Title: The One Who Sees

Author: Dhampyrx2

Category: Crossover W/ X-Men: Evolution, X-Men comic elements

Timeframe: Post-Dirty Girls, S7

Pairings: I'm open to suggestions that don't involve Spike, unless he reverts to his old, evil self

Summary: Xander's loss of an eye at the hands of Caleb stirred up a hornet's nest of trouble. His family is angry, worried, and happens to include several Alpha Class mutants, who will descend on Sunnydale with a vengeance to find out what happened, and take their frustrations out on the Caleb and the First Evil's hides.

Standard Disclaimer: I own squat. Several very wealthy people own the rights to Buffy, X-men, and any other character I may throw in. I make no money off of this. Nobody else try to do it either.

Distribution: You want it, just ask.

Xander grinned cheekily, a look every member of the X-men had seen on Kurt's face at one time or another. In fact, Tabitha and Wanda both had had it directed at them personally in the past, although only his wife /still/ received it.

"Nothing much, Faith. My family just came to visit. These are my 'rents, my baby sister, my godfather, my aunt, and my auntie." he commented breezily.

Faith looked to the assembled group around her with a casual air, not even batting an eye at Kurt and TJ's physical differences, before she replied, "Cool. They here to check you out of this dump?"

"Nah, just visiting so far. the docs haven't cleared me to leave yet." Xander responded.

It was almost surreal for the assembled group as they looked at Faith. She didn't seem to care at all about their presence beyond Xander's introduction. "Well, I'm heading to the cafeteria. Anyone want stuff?" she asked lazily, her thumb hooked into the pockets of her black leather pants.

"If I know Dad, he'll take whatever they have that's full of calories, and a pastry. Ignore anything they claim has meat, though. In this town there's no grantee where it came from." Xander replied.

As the rest of the room spoke up about what they might want, it was decided that Tabby and Wolverine would go to help carry things for the dark Slayer. Well, it was after TJ and Xander both ganged up on Wolvie with their best 'pity me' looks in tandem.

Once the food run crew left the room, TJ smiled wickedly as she said, "So, that was Faith, huh big brother? And she calls you /boytoy/?"

"That sounds mighty steamy there, rug rat." Rogue added with a wink.

Xander was blushing like mad under the uncomfortable attention, even as Wanda, who was acting just a bit smothering right now, piped up, "So is there something I should know here, Alex?"

Buffy and Willow, who were both trying to hold back their amused grins at Xander's discomfort under his mom's gaze (they were failing at it too) decided to come to his defense then.

"Oh, it's nothing like that, Mrs. Wagner. Faith just gives people names, kind of like Wolverine. Xander's 'Boytoy, I'm 'Red', and Buffy's 'B', as far as she's concerned. There's nothing relationshippy going on between them." Willow explained perkily.

Unfortunately, Buffy interjected her own two cents without thinking. "Yeah, they only slept together that one time, and that was like.../years/ ago." she said. Although, in her defense, the current revelations had left her a bit sluggish upstairs.

Xander and Willow both looked at Buffy wide eyed, unable to believe she had just said that, even as Kurt and Rogue broke out into blushes, TJ laughed uproariously, and Wanda seemed to be caught between choking on her own tongue, and giving Xander her sternest look.

"Alexander Stephen Wagner!" Wanda exclaimed, scandalized, and unconsciously using Xander's given birth name. (OOC: Bonus points to whomever can tell why Xander's new middle name would have special meaning to Kurt)

Xander cringed slightly, knowing this could get ugly. His mother tended to over compensate with the parenting because of the issues she had about giving him up to begin with, on top of having to live away from him due to his precog predictions. The fact he was in constant danger on the Hellmouth, and had just suffered his first serious and permanent injury didn't help ease her off. He'd really have to thank Buffy for opening this can of worms in private later.

"Ja, Mutti?" he asked timidly, switching to German in a habit he had picked up from being around his father. Both of his parents were fluent in the German, as well as Romani since they were both raised by gypsy foster parents in Europe, although his mother and Uncle Pietro had emigrated to America with his grandpa Eric when they were still young. As a result, Xander had studied the languages on his own from the time he was eight, and used them when he wanted to soothe either of his parents. German was usually used in public; Romani was only for discussions between the immediate family when alone.

"Don't you give me that, young man." Wanda said sternly, knowing his tricks.

"It was four years ago, it was a one night stand, and it was a mistake. Can we please just leave it at that? I'm still trying to repress the part where she left me outside in my underwear after she was done with me." he replied, wilting under Wanda's glare.

"Oh, I don't know, Boytoy. It was still a pretty fond memory for me. I don't know if I'm ready to just forget it yet." the freshly returned Faith said, Tabby and Logan in tow, carrying a huge amount of the things closest to being edible from the cafeteria.

As Faith made her way to the hospital cafeteria with the blonde woman and scruffy looking man, she decided to try to make nice and talk to them. She knew Xander's family was supposed to be shitty, but these two didn't give off a bad vibe, even if the scruffy guy...his godfather Logan if she remembered properly, smelled faintly of beer and whiskey, on top of the smell of many a stogie before the one he was puffing now, to her sensitive Slayer senses.

"So, you're all X's family, huh?" she asked the pair walking with her.

"Sorta," Tabby replied, as she took out a piece of gum and began to chew it. "Logan's his godfather, and everyone else you didn't know in the room was full on family photo type relative. I'm just his aunt by way of being an old friend of Blue's that's close to his family. That's why he calls me 'auntie', while Rogue gets the full on aunt."

"Five by five." Faith responded with a nod. "So, you guys mutants or something? Cause X's old man and baby sis looked strange, but they sure weren't setting off any of the 'warning demon' vibes I get around supernatural stuff." Faith queried.

"Yeah, we're all muties. Xander too." the blonde replied with a shrug, as she blew a bubble.

"You got a problem with mutants, kid?" Wolverine growled from next to them, not wanting another bigot on his case if he could help it.

"Nah. With the whole Slayer deal going on, you learn different ain't bad real easy. I just never knew Xan was a mutant, was all. Actually I knew a guy's back in Boston that were real cool that were mutants. It don't bother me." Faith answered easily.

"Good." Wolverine growled, although the slightly lighter tone to it was clear for people who knew him.

"Yeah, Allie doesn't broadcast his mutation. He's not ashamed or anything, he just figures it's is business and nobody else's." Tabby explained, as they reached the cafeteria and began to pick up everyone orders.

Once they had collected there food, and began the trek back, Meltdown asked, "So why all the interest in my favorite sorta nephew? You interested in him or something?"

Wolverine rolled his eyes at Boom-Boom's question. Now things would devolve into girly shit, and he couldn't be elsewhere because those damned kids of the Elf and his Witch had conned him into going along. TJ was definitely getting an extra level tacked on to her next Danger Room session when they got home.

Faith shrugged non-commitally as she replied, "I was just wonderin' is all. Boytoy never talks much about his family or nothin'. Not that I've talked to him all that much. Other then last night, the last time we hung around together for any amount of time worth mentioning was years ago."

"Well, that doesn't mean you can't put a little spark into now, right?" Tabby asked, as she formed a small energy bomb on the tip of her right index finger at the word 'spark', and flicked it into the rear of an orderly as they passed him, hitting him in the butt, and making him jump up in confusion.

Faith smirked at the older woman, who despite being close to forty still looked to be in her late twenties, just as Rogue and Wanda did, and replied, "Well, I try not to backtrack, normally." Her wicked little grin faded a bit as she added, "I got alot of shit to make up for to begin with, anyway. Some of it /to/ Xander. I don't have time to be thinkin' about getting laid." she added her tone more subdued.

Tabitha, sensing she was on the verge of a touchy subject backed off as she said, "Okay. Just don't count him out, kiddo. He's talked about you before, and I don't think he feels like you have anything to prove. Try to keep that in mind." Her voice showed that she had a good indication of Faith's past offenses, and that she wasn't about to pass judgment aver them.

Faith nodded in reply, almost automatically, as they neared the room. Once they were to the still open door, her ears picked up what sounded like a lecture for Xander from Wanda. She clearly heard him say...

"It was four years ago, it was a one night stand, and it was a mistake. Can we please just leave it at that? I'm still trying to repress the part where she left me outside in my underwear after she was done with me."

"Oh, I don't know, Boytoy. It was still a pretty fond memory for me. I don't know if I'm ready to just forget it yet." Faith said, trying to break the tension, or at least redirect it toward her.

The look Wanda gave the dark Slayer as she spoke was such that it took all of Faith's considerable courage not to turn tail and run. "Uh, herbal tea, right?" she asked, holding up Wanda's requested beverage in front of her and between them like a cross being used to ward off a hungry vampire.

Tabitha, however, was unaffected by the tension Wanda's mood had wrought, as she shouldered past Faith, and began handing out/tossing everyone their food. Once her burden was relieved, she stepped up next to TJ, and asked what was going on in a stage whisper. Her eyes grew wide for a second as she processed what she was told, before she walked up to the still glaring Scarlet Witch, and slapped her on the shoulder in a friendly gesture of camaraderie.

"Oh, lighten up Wendy." Tabby said cheerfully, using her preferred 'messed up' name for Wanda. In this case, Wendy was a reference to the red-clad young witch on the old 'Casper: the Friendly Ghost' cartoons. "You and Blue were knocking boots enough at that age to produce my favorite Allie Gator, if I remember my ancient history right. Quit getting your panties bunched up and let go. Bitching over four year old stuff is just silly."

TJ groaned in disgust as she commented, "Aunt Tabby, we've had the talk about never mentioning my parents' sex life, like ever, before. Please don't go down this road."

"Amen to that." Xander agreed, even a Wanda and Kurt both began to blush at their newly opened conversation.

Meltdown blew a huge pink bubble before she replied, "Yeah, yeah. No speaking of Blue and Wendy the teenage horndogs. I remember. It's not like I'm describing what I caught them at two weeks ago in the Danger Room when..."

"TABITHA!" Kurt exclaimed with wide eyes horror, as he and Wanda blushed more furiously than before.

"Wow, Xander. And here I thought it was all Anya's imagination that kept you on your pace before. Now I find you come by it honestly." Buffy added with a badly hidden grin.

"BUFFY!" Xander screamed in an eerily similar tone to Kurt's.

Talia just his her face in her hands, and mumbled, "Now those images are stuck in my head. Sometimes I hate my life."

END PART 3