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I'm sorry I take so long with updating this story but I'm not too sure how I'm going to do this . I know how I want to sort of end it but not how to get there, any suggestions will be welcome
Disclaimer: I do not own BtVS

Xander sat in his room thinking about the his first five weeks in L.A. the first couple of weeks were horrible, he knew no one and everyone just kept staring at him, on the second week he had decided to go patrolling, he ran into a handful of vamps, luckily only one at a time. Then the next week he did the same.

-Flash back-

He was walking down an alley, it was late at night. So far he had not found any vamps and was really itching to stake something. After about five minutes of wandering around, Xander heard screams followed by some growls. Without a thought Xander ran off towards the sound. When he got there he saw four vamps, they were slowly walking towards their prey, whom were huddled together.

There was three of them two were girls and the other one was a guy, they all appeared to be around his age. The guy was rather tall, nicely tanned, had shortish blonde hair which was artistically spiked up and was standing protectively in front of the two girls. One girl was about a head shorter than the guy, had black hair that curled down to her waist, rather pale and she was sobbing into the other girls shoulder. The final girl was the shortest of the three, but she was probably a just little shorter than average height, lightly tanned, she had brown hair that hung just above her chin with multi-coloured streaks, and she was glaring at the vamps with hatred and grim determination. One of her hands was being used to try and calm her friend well the other strayed to her pocket as if she was searching for something.

Xander wasted no more attention on them and walked towards the vamps, who were too busy staring at their prey to notice him. Taking advantage of this he snuck up behind what looked like the lead vamp and staked her through the heart, with a scream she crumbled to ash. The other three vamps turned to look at Xander with murder in their eyes, well the three humans looked shocked, to say the least.

Xander drew a cross out of his pocket and threw it at the trio, the guy caught it. "what's this for?" he asked, sighing Xander replied "It repels them, when it touches their skin it burns them" he quickly ducked down to avoid a punch one of the vamps threw at him, before spinning around to face the vamp and driving a stake through its heart. Watching as it bursts into a cloud of ash, this slowly settled to the ground. The two remaining vampires growl at him in union, before one backs up and the other jumps at him, tackling him to the ground, he wrestled with it for a couple of minutes trying to gain the upper hand.

A scream rang around the alley, distracting the vampire letting Xander throw it onto the ground, he looked up to see the other vampire had the black haired chick in a head lock, at that he decided that he really needed to learn their names, brushing that thought aside he stood up and looked the vampire right in the eye.

The vampire smiled viciously at Xander before she purred "well, well, well what do we have here...hmm. A little boy who thinks he can play a Slayer, awww how cute" she pause, looking over Xanders shoulder, then casting an amused glace at the other two humans in the alley, the short girl appeared to be holding the boy back, all the while glaring at the vampire.

"All we wanted to do was get ourselves a little snack, when suddenly you pop up and dust two of my coven. So now instead of just eating and leaving like we planned, we'll have to make up for the loss of Lara and Eric. So we'll just change a couple of these guys, but not you sweet heart, I couldn't stand an eternity listening to your bitching. It would make me want to dust myself" she stopped and looked over Xanders shoulder a second time, her face lit up with a sadistic joy "well I've picked who I'm going to change, what about you Mark?" she called out, still looking over Xanders shoulder.

He did not dare to look over his shoulder or turn around, in case it was a trick, but a terrified squeak, a loud protest and the sound of a fist intercepting with something made up Xanders mind and he spun around to see the other girl being help by her throat by the other vamp. Her eyes were screaming at Xander to save her friends, she struggled against the vampire that had her only to have him tighten his hold, causing her to stop and start struggling to breath, her fingers scratching uselessly against his hand.

Xander looked around and saw the guy was leaning against the wall the side of his jaw already had a slight bruise already showing. He was throwing a lethal glare at the female vamp, holding the black haired chick.

"I think I'll take this one" Mark called back to the female vampire, matching her smile. Xander lunged into action, he pulled out a second stake and threw it to the guy shouting "stab them through the heart" before pulling out another cross and pressing it against the male vampires face, felling a cruel satisfaction seeing his face smoke and him dropping the girl. The girl lay on the ground gasping for breath.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw the guy attempting to fight the female vampire, all he had managed to do was free his friend and was keeping the vampire at arms length with the cross. Xander tackled the male vamp and was wrestling with him on the ground, their scuffle fasted for five minutes before Xander's stake was knocked out of his hand and clattered on the ground uselessly somewhere.

After throwing a couple of punches at the vampire Xander was starting to lose, the vamp leaned down to bite Xanders neck then pulled back with a pained expression and turned to ash.

Coughing he looked up to see the shorter girl standing above him, his stake gripped tightly in her hand, smiling at him. "Well that was fun" she paused and looked over her shoulder before tossing Xander his stake "you might need that to dust the vamp over there."

Xander just stared at her in confusion "oh and quickly please, I don't really want my friends to become vamp chow" she added, causing Xander to snap out of it confusion and jump up. After a quick scuffle the remaining vamp was now ash blowing in the wind. The three people Xander saved had not run off as he had expected them to, in fact they actually started talking to him.

"Hang on, you're the new guy aren't you?" the short chick asked, Xander looked slightly confused, before realisation washed over him. "I'm Megan" she stated "but most people call me Meg" offering her hand Xander shook it. The blonde guy stepped forward "hey, thanks for saving our lives back there, I'm Blake, and this is lovely, sexy..." he broke off as the black haired elbowed him in the stomach "sorry about my boyfriend, but for what he was going to say, without all the dirty parts of course, I'm Ellie" Xander immediately replied "I'm Alexander." And that was the start of their beautiful friendship.

-End Flash Back-

At that thought Xander smiled, before his phone rang. He jumped up to answer it, half expecting his father to yell at him, but he then remembered he was with his uncle. The only person in his whole family who wasn't a drunk. Picking up the phone he answered "hello?" A squeal assaulted his ears, "Oh. My. God. You will never believe what I just saw, it was like….." her voice trailed off a Xander tuned out having already heard something like this way too many times before, but he still enjoyed it when someone treated him like a normal person.

Which practically no one at the school was doing. He then noticed the voice on the other end of the line was silent "uh, Ellie you do know you're not talking to Meg right?" he teased, Ellie laughed at that comment before replying "yes I do know I'm talking to you Alexander, I'm not that stupid." Xander winced slightly at his name "Ellie, how many times have I told you guys not to call me that."

"Oh, sorry I forgot. But seriously we don't really have a nickname for you so what are we suppose to call you" Ellie apologized, sighing Xander agrees, "oh I almost forgot, the rest of us are hanging at the club tonight, you coming or are you going to sit around and mope" she teased, Xander laughed before answering "I'm not that bad. I'll just go for a quick patrol and then meet you guys there, ok" there was a long pregnant pause on the other end of the line before Ellie begged "Can we come to, I know we're not that good but we won't get better unless we practice" Xander sighed "maybe next time" he promised before hanging up. He picked up a small bag, that contained several stakes, a handful of crosses and a bottle of water. Briefly he looked around the room before walking out the door and into the night.

….

previously
She looked upon the pile of ash, before she crumpled where she stood.

Buffy lay on the ground for hours trying to hold back the emotions that were bubbling to the surface, her sobs muffled by the floor. Once the sun was shining on her she had gained control of her emotions, in other words she had grabbed them and smashed/shoved them into a tiny little jar and then thrown it somewhere deep into her consciousness, she walked slowly to the library.

Quietly she pushed the door opened and walked in, taking in the room, Willow was sitting on one of the chairs with her head hanging down with an unreadable expression with Giles leaning against the table his expression was one that sent shivers down Buffy's spine.

"Ah, Buffy we've been waiting for you" Giles called "I am sure that you are aware that you behavior towards Xander was unacceptable and will not go without punishment" Buffy's breath got caught in her throat, and a small cry came from Willow. Giles turned to Willow and in the same angry/disappointed tone continued "Willow, as you and I have discussed earlier I will bind your magic as punishment for doing the spell. However you may get your magic back early if you make up for what you have done wrong, without the help of magic."

Buffy trudged over and sat down on one of the chairs, sighing. She rested her feet against the table and pulled out a magazine, she had gotten to a really interesting part when the magazine was ripped from her grasp, "hey" she whined "that was a really good part" looking up her eyes met Giles cold glare, a small shiver ran down her spine.

"Buffy, you have more important things to do than to read a magazine and as for your punishment..." Buffy cut him off with "why'm I getting punished, I'm the Slayer, the one, the only." Giles growled "just because you are the slayer, does not mean you can get away with that sort of stuff. Your punishment is that you will lose all social privileges that you had and you shall focus solely on slaying and school. If you prove to me that you will behave and we will never have another episode like that then I will allow you to have what you call a 'social life'. Otherwise I fear I will have to report you to the Watchers council."

Buffy scowled at this but agreed to fulfill her punishment. Around five minutes later Oz came running into the library screaming "Giles come quickly it Cordy"

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