A/N Yes BAKAMAN, Spike is most definately going to die in this story. I still haven't decided what I wanted to do with Angel though.

Chapter 2

Journey's Begin

Xander waved goodbye to Trish, as she dropped him off at his house. The two had become quick friends from the two hour drive from LA to Sunnydale. Xander had found out that Trish was a college student from UCLA and in turn he had told her a little about himself. Even the part about his two best friends basically calling him useless.

Xander and Trish had laughed at that. After they had exchanged phone numbers, she had promised to come and visit him sometimes. As he took his sword from the back of her car, he walked up to his door and knocked. After about five seconds, his teary eyed mother answered the door.

"Xander!" she screamed as she immediately pulled him into a hug. "Where on earth have you been?"

"That's what I would like to know." Xander replied as he broke from her embrace and walked into the house. As he looked around he saw paper, books, and clothes strewn about the room. The place looked like a warzone, or at least one of his dad's drunken rages. "Mom are you, okay?" Xander asked as he looked at his mother's face.

"I'm fine." Jessica replied confused.

"Well what happened?" Xander asked as he pointed about the room.

"What are you talking about?" his mom asked with a frown. "You know that we're moving."

"Moving." Xander mouthed silently to himself. "Mom...please tell me what's going on. I don't remember anything after the time when I passed out from touching that orb." he explained.

"Passed out?" Jessica asked. "Xander maybe you should sit down." she said as she pushed her son on the couch.

"Okay, firstly you never passed out, you did get a little dizzy though. When you touched that orb it shattered and alot of diamonds were inside. You took most of them and told me to have the rest. When your... father found out what was going on, you told him off and told him to leave."

"And if he didn't I was going to kill him." Xander added as he had a flash of that memory. He saw himself putting a gun in the face of the older Harris' man face. The look of fear he saw in his eye's, was almost identical to his own when his dad abused him.

"Yeah." Jessica replied. "After that I made him sign some divorce papers..." she had them drawn up years ago, but she was to afraid to make him sign it. Until now. "and I gave him a few diamonds to live off of. You then gave me most of your diamonds and told me to find a new place to live and you've just been gone, every since."

"Mom, I can't remember anything from the past couple of day's." Xander informed her.

"Well maybe you should get some rest." she suggested as she stood to her feet. "Everything might just look better in the morning."

"Yeah." he replied as he stood to his feet and started to walk up the stairs. "I'll see you in the morning." he called over his shoulder. Jessica just looked at the retreating form of her son and smiled. It seemed like there life was about to change for the better. She had no clue how wrong she was.

The next day

Sunnydale High

Buffy stood outside of the entrance of the school and started to pace. She had talked it over with Willow last night on the phone and they had decided that, she should talk to Xander as soon as possible. She didn't want to hurt his feelings, but she also didn't want him getting hurt.

Seeing her Xander shaped friend approaching from a distance wearing all black, she put a smile on her face, that turned into a frown as he walked right past her.


Xander was in his own little world as he walked to school that morning. The way his mom was talking, they would be in a new home by the end of the week. With the absence of his dad, his home life was far better off, even his change in clothes. Looking down at himself, he looked at all of the black he was wearing. 'Maybe since I'm half demon, it's a family trait.' he silently mused to himself. As he walked up the school steps and headed for his locker, he suddenly heard Buffy calling out his name.

"Hey, Buff." Xander said with a huge smile as he turned around to look at her. His previous anger towards her gone.

"Hey Xand." Buffy greeted warmly. "Didn't you hear me calling your name?" she asked.

"Sorry." Xander said with a shrug. "I just have alot on my mind." he said contemplating on if he should tell her about his new found power. From the look she had on her face, he knew he shouldn't say anything yet.

"Xander we have to talk." she said as she led him out of the hallway and into an empty classroom. "Me and Will were talking and..." she stopped for a second and shifted from foot to foot. "...we think it'll be better off, if you didn't help us with the Slayerage so much."

As she continued to talk, his new found demonic blood started to boil. He was just going to share one of the biggest secrets of his life with her and she was again telling him that he was useless. Calming himself down, he looked at her and smiled.

"Okay." he told her, surprising himself with how calm he sounded. "You want have to worry about me anymore."

"May...maybe you could still help Giles out with research though." Bufy blurted out as she saw the hurt in his eyes. God, she hated herself sometimes, but it was for his own good.

"No." Xander said with a shake of his head. "Buffy, if you're going to kick somebody out of a group, you have to do it all the way."

"Xander please don't be like that." Buffy said as tears moistened her eye's. "I'm doing this for your own good. Me and Will care about you. We just don't want to see you get hurt."

"I don't want to argue about this right now." Xander said as the school bell rang. "I have to get to class." he said as he walked past her and out of the door.

"Hey Xander." Willow greeted as she walked by. "I tried to call you all weekend, where have you been?"

"I'll tell you later, Will." he said as he brushed her off. "I'll see you later." and with that he was gone. Willow watched the retreating form of her bestfriend and sighed. 'Buffy must have talked to him.'

"It was for the best, Will." Buffy voiced from behind her as she put a hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah...maybe." Willow replied sadly.


Even though Xander had a few classes with Willow and Buffy, he mostly ignored them. He still couldn't understand how Buffy could just, try to shut him out. Especially since Willow was almost as useless as Buffy claimed he was. 'Sure she's good at researching and hacking, but...' Nevermind, Xander thought bitterly to himself. Then a voice snapped him out of his musings.

"So even those loser friends of yours have abandoned you." Cordelia said as she stepped out in front of Xander. "And what happened to you?" she asked looking at his dark clothes. "Did your, mommy stop dressing you?"

"I'm glad to see you to, Cordelia." Xander said with a roll of his eye's. "Firstly, no my mom didn't dress me." he said taking a look at her clothes. "But I can see you went to strippers are us, and got your clothes." he said with a chuckle as she scoffed at his comment.

"Secondly who I associate with is none of your business."

"Right like anybody, important would want to hang out with you." Cordelia said as a silver luxury BMW pulled up. When the driver honked her horn, Xander looked over Cordelia's shoulder and saw...

"Trish?" Xander asked with a huge smile.

"Hey, Xand." Trish greeted as she walked up to him. Cordelia was fascinated by this display. "I just thought that you might need a ride home?"

"Sure." Xander said as he shot Cordelia a look. She in turn just raised her eyebrows at him. "Just call her Miss Important." he muttered to Cordelia as they got into Trish's car and drove off.

"Cordelia." Buffy said from behind her. "Who was that Xander drove off with?"

"Probably some hoe, he paid off." Cordelia said in a huff as she walked off.

"What was that about?" Willow asked as she glanced at Buffy. Buffy just hunched her shoulders as they started to walk in the direction of home. She was going to have a little talk with her Xander shaped friend in the morning.


"You couldn't have picked a better time to show up." Xander commented as he looked at the beautiful blonde. "And not that I mind, but what are you doing here."

"Can't I just stop by and visit a friend?" she asked innocently. Xander just gave her a look. "Okay...okay, I couldn't sleep last night." she admitted. "I just kept thinking that my whole life was a lie. There's a whole world out there that only a few know about."

"Surprisingly that's the same way I felt when I found out about the nightlife." Xander said seriously.

"That's why I want to help, you." Trish said as she made a sharp turn down Xander's street.

"What?" Xander asked as he looked at her. "Help me?"

"Yeah, you have these cool powers." Trish said with a shrug. "And how can I know about what goes on at night and not try to help someone in trouble?"

Xander had never thought about it like that. When he found out he had this power he only, thought to help Buffy. He never dreamed of doing it solo. But now...

"What about college?" Xander asked as they pulled into his driveway.

"My families rich, Xand. It's not like I can't, just take off a year of school, or better yet transfer here."

"Alright." Xander said with a nod of his head. "But if you're going to fight with me you're going to have to be trained to fight."

"I already know a little Aikido and kick-boxing." Trish informed him. "But when I saw those things last night...I was frozen."

"Well, I guess we'll work on that then." Xander said as he got out of her car. "Do you want to come in and get something to drink?"

"No thanks, I have to get back to LA." she said cheerfully. "It seems like I have alot of packing to do."

"Okay then." Xander said as he stepped back from her car. "I'll see you later." After saying their goodbye's, Trish drove off and Xander entered his home. 'Maybe Trish was right.' Xander thought to himself. 'I should think about going solo.' with that thought, he went into his home. For tonight, the son of Sparda would hunt.

Later that night

Restfield Cemetery

Buffy strolled through the cemetery, trying her best to seem like a clueless, helpless girl. Adjusting the grip on her stake in her right hand, she thought about her conversation with Xander. Was she really in the wrong? All she wanted to do was keep a friend safe.

Stars suddenly exploded in in her head as a meaty fist collided with the back of her skull. With a grunt, she rolled forward out of pure instinct. A growl then came from somewhere behind her, but she couldn't get her bearings.

She was aware of the mistake she'd made. She'd gotten distracted, lost in her thoughts, and hadn't been paying attention. Finally getting to her feet, she saw the vampire that had hit her. It was a large vamp, of whom was probably a bodybuilder when he was alive.

"Die Slayer." It growled as it did a spin kick.

"Can't you guy's think of anything more original?" Buffy asked as she ducked under the move. "I mean really." she said as she did a spinkick of her own connecting with the vampire's jaw. As the vamp fell to the ground, Buffy quickly brought up her stake and stabbed the vampire in the heart. As the vampire looked at her surprised, he quickly crumbled into dust.

"Hmmm... that was easy." Buffy said with a smile. As she started to walk off, it suddenly started to rain. "Just great. I hate slaying in the rain."

"Then I guess you have to die." a vampire said as he stepped out in front of her. Sensing more demonic presenses, she chanced a look behind her and saw ten more vampires step out of the shadows.

"Oh crap." Buffy muttered as she got into a loose fighting stance. As a bolt of lightning flashed Buffy saw something standing in the darkness behind the vampires. Thinking it was just another vampire, she gripped her stake tighter, because this was going to be the fight of her life. But the voice of the new being almost made her drop her stake.

"Alright boy's." the figure said in a familiar voice, as he twirled a sword in his hand. "Let's rock."

TBC...

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