Title: House Arrest 17/20 + 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 Seventeen

"All right. That's it," William stood up from his seat. "Give me the phone. I'm calling the cops." William demanded and Oz passed him the phone.

"Wait. He didn't do anything," Xander intervened as Oz tossed William the phone. "All he said was that he liked his privacy."

"But think about that. Why does he want his bloody privacy? I mean, he's hiding something. We know that," William said and pointed to Oz for confirmation.

"Yeah, definitely," Oz was quick to agree. Something was definitely creepy about this guy. If he hadn't already thought so, he thought so now.

"And he knows that we know that. He knows that. And regardless of whether he had a bad day or a good... it doesn't matter. He scared the hell out of you. That's a grown man," William said as he pointed out the window at Michaels's house. He couldn't let that freak just scare his Xander like that!

Xander sighed and grabbed William's hand. "Look, Will, he freaked me out, but he's right. We're the ones spying."

Oz looked at Xander, horrified. "Oh, man, he's got that Stockholm thing. You know, where the hostage falls for the hostage taker."

"Where do you get this stuff?" Xander asked with an annoyed huff.

"I read a lot," Oz replied and looked a bit offended.

William pulled away. "Okay. I got a... How is that a nice or charming guy?"

"I didn't say that," Xander denied. He hated seeing William so upset. It was nice that William was worried about him though.

"No, okay, Xan, what you said was..." William paced, trying to get his thoughts in order. "You said, 'He broke into my car, but he did it in a nice way.'" He looked back and forth between Xander and Oz clearly confused. "Maybe I'm not understanding."

"Okay, you know what?" Oz interfered afraid that things would get more out of hand than they already were. "Can we just..."

"Drop this?" Xander said as he looked directly at William. "This is obviously not a cute little game anymore. This has gone way too far."

Xander's phone suddenly rang and Beethoven's fifth suddenly played letting him know it was his mother. "Hi." "No, I'm not over there." "Okay, I'm coming." He shut off his phone. "It's my parents' anniversary, amazingly enough." Xander gave William a quick kiss. "Just drop this, okay? I'll call you later." He walked out not giving William a chance to say anything.

'This is Oz. Make it good.' Oz's voice mail came on when William called. "Oz, I did some research on Michaels' house, okay? I'm looking at the blueprints, and it says that when this house was first built, this main house and the garage weren't connected. And now there's this whole middle piece. That middle piece wasn't there. I mean, what would he need that for? I'm just thinking out loud. Call me back." William hung up his phone and looked down at the blueprints that lay across his desk.

In the dark, William sat in his video game chair and stared out at Michaels's house. He watched as the garage door opened. The silver Toyota was parked next to the Mustang. There was a light or two on inside Michaels's house but no sign of any movement.

William threw intermittent glances out the window as he started to unscrew the back of the DV cam. He lifted the back off, then reached in a nearby box and pulled out a Bluetooth wireless circuit board. He started connecting it inside the camera. William screwed the back of the camera on and took a swig of a soda.

There was suddenly a fierce knock on William's front door. William jumped from his chair and grabbed the bat. "Who is it?" He called through the door. No way was he making the same mistake and having the brats attack him again!

"It's Oz, man! Let me in!" Oz said frantically.

William opened the door and let Oz in. "Did you get my message?"

"No. Listen, I dropped my phone in his car!" Oz said frantically.

"Wait, wait, wait." William tried to get Oz to slow down.

"I went home, it wasn't in my pockets. I must have put it down when I was putting the thing back on." Oz explained waving his hands around.

William grabbed Oz's arms to stop him from flailing around. "Oz, I'll help you get your phone back. But you have to help me."

Oz shook his head. "Operation Stupid continues. I knew it."