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[__angel]

I stayed up all night watching her, when really, it wasn't that hard, but on the other hand, it was. She moved just like Buffy in her sleep. I remember when I would climb up on the tree and just watch her all night, sometimes crawl in through the open, inviting window and sit, just like I'm doing now and watch her until before the sun would rise.

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[__angel]

I stood up from the bed, pacing a bit and waiting for her to come out. I imagine that she'll have questions about all of this and considering that I'm a vampire and can't die ... well, not really, that she'll have questions to ask me. What was I supposed to say? How was I going to answer her? This was getting really complicated. All I did was sign on to babysit and already, she's died. I just ... I didn't want to see Buffy now.

She came out and I stared at her as she walked. Then we heard it, the scratching and then the rumbling. I reached out, pulling her closer to me and holding onto her arm. "Come on," I said and took off with her in tow. I wasn't sure what they were planning, but they weren't going to get her away from me. Not again.

Ran through some room that I knew were connected before we had to get back onto the hallway. We took the stairs down and finally we were in the basement. I looked around quickly before dragging her toward the back window that led out to the alley. "We're going in the sewers," I said and opened the door, getting out of the hotel.

[womansized]

I followed him down into the sewers and immediately made an ick face when I saw all the slime and sludge. I could feel it slick under my shoes as Angel led me further into the sewers and away from the hotel. Maybe we were safe down here, and those Bringers couldn't get down here? I wasn't sure what we were doing down here other then getting away. Why? They couldnt' kill us. Well, I guess they could stake Angel or chop off his head or something. I'd hate to have to tell Buffy that her ex-boyfriend turned into dust trying to protect me when I didn't even need protecting! They couldn't even kill me. The problem was, The First seemed to know that. She was testing me, and I didn't know why.

"Do you think they'll follow us down here?" I asked quietly and as if an answer to my question I heard the door open and bang shut again. My eyes widened as Angel pulled me into a side tunnel. The two of us were so quiet I could hear my heart beating. It didn't sound like Bringers, just like one thing moving through the sewers at a steady pace.

Suddenly we were both faced with the scariest thing I had ever seen next to Glory. An uber vamp.

"Oh no." I breathed out as Angel pushed me behind him. Why did he do that? It couldn't kill me. Or maybe I had a special way to die just like vampires did, like the ubervamp had to chop off my head or something. I needed to do more research on the key.

[__angel]

Of course they would follow us, this just seemed like a good idea since I couldn't go outside. I'd rather not be dust this early in the morning. I pulled her along the sewer and I could hear her making noises behind me. I was used to it, it didn't bother me. That much.

I heard something and pulled her into a side tunnel, holding her to me. Brought my finger to my lips and I could hear her heart pounding in her chest, so hard. Next thing I knew we were face with an ... what the hell is that?

Pushing Dawn behind me, I was met with a hand around my neck, squeezing hard enough to pop off before I was thrown into a wall. Falling in the water, I got back up, holding onto my neck before charging after this thing. Knocked him into the wall but he just turned around, heading toward me.

"Dawn. Run. NOW!"

[womansized]

I took a few steps backwards as the ubervamp grabbed Angel by the throat and knocked him into a wall. My eyes widened as it looked down at me and I took a few careful steps back as Angel climbed back up to his feet and charged straight into the ubervamp. I still remembered what one of these things had done to Buffy. I really didn't think she was going to make it for a little while and now it was after Angel. Okay, he was immortal, I was immortal unlike my big sister but still. I liked having all of my limbs attached to my body, and I kind of liked Angel with all of his too.

Run? I snapped my attention to Angel as he and the ubervamp kept fighting. And by fighting I mean that Angel was getting beat up pretty bad and I just kept thinking about Buffy. About how she thought I was weak and needed protecting, about how sometimes? Buffy was the one who needed protecting. The world wasn't always a nice place and I wasn't a little kid anymore. I was ready for it.

"I'm not leaving you here." I insisted as Angel got thrown into a wall again.

Running down the length of the tunnel I turned back around in time to see the uber vamp pounding Angel with it's fists. "Hey!" I yelled loudly, almost stumbling over a sword that someone must have dropped when they were fighting something down here. Probably Angel. I mean who else would have a sword in the sewer? "HEY!" I screamed again trying to distract the ubervamp away from Angel. I suddenly realized that the ubervamp wasn't here for me, it was here for him. It was going to kill him so the Bringers could get at me...again. I'd already died once today, and I wasn't about to do it again.

Running towards Angel, the ubervamp had it's arm locked tightly around Angel's throat with his back to me. With an angry cry I slammed the sword into the ubervamp's back. He let out a loud angry cry and turned around, backhanding me into the wall. But at least he let go of Angel.