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The mysterious man disappeared in a flash of blueish white lights. Xander stared after him, he had never seen anyone travel like that before. Then he saw that Kris was still walking and he hurried up to catch up with her. He came up to her by her side.

"Kris are you sure you're okay?" he asked concerned, she had nearly died after all.

"Other than the fact that I almost died, I'm peachy." she said annoyed.

"You sure?" she stopped and turned around to face him.

"Yeah okay, it's alarming to almost die and I'm probably going to need a little time to process that but I'll be fine."

"I am so sorry."

"Why?"

"I should have been there."

"Which one of us is the Slayer?"

"Sorry." he said again.

"Xander it's not your fault but I have to go. "She looked at him pleaded. "Please."

"Yeah, go, process, have a day off or two if you need to."

"Thanks I will." she smiled a sad smile and turned around and started heading back to base. Xander starred after her. He needed time to process as well but first things first he had to get his slayers back.

"Alright everybody time to go home." All his girls gathered up, they were home soon and Xander had dismissed them all for free time. Xander sighed and looked towards Kris's room he knew she needed time to process but he wanted to go in there and talk with her, but he decided instead to go to his room. He meant to go to his bed but detoured at the last moment to the computer they were home a little early and Buffy had told him this week she would available during this time period. That's exactly what he wanted to do, he couldn't talk to Kris so he would talk to Buffy. He logged on and looked to see if Buffy was available. Which she was her face filled the screen and Xander smiled or at least tried to he wasn't sure whether or not he was actually pulling it off. Buffy grinned back at him.

"Xander it's good to see you."

"I know we haven't talked in weeks."

"Yeah sorry I've been busy."

"Yeah me too."

"Xander are you okay?" he guessed whatever he was feeling showed on his face.

"It's just...Buffy I almost lost Kris today. We were on patrol and a demon got the drop on us… If it was not for the kindness of a stranger Chris I'd be setting up her funeral arrangements right now."

"I'm sorry Xander, but why exactly are you telling me to this?"

"I don't know, it's just hard to think about losing one of my girls." Xander decided to change the subject before he broke into tears or did something equally unmanly.

"Speaking of my girls how are you and Dawnster doing in Italy. Learning the language of love?" he waggled his eyebrows suggestively trying to distance himself from the incident that had just happened.

"I'll have you know that I'm not dating anyone right now and I'm not planning to
anytime in the near future."

"Well if you find that lucky guy make sure to tell me the news okay Buffy."

"Of course Xander," she looked behind her and gave him an apologetic smile "I have to go now but it was great to talk to you."

"Same here Buffy."

~.~

Chris was sitting on the couch looking at the television, but he wasn't watching it not really he was deep in thought so deep in thought he didn't notice when his dad turned off the television.

"You look like there's something on your mind." Chris jumped and starred at his dad he said.

"No!... okay maybe." he conceded. He liked to deal with his problem generally on his own but he hadn't found anything about it in the book of shadows and the best person to ask was his Dad. His Dad sat down next to him on the couch.

"I'm listening if you want to tell me."

"There's got to be what a thousand Chris's in the world."

"Yeah something like that." Leo replied not knowing where this going quite yet but trusting that Chris would elaborate.

"So why don't I hear people when they call for other Chris's ."

"Because you have to have a connection with your charges. Why are you asking me this Chris?"

"Just wondering." Chris said after a second or two in which he considered of telling him. Chris figured it was probably just a fluke and convinced himself that it would never happen again.

"Anyway I have to go check the book of shadows."

"Again isn't that what you were doing before dinner?"

"Yeah but I still have more research to do." Chris got up from the couch and started heading for the stairs.

"Chris." his dad called. Chris turned around.

"Remember balance is important, everything needs balance." Chris rolled his eyes and headed up the stairs again.

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