Chapter 5

"Xander, what are you doing here?" Kendra asked as she helped him to his feet.

"Me?" Xander winced as his hand came up to the back of his head. "What are you doing here?"

Kendra gave him a look. 'Is he really dis dense?' she thought to herself. "Xander this is me homeland. Can't you tell from me accent?"

"Oh yeah." Xander replied sheepishly. Then he suddenly remembered the girl.

"Hey are you Ok?" Xander asked as he jogged back to where the girl was. She was huddled up against the wall rocking back and forth.

"Come on let's get you home." Xander said as he helped her to her feet.

"I can't go home..." The girl said as she broke down and cryed into Xander's chest. Xander held her close as he began to stroke her hair.

"It's going to be alright." he gently soothed. "Now why can't you go home?"

"Because me brother he....he..." Then she broke down into another crying fit. After another moment of holding the girl, Xander had already figured out what must have happened. The first guy he staked was her brother and after he was turned he must have killed her parents.

"Well it's not safe here right now." Xander stated as her tears started to subside. "Just come with us and we'll think of something tomorrow." he said as he began to help her out of the alley.

"Kendra aren't you coming?" Xander asked as he noticed the Jamaican slayer wasn't walking behind them.

"I should report to me Watcher first." Kendra said as she started to walk in the opposite direction.

"Kendra please!" Xander said not believing his ears. "If you don't help me take her to safety we could get killed. Just think of all the vampires from here to where I plan on taking her." he said making the girl he was holding tremble.

"Isn't the first rule of a Slayer to help the innocent?"

Kendra rolled her eyes at this and let out a sigh. 'How dare he lecture me on how to be a Slayer.' she thought to herself.

"Alright we'll take dis girl to safety, den I'm going to report dis to me Watcher." with that said Kendra grabbed the other side of the girl and walked back to the club.


Sheila was so worried about Xander that she was standing on the outside of the club. As she saw the three of them she immediately ran up to Xander.

"What happened to you?" Shiela asked as she approached the trio.

"We were attacked by gang members on PCP." Xander replied as he noticed people walking up to see what was going on. Sheila quickly caught on and gestured toward her jeep.

"Let's be going then, before the gang members come back." she said as they quickly scrambled to her jeep.

The four sat in silence for five minutes of driving, except for Kendra giving directions to where she lived. That was until Shiela started to ask questions.

"So what really happened back there?" Shiela finally asked.

The question didn't catch Xander off guard, but he was surprised that he was the one she'd asked. Usually Buffy was the one to get asked the questions on how a patrol went. But then he had to remind himself, not for the first time today, that Buffy wasn't here.

Seeing that she was waiting for an answer he gave the best description of what happened as he could.

"Oh and this is the friend I saw in the club Kendra. Kendra this is Shiela Monroe, Shiela Monroe this is Kendra." he properly introduced the two.

"Club? What club?" Kendra asked in confusion.

"You mean that wasn't you in the After Dark?"

"No."

'Hmmm I might need some glasses then.' Xander thought to himself.

"So what about de little girl?" Shiela finally asked. "Does she have any family I can drop her off at?" When the little girl heard this she began to whimper and hold on to Xander even tighter.

"Hey it's going to be Ok." Xander soothed as he brought her closer to him. "I'm sorry but you never told me your name."

"Me name is Dierdre." she replied, her voice shaking a bit. (It's pronounced Dee-ah-dree)

"Dierdre that's a pretty name." Xander said as he hugged her a little tighter. "Well Dierdre's parents didn't make it and that was all of the family she had."

"Oh I'm sorry to hear dat." Shiela replied. "You can stay with me and Xander until we can figure out something."

"Stop here!" Kendra suddenly yelled out. As the jeep came to a halt, Kendra got out and went to the driver's side door.

"Tank ya for bringing me home Miss Monroe. Goodnight to you all." she said as she turned to leave. Before shewalked a full yard, Xander got out of the jeep and grabbed her arm.

"Kendra wait." he said as she turned back around. "I'm here as a foreign exchange student. I'll be here for about two month's and I was hoping that..." he started as he ran his hand nervously through his hair. "I was hoping that maybe we could hang out sometime."

Kendra looked up at him with wide eyes, like a dear caught in headlights. A boy actually wanted to spend time with her. Seeing that he was waiting on a reply, she talked slowly so she wouldn't seem to excited or nervous.

"Dat would be nice. I'll have to talk to Mr. Zabuto about it first though."

"Ok." Xander said feeling a little nervous himself. "If he says yes then just meet me by that club, The After Dark tomorrow. Let's say around nine o'clock, maybe we could go on patrol together or something."

"Alright, Goodbye Xander." she said as she walked away from him and into a beatdown looking house. Xander watched her retreating form until she walked into the house, with a smile on his face.

"I never really noticed how cute Kendra was." he muttered to himself. "Maybe after patrol. me and her can go dancing." Turning, he jogged back to the Jeep and got in. 'Maybe I'll ask her tomorrow.'

TBC....

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