Chapter 16: Choices



If Xander was superman, he just met his kryponite as he hit the tree, falling to the ground unconscious.

Seeing Xander fall to the ground like a rag doll seemed to kick Buffy into gear as she got to her feet, ignoring the pain coming from her shoulder, and came towards the demon with an assortment of kicks and punches that sent the demon to his knees. However, that still didn't stop her. The only time she stops is to take out a stake from her pocket as she sees the demon's third eye start to glow.

The demon, who is now on his back, looks up and sees what looks like a force of nature. Then in a matter of seconds he feels his head feel like it's about to explode.

Buffy moves back a few steps as she watches the demon grab at his eye on his forehead where she stuck the stack, then he vanished as if time itself devoured him up.

After she watched the demon disappear Buffy stared at the ground for a few moments, then looking up, she ran to Xander.

"Xander! Xander!" she shouted as she turned him onto his back.

She went to check for a pulse, when suddenly she felt his hand move slightly as he slowly came back into consciousness.

"I'm fine dad--j-just next time don't drop me." Xander said as he looked up at Buffy with a glassy look to his eyes.

Xander's comment made Buffy smile as she waited for him to slowly come back to reality.

Xander looked up at Buffy like he saw her for the first time, "Buff, where--wha..." He was cut off by Buffy's finger to his lips.

"Shhh...you need to wait till you're over your flying lessons until you try to form a sentence." Buffy said as a smile came to her face.

All of the sudden Xander seemed to remember everything that happened, the demon throwing Buffy into the street, him stabbing the demon with a stake, to no avail, and the most painful memory, the demon playing catch with the tree...with him being the ball.

After all this sunk in his looked behind him and then at Buffy, "Where's the demon?"

"He's....dead."

Xander started smiling, "That'll teach him to mess with the girl from..." He then realised what she said as he stopped smiling and looked at Buffy intently.

"But if he's dead how do you get ho...." He stopped once again, not wanting to say the obvious, but it didn't matter because Buffy finished for him.

"I don't." she said in a manner that broke Xander's heart.
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