The Shadow Part 2

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MysticSuperSaiyanGohan At this time I'm trying not to make Xander to powerful so I wanted him to have some limitations.

I want to thank Marc D for his story Dark Knight, White Knight, it gave me some Ideas on where to go with this story.

Still Chapter Five

Still 07 July 99

For the next hour Xander and Buffy talked, at Buffy's home as Rachael and Joyce listened. Xander talked about his adventures on his road trip and the fact that he was a mutant and Buffy told of her childhood growing up in an Aryan village near Rajastan, India, around 3000BC and how she became a vampire all because the men of the village tried to save the child of the favorite daughter of the village and the result was Yashka, son of the demon Yashkini and how he went from baby to an adult in eight years. She told of being kidnapped from her husband and two daughters at the age of 18 and turned by Yaksha, never to see them again. Five hundred years latter Yaksha and his coven met Krishna, and Yaksha decided the only way that he could get into heaven was to destroy his coven by killing his entire line of vampires and when that is done kill himself. It took him 4500 years to do it, only to lose when he fought the last of his line Sita aka Buffy, ten years ago. She told, it in a cliff notes version on her life during the 4500 years of wandering the earth trying to stay hidden from Yaksha.

"So Buffy your not the real Elizabeth Ann Summers and Joyces isn't the real Joyce, but a 1200 year old immortal Druid Priestess by the name of Joy?"

"Nope and yep."

"And you've been married since you ran away a year ago?"

"Yep"

"To an immortal by the name of Thomas Kommen, a stuntman who died yesterday on set and is going to come here as a college student, who you meet in Egypt, back in 1350 BC before his first death when he was the King know as Tutenkhamon."

"That's my Tommy boy."

"Can I be there with a camera then G-man finds out about all of this?"

"Only if I can do the same when he finds out about you and Rachael."

"One more question Buff, what happened to the real Buffy, I know that she is dead or Kendra wouldn't have been called, and what was up with you and Angel?"

"She and her husband Pike, died in a car crash in Vegas when they were hit by a drunk driver, two hours after you pulled me from that pool, the real Joyce Summers is raising their daughter Dawn, at Joyce's sister, Nancy Sterngood's, place in Nevada, a tiny town called Perfection. As for Angel and me thanks to Darla and the curse she put on Angel, to search out and find that, that will break the gypsy curse. The Personality I created to be Buffy became dominate and the real me was locked up in my subconsiance and stayed there until I sent him to hell and it took me a couple of weeks to get straightened out. That's were I met Tom and we got married in Vegas two weeks before I showed back up here."

Xander sat there for a minute to absorb what he had learned tonight and then happened to look at the clock and grimaced.

"As much as I would like to continue this conversation, in about 30 minutes I'm going to pass out for the day."

"You can stay here Xander Buffy, Rachael and I wouldn't let anything happen to you and we will keep an eye on your Parents, and wouldn't let the F.O.H. kill them."

"Thanks Mrs. S."

They set up a cot in a dark corner of the basement for him and when the sun came up they checked on him, and saw just how helpless he was. Buffy could just barely pick up a vamp presence from him and she had to touch him just to get that.

As for the Harris's they got a rude wake up call when a dozen F.O.H goons broke into their home at 6 in the morning. They were tied up in chairs in the living room and beaten as the goons shouted, wanting to know were the mutant bitch and her sister and her mutant boyfriend were. But the Summers women had, had an hour and a half to prepare for them and had several T.V reporters set up near by to record live the whole thing as well as the F.B.I. there as well. Then to add insult to injury when the goons found the bug they had planted on Star it was in an envelope stuffed in the couch with a note attached, it said, To the F.O.H. Commander "NUTS" From The Shadow. Of course the goons didn't get it, But Grayson Creed, a WWII buff did and was pissed (for those that don't know anything about the battle of the bulge, Xander was calling Creed a Nazi). Creed was foaming at the mouth when he saw the News footage of his men being taken away by the F.B.I and who the news made his men look like terrorists and that's when his backers started calling, his day went down hill from there.

That's when Willow, Cordelia and Giles, started to hear rumors about Xander being a mutant. It was the last straw for Xanders mother she left town the next day, she had something to do, that she should had done 19 years ago before she could start to rebuilt her life, three weeks latter Tony Harris packed up, sold the house and left Sunnydale.

During the raid on the Harris home Rachael called Lois and told her, Star had been kidnapped by some Mutants and that Star was a mutant, basically an highly edited version of what had happened that night and that she was fine and was spending the day with some friends of Xander's in Sunnydale and that she would be by there tonight.

Xander Found the three women laughing about something when he came up from the basement after sun set. They told him about the events of the day with his folks and the repercussions to the F.O.H.. Buffy told Xander that he better call Willow, she had hacked into the NYPD and found out that the cops wanted to talk to him about the break-in at his hotel room by the F.O.H. and a shooting in central park, last night and the Hacker search engine she used also brought up a LVPD file on the dead and missing body of one Alexander L. Harris. Buffy had talked Willow out of telling Giles what she had found, so he had better talk to her before she has a meltdown.

Xander knew that when he called Willow that she would be on her computer tracing the call, so he decided to confuse the heck out of her. He talked to Buffy, Joyce and Rachael on what to do to keep Willow distracted and it was Buffy who came up with a plan, it seems that she had connections to the superhero community and that some of them had wicked senses of humor and that they wouldn't mind pulling a prank to help out the newest member of the community.

Xander dropped Rachael off with Lois, Xander and Buffy talked Clark into taking them to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Carrier to talk to Colonel Fury. It was a bit of a surprise to Xander and Superman to see the tuff, battle hardened Colonel that had the ability to cause 1000 year old master vampires piss themselves at just hearing his name, smile, hug the small blond and call her mom. It seems that back in 1905 Buff had adopted a 4 year old orphaned boy by the name of Nicholas Joseph Fury, the son of her friend that had been killed by Dr. Fu Manchu, and thanks to an experimental serum, called the Infinity Formula, used to save his life from near fatal wounds suffered during WWII, he was the only know person to receive the formula the doctor that gave him the serum disappeared afterwards with the only know vial of the serum. The 98 year old Colonel appeared to be in his early 40s.

Of course he would help them pull one over on Willow if they would help them with a little problem. He had Sabertooth in the brig on the carrier and because they were a part of the U.S. government they could not torture Sabertooth for information, because it would not hold up in court. The old Xander wanted to beat the crap out of him but the new Xander with nearly twenty years of special forces training and dealing with Lawyers, didn't see away to get the info needed without tredding on his so called rights. That's when Buffy stepped out of Fury's bathroom, her hair had taken on a reddish hue and she was dressed in black skin tight leather pants, black combat boots, a black leather Bustier and a black leather duster, her face was thinner with sharper angels, her fangs were showing and her eyes looked like the mirrored eyes of Riddick. Xander could feel the power pouring off of Buffy, no Sita, he was seeing the real person here and was glad he was on her side. Clark just about pissed himself when Sita came out of the Bathroom, here was a person that his power would mean nothing to her, no wonder Bruce said that he should never piss her off, because he would never know what hit him.

Xander had his talk with Willow, before they had their little talk with Sabertooth, letting her vent and telling her he was fine and that he was with friends, when her tracking program told her were he was calling from, she was in babble mode again, that's when he told her that he couldn't tell why he was talking from the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.s office because it was need to know and before he could stop himself he told her if she wanted to know more she should talk to Buffy and he hung up. Buffy was giving him I'm going to get you for that look. /Oh god I'm so dead/ Fury and Superman just shook their heads.

Creed was longing in his cell just biding his time when he heard four people coming down the hall. When he looked up he saw Fury, Superman and two other people, one he recognized as the one who shot him, the girl was the one that was making his instincts tell him to run way NOW. Short of beating the crap out of Creed Buffy tried to get him to talk, she was frustrated that her whammy didn't work. Xander watched Buffy work for twenty minutes, when it became clear to him that creeds mutancy made him immune to her whammy, and he was to stupid or stubborn for anything else to work, Buffy's whammy was keyed to humans were Xander's had a wider range, so everybody was surprised to heard a hyena laugh, they all turned to see a vamped out Xander looking at creed and creed had a blank look on his face. In a polite voice Xander asked Creed to answer the questions.

They learned that Creed was just a hired hand in the Star's kidnapping and didn't know were she was taken, he also told them that the only person who could get that info was Charles Xavier. He was a wealth of information on Magneto's organization and their hideouts and Mystique's major identities as well as some of her minors ones as well and much to there surprise they found out that Creed's and Mystique's son Graydon Creed was the force behind the F.O.H. By the time they were done Xander had a Migraine, Creed had fought him the whole time they were questioning him, it had taken them three hours. During that time they ask Creed of all of the nongovernmental sanctioned killings that he had done and where they could get corroborating evidence, they had enough evidence to put him away for centuries, as well as Magneto and Mystique.

Xander used a shadow to get himself, Buffy and Superman back to Metropolis and then he went to some stables in Vegas to get a drink, Buffy tagged along. A few minutes after feeding on a Horse, the head ache was gone and he was feeling much better.

"Buffy there is something I've wanted to ask you."

"Go ahead Xan."

"It's the PTB, how come they don't seem to mind you subbing for the slayers you substitute for?"

"They don't know."

"WHAT!"

"According to Whistler, somebody higher in the universal chain of command than the PTB has put the whammy on them, to make them believe that I'm the current Slayer every time I sub and when I'm myself I really don't show up on their radar. Also you should know, last night after you dropped off Rachael's clothes behind the Bronze Whistler showed up and said that the same being has done something similar for you."

"What do you mean?"

"Well when you "saved" my life with CPR you pissed off one of the PTB, by destroying her plans for the Slayer line and she has it out for you, but Her partner calmed her down, the overall plan wasn't changed, but every little thing that goes wrong, she still blames on you."

"O that makes me fell so much better."

"Xander Whistler told me that the PTB still see you as a Mortal, THEY DON'T KNOW YOU'RE A VAMP."

"What, why?"

"It seems that you have a destiny and the Main man, GOD, doesn't want the asshole Archangels Know as the PTB to know about this and he doesn't what them in charge of you, he wants you, like me, to be a free agent."

"So what do I do?"

"What you always do Xander be the White Knight like Superman and save people, were he does it from the skies, you do it from the shadows."

"You think I'm like Superman."

"Yes in a way you do. You see back in the 80's I had to hide out for a couple of years and I did it in a small town High School in Kansas. Smallville high to be exact and I was the good friend of one Clark Kent, a bumbling Teen age boy, who was just coming into his power and trying to deal with it. And he like you just couldn't stand by and watch somebody get hurt, he had to help any way he could and like you did it from the shadows not letting anybody know."

"Does he recognize you from high school?"

"Nope He believes that his friend Chloe Sullivan died with her father when Lionel Luthor had the house they were hiding in blown up. And you would be amazed just how good a disguise, a change on Hair style and body language is. Just look at Clark and his glasses."

"Buffy I want to apologize for saying what I did to Willow tonight I know you don't want them to know about you."

"That's all right Xan, They are going to find out soon enough when they notice that I'm not aging and that I'm surviving stuff that I shouldn't and before you ask Giles doesn't know and Angel knows that I'm not what I appear to be just not what I am."

Xander was surprised when the Master vamp signal that he got from Buffy vanished and all he got from her was a Slayer signal.

"How?"

"Xander I'm 5000 years old don't you think I've learned a few things?"

"Can you teach me that trick?"

"Yes but latter, you have Rachael's sister to save right now and I have a Hell Mouth to guard."

Xander took Buffy back to Sunnydale and then went to were Rachael was.

During this whole time Rachael and Lois had been talking about Star and what Rachael had found out about Star and Lois had told Rachael all she knew about the school that Star had gone to and on a hunch Lois had punch Star's nickname she had gotten at the school in to a search engine and had found out, that Star had taken to wearing spandex ( full body gold suit with a red starburst on the chest, gold gloves and boots with a modified motorcycle helmet that fully covered her head, Gold as well, with a mirrored visor) and had been seen helping Spiderman and the Daredevil in New York and Wonder Woman in D.C. over the last six weeks, every since she had graduated from high school and moved in with Rachael. One of the things that Rachael had noticed from the stuff they had found on the internet was that Star hadn't miraculously healed any people that she had saved, she had just used enough of her healing ability to stabilize the people so they could be taken to the nearest hospital. The reports stated that Starfire appeared to be just about as strong, as fast and invulnerable as Superman. Lois on a reporters high, had punched in Rachael name as related to Starfire and some how brought up Rachael's Watcher's file and Rachael had some more explaining to do.

The Watcher' Headquarters in France, was quickly tracing a break-in in to the main files at this time, they were dismayed to find out that a well know American reporter had gained access to their files, they were so frantic about it that nobody realized that it was just one file and the person in that file was the reporter's cousin, and much to their embarrassment it wasn't a hack, but a deliberate action of one of their member's spouse, who had died two weeks before. This person had set up several files of immortals that had links to the press, in the internet to be found if any reporter searched for info on these people.

Xander stayed with Rachael until it was almost morning before heading to bed in Vegas, they had made plans to head for Xaviers school the next night.

Chapter Six

Xander came to feeling better than he had ever felt, it was he realized, he was accepting himself for what he is and wasn't fighting it. When he stepped into the shadow void to go pick up Rachael and get his car to go find this Xavier school, he took a quick look at Buffy to see what she was doing. (the author thinks he was trying to catch Buffy in the Buff) He saw her in Gile's apartment and it looked like Willow was interrogating her and Giles was doing his clean his glasses thing, and Buffy was starting to get pissed.

Buff was so pissed that she was ready to drop her Buffy persona and let Sita come out to play (and let me tell you folks that a pissed Sita makes Angelus look like a rank amateur.) Then she felt the change, which happens when Xander opens a shadow portal near her. She was watching both Willow's and Gile's faces wishing for a camera and had almost forgotten her anger at her supposed friends. That's when Xander plodded down beside her and asked in a innocent voice, "Hey guys whats up?" and looked at Willow with his puppy dog eyes.

Both Giles and Willow looked at Xander then the door and then back to Xander wondering how the hell he had got into the apartment with out them seeing him come in the door.

Xander decided to confuse them more by talking to Buffy in Goa'uld and hoped that her time in Egypt would allow her to understand him since the Goa'uld language was the mother tongue to ancient Egyptian. So he turned to Buffy and asked.

"Hey are you all right? Not going to go all Sita on them are you? I hate to see the clean up bill for the apartment."

Buffy's Eyebrows rose in surprise as Xander talked to her in a language that she hadn't heard in over 3000 years. A language used only by the High Priest in Egypt.

"No I'm fine thanks to your arrival, and I was just about to go all Sita, but now I'm calmer, just wish I had a camera though."

"Xander?"

"Yes Willow."

"How did you get in here and what was that language?"

"Why haven't you heard I'm a mutant and the language is what the Egyptians used from around 8000 BC until around 3000 BC."

Then a very confused Giles asked "how do you know this Xander?"

"Ethan's little Halloween spell, and the costume I wore was a real set on BDU's from a real soldier G-man and as of a month ago I now remember his entire life, all Forty years worth, and before you ask, soldier boy is dead and I can't tell you how he learned the language, that's classified and I wouldn't tell you the name of the language because little miss hacker will be trying to find out more on the internet and have the military in Sunnydale looking for her. And no Willow these people have encryption that make the one used by the Pentagon, look amateurish. I don't think you want to deal with Buffy's great Uncle."

"Who is Buffy's Uncle?"

"Well Willow it was his office I called from last night."

Willow went pale and nearly fainted as she sat down hard and they heard a good lord from Giles.

Xander mouthed, see you latter going to Clark's, to Buffy and moving with vamp speed and stealth, while both Willow and Giles were looking at the floor, slipped back in to the shadow void and exited in Clark and Lois' living room. When Willow looked up to ask Xander a question she saw that he was gone and Buffy was giving her an innocent look.

Buffy saw an opportunity to get back at Xander for what he did in Nicks office.

"Buffy were Xander?"

"Metropolis."

"Metropolis, what, how, why?"

"To pick up his Girl friend at her Cousins place."

"OmygodXanderhasagirlfriendsheisn'tademonisshewhoishercousin?"

"Her cousin is Lois Lane the reporter and Xander needs to pick her up so they can go to New York City to pick up his BMW he got while he was in Oxnard. They have to go to a private school north of New York to talk to the Headmaster of the school, about Xander's girlfriend's sister."

Since Willow was doing an impression of a fish, Giles asked.

"Why do they need to talk to this person Buffy?"

"The sister was kidnapped by some mutants the night before last and Charles Xavier was her Principal at his school and before you hack into his school Willow, he is a good guy and his school is for mutants to learn how to use their abilities safely and wisely and to control them when they are in public and yes she is a mutant and no her sister, Xanders girl friend isn't. If we are done with the interrogation I'm going home now."

And she left. Leaving a very confused and embarrassed Willow, who realized that she had better apologize to Buffy soon for her bitchyness she had pulled today.

Giles was embarrassed at his actions today, but through it all his watcher instincts had recorded everything that had happened there. Now that he was alone he was going over everything that had happened in his apartment that night. He realized that Buffy's mask that she wore had slipped just before Xander showed up, and he realized that if Xander hadn't shown up, his instincts said that he and Willow at the very lest would have been in pain, a lot of pain, if not dead. They had pushed Buffy to far and what he had saw in her eyes, was death. And the way Xander had entered and exited the room, he for some reason didn't think it had anything to do with his supposed mutant ability, but something else. Xander looked pale and if he didn't know better he only breathed to speak, yet his eyes were the eyes of the young man he considered his son, only older and wiser and still a smart ass. So Giles decided to let it keep for now and deal with it latter.

Xander stayed at the Kent house for an hour talking to Clark and Lois, getting the directions to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, before he and Rachael went and picked up his car in the hotel parking garage in New York City and started their drive north to Salem Center and some forty miles outside of New York City.

Xavier was up late going over the paperwork needed to run a private school when he felt the presents of two unusual people coming up Graymalkin Lane, a man and a woman. Charles couldn't read ether one, just surface impressions and emotions, usually he got the surface thoughts, these two seemed to have natural psi shields. The two were coming here and they were nervous. The woman's mind seemed surrounded by a blue white light, with hints of electricity and the man's seemed to be surrounded by a deep black shadow with hints of two green glowing eyes looking back at him as if the man had a guardian spirit watching over him from the darkness. Since Logan was still awake, he had him go invite the guests in, his computer link to Cerebro stated that the man was the mutant that had shot Sabertooth, one Alexander Harris, so that meant the woman is Stars sister Rachael.

Xander pulled up to the main entrance on the Mansion and gently nudged Rachael awake. They both looked at the door wondering just what they were going to find here, they finely got out of the car and headed for the door, just as Rachael reached to push the door bell the door opened.

Logan was grumbling about guest showing up at 3 in the morning, he had wondered down to the kitchen to get a snack since he had woken up by a nightmare and it didn't look like he was getting back to sleep anytime soon when Charles told him that there was some guest at the door and not to hurt the guy with Stars sister. He opened the door to two slightly surprised kids, they couldn't have graduated High School to long ago, that when their smells hit him, immortal and vampire, only the vampire didn't smell of death and rotting blood just smelled undead and his eyes showed surprise, wariness and a soul. Logan didn't ask then to enter, he just stepped aside, now he knew why Charles told him not to hurt the kid. They both entered with out trouble.

"Wouldn't you follow me, Professor Xavier is expecting you."

When they walked into the office and the first thought in Xander's mind was its Captain Picard.

"Thank you Logan I'll take it from here, welcome Alexander and Rachael I'm Charles Xavier and I believe that you here to find out if I know were your sister is? I sorry to say that who ever has her and I believe it's a woman that goes by the name of Selene, she is the Black Queen to the Hellfire clubs inner circle and with Shaw in jail is now the leader of the inner circle. If she has Star then they have her in a shielded place and I haven't been able to find her."

"What can you tell us about this Selene?" asked Xander.

"She is a 2000 year old mutant what we call an external. She has Enhanced strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility and reflexes and because she is a psychic vampire, Immunity to aging and a fast healing ability. Also has the ability to manipulate non-living things. Plus she has some knowledge of magic."

"But if she is a so called immortal why does she need my sister" asked Rachael "and just how many so called Immortal types are there any way. I personally know of three types, the externals make four."

"I don't know Rachael, but this seems to be an Inner circle thing and the inner circle is run by some of the richest and powerful people on the planet, who want even more power." Answered the Professor.

They talked some more on ways to find out were Star was, but just didn't have the information they needed. Rachael was given a room in the guest quarters and Xander was given one as well but felt safer to spend the day some were else.

The next night Xander allowed Dr McCoy to do some tests on him to get an idea of his vampiric and mutant abilities, it was pretty much as he thought; although Dr McCoy said that he should have more control over his vampire abilities than he had shown so far. This got him to thinking, all of the vampires that he knew couldn't, in one way or another, be out during the day except Buffy, sunlight didn't seem to bother her, the others burst into flames when in the sunlight and he was unconscious during the day. The difference that he could see was that Buffy was a living vampire, she medically speaking was alive, she had a heart beat and was warm to the touch were he and the other vampires that he had met were clinically dead. So with Dr McCoy watching him and monitoring his life signs or lack there of, went into meditation just 10 minutes before sunrise and willed his heart to start beating and his lungs to breath and the hardest part his vampiric metabolism to shift to a human state. When the sun came up he found himself awake and he didn't need to consciously keep his heart going, according to the medical monitors except for a slow heart beat, 30 beats a minute resting, he was human and alive, and according to the tests McCoy did his abilities dropped to the level of a fledgling vampire, same for his healing abilities and his senses. What made him really happy was the fact he could go out in the sun, the only down side of this was that he no longer tanned in the sun but like a fair skinned person burned and he felt sluggish as if he was on cold medication and he couldn't sleep if he wanted to take a nap or use his shadow walking abilities. He had a great time at the impromptu Barbeque with the students and Rachael that day, but he was a little cranky from lack of sleep by the time the sun set and when it did he allowed his body to shift back to undead mode and heal is 3rd degree sunburn and he felt a little better but still cranky.

That night a guest of the professor's showed up because of what Dr McCoy had discovered when he did a genetic scan of Xander. Tony Harris wasn't his biological father, which made Xander even happier, if some what confused and it explain the way Tony had treated him. It seems that Jessica had gotten romantically involved with a patient of hers, two months before she married Tony, and it was this patient that was the Professor's guest.

Xander was in the Professor's office with the Professor going over the file on his genetic scan.

"So who is my Biological father Professor, I hope he is better than that asshole Tony."

"I think you may just get to like him Xander may I introduce you to your father. An old friend of my family."

That's when a Man entered the room, with similar black hair and brown eyes that Xander had, he was 6'2" and a well muscled 210 pounds, Xander had seen his face on Forbs and People magazine many times, in shock Xander took a breath and got an even bigger shock, he new that sent, he had met him under different circumstances.

The man watched as his son, look at him in shock and when he caught his sent, his eyes got even bigger and he got paler, and started to do an impression of a fish. God he wished he had a camera for this.

"Hello Alexander, this is as much of a shock to me as it is to you." He said with a smirk.

When Xander saw a very familiar smirk, one he had seen on his own face, that's when he calmed down enough to talk.