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Unlikely Allies

Lucas Cates and his friends stood at the corner waiting for Xander to show. Luke's friends were all looking at his GTO which was parked next to them and missing a windshield.

"Damn Lucas," said Randy, "what happened to your car? How are you going to get good speed up for the race without a windshield?"

"Don't worry about it," said Lucas.

"Did you hit a deer or something?" asked Sean.

"No, I hit the window," he told them. He didn't want to admit that a girl threw him on his car. Sophia had taken him by surprise when she threw him. He never expected her to be able to do that so he wasn't prepared for it when she did.

"Why'd you do that?" persisted Sean.

"Guess that would be my own business," he said. Sean backed off as he knew better than to irritate the Alpha male.

Just then the sound of a loud motor was heard and they turned their heads and watched as Xander pulled up with Buffy on the back of the bike. They had left Willow behind at Miranda's for now as Willow was afraid the police would show up at the race and recognize her.

Buffy got off and walked up to the boys. "So what are the rules?" she asked.

Lucas pointed down the street. "See that blonde girl standing two blocks away?"

Buffy squinted in the direction he pointed. She could barely make out the girl. The girl raised her arm and waved from the distance.

"Yeah, o.k. I see her," Buffy said.

"It's simple. First one to pass her by wins. She's going to be the judge," Lucas said.

Buffy let out a small laugh. "Well, I think I'll go help her judge if you don't mind. Just to be fair."

"Go right ahead," said Lucas. Buffy turned and walked quickly up the street while Xander and Lucas got into position.

The curly haired blonde frowned at Buffy as she walked up. "What do you want?" she sneered.

"I'm going to help you judge, so that it's a fair race," Buffy told her. The girl just shrugged as Buffy went across the street and stood directly across from her.

Xander and Lucas both had their rides lined up at a chalk line that Randy had drawn across the street. They both signaled that they were ready and waited for Sean to give the signal. While they waited they gave dirty looked to each other and revved up their engines. The signal was given and they were off.

Down the street they accelerated, both sneaking glances at each other. Even with sunglasses on, Lucas was having a hard time without his windshield but he was very familiar with how his car handled and he knew just when to step on the gas.

He didn't anticipate that someone would back out of a driveway on his side of the road however and he suddenly found himself swerving out of the way and almost hitting Xander. Xander accelerated just in time to avoid getting hit and crossed over the finish line just a breath away from Lucas.

Xander put his arm in the air as he whooped his excitement at winning. He slowed down and turned around, riding up to Luke who was pulling over his car. Everyone else came running up to them.

"Damn!" Lucas exclaimed as he got out of the car, slamming the door shut hard.

Everyone else was running up to where they were. "I think we should do it over again," said the blonde girl. "Lucas was interrupted by that car backing out."

"That's not how it works Presley," Lucas said to her. He regretted that he had made this bet at all. Now he would lose his car.

Buffy gave Presley a smug look. Presley felt her anger flare. "What are you smiling at bitch?" Presley spat at Buffy.

Buffy let out a small laugh and shook her head.

Presley became even more enraged. "I think I need to wipe that smile off your face!"

Now Buffy was beginning to hate that girl's attitude. "That wouldn't be a very good thing to do," Buffy said.

Xander shook his head, "No, not a good thing at all."

Presley said, "Why not?"

"Cause you'd lose," said Buffy.

Presley grabbed Buffy by the front of her jacket and lifted her in the air. She tossed Buffy down the street a ways away. Now Buffy could tell that Presley was one of the werewolves as well. She sprang to her feet and gave Presley a roundhouse kick, knocking her over onto the curb. Presley got up and kept coming for her, swiping and punching at Buffy and Buffy kept kicking and punching her in return.

All the guys just stood there watching as the two girls went back and forth with their blows. Xander finally turned to face Lucas while the girls continued.

"So…," he said to Lucas in a casual manner while blows could be heard in the background, "we were talking about this earlier and my girl and I decided that if we won we wouldn't take your car."

Lucas looked over at him in confusion for two reasons. First he was surprised at what he just said and second was the fact that Buffy seemed just as strong as Presley and he knew that Buffy was human. He could smell her human scent.

"Who are you guys and what do you want?" Lucas now asked.

"Well we are looking for a friend of ours and since we don't know anyone in town much we were hoping you might help us find him," Xander said.

The sound of the punching was distracting to Lucas and he couldn't concentrate on what Xander was saying. He turned his head towards the fighting girls.

"Presley! Stop!" he yelled a sharp command.

Presley backed away from Buffy and stood there glaring at her and breathing hard. She was amazed that an ungulate could be so strong.

Buffy walked over to stand with Xander as Sean and Randy came up closer to sniff her and see if she was really human. Buffy gave them dirty looks and they backed away.

"How can she be so strong?" asked Lucas as he looked Buffy over. "Your human aren't you?"

"Yeah, she is, but in a special way," Xander said. Buffy gave Xander a warning look but Xander said to her, "We need more allies Buffy."

Buffy gave a big sigh. She looked at the four teenage werewolves and thought it over. She had nothing against werewolves when they were in human form. She knew from her friendship with Oz that they were just normal people when they weren't all furry. But somehow she got the feeling that these were a bit different from Oz. She decided to give Xander's idea a chance. She nodded at Xander.

"Where we live, there are a lot of creatures of the night, mostly demons and vampires," said Xander. "And Buffy kills them and protects us humans." The four teens looked at Xander as if he were crazy.

"Vampires?" said Sean. "Are you kidding?"

"Is it so hard to believe that there are other beings in this world besides humans?" Buffy asked pointedly. Sean and his friends just looked at each other and knew she had a point.

"I'm called a slayer. I slay," she said after a pause. Lucas shifted the weight on his feet and looked at her closer.

"Listen," he told her, "I don't know what you know about our town, but we are not a danger to anyone. We stick to our town and mind our own business. This is really strange speaking to you about this cause it's something that doesn't usually happen. But it's obvious you know about us."

"Yeah, we do," Buffy said. "And we have nothing against your kind as long as you're not killing humans.

"We have laws against that," Lucas told them. "But you said your friend is missing? All I can guess is that they took him because he knew too much. We can't let the world know that were here. You can only guess what would happen."

"He was taken by someone called Tyler Creed. Do you know where we could find him?" Xander now asked.

Lucas felt a jolt when he heard that name. He hated Tyler Creed with a passion. The guy had screwed Lucas's mother at his father's funeral and Lucas also suspected that it was Tyler Creed who shot his father. He would love to send this slayer after Tyler. It would give him great pleasure.

"Listen, maybe I will help you guys," Lucas said. His friends all looked at him in disbelief.

"Luke, what are you saying?" said Sean. "They know too much too! They are not going to be allowed to leave town."

Buffy looked at him. "You better believe we are going to leave town." She turned back to face Lucas. "Our friend is one of your kind and we care a lot for him. He's like family to us and he's got family back in California too. We are not leaving without him."

"He's a skin walker?" asked Lucas.

"A what?" said Xander.

Lucas gave him an impatient look. "You know, he can transform right?"

"Yeah, he definitely transforms," Xander confirmed.

"O.K. this is becoming more confusing by the minute," Lucas sighed. "I'll see if I can find out anything. Where can I reach you guys?"

Buffy wrote down a number. "This is my cell phone number. We'll be waiting to hear from you." Buffy got on the back of the Harley and Xander started it up.

As they drove away down the street, Sean looked over at Lucas, "Are you really going to help them?"

"If it means getting Tyler's ass kicked, then yes, I'll help. Maybe she'll even 'slay' him," Lucas laughed. "I just hope I can watch."

His friends did not look so keen on this idea. They were supposed to report any threats to the pack immediately. Lucas could see this indecision on their faces.

"None of you better say a word to anyone about this, got that?" Lucas warned them. "I'll keep you out of it and you just keep your mouths shut."

They nodded their agreement. None of them would disobey Lucas.

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Oz sat in Vivian's office as he heard the Sheriff telling his story to her. He wondered what would become of him as he glanced over to Buddy sitting in a corner. He couldn't believe he had found a brother. Would his brother let them execute him if that was the decision? Would he stick up for him? He noticed that Buddy kept looking at him as well.

When all was told, Vivian looked Oz over and sighed. "Well, this is most unusual and unexpected," she said. She wasn't sure what to do him. "It must be real hard not being able to control your transformation."

"I'm managing, with a little help from my friends," Oz replied.

Vivian lifted her eyebrows at him. "More people than just your girlfriend know about you?"

"Well I have a circle of good friends," he told her. He could see that this surprised them. "Listen, I know you guys feel it's important to protect your secret and all and I can understand that. Only about seven people know what I am and I trust them and they trust me. They help me through the hard times. And believe me when I say that Sunnydale has beings much more strange than me."

"Yes, you said it was on some sort of hell mouth?" Vivian said cautiously.

"Yeah, and actually I try and do some good for others. My friends and I help keep the demon and vampire populations down," Oz told her. Vivian looked at Sherman now.

"Demons and vampires? Is this possible Sherman?" Vivian asked.

"Well," said Sherman, "actually it is possible. I've come across a few such creatures myself in my travels long ago." Now everyone looked at Sherman in disbelief. Why had he never mentioned these things before?

"What are we going to do Vivian?" Matt asked.

She looked back at Oz. "Well, you came to Wolf Lake to find out about your family and now you have. Are you willing to live here? Your girlfriend can stay too without any harm to her if she keeps our secrets quiet."

Oz looked down towards the ground and said softly, "I already have a home." Then he looked over at Buddy and said, "I'd really like to get to know you a bit if you feel the same. My girlfriend and I made a reservation at the hotel. If you let us, we can visit for a week and when we leave I promise that we will keep your secret safe with us. After all, you guys know my secret too."

Before Vivian could answer Lucas came through the door of the office. "Hey, what's up?" he said as his eyes fell on Oz. So this is the guy, he thought. He glanced over at Tyler.

"Well, Buddy just found out he's got a little brother," said Vivian. "I'll explain it all to you later Lucas."

"Yeah, cool," he said and he turned to go upstairs to his bedroom. Buddy's brother! Lucas did not expect that. It did not sound like the guy was going to get executed after all. He was kind of hoping that he could manage to get Buffy to kick Tyler's ass. But she won't do it if she thought Oz was going to be safe. Lucas began to devise a plan in his head. Buffy didn't have to know that Oz was safe, he decided. Time for the little slayer to kick some Creed ass. He went into his room and dialed Buffy's cell number.

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