Title: His Girls Part 1
Author: Wizleysnipes
Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me, they all belong to Joss Whedon.
Authors Notes: Takes place after the end of the show, Xander is in Africa.
"No"
With that declaration Xander turned his back on Buffy and closed his office door. Buffy was more surprised than anything at such a simple response, she wanted to ascertain the reasons or reason why and went to grab the handle of the door.
Her hand was interrupted by a much smaller hand, Buffy glanced briefly to her left to the young girl that had touched her.
"When the boss man says no, the boss man says no lady"
Buffy raised an eyebrow towards the obviously young slayer, she couldn't be more than 14.
"Do you know who i am?" Buffy asked.
"Lady, you could be the queen of England. I don't care. He said no, i suggest you take that and run with it."
"I'm Buffy."
"Oh the original, yea we've all heard the stories about you. Boss man used to tell us all about the great Buffy and how she saved the world"
"So this conversation is between me and Xander..."
"Do you know who i am?" The girl replied with a smirk "Names Eshe, it means life. Now that introductions are over with i think you should just take a knee on this and go to the quarters you were assigned"
Buffy smiled sweetly at the girl "You think you could stop me from going into his room?"
"I don't know lady. The first vampire i killed was 900. I was 12 years old and i killed it with a pencil. All your stories are great and all but i'm not scared of much"
Eshe clicked the fingers on her left hand suddenly Buffy found herself surrounded by teenage girls.
"Also we don't take kindly to threats. We are a family here and we fight like a single unit. You want to take on all of us?"
Buffy surveyed the girls, there were atleast 25. She had no doubt she could handle 2, maybe even 3 at a single time, but 25 was a bit much even for her. She released the door handle and took a step back, bumping into a girl behind her accidentally in the process.
"So i guess you aren't aware that me and Xander are family and he wouldn't like you treating me this way? Not to mention i'm head of the councils "America's Tactics Units" and can have you all disciplined for this..."
Another girl piped up "It wasn't the council that free'd me from a life of slavery lady, that was Xander and that means more than anything you can say"
Buffy heard confirmations all round from the girls around her and she sighed, this was not going according to plan.
"Look" Eshe piped up "Xan just needs to wind down, he's been on a mission for 2 days and whatever you said to him got him angry. Give him the night at least."
Buffy could only nod her head as she stooped down to pick up her suitcase and wandered towards the guest section of the African encampment.
It was nicer looking than she would have imagined, given it's location. They were a few miles outside Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Outside the encampment was nothing but wasteland and desert as far as she could see. According to the council this place basically had a budget of zero, unlike pretty much any other outpost in the world.
That was one of the main reasons Wood had asked her to get Xander to give up his position and move to a different outpost. He wanted to take Xander and use him to turn the other outposts around into similar functioning headquarters in there respective areas. The new council was hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate apparently.
Buffy unlocked her quarters door and shook her head free of the thoughts, this was supposed to be a simple vacation to see her friend. Hell she wasn't the only one that was supposed to be here, so was Dawn and Willow but them two had cancelled at the last minute.
Dawn had issues with travelling whilst she was pregnant, she only had 2 months left and Buffy would be an Aunt. That thought brought a smile to her face if nothing else. Dawn's husband Louis was a watcher just like Dawn herself and they'd simply fell in love over dusty old tomes and books. A tale as old as time.
Willow on the other hand had no real excuse, she was the most powerful witch on the planet. Her expertise had led to several advancements for the council in terms of preventing any magical based demonic infringements. There were now warning systems in place around the world to warn the council of any heavy magic use and that was all Willow's implementation. However she was now basically a lady of leisure and didn't really do much work for the council, her main focus as of late was dating again.
It had taken a while after her and Kennedy had split up for Willow to try dating but she eventually did. As far as Buffy knew it was mostly unsuccessful and there hadn't been any significant advances in that area she was aware of and she basically lived next door to Willow inside the Cleveland compound.
So here Buffy was, in the congo, alone. Trying to get Xander to agree to something she was pretty sure he'd never want to do.
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