Supernatural Human Powers Yeah!
Chapter 3: Welcome to My World.
" That was so wow. You're going to have to come with every night." Xander said as he danced around the kitchen looking for something edible. Spike sat happily at the kitchen table with a mug of blood and some cornflakes. He wondered how Xander could still be dancing after all night and still not be breaking a sweat. Even vampires got tired sometimes.
"Alright energizer bunny. How do you have so much god forsaken energy?" Spike asked as Xander happily pulled a bad of fruit out of the recesses of the mini-fridge. There were two mini-fridges side by side that counted as the fridge.
"I have the stamina of a god!" Xander said as he bit down into a newly pilled orange. Spike got a very happy look in his eyes and nearly choked on his blood. Xander was so clueless as to what he said.
"Is that so?" Spike asked hiding his smile with his mug.
"I think I could go about a week without being the least bit tired. It's how I kept my construction job along with patrolling at night. I only slept on weekends." Xander told him. Spike's inner demon was screaming 'Could go Weeks'. No need to know what it was referring to.
"So what do we have today with the Slayer and her groupies?" Spike asked changing the subject.
"Well they'll remember today what they were at Faith's about. That spell I did was only temporary. I didn't want to erase their memories completely." Xander told him.
" So this means if I wanted to sleep that I had better do it now cause Slayers gonna come barging' in here in a while a wreck everything?" Spike asked.
"Yep. I guess I'll get some sleep to. Probably not going to get much after today with the next apocalypse coming and all." Xander said as he got up and walked towards the bedroom stripping as he went. Spike just wondered what was up with Xander and Faith, stripping in front of people when they changed. It must just be a coincidence. He then thought for a minute.
"Xan?" Spike called as he followed.
"Hmmm…?" Xander asked as he dug around for some pajama bottoms that would stay on his new and improved self.
"You only have one bed… You usually sleep on it at night, or I thought you did, and I use it during the day when your not here." Spike said as he threw his duster onto the couch. Xander just shrugged.
"You can sleep with me. I don't bite." Xander laughed at his own corny joke. Spike rolled his eyes and unbuttoned his shirt and threw it on the floor… He'd probably never find it again now. Spike curled up under the covers while Xander shoved the covers away.
"I so need air conditioner down here." Xander commented. His basement was hotter than the nightclub. He sometimes wondered if Mr. Harris, his guardian, had turned the furnace on to try and smother him. He looked over and Spike had his arm and the covers raised up in an inviting gestures. He looked up at Spike's face to see if it was a joke or something.
"Personal air conditioner at your service." Spike said. Xander crawled over to Spike and shivered as the cold vampire wrapped his arms around him. Xander liked being nice and cool and wrapped himself around the vampire. Spike snuggled closer as he drifted off to sleep. He liked the warm feeling that he'd been missing for so long.
Spike woke up about four hours later, but he didn't open his eyes. He only let himself soak in the warmth that the bed emitted. It took his lazy mind about fifteen minutes to realize that beds didn't emit heat. After a couple minutes of discussion inside his head he warily opened his eyes. The blue-ish black hair that spread out on his chest was a new sight. A lithe male body was wrapped around his and seemed to fit perfectly into his. It took him about another ten minutes to remember the night before and to realize that he was in bed with Xander. He remembered the air conditioner commit and almost berated himself for being so disgustingly fluffy, but after another round of arguing in his head he decided that it was worth it to wake up and have Xander wrapped around him.
"Hmmmm…"Xander sighed happily sometime later. Drows were like a mix between vampires and elves and that left them with strange qualities and the one that Xander was enjoying at the moment was the heat factor. Having so much energy, Drow often tended to be attracted to 'cool' things and in this case vampires. Drow were always so active, but not as active as elves, that there bodies produced large quantities of heat making them seek out anything cold when they became uncomfortable.
"Wake up luv." Spike whispered to the figure sleeping on top of him. He really didn't want to get up, he wanted to lie there for the rest of the day, but he knew that Buffy and the Slayer Groupies would be by just as soon as the memory spell wore off.
"Nu ah." Xander said in his sleep as he snuggled closer, burying his face in the crook of Spike's neck and nuzzling him making Spike purr. Spike couldn't help it; it was instinct for him to purr when someone touched his neck in a non-violent manner. There moment was interrupted as Buffy started shouting and banging on the door.
"If you don't get up she'll bang the door down." Spike told him as he loosened his hold. Xander whimpered in the loss.
"I'll fix it." Xander said. Spike sighed.
"Come on Xan. I really don't want to get staked anytime soon. Please get up." Spike asked. Xander huffed before rolling over him and onto the floor with a thud. Spike was surprised at the lightweight. Xander had been lying on top of him, yet he didn't feel more than one hundred pounds. Spike leaned over the side of the bed.
"You alright pet?" He asked. Xander just nodded his head and stood shakily, getting his feet tangled in the mess on the floor. Xander started to make his way towards the door to get rid of the shouting. Spike stood and followed him grabbing up his shirt and putting it on, on the way. Xander just walked up and threw open the door wearing only his pajama bottoms.
"What is it with you and Faith and being half naked every time I come to see you two?" Angel asked from the back of the crowd at Xander's door. Faith elbowed him in the ribs and Angle bent over in pain. Faith started apologizing for accidentally using Slayer strength and breaking his ribs. Buffy and Willow had already stormed in his apartment with Giles, Tara, Dawn, Faith and Angel following more slowly.
"Have you ever heard of cleaning?" Dawn asked looking around the littered room. Clothes were thrown all over the place. Glasses were setting around at odd places, some half full. Various other items were just thrown places. It was easy to tell that two guys lived here.
"Well usually the only thing this place is used for is sleepin'. No need to keep it up or anything'." Spike told them. Buffy rolled her eyes.
"Xander why didn't you tell us? It would have made our work so much less complicated. You could have been helping us a lot!" Buffy exclaimed. Xander glared at her.
"That is exactly why I didn't tell you. I didn't seem capable enough when I pretended to be human, you didn't need me then. You don't want me to help. You only want to use what I can do to your advantage. I have the same fighting capabilities now that I had then you just shunned me aside for being normal and never noticed. That's why I didn't tell you. I won't be used!" Xander shouted the last line at her and ran off into his bedroom slamming the door behind him.
"I'll take this one." Spike said with a pointed glance towards Angel and Faith who were getting ready to go after Xander. They both shook their heads in understanding.
"Can I come in luv?" Spike asked the locked door. All was silent for a minute before Spike heard the click of the lock and the door opened just enough for him to fit inside. Spike slipped inside and sat down on the bed that Xander had curled up on.
"Do you want me to kill them?" Spike asked in all seriousness.
"No. I don't want to kill them. I'm not really mad at them. I knew this is what would happen if they ever found out. They would make it out to be my fault, or at least Buffy would, and whatever Buffy says Willow and Giles will be with her on it." Xander said calmly. Spike sighed knowing that there was nothing left to talk about. He lay down and opened his arms to Xander, who crawled over and snuggled up to him.
"You always got me, Peaches, and Bad Slayer." Spike told him. Xander just nodded. About ten minutes later Xander decided to go face the music and went back into the living room with Spike following.
"Are you over it yet?" Xander asked.
"Yep. Love the pointy ears Zander." Dawn smiled at him. He knew she wouldn't care. She was after all a Mystical Key older than the world that opened a Hell dimension. Being not human was perfectly okay in her books.
"Thanks Dawnie." Xander replied as he gave her a hug. Dawn knew she was still in Xander's good graces. Not many people noticed things about people the way she did and she had noticed that Xander only used your real name when he was mad at you or hadn't made up ten nicknames for you yet.
"It's okay with me Xander. I realize why you would want to hide what you were." Tara timidly gave her response. She didn't usually go against Willow and the others, but in this case she knew what it was like to want to hide your past and this was one of the few subjects she spoke up about.
"I'm sorry Xander. I didn't mean to be all super bitch. Forgive me?" Willow asked him. Xander smiled, knowing he couldn't say no to his best friend.
"Of course Wills." Willow let out the breath she had been holding and began to ramble.
"Thank goodness. Cause I thought with you being all new and improved you that you would have been all 'I'm not gonna forgive them' and stuff. And then I got mad at myself cause you're my best bud and I had just dissed you for being you and stuff." She was interrupted by Spike.
"Chill Red. We all get the point." He said. She just nodded. Xander looked towards Buffy and Giles. Giles took off his glass and cleaned them.
"I really wished you had informed us about this before. It would have given a reason for you being a demon magnet." Giles said with a slight smile. He couldn't stay mad at any of them.
"Oh alright. I'm sorry Xander. What I said was wrong and I shouldn't have treated Xander the Drow guy any different from Xander the human." Buffy said. Xander just smiled at all of them.
"Okay. So we've all had our heart to heart. What are we gonna do bout apocalypse number five?" Spike asked sarcastically. It was okay for him to act nice and stuff in private and to be on the receiving end of such niceness, but he certainly didn't enjoy other people's happy feelings.
"Well…. Could you take us to the other creatures Xander?" Buffy asked hesitantly.
"I possibly could, but it'll will take a lot of convincing for the Drows to except anyone in this room into our lands, with the exception of Captain Peroxide and Deadboy. They don't like humans…. At all. I can't get you to the elves, dwarves, or any of the others though, but maybe the High One of our people could arrange something." Xander explained to them.
"You mean they would let Spike in before any of the rest of us?" Buffy asked incredulously.
"Yeah. Drows treat vampires like royalty…. As long as the vampire is not a minion, and seeing how Angel and Spike are from the line of Aurelius I could easily get us in, and I have my own way to get the rest of you in. Just don't expect a warm welcome." Xander told them.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go." Buffy said.
"Dawnie. You stay here okay. If something bad happens I don't want you to get hurt." Buffy continued. Dawn got that look on her face. She was insulted. Dawn was several millennia older than these people, but because she was in a fourteen year old body they treated her like a baby.
"Let her come Buffy. She probably knows where were going anyways. She is the key and has been around for a long, long time." Xander reasoned with her. Buffy looked doubtful, but she finally gave in under the pressure of the others. Xander got them all piled into cars and they took off for the outskirts of town.
They had been driving for about an hour when they finally stopped. Xander had led them into a forest on foot after leaving the cars behind. No one asked any questions, trusting Xander with where ever he was taking them. They soon came to two trees. The trunks stood three feet apart and curved outwards before curving back in creating a circle of sorts. Moss, vines, and branches dangled in the circle obscuring the structure. If one didn't know what they were looking for, they would have never found it.
"Open World of Drows. I come only with no harm. Open the doors my people." Xander said the incantations that opened the door in elvish. Drows had kept the elvish language when they had become a different race. Xander offered some of his magic force to help open the portal, while others helped on the inside.
"Who comes with you that is not yourself Zandrell?" The gate guardians asked as they stepped through the portal. They used his elvish name that he disliked greatly. It was girly-like.
"Liam and William of the line of Aurelias. Elizabeth and Faith of the Slayers. Willow and Tara of the Witch clan. Giles of the Watchers. And The Revered Key." The two Drows acknowledge the vampires and Xander urged them forward through the portal. The guardians next turned to Dawn and bowed low, surprising the rest of the group excluding Xander.
"Rise. Treat me only as you would your equal. I rest assured that your people will treat my vessel well." A voice that was Dawn, yet not entirely Dawn, answered. The Drows stood and one of them escorted her through the portal before returning.
"We will allow the Slayers, Witches, and Watcher through as long as they do not use their powers. We have many vampires of royal blood that live within our world and we kill all those who try and harm vampire or Drow. Since you seem to bear no ill will towards Angelus and Spike of the line Aurelias we allow you safe passage." The Drow told them. They hurried through the portal with one of the Drows. The other then lost his stern stance and facial gestures before smiling at Xander.
"Zandrell. My friend, my prince, it is good of you to return. I fear your father has been taken ill from the dark magic and war that we try so hard to prevent. He has taken it upon himself to shield our people and it is killing him in return. As immortal as the Drow seem to be, we are still capable of dieing and I fear his end is coming." The Drow said sadly. Xander's face fell.
"We must hurry then. Maybe with the help we come to offer and the news we bring of our world we will be able to stop this new threat before it kills my father." Xander said. His voice and stature changed as the Drow brought out a bag with the proper Drow clothing and Xander changed quickly. The other Drow placed the circlet on his head that symbolized the prince. It would do Zandrell no good to be seen without confidence and leadership in front of his people. He smiled once before his face went stoic and they stepped through the portal.
This chapter is rather late, so sorry. Sorry to those who didn't want slash, but there will be a little between Spike and Xander during this fic., however, nothing in great detail. The main focus is elsewhere.