"She sure is," Xander said as he stepped out of the shadows. "And girls like you are making me wish I would do the same thing." Buffy bit her lip to keep from smiling.
"I wish you would. You would be doing the female species a favor."
Willow brushed her red hair out of her face and stepped forward. "Don’t argue too passionately now, you two. You might end up in a broom closet, or maybe many." Cordelia flashed Willow an evil look and Xander grinned. Giles frowned.
"Right. Why don’t we just get to business? I am starting to relive your high school years."
Gunn walked into the parlor. His eyes lit up.
"Anne?" he exclaimed. Buffy turned her head and happily smiled at Gunn.
"Gunn! It’s good to see you," she ran towards him and wrapped him in her arms.
"I’ve missed you." Gunn pulled back to look Buffy in the eyes. Angel jealously stared at them. "I mean you just disappeared one day. We all thought you were dead. I went to your job at the diner and they said you left, and they had no idea where you went."
Buffy smiled. "Yeah, I had to go back home."
Gunn nodded. Then he looked at Angel. "Angel, this is my friend, Anne."
Angel looked at Buffy with confusion in his eyes. "Buffy, you two know each other? Why is he calling you Anne?"
Gunn gave Buffy a shocked look. "Buffy? You’re Buffy? The infamous Buffy?"
She nodded. "That would be me."
"Why did you tell me your name was Anne?"
Buffy shrugged her shoulders. "I ran away from home, and I didn’t want anyone to remember who I was." Gunn’s jaw dropped. Angel closed his eyes. He remembered why she had run away. She was mourning him.
"That is why you kicked so much demon ass. You’re the Slayer!" Gunn laughed.
Buffy smirked. "Yeah," she said as she giggled slightly.
"Okay, I still don’t understand how you guys know each other," Angel shook his head in confusion. Buffy rolled her eyes.
"I was walking down the street one night, minding my own business, when I see these kids start to fight a group of vampires. You would think that they had never done it before because they were getting their asses kicked like no one has ever seen. I stepped in and helped, then sometimes I would help Gunn and his crew take out really troublesome gangs of vamps. It was really pretty easy."
Gunn nodded and smiled admiringly at Buffy. "You’ve still saved my life more times than I care to remember."
Buffy looked at him. "You would do the same for me." Just then a young man came parading down the stairs. Angel nervously sucked in unneeded air. The young man looked questioningly at Buffy and all her friends, then he looked towards Angel.
"Connor, this is Buffy. Buffy this is my-"
"Son." Buffy finished Angel’s sentence and stepped forward to shake Connor’s hand. Connor smiled warmly at Buffy. "It’s nice to meet you, Connor."
Connor nodded. "You too Buffy. You’re very pretty."
Buffy grinned. "At least someone thinks so."
Angel fidgeted nervously.
"How did you know I had a son?" Angel asked.
Buffy looked towards the ground, before staring Angel directly in the face, her eyes reflecting pain and anger. "Word on the street."
"This was a nice reunion and everything, but I still want to know how we are supposed to take care of this big bad?"
"I’ve been having dreams. Dreams about the demon that is supposed to rise. In my dream, it says only the chosen one can change the ascension. I’m thinking, maybe the chosen one is me."
Cordelia made a sighing noise. "So what you’re saying is you know just as much as we do about this ascension guy."
Buffy nodded.
"Yep. We know pretty much zilch. We do know that he is going to rise in L.A., and that it is going to happen soon. But I was hoping that you, Willow, and Tara could induce visions or something." Cordelia and Angel laughed.
"You can’t induce visions." Cordelia explained. Buffy looked towards Willow. Willow grinned. She snapped her fingers.
"Vision this." Willow whispered. Willow raised her petite hand and it started to glimmer. Cordelia started to hover and glow. Buffy gave Willow a confused look.
"I thought it was supposed to make her have a vision. Not turn her into an angel." Willow shrugged.
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