A/N In case you haven't figured it out yet, this is Wednesday Addams attending Nevermore Academy, except she's also the Wednesday from my Addams au. Several reviewers expected me to include that au in this story and I decided it works really well, so why not. Plus, a number of reviewers for my original Xander Addams story expressed the hope that I'd do a sequel at some point following Wednesday at the Academy, which I've decided to add to my list.
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"Okay, first off we're not shapeshifters." Xander assured her. "But we're not the people you know."
"Really?" The woman beside Wednesday asked. "But you are the Slayer?" She looked at Faith.
"You know about the Slayer?" Faith asked, her own eyes narrowed suspiciously.
"Please, I'm an outcast, I'm well aware of the Slayer. Most of you don't hunt our kind as we are humans, just humans with Talent, but occasionally some of you have taken it upon yourselves to declare us demons, though we come from no Hell."
"Outcast?" Cordelia asked, not liking the term.
"Would you prefer freak? If normies are going to call us insulting names we might as well own them and make them a term to be proud of. I'm Larissa Weeks, Principal of Nevermore Academy and I pray you are not Xander Harris, Wednesday's cousin, because his Talent is well known and we do not need that kind of trouble here. That's why he lives in Sunnydale, after all."
"Talent?" Xander felt lost. "You mean like Magic?"
"No, I mean an extra ability. Wednesday is psychic and Xander Harris is a demon magnet."
"Ha! Told ya!" Cordelia crowed. "Can't take you anywhere without demons wanting to make you their cuddle monkey!"
"Okay, we don't need to be doing this on the street." Wednesday decided. "Especially after that Sheriff accused my father of being a murderer and the normies here don't like us anyway."
"Wednesday is correct." Larissa told them. "My car is right over there, we can go to the Academy and figure out what's going on from there as it's obvious you're not who Wednesday first thought you were, even if you apparently look like them."
"We both are and aren't them." Xander answered as they followed her. "We're from another reality, one where I don't know you, Wednesday. You called me your cousin, I recently met a half brother in another reality who has a different grandmother than I do. It's possible the family relationship you and the Xander you know, doesn't exist in the reality we come from."
"But you're still a demon magnet?" Wednesday asked.
"Something's appear to be universal." He muttered.
"Which is why you live in Sunnydale and hang out with a Slayer." Wednesday nodded as she secured herself in the car. "Even if Buffy does think we're all insane, including you, Cordelia and Faith. At least the ones I know."
"You believe us?" Faith asked.
"You didn't know who Manny is and you've been dating him for a year. You and I are friends and we talk quite a bit. I'm considering inviting you to visit me here at Nevermore at some point."
"Manny, who's also your cousin, like Xander?"
"He's a pyrokinetic with a high body temperature, you hunt vampires together."
"Sounds fun."
"You certainly think so, both you and Cordelia fit well into our family. Cordelia frightens demons and Xander adores her, their wedding was quite the event, what with the demon gatecrashers." She stated, perfectly expressionless.
Xander couldn't help it, he laughed. It was just so...Sunnydale. Cordelia was chuckling beside him. "Only us, Doofus." She shook her head
"I would introduce you to my roommate, but you are not my actual cousin and friends." Wednesday decided. "But she may insist on it, she can be quite persistent. Be warned, she is a werewolf."
"Not a problem." Xander shrugged. "So's our Willow and Oz. Do you know them?"
"Yes, Oz is a werewolf here and Willow is studying Magic. Grandmama hexed her to punish her for misusing Magic. That was just after she made Angel human and hexed him with impotence, he currently lives in an insane asylum. She really enjoyed her visit to Sunnydale."
"Well, good." Xander managed to say in a strangled voice. "Impotent, you say? Insane asylum?"
"Yes, you vowed never to upset her, as did Father and Mr. Giles. But upsetting an Addams woman can often be fatal. I was expelled from my last school for putting piranhas in the school pool with several boys who were bullying my brother. They lived." She stated solomnly. "Unfortunately."
"Oh wow. Piranhas." Where the Hell did they end up? "Hopefully they leave your brother alone." Xander gulped. The versions of them that lived in this reality must be...different. Very different.
"If they know what's good for them, though that would be disappointing. Next time it'll be man eating tigers."
