"The Many Loves of Xander Harris."
Disclaimer: I still own nothing.
Category: B/X, F/X, C/X, G/J, W/O, A/B, and mild A/C
Author's Note: I promise that this chapter will be better than the last.
Xander broke his hand away from Benji and looked at the demon as if he had slapped him.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" demanded Benji.
"I could ask you the same question," Xander spat at him.
Benji slumped against a nearby crate. "You can't kill Spike," he said.
Xander grabbed his fallen stake and pulled himself to his feet. "It sure seems to me that I can kill the little bastard."
Benji knew it was useless trying to get to Xander by telling him the truth, so he tried a different approach.
"He doesn't have Giles."
Xander arched an eyebrow. "So?"
Benji sat on the crate. "So you don't have to stake him."
Xander laughed. "You're funny, Benji. But with or without Giles being held captive, I'm going to stake him."
"Listen, kid. Spike's not the vampire you really want to stake, now is he?"
Xander glanced at Spike's inert form. He had to admit to himself that he didn't really want to stake him. What he really wanted more than anything was to stake that son of a bitch Angelus.
Benji glanced from Xander to Spike and back. "Well?"
Xander sighed. "Fine."
He looked down at the motionless Spike. "It looks like you got yourself a reprieve. For now. But don't ever come back. Otherwise you'll have to deal with the White Knight."
Xander then marched out of the warehouse.
Benji sat looking at Spike, shaking his head when Xander called him.
"What?"
"If this worthless piece of shit doesn't have Giles than who does?"
Xander kicked open the door to a dark and dank crypt only to find a major battle already occurring. Oz, Willow, and Cordelia were taking on vampire after vampire, while Buffy and Faith fought one hell of a demon. (Make your own description)
As Xander watched the demon carelessly and effortlessly flicked Faith away. She slammed into a wall and Xander, not knowing how, could hear her ribs cracking. The demon, Fereck, lifted Buffy up and threw her over the heads of everyone else in the room. She slammed into the wall with such force that the wall shook. The cracking noise was unbearable to Xander.
Fereck laughed and jumped next to the unmoving Faith. "Time for the little slayer to die," he said.
Xander felt a wave of fury that he had never felt before overtake him. "Get your hands of her you damn dirty demon!" he roared as he flung himself at Fereck.
The demon grabbed Xander in mid-flight and threw him across the room. Fereck let out a cackle Xander landed in a heap on the ground. Fereck kicked Faith over to Buffy and stood over the two motionless slayers.
"Time to die, Slayers," he said.
It was at this moment that Xander launched himself upon the demon. Fereck roared as Xander squeezed his neck. Fereck sank his claws into Xander but the teen didn't seem to notice. It was only when Fereck elbowed him in the gut that Xander let go.
The demon lifted Xander off the ground and threw him out of the crypt. Xander landed hard on something sharp. When he looked down at his chest he saw a discarded sword, most likely brought by Buffy, protruding from his stomach.
As Xander's vision began to fade he saw clearly the faces of the two slayers. And as simple as breathing Xander Harris died.
Oz finished staking a vamp and was about to turn to kill another when Fereck threw Xander out of the crypt. Checking to make sure Willow and Cordelia were doing good with the vampire problem he raced after his friend.
When Oz reached the doorway he stropped dead in his tracks. Because in front of him was the body of one of his two guy friends. As Oz watched Xander he felt like a part of him died too. He may have not been as close to Xander as the rest but he knew, as much as everyone else knew, that Xander was the heart of the group.
The tears began to well up in Oz's eyes and that's why at first he didn't believe what he saw. But then Xander's voice said, "Hey, Oz."
The werewolf stood stunned as he watched Xander walk into the crypt. "Don't tell Buff or Wills, alright?" Xand asked.
Oz numbly nodded.
After walking away from Oz Xander approached Fereck. "Hey! Mr. Demon dude. We're not done!"
Fereck turned around and couldn't believe his eyes. "What the fu-" Fereck never got to finish his sentence. Because at that precise moment Xander whipped out the sword he had fallen on and cut off the demon's head.
"Well, that was fun."
Oz, Willow, Cordelia, and Giles sat stunned. Shortly after returning from Fereck's crypt Xander and Buffy had gotten into an argument. Faith took this time to leave and Cordelia was following Faith's example when she heard Xander say, "None of this would have happened if you hade just told us that Angel was back."
Cordelia screamed, Buffy panicked, and before long the Slayer found herself telling the Scoobies all about Angel being back and Xander's discovery. And now her loyal friends had gotten over being stunned and had moved on to yelling at her. Except for Oz who still looked stunned.
"How could you Buffy, you know what he is capable of," Giles demanded.
"How could you not tell me? I thought I was your best friend!" shouted Willow.
"What if he gets into my car!" whined Cordelia.
The only other person besides Oz who wasn't yelling at her was Xander. And Buffy didn't know why. Just two minutes ago he had given her a piece of his mind. But now he seemed worried. When the yelling intensified he grabbed Buffy and pulled her out of there.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Buffy nodded. She still didn't know why Xander was being so nice to her.
"Buffy look, I know I haven't exactly been to nice to you about this but I forgive you. And don't worry about the others, I'll talk to them."
Buffy couldn't believe it. Xander had forgiven her. She jumped up and hugged him. This particular hug lasted a little longer than it should have.
"Sorry about that," Buffy apologized.
Xander shook his head. "It was fine."
They stared at each other like they had never really seen one another for the briefest of seconds before Buffy excused herself saying her mom would start to worry if she didn't get home soon.
"Bye," she called.
Xander just nodded.
Xander was helping Giles rearrange the non-fiction section of the library when Oz walked in.
"Hello, Oz. If your looking for Willow I'm afraid she hasn't stopped by here yet," Giles said.
"Actually I'm looking for Xander," the werewolf replied.
Xander poked his head around the stack of books he was alphabetizing. "What can I do you for Oz?" he asked.
Oz looked at Xander as he said, "I wanted to talk to you about that thing that happened the other night."
Instantly Xander knew what he was talking about. The only problem was that Xander had no idea how he had come back. But he would bet all his money that it had to do with him being the White Knight. So when he and Oz went into the hallway Xander told him everything.
"So let me get this straight," Oz said. "You know that you're supposed to be with a Slayer but you have know idea which one."
Xander sighed. He now realized he hopeless this was.
"I shouldn't have expected you to believe me but I just thought-"
Oz cut him off. "I didn't say I didn't believe you, I just wanted to make sure I got it right."
Xander grinned. "Yep. You got it right."
Oz nodded. "So where is this Benji guy?" he asked.
To tell the truth Xander had been wondering the same thing. Normally he would have already bugged Xander half to death about his crazy ideas.
"Don't know."
"Xander I need your help," Giles called from the library.
Xander glanced at Oz. "See you latter."
Xander found himself at Angel's mansion. He had been patrolling and without knowing it he had walked right to Angel's front door. Without really knowing why, Xander knocked.
"Buffy I told you that you don't have to knock," Angel said as he opened his door.
The vampire stopped. The person in front of him certainly wasn't Buffy. Instead of the slayer it was Xander.
"What do you want," Angel asked, eyeing the stake sticking out of Xander's pocket.
"Easy there, Deadboy. I come in peace," Xander said.
Angel yet again eyed the stake in the boy's pocket.
"Relax. I just got off patrol."
Angel grinned and grabbed the stake from Xander's pocket.
"Hey! I said I wasn't going to use that," Xander protested.
"You stupid little White Knight. You just don't get it. I was there first," Angel said.
Xander looked at Angel puzzled. "Deadboy what the hell are you talking about-," Xander stopped. "Aw, fuck! You're Angelus aren't you?"
Angel bared his fangs. "Ding, Ding, Ding! The boy's a winner! And I thought that Buffy would catch on."
"What are you talking about?" Xander asked.
Angelus smiled his deadly grin. "Willow never restored my soul. I just felt something and realized what that bitch was trying to do. So I figured that if I pretended to be little old Angel that she wouldn't do anything."
"Boy were you wrong," taunted Xander.
Angelus glanced over Xander's shoulders and grinned.
"At least I'm going out with a bang," he whispered in Xander's ear.
Xander looked at the vampire confused. "What?"
But Angelus wasn't paying attention to him. Instead he was ranting.
"Xander, please. Don't do it. Think about Buffy."
Xander again looked stumped until Angelus put the stake into Xander's hand and rammed it home.
"See you in hell," the vampire whispered.
As Xander watched Angelus, the one with the angelic face, turned to dust.
The young man tried to figure out what was going but it was only when he heard a sob that he realized what Angelus had done. Xander turned around to face one pissed off slayer.
Xander visibly gulped.
"How could you stupid bastard!" Buffy screamed as she began to pound on Xander's chest.
Xander her wrists and held her.
"Get off me!" Buffy shouted as she punched him square in the face.
Xander fell to the ground blood all over his face. And that is how Buffy left him.
Disclaimer: I still own nothing.
Category: B/X, F/X, C/X, G/J, W/O, A/B, and mild A/C
Author's Note: I promise that this chapter will be better than the last.
Xander broke his hand away from Benji and looked at the demon as if he had slapped him.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" demanded Benji.
"I could ask you the same question," Xander spat at him.
Benji slumped against a nearby crate. "You can't kill Spike," he said.
Xander grabbed his fallen stake and pulled himself to his feet. "It sure seems to me that I can kill the little bastard."
Benji knew it was useless trying to get to Xander by telling him the truth, so he tried a different approach.
"He doesn't have Giles."
Xander arched an eyebrow. "So?"
Benji sat on the crate. "So you don't have to stake him."
Xander laughed. "You're funny, Benji. But with or without Giles being held captive, I'm going to stake him."
"Listen, kid. Spike's not the vampire you really want to stake, now is he?"
Xander glanced at Spike's inert form. He had to admit to himself that he didn't really want to stake him. What he really wanted more than anything was to stake that son of a bitch Angelus.
Benji glanced from Xander to Spike and back. "Well?"
Xander sighed. "Fine."
He looked down at the motionless Spike. "It looks like you got yourself a reprieve. For now. But don't ever come back. Otherwise you'll have to deal with the White Knight."
Xander then marched out of the warehouse.
Benji sat looking at Spike, shaking his head when Xander called him.
"What?"
"If this worthless piece of shit doesn't have Giles than who does?"
Xander kicked open the door to a dark and dank crypt only to find a major battle already occurring. Oz, Willow, and Cordelia were taking on vampire after vampire, while Buffy and Faith fought one hell of a demon. (Make your own description)
As Xander watched the demon carelessly and effortlessly flicked Faith away. She slammed into a wall and Xander, not knowing how, could hear her ribs cracking. The demon, Fereck, lifted Buffy up and threw her over the heads of everyone else in the room. She slammed into the wall with such force that the wall shook. The cracking noise was unbearable to Xander.
Fereck laughed and jumped next to the unmoving Faith. "Time for the little slayer to die," he said.
Xander felt a wave of fury that he had never felt before overtake him. "Get your hands of her you damn dirty demon!" he roared as he flung himself at Fereck.
The demon grabbed Xander in mid-flight and threw him across the room. Fereck let out a cackle Xander landed in a heap on the ground. Fereck kicked Faith over to Buffy and stood over the two motionless slayers.
"Time to die, Slayers," he said.
It was at this moment that Xander launched himself upon the demon. Fereck roared as Xander squeezed his neck. Fereck sank his claws into Xander but the teen didn't seem to notice. It was only when Fereck elbowed him in the gut that Xander let go.
The demon lifted Xander off the ground and threw him out of the crypt. Xander landed hard on something sharp. When he looked down at his chest he saw a discarded sword, most likely brought by Buffy, protruding from his stomach.
As Xander's vision began to fade he saw clearly the faces of the two slayers. And as simple as breathing Xander Harris died.
Oz finished staking a vamp and was about to turn to kill another when Fereck threw Xander out of the crypt. Checking to make sure Willow and Cordelia were doing good with the vampire problem he raced after his friend.
When Oz reached the doorway he stropped dead in his tracks. Because in front of him was the body of one of his two guy friends. As Oz watched Xander he felt like a part of him died too. He may have not been as close to Xander as the rest but he knew, as much as everyone else knew, that Xander was the heart of the group.
The tears began to well up in Oz's eyes and that's why at first he didn't believe what he saw. But then Xander's voice said, "Hey, Oz."
The werewolf stood stunned as he watched Xander walk into the crypt. "Don't tell Buff or Wills, alright?" Xand asked.
Oz numbly nodded.
After walking away from Oz Xander approached Fereck. "Hey! Mr. Demon dude. We're not done!"
Fereck turned around and couldn't believe his eyes. "What the fu-" Fereck never got to finish his sentence. Because at that precise moment Xander whipped out the sword he had fallen on and cut off the demon's head.
"Well, that was fun."
Oz, Willow, Cordelia, and Giles sat stunned. Shortly after returning from Fereck's crypt Xander and Buffy had gotten into an argument. Faith took this time to leave and Cordelia was following Faith's example when she heard Xander say, "None of this would have happened if you hade just told us that Angel was back."
Cordelia screamed, Buffy panicked, and before long the Slayer found herself telling the Scoobies all about Angel being back and Xander's discovery. And now her loyal friends had gotten over being stunned and had moved on to yelling at her. Except for Oz who still looked stunned.
"How could you Buffy, you know what he is capable of," Giles demanded.
"How could you not tell me? I thought I was your best friend!" shouted Willow.
"What if he gets into my car!" whined Cordelia.
The only other person besides Oz who wasn't yelling at her was Xander. And Buffy didn't know why. Just two minutes ago he had given her a piece of his mind. But now he seemed worried. When the yelling intensified he grabbed Buffy and pulled her out of there.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Buffy nodded. She still didn't know why Xander was being so nice to her.
"Buffy look, I know I haven't exactly been to nice to you about this but I forgive you. And don't worry about the others, I'll talk to them."
Buffy couldn't believe it. Xander had forgiven her. She jumped up and hugged him. This particular hug lasted a little longer than it should have.
"Sorry about that," Buffy apologized.
Xander shook his head. "It was fine."
They stared at each other like they had never really seen one another for the briefest of seconds before Buffy excused herself saying her mom would start to worry if she didn't get home soon.
"Bye," she called.
Xander just nodded.
Xander was helping Giles rearrange the non-fiction section of the library when Oz walked in.
"Hello, Oz. If your looking for Willow I'm afraid she hasn't stopped by here yet," Giles said.
"Actually I'm looking for Xander," the werewolf replied.
Xander poked his head around the stack of books he was alphabetizing. "What can I do you for Oz?" he asked.
Oz looked at Xander as he said, "I wanted to talk to you about that thing that happened the other night."
Instantly Xander knew what he was talking about. The only problem was that Xander had no idea how he had come back. But he would bet all his money that it had to do with him being the White Knight. So when he and Oz went into the hallway Xander told him everything.
"So let me get this straight," Oz said. "You know that you're supposed to be with a Slayer but you have know idea which one."
Xander sighed. He now realized he hopeless this was.
"I shouldn't have expected you to believe me but I just thought-"
Oz cut him off. "I didn't say I didn't believe you, I just wanted to make sure I got it right."
Xander grinned. "Yep. You got it right."
Oz nodded. "So where is this Benji guy?" he asked.
To tell the truth Xander had been wondering the same thing. Normally he would have already bugged Xander half to death about his crazy ideas.
"Don't know."
"Xander I need your help," Giles called from the library.
Xander glanced at Oz. "See you latter."
Xander found himself at Angel's mansion. He had been patrolling and without knowing it he had walked right to Angel's front door. Without really knowing why, Xander knocked.
"Buffy I told you that you don't have to knock," Angel said as he opened his door.
The vampire stopped. The person in front of him certainly wasn't Buffy. Instead of the slayer it was Xander.
"What do you want," Angel asked, eyeing the stake sticking out of Xander's pocket.
"Easy there, Deadboy. I come in peace," Xander said.
Angel yet again eyed the stake in the boy's pocket.
"Relax. I just got off patrol."
Angel grinned and grabbed the stake from Xander's pocket.
"Hey! I said I wasn't going to use that," Xander protested.
"You stupid little White Knight. You just don't get it. I was there first," Angel said.
Xander looked at Angel puzzled. "Deadboy what the hell are you talking about-," Xander stopped. "Aw, fuck! You're Angelus aren't you?"
Angel bared his fangs. "Ding, Ding, Ding! The boy's a winner! And I thought that Buffy would catch on."
"What are you talking about?" Xander asked.
Angelus smiled his deadly grin. "Willow never restored my soul. I just felt something and realized what that bitch was trying to do. So I figured that if I pretended to be little old Angel that she wouldn't do anything."
"Boy were you wrong," taunted Xander.
Angelus glanced over Xander's shoulders and grinned.
"At least I'm going out with a bang," he whispered in Xander's ear.
Xander looked at the vampire confused. "What?"
But Angelus wasn't paying attention to him. Instead he was ranting.
"Xander, please. Don't do it. Think about Buffy."
Xander again looked stumped until Angelus put the stake into Xander's hand and rammed it home.
"See you in hell," the vampire whispered.
As Xander watched Angelus, the one with the angelic face, turned to dust.
The young man tried to figure out what was going but it was only when he heard a sob that he realized what Angelus had done. Xander turned around to face one pissed off slayer.
Xander visibly gulped.
"How could you stupid bastard!" Buffy screamed as she began to pound on Xander's chest.
Xander her wrists and held her.
"Get off me!" Buffy shouted as she punched him square in the face.
Xander fell to the ground blood all over his face. And that is how Buffy left him.