Within seconds, the sky was completely dark. Buffy wiped the tears from her face, looking up at the sky. There was no sign of the sun. It was a dark moonless night.

She looked down at Angel and caressed his hair. He still seemed weak, but alive. His skin cooled down as well.

She got up and walked towards Michael, leaving Angel on the ground.

Michael reached out his hand.

Angel slowly raised his head, panting hard. His face was covered with sweat, and he was too weak to get up. He looked over seeing Buffy reaching her hand out to Michael.

“No…” He whispered, trying to get up. “Buffy… no…”

“Stop that!” Michael stepped back. “You’re trying to confuse me with your thoughts. I’m stronger than you”.

Buffy felt as if some invisible force kicked her in the stomach.

“You have connection with him. He can’t save you now though. He’ll live the rest of his immortal life thinking how he couldn’t help YOU!” Michael nearly shouted.

“Michael,” Buffy tried to talk to him.

“Shut up! You’re not my mother! Lindsey would have told me! You’re a liar! You need to die!” Michael covered his face, whimpering quietly.

“I don’t want to kill you…” He said quietly. “But I have to”.

Angel pushed himself up to his feet. “Buffy!” Angel’s voice cracked.

Buffy and Michael both turned to look at him.

Angel tried to lash at the boy, but was blocked by an invisible wall. Angel got up again and tried to get through, but was blocked again.

He slammed his hand furiously against the invisible wall.

“Michael! Leave her alone!” He yelled. “Don’t hurt her!”

Michael stared at him.

“You can watch her die. You didn’t care about me enough to help me when I came to you, did you?!” Michael shouted back at him.

“You didn’t want to help me, now you’ll watch her DIE!!!” The boy called out, angry. Tears streaming down his face.

He looked at Buffy. “Shut up!! Stop that!” He yelled at Buffy and she started to shake violently, crouching, holding her head.

“Buffy!!” Angel’s voice came muffled through the invisible wall.

He started to slam against the wall, trying to break free. “Michael, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” He tried to speak to the child. “It’s me you want. Let her go and kill me!” He begged the boy.

He watched helplessly as Michael ignored him and kept smashing Buffy’s brain with his mind.

Lindsey looked at his screen. “Oh God…” He murmured.

He picked up at the phone.

“Yeah, It’s Lindsey... How the hell did you let this happen? I had everything under control!” He yelled.

“I don’t CARE that he’s valuable!!! You’ll kill him this way!” Lindsey slammed the phone shut.

He grabbed his coat and rushed out the door.

Angel was still trying to break through the invisible wall, when suddenly he leaped forward as the force field disappeared. He gained his balance quickly and ran towards Buffy.

Michael was now screaming and grabbing his head, crouching on the floor.

Buffy opened her eyes. Angel grabbed her.

“Are you all right?” He asked. She nodded and looked over at Michael.

“He’s hurting,” She whispered and moved over to him.

“Make it stop,” Michael cried, pulling his hair out, grabbing his head tight. “It hurts…”

Buffy tried to hold him. He screamed in agony and Buffy dropped to her knees, holding him close to her.

“Where is he?” A metallic voice echoed in the space. Angel and Buffy looked up to see a huge demon. Angel was ripped from Buffy by a smaller demon, which threw him away.

Another demon attacked Buffy. She kicked him away from her.

“Bring me the child!” The demon’s voice roared.

Angel was busy fighting the other demon.

“You want the child?” Buffy looked at him. From the corner of her eye she saw the demon she sent away coming back to attack her.

She grabbed him and threw him at his leader.

“Get your own children”.

The huge demon landed flat on the ground, causing it to shake. Buffy grabbed Michael from the ground and ran away from there.

Angel snapped the demon’s neck and started to fight the other demon, which lunged at him.

Lindsey showed up, looking up at the big demon. “Where’s the boy?!” He demanded to know. Angel finished off the second demon, and saw Lindsey. He jumped on him.

“It’s all your fault! What did you tell him?!” He grabbed Lindsey’s lapels and shook him.

“What are you talking about? I just came here to save Michael…”

“Don’t bullshit me, Lindsey!” Angel slammed Lindsey’s head on the ground. “You told Michael lies about me”.

“No… he didn’t like you from the start. He came here to destroy you”.

“He’s doing what you’re telling him!” Angel slammed Lindsey’s head again.

Lindsey laughed. “Why don’t you ask him? He likes me more than he likes you…”

“Want me to cut off your other hand, Lindsey? Don’t push me.” Angel got up as he saw the demon turning away.

“The Senior partners sent this demon to bring Michael back to L.A, they’re planning to keep him as a guinea pig to possess his powers”. Lindsey told Angel. “You have to save him…”

“You go back to the Senior partners and tell them they if they touch a hair on this boy’s head, I’m gonna show up at their board meeting and slice them to more pieces than a pie chart,” Angel said, grabbing Lindsey’s collar.

“That would be a little hard…” Lindsey started saying.

Angel growled, vamping out. “Want to put me to the test?”

“You’re wasting time! The longer the kid’s under the demon’s effect, the more damage he’ll do. You can’t let the senior partners have him”.

Angel turned to walk away, then turned back to Lindsey.

“Why are you suddenly on our side? Having another crisis? Need a raise?”

Lindsey shrugged. “I just love this kid. I spent the last few days with him like he was my own son. I don’t wanna see him hurt”.

Angel growled, revealing his fangs.

“Go back to L.A and don’t try to find Michael ever again,” He hissed and fled from there.