Chapter Six
June 15 1999
Xander had made it to a house that he owned in Denver without getting caught and had been there for about a week while he got caught up on all of the his investments and properties that he now owned thru his dummy companies that he used to hide his money like all so called Immortals do. During this time he decided on how he was going to keep himself invisible to curtain people in the government, like the NID, to help keep them off his back, Xander got in touch with an old friend of his that had ties to the government. His friend was an Alterian who had got into magic as a way to survive Ra's reign and a thousand years ago had met Xander when he was going by the name of Arthur Pendragon and the two of them had became much to their embarrassment, famous, with the whole Camalot and Avalon thing. Merlin was the head of the Knights of the Order of the Grail, the modern descendants of the Knights of the Round Table and whose son, Horace Gordon, is the head of Bureau 13 a secret section of the FBI that deals in the supernatural, the X-files are a separate office and they don't know about Bureau 13. After getting caught up with each other over what had happened over the last 19 years Merlin let Xander know that he would let the people in various governments and secret societies that needed to know, that agent Ares was alive and back in action and the name that he was going by now, after his talk with Merlin, Xander arranged to have several ancient books sent to Giles to help in his research and had a letter added to it just to stir Giles and Buffy up a bit.
In a certain office in the Pentagon, used by the head of the NID, Colonel Frank Simmons got a visit by the older Gentleman, that Agents Mulder and Scully call Cancerman, and was told in no uncertain terms was one Alexander LeVell Harris was not to be touched by any NID agents and if they come in contact with him they were to consider him the agent in charge no matter what and to call him sir or agent Ares. Senator Kinsey got a similar briefing from the President and when he left the Oval office a agent from Omega section let Kinsey know that no matter who hurt or killed agent Ares that Kinsey and his friends in the Trust, The Centre and the Consortium would get the blame and they would disappear for good, Kinsey got the message loud and clear and let his associates know that Xander was hands off, period.
Note: I'm borrowing the Idea by Steve Pantovich, in his Wandererverse, Cancerman works for Merlin as an undercover agent for the Illuminati, his job is to report on the actions of the Consortium and its sister groups in the Triumverate, the Centre and the Trust.
Several days latter one Alexander L Harris, 19 years old, with all of the appropriate paper work, driving a two year old Lexus left Denver headed for the big Apple to check on his Granddaughter Anna Marie D'Ancanto who had run away from her home in Mississippi after her boy friend had for some reason gone into a coma and Marie blamed her self and had run away, she showed up two months latter at Xaviers school for the gifted. Merlin wouldn't tell him why Marie blamed herself and why his Daughter Priscilla had more or less disowned Marie, when Xander pressed Merlin on the subject he just smiled and said that he would have to ask Marie that after he proved to her how he was.
Xander took his time getting to Salem center New York, during this Time Xander had dug up what he could on the School and Professor Xavier and what he found had him a little worried, the information that he found was to perfect. On paper the school was for gifted youngsters, but the rumors had it as anything from a terrorist base to a school for Mutants and the files on Charles Francis Xavier were just as clean, to clean, the files on the Professor looked suspiciously like some of the files he had seem on some of his immortal friends, that he had something to hide and knew how to do it.
Xander did some sight seeing on the way as well stopping in Chicago, Detroit, Boston and New York City before arriving at the school.
