Spark of Genius
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy verse, Girl Genius verse, DC comics or any of the other smatterings of pop culture and literary ideas that I refer to in my story, I just tread through a few other sandboxes. Oh, and several names are made up, some are real, but the facts have been changed to protect the corrupt and innocent equally.
AN: Thanks for all the ideas, I think I've got it figured out what I want to do now. It's just going to take some research on my part to get it fleshed out. Something I find a bit humorous is when people step over the line from suggesting something to me and start telling me they know something is going to happen in the story. Just an FYI, but if you do that then chances are you are wrong or I'll make you wrong just to be contrary. I'm much crazier than you, and even if your level of insanity matches mine I'm sure my voices are different than yours. That's my version of 'My crazy voices can beat up your crazy voices, so there! Ptttttt!' With that zaniness out of the way, on with the show. Cheers!
AN: Small note on grammar. A reader of mine, from the UK, told me it was a pet peeve that I was putting two spaces after the period/hard-stop rather than one. I informed him that as an American attorney, we put two spaces after periods and one after commas as a common practice to denote the difference. Thought I would pass that on incase it was your pet peeve as well.
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Chapter 26: A Semi-Hero's Journey Begins
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes." ~Douglas Adams
The distinctive 'snap' 'hiss' and 'thrum' sounds of a light saber igniting was followed by the sound of Xander's yell of success. "Yes! It works. WA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Xander yelled in joy while whipping the red colored blade around him to the right and to the left.
It hummed to the right; it hummed to the left, then back to the right where it accidentally carved off the corner of the work bench that Xander had been working at.
"Uh, oops." Xander stated, but even the accidental carving through the solid steel workbench couldn't pry the big smile off Xander's face.
It had taken an hour or two, and there had been several accidents; as the scarred and holed metal walls of the lab clearly showed. However not even carving through a wall could stop the joy of the geek-gasm that Xander was experiencing; his happy giggles were interrupted by the occasional mad chortle.
The walls of the workshop were covered in carbon scoring and pitted by holes, and even as he whipped his blade back and forth he took a mental note, 'Do not look into the aperture of the blade when igniting.' Xander reminded himself, after having a near miss earlier. 'It's all fun and games until somebody stabs themselves in the brain.' He finished reminding himself, but even the possibility of dreadful bodily injury couldn't get Xander to stop giggling as he cut the air with the light saber and got used to spinning it around himself without losing an arm.
Alec walked into the room through the door that was behind Xander and stared as Xander proceeded to carve chunks of the work table into scrap with the red glowing blade of the light saber.
"Uh, Xander, it's time for dinner." The nature elemental mentioned; the former Swamp Thing was still not really one hundred percent comfortable with all of Xander's technological gadgets and gizmos, not after living in a swamp for the last ten years.
Xander turned to look at Alec Holland, and couldn't help but show off his new blade. "It works Alec! I actually got it to work." Xander exclaimed before devolving into geek babble. "Yeah sure it was a problem getting the light beam to taper enough to act like a blade rather than a blunt scorching weapon, and sure it wanted to just extend through the walls and straight on to infinity, but once again the Spark and Science triumphs over those pesky so called laws of nature. Wa Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Xander chortled, his head back, laughing towards the ceiling.
"Um yeah, that's um, great Xander. Now about dinner?" Alec started, making to turn and leave since he had delivered the message he had been asked to bring to Xander by the Xander's girls.
Xander held up his hand to stop Alec, "No No, wait, watch what I can do. I put nth metal nano-clanks in the handle, so that I can call it to my hand like the force, just watch." Xander said before tossing the still lit light saber towards a corner of the room.
It was only when the point of the still lit light saber impacted the ground and effectively drilled right through it to disappear through the floor that Xander realized that he might have made a mistake.
The hum sound disappeared into the ground, and Xander's eyes got large as he ran over towards the hole in the floor and looked down just as the handle of the blade disappeared into the room below. "Shit! Watch out below!" Xander yelled, before quickly calling a portal to bring him to the floor below.
Xander's portal opened up just in time for him to see the blade of the light saber singe through the backside of a tech that had been working at a chemistry hood under where the blade had disappeared. The shock of the injured person was enough to get Xander to miss his opportunity to grab the falling blade before it burned through the floor of the room there where in.
"AHHHHH!" Screamed the tech, who jumped up as his butt cheek was severed off.
"Ah, um, oops, um… I can fix that. Um, put some pressure on that." Xander said as he cringed, the sound of a muffled explosion then came from below.
"Uh sorry, but, uh, Got to go." Xander said as he stepped back into his portal to appear at the next level down.
Xander appeared only to see the tail end of the handle of the blade disappear through the floor again.
"Bugger!" Xander cursed before jumping back into the portal and appearing two floors down.
Stepping out of the portal Xander surveyed the ceiling, "Come to daddy, come to daddy… Ah ha! Got Ya!" Xander stated, waggling back and forth while waiting for the blade to come through the ceiling, ignored the sound of crashing glass from above, and then snapping his hand out to grab the handle of the saber as it finally appeared after burning through another floor of the castle.
"Whew, that was a close one." Xander said before clicking off the light saber and disappearing in a portal and reappearing in the room where he had left Alec.
"You were saying?" Alec stated, a smile creeping across the green man's face as he saw Xander enter with the turned off light saber.
"Uh yeah, anyway." Xander stated a bit chagrined and not so lost in his episode of mad genius any more. "Hey Bob, sorry about the walls and floor. I'll get those fixed, and could you please send a medical team to the floor beneath us; we seemed to have had a little accident."
Bob didn't answer, and Xander figured that the castle was a bit miffed about the damage. However Alec took the opportunity to tease Xander.
"Sure Xander, whatever you say, little accident all worked out and ready to go to dinner now?" Alec joked with Xander.
Xander looked a bit chagrined, but ended up just shrugging before rolling his light saber across the room, and then mentally contacting it with the nano-clanks in his mind.
The light saber handle rattled for a second on the floor, until it shot through the air and across the room to where it slapped right into Xander's outstretched hand. A quick mental command and the light saber was a blaze of red light that Xander then used his super speed to wield around him until it looked like a buzz saw was in Xander's hand. Xander ended it with a quick flip in the air over his spinning blade, using his flying powers and strength to propel him in an acrobatic move similar to what a Jedi would use, before flicking the switch to deactivate the blade.
Xander just smiled at Alec, "Now I'm finished." Xander stated with a smirk before walking back to one of the workbenches and attaching the light saber to what appeared to be a plain leather backpack.
"Show off. Are you ready to go to dinner now?" Alec said as he shook his head at Xander playing around with what was no doubt a deadly weapon.
"Yep, off to dinner we go." Xander said with a goofy grin as he threw the backpack over one shoulder and walked with Alec out the door.
"It's really not as hard as it looks." Xander explained what he had just done with the blade. "When I'm going that fast, it's like everything slows down until it's not moving and I can just sort of see the vectors and force allotments to use in order to get my hand and the blade to go where I want it." Xander stated as they moved through the hallways towards a stairway that lead up to the higher levels in the castle.
"I took a video of me moving with just the handle of a mop as an example to see what it would look like with the light saber, and if I don't let my mind and eyes slow the action down, I know it looks like a blur." Xander went on to explain, making hand gestures to show how slow the spinning appeared to his eyes when Xander got into that mode of movement.
Alec and Xander passed into a secret passage that was halfway up the stairway, and then entered an elevator that quickly shot to a floor near the top of the fortress.
"I really need to get a handle on it, but it seems that maybe I am doing the faster than a speeding bullet thing." Xander continued to expound on his learning to use his skills.
Xander shrugged as they walked out of the lift and down a hallway, and then around a corner. "I guess I'll just have to get out in the real world and experiment a bit with these abilities. Sure I could do it here at the castle, but I really don't want to break anything more." Xander stated.
"Ahem." The sound of Bob's voice echoed from around Xander and Alec as they walked down another long hallway.
"See? Bob would have a fit if I put more holes through his walls… well more walls than what is normal with all of our experiments." Xander quipped with a smirk on his face.
Alec just smiled back at his younger friend and shook his head at the normal insanity that surrounded Xander.
With that, the two pushed through the large intricately forged black metal double doors that opened up into the dining room.
Xander and Alec walked into a large dining room that had a long table running down the middle of it. For now the other members of Xander's little adopted family were all gathered at one end of the table, with the head of table open for Xander to sit at while Alec had a seat on the other side from Igor.
"Good evening Ladies, and Igor. Have we had a productive day today?" Xander quipped with a smile on his face.
The three younger ladies all smiled at each other again before turning a bit of a predatory smirk at Xander, and again he felt a bit of a trickle of cold run down his spine. Even Magda had a bit of a quirk to her lips, yet Igor was stoic faced as usual.
A little voice in the back of Xander's head started to whisper 'Danger! Danger Will Robinson, Danger!' But Xander just ignored it and discounted the thought as he would never understand women. He just smiled and set himself down in the head table.
As Xander sat flashes of light appeared over the table, and platters of meats, vegetables, rice, potatoes and bread appeared along with glasses and bottles of red wine. But before anybody could begin to dig into the food Xander held up his hand which caught the attention of the other's at the table.
"Before we begin, I just wanted to say thank you." Xander looked around at each person at the table in the eyes, "Thank you for helping me, and for helping us all to succeed. I couldn't do it without you." Xander stated with a sincere smile. The girls all smiled at Xander and then at each other, and Magda and Igor merely nodded in understanding.
With that Xander waved his hand at the food in a silent gesture for them to begin eating and then reached for the serving fork on a platter of prime rib that was in front of him before offering to hold the platter for Janna who was seated on Xander's left.
Janna's face lit up in a large smile and she replied, "Thank you Xander." But the way she said it made it come across as if she was thanking Xander for more than just holding a plate of meat for her.
Xander quirked an eyebrow up, "Um, your welcome." Xander stated, but just shook his head when Janna, Tara and Dora had all giggled.
'Again, I'll never understand women.' Xander thought before turning to look at Igor and Magda seated with Alec on his right hand side.
"How did the plans go? How much more do we have to go?" Xander questioned as he began to eat his meal.
"We have completed contingency plans ranging the gambit from Alien Abduction and Invasion through how to deal with Zatanna Zatarra. In fact many of our base plans already had a general outline for us to use based on Batman's contingency planning. We found it interesting that a majority of Batman's plans were actually targeting other heroes rather than the villains." Igor reported before taking another mouthful of food.
Magda filled in further details, "Your biggest problem was that you have neglected to deal with magical avenues of defense." She explained while taking a sip of red wine to wet her throat before continuing, "Clan Kalderash is offering our services in return for your services in reviving our deceased and for continued protection of the Clans." Magda said, steering her white eyes to stare at Xander. "I have communicated with the remaining Elders of the Clans, and we request sanctuary in your Empire. I ask this of you as the Elder Woman and only surviving Elder of Clan Kalderash and as a representative of the King of the Gypsies." Magda stated solemnly, waiting for Xander's reply.
Xander blinked, and it was in that instant of a blink that his thoughts held a debate and came to the conclusion that here was a great opportunity. Realizing that this was an important moment with all at the table staring at him to reply, Xander finished swallowing his food and then wiped his mouth with his napkin before setting it back in his lap.
Xander waited a moment to get the right words before he addressed Magda, "Clan Kalderash and the rest of the Gypsy clans will always be welcome in any lands that I control, and will be protected from the prejudices that normally follow your people. That's a given no matter what, as I would offer that to anybody and still feel sorry for the loss of your people." Xander stated and Magda nodded in agreement.
Xander took a sip of the water before him to give him a second's pause to phrase his next statement properly. "That said, what are you offering? If anything given that you premised your statement by drawing my attention to our weakness where magical and possibly occult attacks could come our way."
Magda slowly smiled as she replied, "Very good Leviathan." She stated, using Xander's title rather than name, "We knew you were smart enough to lead us." She continued before answering Xander's question, "The Clans offer to add protections to your empire's borders, to your person, and around your castle to protect you from attack, infiltration and scrying. Normally these are skills which are not used heavily by the Clans as we are never in one place long enough to set them up, and the fact that it is often the government that ends up chasing us off has led us to where we rarely offer our protections to the land we are staying in." Magda stated while steepling her fingers together and giving Xander a slight nod before turning to look at Janna.
"Janna will stay at your Castle to be our spokesperson. I hope she realizes the seriousness of this position and doesn't just concentrate on the potential for… fun, that could happen here." Magda said, turning her serious look towards her granddaughter.
Janna blushed and looked down for a second before looking up at Magda again with an understanding look, "Yes Grandmother, it will be as you say." Janna replied with a slight bow of her head.
Magda then turned her attention to Xander, "We will also try to help you better connect with your friends and our Clan in your original dimension. It will take the proper setting of the moon, but we will see what can be done." She added to Xander, inspiring him to light up with a large smile.
Xander just looked back and forth between Magda and Janna with a smile before shrugging, "Great. Now that that's settled, and don't think I don't appreciate it, how did RedTree do today?" Xander asked before finishing off his ten ounces of prime rib and helping himself to a large boar leg; the boars had been introduced to one of Alec's forests.
Xander savored the flavor of the roasted boar, as he had found himself enjoying the flavor of the meat a lot more since he had joined with the Primal in his actions against the mercenaries. A slight flash of light in a chair on the other side of the silently eating Alec drew Xander's attention down the table.
A digital representation of a seated Willow appeared at the table, where she appeared to be munching on a plate of digital food; sans boar as she was Jewish after all.
"Everything went great," came the bubbly answer from the hologram of RedTree. "You should have seen Batman's face when he went to add details about Superman to his contingency plans and found the note telling him that he had been a naughty boy for keeping the plans after he had been told to delete them." Red stated with a smirk before giggling. "He's currently tearing the entire system apart to try and figure out how it was accessed, but he'll never find me." She finished with another laugh.
Xander's smirk was mirrored by those around the table, "Good job Red." Xander answered with a smirk. "Old Bruce could use with some chaos in his life; it's about the only thing I agree with the Joker about." Xander stated, before cringing and shivering at the thought of clowns.
'I hate clowns!' A little boy's voice in the back of Xander's head stated, and all he could do was mentally agree.
Alec finished eating a bit of cooked spinach before patting his mouth with his napkin and turning to question Xander. "Have you decided where you will be heading for first on your trip tomorrow?"
Xander tipped his head to the side for a second before shrugging towards the nearest shoulder, "Nah, not really. I figured I'd start towards Turkey and test out my speed running on the way there." Xander explained. "Other than seeing some of the sites that Giles told me about in Istanbul, I'll just work my way west. Perhaps following the Silk Road, or I'll just let the winds guide me." He finished before pushing his plate away from himself.
Looking around Xander noted that everybody else was finished with their dinners, and the three girls had gone through more than a bottle of wine between the three of them; the looks they gave Xander still gave him that brief chill down his spine.
Xander gave a mental shrug and turned to face everybody, "Well I really appreciate the send off dinner. I'm going to do some reading in my room before bed. Got an early morning tomorrow." He said with a smile before pushing back from the chair.
Igor and Magda gave Xander a little nod, while Alec wished Xander a good night and Xander replied in kind. The three girls just all smiled at Xander with big predatory grins, the type that had Xander's danger sense calling for a portal to his room quickly.
WARNING LOVE SCENE, DANGER, DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER
The lights were turned down and only two bed side sconces let light around Xander's large red satin and silk sheathed bed. He had kept a lot of the red and black colors in the room, much to his chagrin as the ladies wouldn't let him decorate the room to look like his Hawaiian shirts. Still, Xander had ended up agreeing that he liked the plush wallpaper, wood paneling, and deep carpet that made the room really feel like a sanctuary where he could go to leave some of his troubles behind in.
Xander sat up in bed against the headboard without his shirt on, his nano-clothing assuming the form of sleeping pants that were under the sheets. Xander was enjoying reading propped up in his bed, deeply involved in the latest mechanical engineering theories that one of his engineers had written up while simultaneously reading through a doctoral thesis on string theory for a little light reading. The temperature in the room was perfect for rest and sleep if just slight chilly; but it didn't bother Xander with his upgraded body capacities.
Just as Xander closed the last page on the string theory paper the lights in his room turned off and the door into his room opened.
Xander's head shot up, and he saw the shadowy outline of a feminine figure, backlit by the soft light of the hallway. The silhouette had one bare foot leg bent slightly to the side and crossed behind the ankle of the other, and the sheer nightgown that the girl wore allowed Xander to clearly see her curves through the fabric, even as the fabric hinted at the sparkles of light filtering through its silky material.
'I might not understand woman, but they are truly the most gorgeous beings in the world if not the universe.' Xander thought to himself as he silently looked and smiled at perfection of curves and softness formed standing in the doorway across from him, her dark hair hiding her face and caressing the tops of her shoulders.
Xander's smiled and his eyes twinkled. "I do believe you joining me would be more enjoyable than any reading I could ever find my dear. Why don't you close the door and come to bed?" Xander offered as he set the reading material on the bedside stand and then held a hand out to woman in the door.
The girl in the door hesitated, only closing the door and moving through the brief beams of moonlight towards the bed after Xander's deep caring voice said, "Come Tara, let me make love to you one more time before I leave for my trip."
The brunette beauty's hair and pale skin glowed in the moonlight, and the beams of silver light both sparkled on her nightgown while showing hints of the exquisite flesh that was underneath it.
Walking almost hesitantly across the room the girl's hand slid softly into Xander's outstretched hand, and he carefully pulled her towards him while using his other hand to lift the covers of the sheets and covers to give her entrance into Xander's bed.
The sound of silk on silk slid through the air as she entered the bed and found Xander's arms softly wrap around her and urge her to his side as he covered them over with the blanket.
Xander drew the soft perfection into his arms and kissed the girl on up her jawline before grazing a kiss to her forehead before meeting her lips.
Lips that matched the feeling of the velvet that they slept on met Xander's masculine mouth while a hand tentatively cupped his strong jawline.
Their lips toyed with each other before his tongue briefly flicked over her lips, seeking entry and gaining it as she tentatively touched tongues with him, tapping and softly caressing each other in that intimate imitation of life's oldest dance.
Xander's hand draped down the fabric of her nightgown and found her bare cheek where he pulled her thigh to wrap her leg around him while she gasped as his knee and thigh softly slid across her core.
Xander felt the beauty in his arms gasp and then moan into his lips as their tongues toyed with each other. She tasted of the earthy tones of red wine and a hint of mint that tasted different than Tara normally did, but the feeling of her body was the same magnificence that he had experienced with her in the past so allowed their passion to continue to grow.
Nips and deep kissing where he nipped her lip and she sucked on his bottom lip devolved into him straying to kiss down her chin and then the curve of her neck while she lightly bit his ear and then gave it a lick that caused goose bumps to rise up his cheek.
Xander continued his campaign of kisses, nibbles and licks down to her collar bone, causing gasps and hisses of pleasure to release in feminine moans that encouraged his trip down her body while at the same time mentally commanding his nano-clank pants to go anywhere else but on his body.
Xander's hands graced up the sides of her body, lifting her nightgown to her shoulders and then over her head quickly before they rejoined each other at the lips. Their language was that of gasps and moans, the language of want of give and take. That dance that couples had joined through the annals of time.
Again Xander traced his way in kisses down her neck and towards her chest while her hands trailed through his hair and then briefly clawed his back as her neck bridged backwards in a silent wide eyed scream when his lips met her nipple and gave it a brief suckle.
Xander smirked, 'I might not understand woman, but I love their bodies.' Xander thought before draping kisses down the valley of her chest and then getting a similar reaction when he licked, circled and then suckled her other nipple.
Drawing a gasp, Xander smiled and continued his downward path over her belly to her hips, and then softly drew apart her thighs as he slid his shoulders and head down to kiss into the hidden treasure below.
Licking over her lips, Xander was rewarded with her inhalation of breath and he smiled as he proceeded to bring his tongue up lightly pressing against her lips with the flat of his tongue before dipping down to briefly press it inside and then lightly flick her clit.
The true brunette gasped and moaned, shaking her head back and forth as Xander continued to flick and play her like an instrument, her fingers were buried in his hair or were constantly moving as they caressed his shoulders or clenched his head when something Xander did felt particularly good.
Xander just smiled, the reactions he was getting in reply to his actions were not only good for his ego they made him stiff as he enjoyed giving her pleasure.
Smirking a bit more, Xander thought to himself, 'Well, they wanted me to try to get used to my powers. Let's see if my tongue has super speed also.' With that, Xander set the tip of his tongue against her clit and flicked it once, then twice experimentally, smirked to himself, and then went into super speed flicking her clit.
The reaction was instantaneous, as her thighs clamped around Xander's head and she started flailing about as she literally bridged her back off the bed as her orgasm hit her.
Her hands were grasping the sheets, and her unseeing eyes were staring wide eyed towards the ceiling as she wailed out a scream of ultimate pleasure, her orgasms literally causing her body to be wracked with spasms as she bridged up off the bed.
Xander held on tightly and continued to lick her at super speed, making her ride from one torrential orgasm to another for five straight minutes. Finally she let out one more high pitched scream and then fell limp to the bed.
Xander immediately stopped and blurred up the bed to where he checked the pulse of the limp unconscious beauty in his arms. Her hair was strewn about, covering what parts of her face he could see in the brief bits of moonlight that filtered into the room; and if it wasn't for his exceptional primal gifted senses he probably wouldn't have been able to see anything at all with the lack of real light in the room.
"Come on, come on darling, are you ok?" Xander stated as he quickly wiped his own lips before brushing her hair out of the way so that he could kiss her softly.
Slowly Xander saw dark eyes flicker open, and then was surprised by the strength of the girl as her arms wrapped around Xander's head and pulled him into a scorching kiss while at the same time she moaned a long drawn out purr like "mmmmmmmm."
Xander smiled as he kissed back, both thankful that she was ok as well as enjoying the renewed passion.
Her arms pulled him in close, and her legs wrapped around Xander, drawing him close to her.
He briefly pulled back, and felt himself align with her core, before slowly pushing forward and sliding in to sheath himself within her warmth.
Xander shivered as he felt her slide over and around his length, the slow pace drawing out the pleasure for both man and woman.
Xander was wrapped in her feminine curves, and he felt the sweat from her body wet against his chest as he slowly slid out and then back into her. Her slightly salty taste was in his mouth as he bit her neck and she in turn moaned and cried out in ecstasy almost deafening his ear.
Xander growled deep in his throat as the feelings of pleasure grew with each thrust, and those primal urges to take his mate and claim her raged through his body causing him to thrust strongly into her; yet Xander still kept himself in check, not wanting to slip and hurt her by using his superior strength since his girls were only human.
And still the dance continued, she wrapped around him, digging her nails into his back as he licked nibbled and dueled with her tongue while she moaned, screamed, whimpered and continued to cling to him.
The thrusts built in intensity, and the pleasure rose in both of them until they couldn't contain it any longer. Xander's body slapped into her before quickly withdrawing as both of them clawed ever higher towards their onrushing orgasm.
It hit like a lightning bolt, pushing Xander over the line of his control and she felt him swell inside her as he growled and latched his teeth onto the side of her throat as to muffle his yell as he thrust once more into her and exploded in orgasmic wonder.
His swelling inside her was enough to push her over the edge for another orgasm, and this climax came with the force of a flash flood or a mountain storm; lights exploding behind her eyes as her body shook as if it was battered by the winds of their passion. Their climax together was a thing of beauty as they panted and purred together, her scream rasping her throat as she unconsciously attempted to make him go deaf in his left ear.
His pants were matched by her pants.
Her moans were matched by his groans of pleasure.
And with a last shake and a shimmy, the last vestiges of their dance played out, and she allowed one of her legs to collapse to the bed where he pulled her in a roll so that she was draped over him; her hair strewn over his shoulder where he could catch his breath and stare blindly up into the dark ceiling yet keep her wrapped around him.
END LOVE SCENE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK
Their lovemaking ended in cuddles where words weren't needed, and he kissed her ear one more time before he felt sleep claiming him.
As she shivered from his kiss, Xander swore he heard her say, "Thank you Hero."
However sleep quickly claimed them and Xander knew no more until morning.
As seven thirty A.M. rolled around, the window shades that Bob had closed on Xander's windows after he had fallen asleep opened automatically and caused beams of light to slowly grow across the floor towards the bed; keeping pace with the rising curtains.
As the sun warmed his body and the change in his environment slowly brought Xander awake, he smiled and leaned over to kiss the lovely Tara who was in his arms, only to plant a kiss on the lips of the girl who had slept all night with him yet wasn't Tara.
Xander blinked.
Then Xander blinked again, and rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming.
'Nope, Janna is still in my arms, I wasn't mistaken.' Xander thought rationally for a second.
One second passed.
Another second passed.
And finally the alarm bells started ringing in his head, 'AWOOOGA! AWWWOOOOOOOGGAA! Warning! Warning, potential for Gypsy curse being sent at your family jewels imminent! Repeat, this is not a test, you really did have sex with the granddaughter of the clan elderwoman. AWOOOOGGGAAA AWOOOOGAA!'
Xander's eyes shot wide open, and he dodged out of the bed in a blur where he grabbed his pants that had been on the floor and pulled them up to cover his privates.
Looking down at the bed, he saw the partially uncovered form that was a mirror of his computer teacher's. 'That's it. I'm officially going to get killed by Magda.' Xander thought as he noticed the definite hicky/bite mark on the bridge of Janna's neck.
Janna yawned and her eyes fluttered open to stare up at Xander standing beside the bed looking down at her.
"Xander… come back to bed. I'm cold." She whined cutely and spread her arm out towards him and opened and closed her hand several times like she was trying to grab him.
"Uh, Janna, I think I'm going to get in enough trouble with your grandmother as it is without getting back into the bed." Xander said hesitantly as plans to flee the country shot through his head.
Janna frowned before fully opening her eyes and looking at Xander, "The only angry gypsy woman you need to worry about is me if you don't come back to bed and warm me up." Janna said with a slight glare that reminded Xander of Cordelia.
Xander gulped, and quick as a wink he was back under the sheets and lying stiffly under the blankets.
Janna smiled and scooted closer so she could drape a leg over Xander's hip and laid her head on his shoulder and looked up at him. With a smirk she said, "There you go, much better."
Xander just looked down at her, still with a bit of a scared look on his face before swallowing. "Just to be clear, you and me last night, we um…" Xander asked, leaving the last part unsaid.
Janna's smile turned into a mirror of that when the cat ate the canary, "Yep, and it was wonderful." She purred before rubbing her naked inner thigh up his leg and across his manhood.
Xander's periscope started to ascend against the orders of the superior officer in his large head, but in the back of his mind the little voice had started a conga line and was chanting, 'Harem, harem, Harem Yeah!' The voice called out before kicking out a leg, then chanted 'Harem Harem Harem Ya!' The little voice was joined by Xander's sense of adventure, the wild side, subconscious, and the Primal was the caboose on the tail end, but probably only because the little voice was handing out rum to those who joined the conga line.
All in all, Xander couldn't get himself to worry too much with Janna's naked torso lying on top of him while her leg caressed his growing appendage.
Xander's smile grew across his face, and he bent down and kissed her tenderly.
When he came up for air he looked her in the eyes and said, "Thank you, it was wonderful. The only question I have though, is why?" He asked at the end, raising an eyebrow as he gave her a hug and rolled sideways to face her.
Janna bit her lip and looked down for a second before looking back up into Xander's eyes and answering, "It's because you saved me." She stated clearly to him.
Xander started to protest, having seen her die in his arms, but her finger against his lips stopped him from saying anything more.
"I know you think you messed up, and that I died along with several of my family members, but the reality is that you came for me and saved me from a fate worse than death, and in the end you even saved me from death." She stated sincerely before removing her hand and giving Xander a deep kiss.
When she pulled back from him, Xander finally interjected, "I still think I don't deserve your thanks," he started to say, but her frown and glare quickly stopped him from continuing that statement. Xander smiled slowly and finally answered, "You're welcome, but you didn't have to do this…" He wanted to articulate, only for her to interrupt him again with a kiss and then draw back with another smile.
"I wanted to." Janna quipped, giving Xander a playful smirk, "You might not know it Xander, but you're a hunk, and add that to your kindness and the fact that you are fun and exciting to be around, and what girl wouldn't want to jump your bones?" She answered.
Xander was feeling so good at that statement that even the voice of doubt in the back of his head that reminded him of Buffy was quickly pummeled into silence by the little voice and the rest of the conga line, leaving Xander just smiling at Janna.
"Thank you." Xander said sincerely before bending down to kiss her.
Janna kissed him back, pulling in close and wiggling herself against Xander, getting his motor running and seriously turning him on as she squirmed all over him.
Then like a switch was flipped, Janna jumped out of bed and sashayed towards the door, leaving a jaw dropped Xander staring after her.
"But uh… But uh… But… What was that!" Xander asked in exasperation as Janna grabbed and clothed herself with a robe that he hadn't noticed had been dropped by the door.
Janna just smirked and turned to look at Xander flirtatiously over his shoulder, "Dora and Tara said that the best way to encourage a Heterodyne male was to get them turned on and then leave them wanting. We figured you would remember to return to us in one piece if this was your last memory." Janna said with a wink, and with that she walked out the door and closed it behind her; leaving a stunned Xander behind.
Xander's jaw was still open wide stunned, but it slowly closed and turned into a smile.
Xander blew out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding before muttering, "Those little minxes." He said to himself, but he wouldn't have it any other way.
Giving himself a shake and a shiver, Xander threw off the sheets and mentally got his brain back on task with getting ready for his trip.
Nano-clank clothing was donned and the backpack with his light saber was loaded up with extra pairs of the ever-changeable clothing along with a few thousand pounds worth of odds and ends to cover a myriad of different circumstances that might come up or in case Xander had the urge to tinker and needed a few spare parts. Surprisingly or not so surprisingly given the nature of his normal belt pouches and pockets, none of the thousands of pounds of oddly shaped knick-knack paddy-whacks and widgets that were thrown into the bag caused said backpack to bulge in any way. To an outside viewer it would simply be a mostly empty school bag that might as well contain a few text books or perhaps a simple change of clothes.
Looking himself in the mirror, bright orange Hawaiian shirt open over a black tight t-shirt and jeans with hiking boots and a light saber clipped to the side of his bag, Xander thought he was ready to go.
Xander smiled at his image before turning and mentally ordering a portal to open up and deposit him on the front doorstep of his castle.
Turning back around towards the castle, Xander gave it a jaunty wave and said, "See you later Bob."
Bob answered back from an external speaker, "Safe travels Xander, have fun, and don't do anything I wouldn't do." The last part was said with a joking tone.
Xander just smiled and gave a little salute, and then in a flash he was gone like a blur running top speed heading south west through the Romanian countryside.
Xander had only gone fifty miles in the few seconds since he had left, but he was starting out slow and trying to see how fast he could go. However already he was learning some problems with moving at.
Super speeds.
"Ow Ow Ow." Xander said as he came to a stop and slowly felt along the sides of his ribs and his lower back where his shirt had been snapping against him due to the force of the wind caused by his speed.
Xander flinched as his healing factor fixed the slight bruising that had been caused by his nano-clank Hawaiian shirt whipping against him. "Cordelia couldn't do it, but apparently moving at fast speeds is going to have me giving up on the baggy Hawaiian shirts." Xander groused to himself while mentally ordering the Hawaiian shirt to blur into a tight long sleeved black shirt that hugged him almost like a second skin. Xander's jeans became more form fitting yet remained loose enough for movement.
Taking a big breath and letting it out, Xander set one foot out in front of the other, and then slowly began jogging, then running, then sprinting until the landscape was again blurring in comparison to him.
'Faster' Xander thought to himself, and he picked up the pace more as the blur around him became brief hints of trees and mountains that were gone almost as fast as he saw them.
'Faster!' Xander thought again as he picked up even more speed, still not feeling like he had hit his peak, so speeding up more as the southern coast of Romania and the Black Sea seemed to come up on him in a flash.
'Here goes nothing' Xander thought while mentally crossing his fingers.
And with that thought, Xander's foot stepped off of dry ground and hit the water… followed by the other foot, and then the next foot, until Xander realized that he was already a mile out to into the middle of the Black Sea sprinting at speeds only matched by The Flash.
"WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!" Xander's scream of joy was swallowed by the wind as he first started running in a straight line out into the sea, only to dodge around a tanker ship and then start zigzagging across the ocean as he just played around with the fact that he could run so fast that the surface tension of the water actually kept him afloat.
Xander was a black blur that almost seemed like a ghost as he traveled by so fast; there would be several sailors on the Baltic Sea who drank a few extra drinks as they swore they had witnessed one of the ghosts of the deep whip by.
Xander was having a blast but he was on an adventure and he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, so he decided to see if Istanbul had anything good to eat.
AN: Another chapter up, and Xander is on his way to learning his skills and seeing the world. I'm pretty sure that there is a rule somewhere that states that road trips require at least one hallucinogenic and or drunken episode as well as the occasional instance when the car goes off a cliff and everybody screams as they plummet towards what looks like inevitable doom. But eh, this is Xander; that stuff is mild compared to what Murphy and the winds of chaos have in store for our friend. I know this chapter was a bit of a filler, but if I put in the part about Istanbul I would have to wait until the vertigo went away, and then it wouldn't be posted until next week. Well anyway, no poll this week as I think I have the ideas that I was looking for. If you enjoyed it, let me know. Cheers!