A change of scenery 7/?
Fandom: Buffy and Angel
Title: A change of scenery 7/?
Rating: PG now, later on it may become NC-17 but not yet.
Summary: Post Chosen the characters split themselves between the other Hellmouth and LA.
This chapter: What was it that Xander saw?
Prompt: 105 - conquer (tamingthemuse)
Paring: None in this chapter, various later on including, S/X, B/OC and others
“What?” Angel asked Xander who seemed to be staring at him with a strange look in his eyes.
“What are you hiding?”
“I’m not hiding anything.”
“Then what’s that?” Xander said gesturing towards Angel’s chest.
“Umm my chest. Really Xander did you hit your head or something?”
“Not recently.” Xander replied still staring at that point on Angel’s chest, the essence of smoke or mist or whatever it was he was seeing started to move, forming a face over Dead boy’s heart. Xander freaked out and rushed out of the office into the lobby where he bumped into Wesley coming out of Gunn’s office.
“Xander, what is the matter.”
“Um nothing.”He said as he looked towards Wesley and saw a menacing cloud, that almost matched the mist around Angel’s heart, but this mist was gathering at the faint scar around Wes’s neck. “ Wes what did you do to your neck?”
“My neck?”
“Yea your neck, that scar...”
“I can assure you that I have no scar on my neck.”
“Oh.” With that Xander turned and stormed down the hall. When he got to Fred’s lab he collapsed on the floor just outside her door. He could hear her puttering away in the lab talking to herself and Spike who was apparently popping in and out of the room. Fred was testing his ability to remain on one floor of the building.
Xander wanted to go into the room and talk to Fred about what he was seeing. It was probably mystical but it couldn`t be magic, he was the normal one he was the one who made the spells go wonky so why was he seeing these things. “Oh, oh I know something, I’ve heard this before, think Xander think. Shanshu, ‘The One Who Sees’, and that’s what Caleb called me, so apparently losing my eye changed something. “
“Now I know I’m not the poster child for Sanity Fair but Even I’ve stopped talking to myself, pet.”
Xander looked at Spike and saw, Spike, there was no mist floating around him it calmed him.
“So what do you have to do with the poof’s big prophecy?”
“Um apparently I’m part of it. You’d have to ask Wesley for the details but it has something to do with Caleb and me being the one who sees.”
“So the bugger left you the consolation prize, one nifty prophecy in exchange for your left eye.”
“Yea thanks a lot that idiot not only took something from me but he infected me with something else it’s like the mystical syphilis.”
“Well I think that this might be better than the mystical syphilis at least you might be able to do something with this side effect.”
“Yea like conquer the whole normal sight barrier with the addition of funky mist instead of a second eye, maybe it’ll help with my depth perception. Yep that’s me the conquistador and comfortador“
Confortador? Spike thought with a shake of his head.
“C’mon we’ll have Fred take a look at ya, she’ll fix you up right or she’ll at least be distracted by you to stop trying to test me and, how did she put it, ‘quantify my abilities’.” And with that Spike turned and walked through the wall.
Anyone have any ideas what Xander’s seeing??? Make your guesses in FEEDBACK please - I had one guess from sablerose2 that it was Angel’s soul.
I’m still looking for a beta reader to look at this for me even someone who’s only available on a temporary basis would be great please just comment here.
Title: A change of scenery 7/?
Rating: PG now, later on it may become NC-17 but not yet.
Summary: Post Chosen the characters split themselves between the other Hellmouth and LA.
This chapter: What was it that Xander saw?
Prompt: 105 - conquer (tamingthemuse)
Paring: None in this chapter, various later on including, S/X, B/OC and others
“What?” Angel asked Xander who seemed to be staring at him with a strange look in his eyes.
“What are you hiding?”
“I’m not hiding anything.”
“Then what’s that?” Xander said gesturing towards Angel’s chest.
“Umm my chest. Really Xander did you hit your head or something?”
“Not recently.” Xander replied still staring at that point on Angel’s chest, the essence of smoke or mist or whatever it was he was seeing started to move, forming a face over Dead boy’s heart. Xander freaked out and rushed out of the office into the lobby where he bumped into Wesley coming out of Gunn’s office.
“Xander, what is the matter.”
“Um nothing.”He said as he looked towards Wesley and saw a menacing cloud, that almost matched the mist around Angel’s heart, but this mist was gathering at the faint scar around Wes’s neck. “ Wes what did you do to your neck?”
“My neck?”
“Yea your neck, that scar...”
“I can assure you that I have no scar on my neck.”
“Oh.” With that Xander turned and stormed down the hall. When he got to Fred’s lab he collapsed on the floor just outside her door. He could hear her puttering away in the lab talking to herself and Spike who was apparently popping in and out of the room. Fred was testing his ability to remain on one floor of the building.
Xander wanted to go into the room and talk to Fred about what he was seeing. It was probably mystical but it couldn`t be magic, he was the normal one he was the one who made the spells go wonky so why was he seeing these things. “Oh, oh I know something, I’ve heard this before, think Xander think. Shanshu, ‘The One Who Sees’, and that’s what Caleb called me, so apparently losing my eye changed something. “
“Now I know I’m not the poster child for Sanity Fair but Even I’ve stopped talking to myself, pet.”
Xander looked at Spike and saw, Spike, there was no mist floating around him it calmed him.
“So what do you have to do with the poof’s big prophecy?”
“Um apparently I’m part of it. You’d have to ask Wesley for the details but it has something to do with Caleb and me being the one who sees.”
“So the bugger left you the consolation prize, one nifty prophecy in exchange for your left eye.”
“Yea thanks a lot that idiot not only took something from me but he infected me with something else it’s like the mystical syphilis.”
“Well I think that this might be better than the mystical syphilis at least you might be able to do something with this side effect.”
“Yea like conquer the whole normal sight barrier with the addition of funky mist instead of a second eye, maybe it’ll help with my depth perception. Yep that’s me the conquistador and comfortador“
Confortador? Spike thought with a shake of his head.
“C’mon we’ll have Fred take a look at ya, she’ll fix you up right or she’ll at least be distracted by you to stop trying to test me and, how did she put it, ‘quantify my abilities’.” And with that Spike turned and walked through the wall.
Anyone have any ideas what Xander’s seeing??? Make your guesses in FEEDBACK please - I had one guess from sablerose2 that it was Angel’s soul.
I’m still looking for a beta reader to look at this for me even someone who’s only available on a temporary basis would be great please just comment here.