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: The college crap has begun.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. Don't sue me, I'm poor.

" YAWN! " Xander yawned as he helped Giles go through his books at his apartment.

"Are you alright, Xander?" the native Briton asked as he glanced at the boy.

Xander nodded, a little bleary eyed as he responded, "Jus' tired, Giles. Vicky and I spent most of last night trying to track down Harmony for biting Willow. Apparently hiding is her new shopping. The little tramp is really hard to find. Of course we didn't check car backseats and the boy's locker room and the temporary high school, so that might have been our bad."

"Really Xander, just because she's a ill mannered tart that hurt Willow doesn't mean you have to be..." Giles began until he saw the look Xander was giving him.

"On second thought, I see your point," the Englishman said sagely.

"Thought you might," Xander replied.

After an awkward pause, Giles asked, "Oh by the way, Xander, there's a file on the coffee table I'm unsure of how to process. Maybe you could take a look at it for me?"

"Huh? Sure thing, G-man. Just let me take a look," Xander muttered as he moved to the table and picked up a thick manila folder. "This the one?" he asked as he held it up.

"Yes. Yes it is," Giles replied with an odd lilt to his voice.

The reason for his strange tones became evident as Xander scanned the contents of the folder. It was about Hellsing...all of Hellsing. It included reports on Teg, Wally, Gramps...it even identified Vicky as a Mideon and had a small file on him. "Your contacts work faster than I thought they would." Xander said levelly.

"Yes well, it brought certain facts to life I would be...remiss in not discussing with you. Especially since they've been brought to Quentin Travers' attention as well. Frankly, I'd like to know who's near me and what I have to prepare to protect you all before it rears up and bites me in my arse!" Giles raged.

"Travers...as in dickweed who fired you Travers? Wow, I'm moving up in the world," Xander responded flippantly.

"This is serious, Xander! He may very well send a wetworks team after you and I have had /no/ time to counter it if he did," ripper snapped back hotly.

"Giles, look over what Vicky /is/ in her file. It's inaccurate. Alucard freed her just before we left. She's full nosferatu now. That's way beyond what the council could handle," Xander replied confidently.

"And how exactly can you guarantee that we don't need protection from your lovely paramour, hmmm? She is far more powerful then we can handle, after all. Good lord, boy, do you even know the rate in which young men unintentionally end up ghouls historically from shagging true vampires?" Giles inquired.

"Not an issue, Giles," Xander countered firmly.

"And how is it not an issue? As Faith can prove, you aren't a virgin, and while you might have the single minded determination to be turned without that factor, as Dracula himself was, you'd need to give yourself over to it willingly, and I know you won't let yourself be turned!" Giles responded.

"Giles, Giles, G-man. You know my family names, and you still don't know more than what the Council was allowed to dig up. Let me backtrack it out for you. Jessica Belmont begat me, Trevor Belmont begat her, Adrian Farenheights Tepes and Sonja Belmont begat him, And Gramps Dracula and Grammy Lisa begat Adrian. After Gramps was Mideon. I'm 1/16 No Life Prince here. I'm totally immune to ghoul-dom," Xander explained tiredly.

Giles by now was polishing his glasses furiously as he muttered 'Good Lord's and 'My Word's repeatedly. "And you never thought to mention this?" Giles finally queried.

"I was kind of enjoying Buffy not trying to stake my lady love and I in our sleep. She's not tolerant of non-humans unless they're named Angel. If she's used to Vicky, though, and let's face it after a while nobody can not like her, then she'll at least get 'Oz' status and I don't lose my two best friends," Xander answered.

"If you mention anything about a Winnebago, I'll toss you right out of here, fellow English gentleman or not," Giles said with a grin as he looked over his glasses at Xander.

"Not funny on several levels, /Ripper/," Xander responded I what Seras had come to call his 'Hellsing' voice. That is to say, a tone as devoid of emotion as Sir Integra's at her deadliest.

"Yes, quite," Giles stammered lamely. Even if he knew nothing of the boy's heritage that look would have been disturbing.

"Now, are we copasetic on the girls not knowing my family tree has a pretty large Tepes branch or not?" Xander asked with a hint of worry once he was certain he had made his point about Giles' teasing.

"I don't see how telling them would make any...well you never mentioned /that/," Giles said peevishly.

What Xander had not mentioned before were the pronounced fangs the White Knight displayed now as he opened his mouth wide. Once Giles had made an acceptable inspection, he closed his mouth and replied, "Price I had to pay to be immune to getting turned by the revenants. I was born immune to becoming a ghoul, though."

"Then you are..." Giles began to ask.

"Dhampir. Technically. I'll never reach the kind of full mideon power Gramps has, but no other vampire could reach that. He's called the No Life King for a reason. Still, I may get to Adrian's level according to my family, and he's close enough that nobody but true nosferatu would know the difference," Xander answered indifferently.

"And you accepted that?" Giles asked in concern.

Xander shrugged as he replied, "If it keeps me from ending up like Jesse...I still have my soul here, Giles. I'm still me; I just have some active genes that were recessive before. Hell, I learned my mom was over a hundred years old, not that she's ageless. Damned Belmonts tossed her in suspended animation once Gramps was sealed so they could hide their 'shame'. After her affair with Richard Hellsing, she followed Tony right into the bottle," Xander rambled off bitterly.

"Xander, son, I..." the former Watcher began.

"It's no big deal, Giles. I made my peace with it. Just suffice it to say that when Teg and Gramps and grandfather Adrian offered me a relatively loving and stable family, I wasn't running from the idea," the White Knight assured him.

"And what did you have to do get that peace?" Giles asked gently.

"Nothing big. Meditation with Gramps, training with family relics that were one my grandfather's, and some that belonged to my great-grandfather, incessant tutoring to bring up my grades, a few mideon things that don't involve hurting people in any way. It was nothing I had to compromise my morals over," he replied to assuage the Brit's fears.

Giles nodded in satisfaction, then. He could see Xander was still there. He was a bit darker and more grown up, but he was still Xander. Finally he shook his head ruefully and smiled as he said, "Only you could call a Knight of the Round Table 'Teg' and Dracula himself 'Gramps' and sound natural about it."

"It's a talent," Xander replied affably before the two men settled in to a more detailed discussion of Xander's life and abilities.

As this conversation was taking place, another was going on deep underground in the tunnels of Sunnydale.

"It's definitely the crypt right. I'm not keen on tunneling into someone's septic tank," Spike asked with mild irritation.

His minion looked up from his work at the blueprints he had to reply, "It's the crypt. The radar soundings are clear. The walls are thinnest here at the bottom. We'll have to tunnel underneath. More work but I'm sure..."

Spike interrupted his prattle as he slammed his head into the table and warned, "You'd better be more than sure. Cause I'd hate to have to hurt you."

"I swear, I swear," the vamp nervously responded.

At that point their discussion was cut short as Harmony sauntered in and grafted herself to Spike like a barnacle. "How's my little Blondie bear?" she asked coquettishly.

Spike barely refrained from rolling his eyes as he asked, "Harm, does this look like a good time?"

The blonde ditz ignored him as she inquired, "Are you gonna kill Willow tonight? Cause I want you to say, 'This is for messing with my sweet girl.' And then, you know. (She mock bites into his shoulder making draining noises.)"

At that point, Spike decided to throw the minion vampire aside and take Harmony by the waist as he replied, "Nobody knows I'm here. And I'm not killing the slayer's best friend because that would tend to announce my presence. And we're too bloody close."

Harmony pouted as she whined, "But you almost killed her last year. Suddenly it's a big deal?"

The master vampire grew angry as he snapped, "SOD OFF! Now go eat something, I've got work to do."

Spike and the minion vampire returned to the table to work as Harmony walked over to where a boy who was chained up and looked irritated.

Harmony wrinkled her nose and declared. "This one tastes funny. Take me out to eat."

This time Spike did roll his eyes as he retorted, "He's perfectly fresh."

Harmony peered carefully at the captive before she replied, "I think I had a math class with him last year and I didn't like him that much then either."

Spike let out a grunt of exasperation as he shouted, "Harm!"

Harmony had her best wheedling voice going full strength as she said, "I want to go to a party."

Spike slammed his fists into the table in anger, before he headed over to where she stood, grabbed her, and slammed her into the wall.

"Oh. Right here baby. In front of Bernie." the vampiress cooed in a sultry tone.

Spike gave her a grin as he asked, "You'd like that wouldn't you?"

Harmony seemed to ponder it before she replied, "Maybe I would. After a party."

Spike finally caved as he replied, "Tonight. I'll take you somewhere nice."

Giles and Xander had finally finished arranging his books, after they had agreed that silence was still the best policy. Besides, Xander did his best work to help Buffy from the shadows.

"So, what are your plans tonight, Xander?" the Englishman asked as they had a cup of tea at Rupert's insistence.

"Vicky and I are going to some campus wide shindig after she meets me here after class," Xander answered.

"I thought you had most of your classes together?" Giles asked mildly.

"Eh. I have Advanced Calc. now, while she has Latin. Fortunately my class was cancelled due to my not really understanding it and dropping it this morning. I figure I have a week before gramps finds out and puts me in a harder one," Xander replied as he sipped his tea. It was good, but Wally's was better.

"Xander are you certain that's wise?" Giles asked.

"Yep. Mostly because I didn't really drop it, the prof gave us today off for some symposium in San Diego. I think that's college for professor only kegger, but I'm not complaining," The White Knight assured him.

Their discussion was cut short as a cheery female British voice called out, "Xander, Mr. Giles I'm here," as she knocked.

It took Xander and Giles only a few minutes to let Seras in and explain that Rupert was now 'in the know', so to speak. This left the vampiress feeling slightly ashamed at their deception as she looked toward the floor and asked, "Do you feel any ill will toward us for our deception, Mr. Giles?"

Giles watched the girl carefully, and had to agree with Xander. It was impossible not to like her. "No, Miss Victoria. I think I rather understand the reasons behind it. I was more upset because without full knowledge, I'm ill equipped for some potential political maneuvering by an old colleague from the Council. Xander's vouching for you is all the assurance I need of your sincerity to stand with us," he replied in a fatherly tone.

"I understand, Mr. Giles, sir." Vicky responded in tones drilled into her head under both her police training, and her time under Sir Integra.

"I will assume you'll tell the girls once they are ready to deal with it, though?" the Watcher asked the couple in a tone that was /not/ one used for a question.

"Sure thing G-man," Xander replied happily, before he coughed in his hand with a sound that sounded suspiciously like Eyghon.

OOC: I'm going to cut it off here, even though I'm only halfway through the episode. So Part 28 will be split into parts a. and b. Sorry, but it's late and I'm tired.

END PART 28A