Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, Angel (But I wish I did) or any other characters in my story. The idea comes off of the Haloween episode but the story is completely diferent. Please send me feedback and tell me what you think about my story. And now I present "Turn of Events."

Buffy Summers was sitting on a bench outside of Sunnydale High. She had an open book on her lap and had a puzzled look on her face. She had been staring down at her World Studies book for over an hour and had gotten nothing out of it. Tapped her pencil on her notebook and read question one out loud for the hundredth time, "If peace could not be reached by a meeting between two leaders of two nations that were at conflict would war break out? Make an assumtion on your answer. Yea right not even Willow could crack this." She closed her book and was shoving it in her bag when she heard a rouged voice behind her.

"Um...Buffy...Buffy Summers?" Came the shy voice. She turnned while putting her sunglasses on to look at the voice that had spoken to her. She was looking at a tall masculine boy who she had never seen in her whole life. "Yea, thats me....and you are...?" She said standing looking at the unfamiliar face with a bit of confusion. "Oh, I'm Floyd...well I like Pink Floyd so my friends called me Pink but then I didn't like that name so they called me Floyd...and thats me now." He said as his face began to blush. "Um I was wondering if your not doing anything....that you might wanna do something....mabey go to the Bronze?...Tonnight Intreseption is playing....I could introduce you to the band....if you want?" He said shifting his wieght from one foot to the other nervously. She looked over her shoulder and saw Xander and Willow walking up laughing.

"You know I'm kind of busy tonight...and I'm seeing someone so I really don't think..." Then she was cut off by his quick retreating words. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize that uh...well I'll see ya there sometime...I mean not see you "see you there" but visually...uh..I gotta go." He said as he stepped around her and walked towards the parking lot. She watched him go and thought " Wierd you'd think a guy that buf would have Cordelia smered all over him." then she turned to meet her friends' gaze.

"Wow who was that guy?" Willow said watching him pull out of the parking lot in his Jeep. Xander looked down and saw her staring and jumped in. "Floyd, jock, football, shy not exactly your type...right Buf?" He said looking to Buffy with a question in his eyes.

"No he just wanted to know if I was doing anything tonight...you know the Bronze thing." She said swinging her backpack over her shoulder as the trio began to walk towards the library. "Ya well he doesn't stand a chance against the charming yet nocternal Angel who would...well except Oz." She said staring off in the distance in her usual daze when thinking of Oz. Buffy saw this and decided to put in a charmer,

"So you and Oz wanna double with me and Angel..say sevenish?" She said while giving her friend a nudge. "Oh...gee...I don't know, a real date with Oz? We haven't really been on a really real date." She said as she got that shy puppy look on her face again. Xander felt so drove into the ground he had to do something. "Oh ya well lets see if this Oz guy can chug a whole two leter bottle of serge like I did yesterday." He said tring to grab the girls attention. Buffy looked over with an annoyed look on her face. "I don't think Oz is too into chugging serge and having a major ick fest to show for it."

"Oh if he's a man like me then he'll love it." He said in his most manly voice.

"Chill Xander we have to get to the library or Giles is going to give me the if your late for class you pay with detention, if your late for training you'll pay on the job speech." She said quickening her step a little.

"Yay library are we gonna get to look up some gory details on some new arch nemisis?!" Willow said excitedly.

"Down Wil nothing new just the same old scoop on Spike and queen of darkness with a British accent." Buffy said while wearing a discusted face.

"So I take it you don't like her?" Xander said knowing it was a dumb question to ask.

"Its a girl thing." She said walking through the library doors. As she set down her bag she saw Giles approaching with an agrivated look. "Buffy if you are late for class you pay with detention but..." Then he was cut off by Buffy's input of ignorance.

"If your late for training you'll pay on the job. I know Giles and I'm sorry I'm late we took the scenic route." She said while looking down at all of the books sprawled across the tables. "Giles you really need a vacation...badly." "I'm reaserching your future so try to pay some remote respect." He said picking an open book up and handing it to her. "Here read this and tell me if my work is useless." Buffy took her sunglasses off and began to read the highlighted paragraph in the middle of the book. "And they will arise from the mist coming from afar to walk the eternal night with the undead and destroy all that is good. For their leader will have been but a legend until the day he walks the surface. All that betrayed him on this world shall be no more and they will rule over all. With the absence of the chosen one they shall overcome the forces of the worldly leaders and they will all be a sacrifice for the dark ones leader Manall." She stopped reading and with a confused and unsure voice said, "What does this mean Giles...I mean...I...don't understand what does it mean with the absence of the chosen one?"

"Well now lets not get upset about.." "Not get upset!? This says some wack prediction about the world coming to an end and you say don't get upset!?!" She said in a shrill voice.

"Buffy hear him out it might not be what you think." Willow said putting a hand on her friends shoulder. Buffy buried her head in her hands and sighed. "Ok lets hear it." She said walking over to a chair and sitting down. Giles explained that he didn't quite know what the book meant by the small caption. After a long pause he sat down then spoke as if thinking aloud to himself. "Manall is the most powerful being on earth, but he doesn't have a body it was killed in the seventeenth century by a band of vampires that went against him. So who would he..." Then his eyes went wide open and he looked at Buffy. "Oh dear if he is planing on inhabiting the body of the slayer..." Buffy looked at him her eyes wide with fear. She slumped down in her chair. Then she looked at her watch, "Well I have a date and I won't let this Manall freak wig me out. I can handle this, whatever he's gonna do...I can handle it." She said as she walked out of the library tring her hardest to hide her real emotions. She felt as if the world had just set itself on her shoulders and she was tring to keep it from falling. All she could think about on the way home was what would happen if she wasn't there to stop it. What if this and what if that. Until she got to her front yard. When she opened the door her mother was in the living room dusting the TV off with a rag. "Buffy how was studiing with Willow?" Her mother said stopping to look at her.

Buffy's head shot up, "Fine...um just fine...had a great time." She said forcing out a smile her mothers way. "Well thats good." She said setting down her rag. "Well I'm going out tonight, with Mr. Williams....I'm thinking of making him the manager of the second gallery in Winconsin. And I'll be going up there again just for one day and one night. I know I've been up there alot and I'm sorry I wasn't here when you fell out that window last month." Her mother said in a soft voice.

(A month earlier Buffy was shot by Drusilla and they covered it up with a story that she fell out the library window. Since her slayer abilities help her to heal faster than others she was out of the hospital by the time her mother returned from a week trip up to Wisconsin.)

"But this won't be a long trip I promise." "Oh thats ok I like the time to myself." Buffy said in an effort to keep her mother out of town and away from this new prophecy. "Are you sure cause I could use just one more day?" Her mother said to see if it would bother her. "Mom its ok I like being on my own more now, I'm seventeen."

"Well ok but I'll call you just to make sure, ok?" "Ok just go its fine with me." She said giving another smile. "Well then I'll be leaving in three hours, at eight and for the first time in your almost adult life I'll be leaving you these." She said pulling out the car keys from her pocket.

"Are you serious?" Buffy said with her mouth open and her eyes wide. "You mean it?" "Yes, I've been seeing a lot of improvment in your attitude this past couple of months. And I'm proud of how well you've kept yourself under control. Theres money on my desk and the fridge is stocked. The only person you can have over is Willow, ok?"

"Ok, ok, sure, thank you." She said giving her mom a huge hug. Then she ran up stairs to call Willow and the others at the library. But she still had to be on gaurd for the bad guys as usual but she was so happy now she just wanted to be a kid and go nuts over the phone with her best friend.

That night when Buffy, Willow, and Xander entered the Bronze you could tell that they were happy. Buffy got to drive and Willow was meeting Oz and Xander was just happy cause he is Xander he's just that way. They all sat down and started buzing about how cool it was to have wheels. When Cordellia stomped her way over to where Buffy was sitting and cleared her throat to introduce her presence. "What could have possibly gone through your head when you parked in my place!?!" She said her voice rising to a yell.

"That is the most excessible spot in the whole parking lot. I don't like paralelle parking so don't do it again." Then she stomped off to bury herself in the crowd. Buffy turned to her friends and laughed giving them all high fives. "Wow driving and making Cordellia mad, what are you going o do next?" Xander said acting like he was holding a micrphone. Then they all laughed until their sides hurt, then they stopped and did imatations of Cordellia and laughed some more. Buffy had left to go to the bar to get some drinks when she felt like someone was watching her. She turned and looked to see if anyone was there. When she didn't see anyone she kept walking and ordered Pepsi all around for table twelve. She turned back around and was met by someones chest and she stopped. It was Floyd the shy football player from school. He looked down at her and smiled then began to speak. "Well I uh...didn't think you'd be here. I mean you said."

"I'm with some friends," she said pointing out her table where Oz had now sat down and was being told about the Cordellia misshap and was laughing hysterically. "Oh ya well I was thinking if you'd want to uh..." Then she cut him off. "Floyd I'm really sorry but I'm seeing someone ok? But I'll see you at school, bye." She said as she walked back to her table. He watched her go.

"Man, Why can't I get a girl like that?" She was wearing a dark blue felt dress and had her hair down with some blue felt platform shoes with a shinny silver cross around her neck. And then there was that huge leather jacket that was probobly her boyfriends. He just liked everything about her. She wasn't a snob like Cordellia or shy like her friend Willow she was diffrent and he liked that. Just then Cordellia sat down on a stool next to him.

"Hi Floyd I was wondering since my date decided not to show would you escort me to my car maybe we could go for some....coffee?" She said thinking of an excuse to get him in her car.

"Uh, ok." he said as she grabbed his arm and led him outside. Buffy sat down with the others and they looked at her and started laughing. "What?" She said looking at her dress to se if hse'd spilt someting. "What?" Then Willow and looked at Xander and said, "Oh sorry for taking your spot Cordelia."

Then Xander put on a snotty look and said, "What saray dosen't cut it uk?" Then Willow (who was Buffy in their little skit) prcceded to beat Xander(who was Cordellia) over the head until he fell to the floor. Buffy was laughing but not as much as before she was thinking of what Giles had said. Just then a loud crash broke her train of thought. "Help me somebody help!" It was Cordellia and she had blood on her check where she had aparently been hit. Buffy shoulved her way through the crowd to Cordellia. When she got there she put a hand on Cordellias shoulder and said over all the noise.

"Cordellia where is it?" assuming it had been a vampire. "Outside it got Floyd!" She said as she began to sob. Buffy ran out the door exspecting to find a body but there was nothing, nothing at all. She searched for ten minutes then went back inside where everything was back to normal. Cordellia sat in a corner with her friends telling them the whole ordeal with a rag to her face. Buffy looked at her watch eight thirty Angel should be here. She looked over the crowd for him as she made her way back to her table. Her eyes searched for his until she saw him. She let out a sigh and smiled as she saw him searching the room for her. When he saw her he walked over, "Are you ok?" He said with a hint of worry in his voice.

"Ya I'm fine, I guess you heard about what happened to Cordellia?" She said as they walked back to the table. "Ya," he said brushing a stray hair from her face." I went to see if they left any scraps but I didn't see anything. I mean there were no signs of a struggle or anything." She said as they sat down with the others. "So Buffy was there a major ick fest out there, did ya give em what for?" Xander said stabing his fork into a surgar packet. "Xander settle down, there was nothing out there...I mean absolutly nothing." She said she crept her hand into Angel's. "So Floyd got away?" Willow said as she took a sip of her Pepsi.

"I don't know but something is up tonight." She said began to look around the room for danger, as always. "Buffy I know its hard but just enjoy the moment, don't let this prophecy get you down." Willow said giving her a small smile. "What prophecy?" Angel said looking at Buffy worriedly.

"Oh, god I'm sorry...its really nothing I can handle it, just some prophecy of the world coming to an end and I'm not going to do anything about it." She said with a bit of sarcasum. "Buffy is something gonna happen to you?" He said lifting her chin up to look into her emerald eyes. "I don't know, thats the worst feeling...not knowing......you wanna get some air?" She said looking up at him uneasily. "Ya, come on."

Together they walked under the moonlight it was their world. Buffy was fond of the moonlight she often found it more relaxing than the sun. It was beautiful like the sun but was so much more harmless and quiet up there among the stars. She took a deep breath and relaxed in his arms and he pulled her closer. "I love the stars." She said looking up at the sky. "Don't you?"

"Well their my world now, before....you know, I never looked at them. Now I know them by heart." He said smiling while they walked down the alley. They were in the worst part of town but they were the one couple that didn't have to worry about that. They both had unhuman strength but they forgot that for one moment they were normal lovers walking without a care in the world.

Angel pulled her close for a passionate kiss and they stopped and nothing else mattered not the prophecy, not anything, and they wished they could stay that way forever. Angel pulled away unwillingly and looked around, he had heard someone and knew someone was there. Buffy looked up and she heard it too, she felt eyes on them from somewhere close. "Come on lets get inside." Angel said as they rushed out of the alley. Then he heard something that sounded like a gun but it was quiet he stopped to see what it was.

Then he felt Buffy lean against him and then her feet gave and he pulled her up into his arms. "Buffy?..... Buffy!?" He said as he caught onto the sent of blood. He looked at her back to see a dart that had been shot into her back and some blood on the jacket he gave her. He pulled out the dart and shook her tring to wake her. Then he saw two vampires come from the shadows and he knew that something wasn't right these weren't just out for a night on the town, they were here for a reason. He put Buffy down behind him and turned to face them. They circled him a few times the whole time he had an eye on the one passing by the unconcious girl at his feet. Then they attacked at once and all he could do was keep them off him and Buffy. As the fight went on he began to tire and was about to take Buffy and run. Then one of the vampires stopped let out a cry and turned to dust. He looked over and saw Xander, Willow, and Oz.

"I gotcha back!" Xander yelled as he tossed Angel the crossbow. Angel nodded and turned to the remaining vampire with a smile. The vamp looked and saw he was outnumbered and turned tring to get away but he heard the crossbow trigger go off and he felt it plunge into his heart then turned to dust.

"What happened!?" Willow yelled as she fell at Buffy's side. "It's a tranquillizer dart it'll wear off." He said while he sank next to her. "We gotta get out of here." He said picking her up as if she wieghed nothing, "Come on Willow you drive." He said walking over to Buffy's mothers car.

"Me?" She said opening the door and sitting down. Xander held the keys up and smiled. "Come on Willow its an automatic it should be pretty easy to drive." He said as he locked the doors. "So whats up...who attacked you guys?" "I don't know but they were cowards if they'd rather drug someone than fight them in a fair fight." He said between clenched teeth. Then they drove away hoping to get some answers from Giles.

As Willow was driving down the main road through Sunnydale she began to smile. " Hey you know something I'm getting the hang of this." But as soon as she had said that she looked forward and saw three cloacked members of the undead. She swerved around them and looked briefly back at Angel. "Um, thoughs guys were..."

"Vampires, I know, but they don't really care about us right now they know somethings' up. Those cloaks are cerimonial, I think I know whats going on." He said while looking back at the three as the car turned into the school parking lot. Willow pulled into the space closest to the door and they all jumped out and ran inside to see what explanation Giles had for what happened at the Bronze.

"How peculiar..." Giles said as he read through his books finding answers to unknown questions. As he stood to return to the stacks then the doors and the gang as they called themselves entered.

"Lucy you got some splainen to do." Xander said as he entered the room shaking his finger at Giles. Giles lifted an eyebrow and set his book down. "Well what do you....god is she hurt?!" He said seeing the unconcious slayer in Angel's arms. "Oh no just a tranquillizer dart she'll wake soon." Angel said tring to ensure the worried watcher. "Oh...good...uh, what's wrong?" He said as he took his glasses of to massage his aching head.

Xander took a deep breath and was going to say something witty and probobly stupid but Willow elbowed him before he could speak. "Theres some undead dead walking around and there wearing cerimonial cloaks. And its cause they need to give a sacrifice to manall...but they didn't get their sacrifice." He said looking down at the sleeping slayer. "So the slayer is what brings manall to full strength. Angel how did you come across this information, really it does explain quite a bit." He said pointing to the piles of books all of which he learned nothing from. "I uh, witnessed him being trapped so I can see the warning signs of his rising." He said looking around the room nervously. "I was one of the betrayers, I was one of the vampires that betrayed him that trapped him." "Really, so you can just show us what to do and we can trap him again." Willow said a glimps of hope in her eyes. The look Angel gave her showed that they had no such luck. "Or not." She said sitting down and picking up a book begining to read with her chin in her hand.

"We need to get reading I don't know how to trap him, you can't do it twice the same way." Angel said setting buffy down in a chair gently as he picked up the codex and began to read. The codex is written in the old latin and was hard to read for Giles but Angel read through it as though it was nothing. The hours passed and they split into two teams Giles and Willow in one and Xander and Angel in the other(which wasn't too smart but the choice was made while Xander slept). So while one team slept the other reseched.

When Giles walked over to Angel to wake him he saw that he was just resting but not asleep. He was on the floor proped up against Buffy's chair with his hand holding hers. He looked up and nodded to Giles. "Willow wake up its our shift." He said tapping Willow on the shoulder. She woke but then forced herself up and made some coffee. When it was eight o'clock Willow looked up at the clock and said, "Whats up with the sun...that sounded wierd." She said while looking over to Angel. "Oh the sun isn't gonna rise thats a part of his rising so the vampires can have their run of the world. But don't worry manalls followers and demonic minions have to be invited just like vampires." He said not even looking up from the codex. Then they heard a thud as a book fell off the table and saw Buffy walking groggily to them. "Buffy!" Angel said rushing towards her before she fell. "Hey you should rest."

"No I'll be fine I just need some coffee...and a pain killer." She said wincing at any movment she made. Angel helped her over to a table near the window where there were some books that she could read. "You sure your ok?" He said putting a hand under her chin to lift her tired head up.

"I'll be fine I just feel wierd...what happened how did we get here?" She said reaching her back and felling a punkture mark. "Ouch!" She said pulling her hand infront of her to see that it was bleeding. Angel gently pulled off her jacket and saw that her whole back was covered with dry and some fresh blood. "I'm sorry I should've taken care of this." He said looking at how bad it accually was.

"No its ok it just needs a bandage. Theres some in the first aid kit in Giles' office." "Ok I'll be back." He said as he left to get the badages. He still didn't kno why a dart made her bleed so badly. He came back and saw how sickly she was looking, it wasn't tire it was a drug or poison. "Buffy the dart that hit you must have had a drug on it or a poison. Just hold still, this might hurt." He said frowning as he looked at her back again. He pulled her shirt up to the mark where the dart had entered. He cleaned it and disinfected it which wasn't too pleasent judging by the way Buffy quietly wimpered once in a while. Then he took a surenge and injected a poison dissolvent into the wound. This caused her to cry out and clench her fists. He moved to her side and took her hand. "You ok?" He said looking into her eyes.

She nodded and gave him a slight smile. Then he sat back and applyied a pain numbing lotion and bandages. He pulled her shirt down over the wound and wrapped the jacket he gave her over her shoulders. She sat back and took his hand and brought it to her face. "Well lets get to work fill me in on all the prophecy that I missed." She said standing and walking oddly to Willow who was looking with an amussed smile on her face at the scene before her. "Willow your suposed to be looking at books not us." She said smiling at her shy friend. "Oh...yea...work, ok." Then she turned back to her book but she knew they were kissing.

"Manall we have done as you said and the slayer will be hear shortly." Said a large, pale demon. "Well I need to be stronge so be quick about it. And make sure that our dear friend gets to see you take her. For betraying me he'll pay but I'm just too busy so this will do. Angelus will sufure and knowing she's dead will do the job nicly." He said smiling as he sat on his thrown. "Now go bring her to me and do not fail or it will be the end of you."And then he clapped his hands and twelve vampires entered the room standing behind him. He pointed towards the surface and they left their domain to retritrieve the slayer.