Part 9

"Tell me dad!" Xander said, he and the rest of the people around the room had already waited about five minutes to let Lucifer think about how he was going to start this conversation. Xander however knew that if his father really wanted to talk then he would have done so already, Lucifer was just buying time probably trying to figure out something to distract them with. He stood up from where he was sitting and walked over to his father. "Tell me what prize you had to pay to save me from my mother's dead body." He growled at his father, not really sure why this subject made him so angry and confused.

"Um, bro," Algernon said trying to calm Xander down for some reason.

"What?!" Xander turned towards his brother as he screamed the word, it sounded more forceful in a way and Xander noticed the others in the room except for his family and Spike looking at him in shock.

"You kinda changed into your devil form," Algernon finished indicating to Xander's body.

The group looked at the changes in Xander's body with both admiring and fear in their faces. Except for Riley who seemed to want to lock Xander up in a cage and poke him with needles and sticks. You can take the boy out of the initiative but you can't take the initiative out of the boy, Xander thought as he saw Riley looking at him.

"You got angel wings," Cora, Willow's girlfriend said finally. "And they are black."

Xander was a little shocked that it was Cora that had been the first to speak, as he knew how much she did not seem to approve of him as Willow's friend. The blue eyed, dark blond had always seemed to trying to avoid talking to him as much as possible. Her comment seemed to have broken the silence around the room and for that Xander was glad, what he had not expected was all the questions and comments that followed.

"Can you fly?"

"Have you always had them, or did they grow out after you were born?" It was such a typical Giles question that Xander had to hold back his laughter. He was just happy that it was not Riley that had asked the question, at the moment he did not actually feel save around the ex-marine.

"Can I touch them?" Dawn asked starring at his wings.

It was strange really that the gang only commented on his wings, as his body had taken on more changes then just the wings. His eyes were ones again a mix between yellow and red, his hair had grown to its normal length and his horns were showing. Xander could even feel his tail swirling around his legs, and even though the gang could see all of this all they were commenting on was his wings.

He sighed and started to answer their questions. "Yes, I can fly but I have not done so in a very long time. I think I have always had my wings, but what does it matter anyway. Yes Dawn, you may touch them if you want."

That invitation seemed to go for every girl in the room as the rest of the girls started to touch his wings. Xander should probably have told them that his wings were very sensitive, though he did not even have the chance before the four girls started to touch the wings. Xander had to suppress a moan as on of the girl ran her fingers over a very sensitive spot. Carefully he spread his wings letting the rooms' residence see how big they really were.

"They are so soft," Willow said.

Xander glanced over at the rest of the group hoping that one of them would say something to make the girls stop touching his feathers. He noticed that Spike seemed to glare at the girls and it almost seem like the vampire was jealous for reason. Not wanting to believe that the look Spike gave the girls really was jealousy he turned towards his father folding his wings together again as he did. The girls stopped touching them as he did so and for that Xander was glad as if they had continued any longer everybody in the room would have seen how sensitive his wings really were. He was sure that the demon and devils in the room could smell his arousal though he knew they would not say anything about it.

"So can we go back to the prize you had to pay again Dad?" He asked his father who had been quiet for a long time now. Lucifer still seemed reluctant to tell them, as if the truth would cause a lot of trouble for the devil.

"Come on Father, tell us," Thaddeus said. Being the oldest brother was a role Thaddeus took very seriously, and he did not like it when their father kept secrets from them. He really cared about his youngest brother even though he knew that he could do nothing about the fact that Alexander always would stand in their shadow.

Lucifer took a deep breath before saying anything. "Maybe it's better that you sit down." He said the girls did as he said though Xander was still standing in front of him waiting for him to tell him what the prize was.

As Lucifer saw that his youngest son was not about to sit down he decided to tell the group what the prize was. After all Xander had the right to know since the prize had everything to do with him and he knew that Xander's adopted family would be there to support him. Lucifer always wanted what was best for his son, which was why he had grounded him on Earth to keep him away from hell. He had not thought that Xander would miss it much as his son always had been a dreamer and Lucifer had always known that Xander did not belong down below.

"All I wanted was for you to be alive and safe," he said to Xander. "I wanted you so much that I in my own selfishness made a deal with the person who I trusted least of all to keep her word. When I got you into my arms I was so happy, as you were so beautiful and you looked so much like your mother. I did not even register what the person was doing before she said that she had gotten her payment. As I looked up I saw her holding another baby boy, your brother, you have a twin."

TBC