A/N Thanks for all the great reviews, but like many great things this too must come to an end. It's really been fun, but I have to start on some more fics.

Chapter 7

Shadow Of Destiny

AKA

Into Eternity

Place Unknown

His headache subsiding, gentle music filled his ears as Xander opened his eyes. Ignoring the glare of the bright lights, he sat up and immediately touched his chest.

'My wounds are gone.' he thought to himself, as a hand came out of nowhere.

"That's because you made it to heaven." a familiar voice told him. Accepting the hand he stood to his feet and looked face to face with...

"Cordelia?" he asked confused as he looked at her up and down. "Did you say I was in heaven or hell?" he asked with a chuckle as she hit him on the arm.

"Watch yourself dweeb, I'm a higher being now."

"A higher being of what exactly?" he asked as he rubbed at his arm. "Shopping?"

"I missed you." Cordelia said with a tear in her eye as she pulled him into a hug, which he easily excepted.

"I missed you too. I came to visit you a couple of times when you were in your coma."

"Yeah, I know. I felt your presense in my room...I never knew that you could cry so much."

"Hey, those were manly tears." he said with mock anger, before looking around again. "So this is heaven?"

"A plane of it anyway." Cordelia said with a shrug. "It's not so bad."

"So what do you do up here for fun?" he asked as he walked past her and looked around.

"Well my job is kinda boring...I watch over peoples destinies...you know the usual."

"So can you use this to see anybody?" he asked as he looked at her huge crystal ball.

"I'm way ahead of you big guy." she said with a wave of her hand. As the smoke cleared out of the ball it showed an image of Buffy, sitting by herself at a dive bar, drinking heavily and crying.

"What is she doing?" he asked as he looked closer. "I knew that she was going to grieve a little but I never wanted this for her."

"She's upset because of the lie that she told the others Xander. She didn't tell Willow or anybody else that she was the one who killed you."

"But how...how is her destiny gonna unfold?"

"Honestly, I don't know yet. She has a lot of pressure on her right now, especially since she's the new head of the Council. I do know this though, if she wastes her life at bars her life isn't going to turn out so pretty. She's just going to go through life without an anchor to keep her grounded."

"I...I wish there was a way I could help her."

"Say no more." Cordelia said as she waved her hand over the crystal ball again.

The Wetherspoon

Buffy sat back in her chair at the bar and downed another shot of whiskey, wincing as it burned down her throat. Grabbing the whole bottle, she downed the last of it in one gulp.

"Relationship problems, lass?" the old bartender asked as he walked up to her and took away the empty bottle.

"Something like that." she replied woozily.

"Hey, you're the girl from the news aren't you. You're Buffy Summers."

"Yeah, that's me all over. Buffy the Slayer of ichy things."

"So you're trying to tell me that you kill the things that go bump in the night?"

"Yeah." she said as she turned her head and glanced over her shoulder at a group of three guys and two girls playing pool behind her.

"A little thing like you?" he asked as one of the guys came over and leaned on the bar next to her to talk to the bartender.

"We want to cash out."

"Nice shirt." Buffy said to him with a drunken grin, making the guy give her a disgusted look.

"Here you go."

"Okay, guys, let's go. Let's go find some real fun."

The five pool players then left and seeing them walk out the door Buffy straightened up in her chair. After a beat she got up no longer laughing and followed them out.

"You guys really know the doorman?" the redhead out of the group asked as they cut down an alley. "I mean you can get us into the Chanco?"

"You know what, I don't want to go clubbing anymore. I want to party, right here." the leader of the group said as he grabbed at the girl.

"Hey back off!" she screamed as she pushed him away, just as one of his companions grabbed the other girl.

"Shut up and die!" he snarled as he grabbed her around the throat and vamped out.

"Excuse me. 'scuse me. I'm sorry." Buffy said as she walked up to them apparently drunk. "But has anybody seen my car? It's big , and and it's shiny."

"Piss off, babe." the leader said before he took a good look at her and saw how pretty she was. "Unless you wanna join the party?"

With that said Buffy walked up to him and leaned in to get a closer look at his face, making him growl slightly at her. Fanning her face Buffy leaned back: "Man, somebody needs a breath mint?"

Pushing the girl away, the vamp swung at her but she easily ducked. Coming up with a punch herself, she knocked him into a wall. Her coat billowed around her as she high-kicked another vampire on the top of a car; before she crouched close to the ground to sweep-kick the ankles of the other vampire, knocking him off balance and sending him to the ground.

Standing up, she waited for the two vampires to charge at her again. All they heard was a clicking noise as her arms stiffened. As they ran at her, she held her arms out to her sides, revealing she triggered hidden stakes that unfurled from under the sleeves of her jacket. Not being able to control the run the vampires ran into the stakes, and dusted screaming. After the dust cleared, she was immediately taken off guard by a punch to the face. Quickly getting her bearings, she kicked the leader in the stomach and staked him through the chest.

"Great." she said as she looked around to see that the girls were long gone, before walking down the alley and putting her stakes back in place. "Nobody says thanks anymore."

As she neared the end of the alley, she suddenly heard a noise. Jumping into a defensive stance she relaxed a bit as she didn't see another vampire. Seeing something moving inside of a huge cardboard box she peeped inside and saw a beautiful black kitten, with soft brown eyes staring at her.

"Come here kitty." she called to it as she held her arms out for it. Without a moments pause it did just that and ran into her waiting arms.

"What are you doing out here alone, Mr. kitty?" she asked it as she saw a name tag around his neck. "Let's, see they call you..." she gasped for a moment, but then smiled as she read it's name. "Alexander."

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"Hey, why did you stop it?" Xander asked as the crystal went cloudy again. "It was just getting to the best part."

"Because it's time for you to go." Cordelia said as she grabbed his arm and led him away from the wall.

"But...what about the others?"

"I can't tell you how their destiny's will unfold, but Rona is going to start her own team to take on the dark forces. Drusilla, Dawn, and Willow are going to join her. Now stand still this won't hurt a bit."

"What are you going to do?" he asked with wide eyes.

"Giving you your reward." she said as she put two fingers on his forehead, making him dissappear in a ball of light. "This timeline is over, now it's time to start on a new one."

With a curse word on his lips, Xander was just about to say something to Cordelia, until he blinked and found that the scenary changed. Instead of seeing endless clouds, he was on a beach.

Looking around, as seaguls squawked above him, he saw hundreds of people running around in bathing suits. All of them were seemingly having a nice time.

"Hey, heads up!" he heard someone shout out. Looking up, he was knocked off his feet by a volley ball that bounced off of his head. "Hey Xand-man I said heads up." the voice said as he extended his hand to help him to his feet. Because of the glare of the sun Xander couldn't see the man's face until he stood to his feet.

"Jesse?"

"The one and only." he replied as he put the ball back down on the ground. "It's been a long time man." he said as Xander pulled him into a hug.

"H...h...hello Xander." he heard someone say tentively behind him. Turning he saw that it was Kendra, Tara, Anya, Joyce, Miss Calendar, Giles, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, and even Spike for some reason.

"I can't believe this."

"Believe it my boy." Giles said as he took off his glasses to polish them, as he looked at him sternly. "We saw what you did on earth."

"You're not mad about how it turned out are you?" Xander asked nervously.

"Are you kidding, it was a bloody...I mean a very good show."

"Sup, Xand." Gunn said as he shook his hand, just as his little sister ran up and grabbed him around the waist. The two had met months ago at the LA hospital when he had went to see Cordelia. "What you did with those knives was tight."

"Thanks. So finally the Scooby and the Fang gang are together." he said as he looked around. "I hate to spoil the moment, but where's Angel?"

"Bloody Peaches." Spike said with a snort. "He's on a bloomin' mission again."

"Forget about that right now." Jesse said as he threw the ball to Xander. "Let's have some fun."

Nepal

Early Morning

A lone figure, wearing a dark cloak and hood with a walking stick, walked slowly through the whipping wind and snow of the Himalaya's. Falling to their knee's out of fatigue and hunger, a voice talked in her head.

"Stop whispering damnit." the woman yelled into the wind. "I'm here."

Giving herself a moment, she collected herself and started to dig into the snow with her hands. After a few seconds she unearthed a tiny golden box, with words written in different languages on it. Putting in a tiny key that she got from a mystic, she opened the box and watched as a heavenly glow wrapped around her, making her dissappear into the early morning sky.

As the light finally faded she suddenly found herself, lying on the floor of a musty dark cave. Standing to her feet, after seeing that the box was gone, she heard voices coming from the shadows. Looking around a boulder, she saw a tall vampire, with leather clothes, red eyes and red stuff smeared around his mouth, behind a familiar looking blonde, whispering to her.

Breaking her staff in half, she ran forward and plunged the broken end into the unsuspecting demons heart, before he could sink his fangs into the blonde. Only having time to scream, the vampire ashed, only leaving it's skeleton behind.

"You okay, B?" the woman asked as a much younger Buffy, came out of her daze.

"What...who..who are you?" Buffy asked as she took a look at the Master's bones and then back up at the cloak wearing woman. "And how do you know my name?"

"The names Faith." Faith replied as she threw the hood off of her head and listened to Angel's voice. "And let's just say an Angel told me your name. Now come on, let's crush some bones."

A/N I know this is going to get highly debated about why Spikes soul is in heaven, but love him or hate him, anybody that gives up their life for the greater good deserves to be there. And he did it without fawning over Buffy so there...

Also this was originally a spinoff to seraphim2db's fanfic Thinking of an Angel. He was supposed to write more on that story and then do this fic, but he's lost his confidence in writing. So alot of stories he was supposed to do, I'm doing. Hopefully soon, he'll come around and do some more fics. Also the ending was supposed to show what happened to Faith and it was to be part of the beginning of the new chapter of Thinking of an Angel.