"Buffy, come on. Buffy, where are you?" Willow shouts as she runs through the high school corridors.
"Think she went that was Willow." Angelus steps out of the shadows, pointing to the doors leading to the gym.
"Uh... thanks Angel, I think I'll just... you know..." Willow starts immediately backing away from him. They all knew he was Angelus now; he wasn't the same man they had talked to before.
"That's ok Willow, just let me get the door and we'll go and find her." A predatory grin appeared on Angel's face as he started advancing on Willow.
"No, really, I've got to..." Without finishing off her explanation she took off running back to the library.
"I love it when I have to run for my meals, works up such an appetite." Angel said, grinning into the darkness before running off after her.
"Xander! Xander!" Willow was screaming, running through the halls to reach the library.
"Willow, what's wrong?" Xander looked around as he came round the corner and Willow practically threw herself at him.
"Red, hey what's up?" Faith said, looking round there was no one in the school aside from them.
"Angelus... here..." Willow gasped out.
"Quick, Faith, get her back to the library and tell Giles he's here." Xander immediately flashed into his suit and took off running in the direction Willow had come from.
"Come on red; let's get you back there ok?" Faith held Willows arm as she led her back to the library. 'Stay safe Xan' she thought to herself.
"Angelus, come out and face me you coward." Xander shouted into the empty corridors. He'd run practically the entire length of the school, no sign of Angelus or Buffy. Looking around one last time he decided to head back to the library, maybe Buffy had gone back there.
"Giles, he's not there. Couldn't find any sign of him, must have ran when he saw me and Faith." Xander said, walking in to the library and checking everyone was ok. "Hey, where's Willow, Faith? Thought you were going to bring her back here?" looking round he couldn't see any sign of her, Faith, Giles and Jenny were all stood together by the office door, but no sign of Willow.
"She's right here." Angelus growled coming out of the shadows he pulled Willow in front of him, holding her roughly by the neck.
"You hurt her I swear..."
"You'll do what? By the time you even blink to create one of your green things, I'll have snapped her neck like a twig and be gone before you can do anything about it." Angelus snarled at the group.
The sound of the door's opening made Xander swing his attention round to see Buffy walking into the library, anger burning in her eyes.
Using this distraction Angel quickly moved over and grabbed Jenny as well, holding her just as rough with his other hand. "And now I have two, shouldn't let your attention slide boy. It'll be the end of you."
"You hurt either one of them and I'll burn you to ash Angelus." Xander snarled back, letting the power show through his eyes.
"But they're both so tasty..." Angelus grinned, moving his head down he ran his tongue up Willow's neck. "Maybe I'll just drain the redhead and make you watch." He watched as Xander stepped closer in anger. "Come any closer and I'll snap the teachers' neck." Snarling, he pulled Jenny's neck over to his lips and licked the full length of her neck as well. "Mmmm, tastes like fear."
"Angel..." Buffy said softly, walking towards Xander.
"Dream on girlfriend, Angel's dead. I'm in control now." Angelus snarled, showing his 'game face'.
Nodding his head at Jenny, Xander had an idea.
"Let Willow go, let her go and you can walk out of here in one piece, but if you touch one hair on her head I will burn you to ash and then take a piss in them." Xander's anger flared again, he had to make this look real.
"Oh no, you think I don't know about little miss flash here? I saw her at Buffy's party. Moved faster that I could blink; now how did she do that? Magick? Something in her blood? Maybe I'll just have a taste." Reaching down he bit into Jenny's neck, Xander could only watch in horror as her eyes rolled back and the teeth punctured her skin.
"No!" Xander's shout was echoed by Giles, Willow and Buffy.
"Mmmm, tastes like chicken." He broke off for a second before turning to the rest of them, Jenny's blood dripping down his chin.
Xander didn't hesitate; he fired a low power blast into Angel's chest knocking him away from Jenny and Willow, Jenny just slumped to the floor as Angel fell back into the book cage behind him. Willow darted to freedom across the room.
"What did... what did you do?" Angelus gasped, smoke coming out of his mouth as he spoke.
"Nothing, not what I did, it's what you did." Xander grinned moving over and laying his fingers on Jenny's throat, good strong pulse, still alive.
"What are you talking about boy?" Angelus snarled, the smoke getting thicker as it came out of his mouth.
"Jenny, she's not human. She's a kryptonion you idiot, her body, her blood, every cell in her body stores sunlight to turn into energy. You just drank about a pint of her blood, that solar energy is now burning through your body." Xander stopped, letting the knowledge sink into Angelus' brain. "I never got round to testing how her blood affects a vampire, be interesting to see how the blood that you drank from her makes its way into your system. My estimate? You've got about fifteen minutes left to live. Maybe more of you slow down your metabolism and let the blood just be digested slowly into your system, that way? Maybe an hour." Xander said, picking Jenny up and carrying her over to the counter where Giles took her.
"You... Argh!" Angelus screamed as the smoke bellowed out of his mouth again.
"I can't imagine what it must feel like, to have your veins burning from the inside out, your stomach on fire, Must be excruciating." He smirked at Angelus, lying on the floor with smoke coming out of his mouth, eyes watering.
"I'll see you bleed first." Angelus snarled, leaping up and across at Xander, only to be stopped by a back hand from Buffy.
"You have about ten minutes left to live Angel, I suggest you run. Maybe you could dilute it with water or something, but staying here is a surefire way to get dead." Buffy grimaced, turning away, not able to look her lover in the eyes as he burned.
"I'll kill you for this!" Angelus snarled, leaping over the railing and out through the back door.
"Xander stop!" Buffy shouted as he raced towards the back door. "Leave him; we have to take care of Jenny and Willow first."
"I'm fine Buffy, really." Willow said, sitting down on a chair.
"Jenny will be fine; he didn't drink enough to kill her. All she needs is a little rest and some sunlight. She'll be good as new by tomorrow morning, but by then he could have killed ten maybe fifteen people." Xander was nearly shouting at her by the end. "Do you want those lives on your conscious? Because I sure as hell don't, I already have one life on my hands, I don't need another." Xander shouted at her before turning and running out the door to follow Angelus.
"Get back here and fight you coward." Xander screamed into the night. Angelus was nowhere in sight.
"Xander, don't..." Buffy shouted, coming out of the door. "Xander, what did you do with him?" Buffy screamed looking around.
The wind picked up and blew some dust through the night, Xander and Buffy just looked at them soberly.
"Angel." Buffy whispered, turning and running into the night.
Xander just hung his head and walked back into the library. "It's over guys." He said, walking over to Giles and checking Jenny's pulse again. "It's over." He whispered softly in Jenny's ear.
"Wahhhh!" Drusilla wailed.
"What is it pet? What's wrong?" Spike immediately ran over to her.
"It's Angel, the sun ate him all up." Drusilla stop up and twirled around. "Ate him up like an apple... num, num, num."
"Angel's dead?" Spike asked, turning round as the judge walked into the room. "You! You ready? Good, you need to take lives to get more power. Well let's bloody take some then, let's get to the bloody mall and do some shopping."
"Shopping, shopping, shopping for daddy's funeral." Drusilla smiled wrapping her arms round Spike.
"Yes, there will be people there. They will feed me, make me even stronger." The judge said, walking over he held out his hand to touch Drusilla.
"Oi! Mate! None of that shit ok? We get to the mall, you can kill every bloody soul you see, just leave me and Dru alone." Spike pulled Drusilla away and stormed towards to exit, pulling her along behind him. The judge just followed silently.
"We've got to get Jenny to a hospital." Giles said, pulling her into his arms.
"She'll be fine Giles, trust me. She's unconscious at the moment, just needs to rest and recharge." Xander said, sitting down with Willow.
"And you, how could you play with her life like that. Does she mean nothing to you?" Giles shouted, pulling Xander up off his chair.
"She knew what my idea was Giles, she knew the risks. We played a gambit and won." Xander grabbed his wrist and pulled it off his shirt.
"And that makes it alright? She could have been killed, you understand that? Killed!" Giles screamed at him.
"Rupert, not so loud." Jenny's soft voice broke through the silence of the library after a moment of silence.
"Jenny, good lord I thought I'd lost you." Giles ran over and embraced her in a tight hug.
"Yeah, well since you think so little of me, I'll just go and... I don't know..." Xander muttered before walking out of the library, things had been going so well and he just screwed them up as always.
"Yo! Wait up Xan." Faith shouted, running out of the library to catch up with him. "Where ya headed?"
"Somewhere, anywhere but here." Xander pushed open the school doors with force, causing them to bounce back off the railings outside. "He hates me, I knew what I was doing and he just threw it back in my face."
"He doesn't hate you Xan; he just thought he'd lost the woman he loves. That's bound to make anyone a little screwy." Faith grinned, speeding up a bit to keep up with the taller teen.
"I guess, it just hurt, you know. That he didn't trust me enough when I told him she was going to be alright. It hurt that he didn't believe in me." Xander stopped walking looked over at Faith.
"He trusts you Xan; it's just going to take a little while for them to get over this. I mean you just killed Buffy's boyfriend and Giles just thought he had lost his girlfriend. It's gonna take some time." Faith smiled, pulling Xander into a hug.
"Thanks Faith." Xander whispered into her ear.
"Now, how about we hit the mall, I need some wicked new pants and you're buying."
"I'm buying?" Xander grinned back at her.
"Well I wanna look good for when you take me to heaven tonight." She smirked before pulling him in for a kiss. "I trust you Xan, you're a good man. Giles' will see it too; you just gotta give him some time."
"Suppose, hey how did I get stuck with paying for your new wardrobe?" Xander smiled pushing her away from him but keeping hold of her arms.
"Guy gotta want his girl to look good, don't he?" She grinned before kissing him on the nose and running off down the street in the direction of the mall.
"His girl?" Xander just muttered to himself before running off after her.
Sunnydale Mall.
"Come on Xan, just two more shops." Faith begged, turning to him and showing him puppy dog eyes.
"Faith, we've been to every shop in this mall. We've spent over two hundred dollars, and I'm starving. Look, let's grab a seat at Nando's and grab something to eat. You can go through your shopping there and see if there's anything you've missed."
"Sounds good Xan, seriously though, there's this wicked leather shop upstairs. They have these out of this world pants, damn I swear you have to have them painted on they're that tight." Faith grinned at Xander's reaction. The image of Faith with skintight leather pants on was now burnt into his mind.
"Uh... how much are these pants?" Xander said finally.
"About ninety dollars," Faith grinned, now for the finishing blow. "I swear they're that tight you can't wear any underwear with them."
That was the clincher; Xander just fished out his wallet and handed the money over to Faith. Seeing the glint in her eye he knew he'd been had, didn't matter though. That smile meant more to him that any amount of money.
"You go up get your pants; I'll grab a seat and order food ok?" Xander said, smiling softly at her.
"Sure thing lover boy, order mine extra spicy. I'll get these pants and be right back." She kissed him passionately before taking off and running up the escalator.
"Damn..." Xander must muttered to himself as he walked over to the restaurant and took a table.
Faith was in heaven, the leather shop upstairs was having a sale. She could afford two pairs of those pants she wanted with the money Xander gave her. Her concentration shifted however when she saw the shop next door.
"Oh hell yeah, this'll give him something to drool over." Faith grinned picking up a pair of the leather pants and paying for them before diving next door. "Oh yeah, definitely!" She grinned to herself, thinking about Xander's reaction to these. Picking up an item off the rail she moved over to the cashier. Xan's got the table downstairs; don't want to keep him waiting. Smiling like a can she paid for her purchase and walked out of the shop, just in time to see Spike, Drusilla and the judge walk stride into the mall and kill about fifteen people on entry. "Aw, hell." She just said before breaking into a run and sprinting down the escalator.
"Block the exits; no one gets in or out." Spike shouted to the vampires flanking him. They immediately spread out and covered all of the exits.
"Good thing we're already here then." Faith smirked as he and Xander walked into view. He was back in his tight leather outfit and mask, holding a green flamethrower. She was wearing a cocky grin and a green crossbow.
"Bloody hell, do you people get everywhere?" Spike shouted. "Good thing our boy's at full strength now, I'll leave you two to him." Spike smirked, backing out of the line of fire.
"Yeah, figured as much." Xander said, taking point. "You know, read a lot about you. No weapon forged by man can hurt you, right? That's you right? The judge?"
"That is correct. My armor was forged in the pits of hell itself; no weapon made on earth could even dent it." The judge said simply, walking forward towards them.
"Yeah, that's what I figured when I saw your arm attack Buffy. The armor, it wasn't cut through like it would be when you dismember someone. The chainmail had been unlinked, leaving access to your flesh. You're not invincible; it's just your armor." Xander smiled, he was right.
"And you think you can relieve me of it? I would kill you before you even got close."
"Actually no. You see I figured out something else as well, 'No weapon forged by man'. Isn't that the quote? Anyway see these? They're not forged by man; they're forged by my will." Xander grinned before letting a torrent of pure emerald flame stream into the judge, Faith followed up with a volley of arrows. As the smoke cleared Xander jaw hit the floor.
"Was that supposed to hurt?" The judge just asked, a smirk evident on his lips. "Forged by your will, you are human. They are forged by a human. Those things can't hurt you."
"Shit, didn't think of that. Run!" Xander shouted to Faith as they broke for the exit behind them, dispatching the vampire in the way and diving out the exit.
"Follow them!" The judge said, marching towards the exit and burning those close to his path.
"Where are you?" The judge shouted as he opened the doors and stepped out.
"Right here smurf boy." Xander shouted from twenty feet up where he and Faith were encased in an emerald bubble.
"You think that will protect you from me? You're shield will break in time." The judge shouted as he fired stream after stream of energy at it.
"Faith you need to go." Xander said, the force of will showing on his face, sweat dripping down his forehead.
"Xander, I'm not going to leave you." Faith said, holding on to him tight as another energy blast rocked the shield.
"I have a plan but I can't concentrate on it and you at the same time, I need you to go!" the last word was shouted and Faith disappeared in a bright green flash, so bright it was almost white. "Now it's just me and you." Xander said, concentrating on the judge. Encasing him is a shield he dropped his and flew up, dragging the judge behind him.
Faster and faster they flew, high and higher until they reached orbit. "No weapon forged by man huh? How about the sun?" Xander shouted, he knew the judge couldn't hear him through the vacuum of space but it made him feel better as he 'launched' the emerald bubble towards the sun.
He watched it as long as he could, until the bubble faded from view and it was engulfed in the suns brilliance.
"Never hurt anyone again." He said, spinning round to look back at the earth. "Damn!" he exclaimed, looking out in front of him he could see a space craft, an honest to god space craft, just sitting there in orbit. "This I gotta see." he grinned as he flew closer to the craft.
It was huge, immense even. He was still miles away from the thing and it filled his entire vision. It was sleek, with two struts sticking up and down at the back. It gleamed silver in the light of the sun.
"Whoa..." He said, pouring on speed to check it out. This was definitely his area now. Only he and Jenny could get into space like this, so it fell to them to protect earth from... whatever these things were.
Slowing down he approached the side of the ship. Concentrating he teleported himself inside.
"Shit, real aliens!" he shouted as he appeared in the ship and came face to face with what looked like a Roswell grey.
The alien made a series of sounds before walking over to some sort of control panel; he pressed a few buttons and then made a few more sounds before a bright white light engulfed them both.
A couple of seconds later they white light faded and Xander found himself looking out from the window of the ship. Obviously the bridge, he thought to himself.
"Hey, Thor here said he saw you on the outside of the ship. Care to explain how you can do that?" a voice came from behind him causing him to spin round.
He came face to face with four humans and another alien.
"Uncle Jack?" He said as he realized who the voice belonged to.
"Huh?" Jack said, confused and eloquent as always.
"Oh yeah, the mask sorry." He quickly flashed out of the uniform and into his normal combats and t-shirt, getting rid of the mask as well.
"Xander?" Jack just said incredulously.
"Uh, hi, Dad?" Xander just said sheepishly as he looked at the face of his father for the first time in years.
"Oh brother." Jack just said before blowing out a whoosh of air.
"I was not aware you had any offspring O'Neill. Congratulations he is a powerful young man, I am sure he will serve you will." The black man just walked forwards and extended his hand. "I am Teal'c of Chulack."
Taking his hand Xander just shock it with a bemused expression on his face. "Uh, thanks. I think, Xander... Harris of Sunnydale. Dad, wanna do some explaining here 'cause I'm a little lost."
"You're a little lost? How the hell did you get up here anyway? You know, space... can't survive in it, you need ships, any of this making sense to you?" Jack shouted at Xander, stepping forward to move in front of the other people there.
"We also watched you launch an object into the star of your solar system, it will enter the stars corona in two earth minutes." The little grey alien, Thor he guessed, said.
"Uh, yeah. It was a demon, attempting to kill us. It was the only way I could think of killing it." He tried to explain, looking carefully at the alien. He did look exactly like the Roswell grey aliens. "Can I see it? I mean can you show me it as it enters the sun."
The little grey alien didn't say anything, just moved over to a console and moved a few... stones, they looked like slowing white stones. The screen shifted then, showing the judge as he was pulled towards the sun. The green shield long since destroyed by the heat.
"Cool, he's toast." Xander grinned before turning back to the group.
"But that's... that's... that can't be a demon, there's no such thing." The third member of the group said. He looked a little like Giles, only younger and carrying a gun, no tweed either.
"Fraid so, demon. Called itself the judge, burned human's from the inside out." Xander explained.
"I was unaware your world held such creatures O'Neil." Teal'c said turning to Jack.
"It doesn't, for crying out loud. I want to know how you got up here and what that thing was, and I want know now!" Jack shouted.
"Geez, calm down dad. I told you, that was a demon, and as to how I got here... that's complicated." Xander said, grinning. The fourth member of their group was blonde woman. "Xander Harris." He said, stepping forward and holding out his hand.
"Sam, Sam Carter." She said before shaking his hand softly.
"Sam!" Jack shouted. "For god's sake, we just watched his hurl something into the sun then fly through space and teleport himself aboard a shielded Asgard ship."
Shielded, hmm, so that's what the tingling sensation was he got when he approached the ship.
"Your offspring would be an asset towards fighting the Goa'uld O'Neil." Teal'c said in a bland tone, man didn't this guy show any emotion at all?
"I can't believe we are having this conversation. Carter, how did he do that?" jack said, twirling to face the blonde.
"I don't know sir, it's impossible to survive in the vacuum of space. As for teleporting and how he changed his clothes... I have no idea sir." Sam gave up softly.
"Maybe he's an ascended being Jack? I mean we all know they could do things like that, maybe he's one of the ancients." Daniel said, walking forwards. "Does the name Oma Desala mean anything to you?"
I couldn't help it; at that point I burst out laughing.
"Sorry, No sorry. I don't know any Oma Desala; I don't know who the ancients or the ascended are. I'm Xander Harris, or at least I thought I was, turns out its Xander O'Neil. Right dad?" Managing to stop the laughing I turn to jack to see his expression.
"But, Tony and Jessica..." He said softly.
"Were the worst parent's you could have chosen. Look, I've got to go; I've got a girl waiting for me back down there so..." With that I flash back into my uniform. "Call me sometime, be nice to get to know you." With that I flash teleport myself back into space and head down towards Sunnydale.
One thought was running through my mind the entire time as I trailed through the atmosphere, I met my dad, I called him dad. What was he doing in space? On an alien spaceship?
Damn, again left with more questions, help against the Goa'uld? That's what the black guy said. I'll have to keep a closer watch on the skies now. I thought my life was weird, demons, vampires and slayers. My dad's friends with aliens, guess it runs in the family. I let out a laugh before doing a few loops in high orbit. Burn off a bit of steam before I meet Faith and explain to her what I did, how am I going to explain that.
AN: Woohoo, the chapter I was so worried about it over :)
Ok, he finally met his father, and aliens, and SG-1.
This isn't over people, not by a long shot.
Let me know what you thought...
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