Audrey
Eighteen years after Chosen
It was cold and the wind was blowing hard. It had been eighteen years since the her death...
Xander walked down the New York street. He was cold but he didn't care all he could think about was his past.
He was know 40 Anya would have considred that old but Buffy and Willow didn't he started to believe it when he rembered her hating getting old. He still looked the same dark brown hair, deep rich brown eyes, and creme skin that blended into his other features, just he now had more wrinkles on that skin and looked more depressesd.
He had moved away from the slayer gang as soon as the fight was over. He couldn't bear it any longer. He packed his bag and escaped at night and ran off to New York.
He enjoyed it. Though sometimes he would have a missed call from Willow or Buffy he rarely answered them or would call back. They were scared that he had isolated himself from the outside world.
He a rock down the street it was getting closer to the time she had left the Earth... and no one was out inside the park.
Xander glanced down at his watch it said 1 o'clock. He looked up at the black gates that he had paid to put money to put them in the park. The gates seemed like it was so far away. He walked only about two steps and he could reach out and touch the black iron.
He walked a little closer till he could touch the lock with out any help. He grabbed the key out of his pocket and opened the lock to the gate. The doors flung open.
Xander inhaled deeply and forced himself to go inside the personal hell for him. He shut the gates behind him. He went down the trail that would lead him to the place in the gates he dreaded the most. The sun blazed at him and he had to squint his eyes to be able to see the opening of the field.
He stopped when he had reached the opening. He looked at the gravestones. He bite down on his lip. It still shook him even though he had been coming here for eighteen years.
He walked to the first gravestone and he pulled out the two gigantic flower bunches. He put the first one down behind him.
He pulled a flower out of the first bunch and put it down on 'Jenny Clanders' gravestone. He knew Giles would be proud if he had known about what Xander did for his Jenny...
Since he only talked to his friends for emergencys they didn't really talk much about each others personal lives. The gang did know about the grave yard Xander had put in. They would only vist when they had a body to lower into the ground if not they would just call Xander and send him some money to make another gravestone and put inside the ground with no body below it to claim.
He walked to the next gravestone. He laid another it down on Giles. He had passed after only nine months after the battle with the first.
He skipped the gave next to Giles and the next one which was the spot for him when he passes away. He also had to skip the next one to because it was Buffy's but she hadn't died yet. Its surprising eighteen years has passed since she was fully recovered from dying and hasn't died since.
The next one coming up with one of the sad stones. It was Joyce's. He droped a flower unto the grave. He felt tears coming out of his eyes.
The next one he just stared at. It was the newest addtion that had body. It had hurt him so much when he found out she had been killed by a vampire helping Andrew. He gently put the flower down on Dawn's grave and walked to the second row of gravestones.
It was Kenndy's. She died last year of course in a fight. It didn't hurt Willow she had grown apart from Kenndy. He droped the flower down.
He skipped Willows becuase she luckily hadn't died yet. The next one coming up was sweet Tara's. It had been just about a week ago her 19th year being dead. It was hard to believe. He put two flowers down.
The next spot was empty not assigned to anyone I guess it was just going to be if someone else important died in the lead gang.
Xander skipped everyone else on that row becuase they all hadn't died yet. He went to the last to gravestones in the very back.
Faith. Faith died about ten years ago and it wasn't from a fight either. She got angry one day and got to drunk and decied she was going to get in a car and drive she didnt get that far from the parking lot of the club, she hit a truck. Robin was crushed. He put down a flower to her grave.
He skipped Robins because he didn't need to put one down on his,only becuase the night before he died from suscide ,becuase Faith was dead, told him he didn't like any of the flowers and girly sad thing.
Now all he had left to do before the pain would come to him hard was go to the big grave that had every slayer and small not that important people where listed on the big grave. Xander took the last flower unto the grave.
He turned around. He saw some movment out of the corner of his eyes. He wipped around and there was nothing there. He shrugged and slowly dragged himself to the front row.
He picked up the other bundle of flowes and walked to the grave next to Giles. He gently bent down and but the bundle on the grave. Xander pressed his lips into a straigth line trying to force the sides of his mouth to twich up into a fake smile but he couldn't do it.
He cleared his throat and touched the stone. It was cold though it was a warm summer day. He got gosse bumps up his arms.
"Hey, Ahn.. I know it's been a year but you know I can't come on your so called birthday its to loud with the firewroks and all. But..wow. It's been eighteen years since I last saw your face. I can't believe its been that long. We've all gotten so much older. Not to mentions the deaths that we've been through. Dawn died about seven months ago and Kennedy died a year ago. If you see them make sure you say hi to them from me. I know I say the same things each year a new name to the announce of deaths and how much I-" He had to catch his breath. Then he heard a crack of something from where the big gravestone was near the back.
Something gasped in shock from the sound of the craking. Then it was quiet for a minute.
Xander stood up. He looked around. He could hear the deep breathing. Then he was a little bit of a rough material sticking out from behind the stone." Listen, I know what ever you are is here in hidding behind that stone. Come out." He said patiently but warning.
The creature appeared out from behind the gigantic gravestone...
(please read chapter 2 it should be up soon)