Author's Note-I hope you like this new update.I personally hate stories that have a great first chapter and the rest stink.And since I just started at writing fanfiction that is one of my fears.Oh and I should have done this in the first chapter but I forgot so here goes.
BTVS-The battle with the First happened and the town was destroyed.The Scooby Gang is now in London helping Giles form the new Council.Some people who were alive on the show are now dead in this story but WHO,why and how will be told in later chapters.
ATS-Angel never took over Wolfram and Hart.Because they were kick ass bad guys that I want in the story and more importantly I love the Hyperion and that's where the gang still lives.Fred and Wes are a couple(And the blue bitch with the name that starts with an I is not a factor here).No Connor in this story either.Also of course there is no coma Cordy here.
PS I knew that having Xander wanting to call Cordy first over Willow,Buffy or Giles would cause some comments but not like it did lol.But that's what's great about fanfiction you can created it how ever you want lol.
Chapter2
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
4,400 QUARANTINE AREA
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
7:23am ONE DAY BEFORE THE RETURNEES ARE RELEASED
(Computer screen playing back audio and video feedback of Xander's interview)
"I've really been missing for six years?"
"Yes, Xander you have."
"So is there someone we can call for you?"
"Yes, if she's still alive and you can find her. I'd like for you to contact a woman named Cordelia Chase for me."
"Ok Xander we can help you with that. But first we need some help from you."
"I'll do whatever I can to help."
"Thank you Xander.Ok the main thing we need for you to do right now is for you to try to remember. Is there anything special about the night that you disappeared? Anything that you haven't told us yet?"
(A few seconds of silence)
"The light.Did I tell you about the light?"
(Cut to wide view of an older woman with short dark hair sitting at a desk watching Xander's interview on her computer screen)
"If I'm not mistaken that's the fourth time you've pulled that file to watch. Is there something about this particular young man that I should know about?" came the sudden voice behind the woman.
Diana Skouris spun in her seat to find her boss, Dennis Ryland,head of the Homeland Security Seattle Branch standing there looking back and forth between her and her computer screen.
"I'm not totaly sure yet," Diana said honestly as she turned back in her seat to face the computer screen.
"Ok than maybe you could tell me what it is about this young man that's got you so interested in him?" asked Dennis as he came to stand next to her.
"Harris, Alexander Lavelle,returnee number 3,164. Was reported missing from Sunnydale,California on October twenty-first, nineteen nighty eight."
"Sunnydale,Sunnydale?" muttered Dennis as he looked up in thought "Why does that name sound familiar to me?"
"It was that town not far from LA that completely fell into a sinkhole last year," said Diana.
"Ah yes now I remember,the miracle town " nodded Dennis "A whole town that collapsed into a huge underground cave system without killing a single person."
"Well, according to official FEMA representative from DC the people in town had ample warning to leave and surprisingly they all did."
Dennis smirked at that "We can only hope the rest of the citizens of this country act that accordingly the next time we have to give an evac order to another major city."
Dennis and Diana shared a doubtful look on that one.
"But you still haven't told me just what is it about young Mr Harris here that's peaked your interest?"
"Ok," said Diana as she turned to face her boss "This is going to sound strange but Mr. Harris here has a military file."
"That's not so strange," said Dennis "I read his report also.It stated that he had a friend who once had some clout within a military unit. And it was this friend that got a military file attached to him. I believe it was in hopes that it would create more eyes out in the field looking for him."
"Yes, sir you're right about that," said Diana nodding her head "But I did some more checking on him and I discovered something else.It seems that Mr. Harris here has not one but TWO military files assigned to his name."
"Two?" said Dennis eyebrows raised "Ok now I agree that is a tad strange. Did you open this new file and read it?"
"No sir I couldn't," Diana sighed with a hint of embarrassment in her voice "It seems that I don't have the proper clearance to open the file."
"Ok than let me get in there to use my password," said Dennis as he made a move to use his high ranking clearance in hopes to open the file.
"I'm sorry sir but not even your clearance level is high enough to open this file," said Diana "It's encrypted with an Alpha Level One security rating."
"What!" Dennis exclaimed in surprise "But that's the highest clearance level there is!"
"Yes sir,"
"Damn not even the launch codes to our country's nuclear missiles are classified that high!"
"Yes, sir I know."
"Diana?" Dennis asked as he leaned into to look at the paused video that was showing a close up of Xander's face "Can you explain to me just how it is that a seventeen year old high school student not only has two military files to his name, but has one with the highest,top secret clearance level known to our government?"
"No sir I can't"
"Well, than I guess I can see why young Mr. Harris here has captured your attention."
MEANWHILE IN THE QUARANTINE AREA
Xander was sitting at a table trying to watch a little tv but the news that he had just gotten was making him so happy that he was practically bouncing in his seat.To say that he was ecstatic would be a major understatement. He had just spent six of the most boring weeks of his life crammed in this quarantine area with over four thousand other people.But now he had gotten word that he along with everyone else was finally getting out of here!
He had been told by Captain Lawson,the woman who interviewed him, that they had been successful in locating Cordelia.The word he had gotten was that she was very much alive and now happily living in LA.Xander had been relieved beyond words to find out that Cordy had not only gotten out of Sunnydale alive but was now living a much safer life in LA.Working for some kind of detective agency of all things.
Captain Lawson had also told him that Cordelia had been shocked to hear that not only had he been found alive but that he was also one of the now world famous,4,400.But Lawson than smiled and said that when the shock wore off Cordelia demanded to be able to see him. When Lawson told her she couldn't because he was still in quarentinee...well lets just say Cordy wasn't to happy about that.
According to Lawson,Cordelia let loose with such a display of threatening words and gestures that a battle hardened Marine would have been terrified for his life.
That's my Queen C, thought Xander smiling.
Lawson had also passed on to Cordelia his requested that she not tell Willow,Buffy or Giles that he was back.Xander knew that Cordelia would be confused by that one, what with Willow and Buffy being his best friends and all. But the truth was that he just wanted some time alone with Cordelia in hopes that she might help him get his life back in order before he was thrusted back into the real world.
"Xander?"
Turning to see who it was that had called his name Xander found an adorable little girl with brownish blonde hair standing next to him.
"Hey there," said Xander smiling at the little girl who was dressed in the same brown quarentinee outfit as him "What's your name?"
"Maia" the little girl smiled.
"Maia huh? That's a very pretty name" said Xander.
"Thank you"
"So Maia why did you come all the way over here to see boring old me?"
"I've come to warn you."
"Okkkkay," Xander drawled out " warn me about what?"
"When you get to LA you must not listen to the Hart," said Maia looking at Xander with the deepest most penetrating eyes that he had ever seen in his life "The Hart is evil a cannot be trusted."
"Don't listen or trust whose heart?" asked Xander "And how did you even know I was planning to go to LA when I got out of here?"
But instead of answering Xander's guestion,Maia smiled at him again and walk off losing herself back into the crowd.
"Ok and here I thought that this situation couldn't get any weirder," muttered Xander.
TBC
