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Xander had since tried to maintain a little distance from Kris trying his best his best to keep their relationship from falling into territory that they shouldn't' venture into. He was studying demonology books in a dead language. He had decided recently rather then being bored most of the time, and leaving himself open to problems with Kris he would spend part his time learning the language of the region along with some dead languages. He had never been into kind of outside learning before other then things that related to his job. He guessed languages sort of related to his job now. Still for some reason the ancient language seemed a lot easier to learn then the African ones for some reason. It was probably because as a kid in high school he had looked through ancient language books before, although he hadn't really know much about what any of them actually said. He was looking at one the books when a blue light came in. Xander looked up with surprise.

"I didn't call Kris." he told the other Chris.

"I know, I just I work at a night clue it's early in the morning there and.."

"I'm the only person you know that's up at this time." Xander finished for him. Chris shrugged.

"Pull up a chair." Xander said gesturing to the chair next to him at the desk. Chris did as requested.

"What are you doing?"

"Studying language." Chris looked surprised.

"Cool...do you mind if I ask why?" Xander shrugged.

"Not much to do here and I decided to do something to improve my mind."

"Cool... one day I'll go back to school." Chris added, Xander looked up and Chris said. "Demon hunting kind of made it hard to study."

"I never did the college thing...didn't really have the grades." he smiled self deprecating. "I did try to do a road trip after high school couldn't get past Oxnard. Engine fell out of my car."

"Ouch."

"Do you own a car I mean with your whole orbby thing?"

"Yeah I share it with my brother, along with my apartment." Xander smiled.

"Your pretty close with your brother aren't you?" Chris smiled as well.

"Yeah he's pretty awesome but don't tell him that he already has an already overinflated ego."

"Since I can't leave Africa I doubt there much danger of that happening."

"How long do you have to stay here?"

"7 more months, then we give them the choice to go back to their families or come with us to America."

"How many slayers are there?" Xander shrugged.

"Well a lot from all over there's just a remarkably low numbers in Africa, it seems like everywhere else they're much larger in number."

"Why wait why not just take them now?"

"Some of them don't want to leave Africa it's bad enough to be out of their own countries and they want to at least stay here. The school's in England and in Cleveland are both overcrowded as it is so we set up shop here."

"Huh."

"What is it like to have power?" Xander asked it was a question he had wanted to ask for awhile. Chris shrugged.

"I don't know, I mean I've had power all my life and my aunt and cousins do too."

"How big of a family do you have?" Xander asked.

"I have 2 aunts and 2 uncles and 9 cousins." Xander eyes widened slightly.

"Wow big family."

"How about you?" Xander didn't really want to talk about his family and decided to gloss over it.

"Mom and Dad and a Uncle Rory who never got married and no cousins." Chris seemed to notice that he didn't like talking about them and moved on.

"Anyways it always seemed well maybe not normal but like natural I guess. I mean we're not really supposed to use our powers just for our enjoyment but we all do once in awhile Wyatt more then anyone else", Xander heard a little spite in there.

"Sibling rivalry?" he guessed.

"Apparently it started when I was born. Wyatt kept on orbing me everywhere because I was getting all the attention that was before my powers came."

"Mean." Chris shrugged.

"He was 2, he didn't understand why I was getting all the attention." he had never had to deal with sibling rivalry, he had wanted to, he had begged his parents to have another child after him but just him was too difficult for them. "Wyatt's always been more powerful then me he apparently had a personal shield from birth. First born are the most powerful."

"Damn, so birth order matters in the world of magic?"

"Yep."

"Are your cousins all half whitelighter- elder too?"

"No I have two Aunt's Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige. Aunt Paige married a human and her kids are half witch and whitelighter and half human, she had twins girls and boy. My Aunt Phobee married a cupid."

"A cupid?" Xander asked everyday with Chris it seemed like he found out another thing existed that he hadn't known about before. Chris nodded,

"Yeah a cupid, they're kids are half witch half cupid and she had three girls all obsessed with love and match making."

"Have they?" Xander left the quesiton hanging.

"They tried once, they'll never try again." Chris answered with a smile on his face, a smile which said that maybe he didn't want to know what he had done in retaliation. Xander found himself wanting to talk about his family as well, only the family members in question weren't blood related.

"I have two friends that I'm really close to Willow and Buffy. I've known Willow since kindergarten and Buffy since Sophomore year in high school, Buffy is the slayer and for a time the only slayer. She opened me and Willow's eyes to the supernatural. If she hadn't we probably would have ended up our school paper's obituary section.

"Your school paper had an obituary section?" Chris asked shocked. Xander shrugged, Sunnydale was the only place he had been schooled in his life, his Jr. high school had also had an obituary section. In fact it took him awhile even after realizing the truth to realize that it was strange to have a school obituary section.

"It was on a Hellmouth and most people no matter how many times they met supernatural creatures refused to believe in them, and it got a lot of people killed and even after some knew it still killed them." Xander said and flashed to all the people who hadn't survived high school and those who had died later. Cordy, Kendra, Anya,

"You've dealt with a lot of death haven't you." Chris said. Xander nodded looking at the floor. That's not what he was hoping to relive tonight.

"I'm sorry." Chris said sympathetically, Xander forced a smile that he didn't feel.

"Thanks." he said.

"So.. you into sports?" Xander smiled gratefully for the change of subject. He had been back when Jesse...no he wasn't going down that path again.

"Not so much lately,"Xander said shaking his head "... been more into the saving the world thing."

"Yeah me too, why watch a ball when you can kill a demon." Chris said and Xander smiled for real this time. "Although if I did want to use personal gain I can go sneak into a game." Xander smiled that was awesome.

"You can just orb in?" Chris smiled back.

"Concerts too, I try not to because it's personal gain but sometimes you just have to."

"Maybe after I done with my shift in Africa me and you can sneak into a Dodger's game." Chris shook his head and Xander frowned, why not?

"We're going to a Giants game." Xander laughed, he didn't care where they went so long as there were no responsibilities tied to it. He was starting to get a little a little tired of always being in charge. Of always having to have the plan of always resolving everything that was wrong.

"Sounds like a plan." he said with a smile and they continued talking into the night.

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