Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or concepts in BTVS or HL (although I may twist them to my own evil ends) and I'm not making any money out of this

Premise: Buffy/HL X-over

BTVS: post Gift. Buffy isn't brought back to life, Willow and Tarra take over protecting Sunnydale using magic instead of hand-to-hand weapons and bring in a couple other Wiccans to help, Giles leaves them his library and returns to England, Anya and Xander break up and Xander leaves Sunnydale.

HL: Duncan didn't kill Richie. Duncan, Richie, Methos, Casandra, and Amanda together defeated the demon. Casandra Hasn't forgiven Methos and still can't stand to be anywhere near him but has acknowledged that he isn't the same person and she gave up any homicidal intentions towards him

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Now the Story:

Surprise, surprise Ch 4: Rise and...shine?

Xander took a large gasping breath feeling as if he'd been drowning and opened his eyes.

What he saw surprised him as he wasn't laying in a hospital bed, or on the sidewalk where he fought the gangsters. He was laying on a large plastic sheet on a concrete floor next to some large machinery with a young man siting on the hood of Xander's beat up car watching him.

"5:45, If you waited any longer you'd have been waking up in the trunk of your car" The young man said as he saw Xander looking at him. At that moment Xander realized he was sensing the young man wasn't human. Xander didn't have a Slayer's 'supernatural radar but after bumping into every sort of nasty, evil, or simply non-human critter in five years of fighting on the hellmouth he'd developed a pretty accurate instinct and right now he sensed some sort of energy coming from the young man in front of him.

"Oh, shit." Xander muttered and moved. He hurt all over, especially his shoulder and chest but if you let pain stop you the nasty critter which hurt you was going to kill you. So Xander ignored the feeling of molten lead being poured on his chest and the spikes of pain whenever he moved his shoulder, rolled towards the guy and leapt up, graping the guy's right ankle and yanking up and to the left as he did. The guy had began to say something but Xander was too busy ignoring the pain to pay attention to anything he didn't have to, like whatever threat, or spell or whatever the guy had begun. Whatever it was Xander's yanking his ankle as he leaped up had stopped it and sent him rolling on the concrete floor.

A glance into the car showed that the keys were in the ignition and Xander half leapt, half fell into the car and with a quick prayer to any gods out there twisted the key. On the second try the engine started. Xander put it into gear and twisted the wheel hard to the right to turn the car in the limited space he had. Despite the pain Xander grinned as he felt the car crunch, over the strange guy's body. Even a master vampire would take several minutes to heal broken bones and ruptured organs enough to chase him. Completing the turn, Xander pointed his car at the open exit , shifted gears and accelerated out of the building. Hopefully by the time whatever it was that had caught him healed enough to chase him he'd be too far away for it to track him.

As soon as he was sure he'd shook off the creature he'd get a motel room and call Willow and Giles. One of them will be able to find what that guy was and tell him how to deal with it. "Dammit! I was trying to get away from all the supernatural stuff." Xander thought to himself, slaming his hand against the steering wheel as he drove down the street.