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He was looking at the book of shadows again, another lead on his demon. Did that make it the 7th or 8th lead he was chasing down? He shook his head and got back to flipping pages. How was it that he didn't have the book memorized by now? He heard someone sit down by him, he waited for the person to speak but they seemed intent of staying silent. Chris looked up and saw Julie.

Julie had been a friend of their family since he and Julie were 5 and his family had saved her mom and her from demons. Julie had light blond hair pulled back into a ponytail, green eyes, her complexion was light and would have been flawless except for the light mole on her left check.

It had been awhile since he had talked to Julie, when they were kids they had been pretty close, they had even gone out for awhile. After they had broken up they hadn't really talked as much as they had before they had gone out or before then. Still it wasn't awkward when they did talk, he was just able to pretend like they hadn't gone out and they were still just friends. Julie looked at him embarrassed then then looked down at her feet, Chris looked down at the book again, if Julie wasn't ready to talk yet, he was going to work on finding the Lorinax demon while she got ready.

"Hey Chris."

"Hey Julie."Chris said without looking up, there was a short pause then Julie asked.

"What'cha doing?" she said trying and failing to sound nonchalant.

"Looking for a Lorinax demon." Chris pried his eyes from the book "Do you know anything about them?" she shook her head and said apologetically.

"Can't say that I do sorry." Chris looked back at the book and flipped past another few pages.

"Yeah I know it's here somewhere, I'm just having a little trouble finding it is all."

"Do you need help?" Julie asked.

"No...I just..." Chris looked up at her" do you want to help?" Chris asked confused.

"I just I...feel like your working too hard Chris." Chris rolled his eyes and looked back at the book of shadows.

"Which member of my family asked you to do this?"

"Most of them, separately, I told them I was no good at this kind of thing and that your probably see right through me because I would make some stupid mistake, but did they listen to me no they didn't."

"Tell them I appreciate the concern but I'm fine." Chris said while still flipping the pages of the book

"You do look like your working too hard. Your eyes have circles underneath them and do you do anything beside hunt demons and work?" her voice sounded concerned and Chris looked up and her face was concerned as well.

"I watch TV, read books" he said defensively then added "I made a new friend." she didn't seem to believe him on the friend from the look on her face.

"Yeah they told me that too. They've also told me they've never seen this friend of your and one or two of them think you've made him up." Chris frowned and looked up at Julie.

"Why would I make him up?"

"To get people like me to stop bugging you."

"Julie your not bugging me." Chris said with a smile.

"So maybe instead of so much demon hunting, you go have a cup of coffee with me."she put her hands up at the look on his face "I promise none of your family put me up to this."

"Julie I would love to, but I can't right now got find the Lorinax Demon...rain check?"

"Yes but you better buy." she said with a smile that told her that he better hold up his end of the deal.

"Sure I'll buy I'll even get you a cookie or something." Chris promised.

"I can't wait." she turned around then back to him "And Chris...don't work too hard you don't want to burn out at 22."

"I'll try to take it easy." Chris said but mostly just to reassure her, he would take it easy just as soon as he found out what was killing the witches and he took it out and not a minute before.

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Xander was lying in bed starring at his textured ceiling, trying to get the energy to pull himself out of bed after having taken a nap. He heard the soft jingling sound that indicated that Chris was orbing in. Xander looked up and saw his suspicion confirmed in the form of Chris standing there in front of him looking angry, and also really worn. His eyes had deep circles underneath them indicating Chris was not sleeping nearly enough. He looked thinner then usual and just really worn. Xander pulled himself into a sitting position.

"Chris you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah why?" Chris snapped.

"You don't look like your sleeping well." Chris rolled his eyes and looked annoyed at him.

"Not you too."

"When's the last time that you slept?" Xander asked concerned.

"I can't sleep, not until I find it." Chris said and started pacing. Xander got up out of bed, Xander could practically feel the irritation, worry, anxiety and anger rolling off Chris.

"What happened?" asked concerned about what got Chris all riled up like this. At his words Chris started pacing even faster.

"It attacked one of my charges and hurt her pretty bad, I barely got there in time to stop it and it got away, she nearly died."

"Chris, sleep deprivation is not going to help you, it's only going to hurt you make your ability to absorb information even harder." Chris shook his head vigorously.

"You don't understand, I can't sleep, I've tried but every time I close my eyes all I can see it attacking my charge."

"Did you check the book of shadows?" he asked finding it funny that even though he had never seen the book, Chris described it and talked about it enough he felt like knew what it looked like. Chris let out a snort.

"Yeah only about a million times."

"Did you talk to your family?'

"Yeah I talk to Wyatt, my mom, my Dad none of them knows what this thing is."

"What'd it look like?" Xander asked even though it was most likely Chris's type of monster it there was a small chance that it was his kind of monster.

"It looked human like most of my demons do. He was a man with brown hair and dark eyes, the only power I saw him use was telekinesis but that can't be all he had if his been killing so many witches. I spent 3 hours looking for him in book of shadows before my mom caught me and told me to go to bed." Xander smiled, he had never met Chris's mother but he was envious of Chris's relationship with her. He was also envious of his relationship with his father and brother.

He wished his relationship with his parents was like that, instead of not even knowing if they were alive or dead. After Sunnydale fell Xander had never been able to find his parents again. He kept meaning to ask Willow to help him find them but they hadn't talked much since his failed wedding. It had never seemed very urgent and part of him didn't care if he ever saw them again. They hadn't exactly been the greatest parents in the world. He shook his head he didn't want to think about his parents right now.

"Wyatt asleep," Xander snapped his attention back to Chris.

"So again, I'm the only who's awake." Xander said but smiled to tell him he was only joking, the smile faded "You really don't look good."

"As soon as I find the demon everything will be fine." Xander could tell that he was telling himself that as much as he was telling Xander.

"You've been saying that since I've met you."

"Well it will." Chris said stubbornly.

"Chris you can't focus if you don't sleep, and if you can't focus you are just going to get yourself and anyone around you hurt."

"Look if I want to be lectured I can go home and get lectured!" Chris shouted angrily.

"Chris you're my friend, I don't want to see you get yourself hurt because you weren't thinking clearly."

"I'm fine!" Chris shouted then sunk into one of Xander's desk chairs and looked down at his legs so that Xander couldn't see his eyes.

"You know how to hunt smart and you know that to do that you need to sleep, so if you need to take some pills or a potion or something."

"What if someone gets hurt while I'm sleeping." Chris asked softly, Xander sighed.

"What is it that your family says? You can't save everyone, and you can't save anyone if you get yourself killed in the process." Chris shook his head and Xander geared himself up for another round when Chris orbed out. Xander glared at the ceiling.

"You had better be going to sleep Chris or the next time I see you I'm going to kick your ass, for orbing out on me." he yelled. Damasi came into the room looking at him alarmed.

"Sorry Chris was here and he left." he said then noticed that he had actually managed to say it in her language. She looked at him surprised and he felt surprised himself.

"Did you...did you actually understand me?" he asked her. Damasi nodded her head and a smile split Xander face.

"That's great, that's really wonderful, that's great." he said blabbering and Damasi smiled at him as well. At least one good thing came from today, he just hoped that Chris wasn't going to get himself killed, that would really put a damper on his night.

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