"I guess so."

"Inviting him here isn't ideal, in case it's one of the 'mind-controlled' or 'evil' answers, but we need to get some people from his dimension and that means we can't leave it paused forever and apparently he's right about to find the door so we are planning to let him, as soon as we're ready. We'll be sending some people to pick up the people we need from his dimension at the same time."

Nod.

"I mean, we have decent Angel and me and you in here, any reason we can't beat him up if he causes problems? I guess if he has a gun on him that could be bad."

"Milliways has security that will purportedly intervene if violence starts. I don't know much about it, not having started any violence yet myself. The kind of problem I'm worried about is more 'he turns Milliways into a strategic base for Wolfram and Hart', which would be very very bad, but we talked it over for a long time and we don't actually have a good way to prevent it from becoming a problem eventually so we think it's best for it to come up under circumstances we planned for."

"Ugh. Fine."

"It's not great."

"We did wanna ask that you not explain too much about Milliways to the new Angel until we've determined if he's, well, evil."

"Down with not helping evil vampires. Even if they look like ones who're OK."

"I don't even really know anything about this place."

"Honestly we have been here for years and I'm still very confused."

And he goes looking for Spike.

He's both findable and very interested in watching the proceedings.

"Oh good. In that case you can be the one to restart time into your world. We could ask Karen to do it but she'll be worrying the whole time that Angel will murder her."

"Luckily yours truly is murder-proof. Mostly."

He heads downstairs.

"So... why are we inviting evil dead again? The one we know is evil?"

"Thought you were going to - wait, Faith, you know where Buffy is, have you seen her recently -  "

"Who the hell is Buffy?"

"Slayer before Karen. Died in Los Angeles about four months into her tenure. I take it in the other world, she didn't, and that's why Karen was never called."

"I take it these two are from your world, then."

"Yep! We were hoping they could help us figure out why Angel is running a law firm but Angel has no idea why he'd ever run a law firm for any reason."

"Uh-huh. That makes all of us, really."

"We will just have to ask the man himself."

Spike goes to stand by the door.

It takes a minute, and then someone appears in the closet, looks around, and stares into Milliways.

"Spike?"

"Yeah. Hi."