X Of Py
Disclaimer: Gotta love the concept of anything can happen on Xander's Road Trip.
Summary: In the aftermath of being trapped in Pylea for two years, Xander Harris finds himself lost.
"How you holding up?" Asked one Cordelia Chase to her ex boyfriend, Xander Harris.
Whom like her and one Winifred 'Fred' Burkle, had found himself in the Dimension known as Pylea and had been trapped there for two years after a portal had opened up and swallowed him up around the start of his road trip. His experiences there had cost him an eye thanks to one of the wild beasts there and had joined in on the guerilla tactics of warfare against the Demons who saw his kind as nothing more than food and Cattle in order to survive. Heaving out a heavy sigh, the one eyed man whom had yet to shave turned his attention to the woman who for a short time, had become Royalty on Pylea. "I'm not sure I'm holdin' up at all, Cordy. I thought when I finally got back that I'd be able to come home and everything would be the same again, more or less. But… Its not."
Cordy flashed him a sympathetic smile as he let out another heavy sigh. Finding out Buffy had died against the latest Big Bad to hit Sunnydale right after returning to the Hyperion Hotel hadn't been the easiest of things for him or the others of Angel's crew. His parents, or at least his mother, as his dad had been killed while he'd been gone, had written him off as dead and had wanted nothing to do with Xander. Declaring she had finally felt free of the Harris Clan and refused to even entertain the thought of welcoming her own son back into his life. Willow was now Gay and with a lovely girl by the name of Tara Maclay, Mrs. Summers had died from Health complications, Giles himself was now paralyzed from the waist down, and Oz was nowhere to be found. Sunnydale itself was a Warzone and was unlikely to ever go back to normal thanks to the Government's creation known as Adam. Who later had gone to war against Glory when she showed up looking for some Key that could take her back to her home Dimension. Said Key now being in Human form and in the form of Buffy's Sister, Dawn.
Unfortunately, due to Xander's time in Pylea, he had no memories of Dawn and that had left things very uncomfortable between himself and the girl. Dawn herself was also now something of a ward of Angel's until Hank Summers could be reached since Giles was no in condition to be watching over her and Willow and Tara had a number of things going on themselves that saw to it that they couldn't fully watch over her. And by all accounts, by the time the war between Adam and Glory had ended, Buffy had become rather jaded and was ready to die and had done so while managing to take those two out with the help of her Commando Boyfriend, Riley Finn. The whole town was now considered a disaster zone and residents had been forced to leave the town while the Government and the Watchers Council kept teams in place to ensure no Demon or Vampire could take advantage of the situation to try and end the world. "Guess sometimes you really can't go back home after all."
"No, but you have a place to stay here at the Hyperion for as long as you need it, Xander." And if she had too, she'd let him stay at her place if Angel decided to try and argue against his staying at the Hotel.
"Thanks, Cordy." He told her in a soft, but grateful tone of voice.
Patting him on the shoulder with another sympathetic smile in his direction, Cordy walked away to give her old flame some alone time and hoped like Hell he could make it through all this. As even though he had broken her heart once, the Hell he's in now wasn't something she wished on him at all.
Author's Notes: Pleasant times indeed.