A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long for me to post, but here it is (eventually) and I'll aim to have another one up by christmas. This chapter is unbeta-ed as for some reason I can't get into my e-mail on hotmail, but I can get into a different e-mail on hotmail, so I'm not sure what's up. Anyway, hope you enjoy.

Oh and if you want ignore any reviews you see written by Laura, she's a friend of mine from school and has started reading my fic recently and she can be 'slightly' mad sometimes.

"... could talk about it or maybe see some familiar faces, it could help. You don't want to overload him though"

Xander moaned at clutched his head as he sat up, it felt like he had the hangover of all hangovers, except without the fun drinking and being drunk bit that usually came before a hangover.

"Alex, you ok pet?" Will looked over at Xander and he couldn't help but give his concerned friend? Boyfriend? Hallucination? a lopsided grin.

"What happened? My head feels like it's going to explode" Relieved that Alex was acting like his old self, William allowed to tension to run out of his body, it had been a bad night for the pair of them.

"You had a bit of a bad night, had a nightmare about something. You were muttering your sleep, it was about Sunnydale, I'm not sure what though" Once more the hurt look passed over Will's eyes, he didn't like talking about Sunnydale, but he had to accept it, it was the only way that Alex would get better again, he had to talk about it and hopefully, if the doctor was right, it would lead on to a series of realizations for him about the real world.

"Oh..." Xander didn't know what to say to that, however quickly Will had his the hurt look it didn't mean that Xander hadn't seen it. He glanced around the room that he was getting to be very familiar with and noticed the doctor was there again, he never noticed him first time round, all the white he wore seemed to make him blend into the walls.

Seeing that Xander had spotted the doctor William decided to tell him what they had been talking about just as he had been waking up.

"Doctor Roberts was just saying that you can see other people now, you know not just the sametwo faces all the time. That is, if that's what you want"

"Other people? Like who? Would you still be here?" The rush of questions came tumbling out of Xander's mouth in a worried rush before he could stop them and he closed his eyes feeling his face starting to burn up in embarrasment at sounding so girly and needy.

He opened his eyes again when he felt a hand cup his face and move it so he was staring directly into Will's eyes. A small smile was playing at Will's lips as he watched Xander calm down. When he felt his boy relax enough he answered the questions.

"Yes, other people. I would most certainly still be here with you luv, I'm not going to leave you on your own. And like who? You can't think that I was the only person you ever knew before can you?"

Now that he said it Xander supposed that it did make sense, he would have met other people when he was going down to the shops, or his friends at work. Work, did he go to work? Did he have a job? Another rush of questions tormented his mind and he stored them away to ask Will about them later.

"So would you?"

"Would I what?"

"Like to meet someone else? It would only be one person, and we'd take it slow and if at any time you got too tired we could leave the rest for another day" Xander looked at Will and there was not a chance in hell that he was going to ruin the hopeful expression on his face.

"Ok..." Will moved to stand up and Xander whimpered at the loss of the hand running through his hair, earning him another concerned look from William.

"I have to go and phone him, but only if you're sure"

"I'm sure" Xander gave him what he thought was a reasuring smile and William turned and left behind the doctor, leaving ander alone with nothing but his thoughts for company.

He wanted to know who the stranger was going to be, then something hit him; it could be someone from Sunnydale. If there was one Sunnydaler in this world what was there stopping there from being another one?

His mind quickly ran through every possibility he could think of in Sunnydale. Will had said that he had to go and phone 'him', so that cut down a lot of the possibilities, who did that leave? Well at the moment in Sunnydale there was him, Spike, Giles, who else was there? Riley had gone a while ago and, well there was the nerds, but that didn't seem particuarly likely.

He took a moment to think about the lack of male company he kept, boyfriends of the various scoobies had come and gone, Angel, Oz, Riley but other than himself and Giles no one else had really stayed around.He looked up when William opened the door, there was someone with him but he couldn't quite see who it was.

"Alex? I've got an old friend here. Now remember what I said earlier, if at any time you feel too tired let me know and you can et some rest and we'll leave you to it, ok?"

Xander nodded blankly, he was too worried to think about anything else, who was going to step out from behind that door?

"Ok. Alex, this is Liam"

Xander's breath caught in his throat and only one whispered word came out of his mouth.

"Angel"