"Would you like us to get you when our Angel arrives?"

- she will probably not be useful for this at all but whatever.

"Sure."

So he comes to get her a couple hours later (well, that's how long it's been for him). "Angel's here."

Nod. "He's not, like - really likely to attack anyone?"

"So far he seems courteously bemused by the whole thing. Uh, once Karen and I attacked him and I shot him many times and the thing that tipped us off that he wasn't a typical vampire was how hard he was working to make sure everyone came out alive -"

Nod.

She'll head downstairs, then.

Angel is there. He's pretty unclear on what's happening, but he's there.

He's not alone.

"Hey! Karen's back in the land of the living again?"

"Faith! This is her alternate universe version. We asked you all to come in because Angel's alternate universe version is running Wolfram and Hart's LA branch."

"Is Wolfram and Hart, like, a thing that I should know what it is, or - "

"On Earth the forces of evil have this evil law firm called Wolfram and Hart. It does bad stuff and helps other people get away with bad stuff. They apparently offered Angel the chance to be in charge, and he took it, but everything still sounds pretty evil. We can't tell if he's a figurehead or has some kinda long game or - well, I have no idea. We thought you'd be the person to ask."

"I'm running a law firm?"

"It's super weird!"

"Is there more information about this that makes it less - completely inexplicable - "

"So our only source of information here is Spike, and also this Karen who we rescued from slavery in Wolfram and Hart's secretarial division but who has only heard vague rumors about you."

"What did Spike say? - Spike's alive?"

"In the other universe he managed not to get himself killed. Or - no, that's not right - he got himself less killed. And now he's a ghost. He haunts Wolfram and Hart for some reason. He says that you kill werewolves with pens and mope about the difficulty of your job and kill people for murder. Or for being ugly werewolves. - to be clear we're not assuming his take here is reliable."

"Right, yeah, because - obviously, Spike. That's still pretty weird."

"The moping sounds like you."

"Some of it's pretty weird."

"Theories we were considering include 'you're being mind-controlled', 'you're trying some complicated undercover scheme', 'you're doing your best and there are a bunch of complications not visible from here', or 'you were planning to do your best but got in over your head'. Pretty much."

"Mind control is always a possibility but I don't know why anyone would bother to mind control me for this specifically. I - guess I could be trying some complicated undercover thing, although I am still really confused about why I would go into law? And - there are definitely circumstances where killing people is the best you can do. 

"Law, though."

"It's pretty confusing!"

"I wish I could narrow it down."

"Us too. If there are any published books that'd be helpful, this bar's got them all. Otherwise -" 

Shrug. "I guess we wait to meet him and ask him what happened."