Scoobies and Wrestlers

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Buffy or the WWE

Summary: Xander heads to the WWE to help a childhood friend

Rating: I guess PG-13 or it will get there

Timeline: A few months after the last episode of Buffy and starts at No Mercy on WWE

Pairing: Xander/Stephanie

Side notes: I didn't see No Mercy because I'm a Step fan and I knew how the match with her was going to go. In my story it will end different way. In any case in this story wrestling is real and not fake. Also not only is this my first fan fiction, but the first story I have try to do. So sorry ahead of time for any grammar or spelling mistakes

Chapter 1

Xander packed as quickly as he could, he didn't have much time before his plane left. It had been a number of months since the final battle with the First that ended with the cave in of Sunnydale itself. After, Buffy and Giles decided to reform the Watcher Council but under their leadership. This way they could guide the newly awaken slayers. Xander often compared them to the school on X-Men. So they headed off to Great Britain and to Manor that was located in a country area outside of London. This was meant to be a fall back point for the old council but never got used since the First had the entire old council kill without warning. Now the place was the new base of operation.

Once they got here, everybody got to work. Jobs like tracking other slayer and other watchers that survived the First, finding missing texts that belonged to the old council or setting up the place and getting it running. Everybody had their jobs to do, all except Xander. Its not like he wasn't trying to help, it's just that they didn't have anything for him. The Manor itself was in good condition, so he didn't have anything to fix, a skill which he was good at. So he spends most of his time helping one person or another. Of course they all made him feel like he was getting in the way. All except Buffy and Faith, the two of them always made him feel helpful. But it wasn't because of the uselessness that he was leaving, well not completely.

Every Thursday night Xander had started watching Smackdown, again. He use to watch the show regularly before but stop for some time when the conflict with the First became serious. He liked wrestling, but the main reason for watching it was because of a friend he knew in his youth, Stephanie McMahon. As he watched the show, week after week, he didn't like what he saw. Steph's father, Vince McMahon the owner of WWE, was putting her in matches with men twice her size. It was all attempts to get her to quit her job as General Manger of Smackdown. The newest attempt was a "I Quit" match against Vince himself. A match where you have to cause your opponent so much pain, he or she will say "I Quit". The worst part of this match was that if Steph says I Quit, she will have to resign her position as GM. This match was to take place at the pay-per-view "No Mercy" and Xander knew he had to be there.

Xander didn't know what he was going to do. He just knew he had to get to No Mercy and talk to Steph. He also hoped she would remember him; especially considering the changes he has gone threw. His hand slowly went to where his left eye use to be, an eye he lost in a battle a few months ago, now an eye patch laid there.

A soft knock at his door broke his train of thought. "Xander?" Buffy called out as she entered the room

"Hey Buff, what's up" he responded

She looked at his bags "You really going through with this, aren't you" Buffy said with a worried look

"Seems like it"

"Xander, this is nuts, we need you here"

"I'm sure they can find someone else to do the dounut runs" Xander said with more hardness then he wanted to.

But Buffy wasn't taken back by it, she knew how everyone had been treating him and she hated it. "You're more important then that, to me at least."

The expression on his face soften and he walked up to her and put his hand on her shoulder "I know Buffy, but a friend of mine is in trouble, and I have to do something"

"What do you plan to do?"

"I don't know...maybe talk to her" he went back to his bags.

"Do you even thing she remembers you?"

"I" Xander paused for a moment "...hope so"(Of course I had two eyes back then)

"Yeah, Look Xander if you need some help, you know who to call, right"

"Of course," he said with a smile "Giles, right"

"No, I meant me," she laughs and playfully hits his arm.

"I know, I know, although it would be interesting to see how G-Man would act at a WWE event"

"It probably would." Buffy's face then went serious "But seriously, they have some pretty big guys there, and what I heard about this Vince, I have no doubt he will use them against you if you cause him any trouble" Buffy grab both his hands and looked him straight in the face "So call me if you need help."

"I will Buff, I will"

"Promise me"

"I promise"

Smiling, Buffy grab one of his bags "So you have your plane and No Mercy tickets"

"Sure do" he said as he grabs his other.

They walk down the hall and met with everyone else where they all said their goodbyes to Xander. Buffy then drove him to the airport. There she gave him a long hug goodbye. Once Xander got on the plane he couldn't help but wonder what he was going to do? What was he going to say to Steph? And will she remember him or even recognizes him?

TBC