Title: Walk in the Moonlight 5
Author: Robert Jackson
Email: to archive: yes, just let me know where.
Pairing/Characters: Xander, and the others.
Rating: PG
Summary: Scoobies try the Soul Curse.
The same night that Xander was walking Dawn home. The others had gathered in the library.
"We have the orb," Willow was saying, "and all the other components. All we need is to cast the spell and he will have his soul back."
"I not so sure about this." Buffy was saying. "Would Xander want to be a vampire? We might be better off just staking him."
"NO!" Willow shouted at Buffy, "We will not talk about Staking Xander!"
"But Will," Oz began, "He wouldn't want to be a vampire, You know that."
"He said you would say that." Willow muttered under she breath. But both Buffy and Oz heard her with the supernatural hearing.
"Willow?" Oz said, "You've been talking to him?"
"Yes," Willow whispers, "He come to see every night."
"Why didn't you tell me...US." Buffy said, "We could have set up a trap, and got him."
"That's why." Willow was almost in tears. "He's my Xander."
"He's not Xander anymore he's evil." Buffy said.
"When has he done anything evil?" Willow asked. Oz sat back and watched. He knew what was needed to do, but with the way Willow was acting. There was no way he was bringing it up.
"He tried to throw me into hell!" Buffy yelled at her friend.
"Yes, He told me you would say that too. I know he was there just making sure that the portal was closed and you almost attacked him."
"What?" Buffy could believe what she was hearing.
"I saw video footage of what happened. How you were just standing staring at Angel til Xander shot him with a cross bow. Only then did you push Angel into hell. What you were going to let the world die for your fuck buddy?" Willow was almost in a rage. She could recall from the night before when Xander had shown up at her home with the tape, he told her that there wasn't any sound but the pictures would tell the truth. And they did.
"No that wasn't what happened. I..." Buffy began.
"No," Willow said, "Then he walked out and tried to talk to you only to have you start to attack him. You had your stake out and everything."
"That's not what.." Buffy said only to be interrupted again.
"And what evil has he done in town? He hasn't kill anyone that wasn't a bad guy. He only hunts the evil humans in town. He can't live on animal blood like the others. Angelus called in a favor from Maine. A small town up there has been over ran with this type of vampire. They stay to themselves and Don't hunt anyone."
"And just what town were are they from?" Giles asked speaking up for the first time.
"Jerusalem's Lot." No one but Giles has ever heard of the place. And it was not a peaceful place from what he could remember, the Council even thought there might be either a forming Hellmouth or a very small one there.
"Willow," Giles said, "Xander is lying to you about that place."
"No," Willow said with a shack of her head. "Xander would never lie to me."
"That's just it,"Oz said looking at his girlfriend, "That's not Xander."
"Yes, It is."
The rest of the conversation went downhill from there. It was late when they decided to cast the spell anyway.
They prepared the Ord, then sat all the components out. And Willow cast the spell. Only something went wrong. The ord didn't glow. It took on a milky look then crumbed to dust.
"Now that wasn't supposed to happen." Buffy said looking down at the ord, "So what does that mean?"
"I don't know." Willow said as Giles pulled out a translation of The Curse.
"What happened?" Willow asked, She just hoped it had not hurt Xander.
"If the translation or correct," Giles said after a pause to turn a few more pages, "Xander still has his soul."
A few blocks from The Summers home
Xander was walking down the street when a wave of energy washed over him. Dropping him to his knees.
He let out a scream, which of course was ignored by the people living in the homes.
Kneeling and pulling at his shirt til it tore at the neck reveling a small necklace made up small crystals. And one was burning. Then it turned to dust.
Sitting back Xander smiled. Looking down at the necklace.
"That was the best thousand dollars I ever spent." He thought,then he looked kind of sad. "To bad I kill the witch that made it. But at least her kids will get the money."
