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.

As Xander, Seras, and Jessica were having their confrontations, another one was taking place in a well-maintained high-rise office building in Los Angeles.

Lilah looked on with mild interest at best as the door to her office swung open violently with a bang that echoed throughout the entire floor. When she saw who came in so roughly, she had to suppress the superior smirk that was trying to force itself to her face. After all, it wouldn't do to show just how much irritating her primary rival in the department pleased her, even if she wasn't certain what she had done to get him this upset.

"Can I help with something, Lindsey?" she innocently inquired as she looked up at him from where she was typing up her expense reports to be sent to W&H's London offices to be forwarded to Prince Vlad.

"What the Hell are you playing at, Lilah?" the young lawyer snarled in response to her query.

"Quite a few things. Do you want to clarify just what has you this upset, or should I contact one of the clairvoyants in Corporate Specialties to help me?" she replied with an evil grin.

"I'm talking about some lunatic calling himself 'Lord Alexander Hellsing' coming into a board meeting and blowing Russell Winters' head off, then asking me to thank you for all the help you were on his accounts yesterday on behalf of him and someone named Seras." Lindsey spat back angrily.

Lilah looked equal parts surprised and pleased with herself at Lindsey's reply as she mused, "He wanted to thank me personally by name? Well, it's nice to know I'm appreciated for working on an offshoot of one of our most important client's accounts. I'll have to remember to send them a thank you card and fruit basket or something for the holidays...or maybe a cooler of blood. They might appreciate that more...hmmm."

"What the hell are you babbling about?" Lindsey seethed in frustration.

Lilah went to her filing cabinet and took out a folder, which she handed to Lindsey as she responded, "Lord Hellsing was just given rights, title, and certain property transfers over several of Prince Vlad Tepes' accounts and holding under his highness' personal request. I was asked to handle things for the young man on this end by request of the senior partners themselves. They felt I had a better personal manner with newer clients, and they didn't want to risk loosing Prince Vlad's business with some of our more abrasive lawyers. They /might/ have asked you if you weren't so busy with the Winters account."

Lindsey ignored the barbs in her words as he read over the summary file on Xander before he looked up angrily at her. "I take it this means the account matters are closed?"

"Do you want to be the one responsible for loosing one of the most important, if not oldest, accounts we handle? The No Life King does not respond well to people harassing his family, Lindsey. And as much as I'd like to watch him pulp you for pulling stunts against his great-great-grandson, neither I, nor the senior partners I'm certain, want to deal with the fallout that might cause." Lilah replied seriously.

"And if he becomes a threat to us?" Lindsey asked evenly.

"Look at the number of things under the main Tepes accounts sometime, Lindsey. Unless he opens the gates of Heaven, destroys all the means for the dark forces to enter the realm, and personally slaughters the Mr. Wolf, Mr. Ram, and Mr. Hart themselves, there isn't anyone stupid enough to rock the boat here. The simple fact is, I just landed one of the potentially most important splinter accounts ever, and you don't have a leg to stand on with it. All you have is the dust from a dead revenant with sexual dysfunction issues to clean up. One whose need for attention kept you out of the running for this case. Now be a dear and call maintenance for me to fix my door when you get back to your office. I have much more /important/ things to attend to other than talking to you." Lilah replied smugly, before she turned her attention back to her computer and resumed typing.

Lindsey seethed at her tone and her comments, but knew she was right. He wasn't about to do something that would jeopardize an account that important. He put the file back down on Lilah's desk before he headed out, making certain to call his contacts and put out the word that one Cordelia Chase was off limits and to be protected. If Lilah slipped up at some point, it certainly wouldn't hurt to take a bit of a proactive in landing the Hellsing account for himself.

The Bronze was as Xander remembered it for the most part, which should have been no real surprise when one considered he was only gone for just over three months. Three months? Has it really been that little of an amount of time? It feels like I was part of another world for decades... he thought to himself from where he sat at a couch to scan the room.

Vicky had insisted that it was her turn to face the lines at the bar and get drinks, and that she wasn't going to let him be a 'silly git' and pamper her like some 'pathetic Barbie doll' all the time. Xander smiled at her cute pout as she protested that he was mega rich now thanks to gramps and that he didn't mind waiting in line for the sake of someone as gorgeous as her. She just kissed him in reply, before she insisted it was her turn, and that he was easy enough on the eyes to face lines for himself.

Then again, a few lifetimes with that girl might not be enough to satisfy me. It's like someone too the best from every woman I ever knew, poured it into one mold, and then had gramps ensure we'd have similar lifespans. Not that I knew I would end up ageless when I met her... he further mused in his mind. Although it was kind of funny how we forgot that fact as we took our relationship to the next level. It was like all we cared about was that we make each other happy. Looking back, both being ageless was just icing. Well that, and not having to worry about Vicky getting too wild in bed and turning me into a ghoul with too deep of a love bite. No matter how crass he was in mentioning my immunity to that in his jokes, I still appreciated that little heads up. Especially in light of certain activities two people with fangs can get up to... he continued as he fought off a blush at the memories of those activities.

He never would have pegged himself for ending up as some kind of kinky sack-viking, or Vicky for being that wild in bed herself, but he certainly wasn't complaining. I guess it really is always the quiet ones that surprise you. To think an almost mousy virgin vampiress could do things to me and with me that would make Faith green with envy certainly puts a new spin on reality. he thought with a wry grin.

His mental musings were cut off there, which might have been for the best as they were getting into realms that led to various forms of public embarrassment when ruminated upon too closely in social settings, as he spotted a familiar patch of straw colored dyed blonde (even if she still swore it was natural) hair.

Buffy moped though the Bronze in a definite funk. Her encounters with the vampiress Sunday, coupled with the shock of Giles pulling back from her life a bit to let her 'spread her wings', and the lack of Scooby support, with Willow taking time to spend with Oz and Xander still not back yet as far as she knew, had left her feeling weary and unsure of herself.

"The whole world in front of her and she comes back to this dive." Xander comments in mock sorrow from behind Buffy in an attempt to surprise her.

Buffy was totally surprised for the welcome voice as she cried out Xander's name in shock, before embracing him enthusiastically as he gave her a casual 'Hey, Buff.' "You're here! When did you get here? Willow said you were going to take classes but that you might be late because of legal stuff, and she didn't know for sure when you'd arrive." she exclaimed as she took in the sight of her oldest male friend among the Scoobies.

"We got in this afternoon about one. I had to stop by my 'rents and get a few personal items to move out. We'll probably get the rest tomorrow when my mom's at work." Xander replied with a shrug, forgetting that Buffy and Willow had no idea about Seras for the moment.

"We? We who? Willow didn't mention a we." Buffy replied in confusion.

Xander's answer came back at moment as Seras arrived with a pair of hot chocolates for herself and Xander. "One chocolate, extra whipped cream as ordered." she reported with a smile as she handed him the drink before she turned her attention to Buffy. Seras smiled a smile so disarming even Buffy, who was naturally on edge around anything female near Xander that wasn't her or Willow, didn't get immediately suspicious as Seras said, "Hello. You must by Buffy! Xander's told me ever so much about you. It's a pleasure to finally get to meet you."

"And it's uh...nice to meet you. I guess. Uh, Xander, a little help here?" Buffy responded with confusion in her tone.

"Oh, yeah. I guess I forgot to mention that to Willow with how expensive the long distance charges were from England and all. I always tried to get off the phone for quick to for the sake of Teg's wallet." Xander replied sheepishly as he realized he had never mentioned Seras to the girls. Of course he had good reason with their natural aversion to women near him that weren't named Buffy or Willow, but he wasn't about to mention that in front of Buffy herself. "Uh, Buff, meet Seras Victoria, my well...girlfriend. Vicky, this is Buffy, as you already guessed." he added nervously.

"You never mentioned me?" Seras asked in a tone that was surprised, reproachful, and slightly understanding all at once. She knew of his fears about revealing women he was interested in to his friends, along with the history that spawned them. She just thought he would have at least tried to soften this meeting when it inevitably happened. "We'll really have to discuss this later, /Alexander/." she added with a raised eyebrow.

"Sure thing, honey." Xander replied with an exaggerated gulp.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Seras." Buffy cut in trying to save Xander, even as her eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly as she inspected this woman with her Xander-shaped friend. "So...how did you and Xander meet?"

"Hmm? Oh, I work for his cousin, Sir Integra. I was the one that ultimately helped arrange for him to fly to England to meet her. From there we got to know one another, and well started dating. When it came time for him to return for college, well Sir Integra felt I would advance more in life with some college study abroad and let me come with him." Seras answered cheerily.

"Sir Integra? England?!? Xander, you mutant! What is she talking about?" Buffy asked indignantly as she gave her best pout to the White Knight to ferret out the whole story.

"Hey! I mentioned Teg to Willow! I might have forgot to mention she lived in England for the sake of avoiding jokes about tweed-dom at my expense, but I did mention I was getting to know my cousin." he defended quickly.

"Honestly, Xander. You never told your friends what Sir Integra's proper name was? Or where she lived?" Seras asked exasperatedly.

"She's Teg to me, now. That's how I think of her. Getting into titles and formal stuff gives me a natural wiggins. And I wished to avoid Giles-y comments as long as possible. Teg's jokes on how good I'd look in tweed after Giles found out about my family were enough." Xander replied with a shrug.

Buffy decided that the conversation was taking a turn away from important matters, specifically information about Seras, so she tried to move it back in that direction. "So you work for Xander's cousin and helped him get to England?" Buffy asked the vampiress.

"Oh, yes. I met him here in Oxnard with his tickets and everything. Although I got to know him a bit more than I expected that first night." Seras added mixing the established cover story on how they met that would exclude their vampiric heritages, with a little anecdote of what really happened.

Xander, who knew where she had to be going with this tried to head her off with a panicked "Seras!"

"What do you mean?" Buffy asked impishly, suspecting something juicy by her friend's reaction.

"Well, Xander was working at a place called the Fabulous Ladies Night club as a dishwasher because his car had broken down an' he needed money to fix it. We had arranged for me to meet him after work since I was still jetlagged and wide awake at that time, and we had only had a few minutes to meet before he had to go to work that afternoon. We planned to grab a late night dinner after work and arrange everything we could for the trip to England, which he was still uncertain about. Of course when he was half an hour late to meet me I got worried and decided I might as well ask about him inside. I had no idea that one of the strippers had broken his ankle and a replacement was found...so when I got in there I saw...." Seras began to recount until she was interrupted.

"Something that no power on this earth can cause to let that story be finished!" Xander interjected quickly.

"Male Strippers?" Buffy asked with amused interest.

"But I didn't even get to the part where you saw me and tripped yet!" Seras protested, figuring that would be punishment enough for now for his crime of not mentioning her to his friends.

"No power on this Earth!" Xander protested solidly.

That was too much for Buffy as she broke out into laughter at the image that created.

After a few minutes for buffy to calm down, complete with several good natured barns at his expense from the more relaxed and cheery Slayer, the trio made their way to a free table near the stairs to settle dawn and relax a bit.

"So, Buff, how college been?" Xander asked after a time.

"College has been good." Buffy replied a little morosely.

"Alright. Now again, with a little less feeling." Xander responded derisively.

"It's been alright really. Willow's loving it, and Oz has this nice house off campus with the band." Buffy began.

"And you're sitting here alone at the Bronze looking like you just got diagnosed with cancer of the puppy." Xander countered in concern.

"It's just..." Buffy began before she gave a sidelong glance at Seras.

"Oh, it's a vampire slaying issue." Xander replied getting that she was reticent to discuss it in front of Vicky.

"Xander!" Buffy cried in alarm.

"Relax, Buffy. I know all about it. Could you imagine anyone that was near Xander for more than a week not seeing things that go bump in the night? I know all about vampires being real and how to try to stay safe." Seras assured her as she took a cross out from beneath her shirt to show the Slayer.

"Oh. I was really hoping that that was more a Sunnydale thing, than a Xander thing." Buffy replied sadly.

"I know Buff. But the Dale doesn't have a monopoly on vampires. Actually I found out my family kind of has been hunting them for a long time. Vicky was in the business before I even met her. So it really might be a Xander thing that the weirdness tracks me down." Xander replied solemnly.

"Can I get huh for 500, Alex?" Buffy asked, bewildered.

"I didn't mention Teg's full name yet; or my real dad's name, did I?" Xander asked rhetorically. He took in a deep breath ad let out a sigh before he finally continued, "Teg's full name it Sir Integra Fairbrook Windgates Hellsing. My pop's name was Richard Hellsing." Xander explained.

"Hellsing? You mean like...?" Buffy asked in shock.

"Abraham van Helsing, famous vampire hunter and Dracula fighter?" Xander asked knowingly. "The very same. It turns out after the stuff you read in the novel the British government actually started hiring the Helsings to reduce vampire populations in merry old England for them in exchange for title and lands. A member of my family's been in charge of some of the vampire hunters there ever since." Xander filled in for her, as he looked at the table, unsure of how she would react to this information.

"Wow. And you never knew until your cousin found you?" Buffy asked in shock.

"Nope. It turns out my real dad made Tony Harris look like a paragon of virtue. After he decided I wasn't a good enough candidate to counter Teg as a proper heir, he left mom pregnant with me here. A few years later, after my uncle Lionel died of cancer, he tried of have Teg offed in a coup to take over the family land and money and stuff. He got himself killed trying to kill recently orphaned cousin to get her rightful inheritance. Got to say I was glad he left mom and I here." Xander answered sardonically.

Buffy's face showed her mounting horror at Xander's tale as she asked, "What happened after that?"

Xander shrugged as he responded, "Teg learned to get tough and manage a group of vampire hunters without any real training in it. Fortunately Uncle Lionel's right hand man...and another powerful asset he rarely used, helped train her on the job. Eventually, once she got everything settled, which took years, she went through everything in Richards stuff and found out about me. Of course mom wanted nothing to do with any of the Hellsing family by then, so she ignored her attempts to meet, and forbade Teg from contacting me while I was a minor. That's why I never learned any of this until after graduation. Teg couldn't call me legally until I was 18, and waited until then to try to get my cell number because mom would just hang up on her, and I was gone by the time she sent anyone here to ask about me. With all the red tape involved in that, I was in Oxnard for two weeks before I heard from anyone and learned any of this."

"It sounds like she really cared to go to all that trouble to track you down." was all Buffy could say as she tried to process Xander's story.

"I'm all the family she has left, Buff. She wanted to see if I'd at least care before she gave up. And as a result, I got a decent family member, met a great girl, and got the chance to matriculate with all of you. I can't really complain about it." Xander replied with a small smile that Seras and Buffy soon matched. "So, what's the problem that's brought the rise of mopey-Buffy?"

Buffy's depression returned as she recounted her meetings with, and losses to, the vampire Sunday.

"Ok, so we put this bitch in the ground. Where's the gang? Avengers assemble. Let's get it going!" Xander concluded decisively.

"No, I don't want to bother them. I mean, they're just starting school, and they don't need this." Buffy protested weakly.

"And needing to help a friend is a bother when?" Xander asked in confusion.

"It's just...it's complicated. I mean, what if I can't cut it?" Buffy asked.

"Cut what? Slaying?" Xander asked in confusion.

"Slaying. Everything." Buffy responded with depression.

Seras saw that the conversation was taking a far too personal tone, and felt that she should excuse herself. "I'm going to take a powder in the ladies' room, alright, Xander." she said.

"Okay, Vicky." Xander replied gratefully. Once she was gone, Xander began, "Look Buffy this is all about fear. It's understandable, but you can't let it control you. 'Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to anger.' No wait, hold on. 'Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to the Darkside.' Hold on, no, umm, 'First you get the women, then you get the money, then you...' okay, can we forget that?"

"Thanks for that Dadaist pep talk, I feel much more abstract now." Buffy replied with a sad half grin.

"The point is, you're Buffy." Xander cut in.

"Yeah, maybe in high school I was Buffy." the Slayer responded sadly.

"And now in college you're Betty Louise?" Xander asked sarcastically.

"Yeah, I'm Betty Louise Plotnick of East Cupcake, Illinois. Or I might as well be." she agreed morosely.

Xander got up and crouched down in front of her then. "Buffy, I've gone through some fairly dark times in my life, faced some scary things, among them the kitchen at 'The Fabulous Ladies Night Club.' Let me tell you something, when it's dark and I'm all alone and I'm scared or freaked out or whatever, I always think, 'What would Buffy do?' You're my hero. Ok, sometimes when it's dark and I'm all alone I used to think, 'What is Buffy wearing?'" the White Knight confided.

Buffy looked decidedly amused as she replied, "Can that be one of those things you never, ever, tell me about? You know especially when your new /girlfriend/ is here?"

Xander smiled proudly as he stood and responded, "It's a deal. Let's put this bitch in the ground! What do you say? I'll get icky and we'll saddle up and dust some vamp-skank?"

Buffy held out her right hand so that Xander could help her up as she replied, "I think I say thank you."

Xander smiled proudly as he responded, "And nothing says thank you like dollars in the waistband. Ok, what do we do first?"

It took all of five minutes to track down Seras and decide to check for records to match missing students after Buffy related the note she had found in her room earlier that day that claimed she was taking off because she couldn't hack college life.

"I still can't believe the vamps robbed your room." Seras commented as she went through the computer records while Xander searched old student newspapers.

"Yeah. Murder I expect. But petty larceny is so...petty." Xander cut in.

"They have to be keeping it somewhere, on campus or at least near by." Buffy asserted as she paced back and forth.

"Looks like the disappearances weren't common until 1982." Seras reported from the computer terminal.

"Match number." Xander called out from the papers, which brought Buffy by to read over his shoulder.

"Psi Theta loses its charter. Building closed for renovations." Buffy reads.

"Yeah, and the City council drug out the zoning issues on the renovations. If there was a major vamp nest in the area what do want to bet the Mayor would run interference for them?" Xander asked.

"Good call." Buffy complimented with a nod of satisfaction.

"So, we up for a little recon, then?" Seras asked.

"Sounds like a plan." Xander agreed with a shark's grin.

"That's my skirt! Like she could even wear it with those hips." Buffy spat as they watched the vampires play with her belongings through the skylight.

"They have your weapons chest down there, too. We'll have to use the gear in the trunk of my car." Xander commented as he pointed out the trunk in the corner.

"What's the attack plan, love?" Seras asked Xander, reverting to their teamwork mode with Hellsing.

"We have to go quiet. A college campus like this would notice gunfire of explosives, so we stick to nothing louder than crossbows." Xander decided.

"Gunfire? Xander what the hell are you talking about?" Buffy asked in alarm.

"Turns out only the Council is stupid enough to send its troops off to die without at least modernizing their weapons, Buff. Hellsing's had vamp-killing ammo since before World War One, but the Watchers are too stiff to adopt it. I guess they figured too many Slayers would survive their Crucianatum thingy if they knew how to pull a trigger of something." Xander replied grimly.

"We'll have to talk about this later." Buffy replied huffily, unsure how to react to the use of guns in Slaying.

"You still have your whip, right Love? You can use that against these dust piles pretty well and keep quiet." Seras suggested.

"Yeah. And I have enough pump action crossbows for everyone, too. We use flaming bolts from up top and we can snipe at least half of them from a distance before they know they're under attack." Xander suggested.

"It might be better if you and Buffy go in first to disrupt them so they don't get wise to the sound of the glass cutter when I cut out a firing slot. 'Ell I can just break the glass in the confusion and pick them off while you two muss them up from the ground." Seras suggested.

"You two do this alot, huh?" Buffy asked from the side, feeling a bit out of place as Xander and Seras mapped out a battle plan.

"We're the best team Hellsing has seen since Walter and Gramps for a reason, Buff." Xander answered with a small grin.

It took very little time to get armed and for Seras to set up a position on the roof. A part of the vampiress felt uncomfortable leaving Xander to do the real fighting while she stood back and acted like a helpless woman, but she knew he was in no danger from some stupid revs, and that he wanted to keep their powers secret for now. "I'm in position, go whenever you're ready," she reported into her headset.

"Gotcha Vicky." Xander replied, before he whispered, "In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen." before he turned to Buffy and grinned. "Alright ramblers, let's get rambling." he said as he hefted his crossbow.

"What's with the prayer?" Buffy asked as she chose to ignore his 'From Dusk 'till Dawn' reference.

"Family motto thing. Kind cool, huh?" Xander replied with a shrug.

"Very." Buffy responded with a grin as she walked forward and kicked the door in.

What followed after that could only be classified as a slaughter as revenant vampires died left and right. If it wasn't a bolt from Seras or Xander, it was a stake from Buffy, or, after Xander ran out of ammo, a whip-driven decapitation by Xander, which eliminated all the vampires but Sunday herself in less than five minutes.

"What the hell is all this? What happened to my minions?" Sunday whined as she surveyed the carnage.

"It's called what happens when you piss off a Slayer in Sunnydale. She doesn't need to fight alone." Xander replied from where he stood at the door with his arms crossed and his whip in hand.

"It's also called me kicking your ass." Buffy added cheerfully as she moved in and began a slice of prime quality anger release therapy on the blonde vampire, finishing with a stake to the heart.

"Well I feel better now." Buffy said with a sunny smile after she was done.

"Good to know. Although I now have a new reason to hate Sunnydale's vamps." Xander said from the door, as he looked the room over.

"Wot's that, Xander" Seras asked as she came in after climbing down from the roof. Well, she actually checked for bystanders and then apperated down, but that's beside the point.

"I went to alot of trouble to get here late so I wouldn't get stuck helping Buffy move. Now I'm stuck with it anyway. I should have kept the stoned out surfer vamp alive to fix the mess they made." Xander replied with a mocking shake of his head.

"Aww, poor Xander has to be the big strong pack animal. You poor dear." Seras replied with a giggle as she kissed his cheek.

"Karma can be a real bitch, huh, Xander?" Buffy asked with a grin as she approached the pair.

"It has its good points too, Buff." Xander replied with a smile as he kissed Vicky lightly on the lips before moving to help the Slayer gather her belongings.

As the trio made their way out to Xander's car with the first load of stuff, Xander felt he had to ask, "So what do you think of college life so far Buff?"

"I think it's turning out o be a lot like high school. Which means I can deal." the Slayer replied with a grin.

END PART 25