"The Many Loves of Xander Harris."
Disclaimer: Don't own them so don't sue me. (Please)
Category: ???
Author's Note: Happy New Year! This is the last chapter of the story but I already have plans for a sequel so stay tuned. I hoped you enjoyed this one.
Quote: "I know what you're thinking. It's not medically possible. Well let me ask you this. Are you doctor?"- Luther from The New Guy
Benji kicked open the door to Xander's room and was greeted by the sight that he knew would happen. Xander was lying on the bed with his shirt torn open and the two Slayers were in the middle of the room fighting. "Shit. Lorne, Oz you guys separate the Slayers, I'll check on Xander," Benji said as ran past the fighting women.
"Wait! How come we have to stop the Slayers?" Lorne asked.
"Because I'm closer to Xander," Benji answered as he jumped next to the bed.
Lorne turned to Oz and slowly the two of them made their way toward Buffy and Faith. The door opened and Giles walked in with Spike next to him. "What the hell?" the Watcher started.
"Shut up! This is blooming great! Better than T.V.!" Spike said, a smile on his face. "Lose the bloody outfits!" he called to the Slayers.
Lorne and Oz sent him a look but the vampire just smiled. "What? I'm still a man you know."
Benji grabbed Xander and pulled him into the closet. "What the hell happened?" Benji asked him.
"Well Spike annoyed me a couple of times then Buffy and a second later Faith. Faith pushed Buffy ripped open my shirt and threw me on the bed. Then grabbed her and threw out of the way. Before I knew what had happened they were fighting," Xander told the demon.
"Is that all that happened?" Benji asked.
"Yeah."
"Then why is your fly down," Benji said as he pointed to Xander's pants.
"Holy shit!" Xander pulled his zipper up. "Don't tell anyone, O.K.?"
Benji nodded. "Trust me. I won't tell a soul."
"Benji get your ass out here," Lorne screamed.
"That's my cue. Listen kid, stay put. If the Slayers don't see you it would probably be for the best." Benji then exited the closet leaving Xander alone.
As he sat in the closet Xander heard snippets of the fight outside.
"Grab her," Benji yelled.
"She kicked me!" Spike called out.
"Grab her legs," Lorne commanded.
"Let me go," Buffy hollered.
"Faith put that down," Benji said.
"Go to hell," Faith yelled.
"She kicked me again!" Spike screamed.
"Watch out!" Oz warned.
"Who kicked me?" Spike asked.
"That was my foot!" Lorne whined.
"She's got a lamp!" Benji called.
"Who bloody kicked me?" Spike demanded.
"STOP!" Giles yelled.
Amazingly all sound on the other side of the closet stopped. Xander peeked out and saw that the entire room was in shambles. Lorne was lying face down on the bed; Giles was standing in the middle of the room; Faith had a lamp in her hand and was about to smash it over Oz's head; Buffy had Benji pinned against the wall; and Spike stood off to the side clutching his ass.
"You are all acting like bloody animals!" Giles said. "Now Buffy, Faith I want you both to go to your rooms and think about what you have done." The Slayers started to protest but Giles added, "Now."
Once Buffy and Faith had left Giles turned toward the closet. "Xander. Out here. Now." Xander did as he was told. "What the hell happened?" the Watcher asked.
Xander smiled nervously. "Well you see it was all their idea!"
"Don't look at me. I wasn't even in the room," Spike said.
Giles looked at Benji and with a completely straight face said, "Benji you have some 'splaning to do."
The next day Xander, Spike, and Giles were the only ones left at the hotel. Cordelia had decided to test LA's malls while Joyce and Buffy had left to do mother and daughter bonding. A little while latter Oz and Willow left on a date and Lorne left to open his club. Sometime during the day Faith, Angel, and Benji had slipped out leaving the Watcher, the Virtue, and the White Knight alone.
"So that spell didn't work out to well for ya did it," Spike said to Xander. The two of them were in the billiard room playing pool while Giles was up in Lorne's library trying to find out why the Four Horsemen wanted Xander dead.
"That's the understatement of the year," Xander said bitterly. "It just made things worse."
Spike shook his head. "Well if there's one thing I've learned about you people it's that you always get your man. Or this case woman."
Lorne raced into the lobby looking frightened. "Help! Help!" he called. Spike and Xander raced out to their new friend's side.
"Lorne! What's wrong?" Xander asked.
"That vampire. Mr. Trick. He blew up my bar! He and his gang were going to kill me but than someone showed up and killed them."
"Who?"
"The Horsemen. They know you're here kid. And they ain't to happy that you left Sunnydale."
"Giles! Giles! Hurry man, we need your help," Spike called up the stairs.
In the next instant the Watcher was running down the stairs. "What is it?" he asked.
"Lorne! He said he saw the Four Horsemen," Spike explained.
"Bloody hell!" the English man cursed.
The dark mood was interrupted when Benji came crashing in via a window. "What the hell?" Lorne shouted as he jumped backed.
"They're here," Benji, muttered as he got to his feet.
"Who?" Spike asked.
"The bloody Horsemen!" Giles, Benji, and Xander screamed.
"Oh."
Just then the door and surrounding wall was knocked down by four powerful horses. "Where is the White Knight?" the rider on the pale horse demanded.
"We don't know," Lorne lied.
"Liars!" the rider on the red horse yelled.
"Calm your yourself War," the rider on the pale horse warned.
"But Death he lies," War protested.
"So he does," Death said, glaring at Lorne.
"You're not going to hurt me are you?" the demon asked.
Death shook his head. War hopped off his horse punched Lorne straight into the wall, leaving the demon unconscious. "But he will," Death said with a wicked grin on his face.
"Spread out," Giles commanded. Instantaneously Xander, Benji, Giles, and Spike ran off in different directions.
"Pestilence go after the old one, Famine go after the blond one, War go after the one in the hat, I'll go after the other," Death ordered. The Four Horsemen each set out after their assigned targets.
Giles hid behind the bar hoping that no one would discover him. He was not that fortunate. The brown horse and its rider, Pestilence, rode into the bar. "Old man," he called. "Come out."
"I hope he doesn't expect that to actually work," Giles muttered under his breath.
"No I don't. But it certainly gave your whereabouts away," Pestilence said as he appeared over Giles' head.
"Oh, bloody hell."
Benji reached the fourth floor and was overwhelmed with a sense of danger. "What the hell?" he asked himself. Before he could contemplate this any further he was knocked clear across the hall.
When he got up he saw that War had been behind him the whole time. "Oh great. Why do I always get the crazy ones," he whispered to himself. "Can we talk about this rationally?" he asked the horsemen.
"Die!" War hollered as he charged forward.
"Guess not."
Xander ran into the ballroom and instantly hid behind the piano. "Please don't let this be the end," he prayed.
Death rode in one his horse and quickly dismounted. "Are you in here young one?" he asked.
Xander said nothing in hopes that he would go away. "I can hear you breathing," Death called.
"Fuck," Xander whispered.
"Well I didn't know you were in here until now," Death called.
"Great," Xander said to himself.
Spike dashed into the pool part of the gym. "Where do I hide?" he asked himself.
"In the water," a voice called.
"Yeah, in the water. He'll never think to check there," Spike said, rather pleased with himself.
He jumped in only to be followed by Famine. 'Bloody 'ell,' he thought to himself.
Xander emerged from behind the piano. "I suppose you want to kill me," he said.
Death shook his head. "I am here for the White Knight and no one else."
Xander realized that the Horsemen didn't know who the White Knight was. He was ready to tell him that it was Angel when a thought struck him. If Buffy or Faith were to enter the hotel at this point the Horsemen would most definitely want to kill them. And that was something Xander couldn't let happen.
"I'm the White Knight," he said. Death smiled.
"Then I have something for you," he said.
Pestilence lifted Giles up by the shirt and stared him straight in the eye. "You are not who I am looking for," he said. He threw Giles down to the ground. The Watcher landed face first. "Goodbye," the Horsemen said as he raised his sword.
Giles got to his feet and stared Pestilence straight in the eye. "I know your weakness," he said.
Pestilence laughed. "I am one of the Four Horsemen, I have no weaknesses."
"You don't. But he does," Giles said pointing to Pestilence's horse.
"No!" Pestilence barked.
"Oh, yes," Giles grinned. He jumped over the bar grabbed a whiskey bottle, smashed it on the bar and flopped back over. "It is time to go," he said.
Pestilence was frozen to the spot as Giles stabbed his horse with the bottle. Pestilence screamed in fury as the horse fell to the ground dead. Shortly after that Pestilence melted.
"Well that was easy," the Watcher remarked. "I just hope the others know."
Benji ran into a room. "Jesus Christ, this guy is mental," he whispered to himself. After the words left his mouth a sword burst into the wall right next to his head. "Holy shit! I'm gonna die!"
Benji ran to the other side of the room just as War and horse knocked down the wall. "Where is the White Knight, demon?" War asked.
"I don't know."
"Liar!"
"O.K. so I lied that's no reason to shout!"
"You will die, now."
"But that is."
Spike started to swim toward the floor but Famine grabbed him for behind. "Where is the White Knight?" he asked.
"Go to 'ell," Spike said.
Famine, furious at Spike, threw him across the room and into the wall. "Bloody hell!" the Vampire cursed. Famine slowly walked toward the end of the pool.
Spike picked himself up and leaned against the wall for support. When he noticed Famine getting closer he started throwing chairs into the pool. The only thing this did was get the floor wet. Spike then noticed an electrical box and ran to it. He broke it open and pulled the wires out.
When the vamp turned around Famine was standing there. He grinned and said, "Any last words?"
"Yeah. Dry land is not a myth."
Famine looked at him, confused. Spike ran past him, dropped the wires, and jumped in the pool. When the wires hit the ground it electrocuted Famine's horse but no Famine. "Bullocks," Spike cursed. However when the horse was fried Famine started falling apart. Literally.
"I'm good," Spike said to himself. That's when everything started shaking.
Giles ran from the bar and right into the lobby. The building seemed to be coming down and no one knew why. A dripping wet Spike came running in the hotel from the gym. "What the hell is going on?" the bloodsucker asked.
"I don't know," Giles said.
"It's gonna blow!" came Benji's voice.
The balance demon hurried down the steps and was almost out the door when Spike and Giles grabbed him. "What is going on, Benji?" Spike asked.
"War. He threw me into a beam, the beam broke it broke his horse's neck and he blew up. But unfortunately we were on the fourth floor. So now the whole damn place is coming down!" the demon answered franticly.
"We need to get out of here," Giles said as a chunk of the roof hit the floor.
Benji nodded and was almost out the door when Giles grabbed him. "Now what?" he whined.
"Xander and Lorne," Giles answered.
"I got green boy," Spike called as he placed Lorne's unconscious form over his shoulder.
"What about Xander?" Giles asked Benji.
"He won't die," the demon said.
"Cause he's the Knight," Spike said.
"No. A building collapses on you and your dead. No matter who the hell you are," Benji told the vamp.
"Then how will he live through this?" Giles questioned him.
"Because he's probably told whatever horsemen was after him that he was the White Knight. So the horsemen is gonna protect him until this is all over and the kill him."
"Oh," Giles and Spike said. A beat passed and then they said, "What?"
Xander stood there waiting for Death to kill him but it never happened. Instead Death talked. And what he said shocked Xander. The horsemen had not been sent to kill him but instead tell him his destiny. In other words the Horsemen were sent to play Cupid. Four very scary and very threatening Cupids, but Cupids nonetheless.
"Alexander Lavelle Harris," Death started, "Your on true love is-"
Benji, Giles, Spike, and the unconscious form of Lorne ran out of the building just as it collapsed. "Xander!" the Watcher yelled.
"Is probably dead," Spike spat out.
Giles looked at rubble that was once the hotel and started to cry. The tears mixed with his blood and the Watcher fell to his knees. "Oh, give me a break," Spike moaned.
The vampire looked over at the bruised and bloodied Benji who looked numb. He shook his head and looked at the ground do that Giles and Benji didn't see his face. Which was wet with tears. As the three men sat there, feeling broken, a figure approached them.
"He lives," the figure said. All three men looked up to see death standing there. Now that they had a good look at his face they could see it was the face of a skeleton.
Death told them what he had told Xander. "He is buried beneath the rubble and only his true love will find him." Death then turned and walked away.
Buffy led the Scooby gang in searching for Xander. Lorne was still unconscious and Oz was tending to Benji's wounds so those three weren't helping. "Any sign of him, Faith?" Giles asked.
"Nope."
"What about you Buffy?"
"No."
Giles gave Spike a dejected look. "I guess that Death was wr-"
Giles didn't finish because at that moment one of the Slayers called out, "I found him!"
Giles flashed Spike a grin. "It's her! It's her!"
Spike smiled at the Watcher's antics. "Yeah, I see it's her you big whelp."
Giles looked over to where the Scooby gang was uncovering Xander. "I can't believe it. It's her."
Benji and Oz both turned when they heard the Slayer call out, "I found him!"
Benji smiled. "Why don't you go over there and help them," he said to Oz.
"Are you sure your going to be okay?" the werewolf asked.
"Yeah. Now just go," Benji said.
Oz ran over to assist the group in uncovering Xander. "Psst," came a voice.
Benji turned and saw Whistler standing in an alleyway. "Benji come here," the demon called.
Benji got up and walked to Whistler. "What's up?'
"You did good, that's what's up," Whistler answered.
"Really?"
"Yeah. As a matter of fact the PTB wants you in England pronto."
"England?"
"Yeah. Is that a problem?"
"No. It's just so far away from Sunnydale."
"Benji. You weren't supposed to get attached to these people."
"I know. But...."
"No buts Benj. This the end."
"Alright."
"Your due at the airport in half-an-hour okay?"
"O.K."
"See you later."
Benji watched Whistler walk away. He turned to look at the Scoobies one last time. He didn't do goodbyes well. "Bye," he whispered.
After they fully uncovered Xander Giles and Willow did a spell to see how much damage was done to him. They were surprised to see there wasn't that much. They put Xander in the back of Oz's van and when Lorne came to they invited him to come to Sunnydale with them. The demon accepted. "Where's Benji?" Faith asked.
The gang searched for him but he was gone. "Oh, well," Cordelia, sighed as she got into her car. Faith got in and Angel climbed in the back. Joyce, Willow, Giles, and Lorne all got in Joyce's jeep while Oz, Spike, and Buffy got in Oz's van with Xander.
As the van approached Sunnydale Spike looked the back where Buffy was talking to Xander while trying to keep him awake. "Isn't it cute?" Oz whispered to the vamp.
"Are you kidding me? All I know is if their entire relationship is this goddamn sweet I be leaving Sunnydale for good."
"Well here's for hoping," Oz joked.
"Very bloody funny."
"I thought so."
P.S.: Well folks that's it for "The Many Loves Of Xander Harris." If you didn't catch on it was Buffy who found Xander. I have a big sequel planned so stay tuned for that one. As for now, I'm outta here!
Disclaimer: Don't own them so don't sue me. (Please)
Category: ???
Author's Note: Happy New Year! This is the last chapter of the story but I already have plans for a sequel so stay tuned. I hoped you enjoyed this one.
Quote: "I know what you're thinking. It's not medically possible. Well let me ask you this. Are you doctor?"- Luther from The New Guy
Benji kicked open the door to Xander's room and was greeted by the sight that he knew would happen. Xander was lying on the bed with his shirt torn open and the two Slayers were in the middle of the room fighting. "Shit. Lorne, Oz you guys separate the Slayers, I'll check on Xander," Benji said as ran past the fighting women.
"Wait! How come we have to stop the Slayers?" Lorne asked.
"Because I'm closer to Xander," Benji answered as he jumped next to the bed.
Lorne turned to Oz and slowly the two of them made their way toward Buffy and Faith. The door opened and Giles walked in with Spike next to him. "What the hell?" the Watcher started.
"Shut up! This is blooming great! Better than T.V.!" Spike said, a smile on his face. "Lose the bloody outfits!" he called to the Slayers.
Lorne and Oz sent him a look but the vampire just smiled. "What? I'm still a man you know."
Benji grabbed Xander and pulled him into the closet. "What the hell happened?" Benji asked him.
"Well Spike annoyed me a couple of times then Buffy and a second later Faith. Faith pushed Buffy ripped open my shirt and threw me on the bed. Then grabbed her and threw out of the way. Before I knew what had happened they were fighting," Xander told the demon.
"Is that all that happened?" Benji asked.
"Yeah."
"Then why is your fly down," Benji said as he pointed to Xander's pants.
"Holy shit!" Xander pulled his zipper up. "Don't tell anyone, O.K.?"
Benji nodded. "Trust me. I won't tell a soul."
"Benji get your ass out here," Lorne screamed.
"That's my cue. Listen kid, stay put. If the Slayers don't see you it would probably be for the best." Benji then exited the closet leaving Xander alone.
As he sat in the closet Xander heard snippets of the fight outside.
"Grab her," Benji yelled.
"She kicked me!" Spike called out.
"Grab her legs," Lorne commanded.
"Let me go," Buffy hollered.
"Faith put that down," Benji said.
"Go to hell," Faith yelled.
"She kicked me again!" Spike screamed.
"Watch out!" Oz warned.
"Who kicked me?" Spike asked.
"That was my foot!" Lorne whined.
"She's got a lamp!" Benji called.
"Who bloody kicked me?" Spike demanded.
"STOP!" Giles yelled.
Amazingly all sound on the other side of the closet stopped. Xander peeked out and saw that the entire room was in shambles. Lorne was lying face down on the bed; Giles was standing in the middle of the room; Faith had a lamp in her hand and was about to smash it over Oz's head; Buffy had Benji pinned against the wall; and Spike stood off to the side clutching his ass.
"You are all acting like bloody animals!" Giles said. "Now Buffy, Faith I want you both to go to your rooms and think about what you have done." The Slayers started to protest but Giles added, "Now."
Once Buffy and Faith had left Giles turned toward the closet. "Xander. Out here. Now." Xander did as he was told. "What the hell happened?" the Watcher asked.
Xander smiled nervously. "Well you see it was all their idea!"
"Don't look at me. I wasn't even in the room," Spike said.
Giles looked at Benji and with a completely straight face said, "Benji you have some 'splaning to do."
The next day Xander, Spike, and Giles were the only ones left at the hotel. Cordelia had decided to test LA's malls while Joyce and Buffy had left to do mother and daughter bonding. A little while latter Oz and Willow left on a date and Lorne left to open his club. Sometime during the day Faith, Angel, and Benji had slipped out leaving the Watcher, the Virtue, and the White Knight alone.
"So that spell didn't work out to well for ya did it," Spike said to Xander. The two of them were in the billiard room playing pool while Giles was up in Lorne's library trying to find out why the Four Horsemen wanted Xander dead.
"That's the understatement of the year," Xander said bitterly. "It just made things worse."
Spike shook his head. "Well if there's one thing I've learned about you people it's that you always get your man. Or this case woman."
Lorne raced into the lobby looking frightened. "Help! Help!" he called. Spike and Xander raced out to their new friend's side.
"Lorne! What's wrong?" Xander asked.
"That vampire. Mr. Trick. He blew up my bar! He and his gang were going to kill me but than someone showed up and killed them."
"Who?"
"The Horsemen. They know you're here kid. And they ain't to happy that you left Sunnydale."
"Giles! Giles! Hurry man, we need your help," Spike called up the stairs.
In the next instant the Watcher was running down the stairs. "What is it?" he asked.
"Lorne! He said he saw the Four Horsemen," Spike explained.
"Bloody hell!" the English man cursed.
The dark mood was interrupted when Benji came crashing in via a window. "What the hell?" Lorne shouted as he jumped backed.
"They're here," Benji, muttered as he got to his feet.
"Who?" Spike asked.
"The bloody Horsemen!" Giles, Benji, and Xander screamed.
"Oh."
Just then the door and surrounding wall was knocked down by four powerful horses. "Where is the White Knight?" the rider on the pale horse demanded.
"We don't know," Lorne lied.
"Liars!" the rider on the red horse yelled.
"Calm your yourself War," the rider on the pale horse warned.
"But Death he lies," War protested.
"So he does," Death said, glaring at Lorne.
"You're not going to hurt me are you?" the demon asked.
Death shook his head. War hopped off his horse punched Lorne straight into the wall, leaving the demon unconscious. "But he will," Death said with a wicked grin on his face.
"Spread out," Giles commanded. Instantaneously Xander, Benji, Giles, and Spike ran off in different directions.
"Pestilence go after the old one, Famine go after the blond one, War go after the one in the hat, I'll go after the other," Death ordered. The Four Horsemen each set out after their assigned targets.
Giles hid behind the bar hoping that no one would discover him. He was not that fortunate. The brown horse and its rider, Pestilence, rode into the bar. "Old man," he called. "Come out."
"I hope he doesn't expect that to actually work," Giles muttered under his breath.
"No I don't. But it certainly gave your whereabouts away," Pestilence said as he appeared over Giles' head.
"Oh, bloody hell."
Benji reached the fourth floor and was overwhelmed with a sense of danger. "What the hell?" he asked himself. Before he could contemplate this any further he was knocked clear across the hall.
When he got up he saw that War had been behind him the whole time. "Oh great. Why do I always get the crazy ones," he whispered to himself. "Can we talk about this rationally?" he asked the horsemen.
"Die!" War hollered as he charged forward.
"Guess not."
Xander ran into the ballroom and instantly hid behind the piano. "Please don't let this be the end," he prayed.
Death rode in one his horse and quickly dismounted. "Are you in here young one?" he asked.
Xander said nothing in hopes that he would go away. "I can hear you breathing," Death called.
"Fuck," Xander whispered.
"Well I didn't know you were in here until now," Death called.
"Great," Xander said to himself.
Spike dashed into the pool part of the gym. "Where do I hide?" he asked himself.
"In the water," a voice called.
"Yeah, in the water. He'll never think to check there," Spike said, rather pleased with himself.
He jumped in only to be followed by Famine. 'Bloody 'ell,' he thought to himself.
Xander emerged from behind the piano. "I suppose you want to kill me," he said.
Death shook his head. "I am here for the White Knight and no one else."
Xander realized that the Horsemen didn't know who the White Knight was. He was ready to tell him that it was Angel when a thought struck him. If Buffy or Faith were to enter the hotel at this point the Horsemen would most definitely want to kill them. And that was something Xander couldn't let happen.
"I'm the White Knight," he said. Death smiled.
"Then I have something for you," he said.
Pestilence lifted Giles up by the shirt and stared him straight in the eye. "You are not who I am looking for," he said. He threw Giles down to the ground. The Watcher landed face first. "Goodbye," the Horsemen said as he raised his sword.
Giles got to his feet and stared Pestilence straight in the eye. "I know your weakness," he said.
Pestilence laughed. "I am one of the Four Horsemen, I have no weaknesses."
"You don't. But he does," Giles said pointing to Pestilence's horse.
"No!" Pestilence barked.
"Oh, yes," Giles grinned. He jumped over the bar grabbed a whiskey bottle, smashed it on the bar and flopped back over. "It is time to go," he said.
Pestilence was frozen to the spot as Giles stabbed his horse with the bottle. Pestilence screamed in fury as the horse fell to the ground dead. Shortly after that Pestilence melted.
"Well that was easy," the Watcher remarked. "I just hope the others know."
Benji ran into a room. "Jesus Christ, this guy is mental," he whispered to himself. After the words left his mouth a sword burst into the wall right next to his head. "Holy shit! I'm gonna die!"
Benji ran to the other side of the room just as War and horse knocked down the wall. "Where is the White Knight, demon?" War asked.
"I don't know."
"Liar!"
"O.K. so I lied that's no reason to shout!"
"You will die, now."
"But that is."
Spike started to swim toward the floor but Famine grabbed him for behind. "Where is the White Knight?" he asked.
"Go to 'ell," Spike said.
Famine, furious at Spike, threw him across the room and into the wall. "Bloody hell!" the Vampire cursed. Famine slowly walked toward the end of the pool.
Spike picked himself up and leaned against the wall for support. When he noticed Famine getting closer he started throwing chairs into the pool. The only thing this did was get the floor wet. Spike then noticed an electrical box and ran to it. He broke it open and pulled the wires out.
When the vamp turned around Famine was standing there. He grinned and said, "Any last words?"
"Yeah. Dry land is not a myth."
Famine looked at him, confused. Spike ran past him, dropped the wires, and jumped in the pool. When the wires hit the ground it electrocuted Famine's horse but no Famine. "Bullocks," Spike cursed. However when the horse was fried Famine started falling apart. Literally.
"I'm good," Spike said to himself. That's when everything started shaking.
Giles ran from the bar and right into the lobby. The building seemed to be coming down and no one knew why. A dripping wet Spike came running in the hotel from the gym. "What the hell is going on?" the bloodsucker asked.
"I don't know," Giles said.
"It's gonna blow!" came Benji's voice.
The balance demon hurried down the steps and was almost out the door when Spike and Giles grabbed him. "What is going on, Benji?" Spike asked.
"War. He threw me into a beam, the beam broke it broke his horse's neck and he blew up. But unfortunately we were on the fourth floor. So now the whole damn place is coming down!" the demon answered franticly.
"We need to get out of here," Giles said as a chunk of the roof hit the floor.
Benji nodded and was almost out the door when Giles grabbed him. "Now what?" he whined.
"Xander and Lorne," Giles answered.
"I got green boy," Spike called as he placed Lorne's unconscious form over his shoulder.
"What about Xander?" Giles asked Benji.
"He won't die," the demon said.
"Cause he's the Knight," Spike said.
"No. A building collapses on you and your dead. No matter who the hell you are," Benji told the vamp.
"Then how will he live through this?" Giles questioned him.
"Because he's probably told whatever horsemen was after him that he was the White Knight. So the horsemen is gonna protect him until this is all over and the kill him."
"Oh," Giles and Spike said. A beat passed and then they said, "What?"
Xander stood there waiting for Death to kill him but it never happened. Instead Death talked. And what he said shocked Xander. The horsemen had not been sent to kill him but instead tell him his destiny. In other words the Horsemen were sent to play Cupid. Four very scary and very threatening Cupids, but Cupids nonetheless.
"Alexander Lavelle Harris," Death started, "Your on true love is-"
Benji, Giles, Spike, and the unconscious form of Lorne ran out of the building just as it collapsed. "Xander!" the Watcher yelled.
"Is probably dead," Spike spat out.
Giles looked at rubble that was once the hotel and started to cry. The tears mixed with his blood and the Watcher fell to his knees. "Oh, give me a break," Spike moaned.
The vampire looked over at the bruised and bloodied Benji who looked numb. He shook his head and looked at the ground do that Giles and Benji didn't see his face. Which was wet with tears. As the three men sat there, feeling broken, a figure approached them.
"He lives," the figure said. All three men looked up to see death standing there. Now that they had a good look at his face they could see it was the face of a skeleton.
Death told them what he had told Xander. "He is buried beneath the rubble and only his true love will find him." Death then turned and walked away.
Buffy led the Scooby gang in searching for Xander. Lorne was still unconscious and Oz was tending to Benji's wounds so those three weren't helping. "Any sign of him, Faith?" Giles asked.
"Nope."
"What about you Buffy?"
"No."
Giles gave Spike a dejected look. "I guess that Death was wr-"
Giles didn't finish because at that moment one of the Slayers called out, "I found him!"
Giles flashed Spike a grin. "It's her! It's her!"
Spike smiled at the Watcher's antics. "Yeah, I see it's her you big whelp."
Giles looked over to where the Scooby gang was uncovering Xander. "I can't believe it. It's her."
Benji and Oz both turned when they heard the Slayer call out, "I found him!"
Benji smiled. "Why don't you go over there and help them," he said to Oz.
"Are you sure your going to be okay?" the werewolf asked.
"Yeah. Now just go," Benji said.
Oz ran over to assist the group in uncovering Xander. "Psst," came a voice.
Benji turned and saw Whistler standing in an alleyway. "Benji come here," the demon called.
Benji got up and walked to Whistler. "What's up?'
"You did good, that's what's up," Whistler answered.
"Really?"
"Yeah. As a matter of fact the PTB wants you in England pronto."
"England?"
"Yeah. Is that a problem?"
"No. It's just so far away from Sunnydale."
"Benji. You weren't supposed to get attached to these people."
"I know. But...."
"No buts Benj. This the end."
"Alright."
"Your due at the airport in half-an-hour okay?"
"O.K."
"See you later."
Benji watched Whistler walk away. He turned to look at the Scoobies one last time. He didn't do goodbyes well. "Bye," he whispered.
After they fully uncovered Xander Giles and Willow did a spell to see how much damage was done to him. They were surprised to see there wasn't that much. They put Xander in the back of Oz's van and when Lorne came to they invited him to come to Sunnydale with them. The demon accepted. "Where's Benji?" Faith asked.
The gang searched for him but he was gone. "Oh, well," Cordelia, sighed as she got into her car. Faith got in and Angel climbed in the back. Joyce, Willow, Giles, and Lorne all got in Joyce's jeep while Oz, Spike, and Buffy got in Oz's van with Xander.
As the van approached Sunnydale Spike looked the back where Buffy was talking to Xander while trying to keep him awake. "Isn't it cute?" Oz whispered to the vamp.
"Are you kidding me? All I know is if their entire relationship is this goddamn sweet I be leaving Sunnydale for good."
"Well here's for hoping," Oz joked.
"Very bloody funny."
"I thought so."
P.S.: Well folks that's it for "The Many Loves Of Xander Harris." If you didn't catch on it was Buffy who found Xander. I have a big sequel planned so stay tuned for that one. As for now, I'm outta here!