It was a dark night and Buffy, Willow and Cordelia were out on a patrol when a few vamps showed up and attacked them, one of them leapt at Willow but all of the sudden they heard a shot and Willow was covered in vamp dust. "What was that?" She said, then they heard someone coming over with guns blazing dusting vamps left and right, then he holstered his guns and pulled a compact bow and fired on the vamps. One was about to kill Buffy when he meet with a knife through the throat.

"Last one," he said he was dressed in T-shirt, cargo pants, combat boots, flak jacket, nose and mouth mask, gloves and wrap around safety glasses. He had short black hair and brown eyes. He disarmed his snipe rifle and handguns after strapping his bow across his torso. He holstered his handguns, "hello Buffy." He said icily, it was almost 3 years after graduation and he was beaten within an inch of his life by the woman in front of him. All because he didn't want his ex-best friend to go dark "Listened to Anya lately?"

"Xander," she started.

"What? Going to kill me now? Be cause I do believe that is what you said. If I showed my face back in Sunnydale again you'd kill me. Right?" He took off his glasses and looked at her. "I'm back, how about it? Life's not worth living," she didn't make a move. "Oh, I get it I'm armed. Let me handle that." He took off his weapons and gear, "let's go. Make your promise, make your promise!" She didn't, "I guess listening to a Vengeance Demon to get vengeance on someone for DOING YOUR JOB! Ain't so smart was it? But, what do I know? I just made you send your 'soul mate' to hell and because I didn't want my so called best friend to turn evil."

Tears started to fall from Willow's eyes. Xander called her his 'so called best friend', not best friend and not bestest friend and now she was feeling how he felt when she betrayed him. He looked at her, "and you'll just follow her words to the letter. I'll bet if she told you to use your magic to kill me you'd do it wouldn't you?"

"Xander, please calm down." She cried, "I'm sorry."

"Oh now you're sorry? Were you sorry when you kicked me when I was down? Were you sorry when you stabbed me in the back and heart when I needed you?" He walked slowly up to her, "I'll tell you where you were, kissing Buffy's ass and making her feel adequate about herself. Even if it meant you would lose your soul. She doesn't care, she only looks out for number one. If you preformed the curse spell, you'd lose your soul and Angel would've been back sure but right after she'd thank you, she'd stake you." He glared at Buffy, "prove me wrong! We should've never helped you, I could've freed Willow and myself and started on our own hunting the dark. I'm not as weak as you think. But I don't know anymore. So I lied, to get you to do your job. I know what you're going to say and you are wrong. I'm not jealous, why? Because I can be out in the sun, I can go in to a church," he reached in to his jacket and pulled out a cross. "I can wear this and not burn. Also, I have a great job, can do everything he can only better and do it before sunrise. So I'm jealous?" He chuckled, "what's there for me to be jealous of? He has you?" He scoffed, "you're no prize. I'd rather be bitched out by Cordelia than go out with you."

Buffy looked like he shot her in the chest, pain was in her eyes. "How does it feel Summers? You're not the center of the universe." Cordelia just looked at Xander in a new light but the guilt was eating her alive. He acted like she didn't exist, he finally looked at her and sadly shook his head he had nothing to say to her. She wasn't all that cruel to him so he wasn't going to be either. He started to grab his things, "don't worry. I'm not going to help you anymore I've got too many things to do than to be the 'Slayer's fool'. I'm sorry Ms. Rosenberg, but the 'Slayer' slayed your best friend." With that Xander left them there in the cemetery. Hearts broken and wondering why did they listen to that damned Vengeance Demon when she brought up the 'lie'.

Meanwhile Anyanka was in her magic shop going through her day as Anya Jenkins, when all of the sudden pain ripped through her chest. She grabbed her chest and double over in pain. 'What's going on?' She thought, 'this is remorse. But who is feeling remorseful for getting revenge on someone?' Then, as quickly as the pain started, it stopped.

An hour later, someone came in to the shop. It was Buffy as she stormed into the shop, "YOU!" She screamed, the Vengeance Demon was in shock.

"Uh, hello Buffy." She said, "can I help you?" Suddenly she was on the floor spitting out blood.

"Let me guess, Xander wouldn't give you enough orgasms?" She kicked her in the ribs, "or was it you couldn't stand him?"

"I..." Anya started, Buffy kicked her in the ribs again. "Please Buffy, I'm sorry! I didn't know it..."

"It WHAT? Go this far? That Willow and I would almost kill Xander that night? That Xander would come back as a totally bad ass merc? What? You tell me?"

She couldn't answer, "when Xander left Sunnydale, he joined the military." Said Willow, "he became a Marine and went through 'Hell Training' and somehow, after about three tours of duty and twenty missions, he became a member of Black Ops(1)." She pulled out Xander's service record and slammed it on the counter. "That's his service record, what did you think was going to happen? He was going to run crying to you? He's going to run to you but not the way you want him to so I'd duck if I were you, when you see him coming. Buffy, I'm going home, I'll see you later." With that she was about to leave when Anya tried to stop her.

"WAIT! WILLOW DON'T LEAVE ME WITH HER!"

"Should've thought about that when you had us betray Xander!" She said with tears coming out of her eyes. She walked out of the shop leaving the Vengeance Demon with the Slayer.

"Buffy, Buffy can we talk about this?" The Slayer was cracking her knuckles.

"The only thing I want to hear coming from you are screams."

Meanwhile, Xander was home. It was a huge, vampire-free, cheap manor. He was able to buy it and furnish it. He placed his weapons up, took off his gear and got in to the shower to clean up. After he was cleaned, he dressed in a pair of sweatpants, T-shirt and socks. He laid down on to his bed and thought about the night. 'I kicked ass tonight, I wonder how Usagi-chan and the others are?' With that he went to sleep, dreaming about loved ones and true friends.

TBC

Note: Another AU Buffy one-shot