childhood innocence and as much as she wanted to be a grown up, she wanted to hide in her room and wait for the bad men to disappear. She knew though that the bad men weren't figments of her imagination and no matter where she hid, they would find her. It was a dark world that she merely existed in, and the shadows that held the monsters were even darker. Life was different now, the monsters were really after her and she was in love with one of them.

Xander was in full panic mode. He didn't know what the hell he was doing. He had trouble matching his wardrobe, a point which Cordelia loved to fixate on, now he was going to save the world. He just hoped the world wasn't to disappointed when he screwed up. Honestly though, he didn't care anymore, the entire world could think he was trash and beat him into submission, as long as he had Angel and Willow, and yes even William on his side. Two days ago, his life was a whirlwind of trivial details, and his main concern was keeping his gayness a secret, now the world could know for all he cared, as long as the world didn't end two minutes later.

Giles mind was torn. He wanted to concentrate on the nights events about to take place, but he couldn't focus on it. Not while the two humans that he felt he dragged into a world they didn't belong in. They were fraternizing with the enemy, so to speak. He had heard of they soul restorations, weather he wanted to believe it or not was unclear. He nervously cleaned his glasses, scared that he was actually walking into a trap. He knew that the vampires had given him no reason to believe they had evil intentions and they seemed rather protective of the two teenagers, but they were 200 plus, there is no telling if it is actually a great charade. If it was, he was as good as dead already. He sighed and put his glasses back on, "let's go."

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Willow and Xander walk through campus the next day listening to the gossip of the 'evil gang' that attacked everyone at the bronze the night before. They listened in on Cordelia's account of the story both trying to keep their faces straight at her inaccuracies. They listened as she told how traumatized she was, but she was so sure that she was going to hook up with those two fine men that rescued her.

What really happened was Xander rescued her from Darla, then Luke, the vessel as he was called grabbed him trying to make him the next meal. Right before that Luke had thrown Willow into a wall after she jumped on his back. Angel and William went all evil vamp, and between them managed to tear Luke apart, literally. This shocked the two humans to no end, not because their evil vampires showed, but because of the way they reacted to them being hurt.

Yeah, last night changed their lives forever, they knew it and accepted it. But this new twist to their lives was somethinsg they didn't want to miss.

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