From the Dairy of A. L. Harris
Sorry that this part took so long but my muse took a vacation after Xander got home, I'm having trouble trying to figure out were I want to go with the story from here.
Chapter Seven
06 Sept 1999
Dear diary
On the road again, I started out on this road trip to see all 50 states and in three months I haven't quite done it, I got a little distracted. I started out in California and I have been in or thru, with Tracy during my training and helping with her Bounties, we went thru Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, after my stay with Nick and Nat (my adopted Grandparents) I went thru Mississippi and Alabama to get to Tennessee to visit Nashville (meeting Sara and Hubby and which just Killed Spike) and when Whistler sent me to the Institute I went thru Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and into New York state. Now since Whistler has me on another courier mission and I'm now in Colorado Springs, I went thru Pennsylvania again then thru Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, so I have been in, Counting California 21 states, so far, I hope to be back home by the end of the month.
While I was at Xavier's I made a file, which I plan to use if Willow and Buffy start the whole they don't want me to help and fight because I'm the normal guy I might get hurt thing, it has seven Diplomas, a picture of me in my X-men suit with the X-men and if Buffy doesn't believe the photo she can call Scott. I got the diplomas thru the Empire State University, Professor Xavier
Had me do some CLEP tests (an assload of tests) to see how much of the memories and life experiences of Grandpa Alex I understood. Grandpa Alex Taught At Berkley but he was always taking classes there as well, in his free time and he kept up in the fields that he studied over the years and that's on top of all of the training he got from Logan as a kid and what he learned from the Society. So I now have Master Degrees in Archeology, Linguistics and Computer Sciences (eat your heart out Willow) and Bachelor degrees in Chemistry, General Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, as well as Diplomas stating that I have black belts in Kung Fu, Aikido and Karate, just call me MacGyver junior.
O guess who the Package I'm caring, is for? During his walkabout days and search for Logan, Grandpa Alex met a Genius in New York working as a cabby, they became good friends and when his friend started working for a think tank called the Phoenix Foundation for Research, he would help his friend now and again when asked.
Here is some info, when Whistler puts the package he wants me to deliver I get a mental down load, for the files that I gave to the Prof. I knew that the school was for mutants, just not who were and who wasn't mutants, for the ring I gave deadboy I knew his real name and that sometime in the future he was going to piss off an evil firm of lawyers and a brief history of that firm. Now I have a Package for Grandpa Alex's old friend one Dr. Angus MacGyver, the package is an ancient device found in Tibet back in early 1901, that is the heart of a Inertia less drive system, it is the key to a technology that will give us a Sublight drive, Magnogravic sensors, artificial gravity and shield tech, my inner geek was drooling all over the place, it was in the labs of the NID collecting dust. The down load I got from the package was a little on the device a lot on the NID and project Initiative in Sunnydale, run by the Bitch Dr Maggie Walsh, who used to work on the government anti-mutant project call project Sentinel and the life history of one Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill aka Angus MacGyver, Gilgamesh king of Uruk and guess who is his first Born, Princess Ellisif, 4700 years later, going by the name of Elisabeth "Buffy" Ann Summers.
After learning this I got on the Internet and got some interesting blackmail material to have in my "I'm not a Zeppo file" also Buffy is related to Scott, not as a cousin but a distant Grandmother. It seems that King Gilgamesh and his Daughter Princess Ellisif, the Slayer at the time had killed a black mage that was planning on an ascension, they got to him before he had become invulnerable and they were running from his army and had gotten lost in the dessert and from the mob after then, when they entered a cave to wait out a sandstorm, the cave had a spring in it and they drank from it, it was years latter when they started to notice that they healed a hell of a lot faster than normal and that their friends, Spouses and children were growing old and they were not, the spring had made them immortal ( kind of makes you wonder just how many "immortals" are out there?). During his MacGyver days, Mac came across a herbal elixir that taken daily will make it appear that he is growing older allowing him the ability to stay in one place longer than ten years. I guess I should call him Jack, I don't know whether to kick Whistler butt or not because this down load was Jacks entire life right up to the second that I touched the package so now I have over 4700 years of experience now, I'm really MacGyver Junior now.
Well Enough, I have a package to deliver and a road trip to get back to.
07 Sept 1999 1400 Hours
In a little used Office on the 26th level of the Cheyenne Mountain complex a phone rings.
"O'Neill"
"Yes is this Colonel Jonathan O'Neill"
"Yes"
"My Name Is Alexander Harris, I'm the Grandson of Alexander Howlett and I have a package to deliver to you sir."
Jack felt a twinge of fear His Friend Alex died in 1990 and only knew him as MacGyver, so who is this person claiming to be his Grandson?
"How did you get this number?"
"I got him, he didn't say Alex who" thought Xander.
"A Short badly dress man wearing a hat and speaking with a Bronx accent calling himself Whistler gave me the package for you and your work phone number saying something about that you were never home, Sir. Is there some place we could meet so I can give you this package?"
"Crap" Thought Jack. Buffy had told him of Whistler the Balance demon that worked for the PTBs, "What does he want with me?"
"How about tonight at around 1100 PM?"
"That works for me were?"
"O'Malleys Restaurant."
"See you then."
Jack spent several hours checking up on his late friend Alex and found out that he did have a Grandson and that the NID had a very interesting file on him and according to the tracker on the kid's car he was in Colorado Springs right now. He was going to have a long talk with his daughter very soon.
07 Sept 1999 2255 Hours
O'Malleys Restaurant the SG1 sat at their Favorite table waiting for Xander to show up. Jack saw Xander first, he was facing the door a habit he had, Carter was looking at Jack when she saw him stiffen up and out of the corn of her eyes she saw Teal'c and Daniel do the same, she looked at the person they were looking at, a dark haired boy, well young man and she felt her warrior side take over and screamed Danger, the kid was dressed in dark dress slacks, a dark blue silk shirt and a leather jacket carrying a metal brief case, most of the women and a couple of the men in the restaurant were giving the kid the old lustful eye, but what was setting her danger sense off was the way he moved and scanned the room, her time with Jack and Teal'c taught her what to look out for in the enemy and the kid in a matter of second had pick out the escape routes and who was a threat and who wasn't and the way he moved, just wasn't human he flowed across the floor, his eyes are what got her the most they were old eyes just like Jack's, Daniel's and to some extent Teal'c's.
As Jack watched Xander enter the room the first thought that entered his mind was that the NID agents had missed something in their report on the kid or that the last three months that they only tracked him by his car, had been a very life changing experience for the kid, because if he didn't know better a very old Nephilim had just entered the room.
Daniel watched the kid enter the room and he felt scared the last time he had run into a Nephilim waswhen he was going by the name of Henry Jones Jr, just before the whole Holy Grail thing, the vamp had stalked him for two weeks before he was able to call in a favor he had with an fellow immortal who was married to an enforcer, he wondered if Teresa was still in Toronto?
Teal'c watched the kid enter the room with interest, he radiated the same confidence and power of some of the old Goa'ulds that he had meet as the first Prime, this might get interesting.
Xander watched the SG1 watch him as he walked over to their Table, He saw by their expressions that Jack and Daniel knew what he was and that the other two knew he was dangerous. This may get Interesting.
"Gee Colonel you would think that you don't trust me for some reason?"
"Naw just when somebody I don't know says they have a package for me and that the pain in the butt Whistler sent them I get a little Paranoid."
"I see Buffy has told you about Him."
Jack grimmest "Yeah she has and you seem to know a lot about me."
"You can thank the Butt pain for that he gave me the whole this is your life Jack O'Neill."
"Oh Crap" thought Jack
"The whole thing?"
"Every excruciating minute of it and hey aren't you going to introduce me to your friends they are looking confused at the moment."
"Sorry the Blond is Captain Samantha Carter our resident Genius."
"It is a pleasure to meet such a lovely lady."
Carter blushed as she shook hands with Xander. "And she is a mutant, Jack didn't know that, I wonder what her power is?" Thought Xander, his time at Xavier's he learned that Mutants have a slightly different smell that normal people.
"The Brunet in Glasses is Dr Daniel Jackson."
"A pleasure" said Xander as he shook a slightly pale Daniel's hand "Interesting he is an immortal another secret Jack didn't know I wonder how old he is?" thought Xander.
"And tall, dark and quiet is Murray"
Both Teal'c and Xander bowed their heads to each other. "So that's what a Jaffa smells like" thought Xander as he sat down
And the waitress came up. Xander ordered a Picture of the local Beer for the table and to the surprise of Jack and Daniel drank the beer and liked it, Xander just gave them a, what did I do look, which caused Jack to laugh and relax. Carter and Teal'c were confused by the antics of Jack, Daniel and Xander.
"So what's in the case?" asked Jack
"It is something that should make the Politicians who have been hounding you for, happy, for awhile and it was on earth the whole time and collecting dust in a lab that your friends the NID had."
"What are the Politicians hounding us for?" Asked a suspicious Carter
"Space technology."
What's in the case
"The key to magnogravic technology and its all yours Jack." And he handed the case over to Jack and stood up to leave.
"O Jack I also put a file in there that you might find interesting, I think you will get a laugh out of it, use the info well and if you need to get a hold of me just call Buffy." And before they could stop him Xander was gone.
"Sir why did you let him go?"
"Carter we couldn't have stopped him if we tried and there isn't a jail strong enough to hold him."
"But sir he knows to much."
"Sam, Jack is right we couldn't have stopped him, he is to powerful."
"So kiddies shall we go see what our present is?"
Later at the SGC, Sam forgot her anger at Jack over letting a possible security risk that was Xander, leave the Restaurant when she saw the device and went into geek mode. After reading the file that was in the case that Xander left him, Jack had a good laugh and took it to the General and he had a laugh and made Copies of it to send to the various enemies that Senator Kinsey had and to the anti-mutant groups that Kinsey was know to visit.
Chapter Eight
20 Sept 1999
Dear diary
I've been back in Sunnydale for a week now, I saw the Grand Canyon and Vegas on my way back, I stopped in Vegas and tried my hand at Gambling and found out that between Grandpa Alex and Jacks memories and my Vamp abilities I could break Vegas easily so I left before I was forced out, I did leave with the winnings of the high stakes poker game I won, another Five Million in the Bank, the next April 15 is going to be a pain in the butt.
For the last two weeks I have been busy, I gathered the few personal items that were in my parents place and I bought Angel's old mansion, cheap and have been getting Furniture and the utilities hooked up. It's not to bad now. Tomorrow I'm going to meet Buffy at Giles place alone, Giles is going to be looking at the Magic shop and buying it, I talked him into it and I'm his silent partner in it.
21 Sept 1999 4:30pm
Buff was a little confused Giles had called saying Xander was back but he didn't want Willow to know yet and he wanted to talk to Buffy alone at Giles place, so her she was knocking on Giles door.
"Come in Buffy."
"Xander what is this about?" asked Buffy as she came in and closed the door. Then she felt the presents of an old and very Powerful Nephilim, she whipped around with speed and strength that she rarely ever uses, unless she has to fight a souled Vampire, with a stake in her hand but it wasn't fast enough, Xander's sword was at her throat.
Xander watched as Buffy came in and when her back was turned to him he uncloak his power, and was surprised at her speed, he realized that she barely tap her power fighting the vamps in sunnydale and if she was prepared she could of easily kicked his ass, he was just lucky he caught her by surprised, he barely got his sword at her throat in time.
"Hey Buffy is that a stake or are you happy to see me?"
Buffy was feeling fear sadness and anger until she heard Xanders bad joke and saw the surprise and fear in his eyes and knew she still had her Xander shaped friend and relaxed and dropped her arm as Xander lowered the sword.
"So had an interesting summer? How many states did you see?"
"23 states, Got shot in LA, Dusted Spike in Nashville, met your Cousin at His school that he Teaches at and found my Great Grandpa, Gave deadboy the Gem of Amara, Met your Dad in Colorado, saw the Grand Canyon and won 5 million dollars at the poker Table in Vegas. So how was you summer Ms. Summers?"
Xander smirked as Buffy gave an impression of a fish at his statement. As Buffy was trying to make sense of Xander Cliff note version of his summer she took a good look at him, he was pale with a hint of his California tan left, he was wearing a an X-man suit similar to the suit of the X-man Wolverine only Xander's had a skull on his and a leather duster over that, but what surprised her was the Crucifix ear stud he was wearing and the sword he was holding, as far as she knew the Nephilim reacted to Blessed and holy items the same way that the Aurelius did.
"So Xander when did you get the upgrade?"
"Upgrade?"
"Turned, brought across, became a Vamp."
"Right after I got shot." Said a concerned Xander as Buffy doped her Californian airhead mask and the real Buffy came forth named Princess Ellisif.
Buffy smiled when see saw the Concern in Xanders eyes. "Good" she thought "he isn't as dumb as he had acted before he went on his road trip now to find out what he really knows about me."
"You know you can put the Azrael sword away now you don't need it."
"Ok, we will play it that way" thought Xander as he decided to, even though she could kick his ass, the old Xander with a little help from Jack decided to mess with Buffy."
So in ancient Sumerian Xander answered her as he did his immortal hide the sword, like he did before at Xavier's.
Buffies eyes widened in shock when the sword disappeared in a faint flash of light and Xander answered.
"As you wish, Princess Ellisif, Daughter of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, Slayer of Vampires."
Buffy in a whisper said "You ass." And sat down.
Over the next two hours Xander told her of his summer and handed over the "Not a Zeppo file" to her and showed her the tape of his fight with Sabertooth and Buffy talked about her crush on Angel, it was caused by a curse Darla had put on Angel to search out that, that will break the Gypsy's curse, her, which caused the wackiness between her and Angel and the resulting fallout and the fact that Joyce was a 1100 year old immortal who off and on over the Centuries had played her mother, especially over the last century.
"So what now Xander."
"I don't know buff, or do I call you Elly or your Highness?"
"Watch it Azrael or I will put sun lamps in your Bedroom."
Just as they were about to decided what to do Willow came bursting in.
"Giles Xander is in trouble!"
"What did I do Willow?"
"Yea Willow what did Xander do?"
"Xanderyou'reallrightourclassonviolenceinAmericashowedyoufightingthebighairyguyyoucouldhavegotenhurtyoudidgethurtyouflewandhadweirdeyesandvoiceandthefangsandwhyareyouwearinganX-menuniform"
"Willow breath I'm all right, see, no wounds and I'm wearing the suit because I'm an Honorary X-men and Sabertooth, the big hairy guy shredded my other suit."
"But you're the normal guy you can't fight right Buffy?"
Buffy winch and wished she hadn't started that save Xander from the dark campaign it sure had come to bite her in the ass, so she handed Willow the "Not a Zeppo file" minus the Blackmail Buffy stuff.
"What's this?"
"It's part of what Xander did this summer."
A very confused Willow looked thru the files and then looked again slowly.
"But how when?"
"Its called a CLEP test willow and this summer I remembered all of soldier boys memories combined the two and you get the Degrees, Just call me MacGyver Junior."
Buffy Glared at Xander and He smirked and said "Oh you know this is true Princess"
"Remember Sunlamps Xander." She said with a smirk matching Xander's.
Willow felt that they were sharing some sort of private joke but didn't care Xander was back and alright and Buffy was happy and at the moment that's all that mattered, but latter she was going to find out what the secrets were. Then a very familiar voice to Buffy and Xander, came from the shadows.
"Ah young love, hey kid-urk."
Whistler from himself pinned against the wall, by his throat, by Buffy with his feet off the ground.
"Hey Whistler such bad Timing, ah Buffy could you just bruise him a bit, I know this Air Force Colonel that would Love to Kick his ass for what he has put his Daughter thru over the years."
"Buffy He can't breath, can't we let him talk them you can pummel him." Asked Willow.
"Ack thanks I think, now Slayer as I was about to saw, you and the kid need to be near the hospital tonight at around midnight."
"Why"
But Whistler was gone.
21 Sept 1999 11:30pm
Faith was dreaming, she was on a plateau above the clouds, it was peaceful and the First Slayer was there with her, the First slayer waved her hands over the clouds and Faith saw an ancient City, as she watched she saw a young girl running around a palace playing with her dolls and servants, she watched as the girl got older and was called to be a Slayer she looked like Buffy, only with brown hair, she watched as the girl and her dad the king, bring down a black mage and then they had to run, she saw them drink from a mystic spring and the consequences of it, she saw them marry have children and watch their children and spouses grow old and die while they stayed the same, as the years rolled by, the decades, the centuries and she still fought the darkness and so did her dad, she saw the names that the two had gone by, the girl had been, Gabrielle 'Queen of the Amazons', Xena's sidekick and Niume 'The Lady of the Lake, and a multitude of powerful Slayers over the Years and the Father had been Achilles, Casca Rufio Longious, Lancelot du Lac, and Angus MacGyver. Faith saw the girl meet with a Blond Slayer and her boyfriend in LA in 96 and letting her run off with the boyfriend and then taking the Blond Slayers Identity and bleaching her hair to become Buffy. Then Faith woke up.
Buffy and Xander were standing in the shadows, both of them were invisible to any body that walked by, when Faith came out of the backdoor wearing green surgical scrubs, looking like the scared confused girl she real was. Faith could feel somebody watching her but she couldn't see or hear who it was, she headed to the warehouse that the Mayor told her to go to after graduation.
Buffy and Xander stayed in the shadows as they followed Faith and was in the warehouse when Faith played the tape that the mayor made for her, as she looked at the device in her hand trying to decide what to do, Buffy stepped out of the shadows.
"Are you going to use that, Faith?"
Faith didn't even try to use her usual attitude she was to tired and scared.
"If your going to finish what we started go ahead B, I'm to tired and weak to stop you, and I really don't want to." And in a Tired voice said "Were did I go wrong, I'm supposed to be the good guy, when did I become evil, so if You are going to Kill me just do it and get it over with."
At that moment Buffy had an Idea that just might save her Slayer sister, because she sure didn't help the first time.
"I can't Faith that's not my job, that's Azrael's job."
"Who?"
"Me!" said Xander as he thought about Buffy was going to pay for this and he hopped this worked.
At the sound of the voice Faith felt a powerful presents, like what she felt when she was near Kakistos only with out the evil over tones. She turned to find herself looking at the chest of someone holding a sword by the hilt blade down, as she followed the blade she saw that the person was hovering above the floor, she looked up into the changed face of Xander.
"X?"
"No Alexander Harris died, shot by a robber in LA, Four moths ago, I'm Azrael Van Helsing."
Faith with tears streaming over the loss of somebody that could have been her friend had she not screwed up, closed her eyes and raised her chin and waited for the blade to take her head.
Xander and Buffy looked at each other in surprise they thought Faith would put up more of a fight than this.
"I can't do it Buffy."
"But it's your job you're the Angel of Death."
"Oh come on just because I have this cool sword and I killed Spike and Kicked Sabertooths ass, Recovered from being shot with cool powers, Doesn't mean that I'm the Angel of death."
"Does to"
"Does not"
"Do to"
"Do not"
"Do to"
"Do not"
"to"
"not"
"Will you to quit arguing like kids sheesh." Sayed a pissed Faith looking and sounding like a Mom.
"But she started it."
"Did not"
"Will You to start acting your age, your not five years old so stop it before I kick both of your asses."
"You know Buff, I think our Faith is almost back to her self don't you."
"Yes I think so as well"
Faith looked at the two of them and realized that they were her friends and started to cry for the first time in years and Buffy held her as she released the pent up emotions.
Xander went to the other side of the warehouse to them some privacy and to call Giles.
21 Sept 1999
Dear Diary
Faith is awake, she is still messed up a bit, The late Mayor really knew what buttons to push on Faith to make her feel wanted and loved, of course in his weird twisted way I think he did love her like a Daughter, both Buffy and I sort of shuttered over that. When I called Giles to tell him that Faith was a wake he told me that he already knew and so did the Counsel and that they were sending a hit team to take care of Faith and that we needed to us to find her first and save her I told him that Buffy and I will be on the look out for her, what he didn't know won't get him Interrogated by the hit team. Giles told me that the team should be here in a couple of days if they weren't already here.
Faith is staying in one of the rooms in the mansion for now, but latter I think that she should stay at Buffy's place and let Joyce do her mother thing on Faith I think they both will like that.
I think I know away to handle the Counsel team by using the Initiative and maybe cause so much Political noise that both will leave the area for awhile. May be I can get Walsh black listed from all Government jobs. Buffy is going to be bait, she talked Willow to do a Glamour on Buffy so that she will look like Faith. Maybe we can get them to chase buffy into the Frat house that the Initiative is using and get the two too fighting each other. I can dream!
30 Sept 1999
Dear Diary
It's been an interesting week, Buffy's room mate turned out to be a demon and when Joyce saw a picture of Dr. Jackson she told me that he was an old friend of her teacher's and he was 4000 years old, Both me and Buffy are trying to figure a way to get Jack's team to confess their secrets. But our main concern is the hit team that the Counsel sent to capture or kill Faith, between me, Buffy and Giles we have been trying to keep Faith busy with her recovery and keep her in my home and hidden from the hit team. Giles friend on the Counsel said that they got a call from the team when they arrived, on the 22nd and a report from them the next day but nothing after that, Willy told Buffy, after the required threats, that the team was seen entering the warehouse that we found Faith in, but no one saw they leave, Buffy said that she looked around in the warehouse and found evidence of a battle, but no bodies, Willy did say something about a commando team in the area, maybe the hit team and the Initiative ran into each other and had an argument?
02 Oct 1999
Dear Diary
Well two things happened two day Giles heard from his friend and the Counsel is sending a new team and it's a bigger team, of course we told or I should say, Giles told them that maybe the people that attacked the first team had Faith, and the second thing that happened is that whistler showed up with another package for me to deliver and Faith is getting cabin fever so I my just take her with me on this delivery, just to get her out of the house and away from Sunnydale. Whistler said that there was no hurry on this package I just need to get it to it's destination before the end of the month, so a mini road trip for Faith, so much for my plans on starting to get a PhD.
TBC