Chapter 6: August 16, 2013 – Leo

Chapter Summary: **The 'Real Family' Part of the 2013 LiveJournal's Twisted Shorts FaD** series. Some old family ties are discovered.

Timeline: AU for BtVS; pre-season 4 for Charmed; post-series for TIH, but change the dates so they line up.

Challenge: for the livejournal 2013 August Fic-a-Day Challenge.

A/N: Canon change in that I believe Leo didn't have any children, but for the sake of this story, he had a daughter he didn't know about. I'm just going to keep calling 'David' by the Marvel canon name of Bruce. If you have any suggestions for family members, please let me know.

Disclaimer: BtVS/AtS characters belong to Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy. Charmed characters belong to Constance M. Burge and the WB. The Incredible Hulk was based on characters by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; the executive producer was Kenneth Johnson. I claim no rights to any copyrighted material. Please do not copy or take this story without my permission.

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The Halliwell sisters were enjoying a relatively quiet week – supernaturally-wise – for once. There was no major demon after them…other than the general threat of the Source, just the basic demons to vanquish. As soon as Phoebe mentioned that, Piper shook her head and said, "How strange is our life that any kind of demons could be considered ordinary?"

"I'll just be glad when we find out a way to stop the Source for good," Prue grumbled. She hated living with what felt like a death sentence hanging over their heads.

Leo came back with their drinks and heard Prue's comment. "If anyone can do it, it would be you three," he said with obvious pride and faith in his voice.

As he handed Phoebe her iced tea, their hands brushed against each other, sending her into a premonition. "A girl and a man being attacked in a cemetery!" she hissed softly as she watched it happen. "He's unconscious and she's fighting what looks like vampires. A demon is coming up behind her and is about to grab her!"

Once she opened her eyes, Phoebe looked at Leo and asked, "Vampires are real? How come we've never seen them before?"

"They're real, and depending on which kind of vampire you saw in your vision, you may have seen them before and just not known it," Leo replied. "I can't say for sure because they aren't real welcomed, even in the demon community."

"There are different kinds of vampires?" Piper demanded, sounding a little freaked out.

"Could you see which cemetery, Pheebs?" Prue asked, getting them back on topic.

Cemetery

"How do you feel about being back in California again, sweetheart?" Bruce asked Buffy as they patrolled their second cemetery with 'suspicious deaths' burials in the last couple days.

It was the first time they came back since he rescued her from the mental hospital a year ago. They had stopped off in a town called Sunnydale to deal with a Slayer dream she had about some vampire trying to destroy the world or something…the dream wasn't real clear on that part.

Because Buffy explained to him that vampires need a way to travel during the day, Bruce used his computer skills to hack into the city plans and found a map of the tunnels below the streets. Then they systematically went through the tunnels, laying traps that would be dangerous to vampires while not hurting humans – unless the people had an allergic reaction to holy water for some reason.

There was good news and bad news at that point.

The good news was that they found the head vampire's lair and wiped out most of his minions.

The bad news was that in the fight, Buffy had gotten drained by the Master – as he called himself.

The second good news was that Bruce got so angry by her death that he hulked out and pounded the Master until he dusted, and then kept pounding until bones that were left were powder as well.

The really, really good news was that for the first time ever, he was able to force his change back to Bruce so that he could try to save Buffy. If he had to wait to calm down, she wouldn't have survived.

Now they were headed north to Oregon because Bruce heard about a program there that had research which might be able to help him.

"Apart from the almost dying? I guess it's not so bad," Buffy said. "Thankfully we avoided LA and all the memories there."

He caught a wistful tone in her voice and felt guilty for taking her on the road with him. "Do you miss having a normal life? Should we just try to settle down somewhere?"

Buffy smiled at him – a sight that never failed to warm his heart – and answered, "I'm the vampire Slayer, dad…I won't get a normal life whether we are in one spot or not. You forget that some of our moves have been because of my dreams." She pointed at a headstone and added, "There's our next possible."

The fight started out like a hundred others, but then a bunch of vampires came to find their buddy. When they discovered that he had already been staked by the Slayer, they attacked, knocking Bruce out almost immediately by throwing him into a headstone.

At the same time, a trusted agent of the Source was watching from a nearby mausoleum. So this was the Slayer that so intrigued the Source of All Evil. He wanted to capture the Slayer and either brainwash her into being his enforcer or study her to find out how the Slayer line was created so he could make his own line to target his enemies.

The upper-level demon waited until the vampires – bloodsucking cockroaches in his opinion – had tired her out before making his move. It was doubtful that she had ever encountered his kind before, but why take any unnecessary risks?

Just as he was about to grab her from behind, he was thrown several feet by Prue's telekinesis.

Buffy finished slaying the last vampire before turning towards the noise he made. While she didn't recognize what kind of demon he was, she decided to go with the adage 'most things can't survive without their head'. To be honest, she really wanted to use the collapsible sword her dad designed and built for her.

The Charmed Ones and Leo stood there, staring in shock as the girl they came to rescue calmly beheaded what had to be an upper-level demon before the injuries she took from her earlier fight caught up with her and she collapsed.

"Leo, help her!" Prue ordered unnecessarily as he was already on his way over to the girl's body.

"She has a bunch of bruises and cuts," he rattled off her condition as he worked…most likely a leftover habit from his days as a medic. "The biggest issue is blood loss. She may need a transfusion."

"Unless she's lost half of her blood or more, she'll be okay," a voice startled the group. Oops, they forgot about the man from the vision.

Piper glared at him, unhappy with the unruffled way he said that. It was as if he was used to her being hurt this badly. Then she saw his eyes and the worry that shone from them. "Who are you, and who is she?" she asked in a slightly less brusque manner than she was going to before.

"My name is Bruce Boxer, and this is my daughter, Buffy," he said before shocking them with an observation of his own, "So you are witches? I don't think I've seen that kind of healing spell before, though." He pointed to the blue glow from Leo's power.

"Let's get back to that later," Prue cut in before anyone answered him. "Why were you in a cemetery and why did she have a sword up her sleeve?"

"How did she have a sword up her sleeve?" Phoebe added, amazed at the item in question.

"You don't get to demand answers from us without first giving some," Buffy groggily snapped as she started to wake up.

"How you feeling, honey?" Bruce asked.

"Not as good as Sunnydale, but better than Brownsville," she quipped. Looking down at her body, she was startled to see that her injuries were gone. "How long was I out for?"

"I healed you," Leo said, guessing at what was confusing her.

"Neat. Thanks for that." Buffy stood up and went to hug her dad; she knew that after fights like this, he needed the physical contact to assure himself that he didn't lose her.

That was the first time Leo got a good look at the man. In doing so, he saw somebody he had seen before, but as a different person. "You look like my father!" he exclaimed.

Bruce looked at him and replied, "And you look exactly like my Grandfather, Leo Wyatt."

"What?!" more than one voice shouted.

"Umm, if we aren't going to keep patrolling, maybe we should take this potentially awkward conversation someplace else," Buffy suggested.

Halliwell manor

"How is this possible?" Piper asked after Bruce explained that he was the son of the daughter of Leo Wyatt and his wife, Lillian.

"Well, you see…when a man and a woman love each other very much…" Buffy snarked, "Man, you'd think somebody would have had 'The Talk' with you by this point."

"I didn't know she was pregnant," Leo answered the real question Piper was asking. He was stunned…he had a daughter! And a grandson and great-granddaughter! "Is your mother still alive?" he asked Bruce.

Bruce shook his head sadly. "She died in a plane crash years ago."

"The real question I think we should be asking is how are you related to my dad, and if it's the way I'm guessing it is, how come you aren't old or dead? Are you some kind of demon or vampire?" Buffy demanded, getting ready to defend against an attack if necessary.

To her shock, Phoebe started giggling.

"Sorry, it's just the idea of Leo being evil is so funny," she explained to the offended girl.

Buffy continued to glare at the group. "Uh-huh, why?"

"Because I'm a whitelighter," Leo answered. "Basically an angel, but not in Biblical terms," he clarified. "When I died during the war, I was given a chance to keep helping people by becoming a whitelighter."

"Wow, so nobody in our family is normal," Buffy said.

"Nobody in this room, at least," Bruce corrected.

A/N: Sorry to cut it off there, but I have to work tonight and need sleep desperately. At least I got the reveal in.