Chapter 4 – Consequences
Giles eventually came back the school library, and after checking everyone was okay, Xander went home. He walked to his house in a semi-daze, stumbling to his room and crashing onto his bed fully clothed – exhausted after tonight's events.
Little did Xander know the changes that would occur in his body while he slept, as Ethan had suspected would happen after discovering why more magic was needed for tonight's chaos stunt than he'd expected. Oddly, the magic in Xander's system insured he would feel no pain while the changes occurred.
Venom began to flow like the strong flowing current of a river, mending fractures and breaks. Bruises hidden under applied makeup begin to fade and disappear, as if they were never there. Scars too began to fade, and problems with eyesight and organ damage simply vanished. Cells begin to crystallize and skin harden. Muscle mass increased and beneath closed eyelids, Xander's irises changed color again for the last time.
Xander opened his eyes and sat up in his bed, putting his head in his hands. He remembered Emmett's life, from childhood to the bear attack and up to kissing his angelic Rosalie.
'Whoa - MY Rosalie? What hell has happened to me?' Xander thought to himself, going to the bathroom for a look in the mirror.
But as he opened the bathroom door the handle broke in his hand, much to the teenager's surprise. Shaking his head at the disrepair of the house, Xander turned to the mirror – and froze in sheer shock.
Gone was the face he knew; and in its place was the face of an extraordinarily handsome and thoroughly undead individual. The one and only Emmett Cullen.
Xander also quickly realized he was taller than he had been before Halloween. Trying not to freak out and lose it completely, the male teen dressed in fresh clothing and saw he had far more muscle mass than – before. Whereas before he'd had some muscles slaying alongside Buffy, he now looked like he could take out vampires using no weapons other than his bare hands.
But there was a downside – his skin was not the sun-bronzed color of a native-born Californian anymore. Rather, it was like marble and very pale. Vampire pale. All the scars and bruises from his father's abuse were gone. But his eyes were no longer brown, rather - a deep red. Blood red.
Xander knew he had changed into something he did not want to acknowledge; a vampire. And not a normal vampire either, a Twilight vampire. A – sparkle-pire. Oh, that freaking out thing was about to go sky-high!
Hearing thumping noises and footsteps, Xander turned and faced the door. He suddenly realized the thumping was two separate heartbeats. A burning sensation then made itself aware in his throat; it was painful, like he had swallowed knives. The burning sensation got worse, as Xander swallowed reflexively and tried to ignore the need to feed. To feed on blood.
"BOY, GET OUT HERE NOW! I SAID MOVE IT, YOU LITTLE **!" yelled Tony Harris. The bathroom door then crashed open, as his drunken father stumbled into the room.
Tony Harris looked at his son in his drunken haze, and what he saw made him stop dead. The kid had begun to growl ferociously, with his eyes a deep red color. He had gotten taller and more muscular, too...
Tony instantly forgot about taking a ** and ran out of the room, wondering what the hell his boy had done to himself. He sobered up fast, quickly running back to his bedroom and locking the door behind him.
After his father had gone Xander panicked and wondered, 'What hell was I doing? I need to speak with Giles!'
Grabbing the hooded jacket from last night and sunglasses, he headed out his window. As soon he hit the ground, his skin began to sparkle like diamonds. It was not unexpected, but nonetheless Xander ran as fast as he could towards the school. While he was running, he noticed he was running extremely fast – far faster than a human. Panicking even more than he already was, he kept running for Slayer Central.
Xander entered the library, hearing a heartbeat and hoping that whatever was happening to him the Watcher could fix it. "Hey Giles, you here? We got a problem!" Xander said, panic evident in his voice.
Xander was really, really glad when he heard Giles' voice. "Xander, where have you been?" asked the Watcher, exiting from his private office.
"Giles? What do you mean, where have I been?" Xander asked in response.
Rupert noted that Xander was not wearing his usual bright clothing, but instead was wearing dark clothing with a hooded jacket; with the hood pulled up and sunglasses. He did not like that – at all. "It's Monday morning, boy, and even Willow couldn't get hold of you throughout the weekend. Are you alright Xander, you look – different," said Giles, noting that Xander had used his proper name.
"Uh..." Xander stammered, not sure how to explain what he thought was going on.
"You can trust me, Xander; just tell me what's wrong," Giles said, hoping to put the boy at ease and confide in him.
"I hope so Giles, I really do because I think what happened to me on Halloween – it kinda stuck," Xander said tentatively, taking off his sunglasses and pulling down his hood.
"What are you..." But then Giles looked at the boy and instantly realized why he had said that. "Good Lord!"
Indeed, because Xander was paler than any human Giles had ever seen, and his eyes were a deep red color; not his usual chocolate-brown. "What happened?"
"I broke a door this morning, I growled at my dad like an animal and I keep getting a burning sensation in my throat like I'm swallowing knives. HELP me, Giles, please!" said Xander in panic.
"Who did you dress as on Halloween, Xander?" Giles asked gently, secretly dreading the truth.
"It was a character from the Twilight saga called Emmett Cullen, uh – he was a vampire," replied Xander, looking at Giles with pure fear in his eyes. "But not the ordinary type of vampire Buffy slays – more like a, uh, sparkle-pire, I guess. Damn it, Giles, I can't go out into the sunlight anymore seeing as I sparkle, so what am I going to do? If I've become a vampire – I don't want to hurt anyone!" Xander said desperately.
"You mentioned a burning sensation in your throat. You need to feed, don't you?" Giles said, moving back. "Do you, uh, that type of vampire, does it – need human blood?"
"What? NO! And oh my God, I've got to pull a Dead Boy and drink blood now?" Xander looked horrified. "Giles, help! You've got to fix this! PLEASE!"
Giles walked over to the boy, and he said hesitantly, "I will do everything in my power to help you, Xander, I promise."
A/N: Please review folks, I hope you like the story. I am open to criticism so please let me know what you like and don't like about this fic. Thanks to all those people who are following the story. A special thank-you to Starway Man for being my beta. Also thanks to Drake-Dragon 101 for being the first person to favorite this story.