Beer Bad
By: chosenfire
Spoilers: BtVS post season 7, Supernatural season 1
Pairing(s): Buffy/Dean, Sam/Dawn, Xander/Faith, possibly Willow/Oz (let me know)
Disclaimer: Okay I rock at the vague disclaimers so I DO NOT OWN, that's all I'm going to admit to.
Summary: Dean Winchester finds himself married to a blond Vampire Slayer in Vegas and the two must make a decision while trying to hide their nighttime activities, not to mention the fact that Dean's little brother is Buffy's best friend.
AN: This is a long time coming, a really really long time but finally its here. Thank you to everyone who has supported this story, I love you guys and I hope you continue to get lost in this fic. I was amazed to hear that this was a story that got a lot of people into the Buffy/Dean pairing and I just want to say Thank You. Okay this chapter will be leading it up to the great reveal and there are a lot of things going on it. I focus heavily on the couples, Sam/Dawn, Faith/Xander, Buffy/Dean, and even Willow/Oz whose secret is revealed. They all have a tender moment and there are some explanations and jokes. Love it, hate it (but please don't) let me know and I promise to get the next chapter out a lot sooner.
AN2: Chapter title referring to the fact that this will be the last calm chapter before the plot starts moving forward and a whole bunch of twists are thrown in. So enjoy because there from now on I plan to go for more angst, fluff, and twists.
POLL – One of the couples gets trapped together, vote out of Dean/Buffy, Dawn/Sam, Faith/Xander, or hell you can even vote for them all.
Chapter 8 Some Down Time
The tension hung heavily around the table as the occupants drifted into silence. Three pairs of hostile female eyes glared at Dean and he just sat stiffly returning dirty look for dirty look.
He stood up quickly when he saw Buffy making her way back to them. Ignoring Xander who stood beside her Dean grabbed Buffy's arm gently leaning n to tell her "We need to talk?"
Buffy sighed looking over at her friend's stoic faces then back at Dean and nodded.
Xander watched Dean lead Buffy away his eyes boring a hole into his brother's back the hurt in them palpable. So this was it was going to be, he was just going to ignore him. He had done at before why shouldn't this be any different. He felt Faith's hand slip into his and he turned to her.
Willow's cellphone went off breaking the awkward silence that had been left and she smiled sadly when she read the caller ID and gave Xander a quick smile before standing up to find a place a bit more private to take this call.
"It's Oz." She explained to Dawn before she left and she nodded in understanding knowing something big had been going on with Oz and Willow lately.
The youngest Summers watched her walk away and then looked over to Xander and Faith who were completely absorbed in each other.
Looks like they had stop deluding themselves with the thought that people didn't know they were together.
She turned to Sam whose eyes were glued in the direction that Dean had disappeared.
It was just like him to leave him surrounded by angry females and Xander, who at any moment would realize that while Sam hadn't completely abandoned him he had never stuck around for long. Sometimes Dean could be really cruel.
Dawn studied Sam's profile and there was no denying the man was a hottie. She caught a quick wink from Faith and impulsively grabbed Sam's hand pulling him up with her as she stood. She plastered on a big smile "Lets go for a walk," Dawn suggested breathlessly her nerves going crazy at the contact.
Oh yeah, a definite hottie.
He looked over at Xander clearly concerned and his older brother hid a snort as he saw the Dawnster doing some maneuvering "Go ahead, I'll be fine." Dawn could be tenacious as a bulldog when she saw something she wanted and clearly she wanted Sam.
While the thought of Dawn, who was like a little sister to him, flirting with his younger brother made him uneasy Xander wouldn't stop her. As she had told them time and time again she was old enough to maker her own decisions.
Dawn told Sam gaining some confidence "Don't worry," she gave him an impish grin "Faith will take care of him besides they need some alone time." When it looked like he was about to argue she slipped in "And Buffy and Dean went to talk so it might be awhile, do you really want to hang around her till they get back.?"
Sam looked down into her teasing blue eyes and his gut clenched and he shook his head thinking he would probably regret this later "Okay, what do you have in mind?"
She grinned up at him flirtatiously her blue eyes twinkling with mischief "So tell me Sam Winchester, can you dance?"
"So how are you?" Willow asked Oz nervously pacing back and forth in the deserted banquet hall she had slipped into.
Last week Oz had dropped a bomb on her and she hadn't heard from him since.
"I'm good." He said softly and she closed her eyes against the feeling his voice arise in her. It took her back to a time when the world only ended in May and things made sense. Now, things were a lot more complicated. She hated having to be a grown up.
"I want to know if you're okay?" his concern from her came across clearly.
A bitter smile tugged at her lips "Honestly I don't know." She sighed dragging a hand through her hair her voice breaking "Oz how am I suppose to deal with this?" there was a note of desperation to her voice. She needed answers, she needed to know what he expected her to do about it.
"I don't know." He told her softly emotion finally slipping into his voice as he admitted to his own fears "I never thought we would have to deal with this." There was a slight hesitation to his voice as he suggested "Maybe we should spend some time together, try to work things out in person."
Willow took a deep breath and exhaled saying shakily "We could do that, it would be good. Just talking, we've talked before." It seemed that everytime she was around him she became seventeen again. She had hated being seventeen. She rubbed her temple where a headache was just starting to form "I guess we'll talk later."
"Definitely." There was a long pause before he told her tenderly "You know I'll never stop loving you." His voice brought her back to those long summer nights when she would lay curled up in his arms as he whispered his love for her in her ear.
A solitary tear slipped down her cheek for what they had lost "I know," she whispered softly "Bye." She hung up knowing she couldn't talk to him any longer. It hurt too much and sometimes she needed to get away for awhile.
She pressed the heel of her hand to her mouth to stifle the sobs that where trying to break out. Oz had told her something he had learned since they had last been together. Something that had stunned her completely.
During that summer they had been closer than ever in every way possible and unaware he was doing it, unaware of anything to do with the part of him that was the wolf Oz had claimed her as his mate and werewolves apparently mated for life.
Daniel Osbourne, who had once fervently wished to be free of the curse that turned him into a ferocious beast three days out of the month had learned to embrace the wolf fully as a part of you he was and had found himself pushed into the role of an alpha male in werewolf society.
Something to do with being influenced by the Hellmouth for his first change and spending his fledging years there constantly exposed to whatever mystical forces the Hellmouth attracted.
He was stronger, faster, and had more control than most werewolves twice his age.
As an alpha male he was expected to mate and he had been told he had already unconsciously chosen a mate in Willow. They were bonded together and they would both have to deal with the repercussions that entailed.
"Sit I hate this." Xander groaned pacing back and forth across he soft blue carpet of the hotel room he was sharing with Faith.
Of all the things life could do to bite him in the ass throwing his past in his face when things were first starting to look up tore out a chunk.
Seeing Sam and Dean had been too much too soon. He had felt betrayed by them and nothing was going to change that. Dean most of all though, because Dean had been the one to tell him since he could remember that he would always be there for him and he would always protect them.
Instead Dean had followed John's example and had slowly cut Xander out of his life starting with the day he had been left with his mom and Tony.
What Xander feared most though was that he wouldn't remain angry. That he would regress into the scared boy that just wanted his father and brothers and if he had them then everything would be fine.
His shoulders were tensed as the days events took its toll.
Faith came up behind him wrapping her arms around his waist "Relax babe." She purred into his ear her hands sliding up under his shirt and over his sculpted abs, he mouth pressed against his neck as her tongue slid against his skin.
It had been her idea in the first place to keep their budding relationship a secret. She didn't do well in relationships and felt it would just be worse if everyone was always watching them waiting for one of them to trip.
Xander's eyes closed as his breathing got ragged "It's impossible to relax when you're doing that." He muttered and she laughed her voice husky in his ear.
He turned in her arms taking possession of her mouth as they both warred for dominance and his hands gripped the bare skin that her too short top exposed. He pushed her back to the bed and the back of her knees hit the corner as she sank down to the soft mattress wrapping her arms around his neck and dragging him down with her refusing to lose his mouth.
Finally she pulled her mouth away from his dragging off his T-shirt as her lips locked unto his bare skin and her tongue licking its way up his chest.
He groaned when her hands went to his belt and he cupped her head as she continued to kiss him.
A loud shrill broke the haze of lust that surrounded them and Faith cursed pulling away her eyes blazing anger as she was interrupted. She was horny dammit.
Xander flopped down on the bed beside her pouting his eyes closed as he tried to cool down his teeth clenched as every nerve in his body screamed for a quick release.
Faith dug her cellphone out of her pocket and flipped it open. "Yeah." She growled frustrated aher body tightly coiled.
Buffy let Dean lead her into a deserted corner of the dining room tampering down any anger she might feel at being manhandled. The anger was there, she was just suppressing it.
He let go of her arm and started to pace back and forth agitation coming off him in waves.
She just leaned against the wall and waited.
He turned and glared at her "I've decided that this is still your fault." He nodded liking his train of thought "Yup"
She stared at him stunned "Hey you were drunk too so don't go putting this all off on me."
"Yeah well," he searched "You're the ones who is bestest buds with my bitch of a brother so all this is your fault."
She rolled her eyes and pushed herself off the wall "I'm not doing this again."
He stood in front of her stopping her escape "Stay," he gritted out "I'm an asshole okay, this is just too damn much of a coincidence." He buried his hands in his pockets his shoulders falling in defeat, he always screwed these things up. Why couldn't he just spend the rest of his life shooting things, he was really good at that.
She shook her head and laughed bitterly "Someone up there must really not want us to do this cause things keep getting in the way." Why in the hell were they even trying to make this marriage work, it was obvious it wasn't meant to be because if something this hard couldn't be right.
"Then lets not." Dean said forcibly and Buffy looked up at him stunned.
He continued "Let's not all this crap get in the way, I like you, you like me. We're both exceptionally hot so why not give this a go." He snorted "That little sister of your is a brat but she was right about this."
"Dean," Buffy said exasperated "We can't just decided this is gonna work and it works." She paused looking up at him questionably "Can we?"
He smirked "Why not?"
She shook her head a smile touching her lips laughter in her voice "This is crazy," she looked at him "you're crazy." She let out a laugh "We both are."
"So?" he held out his hand a question in his eyes "We gonna do this or not cause I really would love to see Alexander's face when we start making out in front of him."
Buffy snorted "You're evil." Her hand slipped into his as she made a decision to jump for once in her life without knowing where she was going to land.
Dawn pulled him onto the dance floor the music pulsing around them as they began to sway together to the beat their bodies pressing against each other.
"You've done this before." Dawn grinned her hands slipping up his chest to go around his neck as it changed to a slow song.
Sweat bedded his forehead as his hands slipped around her waist pulling her closer to him. "What can I say," Sam smiled "I am a man of many talents."
"So," she looked up at him her blue eyes going from playful to serious "You're really Xander's brother." She stared at him critically her gaze assessing. When he nodded she laughed "That's just weird, Xander used to baby sit me," her eyes went wide "and that's not something I want you to know."
Sam grinned her mirth infectious "Probably not." He held her closer feeling more comfortable with her in his arms. "So can I ask you something?" he twirled her around.
She giggled "Shoot."
"Why do you want Dean and Buffy's marriage to work?" he asked her confused "You already have established you don't like him."
"First of all," Dawn defended "I never said I didn't like him, he just bugs me and why wouldn't I want they're marriage to work." She looked down embarrassed "It would be nice to see Buffy happy for once, and I think maybe Dean could make her happy."
"Yeah." Sam agreed knowing that if things were different Dean and Buffy would make a great couple, hell Buffy might have even been able to make his brother open up but what they did, it didn't fit in with happily ever after. Rarely was there a happy ending and must often things ended in blood, fire , and death.
Sam felt the need to defend his older brother 'Dean isn't such a bad guy, he just doesn't connect with people easily and the shit with Xander, Dean was there, Xander just didn't know it."
"What do you mean?" Dawn asked confused.
Sam explained "Dean checked in on Xander after Sunnydale, a couple of months ago he got wasted and told me he said saw me and Xander together in that bar. Apparently he had been following us around all night and once he was sure we were okay he took off."
Dawn was stunned "Why didn't he say anything?" they had been throwing insults at him and he hadn't even bothered to defend himself. Didn't he know that if Xander had known that then things wouldn't have been so bad.
Sam shrugged as the next song was another slow one "Because he's an idiot."
Dawn snorted agreeing and leaned her head on Sam's shoulder letting her eyes drift closed as he held her closely. She moaned into his chest when her cellphone went off the ring tone of Welcome to Jungle telling her it was Faith.
She really wished she could ignore it but the last time she had the world had almost literally ended. She pulled it out of her back pocket flipping it open "Hello."
"We have a lead Little D, B wants you back at the hotel in an hour." Faith sounded pissed and Dawn couldn't blame her, from the way the Slayer had been looking at Xander she had obviously been interrupted in the middle of something and whatever they were hunting was going to end up paying for that.
Dawn wasn't in the best of moods either.
Sam was an exceptionally good dancer.
