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buffyfic-digest Wednesday, July 29 1998 Volume 02 : Number 280
In this issue:
BUFFYFIC: Sorry about the double posting...
BUFFYFIC: Xander's Incredible Journey (1/?)
BUFFYFIC: Xander's Incredible Journey (3/?)
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:15:40 PDT
From: "Cutter Kinseeker" <ckinseeker@hotmail.com>
Subject: BUFFYFIC: Sorry about the double posting...
I would like to apologize for the double posting of Chapter Two of
"Xander's Incredible Journey." My bad!
Cutter Kinseeker
- -Chieftain of the Wolfriders
- -Holder of New Moon, artifact sword
- -Slayer of the dreaded beast Madcoil
- -Keeper of Xander Harris' half-kept promise, "You're gonna die. And I'm
gonna be there."
"AYOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHH!!!!"
--Cutter Kinseeker
"From famine to feast and back to famine again."
--Skywise
Visit the Holt of Cutter Kinseeker
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2234/
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:35:18 PDT
From: "Cutter Kinseeker" <ckinseeker@hotmail.com>
Subject: BUFFYFIC: Xander's Incredible Journey (1/?)
TITLE: "Xander's Incredible Journey"
AUTHOR: Cutter Kinseeker
E-MAIL: ckinseeker@hotmail.com
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my first fanfic, and as the title might suggest,
it focuses mainly on Xander. Please let me know what you think of it,
else my poor, battered ego might just give up the ghost.
FEEDBACK: Yes! Yes! Yes! Tell me what you think, but constructive
criticism only please. No "it sucks" type messages.
DISTRIBUTION: Ask me first.
RATING: Mostly PG-13 for language and adult themes. A couple of parts
will be R.
DESCRIPTION: In the aftermath of "Becoming," Xander sets out after Buffy
and winds up "becoming" in his own right. This chapter is just sort of
an audio journal thingie describing Xander's emotions and state of mind
following the "Becoming" debacle.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own jack. Correction--jack's probably the only thing
I do own. The rest belongs to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and the Frog
Network.
SPOILERS: Everything up to "Becoming".
S S
P P
O A
I C
L E
E
R
Chapter One
Became
Excerpt from the audio journal of Alexander LaVelle Harris:
"They say you always hurt the ones you love. Whoever 'they' are,
they had a point.
"I've hurt, and been hurt by, virtually everyone I've ever cared
about--parents, friends, girls, it didn't matter. I'm an equal
opportunity jerk. Not to say that I'm completely blameless in my
actions; living on the Hellmouth isn't exactly a way to develop empathy
for your fellow man.
"Living on the Hellmouth *is* a good way to die young, unless
you pick up survival skills real fast. My way of making it through life?
Never let anyone get close, that way you don't have to deal with it when
they stop caring, or move away, or die. Keep them away with harsh words
and mean wisecracks and a devil-may-care attitude and a slacker image.
Just... don't let anyone care.
"All things considered, I was pretty lucky to have even two
friends left by the time I got to Sunnydale High, but they weren't safe
from my personality problems either. Willow was in love with me, and I
was too busy being hormone-boy to even notice her, what she was going
through for me. And Jesse... Jesse was my bud for the longest time, and
how do I repay him? I killed him. Okay, he was a vampire at the time,
but in my mind, it's still the same thing.
"The only good thing to come out of that whole
first-brush-with-the-Hellmouth bit was Buffy. Buffy Summers, a girl I
quickly grew obsessive about. A girl who just happened to be the Slayer,
destined to fight the forces of darkness... and eventually lose, though
you'd never believe it watching her in action. I fell in love the first
time I saw her; then I fell off my skateboard, proving the 'love hurts'
thing yet again.
"In the first year Buffy lived in Sunnydale, I had more brushes
with death than I had in a decade of eating cafeteria food, but it
didn't matter because she was there, because she always had everything
under control. Sure, I was a bit shaky after I got possessed by a
demonic hyena spirit, but there was no real damage--except to my pride,
which had never been that well-developed in the first place.
"After that, things went straight downhill: Buffy started dating
a vampire when I couldn't get my courage up enough to ask her out;
Willow started seeing that long-haired freak Oz, and he turns out to be
a werewolf; I nearly get eaten by various monsters--I mean, come on! how
many mantis-ladies and worm-assassins can there be out there?--and then,
for some reason I still don't get, Cordelia decides to make me her
cuddle-monkey, which may sound good on paper, but...
"And through it all, there was death and disaster, and Buffy to
save us from it.
"When she died in the Master's lair, a part of me nearly died
too. Thank god for CPR. But it was that night that I realized, I didn't
stand a chance in Hell with her. I released my hope, and it was like I
was free. Then Angel became one of the big, bad things in the dark, and
there was hope again, hope that Buffy would see me. But no, she was
still obsessed with tall, dark, and annoying, even after he kept trying
to kill her. The worst thing wasn't rejection--I've been rejected most
of my life. No, the worst thing was having hope, and then having it
stolen away again.
"The way he hurt her... I wanted to see him dead. I would have
done anything to be the one that staked that bastard to the ground. And
the more he hurt Buffy, the more I wanted him dead. So when Willow--of
all people, Willow--announced that she could give Angel his soul back, I
freaked. I admit it, I went off. After all the things he had done, all
the people he had murdered, everything would just be forgiven and
forgotten, and Buffy and Angel could be together again... The idea made
me sick.
"And, I suppose, there was just a touch of jealousy in there
too, that Angel could loot and plunder and terrorize and Buffy still
loved him, and I did my damnedest to be perfect and I was just part of
the scenery to her. Something in me broke, a part of me really did die
then.
"After Kendra was killed and Willow was put in the hospital, for
the first time in our friendship, I lied to Buffy. At the time, I
rationalized it, told myself it was to protect her, that if she
hesitated Angel would kill her, that it was for her own good. I told
myself that I was protecting her. But it was all just a bunch of bull, I
know that now. Right then, when I lied to Buffy, my motivation wasn't to
protect her. It was revenge, plain and simple. I wanted to get Angel
back for all the things he had done, wanted to make him pay for all the
pain he had caused, for hurting Willow and Buffy, but most of all, I
wanted to see him die for keeping me and Buffy apart.
"The part of me that floats above the hormones--just a tiny
piece of me, like the tip of an iceberg--knows that I never really had a
chance with Buffy, but the rest won't give up the idea. I won't make
excuses for my actions, won't make up some lie about Angel's death being
for the 'greater good.' The ritual worked, and Angel wouldn't have been
evil anymore. What I did was selfish, totally and utterly selfish. And I
don't know if it can ever be forgiven.
"The others think that Buffy and Angel are off someplace,
celebrating the return of his soul. And maybe they are, maybe I'm going
wiggy over nothing. But I don't think so--I know I'm not. Angel's dead,
and Buffy could be too. I hope she's okay, but part of me is afraid. I'm
scared to death that, wherever she is, she hates me, hates what I've
done. I mean, she's been angry at me before, and it always hurt until
she got over it, but I don't think I could take it if she ever really
hated me.
"Because that would make two of us.
"However much Buffy might hate me, I hate myself even more. One
lie, one single lie that hurt her more than Angel's hardest punches and
cruelest taunts ever did. I hated Angel because he hurt Buffy, said he
was a monster because of it, but what does that make me now? Am I a
monster? If I am, I became one so quietly I never even noticed it.
"If only I knew where Buffy was, how she was. I just wish I
could talk to her, admit my guilt, try to absolve myself of some of this
pain. But I can't, and the pain just keeps eating at me, swirling around
in my gut until I think I have to scream or I'll burst, but I don't
burst.
"I have to find Buffy. I know that now. I pray that she'll
forgive me, but in my heart I know that forgiveness is probably beyond
my reach, that I'm now one of the damned. And when I do find Buffy, I'll
tell her everything, beginning to end, and maybe if she can't forgive
me, she'll at least come back with me to Sunnydale, where they need her
most.
"And Willow will smile, and Giles will make some tea, and Oz
will get her to listen to the newest riff he's thought up, and Cordy
will insult her hair. And it'll be just like old times, except for me.
If Buffy can't forgive me, can't accept me, I'll leave. I don't know
where I'll go, what I'll do, but I couldn't stand to stay here--either
without Buffy, or with a Buffy that hated me.
"I'll talk to Giles and the others tomorrow and let them know
I'm going after her. I'm not sure how to start just yet, but I'll think
of something.
"End journal entry for May 23, 1998."
END CHAPTER ONE
Cutter Kinseeker
- -Chieftain of the Wolfriders
- -Holder of New Moon, artifact sword
- -Slayer of the dreaded beast Madcoil
- -Keeper of Xander Harris' half-kept promise, "You're gonna die. And I'm
gonna be there."
"AYOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHH!!!!"
--Cutter Kinseeker
"From famine to feast and back to famine again."
--Skywise
Visit the Holt of Cutter Kinseeker
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2234/
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:40:12 PDT
From: "Cutter Kinseeker" <ckinseeker@hotmail.com>
Subject: BUFFYFIC: Xander's Incredible Journey (3/?)
TITLE: "Xander's Incredible Journey"
AUTHOR: Cutter Kinseeker
E-MAIL: ckinseeker@hotmail.com
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the third chapter of my first fanfic. Please
don't hurt me.
FEEDBACK: Yes! Yes! Yes! Tell me what you think, but constructive
criticism only please. No "it sucks" type messages.
DISTRIBUTION: Ask me first.
RATING: Mostly PG-13 for language and adult themes. A couple of parts
will be R.
DESCRIPTION: In the aftermath of "Becoming," Xander sets out after Buffy
and winds up "becoming" in his own right. The Whistler tells the gang a
bunch of stuff that may or may not be true; Xander reaches a decision;
Cordelia finally shows up.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own jack. Correction--jack's probably the only thing
I do own. The rest belongs to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and the Frog
Network.
SPOILERS: Everything up to "Becoming".
S S
P P
O A
I C
L E
E
R
Chapter Three
Whistling at the Darkness
"All right, I've accepted that you know stuff," Xander said
sourly, "now how 'bout telling us where Buffy is?" The Whistler smiled
that annoying, enigmatic smile again.
"No can do, kid," he said nicely enough.
"Why the Hell not?" Xander shouted, finally losing his temper
with this fedora-wearing freak.
"'Cause..." whispered Whistler, "there's a rule... Look, I know
you mortal types take this kind of thing real serious, but I gotta let
you know that the folks I work for don't. As far as they're concerned,
this world, all of you, you're just pieces on a board."
"You think this is a game?" questioned Giles in stunned
contempt. The small man/demon shook his head slowly.
"Not me, Rupe, never me." He sighed heavily. "Believe me, if it
was up to me, I'd give you directions, a map, and cab fare, but it
ain't. I'm a cog, a piece in the game, just like all of you. Maybe a
little higher up on the scale--a bishop instead of a pawn--but just
another piece. I've been playing this damn game for longer than your
species has been alive, and frankly I'm getting a little tired of it.
Unfortunately, my profession isn't one that you can just retire
from--kinda like the mob, only worse."
"What is this game you keep talking about?" asked Giles,
genuinely interested now in spite of himself, his Watcher instincts
moving him into a phase somewhere between curiosity and interrogation.
"Why, THE game, of course. Good and evil. Life and death. All of
that and more. The creeps you call demons are the opposition. Vampires
make up most of their forces on this world, but there's some biggy
demons too, like Moloch--you remember him?--and Azazel and, of course,
Acathla."
"But you're a demon," interjected Willow, "you said so."
"Technically, I'm a demon. I kinda like the title too--it makes
people a little nervous around you--but right now I'm playing for the
side you'd call good." His brow scrunched in concentration, as though
trying to think of a simple way to express what he was thinking. "Okay,
look at it this way: I'm a free agent in this game. I can play for
either side, depending on which I choose and for how long. Most always,
I pick good, simply 'cause I happen to like humans." A strange look
crossed the Whistler's face for a moment, only to quickly disappear.
"The problem with good in this game is that it isn't always
good. There's other factors involved that make it a bunch more
complicated that 'good' and 'evil', though that's the easiest way to
think about it. Currently--that means for the last five or ten thousand
years--my bosses have been in an extended holding maneuver against the
opposition, trying to keep them from gaining ground in the multiverse."
"Huh?" said Xander, erudite as ever.
"The *multi*verse. All the universes--this one, and all the
parallels, and all the possibilities, and all the
worlds-as-myth--everything. For the last few thousand years, the game
hasn't been moving on its usual grand scale, but on a micro-level,
dealing with a world or two at a time. And in the last three millennia,
the playing field has dwindled to one world: this one.
"See, real recent like, my bosses and the bosses of the
opposition got together and decided that trashing entire dimensions
wasn't fun anymore. A 'scorched-earth' campaign just wasn't efficient as
it used to be, and they were too evenly matched to really hurt each
other much. So in this big diplomatic conference--a good way to think of
it would be 'the Treaty of Midpoint'--they decided to choose one world
at the heart of the battlefield and duke it out one last time. They sent
in their troops, sealed off the planet from outside interference, and
started planning for the end.
"Only problem was, evil cheated.
"They threw in a couple of wild cards--vampires for one--and
just started laughing their asses off at good. After all, it's the
nature of evil to cheat, and good can't or they'd be just as bad, and
the game would fall apart. The referees went back and checked the
treaty, which in and of itself took one Hell of a long time, and found a
loophole that good could use to stem the tide and even things out again.
Most of the evil in the world got dumped down a big hole and locked
in--humans took to calling it Hell. The rest would still have been
enough to win, but good had one more card to play..."
Xander and Giles could both see where Whistler was headed with
this line of history, and Willow wasn't far behind.
"Are you telling us," said the Englishman, "that *you* are what
empowers the Slayers?"
"Not me, Rupe, my bosses. They needed to beat the asses off evil
once and for all, and to do it they built a better human. Strong as the
supernaturals she fought, fast enough to keep up with them, tough enough
not to die from one punch, and resilient enough to accept the hazards of
her life and keep going. Better still, make a bunch of 'em. Sad to say,
evil called in their lawyers and exploited yet another loophole--only
one per generation--and the rest is history." The little man looked
extremely smug about all of this, as though it was by his hand that it
had all happened. Giles sighed; this day just kept getting worse.
"Assuming we believe any of this," he said, "then I have just
three questions."
"Fire away, Rupe."
"First, how do you know all of this?"
"Like I said, I work for these guys. And while I'm just a
playing piece to them, I'm a fairly well-informed playing piece.
Besides, who do you think figured out the loophole for good?" Disturbed
now, Giles nonetheless went on.
"You said that the, um, game has moved to just our world. Why?"
"Weren't you listening? In the way the high-ups measure space
and time, your place was just about at the dead center of the battle.
'Cause that one was so easy, I'll give you a freebie."
"All right: Why are the Slayers female? From a biological
viewpoint, I should think that a male would be more appropriate for
combat against demons. Simply due to hormones and musculature, male
humans are more suited for physical violence than females."
"That is so sexist," said a slightly miffed Willow.
"Yeah," echoed Oz, "I happen to believe that Willow could kick
my ass if she wanted to." He paused for a minute. "That didn't sound
right."
Whistler merely shook his head in amusement. "Yeah, for hormones
and bad attitudes, men take the cake, but women... I'm immortal, and I
wouldn't want to piss off even a normal one. Women are psychologically
more adaptable, their emotions are stronger, their spirits are harder to
break, and in general they're more interesting than men. Admittedly,
under normal circumstances, women don't fight as much as men, but when
they do, they're more deadly." He looked pointedly at Giles. "One of you
Brits said it better than anyone: 'The female of the species...'" He
shrugged. "You know the rest. Not bad for a freebie question. Last, but
I hope not least?"
Giles cleared his throat. "You've already said that you can't
tell us where Buffy is. I've gathered from your history lesson that you
can't directly interfere in mortal affairs unless you are ordered to do
so. So... why are you here, now, talking to us?"
"I wondered when you'd get to that." He lapsed into
uncomfortable silence for a few moments, obviously trying to figure out
how to say what he needed to. Finally, he spoke. "My bosses aren't
all-powerful or all-knowing. They can make mistakes, just like anybody
else, 'cept they don't screw up as often, and when they do, they screw
up big-time. I can make mistakes too. See, most times, I'm on my own,
following a general set of instructions until I get new ones.
"Not long ago, by your standards, I'd gone recruiting for
someone I could use for the side of good without evil hearing about it.
It had to be someone completely hopeless, with no purpose in living.
Turns out, the guy I got wasn't living at all."
"Angel," muttered Xander darkly.
"Yup, Angel. He was a mess when I found him. I cleaned him up,
got him moving, gave him a purpose--Buffy--and I sorta set it up where
he'd fall in love with that purpose."
Xander's face was stony, his eyes hard, as he listened. He was
shaking slightly in barely-held rage and anyone could see that he was
going to go off any minute.
"He followed her here, and I kept him supplied with information.
Buffy is probably the best Slayer anyone's ever seen, and she's been
turning the tide for good in a major way. Without Angel, she'd probably
never have gotten as far as she did. Then evil pulled a hand I seriously
hadn't expected: Spike, Drusilla, and Jenny Calendar." He motioned for
Giles to be silent when he saw the other's eyes flare up in anger. "Ease
back, Rupe, she didn't realize. But because of her actions, Angel lost
his soul and went over to the other side. Unfortunately, I was out of
town at the time and didn't get back until Acathla was uncovered.
"My talent, the one that makes me so coveted by good and evil
alike, is to read the future. Not absolutely predict--the future's
mutable and fluid--but to give probabilities based on incomplete
information that are almost always accurate. I knew that Angel would be
there when Acathla got dug up, but I thought he would be fighting the
demon, not helping free him. I checked my probabilities again, and I
figured that if I didn't move fast, the whole world would go to Hell and
evil would win by default. I did what I thought was best: I pitted Buffy
and Angel against each other, knowing that Buffy would win and Angel
would go to Hell in the world's place. Basically a stop-gap maneuver.
"But, because I hadn't known about Angel being evil for the last
couple of months, I didn't accurately predict how badly Buffy would take
it, I didn't figure that she'd skip town, and I *really* didn't figure
that my bosses would schedule me in for an evaluation at the next
equinox." Xander's fragile control finally broke with this last
statement.
"You mean this whole thing's been about you getting in trouble
with your boss?! You don't give one single damn about Buffy, do you?! Or
about this town, or this planet, or anything but your own worthless
hide! Well, get this--fuck you! Huh? Fuck... you! How 'bout that? Go
back to Hell, or wherever you came from, and just leave us alone!" With
some of the poison expelled from his system, Xander clenched his jaw
tight and walked over to the other side of the library. He punched the
wall as hard as he could with his unbroken arm, and immediately pulled
back his hand in pain, sucking away the blood from his torn knuckles.
Whistler seemed somewhat abashed by this outburst.
"You're right, kid. I am selfish, and I am a coward, and I am a
lot of other unsavory things too, but I'm also desperate. I can't
interfere directly, so I can't go get Buffy myself. But if she ain't
back in SunnyHell by the end of the summer, my ass is grass. The bosses
happen to like her, and from what I've picked up along the grapevine,
she's real important to the war effort too. If they find out that it's
my fault that she packed up and left--and it isn't really my fault, mind
you, but my bosses ain't real forgiving about this sort of thing--then
free agent or not, immortal or not, I am seriously going to regret the
last century of my life.
"Which finally brings me to why I'm here. Someone's gotta go get
her, and that's all there is to it."
"Then tell us where she is..." started Giles.
"I can't! I would if I could, but I can't! That would be
interference, and that would piss my bosses off too. What I'm doing
right now I can get away with because I haven't technically done
anything to violate the Treaty of Midpoint--I'm pretty damn good at
loopholes--but the second I say anything specific..." His dark eyes
darted around in a manner that would have been funny on anyone else.
"And besides which, I'm not completely sure of where she is myself. Once
she left Sunnydale, my probabilities went right off the charts; she
could be as close as Burbank or as far away as Maine by now. I can point
you the right way, but then I've gotta go; I have stuff to do and things
to take care of before my evaluation committee shows up--picky bastards
that they are. But I need to know right now: will you do it?"
Willow and Oz were silent, their tightly clutched hands showing
their fear and trepidation. Giles' lips were pursed together so closely
that his mouth appeared only as a bloodless line in a craggy face.
Whistler's eyes were on them intently, almost boring into their skin
with the heat of his anguish. Finally, the silence was broken from a
completely unexpected quarter.
"I will," said Xander, so quietly that at first the others were
unsure they had heard him at all. "I'll do it. But not for you, and not
for your bosses, and certainly not for your damned game. My reasons are
my own, but I'll go. I'll find Buffy and I'll bring her home."
Whistler's smile returned slowly, like the sun peeking out from
behind a bank of clouds. His dark eyes cleared and some of the good
humor returned to his face.
"I thought it would be you, kid. At least, I hoped it would be.
Out of everyone here, you've got the best chance of bringing her back
alive." Xander didn't like the sound of that.
"So what is my chance?" he asked cautiously.
"Oh, a little less than fifty-fifty." Seeing the horrified look
on the boy's face, he laughed. "Don't ask me why, I just call 'em." He
paused for a moment as though listening to something far away. "I gotta
go now. Buffy left on a Greyhound bus the night she capped Angel. You
can find out which one without me. I think I'll go out the window. See
ya."
With that, Whistler walked jauntily to the nearest window, flung
it open, and jumped out, landing easily on the soft earth below. He
dusted himself off and walked away. In the library, they were still
scratching their heads when the double doors swung open to reveal a
miniskirt-clad Cordelia. Everyone turned to look at her with an air of
anti-climax.
"Did I miss anything?" she asked in her bubbliest voice. When
she was rewarded only with cold stares, her expression soured. "What?"
***
The being who currently called himself Whistler was experiencing
a characteristic amount of smug self-satisfaction. And why not? Xander
was going to do his dirty work for him. He had managed to enlist the
boy's help without revealing anything important--or anything completely
truthful, for that matter--just by playing on his own existing fears.
Pretty soon the other Slayerettes would be too busy to interfere, the
Hellmouth would make sure of that. Whether or not Buffy was returned,
his bosses would be seriously pleased at his actions. He had managed to
preserve his own fragile moral equilibrium and obey orders at the same
time.
And, last but not least, he had left before that snobby bitch
Cordelia had shown up.
All in all, it was a pretty successful day for the
fedora-wearing demon.
END CHAPTER THREE
Cutter Kinseeker
- -Chieftain of the Wolfriders
- -Holder of New Moon, artifact sword
- -Slayer of the dreaded beast Madcoil
- -Keeper of Xander Harris' half-kept promise, "You're gonna die. And I'm
gonna be there."
"AYOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHH!!!!"
--Cutter Kinseeker
"From famine to feast and back to famine again."
--Skywise
Visit the Holt of Cutter Kinseeker
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2234/
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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