A/N The is a difference between an immortal and being immortal. An immortal is a human being with the power of the quickening. There are alot of different kinds of beings that are immortal, gods included and all of them, to a certain extent are able to have children, except the immortals of Highlander. In the show it's clearly stated that no immortals can have children. Examples included Richie thinking he'd fathered his ex girlfriend's baby while he was a preimmortal to Kate McCleod in one of the movies thinking Duncan robbed her of the chance to have children by activating her immortality on their wedding night. Xander being related to a god in my story may mean he's not sterile like all other immortals with the quickening are.

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"I beseech the Knowing Ones." Giles carefully called to the Oracles, upsetting them was never a good idea from what he'd read.

"You may ask your questions, Watcher. But not all answers are for you." The male Oracles told him.

"Some of the questions we want to ask include information you can't or won't give us?" Giles clarified.

"Yes." The female told him.

"Well that makes sense." Duncan said. "If Champions have been chosen for ending the Game, the way the prophecy suggests, then only they need to know the specifics of how to do so."

"You have learned wisdom in your long lifetime, Highlander." The male said. "And you still have not asked a question."

"Are the Slayers made by men?" Giles asked, this was an important question for him, he'd been taught they were made by the gods, after all.

"The first and the parameters were created by men. The choosing is done according to the parameters laid forth." The female told him, confirming that men did create the Slayer.

"Are immortals created by the gods?" Duncan asked.

"Yes." The male answered.

"Were Xander and Cordelia created to end the Game?" Duncan asked.

"They were created to have the chance to end the Game. The outcome is not written. They must choose." The female told them.

"Then situations were created to form them into warriors, but they had to choose to engage in those situations of their own free will?" Giles summed up.

"They must choose for themselves or it is meaningless." The male answered.

"Was Cordelia being manipulated by the gods in to working for Angel and was that part of the plan to make them the ones who could end the Game?" Duncan asked.

"She was being manipulated as part of the fangless vampire's mission of destruction. Situations were to be presented and she would have chosen, but with incomplete and misleading information presented. As the rejoined heart, she is now protected and that one can not manipulate her further." The female informed them.

"So someone else was manipulating her." Giles included.

"Do you have any other questions?" The female asked.

"Why Xander and Cordelia?" Duncan asked.

"They would have chosen to help anyway, as they have in other worlds. A different method was needed in this world and they are being given the chance to help here as well." The male told them.

"Enough questions, you have the answers you need. What follows is, as always, their choice. No other may chose for them." The female told them.

"Time to go." Giles said. "We've overstayed our welcome." He and Duncan quickly left the Chamber of the Oracles.

"The gods don't see it as manipulating Xander and Cordelia because each time they had a choice and still do." Giles mused, as the two men walked back to Duncan's car.

"All they did was present the situations after all, so I could understand why they'd feel that way. And clearly Xander and Cordelia would still want to help regardless of the prophecy or power. It's just who they are." Duncan agreed.

"Yes, Cordelia would often complain about inconsequential things, but it never stopped her from helping, once she committed herself to doing so. And Xander never let anything stop him from helping, regardless of anyone's disapproval of him helping." Giles also agreed. "And it seems the Slayer was never meant to be this world's Champion, the immortals were. I fear that will be quite a blow to both the Council and Buffy when they find out."

"As long as you don't tell them, they won't for awhile." Duncan pointed out. "The Council of Watchers has never believed the Slayer was made by gods. Our Watchers will file reports on what we've learned, but how soon will the Watchers Council read them?"

"Not for awhile, there are alot more immortals then there are Slayers after all."

"Well let's get back to my place, Cassandra and the others should be back soon as well." Duncan said, Giles agreed and the two headed back to Duncan's dojo.

Meanwhile at the hospital, Cassandra was filling Grace in on her findings.

"You're both related to gods?!" Grace asked, astonished at that revelation.

"While I haven't done this type of diagnostic on every immortal, I have done it on several and none of them were related to gods." Cassendra said. "And being related to a god is what led Xander to questioning if he's sterile like all of us are."

"It's a good question." Grace agreed. "I've never heard of a sterile god and just being blood kin to one technically makes you part god, so it is possible that you're not. I can do a couple of different tests today and I'll run the tests myself. Doing that means we'll have answers quickly."

Grace took Xander to run the needed tests and Cassandra, accompanied by Cordelia, went to check on Faith.

"How close is she to coming out of the coma?" Cordelia asked softly, as she watched Cassandra do a healing on Faith.

"Not long, a few weeks at most, maybe even days." Cassandra said.

"I didn't give her a chance." Cordelia said regretfully. "I was jealous. Xander was attracted to her. But he didn't act on it until we weren't together. Which should have been a flag for me over the damn Fluke, because he was never attracted to Willow. If he was inclined to cheat, it would have been with Faith."

"Willow was influencing you all. I get the feeling she's good at manipulating people. Not that she sees it that way. She just feels that her way is the right way."

"Thank you for taking her power, by the way. Who knows where she could have ended up."

"As unstable as she is, with or without Magic? She could have ended up trying or actually succeeding in ending the world. The Magic would have just made her more unstable then she already is. And she would caused considerable damage to the people around her along the way."