Xander sat on the headstone and watched the small procession of people pay
their respects, he had watched as the new watcher, a Mr. Wesley Whyndham
Price had come on the scene with an arrogance long born of the social elite
and he had watched the confrontation as Willow, Faith, Buffy and even a
restrained Ripper had voiced there displeasure at his shrugging off the
"Harris Boy."
*Flashback*
"I Do understand that this may be a difficult time slayer but you must remember that people die, and if you don't want more to do so you will continue your job as-." He got out before the growls from the group where broken by a screech.
As he flew back into the wall Wesley looked up into the black eyes of an enraged witch
"If you ever speak of Xander so lightly again I WILL make sure an eternity in hell would seem like a vacation to what I will do to you," the witch said in a disembodied voice before a touch from Oz snapped her back and she relaxed her powers "Let's go Oz, I have nothing left to say here," she said before the duo left, Oz barely kept his temper in check enough to keep willow from doing something drastic.
"Well," Price got out as the two left the apartment "I do believe the two of them will not be helping any slayer from this day forth," he continued blindly as he ignored the glares of rage from the three remaining figures in the room, Faith was the next to move.
As the dark slayer closed the distance it was Buffy that forced her back "Faith STOP! The jerk's not worth it," she said as Faith's grip closed around the Watchers throat
"Why should I care what he's worth?" she snarled as the young watchers face started to change colors from lack of oxygen.
"Because it's not how Xander would want to be remembered." Giles said in a low voice that both slayers heard.
After a moment Faith threw Wesley to the ground and looked at him, "You're damn lucky he was here to save your ass, come near me again and even he won't stop me. You have nothing here, get the hell out of Sunnydale and don't even think about calling me, your Slayer again!" The Bostonian said with distain before both slayers left to prepare for patrol
As the door closed for the second time Wesley picked himself up and rubbed his throat "I Say, is everyone thi..." he got before the Rippers fist slammed into his jaw. "You better bloody well listen you worthless milksop, you have just managed to piss off everyone you will be working with as well as pissing on the name of a young man that has saved all three slayers he's come in contact with," he snarled and lunged for the man as Wesley tried to mount a defense.
"Shut the bloody hell up, Alexander saved Buffy in the sewers, he brought her back in the Masters lair and even though she may not know it he saved her life when it came time for her to face Angelus. He saved Kendra by being the friendly young man he always was and he blamed himself that she died and then just recently he saved Faith from the Sisters of Jhe," he told the younger Britain "He brought this group together to keep back the darkness and even though he is 'JUST' a human he managed to get the rocket launcher that allowed us to bring down the Judge, so I'm warning you right now Mister Price, if you want anything to do with the slayers ever again you should try to salvage this in any way possible or else I'll send what's left of your worthless corpse back to Travers in a tea cup" he said before he walked over and opened the door. "I'm going to comfort the young people you just hurt, don't be here when I get back!"
Wesley stared at the shut door for several minutes as he tried to reassess the situation Travers had sent him into. //Bloody hell, you would have thought the boy was Saint Peter himself,// he thought as he pulled himself up and staggered towards the door. //Mister Travers is going to have to fill me in on this boy's exploits,// he thought as the door clicked shut on a finally quiet room.
*End Flashback*
Xander watched the group purposely ignore Wesley as they silently said their goodbyes to his grave.
"Kinda sad ain't it bro" the voice startled Xander's personal thought as he turned and smiled at the figure.
"Jesse? I... I'm sorry about kill..." he got before the image before him waved it off. "Wasn't me bro, I was just watching from the background." he said as he moved up to stand besides Xander and watch the proceedings, after a few moments Xander turned to him
"So are you here to take me away?" He said as the image wavered for a second "Wish I was bro, Seems me and you have a lot to catch up on..." he said before he was interrupted by a Accented voice. "But that is not why we are here," Kendra said as she stood beside him. "You see, a while back your name was put on a list by the powers that be for 'Champion' Status," Jesse said as he nodded to the deceased Slayer. "Seems my job in this world was to make sure you made it to that status," he said with a shrug as Xander tried to work what Jesse was saying into English.
"You mean the powers that be... the 'Good Guys' had me kill you?" Xander growled as the words sunk in.
Jesse nodded at Xander's rage "Yeah, sucks to be me, but on the plus side you brought about the activation of the second slayer and the survival of all three of them" he said as he nodded to Kendra's form. "It was her time to go Xander, there was nothing you could do," he said as Xander kept burying the rage he felt
"So what are you saying? The powers that be can fuck around with our lives and we can't do anything about it" he grated out as Jesse just smiled
"Nope, I'm saying that the rules are set by the bad guys, the PTB just try to make them work out the best." he said as he nodded to the group "The prophecy said that the Slayer would die at the hands of the Master" he said as he turned back to Xander "The Powers changed it as much as they could without breaking the rules... she did die and as such fulfilled the prophecy, you brought her back to life," he said as he debated on how to broach this subject with his childhood friend
"There is another prophecy that was of a lot of concern to the Powers, it said that the 'Dark Slayer would be the end of an innocent life' and as such everyone though it would be Kendra here," he said as Kendra just nodded and continued to watch the funeral "But again the powers changed it, the dark slayer is this new girl Faith," he said as he indicated the Boston born Slayer.
"Well that messed up the darker forces good so they wanted to mess with her, she has cared for three people in her life. The first was her older sister who was 'Rented out' by there step-father, she died of a Drug overdose when Faith was eight, the second was her first watcher, she was tortured and killed by Kakistos while Faith was forced to watch, the third and most recent was a stubborn jerk that kept trying to help her even when she tried to push him away" he said staring at Xander.
"She recently lost him too... and tonight she will kill an innocent who walks up on the Slayers during a Vamp fight." He said as Xander grew a shade whiter. "She is gonna break Xan, and we don't know if she will ever make it back," he said as Xander turned to him with a snarl.
"Then what the hell are you doing here... stop her already" he said as Jesse shook his head.
"We can't Xander, like I said the Powers can't change what's been written, so we changed what wasn't... we had you bitten by Oz the other night so you can come back and help her through this. There are a few problems," he said as Xander watched the two slayers move off through the graveyard. "You can't let any of the other Scooby's know you're back, you have to let Faith work for the Mayor and you have to leave after the next big bad is taken down. You'll know when you're allowed to return," the ghost of Jesse said as Xander looked after the two Slayers before he turned back to the two ghosts
"Fine, but I want nothing more with these assholes after this, them saying I had to kill you, them saying Kendra had to die and now all this with Faith... no after this I'm done. If they want somebody to jerk around they can find someone else!" He said as the pull of mortality slowly forced him back into his body.
As the ghost finally disappeared two other forms appeared beside the two already there,"Will he continue to fight?" One of the figures asked as Jesse turned to look at him.
"Yeah... after all it's what Xan's destined to do," he said as they made out the sounds of a coffin lid being broken open and the slight depression as the ground caved in to fill the space left by Xander foring his way out and to his destiny
*Flashback*
"I Do understand that this may be a difficult time slayer but you must remember that people die, and if you don't want more to do so you will continue your job as-." He got out before the growls from the group where broken by a screech.
As he flew back into the wall Wesley looked up into the black eyes of an enraged witch
"If you ever speak of Xander so lightly again I WILL make sure an eternity in hell would seem like a vacation to what I will do to you," the witch said in a disembodied voice before a touch from Oz snapped her back and she relaxed her powers "Let's go Oz, I have nothing left to say here," she said before the duo left, Oz barely kept his temper in check enough to keep willow from doing something drastic.
"Well," Price got out as the two left the apartment "I do believe the two of them will not be helping any slayer from this day forth," he continued blindly as he ignored the glares of rage from the three remaining figures in the room, Faith was the next to move.
As the dark slayer closed the distance it was Buffy that forced her back "Faith STOP! The jerk's not worth it," she said as Faith's grip closed around the Watchers throat
"Why should I care what he's worth?" she snarled as the young watchers face started to change colors from lack of oxygen.
"Because it's not how Xander would want to be remembered." Giles said in a low voice that both slayers heard.
After a moment Faith threw Wesley to the ground and looked at him, "You're damn lucky he was here to save your ass, come near me again and even he won't stop me. You have nothing here, get the hell out of Sunnydale and don't even think about calling me, your Slayer again!" The Bostonian said with distain before both slayers left to prepare for patrol
As the door closed for the second time Wesley picked himself up and rubbed his throat "I Say, is everyone thi..." he got before the Rippers fist slammed into his jaw. "You better bloody well listen you worthless milksop, you have just managed to piss off everyone you will be working with as well as pissing on the name of a young man that has saved all three slayers he's come in contact with," he snarled and lunged for the man as Wesley tried to mount a defense.
"Shut the bloody hell up, Alexander saved Buffy in the sewers, he brought her back in the Masters lair and even though she may not know it he saved her life when it came time for her to face Angelus. He saved Kendra by being the friendly young man he always was and he blamed himself that she died and then just recently he saved Faith from the Sisters of Jhe," he told the younger Britain "He brought this group together to keep back the darkness and even though he is 'JUST' a human he managed to get the rocket launcher that allowed us to bring down the Judge, so I'm warning you right now Mister Price, if you want anything to do with the slayers ever again you should try to salvage this in any way possible or else I'll send what's left of your worthless corpse back to Travers in a tea cup" he said before he walked over and opened the door. "I'm going to comfort the young people you just hurt, don't be here when I get back!"
Wesley stared at the shut door for several minutes as he tried to reassess the situation Travers had sent him into. //Bloody hell, you would have thought the boy was Saint Peter himself,// he thought as he pulled himself up and staggered towards the door. //Mister Travers is going to have to fill me in on this boy's exploits,// he thought as the door clicked shut on a finally quiet room.
*End Flashback*
Xander watched the group purposely ignore Wesley as they silently said their goodbyes to his grave.
"Kinda sad ain't it bro" the voice startled Xander's personal thought as he turned and smiled at the figure.
"Jesse? I... I'm sorry about kill..." he got before the image before him waved it off. "Wasn't me bro, I was just watching from the background." he said as he moved up to stand besides Xander and watch the proceedings, after a few moments Xander turned to him
"So are you here to take me away?" He said as the image wavered for a second "Wish I was bro, Seems me and you have a lot to catch up on..." he said before he was interrupted by a Accented voice. "But that is not why we are here," Kendra said as she stood beside him. "You see, a while back your name was put on a list by the powers that be for 'Champion' Status," Jesse said as he nodded to the deceased Slayer. "Seems my job in this world was to make sure you made it to that status," he said with a shrug as Xander tried to work what Jesse was saying into English.
"You mean the powers that be... the 'Good Guys' had me kill you?" Xander growled as the words sunk in.
Jesse nodded at Xander's rage "Yeah, sucks to be me, but on the plus side you brought about the activation of the second slayer and the survival of all three of them" he said as he nodded to Kendra's form. "It was her time to go Xander, there was nothing you could do," he said as Xander kept burying the rage he felt
"So what are you saying? The powers that be can fuck around with our lives and we can't do anything about it" he grated out as Jesse just smiled
"Nope, I'm saying that the rules are set by the bad guys, the PTB just try to make them work out the best." he said as he nodded to the group "The prophecy said that the Slayer would die at the hands of the Master" he said as he turned back to Xander "The Powers changed it as much as they could without breaking the rules... she did die and as such fulfilled the prophecy, you brought her back to life," he said as he debated on how to broach this subject with his childhood friend
"There is another prophecy that was of a lot of concern to the Powers, it said that the 'Dark Slayer would be the end of an innocent life' and as such everyone though it would be Kendra here," he said as Kendra just nodded and continued to watch the funeral "But again the powers changed it, the dark slayer is this new girl Faith," he said as he indicated the Boston born Slayer.
"Well that messed up the darker forces good so they wanted to mess with her, she has cared for three people in her life. The first was her older sister who was 'Rented out' by there step-father, she died of a Drug overdose when Faith was eight, the second was her first watcher, she was tortured and killed by Kakistos while Faith was forced to watch, the third and most recent was a stubborn jerk that kept trying to help her even when she tried to push him away" he said staring at Xander.
"She recently lost him too... and tonight she will kill an innocent who walks up on the Slayers during a Vamp fight." He said as Xander grew a shade whiter. "She is gonna break Xan, and we don't know if she will ever make it back," he said as Xander turned to him with a snarl.
"Then what the hell are you doing here... stop her already" he said as Jesse shook his head.
"We can't Xander, like I said the Powers can't change what's been written, so we changed what wasn't... we had you bitten by Oz the other night so you can come back and help her through this. There are a few problems," he said as Xander watched the two slayers move off through the graveyard. "You can't let any of the other Scooby's know you're back, you have to let Faith work for the Mayor and you have to leave after the next big bad is taken down. You'll know when you're allowed to return," the ghost of Jesse said as Xander looked after the two Slayers before he turned back to the two ghosts
"Fine, but I want nothing more with these assholes after this, them saying I had to kill you, them saying Kendra had to die and now all this with Faith... no after this I'm done. If they want somebody to jerk around they can find someone else!" He said as the pull of mortality slowly forced him back into his body.
As the ghost finally disappeared two other forms appeared beside the two already there,"Will he continue to fight?" One of the figures asked as Jesse turned to look at him.
"Yeah... after all it's what Xan's destined to do," he said as they made out the sounds of a coffin lid being broken open and the slight depression as the ground caved in to fill the space left by Xander foring his way out and to his destiny
