A/N Thanks to everybody who reviewed and to answer a question to somebody who emailed me, no I'm not doing a sequel. Also to anybody who hasn't reviewed yet please do. I'm looking forward to hearing how you felt about the story whether it's good or bad. Especially the people who have this story on your favorite's list.

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Chapter 23

Storyteller

"Xander?" Buffy asked as she opened her eyes and looked up.

"Surprised to see me?" he asked as he helped her to her feet. Completely taken off guard she grabbed him and pulled him into a huge bearhug and started to cry into his chest. "I missed you too, Buff." Xander said as he returned the hug.

"Where did you go? You've been gone so long?" Buffy asked as some of her tears started to subside.

"What are you talking about?" Xander asked with raised eyebrows. "We've only been gone for a week."

"A week?" Buffy asked as she pushed off from him. "Xander you've been gone for almost a year."

"So what's been going on in Sunnydale, since we've been gone?" Xander asked as he and the others started to walk through the graveyard and towards his house. It was still hard for him to believe that he and the others had been gone for a whole year. And just as equally hard for Buffy to come to grips that he had another brother.

"What hasn't happened." Buffy said with a sigh as she thought where to begin. "Oh, Miss Calendar and Giles got married, shortly after you guys dissappeared. " Buffy said at Xander's look.

"What about me modder?" Kendra asked.

"And my dad. Is he..."

"They're both fine." Buffy told them.

"And what about you?" Xander asked. "Why are you patrolling by yourself? Where's your little honey bunny Angel?"

"Angel?" Dante asked with a slight pfft noise.

"Yeah, Angel." Buffy said as she turned around to glare at him. "What about it?"

"I just didn't figure you for a lesbo, that's all." Dante said with a shrug.

"Angel's a guy you jackass." Buffy said in a huff as she tried to walk over to Dante to slap him. Grabbing Buffy by the arm, to stop the altercation, Xander turned her back around and started walking.

"So where is he?" Xander asked again.

"He left me and the whole town a few months after we stopped Ahriman and his army."

"I wonder why?" Dante asked. "It couldn't have been because of your sparkling personality?"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Xander asked angrily as he and the others glared at him. "You've just met Buffy, so why are you being such an asshole?"

"I'm sorry." Dante said as he let out a sigh. "I was just thinking about what she said. If we're a whole year in the future then my world is already gone."

"Damn man." Xander said looking sympathetic. He never thought of that. "I'm sor..."

"It's alright. I'll deal with it." Dante told him. 'Like I always do.'

"So what about everybody else?" Xander asked as they continued walking a few minutes later. "How's Willow doing?"

"She's pregnant."

"Pregnant!" Xander, Trish, and Kendra screamed at once.

"Wow, that's just wow..." Trish said in awe.

"So are Oz and her married too or are they going to wait until after they graduate?" Xander asked only for Buffy to look down guiltily.

"Oz is dead." Buffy said trying to surpress more tears. "Earlier this year we were fighting off these demons called the Sisterhood of Jhe. Which is where I got this sporty looking scar." she tried to joke as she touched the scar on her lip, only for her to feel badly again.

"Anyway, they were trying to open up the hellmouth and we fought them. A giant demon came out of a portal from the hellmouth and Oz pushed me out of the way..."

"Hey it's okay." Xander said as he pulled her into a hug. "We all knew what we were signing onto in this war."

"But..."

"No but's." Xander said as he looked down at her. He couldn't help but feel a little guilty himself. 'If only I was there maybe this wouldn't have happened.' "Did anybody else..."

"Jonathan..he..he died too the same night Oz did." Buffy said as she wiped some tears from her eyes. Trish just pulled Kendra into a hug as she took that news hard. "I was so busy thinking about Angel, that I totally ignored what he was saying to me. He saved the world from zombies trying to blow up the hellmouth at the same time we were fighting the Sisterhood. One of the demons escaped and when I went to the basement and killed it, I found Jack O'toole choking Jonathan to death. Before I could stop him it was to late."

"You guys live complicated lives don't you?" Dante asked.

"How is Willow taking all of this?" Xander asked ignoring his brothers comment.

"You...you can ask her yourself." Buffy said as she wiped the last of her tears away. "She's living with your mom now." and that's when Xander noticed that they had walked all the way to his house. Letting out a deep breath, he knocked on the door. After a few seconds Cordelia of all people answered.

"Do you realize how late...Xander?" she asked as she looked up at his face. Letting go of the stake she had behind her back, she brought her hand up to her mouth in surprise.

"Hi Cordy." Xander said with a smile, only for Cordelia to slap him in the face. "Nice to see you again to Cor..."

"Do you know how worried we were about you?" she asked as she poked him in the chest with her finger. "Well not me of course, but everybody else?"

"I'll explain everything, later." Xander told her. "Now can we come in?" he asked only for Cordelia to look behind him and see two Trish's, a beautiful romanian looking woman with red hair, Kendra, Buffy, and a gorgeous man with white hair standing behind him.

"Yeah." she said making googily eyes at Dante. And for him to smile and raise his eyebrow up at her.

"So where's my mom?" Xander asked as he and the others walked into the house.

"Oh um...in the kitchen." Cordelia said as she ripped her gaze away from Dante for a second. "Hi." she said as she walked up to his brother. With a smile on his face he and Kendra sneaked into the kitchen and saw their mom with her back turned to them. At the same time Trish went over to call her dad, but found out through Cordelia that he was in Europe at the time.

"Cordelia who was that at the door?" she asked not turning around as she washed another dish.

"Guess." Kendra said into her ear as she moved behind her and put her hands over her eyes.

"Kendra." she said as she turned around and pulled both of her children into a hug. "Where...when..."

"We just got back from another dimension a few minutes ago." Xander told her as he wiped away one of her tears. "But we'll talk about that later. Just how are you doing?"

"I'm doing...I'm doing a whole lot better now that my kids are here."

"Come on, I have somebody for you to meet in the living room." he said as they started to walk towards the kitchen door.

"Wait." Kendra called out, making them stop. "Mom, why is Cordelia here?"

"I probably should let her tell you but... her father hasn't paid taxes in years and the I.R.S. found out. She's basically poor now. I found out about it through Mr. Giles and I made her come and live with me." she said as she walked through the door and stopped cold when she saw someone with a red jacket and white hair talking to the girl in question.

"Sparda?" she asked making the man turn around. "No you're not him." she whispered more to herself as she saw his face. He looked like Sparda but he was younger than she remembered him to be. "Who are you?"

"The names Dante."

"My older half brother." Xander informed her.

"Brother?" Jessica asked. "Oh, yeah you most definately have to tell me what's going on."

"I'll let Kendra fill you in." Xander said as he walked up to her. "Now where's Willow? I need to talk to her."

"She took your room."

"Alright, I'll be back down in a second." Xander said as he ran upstairs and knocked on his old bedroom door.

"Just a minute." came Willow's muffled voice from the other side of the door. "I'm not really hungry Miss...Xander?" she asked as she opened the door and her eyes went wide.

"Miss Xander?" Xander said stroking his chin thoughtfully. "I've never been called that before."

"So your parents kicked you out of the house?" Xander asked at the end of a session of Willow babble. 'God, I've missed that.' he thought to himself.

"Not exactly." a very pregnant Willow said as she sat down on her bed. "But when they found out I was pregnant, everything just changed. I could tell that they were dissappointed in me for getting pregnant, especially by a none jewish guitar player. So after seeing how mesirable I was your mom asked me to come and live with her."

'Yeah, she seems to be doing a lot of that.' Xander thought to himself. "Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about Oz."

"Thanks." Willow said sadly. Seeing that his best-friend had tears in her eyes, Xander decided to change the subject.

"So ummm... do you know what you're gonna have?"

"Oh, yeah." Willow said enthusiastically. "Oz wanted it to be a surprise but after...he left I went to the doctor and found out that I'm having a little girl."

"That's great." Xander said with a smile. "So what are you going to name her?"

"After somebody very important to me." Willow said as she looked him in the eye. "I'm naming her Alexia Osbourne."

"Alexia." Xander whispered to himself. 'She's naming her kid after me.' "So when is my name sake going to be born?" Xander asked as he touched Willow's stomach and layed his head against it.

"She isn't due for another week." Willow said as she layed a hand on Xander's head, as they both felt the baby kick. "Which is good and bad considering that I'll be able to go to graduation."

"Graduation?" Xander asked. 'Man I really have been gone for a long time.' "Wait, why would graduation be a bad thing?" Xander asked confused. 'Any excuse to get out of the hellmouth seems to be a good one to me.'

"Because we might all die tomorrow." Willow answered as Xander sat up and looked at her.

"Another apocolypse?" he asked only for her to nod. "Damn, so who's the bad guy this year?"

"Mayor Wilkins."

"The Mayor of Sunnydale?" Xander asked as he smiled. And from that smile turned into a giggle, that then turned into a hysterical laugh. "You've gotta be kidding me." Xander said trying to get control over himself. "How lame is that."

"Xander." Willow said irritated, even though she had a smile on her face.

"Alright, I'm fine now." Xander said once he'd calmed down. "So what is he up too?"

"We don't know much, but he's gonna turn himself into a demon tomorrow during graduation. Giles and Jenny left town a few days ago to get some magical weapons to use on him and they should be back early tomorrow morning."

"Alright, now that me and the others are back you guys have some extra muscle." Xander said as he stood up from the bed. "Now come on I have some people I want you to meet." he said helping her to her feet.

"Oh, yeah I haven't seen Kendra and Trish in a long time." Willow said as she held her stomach, after feeling the baby kick.

"It's not just them that I want you to meet." Xander said as he opened the door. "I want you to meet my brother and his friends."

"Brother?" Willow asked.

"It's a long story." he said as they walked out of the room together.

Sunnydale Library

The next day

"Good lord." Giles said at the end of Xander's tale. "Well I'm glad to see you and the others. I'm just unhappy that it had to be a time like this."

"Not a problem G-man. I'm just happy to be home." Xander told the older man.

"Xander how many times have I told you never to call me that?" Giles asked causing both of them to smile.

"As fascinating as this is shouldn't you guys be concentrating on this Mayor guy?" Dante asked as he put his feet up on the library desk. "Better yet, why haven't you guys tried to kill him yet?"

"Because Mr... Dante is it.. the Mayor has completed a ritual that's made him impervious to all attacks until he Ascends into a demon." Giles informed him.

"So I see you've given up on trying to go home den?" Kendra asked.

"Like, I said babe my world was destroyed. There's no hope for it now."

"Not necessarily." Jenny Giles said as she and both Trish's entered the room. "According to what our Trish told us she might have made a mistake with her spell."

"Oops..." Trish laughed nervously. "Sorry guy's."

"So what are you saying?" Dante asked, instantly perking up.

"What I'm saying is, that after we take down the Mayor that I can redo the spell and send you home and into your right time."

"Why didn't you guys try to do that when we were gone?" Xander asked.

"Actually we did." Giles told him. "The only problem was, that we couldn't open up the hellmouth without knowing where you went. That's why we're so familiar with the spell."

"Then how can you send us home?" Lucia asked.

"Because your bodies belong in your dimension." Jenny answered. "So all we have to do is get a sample of your blood and redo the spell, then you're back home."

"All this talk about books and spells." a voice said behind them. "It really gives me hope for you kids today."

"You." Giles said with a sneer on his lips.

"Yes me." Mayor Wilkins said as he stepped all the way into the library. "So this is where you like to concoct your little schemes?" he asked as he looked around the library. "Well..." suddenly Dante jumped out of his seat and with an upward slash of his sword split the Mayor perfectly in half.

Dante literally looked into the Mayor's body and saw slashed organs and blood. Thinking that it was over, he was about to turn away until his body started to stich itself back together.

"Whoa!" Wilkins yelled out once he pulled himself together. "Now that was a little thoughtless and what with children in the room."

"They'll live." Dante said as he put his sword on his back. As he was about to come up with another remark he suddenly heard something that sounded like water dripping. Turning his head, he saw Willow fall to the floor holding her stomach and screaming.

"Oh, child birth." Wilkins said as he watched Xander and the others crowd around Willow. Then he thought about something. "Ewww germs. I'll see you all later at graduation." he said as he quickly walked out of the room.

"Willow...Willow are you okay?" Xander asked.

"My...my water broke." Willow said in pain.

"Well can you unbreak it?" Xander asked.

"Xander." Trish whined as she hit him on the arm.

"We have to get you to the hospital." Giles said as he and Xander helped her to her feet.

"But the ritual..."

"Doesn't concern you right now." Giles cut her off. "You have to take care of yourself and your child."

"Alright, I'll take her to the hospital and then I'll come back before the ritual starts." Xander told them.

"No you want." Dante informed him. "Me and the others are gonna take care of that Mayor guy."

"But."

"No but's." Dante interrupted. "She needs you right now. Now go, me and your friends have work to do."

Later that day

the quad

Mayor Wilkins flinched in pain as the effects of his spell started. Looking up at the sky, he watched as the sky darkened just as the ritual commanded. As his body ripped apart and his body started to change, he was made vaguely aware of the students standing to their feet and tossing away their robes.

"A giant snake." Dante said in a huff as he whipped out Ebony and Ivory and pointed it at the now transformed Mayor. "You don't see one of those every day." he said as he let loose a barrage of bullets.

Sunnydale Memorial

Sametime

"Just breathe Willow." Xander said as he held her hand as she huffed and puffed.

"What do you think, I've been doing this whole time?" Willow yelled as she squeezed his hand harder. If it wasn't for his demonic power she would probably crushed it. "Just shut up and let me do this thing."

Back to the Quad

Dante ducked under a tail swipe by the giant Mayor snake and shot off another round from his guns. They had little to no effect, but he knew he had to buy a little more time. Chancing a glance at the others he saw everybody engaged in a fight. Everybody besides Trish, who had just finished off another vampire.

"Hey Trish." Dante called out, making her turn around. "See if you can distract this guy for a couple of seconds, I have a plan."

"Alright." Trish called out as she thought of something to do. That's when she noticed that the sun wasn't fully eclisped and a few beams of sunlight shined on her face. Looking back up at the Mayor, she saw that his snake form didn't have eyelids.

"Everybody close your eyes, NOW!" she shouted out to the students. Not seeing if they followed her order, she closed her own eyes and put her hands on either side of her face. "Solar Flare!" she yelled out as the sun's rays bounced off of her and created a blinding flash of light.

Since the Mayor snake didn't have eyelids, he howled in pain as the light burned his retina's, temporarily blinding him.

"Show time." Dante muttered to himself as he started to float about ten feet in the air as if by magic. With a flash of black light he was transformed into his demonic form. Stretching out his demonic wings and drawing power through his pistols, he waited until the Mayor-snake looked directly at him. "Be seeing you." he said as he pulled the triggers on his guns and a volley of fire and lightning exploded from them.


"Willow, she's beautiful." Xander said as he held Alexia in his arms. And she was a beautiful girl, with soft eyes like Oz's and a hint of red hair, the same shade as Willow's.

"Just hold her for a minute." Willow told him tiredly. "I'm just going to pass out now." she said as she closed her eyes and fell unconcious.

As Xander rocked his little niece in his arms, his cellphone started to ring. Checking to see if any nurses were around he answered it.

"Hello."

(Xander it's me.) Kendra said into the phone.

"Hey, Ken what's the what?"

(We won. What about Willow? How is she and Alexia?) Kendra asked.

"I'm holding our little niece right now." Xander said as he looked down at the little sleeping girl. "And both of them are just fine."

(So where do we go from here?) Kendra asked as she let out a breath. Xander didn't answer her question though, as he looked off into space and smiled.

2005

LA

"Dat was a hell of a case." Kendra said to Trish as she propped her feet up on her desk. After what happened in Sunnydale the three of them finished their senior years in school and in college and a year after that had opened up a detective's agency in LA.

"Tell me about it." Trish replied as she leaned back in her chair.

The three of them had just got back from fighting some Meltar demons in the sewers and Xander had gotten slimed. As she got comfortable in her seat the phone started to ring. With a sigh she sat up and answered it.

"Devil May Cry, Trish speaking." she said into the reciever. "Oh, hi Angel what's...okay, okay thanks for the tip." she said as she hung up the phone.

"Who was that on the phone?" Xander asked as he stepped out of the other room, wearing only pants while drying his hair with a towel. 'Damn Maltar demons.' he thought to himself. He had to take three showers just to get all the gunk off.

"That was Angel." Trish said as she stood to her feet. "He said to be expecting some trouble." as soon as those words left her mouth, a titanic boom rocked the night, shaking and destroying part of the building in the process. Books, shelves, tables, and all of them fell to the floor as the trimmer suddenly shaked itself still.

"What was that?" Trish asked as she stood to her feet.

"Dat wasn't an earthquake." Kendra said as she and Xander stood to their feet as well.

"The building is going to collaspe." Xander said as he looked around the building. "We have to get out of here."

Grabbing their assorted weapons and Xander grabbing his jacket and shoes they all ran for the exit.

The doorexploded off its hinges and landed in the middle of the road, as Xander and the others stepped out into the night. As they looked around they saw that thearea looked like hell. Cars were wrecked and destroyed, buses were overturned and burning, and the surrounding building's glass windows were broken out with paper and other trash freely blowing into the wind.

"What the hell is going on?" Trish asked as she and the others stepped outside. Hearing a crumbling noise, they moved out of the way as their Detective's Agency started to collaspe in on itself.

"Dammit!" Xander exclaimed as he looked back. "Somebodies gonna pay big time for this."

"I tink you need to talk to dem." Kendra said as she and Trish walked closer out onto the street and saw three demons standing in the middle of the road.

Turning towards the huge green demons that were slowly advancing he closed his eyes and threw his sword spinning high into the air and swung his duster dramatically around sliding his arms into the sleeves as he went. Hearing the metallic whistling of Excalibur coming down he raised his hand and caught it, bringing it to the ground, twisting the blade in the gravel.

"Son of Sparda we have come for you." the biggest demon in the middle said as he took a freakishly big sword off of it's back.

As Xander stepped up closer, he looked over at his girl and then his sister as he nodded his head.

"Let's go to work." he said as he swung his sword.

2012

A Park

"And that's the story of the son of Sparda." a now 18 year old and very beautiful Angela Thomas told a now 12 year old Alexia Osbourne who sat tentively in front of her listening to every word.

"That story was totally bogus, aunt Angela." Alexia said as she ran a hand through her long red hair. She was almost the spitting image of Willow, except for her soft brown eyes. "There's no why uncle Xander could have done all of that."

"She's right." a familiar voice said behind her. "I did more than that."

"Uncle Xander!" Alexia shouted as she stood to her feet and engulfed him in a hug. Seeing her aunt Trish and aunt Kendra behind him, she gave them hugs too.

"Thanks for watching her today." Xander said as he walked over to Angela and sat down the picnic basket he was holding. "Willow barely has time to spend with her now that she launched her own computer company. Alexia really needs a strong female influence right now."

"Thanks for calling me strong, but I'm not." Angela told him.

"What's up?" Xander asked, knowing immediately that something was wrong.

"I'm pregnant."

"Really? Where's the father."

"That's just the problem, he doesn't want to have anything to do with me."

"What's his name again?" Xander asked.

"Daniel McKnight." she replied with raised eyebrows. "Why?"

'Because I'm going to hunt him down and make him take care of his responsibilities.' Xander thought to himself. 'Nobody hurts one of my girls.' "No reason." Xander said sheepishly.

"Do you know what it's going to be yet?" he asked as he noticed that her stomach was still small.

"It's a boy and I'm naming him, Alexander." Angela replied with a grin. "And where did you find Kendra. Last I heard she changed her name to Harmony Kaye and was working for the FBI."

"Well the name change was just a one time deal when she had to go undercover, but yeah she is a FBI agent."

"Uncle Xander come tell me a story." Alexia begged as she ran up to them.

"Alright." he said as he scooped her up in his arms. "I'll tell you what happened to me and your aunts, right after we fought those demons." he said as he sat down with her and picked up where Angela left off.

A/N Basically in the future Trish is an accomplished singer and married to Xander, Xander is still a detective, and Kendra works with the FBI under a special division. For all of the other characters I'll just leave that to your imaginations.

Also a day after the ascension, Dante and the entire scooby gang went back to his dimension and started to systematically kill off all of the uber-vamps. Oh one more thing, I was originally going to give Kendra a devil trigger too, but I decided against it. She was going to meet the shadow men and they were going to give her the power that they offered Buffy during season seven.