Title: Iron Fisted 11/13
Author: Mike McD
Rating: R (for some naughty language)
Summary: The follow on from 'Silver Tongued'.
Distribution: Anywhere, just let me know.
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer nor do I own any other characters. This is a work of fiction written for fun and enjoyment.
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"What's Giles got planned for you tonight?"
Xander and Buffy were in the library after school. Xander was dropping off some books he has translated for Giles while Buffy was waiting for Giles to return so she could start her training session.
"Callisthenics. It can get a little dull so I brought my favourite aerobicising CD to work out to."
"Aerobicising? As in bouncing around in skin tight spandex to music type aerobicising?" he asked, the associated image running through Xander's mind.
Buffy rolled her eyes at his enthusiasm.
"Don't you have a girlfriend you should be with right now?"
"I do and a fair and beautiful maiden she is. But alas I have a more pressing engagement with yet another beautiful woman."
Just then Giles returned and Xander went into his office to meet him.
"Here's the last of those books you wanted translated. By the way, this one" Xander held up a small leather bound book. "Isn't an ancient Greek Slayer training manual."
"What is it then?" inquired Giles. It was one of the books Giles had acquired from an old book dealer in LA and hadn't had time to go through as yet.
"It's a collection of poetry by Sappho and some of her friends. I'd like to keep it if I could. Unless you intend to use it to train Buffy that is." The salacious undertone in Xander's voice ruffled Giles.
"N... no, By all means, feel free to keep the book."
"Thanks." Replied Xander with a smirk. Ruffling Giles' feathers occasionally was fun.
"Who's Sappho?" Buffy asked from the office doorway. The question made Giles squirm and Xander's smirk grew.
"Giles will tell you when you're older."
Buffy crossed her arms and grumped at the two males, not appreciating being left out of the joke. She decided to pester Giles later on to tell her.
"Fine. Don't you have a pressing engagement with a beautiful woman to go to right now?"
"Yes I do and I must say, a very beautiful woman she is." He confirmed.
"And does Willow, your girlfriend, know of this 'pressing engagement' with a 'beautiful woman' who isn't Willow?" Ever since Halloween Xander had become something of a ladies man and Buffy was unhappy at the idea of him sneaking around behind Willow's back.
"Oh yeah! She's all for it. In fact Willow was the one who suggested it."
"WHAT?" Buffy yelled, completely unable to believe her ears.
"What are you upset about? It's just your mom."
"MY MOM!!!" Buffy went nuts.
"Buffy, chill." Xander tried to reassure the Slayer who was on the verge of loosing it completely. "I'm just baby sitting Dawn tonight for your mother. Willow suggested it as a way of getting me back into your mom's good books. After all, I did deflower her first born child in the middle of an orgy."
"Oh god." Buffy sagged in relief. "You had me freaking there for a moment."
"You thought... me and your mom..."
Buffy nodded.
Xander burst out laughing.
"It's not funny Xander! I thought I was facing the prospect of you becoming daddy dearest."
"What's wrong with that, Buff? After all, it'd mean I'd get spanking privileges." He told her, rubbing his hands together lecherously.
One look at Buffy's expression and Xander's survival instincts had him out of the library and running in seconds.
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"She's nearly finished her homework and she can watch TV afterwards and not before." Joyce instructed as she was getting ready to leave. "Here's some money for pizza and remember to leave some slices of double peperoni for me."
Joyce had a weakness for double peperoni pizza.
"Consider it done." Xander reassured her.
"Good. Remember, her bedtime is 9:30, no exceptions. I'll be home around 10:30."
"I know, Mrs Summers, and the phone numbers are on the fridge if I need to call you. Relax, I've got it all under control."
"OK then." Joyce picked up her handbag and yelled up to Dawn who was in her room. "I'm off now honey! Behave yourself for Xander!"
"I will mom!" Dawn yelled back.
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Nearly an hour after Joyce had left Xander knocked on Dawn's door.
"Can I come in?" he asked. Dawn opened the door then flopped back down on her bed.
"You finished your homework?" Dawn just nodded obviously upset. Concerned, Xander sat down on the bed next to the skinny soon to be 12-year-old.
"What's wrong Dawn Patrol?" Xander gently coaxed. Dawn didn't say anything for a while, instead fiddling with the ruffle on her pillow.
"Everybody at school hates me." She mumbled finally.
"No they don't." Xander tried telling her.
"Yes they do. They tease me all the time."
"What do they say?"
"They call me a teachers pet and brace face."
Xander inwardly smiled. This was familiar territory.
"When I was in your year, there was a girl in our class who was really smart like you and who had braces."
"And did everybody tease her?"
"Yeah, they did, especially Cordelia and the rest of her sheep. I got into trouble for putting rotten banana in Harmony's hair for picking on Willow."
"Wait. Willow had braces?"
"Oh yeah. Big old set too. She hated having to wear them. Food getting stuck in them, kids calling her names, not a fun happening time for Wills."
"What'd she do?"
"Tried to put on a brave face and pretend not to care what anybody said. Didn't always work, but there was no shortage of rotten banana for revenge purposes." Xander smirked at the still pleasant memory of Harmony running away, chunks of rotten banana sliding down her head.
"You want some Xander wisdom?" he asked the youngster. Dawn nodded.
"It took me years to learn this but then boys are dumb and I'm a particularly dumb boy."
"You're not dumb." Dawn defended. She liked Xander. He didn't treat her like little kid and he made her laugh lots. Dawn though Xander was pretty cool.
"Dawnie, you're good at math, aren't you? I'm not. You get math, I don't. You're smart and I'm not." He declared. "Now you wanna hear my Xander wisdom or not?"
Dawn kept quiet.
"OK, here it is." Xander postured himself as if he was about to part the very secrets of the universe itself.
"Smart chicks are hot."
Dawn looked at Xander, not quite following or believing what he just said.
"Look, Willow's the smartest girl I know and I think she's the hottest one too. You're the second smartest girl I know and in a few years time you'll be a major league hottie as well. So don't worry too much about it because you're gonna have the last laugh. And if they still pick on you, there's always lots of bananas." He informed her with a waggle of his eyebrows, causing Dawn to laugh. Getting up, Xander stretched and held out his arm for Dawn to take hold of.
"Care to accompany me for a feast of pizza and rocky road ice cream, my fair young maiden?"
Dawn hooked her arm through his.
"Thank you Sir Alexander." She giggled as the two of them headed down stairs for a night of pizza and Play Station.
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"This isn't right. School on a Saturday. It throws off my internal clock." Cordelia complained as she and the others headed to their remedial computer class.
"When are we gonna need computers for real life anyway?" demanded Xander.
"Hmm, let's see. There's home, school, work, games..." Miss Calendar listed as she opened the classroom.
"Y'know, computers are on the way out. I think paper's gonna make a big comeback."
"And the abacus." Willow added.
"Yeah, you know, you don't see enough abaci." Xander declared.
Willow, Xander and Cordelia each took a seat in front of a PC while Miss Calendar opened up her lesson plan.
"Alright, guys. The first thing we're gonna do is... Buffy!"
"Huh? Didn't we do that already?"
Xander's comment elicited glares from both Cordelia and Willow and a moment of awkward silence from Buffy and Miss Calendar.
Buffy spoke to Jenny. "Actually I wanted to talk to you for a second?" the tone in her voice concerned the techno-pagan.
"Something wrong?"
"Is there some crisis that requires instant action? Very far from here?" Xander asked hopefully.
"It's Giles."
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Willow, Xander and Cordelia were researching books in the library.
"We have to figure out how to kill this thing, and we need to do it fast." Willow commented. She took a sip of tea. Willow didn't particularly like tea but in this case she drank it for reassurance. It was a very comforting 'Giles' thing to do.
"Uh, 'hot lava.'"
"That's for a heretic."
"Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay. Uh, ooo, ooo! 'Bury a potato!' No, that's for warts. Who writes this stuff?" Xander wondered looking at the front cover of the book he was reading.
Cordelia smiled triumphantly. "I've got the solution right here. 'To kill a demon cut off its head.'"
"Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah! We'll, uh, find Ms. Calendar, then we'll decapitate her. Hey! She'll be the first headless computer teacher in school. You think anybody'll notice?"
"Do you know what you need, Xander, besides a year's supply of acne cream? A brain."
Xander got up off the table.
"That's it! Twelve years of you and I'm snappin'! I don't care if you're a girl or not, I'm throwin' down! Come on!"
Cordelia walked right up to him.
"I've seen you fight. And don't think I can't take you!"
"Give it your best shot." Xander challenged the cheerleader. Willow had had enough.
"HEY! We don't have time for this! Our friends are in trouble! Now, we have to put our heads together and, and get them out of it! And if you two aren't with me a hundred and ten percent, then get the hell out of my library!" she yelled pointing to the door.
"We're sorry." Cordelia apologised meekly.
"We'll be good." Promised Xander. Willow nodded and sat back down,
"Okay. Now, we've done the research. We just have to figure out how to use it."
"Oh, hey! Why don't we find another dead body for the demon to jump into!" Xander exclaimed.
"Yes! At the cemetery." Cordelia added, liking Xander's idea. Willow was less enthusiastic.
"Well, that won't kill the demon. It'll only give it a change of scenery." Just then something seemed to click. "Oh. Oh! Oh, I've got it!" an excited Willow ran to the phone. "I've got it!"
Watching the redhead Xander shook his head in wonder.
"She's good!" he said following Willow.
Cordelia smiled and followed also.
"Nobody like our Willow." Cordelia agreed.
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"Is she okay?" Buffy asked her Watcher out in front of the library.
"Um... The hills are not alive."
"I'm sorry to hear that. I think." Buffy said, not quite sure what Giles meant.
"I don't think she'll ever really forgive me. Maybe she shouldn't." Giles berated himself for putting the lives of both Jenny and Buffy in danger.
"Maybe you should."
"I never wanted you to see that side of me."
"I'm not gonna lie to you. It was scary. I'm so used to you being a grownup, and then I find out that you're a person."
"Most grownups are."
"Who would've thought?"
"Some are even, uh... short-sighted, foolish people." He admitted.
"So, after all this time, we finally find out that we do have something in common, other than orgies. Which, apart from being a little weird, is kind of okay." There was a moment of companionable silence. "I think we're supposed to be training right now."
"Yes. Yes. Um, need to concentrate on your flexibility." Giles told Buffy, slipping back into Watcher mode.
"And you know what? I have just the perfect music." Buffy held up a black CD. "Go on, say it. You know you want to." She teased.
"It's not music, it's just, uh, meaningless sounds."
"There. Feel better?"
"Yes. Thanks."
The two of them headed into the library.
"Bay City Rollers. Now, that's music." Giles pronounced.
Buffy rolled her eyes.
"I didn't hear that."
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Later that afternoon saw Willow, Cordelia, and Xander together in an empty classroom.
"I've come to a decision. About us, that is." Willow declared.
When Xander had brought up the subject the other night he had left the decision to Willow who wanted some time to think it over.
Now the moment of truth had come and Cordelia did her best to hide her fear of the inevitable rejection that was heading her way.
In a choice between Xander and Cordelia, Cordelia knew Willow's choice would always be Xander.
"For years I loved this big clueless doofus." Willow told Cordelia, indicating to Xander. "Despite the fact he didn't feel the same way, it was Willow and Xander against the world. Always was and always will be. And now that I've finally got him I'm not about to let him go."
"OK." The disappointment and hurt clear in Cordelia's acceptance of Willow's decision.
"I'm not finished yet." Willow told her.
"Me and Xander are together and nothing's gonna change that fact. But what we; you, me, Xander; what we've got is special too. It's weird and strange and crazy but I don't want it to end and I can't see a reason why it would have to. I mean, unless, of course, you don't want it..."
Cordelia surprised herself with her tears of joy.
"Of course I want it..."
Willow and Xander came over to her and enveloped her into a comforting group hug.
"Call us nuts, but we really care for you Cordy." Xander whispered into her ear.
"You guys are nuts." Cordelia laughed, wiping away her tears. For the first time in her life, Cordelia felt accepted for who she truly was rather than her money or looks.
The fact that it was the two people she had for so long branded rejects was an irony not lost on Cordelia.
After a while, Cordelia broke off the hug.
"So what exactly are we now?" Cordelia wondered. Willow rubbed her nose in thought.
"How 'bout... friends with benefits. How's that sound?" suggested Willow.
"Sounds good." Cordelia said.
Xander's chocolate eyes twinkled
"How about we find somewhere more private to exercise those benefits?"
"Sounds better." Purred Cordelia.
Author: Mike McD
Rating: R (for some naughty language)
Summary: The follow on from 'Silver Tongued'.
Distribution: Anywhere, just let me know.
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer nor do I own any other characters. This is a work of fiction written for fun and enjoyment.
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"What's Giles got planned for you tonight?"
Xander and Buffy were in the library after school. Xander was dropping off some books he has translated for Giles while Buffy was waiting for Giles to return so she could start her training session.
"Callisthenics. It can get a little dull so I brought my favourite aerobicising CD to work out to."
"Aerobicising? As in bouncing around in skin tight spandex to music type aerobicising?" he asked, the associated image running through Xander's mind.
Buffy rolled her eyes at his enthusiasm.
"Don't you have a girlfriend you should be with right now?"
"I do and a fair and beautiful maiden she is. But alas I have a more pressing engagement with yet another beautiful woman."
Just then Giles returned and Xander went into his office to meet him.
"Here's the last of those books you wanted translated. By the way, this one" Xander held up a small leather bound book. "Isn't an ancient Greek Slayer training manual."
"What is it then?" inquired Giles. It was one of the books Giles had acquired from an old book dealer in LA and hadn't had time to go through as yet.
"It's a collection of poetry by Sappho and some of her friends. I'd like to keep it if I could. Unless you intend to use it to train Buffy that is." The salacious undertone in Xander's voice ruffled Giles.
"N... no, By all means, feel free to keep the book."
"Thanks." Replied Xander with a smirk. Ruffling Giles' feathers occasionally was fun.
"Who's Sappho?" Buffy asked from the office doorway. The question made Giles squirm and Xander's smirk grew.
"Giles will tell you when you're older."
Buffy crossed her arms and grumped at the two males, not appreciating being left out of the joke. She decided to pester Giles later on to tell her.
"Fine. Don't you have a pressing engagement with a beautiful woman to go to right now?"
"Yes I do and I must say, a very beautiful woman she is." He confirmed.
"And does Willow, your girlfriend, know of this 'pressing engagement' with a 'beautiful woman' who isn't Willow?" Ever since Halloween Xander had become something of a ladies man and Buffy was unhappy at the idea of him sneaking around behind Willow's back.
"Oh yeah! She's all for it. In fact Willow was the one who suggested it."
"WHAT?" Buffy yelled, completely unable to believe her ears.
"What are you upset about? It's just your mom."
"MY MOM!!!" Buffy went nuts.
"Buffy, chill." Xander tried to reassure the Slayer who was on the verge of loosing it completely. "I'm just baby sitting Dawn tonight for your mother. Willow suggested it as a way of getting me back into your mom's good books. After all, I did deflower her first born child in the middle of an orgy."
"Oh god." Buffy sagged in relief. "You had me freaking there for a moment."
"You thought... me and your mom..."
Buffy nodded.
Xander burst out laughing.
"It's not funny Xander! I thought I was facing the prospect of you becoming daddy dearest."
"What's wrong with that, Buff? After all, it'd mean I'd get spanking privileges." He told her, rubbing his hands together lecherously.
One look at Buffy's expression and Xander's survival instincts had him out of the library and running in seconds.
-----
"She's nearly finished her homework and she can watch TV afterwards and not before." Joyce instructed as she was getting ready to leave. "Here's some money for pizza and remember to leave some slices of double peperoni for me."
Joyce had a weakness for double peperoni pizza.
"Consider it done." Xander reassured her.
"Good. Remember, her bedtime is 9:30, no exceptions. I'll be home around 10:30."
"I know, Mrs Summers, and the phone numbers are on the fridge if I need to call you. Relax, I've got it all under control."
"OK then." Joyce picked up her handbag and yelled up to Dawn who was in her room. "I'm off now honey! Behave yourself for Xander!"
"I will mom!" Dawn yelled back.
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Nearly an hour after Joyce had left Xander knocked on Dawn's door.
"Can I come in?" he asked. Dawn opened the door then flopped back down on her bed.
"You finished your homework?" Dawn just nodded obviously upset. Concerned, Xander sat down on the bed next to the skinny soon to be 12-year-old.
"What's wrong Dawn Patrol?" Xander gently coaxed. Dawn didn't say anything for a while, instead fiddling with the ruffle on her pillow.
"Everybody at school hates me." She mumbled finally.
"No they don't." Xander tried telling her.
"Yes they do. They tease me all the time."
"What do they say?"
"They call me a teachers pet and brace face."
Xander inwardly smiled. This was familiar territory.
"When I was in your year, there was a girl in our class who was really smart like you and who had braces."
"And did everybody tease her?"
"Yeah, they did, especially Cordelia and the rest of her sheep. I got into trouble for putting rotten banana in Harmony's hair for picking on Willow."
"Wait. Willow had braces?"
"Oh yeah. Big old set too. She hated having to wear them. Food getting stuck in them, kids calling her names, not a fun happening time for Wills."
"What'd she do?"
"Tried to put on a brave face and pretend not to care what anybody said. Didn't always work, but there was no shortage of rotten banana for revenge purposes." Xander smirked at the still pleasant memory of Harmony running away, chunks of rotten banana sliding down her head.
"You want some Xander wisdom?" he asked the youngster. Dawn nodded.
"It took me years to learn this but then boys are dumb and I'm a particularly dumb boy."
"You're not dumb." Dawn defended. She liked Xander. He didn't treat her like little kid and he made her laugh lots. Dawn though Xander was pretty cool.
"Dawnie, you're good at math, aren't you? I'm not. You get math, I don't. You're smart and I'm not." He declared. "Now you wanna hear my Xander wisdom or not?"
Dawn kept quiet.
"OK, here it is." Xander postured himself as if he was about to part the very secrets of the universe itself.
"Smart chicks are hot."
Dawn looked at Xander, not quite following or believing what he just said.
"Look, Willow's the smartest girl I know and I think she's the hottest one too. You're the second smartest girl I know and in a few years time you'll be a major league hottie as well. So don't worry too much about it because you're gonna have the last laugh. And if they still pick on you, there's always lots of bananas." He informed her with a waggle of his eyebrows, causing Dawn to laugh. Getting up, Xander stretched and held out his arm for Dawn to take hold of.
"Care to accompany me for a feast of pizza and rocky road ice cream, my fair young maiden?"
Dawn hooked her arm through his.
"Thank you Sir Alexander." She giggled as the two of them headed down stairs for a night of pizza and Play Station.
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"This isn't right. School on a Saturday. It throws off my internal clock." Cordelia complained as she and the others headed to their remedial computer class.
"When are we gonna need computers for real life anyway?" demanded Xander.
"Hmm, let's see. There's home, school, work, games..." Miss Calendar listed as she opened the classroom.
"Y'know, computers are on the way out. I think paper's gonna make a big comeback."
"And the abacus." Willow added.
"Yeah, you know, you don't see enough abaci." Xander declared.
Willow, Xander and Cordelia each took a seat in front of a PC while Miss Calendar opened up her lesson plan.
"Alright, guys. The first thing we're gonna do is... Buffy!"
"Huh? Didn't we do that already?"
Xander's comment elicited glares from both Cordelia and Willow and a moment of awkward silence from Buffy and Miss Calendar.
Buffy spoke to Jenny. "Actually I wanted to talk to you for a second?" the tone in her voice concerned the techno-pagan.
"Something wrong?"
"Is there some crisis that requires instant action? Very far from here?" Xander asked hopefully.
"It's Giles."
-----
Willow, Xander and Cordelia were researching books in the library.
"We have to figure out how to kill this thing, and we need to do it fast." Willow commented. She took a sip of tea. Willow didn't particularly like tea but in this case she drank it for reassurance. It was a very comforting 'Giles' thing to do.
"Uh, 'hot lava.'"
"That's for a heretic."
"Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay. Uh, ooo, ooo! 'Bury a potato!' No, that's for warts. Who writes this stuff?" Xander wondered looking at the front cover of the book he was reading.
Cordelia smiled triumphantly. "I've got the solution right here. 'To kill a demon cut off its head.'"
"Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah! We'll, uh, find Ms. Calendar, then we'll decapitate her. Hey! She'll be the first headless computer teacher in school. You think anybody'll notice?"
"Do you know what you need, Xander, besides a year's supply of acne cream? A brain."
Xander got up off the table.
"That's it! Twelve years of you and I'm snappin'! I don't care if you're a girl or not, I'm throwin' down! Come on!"
Cordelia walked right up to him.
"I've seen you fight. And don't think I can't take you!"
"Give it your best shot." Xander challenged the cheerleader. Willow had had enough.
"HEY! We don't have time for this! Our friends are in trouble! Now, we have to put our heads together and, and get them out of it! And if you two aren't with me a hundred and ten percent, then get the hell out of my library!" she yelled pointing to the door.
"We're sorry." Cordelia apologised meekly.
"We'll be good." Promised Xander. Willow nodded and sat back down,
"Okay. Now, we've done the research. We just have to figure out how to use it."
"Oh, hey! Why don't we find another dead body for the demon to jump into!" Xander exclaimed.
"Yes! At the cemetery." Cordelia added, liking Xander's idea. Willow was less enthusiastic.
"Well, that won't kill the demon. It'll only give it a change of scenery." Just then something seemed to click. "Oh. Oh! Oh, I've got it!" an excited Willow ran to the phone. "I've got it!"
Watching the redhead Xander shook his head in wonder.
"She's good!" he said following Willow.
Cordelia smiled and followed also.
"Nobody like our Willow." Cordelia agreed.
-----
"Is she okay?" Buffy asked her Watcher out in front of the library.
"Um... The hills are not alive."
"I'm sorry to hear that. I think." Buffy said, not quite sure what Giles meant.
"I don't think she'll ever really forgive me. Maybe she shouldn't." Giles berated himself for putting the lives of both Jenny and Buffy in danger.
"Maybe you should."
"I never wanted you to see that side of me."
"I'm not gonna lie to you. It was scary. I'm so used to you being a grownup, and then I find out that you're a person."
"Most grownups are."
"Who would've thought?"
"Some are even, uh... short-sighted, foolish people." He admitted.
"So, after all this time, we finally find out that we do have something in common, other than orgies. Which, apart from being a little weird, is kind of okay." There was a moment of companionable silence. "I think we're supposed to be training right now."
"Yes. Yes. Um, need to concentrate on your flexibility." Giles told Buffy, slipping back into Watcher mode.
"And you know what? I have just the perfect music." Buffy held up a black CD. "Go on, say it. You know you want to." She teased.
"It's not music, it's just, uh, meaningless sounds."
"There. Feel better?"
"Yes. Thanks."
The two of them headed into the library.
"Bay City Rollers. Now, that's music." Giles pronounced.
Buffy rolled her eyes.
"I didn't hear that."
-----
Later that afternoon saw Willow, Cordelia, and Xander together in an empty classroom.
"I've come to a decision. About us, that is." Willow declared.
When Xander had brought up the subject the other night he had left the decision to Willow who wanted some time to think it over.
Now the moment of truth had come and Cordelia did her best to hide her fear of the inevitable rejection that was heading her way.
In a choice between Xander and Cordelia, Cordelia knew Willow's choice would always be Xander.
"For years I loved this big clueless doofus." Willow told Cordelia, indicating to Xander. "Despite the fact he didn't feel the same way, it was Willow and Xander against the world. Always was and always will be. And now that I've finally got him I'm not about to let him go."
"OK." The disappointment and hurt clear in Cordelia's acceptance of Willow's decision.
"I'm not finished yet." Willow told her.
"Me and Xander are together and nothing's gonna change that fact. But what we; you, me, Xander; what we've got is special too. It's weird and strange and crazy but I don't want it to end and I can't see a reason why it would have to. I mean, unless, of course, you don't want it..."
Cordelia surprised herself with her tears of joy.
"Of course I want it..."
Willow and Xander came over to her and enveloped her into a comforting group hug.
"Call us nuts, but we really care for you Cordy." Xander whispered into her ear.
"You guys are nuts." Cordelia laughed, wiping away her tears. For the first time in her life, Cordelia felt accepted for who she truly was rather than her money or looks.
The fact that it was the two people she had for so long branded rejects was an irony not lost on Cordelia.
After a while, Cordelia broke off the hug.
"So what exactly are we now?" Cordelia wondered. Willow rubbed her nose in thought.
"How 'bout... friends with benefits. How's that sound?" suggested Willow.
"Sounds good." Cordelia said.
Xander's chocolate eyes twinkled
"How about we find somewhere more private to exercise those benefits?"
"Sounds better." Purred Cordelia.