--The Bronze, night, Lee's dream--
Lee, Xander, Willow, and Cordelia are dancing on the floor. Music plays in the bakground, it's slow music though. Xander and Cordelia dance together, and Lee and Willow dance in a joking manner. Angel appears on the other side of the room, although he was unseen by the group. He slowly walks over and taps Lee on the shoulder, he turns around. Lee looks into Angel's eyes, which have a sad look in them. "I'm sorry. I had to." Willow, Xander, and Cordelia slowly move away from the group and sit around the table as Lee and Angel talk in the middle of the crowd.
A sword slowly appears in Lee's hand. The same sword he used to kill Angel with when he tried to awaken Acathla. The appearance of the weapon in his hand is off balancing and he drops the sword. Angel reaches down and holds onto the sword by the blade, picking it up. His hand is cut open, the same hand, same spot he used on his hand to pullt he sword from Acathla. Angel gives him another hurt look.
"I had to." Lee steps back a little bit. "After Drusilla and Spike hired Ethan Rayne to take your soul away, you were Angelus again. You killed the girl I loved and then attempted to end the world. I couldn't let that happen. You were my best friend, and it's been bothering me everday of my life that I had to kill you. I'm so--"
"Go to Hell!" Angel yelled. He is now a gross decomposting zombie type person. He laughs evily and looks down at the sword which is now covered in his blood. "I did."
--Lee's room, morning--
Lee wakes up from his dream and sits up in bed. After a few seconds he realizes it was just a dream and he sits back in bed. He had to kill his best friend, he had to kill Angel. If he didn't, the world would have been sucked into Hell. The choice he made was the right one. Angel was gone now. And there was nothing he could do to bring him back.
Joyce walks into the room and smiles down at Lee. "Morning, Lee." She sits next to him in bed. "Ready to face the beast?" She raises an eyebrow.
--Principal Snyder's Office, noon time--
Snyder puts his hands down on his desk and stares across the room where Lee and Joyce sit. He too sits downs and glares at Lee a little bit. He then looks down at his papers for a second, and then back towards Lee and Joyce. "Here are the rules she must follow to re-enter my school. Either you do them, or you don't.
Lee takes a letter opener out of a pencil holder and begins playing with it. He yawns annoyingly and looks at Snyder.
"To re-enter my school, you must pass a makeup test of every class you missed while on your expelsion." He looks at Lee who is still playing with the letter opener, tapping it on his desk. You also must get a glowing letter of recommendation from any member of the school staff who isn't a librarian." He starts to get annoyed by Lee and the tapping of the letter opener. You must complete an interview with the school counceler who must conclude that your violent tendencies--" He stands up and walks towards Lee. He paushes and then takes the letter opener away from him. "--are under control."
"I don't think I like your attitude, Mr. Snyder." Joyce says. "I spoke with the school board, and according to them you--"
"--I'm required to educate ever juvenile who isn't in jail where he belongs." He stops and looks out the window, then turns back to them. "Welcome back."
Lee smiles and stands up. "So, let me get this right. I'm really back because the school board overruled you? That's like having your whole authority to do this job called into question, if you think about it.
Joyce stands up as well. "I think what my son is trying to say is nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah." She smiles back at Snyder. "Bye." Joyce nods towards Lee and they both walk out of the office.
As they walk out, the intercom on his desk rings. He stares at it for a moment and then a voice comes out. *The Mayor on line one.*
--The Library, half hour later--
Lee and Willow walks into the library. Lee looks around. He missed this place so much, which is weird because it's a library. Teenagers don't miss libraries. The library is empty as always, so they talk as if nothing has changed.
"It's great that you're back in school again." Willow smiled. "I missed you around here."
Lee looks around for Giles then turns back to Willow. "Uh yeah. Giles wanted me? Is he mad?" They walk up to the large counter in the front of the library. There are herbs and jars on the counter. "What is this stuff?"
"No. I don't think he's mad." Willow shakes her head. "Did you ever notice when he is to mad, but he's to English to say anything he makes that cluck-cluck sound with his tounge?" Willow asks, smiling.
Giles gets up from below the counter and looks at the things on the counter. He raises his eyebrow at the two of them and sighs, expecting one of them to talk.
Willow looks at Giles, half embarrassed half worired. "Oh, hey, Giles. Been there long?"
Giles ingores Willow and turns to Lee. "Lee, good timing." He looks at the herbs on the table and then back to Lee. I could use your help. You remember the demon Acathla, right?" He asked.
"Giles, contain yourself." Lee laughed. "Yes, I'm back in school, but you know how embarrasing it is for me when you do this questionary stuff, so let's just skip it and get right to the work." He puts some books down on the counter and looks back at Giles. "So, Acathla? What are you going to do? Make him some demon pizza?" He takes a little bit of herbs in his finger tips and then puts it back in the bowl.
"We need to make sure he remains dormant for all eternity this time. We need to make sure the vortex is sealed completely." Giles looked down at an open book on the counter. "So, I'm going to do a binding spell."
Willow looks up and smiles. "Can I help?"
"With the research you are more than welcome to help." Giles says, shooting her down. "This spell is more difficult than the one you did on Angel. It could mean the different between the world ending in the near future in a while into the future. It's a protective circle spell that will seal the vortex inside Acathla forever. The spell will be so perfectly that no one will be able to be pure enough unless they are some sort of higher beeing. So, with that, I need to get a few details about you killing Angel and defeating Acathla. The time was around 6:17?"
"Yes."
"Was the vortex open?"
"Barely."
"And Angel?"
"We fought, Angel got the pointed end of my sword. I killed my best friend and Acathla sucked him into Hell. That's about it." He turns and looks at the large clock in the library. He grimaces and grabs his books. "Crap, I have to go take an English make up. Wish me luck." He hurries out of the library, the doors closing behind him.
"Giles, are you mad that I did that spell on Angel?" Willow asked. "I know you wanted to be there when I did it, but I thought I could handle it. There was no harm done. It just didn't work."
"I'm not mad." Giles sighed. "If I was I'd be making a strange clucking sound with my tounge."
--The Bronze, night time--
Darling Violetta is playing their hit song "Cure" at The Bronze. There is a large crowd tonight and couples are dancing everywhere. Lee sits with Oz and Willow on a couch. They are talking about Sarah, and other things that they usually talk about. Lee seems to be in a good mood tonight, probably because his life is getting back on track. Soon Cordelia and Xander walk up, returning from the dance floor.
"Check out that guy and his girlfriend." Cordelia pointed to the two people dancing. "He is that really rude guy that bumped into me at school."
"Do you want me to go rough them up for you?" Lee asks, jokingly.
"Hey." Xander complains. "That's my job to go rough up the guy."
--30 minutes later--
"Ok, well, guys. I'm done for the night. Seriously, I have so much make up homework to do tonight, I should probably get home and get started." Lee stands up and looks at them. "I'll talk to you tomorrow, right?"
"Why don't we all go?" Willow stands up. "I'm kinda beat myself." Everyone else nods and they all walk out of The Bronze. They make a right and start walking down the alley.
Cordelia pulls Xander's coat around her tightly and shivers as they walk. She stops, her jaw dropping. Two people are having sex up against a fence in the alley. She looks at the male further and notices it's the guy from school and the guy that was in the Bronze. "He's like my stalker. He's everywhere!" She waits until the two people have their closed fixed and then she approaches the guy. "Excuse me, what is your name?!"
"Me? Oh, hey, you're the girl that was at the High School. How ya doing?" He smiles. The girl hands him 100 dollars and starts walking off. "Hey, hey, hey. Where do you think you're going?" He grabs her arm and throws her into the side of the alley. She growls and her face changes into vampire game face. She lunges at him, but he leans back out of the way. He kicks her in the stomach and then right hooks her in the face. She falls on the ground. He walks over to Lee. "You must be Lee, right? You got a stake?"
Lee pulls a stake out of his sleeve and hands it to the guy. What the hell was happening? One second this guy was having sex with the girl, then she was a vampire, and now he was fighting the vampire. "Uh..."
"Thanks." He takes the stake and walks back over to the vampire, who has gotten to her feet. Mike round house kicks her in the face, and she falls down again. He grabs her, while still on the ground, and picks her up, tossing her into the alley wall. He grips the stake in his hand and attempts to stake the vampire, but she moves. She pushes him with both hands and he falls down, landing by Lee's feet. "I'm Mike by the way." He does a flip and is on his feet again. He punches the vampire in the stomach and then throws her back into the wall. "Let's try this one...more...time..." He holds her up against the wall and stabs her in the heart with the stake. She shrieks and turns to dust.
"I'm going to go out on a lim and say there is a new Slayer in town." Oz says, pointing out the obvious.
"Thanks, Lee, couldn't have done it without you." Mike hands him the stake back and keeps walking, counting the 100 dollars.