Gift From The Heart
Summary:
Xander thought he was finally through with all the supernatural nuisances in the world after moving to Forks, aka the land that time forgot. Sunnydale was long gone, new slayers were popping up all over the place, and he felt like a pirate thanks to his wonderful eye accessory so he felt it made sense to find a nice quiet small town to relax in. Let all the slayers of the world do the heavy lifting, if they needed him to help with some kind of *gag* research they can call him. Edward/Xander
Hi everyone this is my first fanfic so please keep comments polite but by all means tell me my mistakes. My grammar is horrible but typically I don't have misspellings very often. Updates will probably not be regular at first since I've got to see what my schedule is gonna be like with something like this. Also I'm gonna set this as M just to be safe because I'm not sure how graphic I will be. Now on with the show.
"Speaking"
'thinking'
-location/time-
- Slayer Central in Cleveland, 11:00 pm -
I've never been so happy for Willow to not be around. Delivering big news over the phone prevents puppy dog eyes from her and everyone knows Buffy can't pull them off on me. I've gotten way to use to seeing her covered in gore to believe them.
"Come on Xander. You can't really expect me to train all the new slayers without my guy pal the Xan Man, can you?"
"Buffy, you know I'm not 100% any more and I'd rather get out missing an eye then an arm and a leg. You got plenty of spunky young slayers to put the pointy end in the evil undead. You could even let them practice on Deadboy and Deadboy Light." replied Xander with a smirk.
"Oi!"
"Shut up Spike. Come on Xander don't you want to watch Dawn grow up and give her future dates the shovel talk?" asked Buffy. She knew it was a low tactic using Dawn to get to Xander but was he insane leaving them to retire in a small town named Forks. Come on who lives in a place named after an eating utensil. "I'll even let you hold a shovel while doing it."
"Tempting Buffy but I already spoke to Dawn and she is welcome to come visit me anytime and I made a tape for her future dates to watch. I made Willow promise she'd show it to them after I swore guys don't really suffer brain damage from watching someone crack a coconut with a battle axe. I even let Dawny draw the face on the coconut for fun and filled it with red fruit punch."
That coconut was good too. Note to self: Buy coconuts and sharpen battle axe. Oh crap Buffy's face looks frozen that can't be good. Blond brains aren't meant to idle in place... they tend to overheat.
"See it's things like that which prove we can't be without you. Who would keep us laughing when an apocalypse is happening?"
Buffy should know she won't win but just like every task she's had she refuses to surrender. After all I can't use Willow's Infamous Resolve Face only to back down now. Time to offer a compromise along with Puppy Dog Eyes set to destroy.
"Buffy if things get really hard you know I'm willing to be there for you. I can research from the safety of Forks for you and still visit you sometimes in the 'evil land of tweed'. I just want a chance to have some semi-safe happiness rather than the traditional run for your life happiness I've had so far."
Excellent she seems be absorbing the information and thinking on it. I hope she just accepts it. I really don't want to leave with her being angry.
"Okay Xander that sounds fair."
I won? Holy Batmobile Batman. Happy Snoopy Dance.
An evil grin comes over Buffy's face and then she says "I'll have Giles send you plenty of books for research to help with the cause. I'll call you regularly for all our research needs."
Curse you Buffy. You've been hanging around evil things too much.
I wonder if Willow would be willing to hex her to attract women for a while and repel men. Note to self: Buy ice cream, rent chick flick, and schedule a 'just the two of us' hang out night with Willow. If need be I will complement Kennedy to get this favor.
"Great, always happy to help." grumbled Xander. He then returned to packing his duffel. Only about 9 hours until he is on the plane heading to Seattle and then about an hour drive from there to Forks.
- 7:00 am -
Bang.
Bang.
Bang.
"X-man get yo' ass outta bed before I come and get you out!" yelled Faith.
Why does she have to ruin a perfectly good dream? I was just sitting in a garden of golden cream filled Twinkies while 2 hoties sparred using long eclairs as swords and donuts for shields. I wonder if that dream was sexual.
"I guess you don't want the belgian waffles covered in chocolate syrup with bacon, eggs, toast, and a steaming cup of french vanilla cappuccino." yelled Willow.
This got Xander's head to lift up from the pillow. He hadn't seen Willow in person for the past 3 months while she's been in South America. She even made the Xan Man breakfast of champions. He got up and stumbled to the door. Yanking it open he proceeded to give his favorite wiccan the biggest hug in the universe.
"Willow! What are you doing here and did you bake me some cookies?"
Between giggles she responded "I'm here to see you off mister. You didn't really think you could leave without me being there did you? I don't know if you deserve cookies for thinking that way."
"I just didn't want to be a bother to -" which is as far as he got before Faith cuffed him for being an idiot again. It always amazed him how she seemed to look out for him and take him under her wing while at the same time smacking him on a regular basis.
After a great breakfast and shower he was on his way to the airport in the car most likely to have the driver spontaneously combusted if someone rolls down a window. He still didn't think Deadboy should drive him to the airport on the basis of his girls wanting to be able to chat with him. When they all started crying once they got to the airport he realized they did it in the hopes of giving him a group hug beyond all group hugs. Manly man that he was he didn't cry. Really he didn't. He must have gotten some dust in his eye. Maybe Deadboy combusted.
"Get out Xander. Do you need a tissue?" smirked Angel.
Damn, so I'm crying big deal men can cry. I have to get Captain Forehead before I go.
Proper Hellmouth exercise must be maintained.
1. Taunt the evil undead...
"Later girls. By the way Angel remember if you see a light be sure to head towards it and remember to dress for warm weather I hear it can get in the triple digits down there."
check.
2. Run for your life...
"Announcement. Los Angeles to Seattle flight 119 is now boarding at gate 7."
check.
Xander made a mad dash through the airport managing to not run anyone over. He learned a few months back that in a mad dash he's safest keeping a wall on his blindside whenever possible. Settling himself in for the long flight he began to wonder what Forks was gonna be like.
I hope the area is as beautiful as the real estate agent said.
Author's Note: Please remember to review to tell me what you think. Huggles.
