Xander woke up and for a moment felt only the bliss of lying in bed in the morning with nothing more important to do than sit around all day watching TV, but then it hit him the image of Buffy's body laying crumpled and ruined drained of blood. The pain was sharp but Xander comforted him self with the image of his new life. Faith and Wesley were here now and there was always Willow. They were a team and while he missed Giles he couldn't say that for the most part he wasn't happy. He felt like more of a team player than he ever did when Buffy was alive. Faith had been teaching him how to fight and by now he was pretty good, he had even taken Faith down a time or to.

Sighing with resolve Xander finally moved to roll out of bed and take a shower remembering what he had planned for the day. A new girl named Tara had moved to Sunny Dale not to long ago, she was sweet and nice. He had noticed the vibes going on between her and Willow, and while he hadn't been sure at first he had talked to Faith and they had both agreed that they would make the perfect couple. So today he was going to meet Willow and try and talk her into going and asking Tara to go with them to the bronze tonight.

He knew she'd be shy about it at first but it was such a great time for her to get out there again, she and Oz had been over since Buffy's death and it was time for her to move on. He thought it was time for him to move on as well but had not found anyone that he would want to move on to. At first he thought it was because that he had been too much in love with Buffy to move on, but then he had started being honest with and he realized that it had never been Buffy but Angel that had held his heart. When this had all came out in his mind he told Willow and Faith right away. They had been really supportive of him and even Wesley when he had found out was cool about it.

Now Xander had thought about trying to date around school but it didn't seem all that appealing and he had even gone to LA a couple nights but had no luck. So he decided to that his job would be to play matchmaker for his friends. Now that he had Tara in mind for Willow he had to come up for someone for Wesley and Faith. But that could wait till later first Willow. And with that thought he took off for Willow's house.

"Come on Willow, we can tell you like her why you don't just ask her to the bronze."

"What if she's not interested Xander, I mean she might not even like me let alone she might not like other girls."

"Willow she likes you, how could she not. And besides she is into girls Faith asked her."

"She what! Xander!"

"Hey Willow chill she was discrete and besides I wasn't going to tell you to ask her out with out being sure first."

"Ya ok I understand, and ya ill call her later and ask her if she wants to go"

"That's my girl, ill see you later Wills I'm gonna go meet up with Faith were working on broad swords today."

"All right later Xan."

Xander walked into the training room expecting to see Faith all ready and raring to go, instead he saw her and Wesley talking together in harsh tones.

"Hey guys what's the drama?"

"Oh hey Xan, it seems that the council is getting all huffing about the way I slay around and they want to send in some one to watch over our shoulders." Faith replied.

"Well that sucks how are we going to get rid of them?"

"Now Xander they are from the council they do have the right to be here." Wesley said.

"Come on Wes you know as well as I do that they're just a bunch of stuff shirts that are power hungry."

"Yes we all know that Xander but that doesn't mean I can't pretend.'

Both Faith and Xander laughed at this. They talked some more about the problem with the councils before Xander and Faith went to fight and Wes went back to the books.

They spent two hours like this before they grabbed their stuff and left to get ready to go to the bronze.

Tara and Willow were so cute dancing together. Xander, Faith and Wes watched them from there spot on the dance floor. It had been a challenge getting the girls comfortable around them all but they had made it. Two months going strong. The two months in question had been very general, the council had come and gone and they were now considered to be on their own since Faith had told them were they could put it the first day they showed up. There was little to worry them now, with the fighting skills of Faith and Xander and even on occasion Wes and the magic abilities of Willow Tara and Wes they were a pretty tight team. But little did they know that was all about to change.