No lies 5

dont own it, just playing with it, Enjoy.

The Bronze

The Music was loud and the lights were bright. Which
caused the shadows to be very dark. In the middle of the
dance floor Faith and Buffy danced in the wild sexy
way they do. Angel watched from the side lines, he had
just gotten over his trip to hell enough to be around
people. Jonathan sat at tables wherever one had left
their drinks. He really didn't want to be here
tonight. There was a new science fiction show on cable
tonight that he wanted to watch. But Faith talked him into it.
He was so in love with her, everyone knew it, but
Faith. She thought of him as a nice guy that reminded
her of Xander. And he was fun to talk to sometimes.

Dana played the Faith role very well. No one noticed
anything unusual about her. And Johno was smart and
nerdy and with the taint left behind by Marv, she
wanted guys around she didn't want, so nothing would
happen. She could flirt and play with him and no one
was hurt at the end of the day. She loved Xander. And
when he arrived she would show him how much. But til
then she did need to play. That piece left inside of
her by Marv had to do at least that.

It was getting harder and harder for Dana to keep
Faith separated. She noticed that Faith speak had
started to slide into her talks with her mom, and on
her reports to Mr. Spencer. She was even dressing more
and more like Faith would when she was away from
Sunnydale for her weekly trips to LA to see her mom
and dad and talk to Linda. Omega had moved her Family
to LA so she could visit them, and keep her parents
happy about her working for Omega.

Linda it had become easier to talk to her lately. Shehad not forgiven her one bit but she could at least
talk to her. Omega had her in a safehouse. Linda could
not contact the outside world, she was now a research
item for Omega, used to find out anything on the
supernatural. Which if truth be told was what she
loved to do. She knew she was not up to be a field watcher,
anymore than she was able to look at Faith as nothing
but a tool. She was torn deeply by what had happened
and was working her way to fix that anyway she could.
She had the memory spell down, but couldn't find a way
to break the spell without trying to kill Xander,
that was what had broken the spell for Dana, she was
attacked by someone she felt safe with, and from what
she had found out about Xander now he didn't feel safe
with anyone. Linda would do anything to fix that. And
if that meant never seeing her home again so be it.
She would make this right. But she wasn't making any
headway between looking for a way to break the spell
on Xander and fixing what Marv had done to Dana, it
was slow going.

As Dana danced, it was one of the outlets she had,
incubus thing had her wanting sex, with anyone. So
moving with guys on the dance floor was so much better
than dragging them home. So she would dance with them,
then take off to her room. And with Xander fixed
firmly in her mind fix the problem at hand. But she
needed the outlet. She had tried not to do anything
about it and had a very embarrassed Uncle Gib to deal with.
After all the stories she had heard about him, hard to
believe he could blush that red.

All around the club the others moved in their own
circles. Buffy was beside her, dealing with the guys
that danced around them. Johnathan at the table, she
hoped he would get up and find a girl some time soon. But
he just sat watching her. Angel was in the corner
watching Buffy. Kind of creepy if you asked her. Sex
with the undead? Not that that would happen again. No one
wanted Angelus back. Then Queen C in her court,
across the way judging everyone and anyone in the
club. They really never hit it off, but Dana liked her
because she was one of the good people here according
to Xander. And Oz was on the stage with his band, lost
in his music. Then there was Willow dancing in frontof the stage, watching her boyfriend.

Then there was that feeling again. Both Buffy and Dana
had felt it all week. Like someone was watching them,
only it wasn't a nice someone. She stopped dancing,
Buffy had too. Both looked around the club. Nothing,
then the feeling was gone.

They started to Dance again. Dana once again looked at
her new friends. Only to see Willow was gone. A flash
of red at the door was all she could see as Willow
was going out the door at a run.

Outside

Willow was looking around. She knew what she saw and
more importantly who she saw. Xander! Outside was dark and
cool, at least in the bronze it was warm. But Xander
was at the door watching them. Why didn't he call her
or come over? He noticed her, then left. Why?

The alley beside the club was darker than ever, she
moved into it on the off chance he had gone in there.
She heard a noise behind, turning fast, only to see a
vampire turning to dust. With Xander standing behind
it.

"Hey, Wills," Xander said, holding out his arms,
"missed you."

"Xander!" Willow called as she ran into his arms, His
very musclely arms. "Where have you been? How long
have been back? Why didn't you call me? Where did you get
all the muscles?"

Xander started to smile; Willow babble - he missed
that. He just let her go til she noticed that she wasn't
giving him a chance to speak, then blushed.

"I'm shutting up now," she finally let out, looking
very sheepishly at him.

"Wills," Xander started looking at his oldest friend,"I've got a job offer and wether I take it or not is
up to you."

"What?" Willow started only to have Xander place a
hand over her mouth.

"Do you want me to take you away from here? I can take
you somewhere safe, just the two of us. We'll be like
old times." Xander's eyes were neutral, not showing
which way he wanted her to go.

"What? I can't... No, I am needed here," Willow began.
If Xander had asked her this just one year ago she would
have left, with no questions asked. Just to be with
him. "I have a boyfriend, Xander," she said that very
firmly. She so didn't want him to get the wrong idea.

"Wills, I know that I am not talking about being my
mate or something. You're my family, my sister, I want
you safe. So if you want to go I can take you
somewhere you would be safe."

"Xan," the redhead began, "I can't, I'm helping Buffy
and I have Oz, I just can't leave them."

"I understand," Xander said a sad look on his face,
"Well, I guess I'll be seeing you around."

"Wait," Willow holding out her hand to him, "Xander
don't go. Come inside, the Gang's all there."

"No, Wills," Xander said walking away, "there is no
one in there I want to see. Be seeing you."

Xander paused then. "Wills, watch out, your
slayer friend from Boston brought a friend. He got in town
tonight."

"What? Who?" A confused look on her face, Xander not
wanting to go in and see his friends.

"Kakistos. Ask her about him." Then he turned and
walked away.

Just then Dana came around the corner. Just in time tosee a dark figure walking away. Willow looked at her,
ever since Dana had shown she knew something was off.
She would slip every now and then, and say something a
street kid wouldn't know about. Like the time Willow
was working on her math home work. VERY hard math, the
kind that most students run from. Dana took one look
at it and saw she was making a mistake, and corrected
her. Said she had the same problem in math last week.
How had she had a math class while she was on the
streets?

"Red, you ok?" Dana asked looking at the figure walking away.
It had stopped when she had started talking, then seemed
to straighten up and walk faster.

"Yeah," Willow said looking closer at the Boston
Slayer, "Uh, Faith, who's Kakistos?"

Dana went pale, then looked at the figure, the build.
Xander. He's here. She started to move after him,
then the other name hit her.

"Shit..."

Mayor's office.

"Sir," Mary the Mayor's receptionist said over the
intercom. "There is someone to see you."

"Well, tell him to make an appointment." Nothing at
his office would happen unless it was planned out.

"He said he has one. His name is Xander Harris."

"Oh, do send him in." Wilkins put down
his paper work. This was unexpected, but not unwelcome. He had cast a
spell earlier this week to get someone to help him
with the Slayers and now with Kakistos, and the boys name sent to him.

Xander walked in, Wilkins could feel the beast inside
the young man. He knew he was a Volke. A very rare
creature, he knew of only a few. Most didn't leave
their packs or families. Very rare - a young rogue. Buthere he was.

"Mr. Harris what can I do for you?" Wilkins sat back
and hoped he was here for the job. He needed to
replace Allen Finch, he was becoming a problem. And he needed
someone that could walk around in the day time, and
cut all the vampires out.

"Sir, I am here about the job. Is it still open?"
Xander asked looking around the office.

"Yes, it is." Must not sound to eager, Wilkins
thought.

"Well, I want it," Xander said looking at the Mayor.
"I'll work for you, but Willow is to stay safe."

"She works with the Slayer, that's dangerous," Wilkins
said looking at the young man, he was weaving a
spell over him as he spoke.

"She's my sister." Xander looked at the mayor. "You
can't protect her, then I can't work for you."

"What if she is killing my followers?" Almost.

"Then they die, she is to be protected from all
creatures here."

"Ok," Wilkins told them.

"Ok, you got your man," Xander said, holding out his
hand to the Mayor. "What do you need me to do?"

"Well, I do have a problem with one of my men."
Wilkins looked over Xander, Lets see if he is worth
the trouble with the redhead, Wilkins thought.

"What do you want done."

"He needs to be taken care of."

"Ok, it's done. Just one question. Who?" Xander asked.
He had an empty look on his face.
"Oh, Allen. Come in here for a moment," Mayor Wilkins
said as he pushed a intercom button.

Sunnydale high

The Scoobies had all gathered in the library, after
Willow had returned to the others with Dana in tow.
Giles had gone into research mode as soon as he had
heard the name. And with Dana's help he found out what
he wanted and what he really didn't want to know.

"Kakistos," Giles began.

"I'll go out on a limb and say he's bad. Huh, Giles?"
Buffy said looking at her sister Slayer, somehow she
was the reason there was a problem.

Dana looked down and rembered Boston.

FLASHBACK

Dana was in Kakistos' lair. It had been a hunt to
find it. A week hunting the dark streets. She had to
knock down a lot of doors before she found someone who
knew where it was. But she was here now. It was the
last place to look for Xander in Boston. If he wasn't
here, and God she hoped he wasn't, there were no more
places to look.

The deformed vampire had been waiting for her. But
what he didn't know was that Dana took what Xander
said to heart. Rule one of slaying vampires is: don't
die. Rule two: cheat. She had brought a bag of hand
grenades, and used them very liberally throughout the
lair. At the end of the night most of the vampires
where dead or running. One of the little explosives
had gone off in Kakistos' face, causing him to fly out
a window. But at the end of the night no Xander, just
a few vamps that had been planning on killing her mom
and dad.

She killed them all, and the ones that she didn't kill
just ran. Early the next morning a battered and burnedDana walked home. Feeling more alone than ever.

End Flashback

"Buffy, Kakistos is Greek. It means 'worst of the
worst'." Giles got up and started to pull more books
off the shelves. Buffy never stopped looking at Dana.
"It's a vampire that is so old that his hand and feet
are cloven."

"So he's here to get her, huh?" Buffy asked. "Just
what did you do to him?"

"I thought he had something of mine. I wanted it
back. I thought I'd killed him." Dana paused then looked at Willow,
"So Red, who
told you about Kakistos?"

"Xander," Willow almost whispered, which brought the
whole group to a stop.

"Xander back in town and came to see you?" Giles
asked.

"Yeah, he asked me to leave with him," Willow said,
her hand gripping Oz's tightly. Oz trusted his
girlfriend, but knew how much she cared for her
friend. And how much it must have hurt her, if she was
still here and he wasn't.

Both Dana and Buffy looked at Willow with a jealous
look. Buffy was jealous, because Xander came and saw
her, not that he asked her to leave with
him. She knew he wouldn't have asked her that, but
would have stayed with her. While Dana was almost
green on the inside. Xander had asked Willow to leave
with him. Willow could take her Xander away before she
could break the spell on him. He could be lost to her
so easily right now.

"Why didn't he talk to me?" Buffy asked, then with a
pout, "I am his friend too."

"Willow, where is he staying?"asked Giles.
"Don't know, he said he would talk to me later. And
that Faith here brought Kakistos with her."

"Well," Giles told his charges, "You need to get to
class, but come back after school to help with the
research on this Kakistos. Then we can hunt for
Xander. But Kakistos comes first."

Later that night

Angel stepped out of the shadows in the Library.

"We got another problem," he told the group. "The
Mayor has got a new hired gun working for him."

"A gunslinger?" Buffy asked. To which Dana snorted and
Willow just rolled her eyes. They both knew that she
only pulled the dumb blonde out when she wanted some
guy to do something for her, and right now it was to
get her out of this room and away from the books.

"No, a new enforcer, a Volke," Angel said, from the
look on his face he knew what Buffy was up to and
wasn't going to fall for it.

"Are you sure?" Giles asked, a little shaken.

"Heard it just this afternoon. He took out some
vampires in the warehouse area. Seems they were moving
on something the Mayor wanted secret."

"So," Buffy asked looking from Angel to Giles, "What's
the big deal? Just a demon, me slayer, I go get it. No
volt."

Dana sat back in her chair, just like Buffy, She's
the slayer, she's special, she can do anything.
Pffffff. Everyone turned to look at Dana.

"What?" she asked.

"You made a noise," Buffy said, her eyes just a
little harder than usual.
"Did not." Dana looked around, she could tell she had
done something out loud.

"You did you went, 'Pffff.'"

"Well that's better that what I thought I said. Well, I'm
out of here. See you later." Dana headed for the
door. She didn't want to be around little miss 'can't
be wrong' for a while, plus she needed to make a call.

"Faith," Giles called out, "Do keep an eye out for
trouble."

"Yep, G both of them." Then she was out the door.

"Well, the skank's gone," Willow said looking at the
door.

"Willow!" Giles reppermanied the redhead girl.

"Well," Willow said looking around the group, "I just
don't like her. Something is off about her."

"Anyway," Giles started after a hard look at Willow,
he so didn't want to be dragged into a mud slinging
conversation, "Lets get back to the Mayor's new man,
are you sure it's a Volke?"

"Yes, I ran across one in Texas a few years ago. From
what I was told it's Volke," Angel voice dark with
memory of his encounter with the creature.

"Ok," Buffy said, "for the creature impaired. What is
a Volke?"

"It's a kind of were creature," Giles started, his
voice already going watchery. Oz eyebrow peaked at the were
creature comment.

"So they're evil?" Willow asked holding Oz's hand, she
had seen the brow movement.

"Not as a whole, a few here and there. But if this one
is working for the Mayor, he must be."
"So what's so special about them?" Buffy asked looking
around at the group, "Do I need silver bullets or
what?"

"No," Giles told his slayer, "they are quite mortal,
at least to being killed. They are a long lived race,
this one could be over a hundred years old. But they
will die easily enough due to normal means. But they are
faster, and stronger that a normal human, maybe even
more so than a Slayer, they also have better senses
than a human. And they can shift to animal form at
will."

"What kind of animal?" Oz asked.

"Usually whatever the nearest big predator is, they
have been seen as tigers, wolves and bears. And when
they shift they are a 100 times more dangerous."

"Huh," Oz said with his normal laconic voice, a new
were in the area. The others only looked around at
each other, this was a turn nobody wanted, the stakes
had just gone up.

Once away from the school, Dana picked a payphone at
random. Looking around she dialed a number she had
memorized that morning.

"Hello," a female voice said over the phone, "Thank
you for calling Globule Electronics, how may I direct
your call?"

"I need to speak to Mina Harker," Dana responded.

"What is her extension."

"670."

Then a male voice came on.

"Report." She could almost recognize the voice, but
not quite.
"Kakistos is here, contact the librarian," Dana used
the code name for Linda, for as the world new she had
died in Boston, and everyone wanted to keep it that
way. "She will have more information on him. Also
Xander has shown."

"Do not make contact, he's to be treated as a threat."

"But control..." Dana began, only to have the voice
interrupt her.

"No buts," the voice continued. "We finally have
someone on the inside with the mayor, and we need to
know what he is planing, there is too much going on
just now to have you blundering in. So stay away from the
boy understand?"

"Yes." Then Dana did something that Faith would do,
she hung up on him, and screamed, "FUCK!"
It was so loud it scared off the vampire that was walking up behind her.
When she noticed that the vampire had left she really
got upset, she was going to use the vamp to work off a
little need that had been building up.

Looking around and not seeing anything to kill, she
decided it was enough of a night and a hot shower and
some quality time with her little toy in her room was
called for. These Slayer needs were going to
get her in trouble yet, she thought.

Better stop by the store on the way to my room, I
need some batteries, she thought to herself.

The days crawled by for the Scoobies. Kakistos was out
there, both Buffy and Faith ran into his men nightly
and the fights were getting dirty. It was also
closing in on Buffy's home. She had gotten home one
night to find out her mom had almost been mugged, buy
some of the gang members. But Luckily a nice young man in a suit
had shown up and ran them off. He had also walked
her home. It wasn't til she was home safe and the
young man was gone that she recognized him: Xander. He hadchanged a lot. Dark suit, instead of the eye bleeding
shirts he used to wear, and his hair cut short. He was
also a lot more graceful than she remembered too.

If kind of made Buffy feel good that he was watching
out for her mother. But then it also creeped her out
that he wouldn't talk to her or the rest, no one could
find out where he lived, not even Angel. Only that he
was in town.

Late one night after listening to Buffy talk about
Xander for an hour.

"So, B," Dana asked as she staked one vamp and kicked
another to the ground. "All this talk about Xander,
you ever do the guy?"

"Do the guy?" Buffy asked as she staked one and
punched another. "Do what?"

"You know," Dana said the thrust her pelvis in such a
way as not to give any doubt about what she meant. And
to top that let out a groaning sound.

"Not with Xander!" Buffy said going red, her eyes
wide, she almost missed the block for the next vamp
trying to hit her.

"Why not?" Dana looked at her. This was fun, she knew
that Buffy had never done anything with Xander, but it
was fun to push the blonde's buttons, "I mean I saw
the pictures of him, I would give him a ride."

"Who wouldn't you give a ride to?" Buffy muttered
under her breath.

"What was that, B?" Dana had heard her say something
but not what because she was in the middle of staking
a vamp.

"Nothing," Buffy said an to innocent smile.

"Yeah, right."
Just then the shadows around them seems to move as a
wave of vampires came upon them.

At the same time. Xander was looking over his new
apartment. He had gotten rid of Finch on that first
day, and ever since then he had done everything that the
Mayor wanted. Now he was sitting in his new place
playing on his new playstation when the Mayor walked
in.

"My dear boy," Wilkins started, "I have some news for
you."

"Yes, sir," Xander said standing up.

"Good boy," Wilkins said looking over at Xander,
"manners are such a lost thing these days, I am glad
you still have some."

"It's just the way I was raised, sir." His dark eyes
locked on the Mayor's blue.

"That's a sign of a man looking someone in the eyes."
Wilkins smiled widely at Xander, "But lets get back to
why I came by. Your friends are in trouble tonight.
It seems that Kikistos has set a trap for them and
they walked into it with wide eyes."

"Sir, why are you telling me this?" Xander was itching
to go help them but he knew that he had made his bed, he
would have to lay in it.

"Well, Kakistos is a problem, a bigger one to me than
the Slayer is," Wilkins paused and then, "He is
cutting down my forces and taking away what is due me.
I need him gone."

"Ok," Xander had been looking up and researching about
Kakistos ever since he had hit town and had a plan to
take him out. "He won't last the night."

"You're such a good young man. Are you getting enoughmilk? I know you kids, if you're not watched over, you won't
eat or drink what's good for you."

"Yes, sir. I am eating right."

"Good, good," Wilkins pause then with his Mr. Rogers
smile, "Now go kill me a vampire."

The fight in the graveyard had not lasted long. Buffy
and Dana were on the ground, Kakistos minions had just
finished dragging up the rest of the Scoobies, they
had struck them all at the same time all
over town. Oz and Willow had been picked up after a gig while
riding in his van, Giles and Jonathan had been at the
library. Cordy was the only one not present, but she
was out of town tonight. Something about shopping in
LA.

Soon Kakistos and his number one yes-man had shown up.
Trick was decked out in his normal suit looking out of
place beside his master.

"I wonder how high I will feel after draining two
slayers tonight," the deformed vampire said, looking
down at the slayers. They where tied together and a
gag in their mouths.

"I don't know, Master. But from what I heard about
Marv," Trick told his master, "I wouldn't be to sure
about the brunette, she might have picked up something
on her way here."

The vampires around them snickered at that. Dana only
Glared hard at the vamp. Oh, am so going gonna kill
you for that, she thought.

"But first," Kakistos said, moving over to Willow, "I
will start with a light snack. He reached for Willow
and all around the air seemed to change, like some big
animal was watching them, and they needed to hide.
Kakistos looked around for the threat, but couldn't
see anything. Then his head just disappeared, and his
body dusted. Then two others. Then a deep boomcame rolling in on them: gunshots big gunshots.
Soon the vampires where running as the shots kept
coming. One vampire tried to hide behind a tree while
another behind a tomb stone. Only to have the next
rounds blow through the obstacles like they were not
there.

200 hundred yards away, Xander laid out on a small
rise. He had just made it in time to stop Kakistos. He
had to stop by the Sunnydale PD to pick up this rifle:
an M93. It was a nice weapon, shooting Browning .50
rounds. The police used them as a counter sniper
weapon, but he figured he could use it just take out
vampires - even old ones. If he could take
their heads off with the shots, why worry about staking them? And
the look on Stein's face when he had dropped by to
pick it up was worth the trouble anyway. All it took was to
flash his new badge and a phone call and he could do
no wrong there. One last look through the scope.
Nope, not one vamp left in the area. He looked at his
former friends. He put the cross hairs on each one in
turn. Not to check on them, no, just so he could tell
the boss if they were alright. The last one he looked
at, Dana, seemed to know he was looking at her and
looked right back. For a second it was as if they
could feel each other.

"Xan" Dana whispered.