SUMMARY: Someone broke into Riley's military hospital room. Ooops!
SPOILER: Goodbye, Iowa
DISTRIBUTION: Sandee, of course - My site - - Crystal and Butterfly if they want it - A Soul's Redemption - Anyone else - sure, just email me & lmk where it's going - I like seeing my name in print =)
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RATING: TV-14
DISCLAIMER: Asshole Joss owns all. Stupid bastard that he is.

It wasn't hard to get into the 'hospital'. Xander may not've been part of the Initiative but he knew what he was doing anyway. He'd instructed Willow and together, they'd hacked their way into the computer system and gotten Buffy the codes she'd needed. They went ahead and made her a fake ID to look like she was a nurse working at the 'hospital'.

Taking a deep breath, she punched her ID code into the keypad and entered the stupid looking building.

Her scrubs allowed her to blend in well with the others, and it wasn't long before she found Riley's room.

"Breathe," she instructed herself. "Act stupidly mature."

She took a couple slow breaths and then headed for the room.

She flashed the guard her ID and he nodded before letting her past. She entered and luckily, Riley was asleep.

"This won't take long," she whispered. "I'm sorry Riley." she carefully inserted the needle into his IV and injected him with the apple juice. If he was a Huckleberry demon as they suspected, he would instantly turn into a singing country bird and the Initiative would take care of him so she wouldn't have. She disposed of the needle in the box kept in all hospital rooms for such reasons and then left as quickly as she had entered.

*****

"When will we know?" Buffy asked when she was back at Giles' place, pacing his living room.

"Is that your final answer?" Regis cackled.

"No, you bloody moron!" Spike yelled. "Everyone knows it's A."

Giles looked at him. "The answer is B."

"C." Xander said with a shrug.

"I'm sorry, the correct answer is B."

Giles smiled.

Spike swore.

Xander shrugged.

"Doesn't *anyone* care?" Buffy asked.

"No," Xander, Anya, Spike, Willow and Tara all said.

"Sorry Buff," Xander added. "It's just, if I hear the name 'Riley' one more time..."

"Buffy, perhaps you just need to forget about him." Giles said.

"Forget? Forget? How can I forget? He's--"

"We interrupt this program for a special report. This is Janna Grant outside the Sunnydale General Hospital where a strangely ironic thing has just happened. It appears that a life-size bird has been dancing around the hospital, singing. Eyewitnesses were not psyche patients though now it's being suspected that the patients are currently seeking psychiatric treatment. Sources--"

Giles flicked the TV off. "You've got your answer. Are you happy?"

Buffy shrugged. "I don't know what I am."

"This is how it was meant to be, Buffy."

"Yeah, and now you can go see Angel!" Xander said.

Everyone stared at him, but she smiled.

"You're right!! I can go see Angel!"

She took off like a mad woman and once she was out the door, she slipped on a twig, hit her head on a tree branch and fell to the ground, passed out.

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