Title: House Arrest 12/20 + Epilogue

Author: Forsaken2003

Pairing: William/Xander
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I own none, all belong to Joss Whedon
Comments: Always welcomed!
Summary: William is under house arrest after assaulting his teacher. When he starts people watching he notices something strange about his neighbour.
Warnings/Spoilers: Human Verse. Out of Character.

Note: (An S/X adaptation if the movie 'Disturbia'.) Uses actual dialogue from the movie Please don't sue!

Beta'd by: Whichclothes

Part Twelve

William was jerked awake by something. His eyes popped open and he looked around. Did he hear something or did he dream it? He pulled himself out of the chair and made his way to the door; very slowly he swung it open.

Cautiously William stepped into the hall. "Mum?" No answer. He headed back to his own room. Across the street, William spotted the Greenwood kids that played ding dong ditch and brought his binoculars up to his eyes. "I'll get back at you." William noticed that they were watching porn on their bedroom television. A naked woman massaged her breasts. "Hello, boys. Family fun night. Okay. I see what's going on." William spotted the kids' mom coming toward their room. "Oh, Jesus. You guys are screwed now." The boys somehow sensed that she was there, turned off the television and jumped into their beds. Their mother walked in. William couldn't tell what was being said so he made up his own dialogue. "'We're just watching cartoons.' 'Oh, okay, sweetie. I understand. You guys are growing boys.' Come on, Mom." William scoffed when she left the room and the boys jumped from their beds and turned the television back on. "Bastards. Wow, they are horny as shit."

"Help!" William heard the cry and moved to look at Michaels's house. He saw the woman from the club at the window and she began to bang on it while she continued to scream.

When William saw Michaels he dropped the binoculars and grabbed the DV cam. He fumbled with it, and flipped open the LCD screen but as he pressed the power button, the camera's lamp suddenly ignited, and momentarily lighted up his room.

He spun and hit the floor, frantically trying to find the switch and turned off the lamp. "Dumb ass, dumb ass!" He stayed on the floor, slouched under the window sill for a couple of minutes. He tried to angle the camera screen so he could see what was happening but was unable to.

Quickly William traded the grainy DV cam for the binoculars. He looked towards the lower floor windows of Michaels's house that was now eerily still house. He tilted up to the second floor looking into each window. Again there was nothing.

"Okay, so where is she?" He did another search of each window. When he came to the last one he saw Michaels staring right back at him.

William spun and dove to the floor and knocked the other camera and tri-pod over. "Oh shit, oh shit." He shoved himself against the wall, frozen in terror. He didn't dare to get up. He spotted his cell phone on the floor just a few feet away. Swiftly he extended his leg out, using his foot to slowly slide the phone toward him. With a trembling hand he reached for the phone and picked it up. Just before he was about to flip it open the phone's LCD screen suddenly lit up and blared out Like a Virgin. William was startled, and fumbled with the phone and realized it was Oz. He flipped the phone open. "Oz…"

Oz didn't let him finish his sentence. "Dude, Xander is ho-ho-hotttt… seriously if I swung that way you'd have some competition!"

"Michaels totally busted me." As much as he would have loved to talk about Xander he needed to talk about what he saw.

"What do you mean? Are you sure?" Oz asked concern filled his voice.

"And the redhead who was at his house okay?" William broke off. "He chased her around the house, and it got dark, he turned the lights out. I mean, I don't know what I saw. I saw... Well, what if he killed her? I mean..." A door suddenly slammed. "Wait…"

"What?"

"A door just slammed," William informed Oz.

In his best sinister 'Scream' voice Oz said, "That's right, William, and now I'm coming up to slash your guts out, you little bastard!"

"Berk, I'm serious," William scowled even though Oz couldn't see it.

"I'm not and I'm hanging up."

"Just - wait - wait till I check the hall." William begged as he grabbed his bat, slowly approached his door. Oz yawned and began to snore. William's hand was about to grabbed the knob.

"BOO!" Oz screamed into the receiver.

William jumped and let out a scream of his own, "Goddamn you!" He flipped the phone closed and threw it on to the bed. He heard Michaels's front door slam shut and he rushed over and saw the redhead walk over to her car, open the door, get in, start the ignition and take off down the driveway.

With a deep breath he turned back to the door just as it was suddenly pushed open, smacking William in the forehead. He stumbled back and screamed again yet again as he raised the bat up over his head.

"Will! William, it's me!" Joyce said and she brought her hands up to protect herself in case he still swung.

He didn't immediately drop the bat as he focused on Joyce. She was dressed in her a black skirt, white blouse and black coat, barely visible in the darkness. She flipped the light on.

"No, don't!" William cried out.

"What's going on, who were you talking to?" Joyce eyed him suspiciously.

William looked back to his phone. "Oz. Just Oz." He fell backwards onto his bed. "I heard the door."

"I'm sorry, the wind caught it," Joyce apologized.

"Fine. Good. Okay." William took a deep breath and tried to calm himself.

Joyce caught her own breath. "You want anything from the grocery? I'm going in the morning."

"Yeah I think I could use some Red Bull." He was gonna need that caffeine in the morning. There was no doubt he wouldn't be sleeping tonight. What the hell happened over at Michaels's place?