TITLE: Slayer's Knight 4 AUTHOR: STEPHEN HOWE
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DISCLAIMER: All characters belong to Joss!
He created everything! Set in
season.6.Some spoilers but mostly AU. Xander has discovered his destiny only to
have it ripped away from him. Dawn is still here .Set just after the battle
with Glory, with a flashback at the beginning to events after Joyce's funeral. SUMMER'S RESIDENCE Dawn walks into
the lounge trying to brush the stain off her top with a dishcloth. "
Dinner will be ready..." She stops and stares at the couple making out on
the lounge. Her heart flutters as her teenage mind reels from what she sees.
The man she's had a crush on from day one is in the throes of passion with her
sister! The same one that basically ignored him from the first time she saw him
was now trying to choke him with her tongue while her hands attempted to get to
as much of his flesh as they could. Dawn coughed, and then coughed louder before shouting. " Hey!
Do you mind stopping that?" She waved her arms around. " Jeez! There's
an impressionable teenager here ya know! " She sees Buffy pull away from
Xander and Dawn folds her arms in front of her chest." How could you? You
knew I ... Had feelings for him!" She glares at Xander." And you!
Well I thought you at least had some taste!" She
storms off up the stairs shouting. " You're stupid dinners on the stupid
table.. And I hope you both choke on it!" She slams the door and they can
hear her stomping around her room. Buffy looks at
Xander." Maybe we should take it slow ... Only until she gets used to the
idea though! " She snuggles into his arms until she hears country and
Western music blaring from Dawn's room. She looks up then sighs. " I'll go
and talk to her." Xander grins until he sees the calendar and
the days date " Jeez I wish I could cope a break just for once!"
Xander stands up and goes to the telephone, dialing Giles's number. SPIKE'S LAIR. Spike
circles the Slayer and he checks her from every possible angle before asking
her. " Who do you love?" Buffy grins
and looks at him. " Why my Spiky bear of course!" She grabs him and
begins to kiss the unlife out of him. Spike has to use his vampire strength to
get her lips away from his. " Calm down woman!" He looks over to the
corner of his dank cave. " Listen sport I appreciate the effort and all
that but could you tone her down just a smidgen?" The professor walks up to his
creation and adjusts her passion controls from the servo in the base of her
skull. " There you go Mr. Spike. I hope you like her sir?" Spike
walks over to it and takes her in his arms kissing her passionately before
breaking the kiss. Buffy frowns as he pulls away from her and she whimpers when
she realizes that was all for now. " So doc ... She's ...ahh fully
functional? Can she fight like the slayer? Does she act like the Slayer?" The
'Doc' nods and motions for him to try her out. " But you'll have to get
someone else to fight her though. The programming she has won't let her damage
you.. Unless you want her to." Spike nods." Then I guess we go
hunting then ducks." He starts to walk out then stops. " Oh by the
way do you know anything about removing government surplus chips? You know.
" He knocks his knuckles on the doc's head. " The kind they place in
a bad boys head?" "You mean the behavioral modification
chip? No I've heard of some experiments with condemned prisoners but I have no
idea of the routine. " He looks at Spikes head and asks. " You have
such a chip implanted?" Spike nods. "
Could you take a whack at getting it out?" The doctor thinks for a
minute. " It would be a great challenge but what if I snip the wrong
connector?" Spike
shrugs." Then Buffy here would crush your skull wouldn't you pet?" Buffy giggles. " In a flash lover." Buffy and Spike go
off into the night in search of a crash test dummy and as they search they see
Willow and Tara trying to fight off a demon. Spike grins. " There you go
darlin' knock yourself out lovey." Buffy grins and charges the
demon and takes it down in no time. Willow runs up to her panting from her
efforts. " Thank the gods you came in time Buff!" She
frowns at her and shows her a broken nail. " Look! Look what it did to me.
It damaged me and now Spiky will think I'm weak. " Willow looks
confused." What? Anyway we may have found a way to stop Glory from opening
the doorway to her realm. It means Dawn won't have to be sacrificed." She
sees the confused look on her face. " Hello ... Earth to Buffy." " So Dawn's the key?"
Buffy nods. " That's right I forgot, that demon must have hit me harder
than I thought." She checks her watch. " Look I have to go so I'll
see you in the morning 'kay?" Willow nods as she watches Buffy run off into the
night. "Every year that girl gets weirder and weirder. " Tara stands
next to her. " So did Buffy say anything? " She sees the blank look
and tuts. " About her and Xander dummy." Willow slaps her head.
" That's why she acting so strange. Having Xand as a boyfriend 'll do that
to you." She hugs Tara. " Even more so now he's all like 'New and
improved' Xander." Tara rests her
head on Willows shoulder. " I bet their Alpo bill must be huge!" The
two witches go off laughing as Spike watches them with Buffybot and
grins." So it begins my love, so it begins." SUMMER'S RESIDENCE. Buffy
knocks on Dawn's door and enters before the teenager can say no. " Dawn I
know how you felt about Xander but he is twenty one and you're just 15. Could
you imagine what Mom would have said about all this? " She sits by her
side and the teenager turns away from her. " I know all about the age gap Buffy you don't have to keep
on about it! I get enough ridicule from the kids at school about that and the
friends I have. " She looks at Buffy. " The only people I know are a
stuffy, old, overbearing magic shop owner. A couple of lesbian witches and a
construction worker, oh and lets not forget the anemic looking guy that only
hangs around at night!" Buffy feigns a
frown. " You're right! We have to get you out more so you can include a
couple of drug dealers and a few hookers in the mix." She pulls Dawn so
she faces her. " Dawn, Xander loves you like a sister. He considered you
as part of the inner family even after he found out you weren't my sister. But
I don't think he ever saw you in a sexy teenage lover type way he's just not
into doing time." Dawn suddenly
smiles and Buffy becomes worried. " So if I like hang around till I'm 18
he would go for me?" She jumps up and hugs her then twirls around.
"Two years six months and eleven days... " She stops in front of
Buffy.".. Can you keep him warm for me till then?" Meanwhile Xander is talking to Giles. " Did you and Wills
manage to find out anything Giles?"
Giles sighs." We might have found something but I really need more people
and more time to figure it out. I... I've asked Angel and his people to get
here as soon as they can. They arrive tomorrow... You will be all right with
that wont you?" Xander
shakes his head." Yeah cool whatever...I think I may have found out more
about my soldier side. My memories go back further than 'Nam." Giles
asks him." How far back do they go? Korea? WW11?" "Ugh.... my earliest, and now strongest,
memories go back to being a... Ugh Viking. And the knowledge is all mixing up
inside my head G-Man." " Will you be all right?" Giles
asks. " Yeah but I keep getting flashes of
my last memory being on a long boat and lying in the middle of it surrounded by
treasure as the boat slowly burns down around me." Giles
coughs then tells him. " Well I can look into this as soon as Wesley comes
in with Angel and the others. I'll get them started on Glory then look into
your problem okay?" "
Yeah-fine Giles just don't let anyone know about tomorrow! You know how freaked
out they got when Buffy was supposed to die that first year." After a dinner fraught with hidden verbal mines Buffy and Xander
decide to patrol to give Dawn time to get used to the idea of Xander and Buffy
as a couple. They come upon another group of Vampires and , as the group splits
up , they separate to give chase. When he finishes his party of five off Xander
returns to find Buffy laying on the ground he turns her over and finds a pulse
then lifts her up." Jeez Buff you have REALLY consider cutting down on
those pancakes honey!" Ten
minutes after he leaves to carry Buffy home another Buffy enters the clearing
and checks her watch. " It shouldn't have taken him this long. " She
begins to worry and starts off in search of him. Xander
kicks at the front door and Giles opens it as Xander races Buffy into the
house. " I don't know what happened Giles! We got separated and when I
returned I found her like this!" He gently places her onto the lounge and
stands back as Giles checks her out. He paces up and down like a caged beast
before he growls. " That's
it! I'm going out there to find out what did this to her and make them wish
they'd never been created." He
gets as far as the front door when he hears Buffy cough and begin to stir."
Thank God, Buffy! Are you all right?" She sits up and winces. " Just
peachy Xand. What the hell happened?" He
kneels by her side as Dawn enters the room. " Oh my God Buffy what
happened?" Dawn now ran over to her sister and hugged her. Buffy made
calming noises to her little sister and looked to the others. " Could we
be alone for a while? It's a sister thing." Giles and Xander nodded and
began to leave the room. However as Xander neared the door he began to relax
and that was when the smell hit his sensitive nose. " Wait a minute...." Just
then Willow and Tara met Buffy as she entered her street. Willow says hi then
asks her. " Didn't you have blood on that top? " Buffy looks at her
like she was mad. " No Wills why would I have blood on it?" Willow
begins to get worried and she backs herself and Tara away from her. "
Ugh... Because you ripped the head off a demon that was attacking us not half
an hour ago." Buffy shakes her head. " Will, seriously, as I friend I
have to tell you to stop smoking that stuff you two make I tell Ya you'll go
blind one day." Tara tells her. " But it's true! We
were coming by to tell you that we may have found a spell that will suck Glory
back into her own dimension without leaving the door open for hell to be
unleashed on earth when you saved us." Buffy
thinks long and hard then she sneers. " Why do I have this idea Spike and
a certain Professor of robotics have something to do with it?" Willow
says. " Why would you think that?" Buffy
points to her house and the sight of Spike, looking into a window, clapping his
hands and jumping for joy. Xander
stalks back into the room and sees Buffy with her hand over Dawn's mouth trying
to force her to the front door. " Going for a walk Buff? Or should I say
Spike?" The
robot grips Dawn by the throat and warns them. " One move towards me and the kid does a
Linda Blair impression!" Xander backs of and sees Spike standing
opposite the front window. Xander shrugs. " You want the little whiner
take her! Maybe then Buffy and I can get some quality time! You know
like..." Xander
took a running jump through the window and landed on Spike. After a very brief
struggle Xander holds Spike off the ground by the scruff of his neck. " Tell your little toy to put the girl
down or the last thing you see will be your feet as the rest of you turns to
dust!" To make his point Xander squeezed Spike's
neck till they could hear the cartilages pop in his neck. Spike squeaked. " Put the princess down Lovey." He sees
Buffybot twist her head in confusion. "
Come on pet the gigs up now, let her down gently and maybe we can leave with
some dignity." Xander applied more
pressure and Buffybot screamed at him throwing Dawn on top of him then joining
her. She began to pummel Xander as Spike crawled out from the fight and sat by
the trunk of the tree. "That's right
Buffy you keep dog boy busy while I get..." He sees a pair of scuffed
runners and he follows the legs up to see. ".. Buffy! Boy am I glad to see
you! It looks like lover boy is having a spat with your twin over there! Why
don't you jerk!!!...." Buffy pulls him up
till he's level with her face. " Okay spill! Just what stupid
plan have you come up with now?" Before he can answer Willow shouts out to
her." Buffy look!" Buffy
turns to see Xander trying to stop Buffybot from hitting Dawn by blocking the
punches with his body. She beats Spike within an inch of his unlife then throws
him to the ground. " When I've finished with the Stepford
Slayer you had better not be in Sunnydale! Understand?" Spike nods then
struggles to get up as the three Scooby's race over to help Xander. Spike
tells Buffy's back as she runs to finish off his creation. " As soon as the prof has this damned
chip out Slayer you and me are going to partay! As you damn Yanks
say." END OF 4