Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Legend of the Seeker/Sword of Truth series.
CHAPTER 1
'Stupid Larry! Stupid Buffy! Stupid Jonathan!' Xander thought to himself as he headed towards the library. Now while Xander calling Larry stupid or any other insult isn't out of the ordinary lumping Buffy and Jono in with him is. You see Xander has a crush on Buffy and Jonathan has been a good male friend of Xander's since Jesse's death. That's also the reason that Xander is currently cursing his name.
You see Xander being surrounded by Buffy and Willow all day had been getting to Xander especially since the only male companion was a stuffy old British man that treated Xander as more of a nuisance than a friend, so Xander reached out for some male companionship and found Jono.
Jonathan and Xander have a lot in common mainly their taste in entertainment. While Jonathan takes things a little too far for Xander's taste he is still someone Xander can talk comic books, anime, or sci fi with. So Xander and Jonathan bonded over their shared entertainment interests and their membership as the Sunnydale High outcasts.
As a member of the Sunnydale High outcasts they get picked on a lot and mainly by Larry. They were both sick of the constant bullying so they decided to do something about it. This led to The Bet. They had both been watching this new series called The Legend of the Seeker and Jonathan had been reading the books, and since Halloween was coming up they decided to dress as characters from the show. The Bet was simple whoever couldn't stand up to Larry had to dress as a female character from the series.
For Xander life was good a few days before Halloween Larry was pushing him around and Xander was gearing up for his witty comeback. Larry had him slammed up against the lockers and Xander's fist was coming up to slam into his nose when Buffy Freakin Summers decided to play hero not just breaking guy code and embarrassing Xander in front of the school, but also losing Xander The Bet since Jonathan managed to nail Larry in the nuts later that day. Sure he was stuffed in a trashcan with some bruised ribs and a black eye but at least he didn't have to dress as a girl.
While losing The Bet was bad it wasn't really enough to be cursing Buffy and Jono's name especially since he was the one who thought up The Bet in the first place. No what caused this emphatic cursing of his friends was what happened during Halloween or more precisely after.
While the show was pretty awesome there were only two female characters worth being so Xander had to choose between Kahlan and Cara. While Xander personally liked Cara best he really didn't want to find form fitting red leather for the Mord Sith outfit and definitely didn't want to wear it. All he needed to dress as Kahlan was a white dress and a couple of daggers some black pants and boots. He already had the boots and pants and could easily get some daggers from G-man but he had to get a white dress similar to the one Kahlan wore on the show.
That led him to Ethan's the new costume shop. He went there with Buffy and Willow and while they were fawning over the noble woman's dress he was trying to find one for himself. After a few minutes of searching and getting more uncomfortable by the minute Ethan Bloody Rayne decided to pop up out of nowhere and scare the crap out of Xander. When he asked if he could help him and Xander told him about The Bet Rayne got a really creepy smile on his face, but of course Xander didn't notice. It might have saved him a lot of trouble if he did, but no Ethan was willing to help and Xander could get out of the store faster and not have to look through anymore girl costumes so he just ignored his Hellmouth sense.
Surprisingly Ethan had a dress that was really similar to the one Kahlan wore in the show and it was cheap too. Only $15 which was more than Xander wanted to spend but not as expensive as he thought he would have to spend. Xander was all set all he had to do was stop by Jonathans and pick up the wig he would need. He really didn't want to know why Jonathan had the wig so he decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
After the mandatory teasing at Buffy's house they swung by the school to pick up their little ankle-bitters for the evening. Everything was fine right up until everyone was turned into their costumes and Xander was turned into a freakin GIRL. Surprisingly it wasn't bad being Kahlan she was pretty handy in this kind of situation and after they found Jonathan who had dressed as a fully trained wizard of the first order they had some real fire power (no pun intended). Both Kahlan and Wizard Jonathan were able to handle most of the demons and managed to save Cordelia, but then Captain Hair gel shows up and managed to lose Buffy forcing them to leave the relative safety of Buffy's house to hunt her down.
When they found her they were forced to run and hide, from Spike and his horde of mini-demons, in an old warehouse. When Spike and his minions broke through the door Angel and Jonathan got caught up trying to subdue the mini-demons without hurting them while Kahlan/Xander kept Spike and his minions from getting to a helpless Buffy. Everything changed when Willow yelled "Kahlan the blond one you can kill". Kahlan/Xander smiled at that but instead of going in for the kill she knocked his arms aside and grabbed him by the neck and for the first time that night let her confessor powers go. Unfortunately this was at the exact same moment that Giles managed to break the spell.
Spike could free his freewill slipping away and there was nothing he could do about it, but then the power that was sapping his will and turning him into some mindless slave was gone. He managed to shake off any remaining effects and high tail it out of there. Xander had collapsed on the floor and was just getting back up. The first thing he did was check to see if his boys were back and thank God they were right where he left them.
They managed to find all of the kids and Willow and get them back to the High School without further incident, and agreed to meet up tomorrow in the library. This brings us to the present day. Xander had nightmares or just dreams last night of Kahlan's life; losing a sister, being the last Confessor, and her love for Richard. When he woke up he knew something was wrong he wasn't the same as when he went to bed last night. As he went through a check list of what could be wrong he was relieved to find the he was still a member of the male persuasion and nothing was really different.
The last thing he checked was to see if his Confessor power was back up to full strength. He really just did this because of the leftover memories of Kahlan, but was shocked and then horrified to find that yes he still had Kahlan's Confessor powers and even worse was that they were a little bit stronger than Kahlan's.
This he thought was a problem so he got out of bed and went to get dressed; however, more of Kahlan showed through because when he went to grab his customary Hawaiian shirt he instead grabbed a white poet's shirt that he wore for Halloween last year. It was a plain white shirt with baggy sleeves and an open collar tied together with a leather string. He then put on the soft leather pants that he wore last night and set off to the library. See this is what led to the cursing not the fact that he has Confessor powers now or the fact that he had to get up so early on a weekend. No what has Xander cursing both of his friends and Larry was the fact that he was now repulsed by his favorite Hawaiian shirts. Now he has to get a whole new wardrobe if G-man can't figure out a way to change him back.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hey sorry to all of my readers that are following my story Charming Xander but I just couldn't get this idea out of my head. This is my first time writing a Halloween fic so I need the feedback. Was this any good? Should I continue? Did I even do a good job with the story? Do you like the Idea? Any feedback is appreciated I love positive or negative feedback.
