Title: Unlikely Heroes
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: First Three Series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At Least up until Right Of Passage in Stargate SG1.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy or SG1. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: Two young adults with a White Knight complex find each other during their cross country road trips. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stargate SG1 crossover.
AN: Thanks to the friend who gave me this idea to work on. Appreciate it.
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They pulled into the smallish town early in the afternoon. The town looked peaceful, almost as if nothing had ever happened there, but they both knew that looks could be deceiving, and deadly. Cassie was driving as she knew the area better than Xander, as she should have seeing she had been living here for several years. The streets were almost empty with only the usual Saturday traffic as Cassie steered through Colorado Springs. Cassie turned into a fairly large house on a quiet street and they both got out of the car and walked to the door, Cassie ringing the doorbell. Xander, dressed in his now typical dark colours stood slightly behind and to Cassie's left as they waited. A muffled voice was heard from inside the house and then the door was flung open to reveal Janet Frasier.
"Hey, mom. I'm home." Cassie said, before she was swept up into a huge hug.
"Cassie!" Janet exclaimed.
"Mom, air." Cassie gasped.
Xander smirked slightly as he watched this scene.
"Come in, both of you." Janet said excitedly, before turning back into the house and yelling. "Sam. Cassie's back!"
Xander and Cassie were escorted into the kitchen area where they were met by Samantha Carter, dressed in civilian clothing.
"Hey, Sam." Cassie said casually.
"Cassie, great to see you again. Who's your friend?" Sam replied.
"Oh, this is Xander. We've been travelling together for, what five months?" Cassie said.
"Five and a half." Xander interjected.
"He's also my boyfriend." Cassie said, half nervously, half proud.
"Oh really?" Sam asked with a wicked grin on her face. "Did this happen before or after you started travelling together."
"After. Actually we only started dating six weeks ago." Xander said calmly.
"I see." Janet said dubiously. "How did you meet?"
"Xander saved my life from a. mugger, over in California. His car had broken down in this little town so after," Cassie began but when Xander coughed and shook his head she changed what she was going to say. "We got some travelling money, he sold his rust bucket car and we travelled together."
"Small towns, the heart of Americana." Xander said with his infamous lop sided grin.
The grin worked, causing Cassie to laugh, Sam to smile and Janet to lose some of her icy demeanour. Just then the phone rang.
"I'll get it." Sam said.
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Xander laughed at one of Jacks jokes; they had surprisingly similar senses of humour, much to Sam's dismay. The group sat in the only bar in Colorado Springs that would serve them, an as yet unnamed bar that had just opened about three weeks prior and was actually doing good business. Xander was sitting facing the front door with Major Carter sitting on his left. Opposite Xander sat Cassie with Janet and Dr. Jackson sitting on her right, as she was watching the rear door. Colonel O'Neil and Teal'c, who had been introduced to Xander as Murray, sat on the ends of the rectangular table.
Officially Xander had bought the cover story they had provided and did not ask any unusual questions and SG1, who were almost Cassie's family, had been grilling him for the past hour, disguising it as normal conversations, and Xander was having a joke contest with Jack, they were currently tied. When the front doors opened into the night air and a man entered, no one took any notice except Xander, as SG1 and Dr. Frasier were unaware of a possible threat and Cassie knew better than to look behind her. Xander's eyes tracked the new man and when he was seated, Xander spoke.
"Cass, we got a leach. At the bar, third stool from the door." Xander said, visually addressing his words more towards Janet and Daniel Jackson that Cassie.
Cassie's eyes flicked to the bar and back to the table so fast that it generally went unnoticed.
"Got him. What's the go?" Cassie asked.
Everyone else at the table knew something was up, but they did not know what was going on.
"Bait and hook. You up for it?" Xander said.
"Sure. Go plus three?" Cassie responded, to which Xander nodded.
It took both Cassie and Xander's careful persuasion to get Janet and SG1 out of the bar and leaving Cassie behind. They quickly made their way to Cassie's car, that Janet and Sam had ridden in to get to the bar, while Jack, Teal'c and Daniel took another car. Xander opened the boot and pulled aside two blankets, one covering the floor of the boot and the other covering the door. The boot was as well organised as the weapons locker in the SGC. Xander pulled out a combat harness that had a scabbard attached to the back and began loading stakes and vials of Holy water into the loops, even pulling a stake out from the back of his trousers and putting it in the harness. Then he pulled out a belt holster which contained a Zatgun on the left hip and a Desert Eagle on the right hip, which he belted on. Pulling on one of the trench coats, Xander grabbed the Katana that was hanging on the boot door and sheathed it through a slit in the trench coat. Xander pulled out three Zatguns and tossed them to Jack, Sam and Teal'c before pulling down the other weapon attached to the boot door, a finely carved Quarterstaff which had its ends sharpened into stakes.
"Where the hell did you get these?" Jack asked, looking at the Zatgun in his hands.
"Not now, Colonel. Here's the plan. Danny, Janet. You stay with the vehicles. Colonel, I want you to cover the far end of the ally, Teal'c you're covering our retreat. Major, you're with me. Anything attacks you, give them three shots of the Zat, no exceptions. Now we got under one and a half minutes, let's move." Xander ordered, before loping towards the alleyway behind the bar.
After a second's pause, Teal'c followed Xander, forcing Sam and Jack to follow as well. They quietly and quickly got into position, Jack slightly farther down the alleyway in the shadows, Teal'c similarly positioned closer to the mouth of the alleyway while Xander and Sam were crouched behind some industrial waste bins by the bar's back door. Cassie and the vampire exited the bar as if they were having a good time, which shocked Sam, and Xander put a hand on her arm to stop her interfering. The vampire, arrogantly pushed Cassie against the alley wall and leaned in to bite her, not expecting the sharp contact between her knee and his groin. Cassie pushed the vamp backwards and deftly caught the quarterstaff out of the air, Xander having thrown it when the incapacitating impact had occurred. Charging in a blind rage, the vampire had both its arms broken as it threw punches by Cassie's quarterstaff, and then it was knocked unconscious by a blow to the side of the head. Xander drew his Katana and stood over the vampire, holding the blade to its neck.
"Cass, go get Danny and you're mom, they're by the car." Xander said.
Xander indicated to Jack and Teal'c that they should come in and Cassie arrived back quickly with Janet and Danny. Xander gave SG1 a quick and simple demonstration on Vampires.
Xander shook the vampire till it came round, showing its Game Face.
"Vampire." Xander said, before chopping off its head. "Dead vampire. Any questions?"
There was a shocked silence for a long second before Xander burst out laughing, quickly joined by Cassie.
"I always wanted to say that." Xander chuckled but then became suddenly serious. "What you think, Cass? Fledgling?"
"Yah, can't be more than a week old, more likely two nights old." Cassie responded.
"Looks like we got a Sire, maybe a nest. Damn, and I thought all we had to worry about were Goa'uld trying to take over the world. At least it's not another Apocalypse." Xander responded.
"Apocalypse? Pull the other one." Jack said.
"Hey. I've been involved in stopping no less than four actual Apocalypses and at least one potential Apocalypse in the last three years. I think I know what I'm talking about." Xander said, so seriously that SG1 and Janet actually began to take what he was saying seriously.
The group drove back to Janet's place where Xander and Cassie laid down the entire vampire, Sunnydale and Hellmouth situation. They also told the entire story of their road trip and what they had been doing for the last five and a half months.
"Jack. I got a request." Xander said, talking to the Colonel privately.
"What is it?" Jack said, really liking the young man who had captured Cassie's heart.
"I was wondering if I can help you guys down at the SGC. I can teach you guy's demon and vampire hunting methods." Xander said.
"I'm sorry, where?" Jack said, trying to maintain the cover.
"Cut the crap, Jack, I know. I lived on the Hellmouth all my life, I know how to keep secrets. Talk to the General, it's not as if I'm asking to go through the gate or anything. I teach you guys what I know, you teach me what you know. I get a steady paycheck and you get a guy who knows what goes bump in the night and can handle himself." Xander told Jack.
"I don't know." Jack said.
"Look, think it over. I'll sign a non-disclosure form if you want, not that I would tell anyone anyway. The pay doesn't have to be great and I'd rather not be base bound, something more like a consultant who you call when you need stuff. Just talk to the General, ok?" Xander said.
Jack nodded and Xander went off to find Cassie, hoping to enjoy the rest of the evening. Jack sighed and grabbed his car keys. He needed to talk to General Hammond, but he needed to think first, so he was going to drive back to base.
"That kid can be more annoying than Danny and his bloody rocks." Jack muttered as he got into his car.
TBC.
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: First Three Series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At Least up until Right Of Passage in Stargate SG1.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy or SG1. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: Two young adults with a White Knight complex find each other during their cross country road trips. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stargate SG1 crossover.
AN: Thanks to the friend who gave me this idea to work on. Appreciate it.
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They pulled into the smallish town early in the afternoon. The town looked peaceful, almost as if nothing had ever happened there, but they both knew that looks could be deceiving, and deadly. Cassie was driving as she knew the area better than Xander, as she should have seeing she had been living here for several years. The streets were almost empty with only the usual Saturday traffic as Cassie steered through Colorado Springs. Cassie turned into a fairly large house on a quiet street and they both got out of the car and walked to the door, Cassie ringing the doorbell. Xander, dressed in his now typical dark colours stood slightly behind and to Cassie's left as they waited. A muffled voice was heard from inside the house and then the door was flung open to reveal Janet Frasier.
"Hey, mom. I'm home." Cassie said, before she was swept up into a huge hug.
"Cassie!" Janet exclaimed.
"Mom, air." Cassie gasped.
Xander smirked slightly as he watched this scene.
"Come in, both of you." Janet said excitedly, before turning back into the house and yelling. "Sam. Cassie's back!"
Xander and Cassie were escorted into the kitchen area where they were met by Samantha Carter, dressed in civilian clothing.
"Hey, Sam." Cassie said casually.
"Cassie, great to see you again. Who's your friend?" Sam replied.
"Oh, this is Xander. We've been travelling together for, what five months?" Cassie said.
"Five and a half." Xander interjected.
"He's also my boyfriend." Cassie said, half nervously, half proud.
"Oh really?" Sam asked with a wicked grin on her face. "Did this happen before or after you started travelling together."
"After. Actually we only started dating six weeks ago." Xander said calmly.
"I see." Janet said dubiously. "How did you meet?"
"Xander saved my life from a. mugger, over in California. His car had broken down in this little town so after," Cassie began but when Xander coughed and shook his head she changed what she was going to say. "We got some travelling money, he sold his rust bucket car and we travelled together."
"Small towns, the heart of Americana." Xander said with his infamous lop sided grin.
The grin worked, causing Cassie to laugh, Sam to smile and Janet to lose some of her icy demeanour. Just then the phone rang.
"I'll get it." Sam said.
********
Xander laughed at one of Jacks jokes; they had surprisingly similar senses of humour, much to Sam's dismay. The group sat in the only bar in Colorado Springs that would serve them, an as yet unnamed bar that had just opened about three weeks prior and was actually doing good business. Xander was sitting facing the front door with Major Carter sitting on his left. Opposite Xander sat Cassie with Janet and Dr. Jackson sitting on her right, as she was watching the rear door. Colonel O'Neil and Teal'c, who had been introduced to Xander as Murray, sat on the ends of the rectangular table.
Officially Xander had bought the cover story they had provided and did not ask any unusual questions and SG1, who were almost Cassie's family, had been grilling him for the past hour, disguising it as normal conversations, and Xander was having a joke contest with Jack, they were currently tied. When the front doors opened into the night air and a man entered, no one took any notice except Xander, as SG1 and Dr. Frasier were unaware of a possible threat and Cassie knew better than to look behind her. Xander's eyes tracked the new man and when he was seated, Xander spoke.
"Cass, we got a leach. At the bar, third stool from the door." Xander said, visually addressing his words more towards Janet and Daniel Jackson that Cassie.
Cassie's eyes flicked to the bar and back to the table so fast that it generally went unnoticed.
"Got him. What's the go?" Cassie asked.
Everyone else at the table knew something was up, but they did not know what was going on.
"Bait and hook. You up for it?" Xander said.
"Sure. Go plus three?" Cassie responded, to which Xander nodded.
It took both Cassie and Xander's careful persuasion to get Janet and SG1 out of the bar and leaving Cassie behind. They quickly made their way to Cassie's car, that Janet and Sam had ridden in to get to the bar, while Jack, Teal'c and Daniel took another car. Xander opened the boot and pulled aside two blankets, one covering the floor of the boot and the other covering the door. The boot was as well organised as the weapons locker in the SGC. Xander pulled out a combat harness that had a scabbard attached to the back and began loading stakes and vials of Holy water into the loops, even pulling a stake out from the back of his trousers and putting it in the harness. Then he pulled out a belt holster which contained a Zatgun on the left hip and a Desert Eagle on the right hip, which he belted on. Pulling on one of the trench coats, Xander grabbed the Katana that was hanging on the boot door and sheathed it through a slit in the trench coat. Xander pulled out three Zatguns and tossed them to Jack, Sam and Teal'c before pulling down the other weapon attached to the boot door, a finely carved Quarterstaff which had its ends sharpened into stakes.
"Where the hell did you get these?" Jack asked, looking at the Zatgun in his hands.
"Not now, Colonel. Here's the plan. Danny, Janet. You stay with the vehicles. Colonel, I want you to cover the far end of the ally, Teal'c you're covering our retreat. Major, you're with me. Anything attacks you, give them three shots of the Zat, no exceptions. Now we got under one and a half minutes, let's move." Xander ordered, before loping towards the alleyway behind the bar.
After a second's pause, Teal'c followed Xander, forcing Sam and Jack to follow as well. They quietly and quickly got into position, Jack slightly farther down the alleyway in the shadows, Teal'c similarly positioned closer to the mouth of the alleyway while Xander and Sam were crouched behind some industrial waste bins by the bar's back door. Cassie and the vampire exited the bar as if they were having a good time, which shocked Sam, and Xander put a hand on her arm to stop her interfering. The vampire, arrogantly pushed Cassie against the alley wall and leaned in to bite her, not expecting the sharp contact between her knee and his groin. Cassie pushed the vamp backwards and deftly caught the quarterstaff out of the air, Xander having thrown it when the incapacitating impact had occurred. Charging in a blind rage, the vampire had both its arms broken as it threw punches by Cassie's quarterstaff, and then it was knocked unconscious by a blow to the side of the head. Xander drew his Katana and stood over the vampire, holding the blade to its neck.
"Cass, go get Danny and you're mom, they're by the car." Xander said.
Xander indicated to Jack and Teal'c that they should come in and Cassie arrived back quickly with Janet and Danny. Xander gave SG1 a quick and simple demonstration on Vampires.
Xander shook the vampire till it came round, showing its Game Face.
"Vampire." Xander said, before chopping off its head. "Dead vampire. Any questions?"
There was a shocked silence for a long second before Xander burst out laughing, quickly joined by Cassie.
"I always wanted to say that." Xander chuckled but then became suddenly serious. "What you think, Cass? Fledgling?"
"Yah, can't be more than a week old, more likely two nights old." Cassie responded.
"Looks like we got a Sire, maybe a nest. Damn, and I thought all we had to worry about were Goa'uld trying to take over the world. At least it's not another Apocalypse." Xander responded.
"Apocalypse? Pull the other one." Jack said.
"Hey. I've been involved in stopping no less than four actual Apocalypses and at least one potential Apocalypse in the last three years. I think I know what I'm talking about." Xander said, so seriously that SG1 and Janet actually began to take what he was saying seriously.
The group drove back to Janet's place where Xander and Cassie laid down the entire vampire, Sunnydale and Hellmouth situation. They also told the entire story of their road trip and what they had been doing for the last five and a half months.
"Jack. I got a request." Xander said, talking to the Colonel privately.
"What is it?" Jack said, really liking the young man who had captured Cassie's heart.
"I was wondering if I can help you guys down at the SGC. I can teach you guy's demon and vampire hunting methods." Xander said.
"I'm sorry, where?" Jack said, trying to maintain the cover.
"Cut the crap, Jack, I know. I lived on the Hellmouth all my life, I know how to keep secrets. Talk to the General, it's not as if I'm asking to go through the gate or anything. I teach you guys what I know, you teach me what you know. I get a steady paycheck and you get a guy who knows what goes bump in the night and can handle himself." Xander told Jack.
"I don't know." Jack said.
"Look, think it over. I'll sign a non-disclosure form if you want, not that I would tell anyone anyway. The pay doesn't have to be great and I'd rather not be base bound, something more like a consultant who you call when you need stuff. Just talk to the General, ok?" Xander said.
Jack nodded and Xander went off to find Cassie, hoping to enjoy the rest of the evening. Jack sighed and grabbed his car keys. He needed to talk to General Hammond, but he needed to think first, so he was going to drive back to base.
"That kid can be more annoying than Danny and his bloody rocks." Jack muttered as he got into his car.
TBC.