Chapter 2
Two warriors pull in to a gas station in the middle of a night just outside of Toledo. The red haired woman has a short hair cut. She is wearing a low cut black shirt and low rider black leather pants. The burnet man has a black t-shirt, dark blue jeans and a black leather trench coat. The both of them get out of the truck at the same time. The man heads over to the gas pump while the woman heads into the station.
"Need anything other then some Twinkies Xander?"
"How about some Jolt to wash it down. We might need the sugar rush tonight. There is something in this town setting my hair on end."
"Gotcha Suga. One Jolt and couple of Twinkies. I will pay the attendant for the gas. We also need to raid a few crypts in the next week to restock up in the cash. Getting kind of low."
"No problems Vicky. After Boston I am going to call Giles and get him to wire us some money to get us back. I will also tell him that he now has two Slayers again so the Watcher Council can up his pay a little."
"Why does he get paid to watch us fight? I mean really other then reading books and practice dummies what do they do to get paid while we have to fend for ourselves."
"I couldn't tell you Vicky. I tried to get that through his head with Buffy and Faith. I didn't work so well. And that is why we are so good at going through vamp lairs to get the cash and sellable items."
"Okay Suga let's get this going." Vicky turns to walk to the station while Xander starts to pump the gas.
A few minutes later Xander has filled the tank and Vicky has returned with the snacks when a voice breaks out of the night, "What do we have here? Looks like."
The other two vampires looked on as their leader crumble to ashes. They all had shocked look in their eyes and the saw the woman head to their side of the truck and the man stood there looking at them with disgust.
"He actually used the look what we have here line. I am so god dam sick of the fucking line used by you leeches. I have been trying to figure out do you get a hand book when you rise about the stupid phrases to use. You know if you just flat out attacked me you might have at least gotten a few hits in before me and the Slayer killed you guys. But now you just killed. Ready Vicky."
"So ready Xander." The started towards the other vampires with stakes ready.
One just looked at them in shook then almost a sense of awe" You are them. The two warriors. The Slayer and the Hunter. You guys have been together since what '99 2000. All over this side of California. Killing demons and vamps alike. Man I head about you a year ago when in Kansas. You guys left a week before we got there and the demons that were still living warned us of you two. They were right. That Slayer of yours is a babe. Why the hair change? She would look good as a burnet."
It was the last statement that drove Xander over the edge. His eyes flashed a bright glowing amber has he raced towards the vampire. Vicky head towards the other and staked him while Xander pummeled the other one.
"You don't ever talk about her again," punch to the head and a sweep the cracked one of his knees. "You hear me. Don't even think about her. She was so far beyond you that you couldn't even have a clue." Xander just kept punching and kicking. "When you get to hell tell I sent you." Xander then grabbed the vamp's head and with a scream of rage twisted the head right off the body. He dropped the head as the vampire dusted. He looked back to Vicky and she had a worried look on her face.
"Xander are you okay?"
"Keys are still in the ignition so you can drive." With that he head over to the passenger side and opened the door got in and buckled up.
Vicky went to the driver and repeated the process. "Xander are you okay?" She looked to him with concern and worry.
"Right now it is Alpha. In ten minutes if he isn't back head North to Michigan at the next Interstate."
"Wait what about."she was cut off when Alpha turned to her and gave her a very hard look.
"Trust me Red; he knows what I am doing. He also knows why I am doing it. We have a deal and right now he is getting some leeway but only for another ten minutes."
Vicky looked at Alpha and just nodded her head. She started the truck and continued east with out speaking. They just sat in silence with the minutes clicking on. The count down was head into the last three minutes when he spoke up.
"I am here Vicky we can go on like planned."
"Good to have you back. Going to tell me what the hell just happened or what?"
The truck was silent for a few more minutes till Xander spoke again. "We were together for about a year at this point when we came across some demons. Nothing new for us but when we started attacking the a few demons ran away. We got the leaders of the group and saved some hostages and buried a few that were tortured to death before we got there. The pain in her eyes after we buried them took a while to fade. A few months later we fall in to an ambush by these same demons telling us about how the Slayer and her Hunter were not walking away from this. Somewhere in the middle of it she was hit very hard from the back and fell to the ground. I saw here there with this demon getting ready to take her head off with a sword. I really am unsure what fully happened I know I attacked him and kept attacking it. The warriors around us just seem to stop and watch in horror as I start to change. Faith said it was kind of like watching the hulk but brown not green. I grow a few inches but my arms and legs almost doubled in size from muscle mass. My canine teeth length an inch and my jaw extend a few inches. Most notable was my eyes going from bright amber to a reddish color. They gave off a glow that seemed to scare these demons to a halt. I slaughter at least 20 before they ran off. I am not talking taking heads I put hands through bodies and ripped out hearts. I ripped off arms and heads. After it was done I looked to Faith and she saw what I had become. I walked towards her to hold her and make sure she was alright. She actually jumped back from my touch. Not much just enough to stop my progress towards her. I remember looking in to her eyes and seeing fear of me. I turned and ran from her. When I found her the next morning she was just sitting by the truck waiting for me. I could still smell the tears from the crying that she did." Xander stops for a moment and looks out the front window as a few tears fall down his cheek. "We never talked about it. I don't know if I could ever do it again. A few weeks go by and we are in Minnesota for some ungodly reason. We smash our way in to a vampire lair. They look to us and start screaming about the Slayer and The Hunter were here. The started running away for us, some ran into the sun to get away thinking it was less painful that way. We just smirked at each other and killed the rest. When we walked out of the warehouse we just looked at each other and laughed. It was when I looked deep in her easy I could still see a little fear towards me. Not a lot just some to make it hurt at what I had done and what apparently I can become. We took patrols more safely. Did more for long range weapons instead of constantly up and close combat. But every now and then we would be in a fight and someone would call me the Hunter. After wards I could still see the fading fear in her eyes. I haven't been called that in almost half a year from hunting in to new areas and just roaming the past few months. When he mentioned it all those times came back to me. That little amount of fear in her eyes after it was mentioned and how she died.." Xander just trails off.
"You don't have to continue Xander. I am not afraid of you or Alpha. I will never be afraid of you as long as you are alive."
"Sometimes Vicky I think she smiled at me just so I wouldn't go over that edge again. So I wouldn't scare my friends like I did her. She knew what would happen to me. Of curse the side effect is now this side of me being active and conscious at all times. Even right now I can feel him live those moments again. He and I enjoyed what we did to those demons but what it cost me/us was something I was never able to get back. I just never really though about it till it hit me when he called me it. She died afraid of me. I will never be able to change that. Sorry Vicky to dump this on you but with the deal I have going I have to stay active and I needed to talk about it because brooding makes me like someone else and I will never be that."
"Okay Xander. At the next exit we are getting off and going to a motel for the night. I need my beauty sleep. You know what I got a better idea. We can get it for two days and kind of relax. In what two more days we will be in Boston if that. We can relax do some swimming and just enjoy ourselves."
Xander just looked at her smiled and nodded his head.
"Sweet you are going to love this we can sleep in till noon then walk around out in the sun and do normal things like window shop and such. You will love it."
"Sure Vic what ever you want to do." With that Xander just leaned back a little and closed his brown eyes and wiped away the last few tears.
Vicky just smiled at him. This was the first time he called her something other then Vicky. Alpha almost always called her Red but Vic was Xander's first nickname for her and she treasured it.
The stopped off at the next exit and got a room with a hot tub for two nights. They both soaked in the hot tub that night and took long showers the next day. Just enjoying and relaxing during their moment of peace. They went out that day to do some shopping and went to a sci-fi movie. Xander just seemed so different to her like this. Smiling and joking about things around him. He wasn't cold before but not a very warm cuddly person to be around. She could see how people could fall in love with this side of him. It was the other side the Alpha as it was now being called that only a few people could. Ones that could accept the need to go out and fight and defend others against evil. The cold hard edge of a predator that only a Slayer or some other fighter of this fight could accept. She was really starting to understand what Faith was to him. She was the person that would walk down the street on a sunny day with a fuck you and a finger to anyone that would make a comment about them. She would always be there for him and never leave him. In return he offered her the same. They had home lives that made them almost crave that kind of loyalty like a drug. They would also fight tooth and nail to keep it. She also realized the root of the problem with him. Would he let go of her and try to find it again. Could he possible move on even if to only to be hurt in the next relationship? She would look to those answers for another time.
"Come on Xan lets go back to the room and rent a flix to watch." She waited for his response as she grabbed his hand. He pulled out of her grasp and looked at her with scared brown eyes that fade to amber but return to brown just as fast.
"Sorry Vicky I have to go," Xander turned around seemed to almost run to back to the room himself. Vicky was left standing there trying to figure out what just happened and if she should be pissed or concerned. She choose concern as she chased after him. Pissed can happen later if she didn't like the answer.
Two warriors pull in to a gas station in the middle of a night just outside of Toledo. The red haired woman has a short hair cut. She is wearing a low cut black shirt and low rider black leather pants. The burnet man has a black t-shirt, dark blue jeans and a black leather trench coat. The both of them get out of the truck at the same time. The man heads over to the gas pump while the woman heads into the station.
"Need anything other then some Twinkies Xander?"
"How about some Jolt to wash it down. We might need the sugar rush tonight. There is something in this town setting my hair on end."
"Gotcha Suga. One Jolt and couple of Twinkies. I will pay the attendant for the gas. We also need to raid a few crypts in the next week to restock up in the cash. Getting kind of low."
"No problems Vicky. After Boston I am going to call Giles and get him to wire us some money to get us back. I will also tell him that he now has two Slayers again so the Watcher Council can up his pay a little."
"Why does he get paid to watch us fight? I mean really other then reading books and practice dummies what do they do to get paid while we have to fend for ourselves."
"I couldn't tell you Vicky. I tried to get that through his head with Buffy and Faith. I didn't work so well. And that is why we are so good at going through vamp lairs to get the cash and sellable items."
"Okay Suga let's get this going." Vicky turns to walk to the station while Xander starts to pump the gas.
A few minutes later Xander has filled the tank and Vicky has returned with the snacks when a voice breaks out of the night, "What do we have here? Looks like."
The other two vampires looked on as their leader crumble to ashes. They all had shocked look in their eyes and the saw the woman head to their side of the truck and the man stood there looking at them with disgust.
"He actually used the look what we have here line. I am so god dam sick of the fucking line used by you leeches. I have been trying to figure out do you get a hand book when you rise about the stupid phrases to use. You know if you just flat out attacked me you might have at least gotten a few hits in before me and the Slayer killed you guys. But now you just killed. Ready Vicky."
"So ready Xander." The started towards the other vampires with stakes ready.
One just looked at them in shook then almost a sense of awe" You are them. The two warriors. The Slayer and the Hunter. You guys have been together since what '99 2000. All over this side of California. Killing demons and vamps alike. Man I head about you a year ago when in Kansas. You guys left a week before we got there and the demons that were still living warned us of you two. They were right. That Slayer of yours is a babe. Why the hair change? She would look good as a burnet."
It was the last statement that drove Xander over the edge. His eyes flashed a bright glowing amber has he raced towards the vampire. Vicky head towards the other and staked him while Xander pummeled the other one.
"You don't ever talk about her again," punch to the head and a sweep the cracked one of his knees. "You hear me. Don't even think about her. She was so far beyond you that you couldn't even have a clue." Xander just kept punching and kicking. "When you get to hell tell I sent you." Xander then grabbed the vamp's head and with a scream of rage twisted the head right off the body. He dropped the head as the vampire dusted. He looked back to Vicky and she had a worried look on her face.
"Xander are you okay?"
"Keys are still in the ignition so you can drive." With that he head over to the passenger side and opened the door got in and buckled up.
Vicky went to the driver and repeated the process. "Xander are you okay?" She looked to him with concern and worry.
"Right now it is Alpha. In ten minutes if he isn't back head North to Michigan at the next Interstate."
"Wait what about."she was cut off when Alpha turned to her and gave her a very hard look.
"Trust me Red; he knows what I am doing. He also knows why I am doing it. We have a deal and right now he is getting some leeway but only for another ten minutes."
Vicky looked at Alpha and just nodded her head. She started the truck and continued east with out speaking. They just sat in silence with the minutes clicking on. The count down was head into the last three minutes when he spoke up.
"I am here Vicky we can go on like planned."
"Good to have you back. Going to tell me what the hell just happened or what?"
The truck was silent for a few more minutes till Xander spoke again. "We were together for about a year at this point when we came across some demons. Nothing new for us but when we started attacking the a few demons ran away. We got the leaders of the group and saved some hostages and buried a few that were tortured to death before we got there. The pain in her eyes after we buried them took a while to fade. A few months later we fall in to an ambush by these same demons telling us about how the Slayer and her Hunter were not walking away from this. Somewhere in the middle of it she was hit very hard from the back and fell to the ground. I saw here there with this demon getting ready to take her head off with a sword. I really am unsure what fully happened I know I attacked him and kept attacking it. The warriors around us just seem to stop and watch in horror as I start to change. Faith said it was kind of like watching the hulk but brown not green. I grow a few inches but my arms and legs almost doubled in size from muscle mass. My canine teeth length an inch and my jaw extend a few inches. Most notable was my eyes going from bright amber to a reddish color. They gave off a glow that seemed to scare these demons to a halt. I slaughter at least 20 before they ran off. I am not talking taking heads I put hands through bodies and ripped out hearts. I ripped off arms and heads. After it was done I looked to Faith and she saw what I had become. I walked towards her to hold her and make sure she was alright. She actually jumped back from my touch. Not much just enough to stop my progress towards her. I remember looking in to her eyes and seeing fear of me. I turned and ran from her. When I found her the next morning she was just sitting by the truck waiting for me. I could still smell the tears from the crying that she did." Xander stops for a moment and looks out the front window as a few tears fall down his cheek. "We never talked about it. I don't know if I could ever do it again. A few weeks go by and we are in Minnesota for some ungodly reason. We smash our way in to a vampire lair. They look to us and start screaming about the Slayer and The Hunter were here. The started running away for us, some ran into the sun to get away thinking it was less painful that way. We just smirked at each other and killed the rest. When we walked out of the warehouse we just looked at each other and laughed. It was when I looked deep in her easy I could still see a little fear towards me. Not a lot just some to make it hurt at what I had done and what apparently I can become. We took patrols more safely. Did more for long range weapons instead of constantly up and close combat. But every now and then we would be in a fight and someone would call me the Hunter. After wards I could still see the fading fear in her eyes. I haven't been called that in almost half a year from hunting in to new areas and just roaming the past few months. When he mentioned it all those times came back to me. That little amount of fear in her eyes after it was mentioned and how she died.." Xander just trails off.
"You don't have to continue Xander. I am not afraid of you or Alpha. I will never be afraid of you as long as you are alive."
"Sometimes Vicky I think she smiled at me just so I wouldn't go over that edge again. So I wouldn't scare my friends like I did her. She knew what would happen to me. Of curse the side effect is now this side of me being active and conscious at all times. Even right now I can feel him live those moments again. He and I enjoyed what we did to those demons but what it cost me/us was something I was never able to get back. I just never really though about it till it hit me when he called me it. She died afraid of me. I will never be able to change that. Sorry Vicky to dump this on you but with the deal I have going I have to stay active and I needed to talk about it because brooding makes me like someone else and I will never be that."
"Okay Xander. At the next exit we are getting off and going to a motel for the night. I need my beauty sleep. You know what I got a better idea. We can get it for two days and kind of relax. In what two more days we will be in Boston if that. We can relax do some swimming and just enjoy ourselves."
Xander just looked at her smiled and nodded his head.
"Sweet you are going to love this we can sleep in till noon then walk around out in the sun and do normal things like window shop and such. You will love it."
"Sure Vic what ever you want to do." With that Xander just leaned back a little and closed his brown eyes and wiped away the last few tears.
Vicky just smiled at him. This was the first time he called her something other then Vicky. Alpha almost always called her Red but Vic was Xander's first nickname for her and she treasured it.
The stopped off at the next exit and got a room with a hot tub for two nights. They both soaked in the hot tub that night and took long showers the next day. Just enjoying and relaxing during their moment of peace. They went out that day to do some shopping and went to a sci-fi movie. Xander just seemed so different to her like this. Smiling and joking about things around him. He wasn't cold before but not a very warm cuddly person to be around. She could see how people could fall in love with this side of him. It was the other side the Alpha as it was now being called that only a few people could. Ones that could accept the need to go out and fight and defend others against evil. The cold hard edge of a predator that only a Slayer or some other fighter of this fight could accept. She was really starting to understand what Faith was to him. She was the person that would walk down the street on a sunny day with a fuck you and a finger to anyone that would make a comment about them. She would always be there for him and never leave him. In return he offered her the same. They had home lives that made them almost crave that kind of loyalty like a drug. They would also fight tooth and nail to keep it. She also realized the root of the problem with him. Would he let go of her and try to find it again. Could he possible move on even if to only to be hurt in the next relationship? She would look to those answers for another time.
"Come on Xan lets go back to the room and rent a flix to watch." She waited for his response as she grabbed his hand. He pulled out of her grasp and looked at her with scared brown eyes that fade to amber but return to brown just as fast.
"Sorry Vicky I have to go," Xander turned around seemed to almost run to back to the room himself. Vicky was left standing there trying to figure out what just happened and if she should be pissed or concerned. She choose concern as she chased after him. Pissed can happen later if she didn't like the answer.