By LittleTeaLeaf
Disclaimer: Joss owns them, I abuse them, so Joss has to pay their bill for the therapist when I'm through with them.
Rating: Pg-13.
Pairing: you'll see.
Spoilers: This story takes place in season 4.
Summery: Xander has to join the family business.
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Part 1
The chipped vampire had just left for the night, and for that Xander Harris was happy. He had business to take care of, Business that nobody else had to know about.
His father was coming for a visit.
Not that the visit was something he looked forward to, it was just the other way around. Xander hated when his father came for a visit. Especially when he brought with him Xander's brothers Algernon, Gideon and Thaddeus. Xander older brothers loved to make fun of their half- brother. He didn't hate his father or his brother; it was just that they were so tiresome to have on a visit.
Xander was really different from his brothers. He wasn't as smart as Algernon, he was not at all as strong as Gideon and he would never be as handsome as Thaddeus. But still without the head, muscles and body of his brothers he was still their father favourite. And his brothers envied him for that.
Xander remembered all the troubles his brothers had given him the last couple of years. Algernon possessing him with the hyena spirit that never left. Thaddeus, that managed to make a double of him that kissed his best friend Willow, almost destroying their friendship. Gideon, who did it so that Xander got the plague and syphilis. He didn't know what was worst, having his brothers try to destroy him or hear their excuses afterwards when their father catches them.
He walked into the apartment he had bought just a few weeks ago, with his own money. Xander hated having his father pay everything for him, even though Xander knew that his father could afford it.
The house that he had grown up in was no more; he had set it on fire a week ago. He bought the apartment the day after and was now very busy with getting everything where it should be. Spike had surprisingly offered to help him move in, so he had lifted most of the heavy boxes up to Xander's new place. Even though Xander knew that he could handle all the boxes by himself and still finish the unpacking of the boxes before the sun went up.
But he couldn't say no to Spike. It had been four years since Buffy had died and Spike hadn't been the same since. He reminded Xander of William, the person Spike had been before he became turned.
The two of them had grown a very close friendship. Even thought they fight all the time, their friendship is something special.
Xander carried the last empty boxes down the stairs and put them outside. He was just about to walk inside again when he heard a very familiar voice behind him.
"So this is your new place, bro." It said. "Not bad, not bad at all. Better then the last one at least."
He turned around again and saw Thaddeus standing there. His older brother was as handsome as always with the stile to go with it; black boots, black jeans, black sweater and a red jacket. His long black hair hang loosely at his shoulders and the red eyes shinned in the darkness of the night. He smiled at Xander, showing of his fangs.
"Thaddeus what are you doing here?" Xander asked.
His brother smirked. "Our dear old dad has thought about retiring. So he asked us to meet here on the Hellmouth to find out who of us would take over."
He couldn't believe it their father was retiring. But he hadn't had the job for more then 10 000 years. Then again, it was hard work and maybe his father wanted to take it easy for the rest of his life, if he ever was to die.
"Ah, you found lil' bro." A voice said behind him.
Xander turned around again and saw his other brother Algernon standing there. His red hair was short and he wore as always an all grey business suit.
"Could you guys stop doing that?"
"Doing what?" Algernon asked.
"Come up from behind me."
"It's not like you don't know we are there," Thaddeus said looking down at his nails.
Xander shock his head. "Don't you remember when dad grounded me all those hundred years ago? And I had to live as a mortal. Well, I am still grounded."
"That may explain why you haven't been visiting us much," Thaddeus was a really great brother some times but he was way to vague.
A few teenagers walked past Xander just when he was about to say something to his brothers. They stared at him with a weird look and it took about ten seconds before Xander understood why. "Could you guys make yourself visible. I am looking like madman here, talking into thin air."
"It's the Hellmount, who cares?"
"I care!"
They all turned around and saw a hooded man standing a few feet away from them. Even though they couldn't see his face they recognised him at ones.
"Dad!"
"Father."
"Pops?"
The man standing there walked over to them. Xander was the first one to embrace his father, not have seen him in 20 years. Thaddeus and Algernon just stood there watching; even those without a nose could smell the envy.
"How are you my son?" The man asked.
Xander laughed, he was happy that he finally could get the chance to be with his father again. He had really missed him. "I am fine dad."
"I am glad to hear that son." Xander's father said. "Now where is Gideon? I want to talk to all of you."
Just when he had said that the ground started to shake and a creature came running towards them. "Daddy!" The big creature hugged their father. "Hello Gideon, what have you been up to lately? Pretending to be Acathla and raising havoc I hope." Algernon said to Gideon, who was still holding their father up in the air.
The big creature let go of their father and looked a bit ashamed. "No, I am not pretending to be Acathla anymore." He answered. "Daddy won't let me do that again, said it killed to many bad guys. Besides he was stuck with Angel for about 120 years, his brooding was something Daddy doesn't want to experience again."
"You were Acathla!" The big creature turned around and looked at his little brother. "Have you got any idea how much you ruined me life that day?" Xander hissed. "And my friends, things were never the same again after Angel had gone to hell."
"I'm sorry." Even though the big creature had the size of an ogre and seemed like a really bad thing, its voice seemed more like a child's.
Xander patted Gideon's back. "That's okay, I can live with it." Gideon smiled at his little brother.
"Let's go in then shall we," a voice said ruining the really tender moment. "There are lots of things I want to talk to you boys about. Mostly you Alexander, we need to have a really serious talk."
"About what?"
"About having the Slayer as one of your friends and other things you haven't even bothered to tell me." His father answered walking inside the apartment followed by his brothers.
This was going to become a long weekend.
TBC