Disclaimer: Same as previous chapters
Chapter 12
Xander watched the senior partners tear into the so called angels with grim amusement, he was getting tired of these guys fucking with his life and his new friend's lives, not to mention his old friend's lives, he wanted to find a way to find freedom for all of them.
The Senior Partners were enjoying this, they had a chance to break free of the cycles of creation and destruction, it was wonderful and Xander was part of the catalyst that would break the dominion of the Powers forever.
The Cullen's watched the destruction of the angels and looked at Xander, Jasper could sense his pleasure at the angel's destruction and he couldn't help but feel like enjoying it too. These creatures when he attempted to read their emotions knew they would've killed them without a doubt in their mind that Xander and the rest of his family were vermin.
The Wolf howled with joy as he blasted at one of the Angels and remarked how these bastards must not have had real fight with beings as powerful as they were dying far too easily, he looked at the head angel and said, "This is the wages of only threatening mortals who quaked in fear at you and not against the truly powerful beings who won't take this kind of shit anymore."
The head angel looked as the three demons finished off the last of his team-mates was torn apart; he looked in horror as they came towards himm the Wolf smiling darkly and the others following him.
"Well," the Ram said, "it looks like it's only you left; we aren't going to kill you. We want you take this message back to your worthless bosses: Forks is off limits to you until a time as we let you back in, don't expect it for at least 50 years," and the Ram laughed.
The angel nodded and looked at Xander and said, "You've cut yourself from your friends in Sunnydale permanently by joining with these dark things," it looked at the Cullen's, James and the Senior Partners, who had smug grins on their faces.
Xander looked and said, "I think it's their choice if they decide to cut me out of their lives, isn't it?"
The angel glared angrily and knew his friends would have no choice in the matter, they were still bound to their parts but they would need to find a new white knight to fill the part of Xander Harris. As he flew into the air he looked back at Forks and saw the town disappear from his sights, he knew now that no agent of the PTBS would ever find it again but perhaps indirect agents would.
James walked over to Xander and sniffed the air around him, he still smelled so good. He went to touch Xander when Edward grabbed his hand and said, "Mine, not yours, mine."
"Uhh," Xander said, "No one's yet, don't really like being considered property."
Edward looked chagrined and said, "Sorry Xander, it's hard for me if others consider you hot."
"It's alright," Xander said, "I mean it's been a really crappy day."
The Hart smiled and said, "Now Xander Swan we have to make our plans, you and your friends shall not worry about the Powers direct attacks anymore."
"What about indirect attacks?" Xander asked getting worried.
"Don't worry," the Wolf said, "you're free, now they can't affect you ever again."
Xander smiled, his heart soared, he was free and he wanted to shout it from the top of the mountains. He looked at Edward and James, who both stared at him with looks of longing; he gulped and briefly wondered if he could take the Powers offer again to avoid this new nightmare.
James was trying to get close to Xander while Edward was blocking his every move; James whispered to Edward so quietly that only they could hear it, 'Xander needs a strong mate not a child like you.'
Xander sighed and the Wolf came up to him and said towards both of them, "Enough both of you, this is neither the time nor the place to argue over who gets to claim Xander. He's had enough problems today without being fought over who his true mate is."
The Ram smiled gently and said, "It is possible that you're both his soul mates. It is extremely rare but it has happened before, we do manage to keep tabs on your particular breed of vampires."
Esme nodded and smiled and said, "He's right Edward it has happened before," and then looked at James and added, "You're alone now, what will you do?"
"Stay here near Xander," James said and walked towards Xander, relishing the wonderful scent he was releasing. He vaguely wondered how strong the scent would be during the actual mating.
Carlisle frowned, he couldn't have a wild vampire free especially one who seemed to feed on human blood, he walked towards James and said, "If you want you can join our coven but there are rules you have to follow."
James was broken from his image and said, "What kind of rules?"
"As you can tell we don't feed on human blood," Carlisle said, "you would be under the same restriction."
'Well,' James thought, 'it might make Xander accept me as a mate if I don't feed on humans, it would be a sacrifice but if my rival could do it then I could definitely do it,' he looked at Carlisle and said, "You got a deal."
Carlisle looked puzzled and said, "You do know it's going to be hard, you've lived on human for so long."
"Yeah," James said, "but I'm sure I can adjust to animal blood easily enough."
Jasper looked at him and said, "It's not going to be that easy, animal blood lacks the flavour of human blood. It will fill you but not satisfy you."
James looked at Jasper and said, "If it helps Xander accept me, I'll do anything."
Xander was doing his best to ignore the conversation about blood drinking and looked at the senior partners, he asked, "So, what happens now?"
"You live your life in peace and happiness, it shall be the greatest revenge against the Powers," the Hart said happily.
"Or," the Wolf said, "you could help others escape the Powers manipulations, both are good actually."
"Before I make any decisions I want to finish school," Xander said, "I didn't escape the Powers only to work for you guys."
The Ram smiled and said, "I insist on you finishing school first and remember; we stand ready to aid in any matter that might come up," as he looked pointedly at James and the looks Edward was shooting towards James, things were going to get really interesting for Xander and quickly it seemed
"So," James said, "what is going on here? Why were those angels after Xander?"
"They weren't angels, they are poor reflections of true angels created by the Powers to reinforce their so called connections to the light and Heaven, of which there are no connections with Heaven, the Wolf said, "the heavenly realms will have nothing to do with the Powers."
The Ram looked at James and explained everything that had happened to Xander, from his abduction as a child to his aid of the slayer in the town of Sunnydale and how his uncle rescued him and sent him towards Forks and his father and how the Powers were playing with people's lives like it was a great big game and how Xander had been manipulated to being a obedient slave, which caused both Edward and James to growl possessively.
Alice looked and began to laugh, they sounded so alike when they growled, 'It was so damned funny,' she thought inwardly and she could tell that her brothers and sister were sharing her incredible amusement.
Xander sighed and looked at Edward and said, "I guess dinner's off for tonight?"
"No way," Edward said, "I still want to take you out for dinner and that should help calm you down after the events," as they walked towards another car James stopped them.
"He's not going anywhere without me," James snarled at Edward.
'Wow!!!' Xander thought, 'So two vampires consider me their mate? What the hell, did life decide that my love life was sucky enough and decided to reward me?' as the three of them walked to the car.
The Senior Partners looked at Carlisle and handed him a card, the Wolf said, "If you need our help just call and we shall come or our agents shall come to aid."
"Thank you sirs," Carlisle said, just wondering what his family had gotten involved with but he resigned himself to just going along for the ride, he had never seen Edward happier and that was worth it, he thought, 'I don't see our lives being boring again,' as he watched the Senior Partners leave.
Meanwhile, Joyce had finally arrived at Forks and had decided to stay in a hotel for the night before looking for Xander, she smiled, the town felt nice and quaint even with all this damned rain here and somewhere her surrogate son was living, hopefully, happily. She would try the school first and then maybe she could find out more about this Charlie Swan, she wanted to be sure that he would be happy up here, she was going to the local restaurant.
At the restaurant, James and Edward where watching Xander eat, they couldn't eat but watching Xander eat was fascinating, Edward whispered, "Eat as much as you want."
Xander looked up and saw them both stare at him intently, he sighed inwardly and knew his life was going to be complicated especially with these two vying for his attention, he was lost in thought when he heard, "Xander Harris is that you?" He looked behind him and saw Joyce looking at him.
Joyce ran up and hugged Xander tightly, she looked at the two boys who were staring at Xander intently suddenly snapped their heads up so fast that she was sure she would've heard bone snap, Edward looked at her and said, "Who're you?" and moved to hold Xander behind him.
"Jeesh guys, you overprotective much?" Xander groaned, "She's Buffy's mom," then he looked at Joyce and asked, "What're you doing here Joyce?"
"I came to see if you're being treated well by your father," Joyce said as she sat down, Edward still didn't trust her and sat near her, just staring while James looked her over.
"Thanks Joyce," Xander said softly.
"You can tell your friends that I don't bite," Joyce said laughing inwardly on how cute Xander looked with these two men acting like mother cougars protecting their cub.
"So," Xander said, "how're the girls?" as he went to eat his dinner.
"Oh, they're fine," Joyce said, "they just miss you, especially Willow, she hasn't stopped crying since you disappeared."
Xander sighed, his guilt showing; he didn't want to hurt his friends by leaving. Edward felt the feeling rising from Xander and moved to try to comfort him; he was quickly followed by James. Joyce watched, a bit amused by the fact that Xander had two men who seemed to adore him, he certainly deserved it.
Xander looked at her and asked, "So Joyce, you wanna meet dad?"
She smiled and said, "You know I do Xander," as she began to eat the salad she had ordered.
"Cool, I'll head home then and let him know that you're going to show up tomorrow," Xander said as he got ready to leave.
"Oh I want to meet him tonight, if that's alright Xander?" Joyce said as she gestured towards a waiter to wrap her salad up.
"Well let's get going," Xander said as he was about to go with her to show her the way to his home when Edward and James grabbed him.
"She can follow us," Edward said as he tried to shoo James's hand away from Xander's arm.
As they got to the car Edward looked at James and said, "I can take care of him, you head home, I'm sure Carlisle has things to talk to you about."
"Nah, I'm fine, we can go home together and there's no way I am leaving him alone with you," James said shaking his head.
Joyce just started to chuckle, 'Poor Xander,' she thought, 'he was being fought over by two extremely good looking men, at my age I would've been over the moon to have two handsome men like that, but it must be a bit much for Xander.'
As she followed them through the small town she found it to be a charming little town, she always wondered why she had settled on Sunnydale, sure it had a nice job but the town seemed to be bad for Buffy.
After a few minutes of driving they reached Xander's home, Edward knew Xander was still a bit unsure about their relationship and was about to tell him that he wouldn't rush him when he heard James move in the back and pull Xander back in the seat with him and kiss him deeply.
Xander yelped when he felt James pull him into the back seat and kiss him deeply, Xander shrugged and gave into the kiss feeling James's tongue trying to work its way into his mouth, he tried to look at Edward who, when James let Xander go, pulled him in the front seat and kissed him deeply, pleased when he noticed James's face narrow a bit in anger and lust.
"Guys I gotta leave," Xander said softly, "gotta leave so Joyce can meet dad."
Both vampires groaned in disappointment as Xander left, James hopped into the front sea and he looked at Edward and grinned and said, "I had to taste his lips and I gotta say that he's the best smelling human I've met, how do you stand not drinking his blood?"
Edward grumbled out and said, "Still not going to share him with you."
"Oh please," James said, "I smelt your arousal when you saw me kissing him."
'Damn him!!' Edward thought as they drove off, 'he was right,' and tried his best to ignore the looks coming from the other vampire as they drove through the rainforest.
James grinned to himself, he was just plain evil and he knew it, he was giving up human blood to feed on animal blood but, as he remembered how Xander's lips tasted, he knew then that Xander was definitely worth it.
"So," Edward said, "I thought the woman was your mate?"
"Woman?" James said, "Oh, Victoria." He shuddered, they had been together once and he hated it; she was needy and obsessed with him, he looked at Edward and said, "Do me a favour and don't mention her again and stick around Xander, that bitch Victoria would kill Xander to try to get me back."
Edward's eyes narrowed and said, "Let her try to hurt my mate," he looked at the look on James's face and knew they had that in common; they would do anything to protect Xander and wondered briefly; what else would they would have in common?
Back at Charlie's place, Joyce was watching Xander walk around in a daze, a goofy grin on his face. She asked, "Xander, you alright?"
"Yeah," Xander said, trying to clear his head of the thoughts he was thinking of as they walked towards the door.
Charlie heard the door open up and saw Xander come in, followed by an attractive older woman, he smiled at Xander and looked the woman and said, "Hi, my name's Charlie Swan."
"Dad this is Joyce, she's Buffy's mom. She came to make sure that you're treating me alright."
"Well," Joyce smiled, "Xander didn't say his dad was so handsome."
Charlie laughed and they began to talk and he found himself liking the woman, she seemed strong willed seemed, Xander had good taste in making friends.
Meanwhile, the PTBs had learned about what Joyce had done and they had an idea on how to turn the Scoobies against Xander, they looked at Whistler and whispered something in his ear, the balance demon's face broke into a grin of utter malevolence that was good, so very good. He teleported into Sunnydale, into the library where Buffy and her friends were talking about something.
"Hey girlie," Whistler said, "I've got some bad news for you," Buffy turned around and regarded him suspiciously.
"Who are you?" Buffy demanded to know angrily.
Angel snarled and said, "I know who he is, he's a neutral demon who works for the PTBs."
"Name's Whistler and my news is about your mother and Xander: he went dark because you rejected his love last year."
Giles shook his head and said, "I don't believe Xander would be that vindictive."
Whistler shook his head and laughed inwardly, 'This was going to be fun,' as he used his abilities to show a very different image of what happened at the baseball game to entrance them. They heard Xander's scream out, "Wolfram and Hart, I'm ready to make the deal!!"
Buffy saw her mother being led towards an altar and placed on it, she heard the Senior Partners say, "Are you prepared to make the sacrifice?"
Xander nodded grimly and grabbed a dagger and plunged it into Joyce's chest, her blood sprayed upwards and splashed his face. Buffy was about to vomit when she saw a long haired man with red eyes lick the blood of Xander's face and then a copper haired boy started to assist the man with cleaning the blood off Xander.
Buffy vomited, her eyes were filled with tears and her scream of rage and pain resounded throughout Sunnydale.
Whistler grinned inwardly and hid his glee behind a mask of sympathy and looked at the others, who had gone pale, and said, "Unfortunately we can't seek revenge for you."
Buffy looked at Giles with rage in her eyes and said, "If Xander shows his greasy little face in town again I'm going to KILL him."
Giles decided that he would have to get the Watcher's council to send one of their cleanup teams after Xander.
Whistler walked out after offering his sympathies and looked up and felt the Powers happiness and knew that they would be taking care of Joyce soon enough to make the story stick.
TBC
A/N don't worry Joyce isn't going to die she'll be saved by the Cullen's and James thanks to Xander will start to change his ways thanks to the Cullen's influences particularly Edward and Xander will help in his changes
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