AN: I own nothing, but the plot. This is very AU and OOC.

Children of the Iron Knight

The Yellow and Green Crayons :

Alexander Harris was coloring when he heard someone crying, he hated when girls cried. His cousin Alexia Stark was crying all the time, her mommy, aunt Alana had just died of cancer. He knew this was not Alexia, as he looked around for the source of the crying he saw a small red head sobbing over a broken yellow crayon. The little red head was sitting across from Alexia, who was looking to him for help with the crying girl.

Alexander made a snap decision and grabbed his own yellow crayon and walked up to the sobbing girl.

"Here you can use my yellow." Alexander said holding out the crayon. The small red head sniffed and took the crayon.

"Thank you, my name is Willow."

"I'm Alexander, and that is my cousin Alexia." Both children smiled as Willow tried to say both of their names and only came out with 'Xander and 'Lexa.

"Oh, I'm sorry I can't say your names right."

"That's ok you can call me Xander." Alexia nodded

"And you can call me Lex." Willow smiled at having made two new friends.

Lex started to cry when one of the class bullies swiped her green crayon.

"Hay that's mine bring it back!"

"It ok. Here you can use my green Lex." Willow said handing Lex her crayon.

"Thank you Willow." Lex said shyly.


The Vampires Lair :

"Rewind and show me that bit again." Spike barked at the toady who had shot the footage. Neither vampire noticed when the insane Seer came into the chamber, cooing at her doll in her arms.

"Spike, someone is coming." She said in a whispered tone. "Miss Edith says that he will make the slayer weak. But, the stars warn that the children of the Iron Knight, the lion and the wolf will kill us if we get close the slayer."

"It's alright pet; no nasty animals are going to hurt us. When she is weak, we will be able to kill her, and then we will be able to get you better." Spike said to his insane sire. Drusilla began to cry softly, and murmur to her doll.


The Shop :

"I know she broke the guy code. But she is one of our best friends. It's not like we have a whole lot." Lex said as she was helping Xander look for a toy gun to go with his outfit.

"Lex repressing here. What are you going as?"

"I don't know. Do you remember that news cast we saw about the mutants?"

"Yeah. That one big guy I bet no one pushes him around." Xander said as he dug into the gun bin a bit more.

"What was his thing? Claws wasn't it?"

"Yeah. That one guy he was fighting with had long knives that came out of his hands. Why?"

"What if we go as them? Big strong powerful guys like that and it is come as you aren't night."

Xander looked at his cuz; he would do anything for her. She was the sister he never had but always wanted. He sighed and nodded his head.

"But, I want to go as the big guy."

"Deal." Lex held out her hand for their standard shake. Xander grabbed at her forearm and they pumped their whole arm twice.

"We don't have enough for the costumes they were wearing." Xander said looking around for something they could use.

"We could go as them only "off duty" so to speak." Lex said with one of their trademark grins.

"Those two are most likely best friends, just on different sides of the issue." He said absently, looking for something to pass as the claws of the large mutant. "What did they call that guy again?"

"Sabertooth and the other guy they called Wolverine."

"Ah! Truly you are brave to go as mutants for Halloween." Lex and Xander both jumped when the shopkeeper came up, both were very weary of him, as he oozed charm everywhere. "I am sorry I did not mean to startle you. But, I could not help but over hear you want to go as the Mighty Wolverine and Ferocious Sabertooth."

"Yeah. But you don't have anything we can use." Lex said suspicion thick in her voice. Ethan smiled his best smile.

"I apologize I have not introduced myself. I am Ethan Rayne, owner. I do believe I have a couple of accessories that might go a long way to make the "off duty" outfits work for you."

Xander and Lex looked at each other and they gave each other tiniest of nods, before turning to look at Ethan.

"Alright what have you got?" Xander asked. Ethan smiled and led them to a case near the register that was partially hidden from view.

"Which one is going as whom?" Ethan asked as he pulled a set of punch blades that were made to look like they would come out of the backs of your hands, with a wooden grip that sat in your palm. He then pulled out a set of ten silver looking finger rings, which looked like the guy version of catwoman's claws.

"The punch blades are stainless steel and so are the rings."

"Well I was going to go as Sabertooth, and she was going to go as a female Wolverine."

"We can't afford what you would want for them." Lex said as she turned to find something else. Ethan then pulled two sets of blank dog tags and placed them on the counter as well.

"I feel moved to help two young people with such ambitious costumes, I can let you rent the equipment for the night for four dollars and I will throw in the blank dog tags?"

Xander and Lex looked at one another, before they both shrugged.

"You got a deal." Both said in unison. Ethan smiled brightly as led them back to the register to ring up their purchases.

"Oh I almost forgot, both of the mutants have fangs, like a cat and a dog. So I will also throw in a set of fangs that are temporary caps. Just tell everyone where you got your great deal hummm?" Xander and Lex shrugged and thanked the oily Englishman.

They were about to leave when they heard Buffy and Willow talking about a costume that would knock Angel's socks off.

"I don't see why she is so in love with him."

"Easy he is tall, pale and broody. But, man give me a knight in dented armor any time."

"Why dented?"

"Dented means they have been through a lot and survived. I am not about to give some untested boy, my life. No give me a more tested and battle hardened guy."

"Makes sense." Xander said nodding sagely.

"Xander about earlier with Larry." Buffy said as she spotted the duo.

"Buffy busy trying to repress here." Lex giggled and went to help Willow find her costume. This of course ended up being a ghost again. Lex just sighed and shook her head.

"I'm sorry. Next time I will let you get pummeled." Buffy said

"Really? Thanks Buffy that..." Xander paused. Buffy was staring at a pink dress at the back of the shop. "Hello trying to have a reconciliation here."

"I know, but that dress."

"Buffy it's beautiful." Willow said with quite awe.

Ethan heard and came up with a deal for Buffy as well. Once everyone was done they all went their separate ways, to get dressed to go out.


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