It was really hard to make her way back to the office building without spilling her Frappuccino, what with all the dark clouds and screaming humans running around. She had to stop and brace herself, thankful for vampire agility and balance with each tremor of the earth. By the time she made it to the building entrance, it had already started raining blood. Which was pretty neat, actually. It meant she didn't have to wait 'til she got back to her desk to add any to the Frappuccino. All she had to do was take the lid off the cup and hold it up for a second or two. She took a sip as she stepped inside. Yummy.

Inside was even worse than it was outside. The bodies of her coworkers were strewn all over the lobby. She had to pull one guy out of the way in order to get the elevator door to close. Whatever was going on, it must be pretty big. Sipping at her Frappuccino, she hummed along with the muzak.

The elevator dinged and she stepped out onto a battlefield. No way was she getting back to her desk before lunch break was over. Just great. It was really turning out to be a bad day.

A body hurtled toward her from somewhere in the middle of the big fight. It was Wesley. She ducked in time to avoid getting knocked over by him as he flew past. Uh-oh. He didn't look so good.

"Wesley?" She leaned over to peer at him, as he lay all sprawled out on the floor where he had landed.

"H-harmony?" he panted, straining to gaze up at her. His head was bleeding. She took another sip of her Frappuccino. Hopefully he would be okay. After all, it was because of Wesley that she had gotten her big break into the exciting world of Administrative Assistance

"Are you okay?" she asked him as another person came flying past. She didn't know that one very well so she didn't pay much attention.

"Harmony..." Wesley responded, "run. You should... save yourself. Not that it matters. It's over. We can't stop it." He gave an insano kinda laugh. It was really depressing.

Hearing a roar from Spikey – Spike – behind her, she turned to see him and Angel locked in battle with some big hell beast. It was standing in the center of the room, chanting some mystic gobbledygook, and even though the two vamps were fighting side-by-side (which was really sweet considering how much they'd been arguing lately) they didn't seem to be making any impact on the demon. With a swoop of its tail, it managed to send the both of them flying. The vampires went crashing completely through the wall at the other end of the room.

Harmony decided it would be a good idea to take a half-day and turned to follow Wesley's advice. But the demon's big boomy chanting seemed to cause another ginormous earthquake. It knocked her off balance enough to pitch her Frappuccino all down the front of her blouse.

Okay. That did it.

"Hey! You big dummy!" she shouted, stomping her foot and tossing the now-empty Frappucccino cup at the demon. Sure, she knew how to get out blood stains, but how the heck do you get out Frappuccino stains? How totally rude.

The demon turned on her then, clumping toward her.

Oops.

Without really thinking about it, she reached into her purse. Digging around frantically, she latched onto a nail file and brandished it before her. The demon, not all that impressed, kept coming. Behind him, she could see Angel and Spike climbing groggily back through the hole they'd made in the wall.

"Harm!" Spike shouted.

At the same time, Angel yelled, "Run!"

She would have if she could, but there was nowhere to run to. And when the demon leaped at her, she vamped, shrieked, and lunged at the thing with her nail file. She jammed the file into the thing's eye, at the same time slapping at its head with a balled up fist. No way was she going to bite something as gross as that thing. Like, yuck.

She didn't expect the demon to just fall over, dead. And she definitely didn't expect to just – blip! – disappear.

So what's up with that?