Sorry! I totally don't mean to make you guys wait so long between updates, but fans of my other stories know that I'm a total flake and let other things distract me!

For those of you who are still fans of this story, here's the next chapter. I don't anything you recognise as Joss Whedon's.

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Lindsey sat behind his desk in the office he shared with Lilah in Wolfram and Hart, both were junior associates at the law firm trying to obtain the position of senior associate. For the past three months, both of them had been jumping through hoops for Holland Manners, the current CEO for the LA branch of Wolfram and Hart. Lilah had been spending her time trying to dig up as much dirt as she possibly could on the clients of W&H so that she could come out on top this time around, it was embarrassing, Lindsey was three years younger than her and they were in the same position, he'd breezed through law school like it was nothing and then when he'd gotten to W&H he'd climbed the corporate ladder like no other. She couldn't let him beat her to this position, if he lost to her, then they might keep him alive, however if he won, there was no question she'd be thrown out like yesterday's trash, and 'yesterday's trash' meant killed dead.

Lindsey looked up from his seat behind his desk at Lilah, resisting the urge to smirk, he knew she was sweating it out big time, to him the senior associate position was already in the bag, but that didn't mean he was going to stop from tearing her down every chance he got. Standing up he moved out from behind his desk and leant on it in front, he'd just gotten a text from one of the boys below telling him that Holland Manners was on his way to them and he wanted to look not only prepared for the other man's arrival, but completely at ease, and there was no way that he was going to sit behind his desk while Holland was in the room, his boss might see it as a power play and off him. Lilah looked over at him curiously and her eyebrows shot up in surprise as the door to their office opened and Holland walked through, she shot up from her position and moved to meet him just as Lindsey did the same. Holland greeted them with his normal jovial grin and sat down in the chair in front of Lindsey's desk, the lawyer in question smirked internally. "Lindsey, Lilah, we just received word that Angelus is back and active in Sunnydale and that the House of Aurelius is back up and running at full capacity, with the exception of the late Darla. Now the Senior Partners have always had their eyes on that particular house of vampires and as it stands they want them as our clients. The vampires' are currently free agents and having them on side will no doubt boost Wolfram and Harts profile within the demonic community. So I'm giving you two the job of bringing them to us, I don't care how you do it, but I want them as our clients within six weeks, is that understood?"

Lindsey replied before his competitor could, "Holland I'll have it done three."

The older man smiled at Lindsey's enthusiasm acting completely oblivious to the glare that Lilah was shooting in Lindsey's direction, "Excellent Lindsey!" Holland stood up and clapped him on the shoulder, "That's what I like to hear!" he turned to Lilah who was holding back her grimace at Lindsey's outrageous promise, "Looks like you're going to have to work twice as hard if you want to stay in the running for senior associate!" and with that he left the room.

Lindsey headed back over to his desk and packed up his briefcase, "Where do you think you're going?" Lilah sneered.

"Well seeing as how I already have this in the bag, I'm going for a celebratory drink, have a nice night Lilah," and with that he followed his boss's quick exit, but instead of heading to the parking lot where Lilah believed him to be going he headed straight for files and records. The elevator stopped several levels below ground and Lindsey walked in and headed straight to the record keeper, it was a little known fact that she could recall every file that was put in the system so he'd always had the advantage over his competitors.

"Good evening Mr McDonald how can I help today?" she asked.

"I need information on Angelus, the curse that gave him a soul, the house of Aurelius as it stands today and any information on his maker that you think is pertinent."

"Would you like the information on Penn and Danica, they were Angelus' children before Drusilla was turned?"

"They're not part of the House of Aurelius?"

"They are not considered a part of it, no."

"Do you know whether they're in Sunnydale right now?"

Her eyeballs whirled into her skull, it looked as though she was flipping through a roller deck, "Penn is not, Danica fell off our radar a little over sixty years ago nobody knows where she is."

"I'll take Danica's files, and just general background information on Penn please."

"That'll be files three hundred through to six hundred."

"Three hundred files?" Lindsey raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

"Just the files I believe will be most pertinent to your current assignment."

"Alright, I am cleared to take them out of the building aren't I?"

Her eyes flickered back for a moment before she nodded, "Mr Manners just cleared you."

Lindsey nodded before pulling out his phone and getting a couple of the associates stuck in the mail room to come and take the files out to his Porsche. "Lilah Morgan doesn't know that you can access the files remotely does she?" he asked as almost an afterthought.

"No sir, not yet."

"Alright," he pulled out his wallet and produced five hundred dollars, "Keep it that way for as long as possible please."

The record keeper smirked and took the cash from his outstretched hand, "That won't be a problem sir."

Once all the files had been taken to his car Lindsey headed to the parking lot and drove straight to his apartment, he had a lot of files to cover in a very short time if he wanted to keep his promise to Holland.

It took Lilah a full hour after Lindsey to finish the case she was working on, and the second she did, she headed straight to the record room so she could get the Aurelius files before Lindsey thought to grab them. Unfortunately, like most times, she was a step behind the younger attorney and found that any files pertinent to her client were long gone. She stormed out of the basement room and back up to her office furious with herself. 'Of course Lindsey wouldn't go out to celebrate without actually doing anything! How could I be so stupid?' she cursed herself as she headed to her car, now she had no idea where to start in reeling in the Scourge of Europe. Sighing she slid into the front seat of her Mercedes and drove home, if she was going to tackle this problem she needed to do it with a fresh mind.

10 days later

"You know I've been thinking," Spike started collapsing into a seat next to his Grandsire.

"Did it hurt?" Angelus snorted leaning back wrapping an arm around Drusilla's waist and stroking her hair as she cooed at her doll Miss Edith.

"Daddy," Danica scolded, settling herself next to the blonde and throwing her legs into his lap, "don't be so rude," she turned to the younger vampire and ran a hand through his hair, "what is it Spike?"

"As I was saying," he tossed a glare in Angelus' direction and continued, "The Slayer and her friends have hardly been out these past few nights, and any time I've run into them, they've been pretty keen on ending our encounters quick and running home to the Watcher."

"What's your point Spike?"

"My point is, something's wrong, when have you known the Slayer chit to run from anyone or anything? And now she and those two boys and the brunette girl never stick around long enough for even some witty banter."

"Aww is it starting to make you feel inadequate Spike?" Angelus chuckled and then stopped, "Wait, two guys and just the brunette, are you sure?"

"That's what I just said wasn't it? Why are you so interested now?"

"Because it means that the red-head isn't being allowed out after dark, the only things she's good at doing are cowering and..."

"Tyger Tyger burning bright!" Dru chirped happily, "Burn the bitch in the night!" Gasping she looked down at her doll, "That was so naughty Miss Edith! Making me say bad things!"

Angelus' eyes widened, "Magic, the red head's a witch, and what's the one thing that the slayer wants more than anything?"

The other two sane vampires raised their eyebrows and locked eyes with each other as the realisation hit them, "Angel," they whispered and Dru cringed away.

"No!" she screamed at her doll, "No more peaches! Daddy can't go poof! I won't let him! I won't you horrible naughty girl! Stop speaking!" she threw the doll across the room and flung herself into Spike's arms sobbing.

Danica straightened up and looked at the men for an answer while Spike and Angelus froze in horror, Spike's nicknames for Soul boy were 'Peaches' and 'Poof' "Danica go to the high school, the library, see if you can find out what the red head's cooking up, don't kill her until we know for sure that what's coming. They've never seen you before so you can pass yourself off as a new student, Spike take Dru back to your room then get back out here," Angelus scented the air, "I think we're about to have some company." Once he'd said his piece his family sped away, complying with his demands, Spike returned to his Grandsire just in time to see a guy make his way down the steps of the Mansion.

Lindsey sighed as he drove past the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign, he'd spent a full week going over the two hundred files, memorising almost everything in them and then spent the next two days coming up with a plan of action that didn't get him killed. Luck was definitely on his side as yesterday one of his associates called and informed him that the slayer and her friends were planning on reinstating Angelus' soul, and he couldn't let that happen, otherwise all his hard work would be for nothing.

Currently he was minutes away from Angelus' mansion and he was still nervous, when Lindsey was stuck in the mailroom at W&H he had done a few pro-bono jobs for a young sorcerer that he'd met within his first few weeks of moving to LA. He had called up said sorcerer before he left and gotten some magical aid for himself amounting to a few very tribal looking tattoo's along his arms, which had hurt like hell, but afforded him some amount of protection from the Scourge of Europe themselves. Now as his Porsche stopped just outside the mansion Lindsey swallowed nervously before getting out of the car and squaring his shoulders, he couldn't let any of the vampires see or even scent his fear if he wanted to remain alive and so whispering a few words in Minoan, he felt the air around him shift as the designs on his arms felt the final bindings of the spell they needed to work. They burned only for a moment and then there was nothing, grabbing his briefcase he headed inside, praying that Angelus would be in a generous mood today.

"Well, well, well Spike, it looks like we don't need to go out to eat after all," Angelus stated as he watched Lindsey descend the stairs.

Spike scented the air and grinned "He smells just like the country side, like the sun," and the blonde frowned, "but not fear, everyone in Sunnydale smells like fear, you can't escape it." Lindsey stopped at the foot of the stairs and waited for the two vampires to give him his opportunity.

"Now why is it, that a young guy like yourself, in Sunnydale, at night, doesn't have one ounce of the sweet scent of fear on him hmm?" Angelus asked locking eyes with the young lawyer.

Inwardly Lindsey breathed a sigh of relief, his protections were working and he'd surprised Angelus, now all he had to do was make his offer and leave alive and he'd be excellent. "Magical protection," he replied, "I'm hardly stupid enough to walk into the den of the Scourge of Europe without some kind of protection, and magical is the best kind."

"Would you look at that Angelus, he's heard of us! Now here I thought kids your age had only heard of vampires like those ponces Dracula and Lestat." Spike said.

"In my line of work it's hard not to know who you are- wait Dracula and Lestat are real? Don't answer that that's not why I'm here." Lindsey replied, stopping himself from getting sidetracked.

"Well boy, why don't you tell us exactly what line of work you're in and why you're here so we can get back to business, and maybe have a healthy snack." Angelus finished.

Lindsey fought the urge to snap at the elder vampire, as he was sure making him angry would only cause his own person harm, "I work for Wolfram and Hart-"

"The evil law firm?" Spike asked. Angelus looked over at him in question, "What? Just because you've been out of the game for a while doesn't mean that I have."

"I like to think of our law firm as an equal opportunist firm, not evil, and as an equal opportunist firm I have been tasked to...invite you to become our clients." Lindsey said as the vampires returned their stares to him.

"And what kind of perks would we be getting if we became...clients?" Angelus asked raising an eyebrow at Lindsey.

"Well for one, you'd have our best witches, warlocks and shamans at your beck and call, and they could do things like for example, destroy that pesky soul of yours."

"And why exactly would I need to do that eh? My soul's gone, and the gypsy's that shoved it in me are all dead."

Lindsey smiled at that, he knew his contact in Sunnydale was good, but he didn't think that he'd have gotten the information about the Slayer's little witch friend before Angelus. "Because, that gypsy you killed, Jenny Calendar was it? She found a way to put your soul back in your body."

"And she's dead mate," Spike said moving closer to Lindsey, "just like you're about to be."

"The witch found the spell!" Lindsey blurted causing Angelus to stop his childe.

"What?" the elder vampire growled.

"The Slayer's friend, the red head, she found the spell, and it's not like the one that was first used on you."

"Explain."

"Quickly," Spike finished.

"It's supposed to be a blessing when the witch shoves all that humanity down your throat, Angel won't remember anything that you've done, none of the death, the torture, nothing. And there'll be no perfect happiness clause that sprung you loose the first time, Angel'll be free to love the slayer for all eternity. And you'll be dust in the wind."

Angelus growled and flung the stone table across the room, "Sit," he snarled at Lindsey before storming out of the room.

Spike looked over at the young lawyer who looked a little freaked at Angelus' display of anger and smirked, "I'd do as he says country boy, Gramps did not look happy."

Lindsey looked at the blonde and then sat on one of the stone chairs that no longer had a table to match.

An hour later and Angelus stalked back inside the main room of the mansion with Drusilla at his heels, "Mother fucking bitch!" he roared and picked up a stone chair and hurled it towards the already broken table.

Spike's eyes slid towards the lawyer and pulled him out of Angelus' line of sight (it was probably best the boy didn't end up dead before they'd gotten all the information they needed out of him) and eyed his Grandsire carefully. "So they're trying to get your alter ego back then?"

Angelus growled at his grand-childe and his eyes bored into Lindsey, "How fast can your shaman's destroy my soul?"

Lindsey watched Angelus cautiously, he was careful not to smirk (just because he had magical protection didn't mean that he wanted to test it out by angering the older vampire) "I can have the contract drawn up immediately, but Wolfram and Hart is going to want payment for this."

"Now that I expected, do whatever you have to do, I want that thing destroyed in the next 48 hours because that's how long it's going to take the slayer and her friends to gather up the ingredients for the spell."

Lindsey nodded but before he could get on the phone, Danica burst through the doors of the mansion searching for her sire. "We have a problem and it starts with an 'S' and ends in an 'layer' as in 'there's another slayer in town' anyone feel like explaining the fact that there's two slayers around to me?" It was then that she noticed Lindsey staring at her, "Who's the human?"

Well there you have the latest chapter, it's a little slow I know, but I got to fit in all my major characters somehow.

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