"Don't just stand there with your mouth open. Greet your old friend." Said Spike.
"But why...the how...uhh?"
"Eloquent as always, whelp." Smirked Spike. Xander blinked and shook his head. Finding Spike in a Companion house wasn't as shocking as you might think. Finding him working as one...well that was head shake worthy. Spike always did like his creature comforts as a Companion he'd have them. Only have he ever knew who preferred a smelly basement to a crypt and that was pre-soul. Xander smiled at the vampire.
It had taken almost three hundred years but they had become friends not just the allies they were in Sunnydale. Of course the first two hundred they had tried to kill each other.
"Hello, Spike"
Spike smiled slightly, but it didn't reach his eyes. They shared a hug and manly backslapping. When Xander pulled away from him, he wondered why that had felt so right.
Why he does he feel...
"Introduce me to your new friends, pet."
"Not your pet." Xander hissed out at him. Wondering where this anger he was feeling was coming from. Spike blink then nodded. Xander closed his eyes and sighed. When he opened them he looked embarrassed at what he said. Then did as Spike asked and introduced Serenity's crew.
Spike's eyes widen slightly when he saw River, who had her head cocked to the side listening to some unheard voice.
"The Kitten will care for you, my wicked light. Kitten will keep the dark light in you shining; he will be more than you know. Protect Kitten, my Spike, and the Kitten in turn will be loyal to you." River said in an upper English accent. From Spike's look she was mimicking someone he had known. Spike choked out a shocked "Drusilla".
That had been the last thing she had said to him before she disappeared three hundred years ago. Spike turned away from the less than sane girl to look at Xander and saw the blankness that had come over his eyes. He knew what was coming...
"I miss Selene," Xander said swaying slightly back and forth. Spike frowned.
"You almost lost your head on Selene." Spike told him. True they were all immortal but they still got hurt and they still felt pain like humans or vampires do and only healed slightly faster than normal. Spike knew this because each of them had sought death at one time or another trying to find release from their reward.
"Would have found it, and stuck in back on like a Lego"
Spike put a hand on Xander's arm, but he turned his back to Spike. Walking a way, Spike followed him.
"Do you love me, Sweet William? Even the parts you can't see?"
"From your brown eyes to your blood, my sweet." Spike said as he pulled Xander back against him.
"The dog meows and the cat barks."
They others had never see Xander act like this; true they had seen him do and say crazy things but not this crazy.
"What's going on?" asked Mal.
"Shhh," River hissed, holding a finger to her lips.
"The Knight is Seeing, must be like mice, so the Poet will know his words to speak"
Mal was just confused, it seemed he stayed in that stated anymore. He was about to say something when Jayne spoke.
'Shut it, the blond know what he's doin'" Jayne told Mal in a low tone. Mal kept silent.
"Talk to Spike, tell me what you see." He said to Xander in the same tone in used on Drusilla for hundreds of years. Spike hated this, hated that for this gift or curse Xander had he had to give up his sanity to use it. Hated that the fact that Willow, Buffy and enough Angelus used the boy for this abilities for their own gain rather than helping him through this visions. But when Xander was like this he reminded them all too much of Drusilla, and that make them remember Angelus's cruelty. Something none of those three like to remember to them the past was best forgotten. They used this to force Xander back to being the Donut Boy, the Zeppo. Why Xander could always forgive the girls for what they did to him, Spike could never figure out.
"The day of the hawk is coming, the petty gods will rise. War will be declared king, Peace shall consort. The gods reborn, the old ways return." Said Xander then looked over to River.
"Two by two, hands of blue, did what they were created to do...from normal girl to Slayer made...not right. But is now, what purpose does she serve." Xander looked to Spike and cried out " Why did the Slayer Queen do this!" Spike shook his head, and then saw the sanity slowly come back to Xander's strange eyes.
"Spike," he asked softly.
"Yeah?"
"Catch me." Xander whispered just before he passed out. Spike caught him before he hit the floor.
"Gods now!" muttered Mal.
"Wasn't the Alliance, Blue Sun and every Bounty Hunter in the 'Verse enough...now Gods." The part about the gods was about the only part he understands of Xander's crazy talk and he didn't like it.
"Well, Captain" Zoë said as they watched Spike tended to Xander with the help of Inara, Jayne and River.
'There never seems to be a dull moment since we met Xander"
Mal glared at her.