FIC: Immortal Pair bk2 ch 45

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title: Immortal Pair
author: Hhdouglas
feedback: buffywantswillow or email Hhdouglas@xxxxxxx
postings: buffywantswillow
summary: crossover
spoilers: none
disclaimers: I do not own the rights to the shows i am just using 
them in a fanfic story with characters of my own creation
warning: this chapter is rated R
age warning: for those 17 and over who have an open mind.

Buffy and Willow danced together for quite a number of songs but 
then they headed back to the booth to rest a few minutes and see 
about getting something to drink to help cool them down.When they got 
to the booth Cordelia said hey its about time you two came off the 
dance floor.Angel said we thought you might need something to drink 
so we ordered your usual drinks and Willow said thanks.

Willow was just taking a sip of her drink when Xena pulled out the 
phoenix round and she said where did you guys get this 
from.Buffy,Willow,Angel,and Cordelia all looked at Xena and Cordelia 
said hey how did you get one of them.Gabrielle said i took it out of 
your coat pocket.Xena said do you know what this is and Buffy said 
its a phoenix round at least thats what the guy we got the guns and 
shells from told us.Xena was about to say something but Gabrielle 
said hold on a second Xena and then she turned to face Buffy and the 
others.Gabrielle said what do you know about the rounds and Buffy 
said they are another type of incendiary rounds for shotguns just 
like dragonfire.Xena said the guy who sold the guns and stuff didnt 
tell you that phoenix rounds are twice as powerfull as dragonfire 
rounds.Willow yelled what and Gabrielle said i take it by that answer 
that he didnt.Buffy said he most certainly didnt and if we had known 
we would have just stuck with dragonfire rounds.Xena said i want you 
to stick to dragonfire rounds and Cordelia said oh dont worry we 
will.Angel said it might be a good idea for us to keep one of two of 
the phoenix rounds each we might need them especially because of the 
demon dogs.Xena said it wont hurt for each of you to keep a couple of 
them but dont use them unless i give the go ahead or you have 
absolutely no other choice.

A little while later Buffy and Willow went back out onto the dance 
floor and Xena and Gabrielle joined them on it since Angel and 
Cordelia didnt feel like dancing and they could watch the shotguns 
that were still on top of the table.

About twenty minutes later Michelle walked up to the booth and she 
said its time for the meeting and then she asked them where the 
others were.Cordelia said they are on the dance floor.Michelle said 
wait here i will go get them and she headed for the dance floor.
Michelle came upon Buffy and Willow first and she told them that it 
was time to start the meeting.Buffy and Willow headed for the booth 
and Michelle started going through the crowd looking for Xena and 
Gabrielle.Michelle found them in a dark corner of the dance floor and 
they werent exactly dancing.Michelle tapped Xena on the shoulder and 
she said i am sorry about bothering you but its that time.Xena said 
give us a few moments and about a minute later Xena and Gabrielle 
walked out of the dark corner and they followed Michelle off the 
dance floor and over to the booth where Buffy and the others were 
waiting.

When Michelle reached the table she saw that the shotguns were no 
longer on top of the table and she said what happened to the 
shotguns.Angel said we put them back in their holsters.Michelle 
looked at them and she said you cant go into the meeting armed with 
shotguns the pistols and swords are bad enough as it is.Willow said 
Michelle we arent going to leave them out here where anyone can get 
them and do who knows what to them or with them.Buffy said Willow is 
right and anyway what harm can us having the shotguns do when they 
arent loaded.Cordelia said yeah like we really will have a chance to 
load them before you could stop us.Xena said how about a compromise 
and Michelle said what do you mean.Xena said they take the shotguns 
into the room the meeting is to take place in but they are placed on 
a table several feet from where they will be sitting.Michelle said 
that will be acceptable but what about the other guns and their 
swords.Gabrielle said Michelle by the looks on their faces i think 
you should just be satisfied with the shotguns and let the rest 
go.Michelle said ok and then she said follow me.

Halfway to the back section of the bar Michelle walked up to an 
enforcer and in German she told him to find a small table and bring 
it into the room the meeting was going to take place immedietly.The 
enforcer immedietly followed Michelle and the others because he 
remebered where a small table was when he was checking out the back 
area and the basement earlier in the evening.

When Michelle led Xena and the others into the room the meeting was 
going to be held Nick said Michelle they four of them are armed and 
then he got a first good look at Willow.Nick jumped completely out of 
his chair and he was almost in front of Willow who he planned to 
restrain when Michelle blocked his path by stepping in front of 
him.Michelle raised her arms and she said Nicholas stop she is not 
who you think she is.Nick looked at Michelle and he said have you 
somehow lost your wits Michelle thats Crimson one of the vampires 
committing the massacres.Jeannette said no Nicholah she is not 
Crimson although she and Crimson look almost identical.Nick looked at 
Jeannette and then Michelle and then he said how can you tell the 
difference.Buffy said Willow is a little more fully grown out than 
Crimson and from the sketch we saw of Crimson she also has longer 
hair than her.Cordelia said Crimson also likes to wear clothes which 
make her look like a dominatrix and Buffy is still having a hard time 
getting Willow to wear almost any clothes made of leather after three 
years of them being together.A moment later an enforcer entered the 
room carrying the small table and Michelle said put it next to the 
door.

Buffy,Willow,and Angel each walked up to the table and they drew 
their shotguns and placed them on the table.Michelle said everyone 
please be seated we will start the meeting as soon as Lacroix joins 
us.Aristotle who was already sitting said Michelle we can at least 
get the introductions out of the way.Michelle said your right 
Aristotle and she walked over to a seat and sat down in it.Michelle 
said the man at the end of the table is Aristotle,next to him is 
Jeannette,followed by Vachon,and finally Nicholas.Xena said most of 
you already know me and Gabrielle so let me introduce you to the 
others.Xena said the young lady at the end of the table is 
Cordelia,next to her is Angel,and the next two ladies are Willow and 
Buffy in that order.

Aristotle saw the chance he had been waiting for and he said Willow 
i need to talk to you about your NSP security programs.Willow looked 
at him and said why do you need to talk to me about them.Aristotle 
said the NSP security programs are making it quite difficult for me 
to create new identities for my clients and wipe out any trace of 
their old lives.Jeannette said Willow Aristotle is our relocation 
specialist he creates new identities for us so we cant be traced and 
thats one of the way that we hide our existence from those who do not 
know.Willow said i am sorry i didnt intend for my security problems 
to cause problems for your people.Aristotle said can you tell me how 
to bypass the security programs so i can wipe out my clients files as 
i need to.Willow said i am afraid that the NSP security programs that 
the United States goverment agencies use are specifically designed to 
keep files from being deleted or altered unless a secret code is used 
and only people in the goverment agencies know that code.Aristotle 
said thats just great and Jeannette said isnt there some way that you 
can bypass them.Willow said i might be able to do it but if i do i 
will never be able to sell any computer programs again because my 
reputation will be damaged since i told the goverment that they could 
not be bypassed.Buffy said Willow its been over four years since the 
goverment has been using the NSP security programs certainly some 
hackers have learned a way to bypass them or soon will be.Aristotle 
said i am afraid that wont be possible for at least a couple more 
years.Xena said why not and Willow said because the NSP security 
programs are capable of learning from hackers attempts at accessing 
the computer systems they are protecting and they adjust to make sure 
that what was tried cant be done again.Aristotle said the security 
programs have about five more years worth of use before they will run 
out of ability to adapt and start making holes which hackers can 
access the systems through.Buffy said Willow how far along are you on 
the next set of security programs that you have been working on ever 
since you sold the NSP security programs.Willow said i have finished 
a number of them and then she said hey i could put in a hidden 
backdoor covered by a triple firewall which you could get through 
when you needed to without being detected no matter what other 
security programs they attach to them.Aristotle said how soon can you 
do it and have them available to the goverment.Willow said i could 
have them done in a weeks time once i get back to Sunnydale but it 
could be a year or more before the goverment decides to start using 
the new security programs.Jeannette said what would happen to the NSP 
security programs once the goverment moves to the new ones.Willow 
said they will be available to the public and they should do pretty 
well there.Aristotle said contact me when you have it done.Willow 
said how can i do that and Jeannette said just have Xena contact me 
and i will get word to him.Willow looked at Aristotle and she said 
hey you wouldnt happen to be the hacker who accessed the long 
distance phone station outside sunnydale checking for any information 
about massacres that was going over them.Aristotle was shocked as 
most of the others and he said how the hell do you know about that i 
took extra precautions from being detected.Willow said i have the 
whole town of Sunnydale and all our communication systems completely 
wired so i know instantly when someone is doing something they 
shouldnt.

The next moment the door to the room opened and Lacroix walked into 
the room and he sat down in one of the remaining empty chairs.Xena 
said guys this is Lacroix and then she introduced Buffy,Willow,
Angel,and Cordelia to Lacroix.Lacroix looked at them and then he 
turned to Michelle.Lacroix said Michelle i dont see how these four 
can be of much help to you,your team,and Xena and Gabrielle in 
rounding up Spike's group.Michelle said Lacroix dont let their looks 
decieve you they are very capable of being of aid to us.Xena said 
Lacroix me and Gabrielle along with others trained Buffy and Willow 
in various hand to hand fighting styles and Angel did the same for 
Cordelia.Willow said we have other skills and abilities which will 
help Michelle and the rest of us track down Spike and the others.

Lacroix said we looked over the police and FBI files that you made 
available to us as well as well as the information about where Spike 
and his group went from Alcatraz last night.Michelle said we have the 
list of names of the people who were killed at the massacres almost 
complete and it should be finished a little after midnight.Nick said 
i dont think the list will be of much help because the police checked 
to see if there was any connection between the people at the sites of 
the two massacres.Willow said well maybe me or Aristotle will be able 
to find something that the police missed.Aristotle said yes both me 
and Willow are both quite good at find things that other people 
overlook.Lacroix said what will you be looking for spefically.Willow 
said either jobs,former jobs,or any training that some of the people 
might have had in common with others from the other massacre 
sites.Michelle said i have got Aristotle monitoring all the phone 
stations in Ontario looking for any suddenly downed phone lines in 
secluded areas.Aristotle said yes it seems that they have always 
taken out the phone lines prior to starting an attack.Lacroix said so 
we will most likely have to wait until they start an attack again 
before we can do anything.Buffy said no quite the opposite we can 
start checking the area where we know they were last in and spread 
out from there.Nick said Buffy is right but we have a problem because 
most of us can only move around at night time which restricts our 
ability to find them.Michelle said your right Nick but the same goes 
for Spike's group.Willow said there may be a way for all of us to 
check the area both day and night.Angel said how and Willow said we 
have several vans and we can seal up the windows and seal up the 
driver's area from the back section and the enforcers and others can 
ride in the back section in the day while being protected from the 
sunlight.Michelle said how many vans do you have available and 
Cordelia said we have two of them and Michelle said that means there 
will have to be between five or more vampires in each van and that is 
going to be quite cramped.Willow said we can get a couple more vans 
very quickly and then she said we could also take a page out of the 
book of Spike's group and get a rv to get around in as well.Xena said 
an rv is a bit big and would be hard to hide.Willow said yes but it 
could be used as a mobile base of operations which we could have 
Aristotle and several enforcers manning it.Aristotle said thats a 
good idea if we had an rv i could put some of my computers and other 
equipment in it which will definitely be of use to us.Xena said how 
soon can you get us some more vans.Buffy said a few hours after 
Willow makes a phone call to someone we know.Nick said what about an 
rv can you get us one of them as well.Willow said i think so but i 
will have to check and see if he has one in stock.

Xena said contact him Willow and dont worry i will reimburse you for 
the money you have to spend on the vechicles.Willow said money is the 
least of my worries Xena and i will spend as much as neccessary to 
stop them.Cordelia handed Willow her cellular phone and she said go 
ahead and use my cellular phone.Willow took the cellular phone and 
she dialed Grady's phone number.Grady answered the phone a minute 
later and he said hello.Willow said Grady this is Willow again and i 
need some more vechicles.Grady said what do you need now.Willow said 
about four more vans and a rv if you have one.Grady said i do have an 
rv is there anything special about them that needs to be 
special.Willow said yes i need the back section right behind the 
driver section to be sealed off so that the back section is 
inaccessable from the front.Grady said all four of them and Willow 
said yes and do the same with the vans i already bought.Grady said 
what about the rv do you need something done to it.Willow said 
install metal visors over all the windows which can be lowered from 
the inside of it.Grady said that will take a couple more hours than 
the others did and Willow said i know and she said leave them in the 
same warehouse where the others are.

When Willow hung up the phone she passed it back over to Cordelia.
Xena said well now we have vechicles to get around in durring the 
daytime and a rough plan of what we are going to do.Willow said by 
the way Michelle we brought some kevlar armored longcoats and i am 
pretty sure that your team of enforcers can use.Michelle said why do 
we need to wear kevlar armored longcoats we are vampires.Buffy said 
Spike's group might have guns and from prior experiences they know 
that wooden bullets can be made.Nick said you use wooden bullets and 
Cordelia said both wooden,silver,as well as regular ammo.Michelle 
said we will take them and Aristotle said i want one as well and 
Michelle said i will see to it that you get one.Nick said i have 
taken about two weeks worth of back leave and i would like to 
accompany you and the others Michelle.Michelle thought a moment and 
she said ok you can come along and you will definitely be of use to 
us but i want you to stay in the rv.Nick said why and Michelle said 
because you cant risk being seen by other cops that we might come 
across durring our search for Spike and the others.Jeannette said she 
is right Nick and by being at the rv you can advise Michelle and the 
others in ways that they wont think of because they are too close to 
the search in the field.