Disclamer: Not mine. Never was, never will be. But hey, at the least the story is mine.
Spoiler: Happen's after Xander and cordiela split up, just as the series started leaving the good 'ol days. Okay, so there's this demon that can send people to Hell and the Scoobies learn a few lessons in life.
I'm not one to beg, but please take a couple of seconds to review. I'd appreciate it. Thanks and peace out!
Thanks: I'd like to thank Joss for making the characters so plausible and I'd like to thank the cast for putting the characters to life. I love the series and am a devoted fan. Shout out to all my homies out there that I haven't talked to in a while. Peace out and hope you might learn something from this. I believe in every story there is a lesson to be learned.
See the Light
Saturday night, the moon sat high in the starlit sky, bathing the streets with a ghostly glow. The wind gently rocked the tree tops and whispered a sweet motherly lullaby. Spring was coming and flowers started to bloom. A scent of flower buds tickled the nose and the eagerness to get outside settled upon man kind.
That would be a little happy dream made up for the Scooby Gang. No instead the winds whispered ominous threats and the moon cast dark shadows upon the land. Spring became a time for people to do stupid things and think that they were safe from the winter's dark evil secrets.
But thinking like that, definitely not Xander Harris's style. No, he was the one who would see the up to things. The one people talked to and he'd try to make them all better. It was a drag, but he felt up to the challenge.
Tonight he sat in the Bronze, the only cool place in Sunnydale, with two very bummed out girls. One wasn't very happy because her boyfriend was in full Werewolf mode at this very second and was trying to figure out how to get out of the Library Cage. The other wasn't happy because she was lacking in the relationship department.
He of course joined them in the bummed department. He couldn't get with the girl of his dreams, which would, of course, be Buffy Summers. No he didn't dwell on the horrible sense of humor that fate seemed to possess. No, right now he was really down that Cordiela had the audacity to go to the Bahamas with her family. Another factor to add in was that she didn't like him because he accidentally kissed Willow. Hey it was all his hormone's fault.
"Okay, we are very much the talkative group." Xander sighed looking at the totally sad group of people he belonged to. Not that they were sad as in hopeless, but sad in emotion wise. "I say we leave and go to the Espresso Pump. I'm in the mood for a double Mocha ."
The Slayer raised her eyebrow to him and rolled her eyes. "Do you always think about your stomach?"
"Buffy we're talking about Xander here." Willow reminded her.
"What was I thinking?" Buffy asked sarcastically. "But Xander, you do have a point. I'm definitely in the mood to splurge. Anyway, the band isn't that great tonight."
Willow stiffened making him cringe. Definitely not a good thing to talk about bands when Will's boy was in one of his wolfy tendencies. Buffy didn't seem to notice that she had put Willow in an even worse mood as she headed towards the door. Willow followed leaving Xander to take the rear of the train, which he seemed to always do. But right now he was perfectly happy to take the rear.
Outside the cold refreshing breeze rolled around them as they marched to the 'major talking place for stressed Scooby members'. Buffy walked between he and Willow. Nobody felt like talking because everyone had something to deal with. He, the Xandman, didn't like silence.
"Soooo, college... I'm a no go since my scores are down in the dirt and covered with... well mud. How about you brainy ones?" Xander asked pushing his hands into his pocket. Everyone snapped out of their little world. Both girls cringed at their future unplanned plans. They had their own major problems with the college deal. Willow had the trouble of picking an Ivey league school or becoming a groupie for Oz's band. He really didn't think that was any large problem. In fact he would kill... bad word to use when living in the Hellmouth, he would love to have those problems.
And Buffster? The Slayer and protector of all that is good and fun? Well, she had the problem of choosing to stay in Sunnydale and going to a local college or going to a nice university to get a better education away from the Hellmouth. She surprised all her friends and even herself with her through the roof SAT scores. Even Xander couldn't figure out how she could managed to fail gym class yet be a total brainiac.
"Giles and my mother are pushing me towards going out of town, maybe even out of state..." Buffy replied. It was her chance to leave, to go to a new place away from all the evil. Yet for some unknown reason she seemed to be reluctant to go.
"Which means you'd be free...? What's the downer?" Xander asked finally voicing everyone's burning question. Even Willow came out of her zone to find the absolute truth.
Buffy shrugged. "I can't just leave Faith here to fight. It wouldn't be right."
"Well, lets see. You've been doing this for sometime, longer then she has. Maybe you should retire. You know, maybe you'll get a pension from the Watchers Council." Xander looked at her as if trying to make some sense to a four year old.
"I can see it now in Giles's Watcher Diary... Buffy Anne Summers has decided to throw hundreds of years of tradition out the window and retire so she can go to college and receive a higher education elsewhere." She grinned. Then she frowned at him as if realizing something. "How do you know you're not going to college?"
"Yeah, you're smart... In your own way and all. Your good at stuff and... Yeah... Who knows, you might be accepted... I mean... Yeah." Willow said in her own Willowy way. Buffy nodded looking over at him.
He shook his head. "Mmmm no. You see Will, you have the grades, Buffster has the SAT's and who knows why Oz isn't in college yet. Even the teachers and principal are perplexed by his status. And Cordiela has grades and scores. You see I live at the bottom of the education chain and am hanging by one hand. I have neither grades nor SAT scores. Which is cool because I, Xander Harris, has accepted it and moved on."
Buffy opened her mouth to reply when something grabbed him by the shoulders and leaned in with it's hot and oh so gross breath. Willow let out a scream just as the vampire came in for a bite.
The Slayer punched the vampire in the face and it let go of Xander, holding it's nose in pain. He quickly moved out of the way and Buffy got in front of the two fanged undead guy. That was a way too close of a call.
With a mix of Bruce Lee and an Olympic gymnastic athlete, Buffy dropped to the ground on her hands and swung her legs underneath the obese fangy dead guy. Any coach would have applauded that move as the vampire dropped heavily to the ground.
The vampire sprang back up unfazed to get even more Slayer ass kicking. Willow watch tensely along side Xander as the two super power beings did the tango... figuratively speaking. With two kicks in the face and a punch in the gut, the vampire went down. Xander decided if this fellow was going to become another pile of dust, the Slayer would need equipment which was in her bag on the ground right in front of him. He would be glad to be equipment guy.
Grabbing the bag, he searched for a spare stake. He found one and yelled at Buffy. They had done this so many times that all he had to do was throw the stake towards her and she'd grab it out of the air. That was just what happened and the vampire turned into ash.
"Okay, now I really need something to get my mind off vampires." Buffy huffed brushing her hair out of her eyes.
"Chocolate here we come." Xander replied more carefree and confident than he actually felt.
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They were twenty feet away from the campus when Willow noticed something moving in the bushes to their left. She figured it'd be a good time to inform everyone of the noticeably lurking evil. "Uhm, there's something moving in the bushes over there."
"I noticed that." Buffy replied digging into her book bag. "What do you think.. human, vampire, or big ugly monster?"
"Actually I was hoping for big ugly human guy who liked bushes." Xander said as he backed away from the bushes along with Willow and Buffy. "Though most humans don't hide behind bushes if I remember correctly."
Spoiler: Happen's after Xander and cordiela split up, just as the series started leaving the good 'ol days. Okay, so there's this demon that can send people to Hell and the Scoobies learn a few lessons in life.
I'm not one to beg, but please take a couple of seconds to review. I'd appreciate it. Thanks and peace out!
Thanks: I'd like to thank Joss for making the characters so plausible and I'd like to thank the cast for putting the characters to life. I love the series and am a devoted fan. Shout out to all my homies out there that I haven't talked to in a while. Peace out and hope you might learn something from this. I believe in every story there is a lesson to be learned.
See the Light
Saturday night, the moon sat high in the starlit sky, bathing the streets with a ghostly glow. The wind gently rocked the tree tops and whispered a sweet motherly lullaby. Spring was coming and flowers started to bloom. A scent of flower buds tickled the nose and the eagerness to get outside settled upon man kind.
That would be a little happy dream made up for the Scooby Gang. No instead the winds whispered ominous threats and the moon cast dark shadows upon the land. Spring became a time for people to do stupid things and think that they were safe from the winter's dark evil secrets.
But thinking like that, definitely not Xander Harris's style. No, he was the one who would see the up to things. The one people talked to and he'd try to make them all better. It was a drag, but he felt up to the challenge.
Tonight he sat in the Bronze, the only cool place in Sunnydale, with two very bummed out girls. One wasn't very happy because her boyfriend was in full Werewolf mode at this very second and was trying to figure out how to get out of the Library Cage. The other wasn't happy because she was lacking in the relationship department.
He of course joined them in the bummed department. He couldn't get with the girl of his dreams, which would, of course, be Buffy Summers. No he didn't dwell on the horrible sense of humor that fate seemed to possess. No, right now he was really down that Cordiela had the audacity to go to the Bahamas with her family. Another factor to add in was that she didn't like him because he accidentally kissed Willow. Hey it was all his hormone's fault.
"Okay, we are very much the talkative group." Xander sighed looking at the totally sad group of people he belonged to. Not that they were sad as in hopeless, but sad in emotion wise. "I say we leave and go to the Espresso Pump. I'm in the mood for a double Mocha ."
The Slayer raised her eyebrow to him and rolled her eyes. "Do you always think about your stomach?"
"Buffy we're talking about Xander here." Willow reminded her.
"What was I thinking?" Buffy asked sarcastically. "But Xander, you do have a point. I'm definitely in the mood to splurge. Anyway, the band isn't that great tonight."
Willow stiffened making him cringe. Definitely not a good thing to talk about bands when Will's boy was in one of his wolfy tendencies. Buffy didn't seem to notice that she had put Willow in an even worse mood as she headed towards the door. Willow followed leaving Xander to take the rear of the train, which he seemed to always do. But right now he was perfectly happy to take the rear.
Outside the cold refreshing breeze rolled around them as they marched to the 'major talking place for stressed Scooby members'. Buffy walked between he and Willow. Nobody felt like talking because everyone had something to deal with. He, the Xandman, didn't like silence.
"Soooo, college... I'm a no go since my scores are down in the dirt and covered with... well mud. How about you brainy ones?" Xander asked pushing his hands into his pocket. Everyone snapped out of their little world. Both girls cringed at their future unplanned plans. They had their own major problems with the college deal. Willow had the trouble of picking an Ivey league school or becoming a groupie for Oz's band. He really didn't think that was any large problem. In fact he would kill... bad word to use when living in the Hellmouth, he would love to have those problems.
And Buffster? The Slayer and protector of all that is good and fun? Well, she had the problem of choosing to stay in Sunnydale and going to a local college or going to a nice university to get a better education away from the Hellmouth. She surprised all her friends and even herself with her through the roof SAT scores. Even Xander couldn't figure out how she could managed to fail gym class yet be a total brainiac.
"Giles and my mother are pushing me towards going out of town, maybe even out of state..." Buffy replied. It was her chance to leave, to go to a new place away from all the evil. Yet for some unknown reason she seemed to be reluctant to go.
"Which means you'd be free...? What's the downer?" Xander asked finally voicing everyone's burning question. Even Willow came out of her zone to find the absolute truth.
Buffy shrugged. "I can't just leave Faith here to fight. It wouldn't be right."
"Well, lets see. You've been doing this for sometime, longer then she has. Maybe you should retire. You know, maybe you'll get a pension from the Watchers Council." Xander looked at her as if trying to make some sense to a four year old.
"I can see it now in Giles's Watcher Diary... Buffy Anne Summers has decided to throw hundreds of years of tradition out the window and retire so she can go to college and receive a higher education elsewhere." She grinned. Then she frowned at him as if realizing something. "How do you know you're not going to college?"
"Yeah, you're smart... In your own way and all. Your good at stuff and... Yeah... Who knows, you might be accepted... I mean... Yeah." Willow said in her own Willowy way. Buffy nodded looking over at him.
He shook his head. "Mmmm no. You see Will, you have the grades, Buffster has the SAT's and who knows why Oz isn't in college yet. Even the teachers and principal are perplexed by his status. And Cordiela has grades and scores. You see I live at the bottom of the education chain and am hanging by one hand. I have neither grades nor SAT scores. Which is cool because I, Xander Harris, has accepted it and moved on."
Buffy opened her mouth to reply when something grabbed him by the shoulders and leaned in with it's hot and oh so gross breath. Willow let out a scream just as the vampire came in for a bite.
The Slayer punched the vampire in the face and it let go of Xander, holding it's nose in pain. He quickly moved out of the way and Buffy got in front of the two fanged undead guy. That was a way too close of a call.
With a mix of Bruce Lee and an Olympic gymnastic athlete, Buffy dropped to the ground on her hands and swung her legs underneath the obese fangy dead guy. Any coach would have applauded that move as the vampire dropped heavily to the ground.
The vampire sprang back up unfazed to get even more Slayer ass kicking. Willow watch tensely along side Xander as the two super power beings did the tango... figuratively speaking. With two kicks in the face and a punch in the gut, the vampire went down. Xander decided if this fellow was going to become another pile of dust, the Slayer would need equipment which was in her bag on the ground right in front of him. He would be glad to be equipment guy.
Grabbing the bag, he searched for a spare stake. He found one and yelled at Buffy. They had done this so many times that all he had to do was throw the stake towards her and she'd grab it out of the air. That was just what happened and the vampire turned into ash.
"Okay, now I really need something to get my mind off vampires." Buffy huffed brushing her hair out of her eyes.
"Chocolate here we come." Xander replied more carefree and confident than he actually felt.
Next Chapter Preview:
They were twenty feet away from the campus when Willow noticed something moving in the bushes to their left. She figured it'd be a good time to inform everyone of the noticeably lurking evil. "Uhm, there's something moving in the bushes over there."
"I noticed that." Buffy replied digging into her book bag. "What do you think.. human, vampire, or big ugly monster?"
"Actually I was hoping for big ugly human guy who liked bushes." Xander said as he backed away from the bushes along with Willow and Buffy. "Though most humans don't hide behind bushes if I remember correctly."
