Xan Helsing

What if Cordelia didn't leave for LA yet and accompanied Xander on his road trip during the summer before season four. While driving through a strange town, they nearly hit an old woman, have a car accident, and are then sent back in time to 1898 Romania.

Prologue

Borsa, Romania

Night

1898

"Hurry child this fire won't start itself." a tall slightly balding man said back to his daughter. Just by looking at his dirty calloused hands, you could tell that he worked hard all of his life.

Which was part of the reason that he was dissappointed at having a daughter. He had hoped to have a son, someone he could teach to be like him, but his wife had died before she could give him one. He didn't hate the girl, but since his wife was gone he didn't know what to do with her.

"Yes tata." she said as she handed him another log for their bonfire. She was a pretty little fifteen year old with shoulder length black hair and the most amazing brown eyes. After handing her father yet another log, she looked up at him with tired eyes.

She couldn't understand why he seemed to dislike her so. She would do anything for him at a moments notice, but all she wanted from him was to feel loved and for him to just hold her once...just once and tell her that she was pretty. But all he could seem to find in his heart for her was yelling and more work. Every since her mother died...

"Another log child." he said, snapping her out of her reverie.

"Ahhhhhh!" they both heard someone yell out. Giving each other a startled look, they dropped what they were doing and ran into their old house.

"Bunica?" the girl said as she saw her grandmother thrashing wildly on her bed. For the last week or so she had been sickly, but they had never seen her like this before. It was almost like she was possessed. As she got closer she heard her grandmother mumbling something.

"Get back child." her father told her as he grabbed his daughter around the shoulders and gently pushed her back.

"What's wrong with her? What is she saying?" the girl asked as her father looked down at his mother.

"I...I don't know." he replied as he reached down to touch on his mother's forehead. It almost sounded as if she were performing some kind of ritual. As his hand touched her head, she suddenly sat up and stared off into space.

"It is done." she barely got out as she collasped back on the bed and stopped breathing.

"She's...she's dead." the man said sadly as he closed her eyes.

"No!" the girl yelled out as she grabbed onto her father's shirt. First her mother, then her cousin, and now her grandmother. She just wanted to know when all of the death and sadness would end.

"Hush now child. It'll be..." before he could complete his sentence, they heard a loud crash followed by a horn being sounded. Chancing another look at his mother, he grabbed his daughter's arm and dragged her back outside.

Once they got out there, they saw the strangest metal contraption literally wrapped around a tree. As the man and his daughter took a cautious step forward after the horn stopped blaring, the door to the thing opened up and a tall youth stumbled out of it and fell to the ground.

Weakly standing to his feet, they saw that he had a small gash above his right eyebrow. Wobbling on his legs, he looked up at the girl and touched her face.

"Miss Calendar?" Xander managed to get out before darkness claimed him.

1999

"Driving along in my automobile. My baby beside me at the wheel." Xander sang along with the radio as he tapped his fingers on the steering wheel of his uncle Roary's car.

"You do know you're tone deaf right?" Cordy asked as she filed her nails and propped her feet on the dash board.

"Oh, I'm so glad I brought you with me." Xander replied sarcastically as they drove past the exit sign for Sunnydale. Even though he was being sarcastic, he was still telling the truth.

The two had made a truce after graduation. Since he had been nice to her and made sure that she had a nice prom, she promised him that she would be his guide to the states, since she had been to most of them when she was rich.

And he had to admit to himself, it turned out to be the perfect day what with the top down on his convertible, the wind blowing through his hair, and a beautiful woman at his side. Even if it was Cordelia. Hearing a rumbling in the sky, they looked up to see the first droplets of rain fall to the ground. With a groan he raised the top up on the car.

"So how is the apartment hunting coming along?" he asked as he leaned down and started to play with the radio, looking for a decent channel.

"Oh, I got Giles all over that." she said with a smile, that quickly turned into a frown. "Xander watch out!"

Looking back to the highway, Xander saw an old lady wearing an all black dress and rosary beads standing in the middle of the road. For some reason a mysterious fog filled the road. Knowing he wasn't going to be able to stop the car in time, he attempted to swerve but found that the wheel was locked.

"Something's...something's wrong." before he almost collided with the woman she dissappeared in a ghostly fashion and they drove through the fog and violently hit something making the world go black for the both of them.

Lifting his head off of the steering wheel finally ending the blaring of the horn, Xander felt a sharp pain coming from his forehead. Touching it, he pulled his hand back and saw blood. Trying to push through his pain he looked over to see that Cordelia was still knocked out. Besides a small bruise on her cheek, she seemed to be alright. As he opened his door, it fell off of it's hinges and he stumbled out with it.

Standing to his feet, he walked around the car and on wobbly legs he tried to open Cordelia's door, but to no avail. Feeling a pair of eyes on him he turned around and saw a cute girl staring at him. Thinking that the crash must have affected his mind, he looked at the girl closer.

"Miss Calendar?" he asked as he touched her face, before finally letting the darkness claim him.

"Tata, what was he talking about?"

"We'll find that out later." her father said as he looked into Xander's car and saw Cordelia still passed out. "Go into town and get your uncle."

Seeing that his daughter did what she was told he picked Xander off of the ground and took him into his house. He had to find out what the hell was going on.

A/N The reason Xander thought he was looking at miss Calendar is because the girl and the man are the ancestors of the Kalderash people. And the cousin she was thinking about was the girl that Angelus had killed that made her people get angry and turn him into Angel.

Also tata means father and Bunica means grandmother in romanian.