Title: Family Matters
Author: DhampyrX2
Genre: X-over
Series: Impure Souls
Rating: PG-13, just to be safe
Summary: Xander has hidden family. Xander discovers them. Xander's life gets turned upside down in a way that will hopefully help everyone evolve a bit.
Timeframe: After Graduation, but before the College crap starts.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. Don't sue me, I'm poor.
Xander took time to reflect on all he had experienced over the last three months as he enjoyed the plush seat on the private airplane into LAX Teg and arranged for him. Well, he was more enjoying Vicky curled up next to him sleeping than he was the seat. Still the point was that he was quite content as he watched the starry blackness pass by them from the window of the round table funded Concord jet that was winging them to California.
There was a change right there. Three months ago his eyes would never have been keen enough to enjoy the view at night over the Atlantic Ocean, much less at the supersonic speeds they were traveling. They had left London at one in the morning local time, which, with time zones and the speed they were traveling at, meant they would be in before four in the morning Los Angeles time. With their Diplomatic Visas, a gift from a Round Table all too happy to get Xander out of England, especially after his biggest private detractor had apparently been killed while trying to get a score of coke, it would be a matter of less than an hour to process through customs, weapons and all, and be on their way. Their larger belongings, such as Vicky's Halconnen, were already waiting in their hotel suite. All the pair would need to do is a cursory check through and then get into Xander's '57 Chevy that was awaiting them upon arrival.
Man, it sure has been a wild ride. If anyone would have told me I'd be returning to Sunnydale with a hot vampire girlfriend...well, alright that wouldn't have been a shock at all. This is me, after all. Still, the fact that Dracula, whom I'm related to, turned her is still a shocker. I'd have laughed my butt off at anyone that would have suggested I'd be sporting fangs and not really be bothered by them, though. Of course, it's not like I'm one of those walking pieces of trash that call themselves vampires. Being immune to ever ending up like Jessie alone is worth exploring this side of me. he mused in his head as the Ocean flew past them.
The fact I'll be able to stay with Vicky, Gramps, Alucard...and hell, Teg too. I know she'll cave eventually. As creepy as it is, even /I/ can see someday my cousin will be my new step-great-great-grandmother. Those two really are made for one another. Well, the fact I'll be as ageless as they'll all be is worth it, too. Even if the girls will freak over it. he thought with a strained grin, even as he kissed the top of Seras' head in her sleep. That, in return, earned him a murmur of contented sounds as the vampiress squirmed and re-adjusted herself in her sleep.
Ah, let them freak. he finally concluded as he waited for their arrival with a small grin.
A few hours later, the plane arrived with no problems as the couple went through all the necessary checks, before they moved on to their hotel to sleep off the brightest part of the day for the sake of Vicky's eyes, before they explored the city that night, and visited Wolfram & Hart the following morning.
"So, have you heard from Xander?" Buffy asked as she and Willow walked through campus on the way to their respective classes the morning that Xander and Seras' flight had arrived.
"Yeah, he called a couple of days ago and said he had a few more things to tie up before he came home. It might be anywhere from a couple of days to a week before he's back." Willow confirmed with a grin of anticipation. Never before had she been without for such an extended period since they had met in kindergarten, and she was looking forward to his return accordingly. Sunnydale just felt...wrong to her without a Xander in it.
"You had said he was visiting his family?" Buffy inquired to confirm what she remembered.
"Yeah, he said he had a good chance to get to know his cousin Teg." Willow confirmed with a wide grin as she thought about whether or not she should drop the next bombshell she had for the Slayer.
"That's nice. I know Xander always tried to get away from his parents' house. I mean, I remember what Cordy said about his home life after they broke up. It's just good to see he found family he can get along with." the Slayer commented.
Willow decided silence was too quiet as she grinned and responded, "Tell me about it. His relatives on his mom's side are all snobby and stuff. But it turns out Teg really cares. In fact that's why he's not sure when he'll be back. He has to stop at a legal firm to get control of some family accounts his uncle or somebody set up for him to go to college. Then he starts here officially next week."
"WHAT?" Buffy shouted in shocked excitement.
"Yep. He was a little light with the details, but apparently she pulled a few strings and got him accepted. It turns out his dad's family was a little more influential than he knew, and that his cousin wanted to make it right for his dad skipping out on his mom like that." Willow confirmed.
"This is great! The whole gang will be back full force. Maybe we should talk Giles into getting on here as Librarian." Buffy mused aloud.
"I think he enjoys being a 'man of leisure' too much to work here. Still, it will be the return of the original Slayerettes." Willow enthused.
Buffy wrinkled her nose as she playfully replied, "Isn't 'man of leisure' just British for unemployed?"
"Not when he has enough money that he doesn't need to work." Willow countered as they entered their psychology class with professor Walsh.
That night Xander and Vicky were enjoying themselves in a small club when Xander saw someone he never expected to run into in Los Angeles. "Oh, I don't believe this." he muttered to himself as he saw someone walk in and start watching a pretty young blonde at the bar.
"Wot is it, love?" Seras asked over a sip of her coffee. Xander had suggested it as a better choice than subjecting herself to processed American tea bang when they were out. At least with coffee, she had no pre-conceived notions on what it should taste like.
"Deadboy. And apparently reverting to type with the stalking of blondes." Xander responded in annoyance.
Seras wrinkled her nose in not so mild disgust as she asked, "You mean that ponce of a revenant with the soul?"
"That's the one. It figures though, not even in town twenty four hours, and I run into the brood machine that is Angel." Xander answered ruefully.
"Well, maybe he won't notice us. It's not like Master didn't teach me how to suppress me presence, so he won't pick up on that..." Seras began, but trailed off as she noticed the look in her lover's eyes.
Xander's attention was focuses on the approaching revenant in question. "Hello, Deadboy." the White Knight greeted neutrally.
"Xander?" Angel inquired, as if unsure if it was truly him. "What are you doing here? Is Buffy in some kind of trouble?" he asked with ever growing concern.
"Actually, I'm here with my lovely girlfriend Seras Victoria, and had the...pleasure of running in to you randomly. I haven't seen Buff in months. I haven't even been in California. Although, I'm sure she'd be comforted you've found other blondes to stalk." Xander responded coolly, reminding Seras of Sir Integra a great deal at that moment. "By the way, Vicky, meet Angel. Angel, meet Vicky, please keep your eyes off her neck." Xander said be way of introduction.
"I'd say it was a pleasure to meet you, but I dislike your species in general." Seras responded coolly as she politely offered her hand to Angel.
Angel looked on in stunned shock at Xander's attitude, as well as how casual he was being with his references to Angel's vampirism in front of Seras as he mumbled a hello and accepted her handshake. As he greeted her he was shocked to see her red eyes and glanced over at Xander as if to ask what was up with them.
"She's albino. She just dyes her hair to blend in more. And yes, she knows about the nightlife bumping the night away. With my life, do you really think I could risk a relationship with a woman who didn't know?" Xander explained blandly.
Angel just nodded at that; he didn't feel anything off about the woman anyway. Finally, his mind caught with Xander's stalking references, and he felt he had to explain himself. "The girl at the bar is in danger. I have a...friend who gets mystical visions that said she would die tonight if I don't protect her." he said.
"Nice to see your keeping busy. And with a cryptic source of information all your own. That's neat. Really." Xander scoffed in his unyielding deadpan.
The vampire let the barbs slide off his back with a practiced ease. He and Xander would never like each other, but at least they knew where the other stood on the matter. That always bred a type of grudging respect between them. "You know, you're the second person from Sunnydale I've run into since I've been here."
"Oh?" Xander inquired curiously as he sipped his soda.
"Yeah, I ran into Cordy last night watching over the girl. She's trying to break in to acting." the vampire replied.
Xander let loose his first true genuine grin as he replied, "Good for her." He glanced back at where Angel's charge was then and commented, "Uh, Deadboy? I think you might have some issues. The girl you're supposed to be watching just got a phone call that freaked her out, and the blonde at the end of the bar that screams 'cop' and has a gun tucked under her jacket is watching you like a hawk."
"What?" the revenant asked in confusion as he looked back behind him, then swore under his breath in Gaelic. "I have to go." he reported grimly.
"Figured you would. Look, here's my cell number. I'll probably be in town a couple of days. If you need backup, I can try to reign in my disgust for you for the sake of the woman." Xander offered as he handed Angel a card with his number on it.
Angel looked at Xander oddly as he accepted the card. Since when would Xander Harris offer to help him in anything but averting the Apocalypse? "Thanks." Angel replied, the confusion clear in his tone as he accepted the card.
"I've had to grow up a little. If it saves someone, I can learn to tolerate you. Just don't expect me to bail you out of something that has no innocents on the line. Frankly, I wouldn't piss on any of your vamps if they were on fire. Including you." Xander warned with a shark's grin.
"Good to know." Angel replied with a similar grin as he walked off toward the distraught woman, his trenchcoat swishing dramatically behind him.
Once the vampire was well and truly out of hearing range, Seras commented, "Well, he was dour and sickening."
"That's just you natural aversion to those demonic insults to the word vampire talking...no wait. No it isn't. He is dour and disgusting. Being a rev. is just added fuel to the fire." Xander replied with a grin.
Vicky's smile matched his as she sipped her drink and asked, "You think he'll call?"
Xander shrugged as he replied, "Out of everyone in the 'Dale, he knew best what I was capable of even before I was properly trained. If he needed it, he'd trust me to have his back."
The next morning, Xander and Vicky woke up and had a good breakfast, before they headed off for Xander's noon meeting at W&H. Once they arrived, they were stopped for a moment at the security desk to verify their appointment.
"Alexander Hellsing here to see a miss Lilah Morgan." Xander reported coolly. He was dressed in his suit again, with Vicky dressed in a longer skirted version of her Hellsing uniform standing behind him.
"Miss Morgan is expecting you, Lord Hellsing. Please head right to her office." the security officer responded politely, before he directed the pair on where to go.
Soon, they were at Lilah's door, awaiting her response to Xander's knocks. "Ah, Lord Hellsing, Miss Victoria, please come in and have a seat." the lawyer greeted as she opened the door.
"Thanks. My great-great-grandfather told me to see you today about a transfer of accounts and assets?" Xander responded as he and Vicky came in and sat down.
"Ah, yes, yes he did. Prince Vlad arranged everything through our European branches, all you have to do is sign a few papers." Lilah replied with a grin as she walked to her desk and picked up a manila folder and handed it to Xander. "You'll find there accounts for several million dollars, a few properties here in the states, as well as in England and mainland Europe, and a few other odds and ends." she responded with a grin as she looked Xander up and down as he read.
Seras saw the lawyer gaze and cleared her throat to gain the lawyer's attention, and remove the woman's interests from eying her boyfriend as she asked, "Excuse me, Miss Morgan? But why do you keep calling Xander 'Lord' Hellsing? As far as I was aware, only Sir Integra held a title among the two of them."
Lilah, who noticed both Xander's lack of interest in her and her low-cut blouse, as well as the warning look in the nosferatu's eyes reigned in her interest visibly as she answered, "Actually, Miss Victoria, it's all in those papers. Prince Vlad, as both a Prince and a Count, arranged the conference of a title of 'Lord', as well as a small parcel of land in the Carpathian Mountains west of his ancestral castle lands, for Lord Hellsing to be in control of. Even if the Romanian government might not recognize the official titles publicly, neither they, nor the local populace, has any intention of contradicting someone of your sire's standing."
Before Seras could respond Xander, who was still buried in reading over the paperwork piped in, "Yeah. Apparently I also own Carfax Abby, a mansion three times bigger than Cordy's family had in Sunnydale that was purchased for us to live in last month, and what has to have been like four different safehouses outside of my new Wallachian summer home that are scattered all over Europe. I've got to hand it to Gramps; he isn't stingy with the wealth. The land I'm now Lord of even includes grandpa Trevor's home village. If that isn't a thumb to the nose of the other Belmonts, I don't know what is."
Seras grinned ruefully as she agreed, "That sounds like the Master, all right."
From there, the conversations degenerated into typical legal-ese with liberal smatterings of 'sign here's and 'initial there's until all the transfers were done, and debit cards for Xander and Seras were transferred into their possession.
"Well, that looks like everything." Lilah concluded, glad that a matter for such a long time and important client went off without a single hitch. Well without a hitch besides reminding herself that even thinking about poaching of the childe of the No Life King was monumentally stupid. Lilah was damned lucky Seras had a more even temper than the majority of her predecessors. "If you need anything else, I've been assigned as your personal executor. Just call me and let me know how I can help either of you." she offered.
Xander just smiled politely as he and Seras thanked her and made their way out.
That night Xander and Seras were enjoying a late night hunt in the city of Angels before they departed to for Sunnydale, when Xander's phone rang. "Yes? Hello, Angel. What's up? She's dead, huh? Her evil boyfriend was some corporate vampire? He tried to do /what/ to Cordy? Where is she? Well where do you live? We'll be right there." Xander conversed.
"Xander, what's happened?" seas asked as she watched her lover become more and more agitated as he spoke to the revenant vampire.
"Cordy nearly got drained by some asshole revenant that like to play human businessman tonight. Angel managed to save her, and she's trying to calm down at his place. He thinks a familiar face might help her to relax after all this." Xander angrily reported. It was clear he was seething mad at what had nearly happened to the former May Queen.
"Cordy, that's your old ex you told me about, right?" Seras inquired as they made their way to the car. As they cut through an alley, they were a groups of five revenants attempted to accost them. Neither mideon, nor part mideon broke stride as they decimated the filth with claw and Vorpal Blade, respectively, on their way to the car.
"Yeah. She's really shaken up for falling into something like this from what Deadboy said." Xander replied shakily. He had moved on fully with Seras, and both knew it, but he still had a desire to protect those he cared for, and he would always care for Cordelia.
"Then we'll help her. What happened to the revenant?" Seras asked without a hint of jealousy. Xander and she had spoken in depth about his past over the months, and she knew she had nothing to fear in the way of residual feelings for the mortal girl that had been his first girlfriend.
"From the way Angel sounded, I think they had to beat a hasty retreat, so I imagine it's still alive. For now." was the White Knight's steely response.
Seras offered no further comment after that. Really what could be said with words that wouldn't be said with revenant ashes soon anyway?
Two hours of calming Cordelia down later found the group of Cordy, Seras, Angel, Doyle, and Xander sitting together in the kitchenette of Angel's apartment below his building as they discussed what to so now.
"So, you know where this ass works?" Xander icily inquired.
"Yeah. I take it you want to be there when I 'talk' to him?" Angel confirmed.
Xander offered no verbal response, but the vampire still had to suppress a shiver as they boy assumed the look that had frightened off Angelus at Sunnydale hospital so long ago. That was all the answer he needed.
On the couch, slightly removed from the action at the kitchen table, Cordelia and Seras were each enjoying a cup of hot chocolate. fortunately, Xander had assumed correctly that Angel would lack human food, and had stopped to get some powdered cocoa mix on the way.
"So, what kind of demon are you?" Cordy asked with her usual sense of tact.
"Um, I'm not a demon." Seras replied as she gave the uncomfortably gorgeous brunette an odd glance.
"Please. You're dating Xander, and frankly /I'm/ the only one who broke his mold for super-powered chicks. The way you two carry yourselves now is so not in keeping with the slightly klutzy dorkhead I knew. So what's the deal?" the Queen bitch of Sunnydale pressed.
"Well, you see, I work for Xander's cousin Integra as a demon hunter. That's how we met, an' he's had a bit of training with us there. That's probably the difference." the vampiress responded uncomfortably.
"Right." Cordy replied with no attempt to conceal her sarcasm. "In other words, let's go into the other room while the boys plan mass destruction." she added as she dragged Seras off to the bedroom.
"Well, be in here, girl talk!" Cordelia shouted before she closed and locked the door behind her.
Doyle looked on curiously before he asked Xander, "Shouldn't you go see to that, then?"
The young man pondered that for a few seconds before he shook his head in the negative and replied, "Nah, Cor'll get the info she wants, then leave it be until at least tomorrow after we get back. It will be easier to just let her get her facts than get in between Queen C and a secret. Trust me, I know from where I speak on this."
The next morning found a unique sight as Angel and Xander strode into the boardroom of the vampire Russell Winters with a definite purpose in mind.
Angel was stopped halfway to the corporate vampire by a young lawyer who said, "I'm with Wolfram & Hart. (hands him a business card) Mr. Winters has never been accused and shall never be convicted of any crime – ever. Should you continue to harass our client, we will be forced to bring you into the light of day. A place, I'm told, that isn't all that healthy for you."
Before Angel can respond, , though, Xander pipes up from the back of the room. "Wolfram & Hart, huh? I'd think you would handle a better class of clients than to stoop to dealing with this filth." he disdainfully spat.
"And just who are you?" Winters asked with an appraising eye toward the young man.
"Lord Alexander Hellsing, of the Hellsing Organization." Xander introduced. That declaration earned him shocked looks from Angel, Winters, and the Lawyer, one Lindsey MacDonald. The lack of fear on Russell Winters' face after he assimilated the information, however, irked Xander to no end.
"You're a little far off from England, Mr. 'Hellsing'." the revenant stated in a voice that showed he didn't believe who Xander was for a second. From there, he returned his attention to Angel and started a rant about how different things were in LA, and how as long as he paid his taxes and stayed out of the lime light he could do whatever he wanted.
Xander had heard just about enough then. "You're pathetic. You call yourself a creature of the night? You're just garbage. A sideshow freak trying to play at being modern aristocracy as you succumb night after night to your base instincts like the maggot you are. You aren't even worth my time. In fact, if you hadn't tried to kill a friend of mine last night, I wouldn't even have bothered to look at you. But, you did. And now, I'm going to deliver a message through your lawyer that can be circulated throughout this city on what happens when you touch my friends.", he sneered
"Are you threatening me?" the vampire spat back with a superior smirk on his face.
Xander laughed in a tone that was eerily reminiscent of the Hellsing 'weapon' Alucard's laugh as he drew Ed and pointed it at the heart of the vampire. "Rus, I'm a blood relative of the Hellsing and Belmont Clans, as well as a direct descendant of the No Life King himself. You're so far beneath me it's funny. All you are is an object lesson. A message to those that try to hurt my friends."
"And just what do you think that toy can do to me?" the arrogant vampire asked, even as his voice cracked with actual fear.
"My family father's side of the has a prayer that has become our motto. One about impure souls and eternal damnation. Frankly, you are so low on the scale of filth..." Xander began as the BANG of the Casull went off in the room and dusted Russell Winters courtesy of a blessed silver, explosive, hollow point reducing his cranium to a fine red mist. "...that you don't even have a prayer." he finished emotionlessly.
The whole room stared at the youngest Hellsing with fearful respect as he put away his hand cannon and looked over to Angel, who gaped at his with wide mouthed astonishment. "I think we made our point. Let's go." he commanded to the revenant, making Angel shake his head in shock before he walked numbly out of the room. Xander followed right behind him, but paused at the door to look over his shoulder at Lindsey and say, "Oh, if you see Lilah Morgan today, please let her know Seras and I appreciated all she did to help me with my accounts yesterday and we thought she did a great job. Ciao."
END PART 22