This plot Bunny would not leave me alone.

Hope you all enjoy it.

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"Or maybe Edison… how do you like that one." Xander said as the small
creature sat on his shoulder and stared at him as if he had just grown
a second head. "Okay… we'll stick with Sparky for now." Xander said as
he opened the door to Giles' apartment and stepped in to introduce the
small lizard to the gang.

In hindsight he probably would have done better to come by alone and
THEN bring the small lizard for a meet in greet.

With a scream of "DEMON" his first sight of the watchers apartment was
that of Buffy swinging an axe in the general direction of his head.

--

Xander rested his head on the table as he tried to will the entire
week into being nothing more then a dream, a dream he was going to
wake from right… now…

Now… right now… okay now….

Picking his head up from the table he stared at the smiling face of
Sparky while Buffy continued to twitch behind him. "No, bad Sparky, no
electrocuting of the slayer." He reprimanded.

The small lizard cocked its head to the side in confusion.

"No means you've done a bad thing." He explained as the lizard looked
back at the slayer and hissed again before scuttling off to examine
Giles' apartment leaving Xander to deal with the glares from Giles as
he desperately tried to revive the unconscious slayer.

"Xander where on Earth did you get that… thing." Giles said as he
finally managed to get some smelling salts out of the first aid kit
and grimaced as he cracked it open and held it carefully under the
slayer's nose.

Xander watched as the older Englishman dodged back when the slayer
instinctively swung at the bearer of the offending odor. "It followed
me home, can I keep it?" He asked with a half smile as he tried to
play it off as a humorous situation.

It fell flat, unfortunately, as Willow finally managed to hand Buffy a
small mirror from her purse and the slayer got a look at herself.

With an enraged scream, she grabbed a nearby shortsword and charged
towards the small lizard. "I LOOK LIKE HARPO MARXS YOU LITTLE DEMONSPAWN!"

Xander flinched and closed his eyes as a high pitched whine, a short
series of pop's, and the abrupt ending of the scream heralded the use
of his new pet's defensive measures.

"Ummm… Giles do you think I should remind Buffy that picking up a
metal sword and charging an electrical powered creature is sort of…"
he trailed off as Sparky finally climbed his leg and stood at his
shoulder, hissing at the assembled demon hunters.

"Silly." Giles supplied as he picked up the discarded smelling salt
capsule and moved towards his slayer.

"Personally I was going to go with stupid, but in hindsight, silly
would probably let you live longer." He said as he tried to calm the
small creature down.

"I doubt you'll have a problem with living after Buffy get her hands
on you." Oz said as he watched the proceedings with his usual stoic air.

"Quite, I suggest you and the small hellion remove yourselves before I
attempt to revive Buffy again." The Watcher said as he glared at the
hissing creature before looking back at Xander. "I will want a full
report on your last few days as well as an explanation on how you came
into possession of this small reptilian fiend." He said before nodding
towards the door. "I will contact you when it is safe for you and your
friend' to return."

With a resigned sigh Xander exited the apartment and started the slow
walk back towards his home. At the small mewling sound, Xander looked
at Sparky before rubbing the top of his head. "It's all right, they'll
grow to love you." He said as a passing couple made a comment about
the size of his iguana, the Sunnydale syndrome kicking in for him for
once. With a smirk he walked into a petshop he had once considered
getting a dog or something for Dawn the summer Buffy ran away.

After buying a dozen small fish he left with a grinning Sparky eyeing
the bags and making a whining sound as he intently followed the
movement of the fish inside the plastic. "Just look at us, making
friends and influencing people wherever we go." Xander joked before
looking up and down the deserted street in concern. "When did it get
so late?" He mumbled before picking up his pace slightly.

He really hoped he didn't have to deal with Vampires tonight as well.

--

Xander stared at the twitching corpse at it continued to curse at him
as the small lizard circled it carefully as if confused why it was
still moving.

"Umm… Sparky." He tried before it whined again and the vampire
twitched as another jolt hit it sending it to cursing again.

Finally setting the bag down Xander grabbed the stake he usually
carried and moved to finish off the undead when Sparky decided to take
matters into its own paws.

Climbing up on the vampire's chest the small lizard's whine started to
climb in pitch until Xander's teeth actually started to ache and he
had to look away from the green glow.

With a series of pops that sounded like firecrackers, Xander looked
back at the vampire as it twitched and thrashed from the electricity
arching through it's body, in a matter of seconds its power raised the
internal temperature of the leech's body to the point of combustion.

Xander stared in shock as the flaming vampire thrashed for a few
seconds before crumbling to ash leaving a panting lizard and a
dumbfounded Xander alone in the alley.

Picking up the panting creature, Xander checked it for burns before
looking at it again. "Me and you Sparky, we're going places." Xander
said as he opened one of the bags and started to feed the small
creature as he continued on his way home.