By David MycockWalking the Path 4/
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the vampire slayer or any other of the characters in this story they belong to Joss Whedon and whoever else created the characters used in this story. Any characters I created I own.
Pairing: Janna Kalderdash/Xander Harris
Summary: Set after the love spell episode. Xander begins to walk his own path after leaning of his true origins. This also has a twist from the love spell episode with Xander actually sleeping with Jenny during the spell and the reactions from the rest of the group.
Xander sat at the back of the science classroom thinking about the confrontation in the library, he was disappointed and angry by his former friend's reaction to everything especially Willow's.
It really annoyed him how much of an idiot his one time life long friend was being just to keep Buffy happy, he didn't even know if she actually realised what she had become because as far as he was concerned she had become a sheep like Harmony, Aura and the rest of the Cordettes.
Buffy's response had been expected and had not bothered too much, Giles and Cordelia's responses to the news he had gotten Janna pregnant was unexpected and rather idiotic. They had reacted as if he and Janna had betrayed them and not the other way around.
"Mister Harris will you please pay attention to what I am saying" the voice of Mr Jenson broke through his thoughts
"Sorry" he said although he felt anything but as this lesson was unimportant compared at what was happening at night
"Then perhaps you would like to answer the question I just asked?" Mr Jenson asked
"I can't sir I don't know what the answer is" he admitted
"Then I suggest you pay closer attention in the future" Mr Jenson told him with a glare which was mirrored by Buffy, Willow and Cordelia who were seated to the side of him
Janna Kalderdash sat at the head of her own classroom as the students she was currently teaching used the computers in silence as she had ordered.
This gave her sometime to go over the events of the morning; she was slightly worried for Xander's safety now that Giles knew he had gotten her pregnant. His reaction this morning had been disturbing, he had turned on her as soon as her identity and mission had been revealed and yet now he was acting as if she had cheated on him and knowing Giles's past it gave her some concerns that he wouldn't try and get some revenge on Xander.
One thing to come from the meeting was the fact that Xander had been right about how Buffy would react and it had shocked her how little Buffy cared for someone's safety when weighed against her own wants. When Willow had offered to do the spell the slayer had not even registered what it could do her friend who was not even a novice when it came to magic.
During the dinner break Buffy and the others agreed to meet up and discuss what had happened that morning.
When she and the others entered the library they found Giles pacing the library muttering to himself, his face one and anger. They were surprised by his reaction to the news that Jenny Calendar was pregnant, they had believed he had gotten over their computer teacher but it was now clear he had not.
"Giles?" Buffy asked
Rupert Giles turned to face them and tried to keep his face clear of the anger he had been feeling since that morning.
"Hello Buffy" he said as he sat down motioning the others to do the same
"So what do we do Giles?" Cordelia asked her own anger at Xander's confession
"Xander has wilfully destroyed the disk which contained the soul spell ending any chance of saving Angel and stopping Angelus" Giles started "Jenny stated she couldn't perform the spell due to it been too dangerous however I still believe as we do not know her level of skill she still could have been lying" he added allowing some of his anger to drive him
"Could we get her to retranslate the spell?" Buffy asked her desire to have her boyfriend back overriding almost everything else
"It's a possibility" Giles nodded
"But she won't do the spell Giles" Willow reminded them "She said it would harm her baby" trying not to cry at the memory of learning Xander had gotten someone else pregnant
Silence met this comment as everyone remembered the moment they had that bit of information dropped on them
"She could have been lying about that too" Oz suggested
"I do not believe she was" Giles said through clenched teeth "They were too reluctant to give up that information and they would of not have done that I believe if they weren't too busy trying to impress on us the danger of the soul spell" he added
"Well we have to do something we can't let Xander get away with this" Buffy hissed "He has made sure Angel stays dead" she added
"At the moment I am at a loss as to a course of action but I believe the soul spell may be our best bet of doing something about Angelus" he informed them
"So you think we should get her to retranslate the spell?" Willow asked
"Yes I do" Giles answered
"We'll tell her next time we see her" Cordelia said
Angelus walked through the factory still trying to piece together what to do about Harris, his experience at the school had changed his view of the annoying clown. The skills he processed were obviously granted by left over bits of his possessions including his greater speed, he now remembered about what Buffy had told Angel about Xander been possessed by a hyena.
"What's wrong mate?" Spike asked as he wheeled up to him
"Nothing go away" Angelus replied
Spike just smiled at him before turning his wheelchair around and moving away as his smile grew, anything that annoyed the big pounce was a good thing in his book.
Xander walked into Janna's home that night feeling tied after what he viewed as a long day, the only thing that had stopped him walking out of the school was Amy's and Janna's presence.
Janna was already sitting on the sofa drinking a cup of tea; she gave him a smile as he sat down opposite her
"How was your day?" he asked
"Long, after dinner Buffy and the others found me and demanded I retranslate the soul spell" Janna told him
"They what?" he asked instantly angry
Janna just nodded at him understanding his reaction, she was still shocked at the way Buffy and the others were acting
"Did they also insist you do the spell?" he asked with a growl frustration
"No I think Willow has convinced the others she can control the magic" Janna answered "She can't Alex, she has no idea what kind of magic is involved" she added "Also she hasn't even done a single spell in her life and she expects to jump into the deep end and succeed" she finished with a sigh of annoyance
"That's her arrogance" Xander told her "She has always succeed in what she has put her mind to in regards to her studies or computing but sometimes she gets carried away thinking she can do anything" he continued "It's one of the reasons me and Jessie were her only friends at school, she had a tendency to tell people her idea of right and wrong and expected them to except it when all it did was annoy them" he told her
"Well that arrogance coupled with her desire to please Buffy is either going to kill her or corrupt her soul permantly" Janna warned him
Xander just nodded his head as he stood and walked over to the window, Janna placed her cup of tea down and walked into the kitchen to make Xander one.
Xander walked over to Janna's mantelpiece he noted a sword hung on the wall covered in a very elegant scabbard, he ran his hand over the pummel and then grasped it. He was immediately infused with an influx of magic as if the blade was coated in it; he pulled the blade out of the scabbard and held the sword up as he looked at it.
The blade was a middle sized one and had runes carved into the middle of it, the pummel was coated in silver and gold and finally a purple tendril of magic seemed to run over the blade
"Oh" Janna's gasp of surprise broke him out of his inspection of the sword
"What's wrong Janna?" he asked as he lowered the sword
"Alex that sword is a relic of my people, it is infused with the ancient magic of my people and can only be wielded by Romany" she told him
He stared at her as she answered his question, his hand gripped the blade a bit more tightly before he realised something
"Then how did I pull the sword?" he asked
"There is only one way Alex and that is you must have Romany blood in your veins" she told him as she place the cup of tea she had made for him down "You said the man who is married to your mother is actually your step father right?" she asked trying to fight her shock at this development
"Yes" he answered slowly as the magic of the sword continued to pulse through him
"Then it's possible your actually father could have been of Romany descent unless of course your mother is" Janna told him as she came to a halt in front of him and placed her hand on the sword and feeling the same influx of magic
"We'll have to talk to Mom" Xander whispered as he laid his head on her shoulders
"The sooner we do the better, if I am right then it raises other issues but we can get to them later lets go" she told him
Xander placed the sword back into the scabbard on the wall missing the magic of the sword instantly
"I just want to use your phone to call Kendra" he told her
"Ok" Janna told him still reeling with the possibility of Xander been a Romany
Xander walked over to the phone and picked it up hoping Kendra or her watcher were in and would agree to help them, he punched in the number he had stolen off Giles and agreed to accept the charges
"Hello?" a cultured British voice answered
"Mr Suboto?" he asked
"Yes who is this?" the voice asked
"My name is Xander Harris I need to talk to Kendra" he answered
"About what?" the voice asked now cautious
"We have a situation in Sunnydale and we need her help" he told him
"Hold on" the voice told him
A few seconds later and another voice came through the phone, this one was female
"Xander?" the voice asked
"Hi Kendra" Xander replied glad she remembered him "Listen Angelus is loose and carving a bloody path through Sunnydale, Buffy refuses to fight him and even let him go when she had him at her mecy" he briefed her "Giles is allowing her to do this and will not make her kill him" he added "We need your help, Mr Suboto's too if he will agree to come" he finished
"I understand, we'll be on a plane tonight" Kendra's voice came back confidently
"Thanks, see you soon" Xander told her
"Bye" Kendra said before she hung up as did Xander
"Well?" Janna asked
"She said she and her watcher will be on a plane tonight which means they should arrive by midday tommorow" Xander told her as he walked to the door followed by Janna as they headed to speak to his mother.
"What is wrong Kendra?" Mr Suboto asked
"Angelus is loose and Buffy refuses to stop him" Kendra answered shocked that her sister slayer could allow such a thing before she remembered how much Buffy loved the vampire
"And Mr Giles?" Mr Suboto asked again
"He will not force her to act, Xander has requested our help" she told him
"And who is Xander?" her watcher continued to question her
"One of Buffy's friends I told you about who help her" she replied "He can be trusted to know a bad situation" she added
"I will book two plane tickets immeditaly" Mr Suboto told her as he began to grow uneasy about how such a situation could get worse on the hell mouth whilst Kendra looked by to the phone and knew this time she would not hesitate to kill the vampire not even Buffy would stop her