*****

It was a bad time to be out by yourself. Slayerless. Buffy patrolling in Weatherly Park, while I'm walking home. By myself. Shit. Wait, what was that noise? Dammit, stop scaring yourself, Harris.

Ok, now I know I heard something. Ok, moving faster. God, what if it's Angel? Or Spike? No, just walk. Don't think.

A dark figure emerged from a bush nearby, watching Xander.

"Soon, baby. Soon." Spike whispered to himself.

***

As Xander undressed for bed, preferring to sleep in the nude during the humid nights, he once again couldn't shake off the feeling he was being watched. Doing his best to forget about it, Xander pulled the covers over his smooth body, and closed his eyes, desperate for sleep to take him.

Angel drew a picure of the boy's naked form, as he removed the duvet from his view. He saw the rise of the human's chest, and hear the beating of his heart.

"You'll be mine soon, boy."

***

"He was in my room last night." Xander stated, to no-one in particular, as he walked into the library.

"Who?" Giles asked as he stamped books, behind the counter.

"Angel. He was in my room, and left me this." Xander handed Giles the drawing Angel had left of him sleeping. Giles visibly paled.

"Are you ok? I mean, he didn't hurt you, right?" Buffy asked, rising from her chair around the table.

"No, I wouldn't even have know if he didn't leave that drawing." Xander smiled his thanks at his friend.

Buffy took Xander by the arm, and dragged him into a corner, away from the others.

"Are you sure you're ok? I mean, you guys had such a great relationship before he lost his soul. He loved you." Buffy asked.

"I'm alright. It gets better after time. I just want it over with now, y'know?" Xander replied. "I loved him so much, and now." Xander let his sentence trail off.

"Xander?" Giles called. "I'm going to look for a spell to revoke Angel's invitation to your house. That should keep at bay, at least for a while."

"Thanks Giles. I needed that."

***

The factory was rife with tension as Spike and Angel fought over the boy of the affections. Twisted affections, but still affections.

"He's mine! You gave him to me! Remember? Parent/Teacher night at the school? You gave him to me!" Spike screamed at his Sire.

"Tough shit! I'm your Sire, and you WILL obey me! Now shut the fuck up about Xander! He's mine, and you're not having him!" Angel screamed back at his Childe, behaving childishly.

Dru, curled up in a corner, laughed to herself, but the boys ignored her.

Spike was about to shout something back, when an idea struck him.

"Why don't we share? We could both sire him, then we both get a little Xander running after us for eternity. Sound good?" Spike grinned.

Angel grinned back. "Sounds good." Angel echoed.

***

Angel was waiting by Xander's house. A car pulled up, and Angel rushed towards it. Xander's mom stepped out.

"Who are you?" She asked, none too politely.

"I'm Angel. A friend of Xander's." After a pause, he moved on. " Why's he doing this to me? He won't talk to me. He won't even acknowledge me. What did I do?" Angel asked, the neediness edging through his voice.

"Who the hell would I know? I don't watch him 24-7." Xander's mom waved dismissively.

"Can you talk to him? I haven't been able to sleep since the night we made love." Angel looked away from the woman.

She dropped her bags, and ran into the house. Angel let her.

Within minutes, Xander ran out the door, bloody nose and black eye, into the arms of Angel.

"Angel. Shit." Xander muttered. Angel ignored him, and called out his Childe's name.

"Spike! I've got him."

Spike emerged from behind the house, in full vamp face. Xander turned to see Angel was also in vamp face.

A single tear rolled down his cheek, as two sets of fangs pierced his neck. He welcomed the darkness when it came.

*****
Part 2:

Hunger washed over the newborn vampire. The uncontrollable urge to feed, to take human life. But he felt different. Not just stronger, but he felt something running through his veins. His first thought was that nothing should be running though his veins, not that he was a vampire. The second was what the fuck is happening?

***

"Ah, Spike?" Angel called, "Our boy is awake, finally." Angel smiled coyly as confusion rushed over Xander's face, who was lying on the ground, dirty.

"Good. Took him fucking long enough." Spike walked over to the garden of his mansion.

Weak, Xander stood up. He moved, as fast as he could, towards his Sires, and became confused. Who should he run to? What was expected of him now? He was sure no other vampire had this problem. Which they didn't.

"Its ok, Xand. We know it must be difficult for you." Spike walked over to his boy, licking his lips. He kissed Xander passionately. Xander pierced Spike's tongue with a fang, causing a yelp from his Sire.

"You fucking bastard!" Spike backhanded Xander, and Xander flew across the empty garden. "That fucking hurt!"

Angel ran over to Xander, who had started to sob. "Come on, we'll go find someone to eat." Angel held his hand out to his Childe, and walked out with him, leaving Angel seething.

***

"I'm going to run into Buffy, aren't I? Its kinda inevitable. Unless we leave Sunnydale." Xander got excited about that idea. "Come on, me and you. We can go together."

"No, I like it here. The Hellmouth, Slayer to torture. Live is good. Anyway, you've got so much to learn. Spike can help with that. But let me start teaching now." Angel put his arm around the brunette, who didn't resist.

"I'm so hungry, Sire. Can I feed?" Xander looked hopefully at his Sire.

"Course you can, boy. Lets find a nice teen, ok?" Angel smiled at his Childe.

***

"Have you heard from Xander yet? He hasn't been in school for three days now." Buffy asked Willow, who was frantically trying to find her best friend, who had disappeared three days ago.

"Not yet. I tried going around, but his mom didn't exactly help. She said something about a fight, and that Xander had taken off. I don't understand why he wouldn't come to one of us, y'know?" The red head was near to tears.

"He must have needed to deal with it himself first, Will. Give him some time, and he'll be back. You'll see." Buffy reassured her friend, wishing someone would reassure her.

***

"I'm sorry. About Dru. I know you loved her." Xander tentatively tried to comfort his blond Sire.

"I never loved her. It was all an act. When Angel left, I needed someone. And she was there. It was nice while it lasted, but its over. She left, like I knew she would." Spike looked at this Childe. "But now I've got you."

Spike pounced on his surprised Childe, pinning him to the bed they were sitting on.

Within seconds Xander's clothes were in tatters, thrown on the floor. Xander was naked, while Spike had yet to lose an item of clothing. The blond vampire lifted his Childe's legs onto his shoulders, and unzipped his trousers.

"Brace yourself, bitch." Spike muttered to Xander, as he forced himself into the brunette's virgin, exposed hole.

Xander screamed for all he was worth, which, he felt, wasn't a lot at that moment, but it just made Spike fuck him harder. Just as he began to lose consciousness, he realised the person screaming wasn't him anymore. Then he felt wet and sticky around his hole, and he smiled. He had pleased one of his Sires.

***

"You don't have to come on patrol with me, Willow."

"I want to. I need to. I fell guilty if I'm sitting at home, and Xander is probably." The red head let the sentence trail off.

"I'll find him. I promise you, I'll find him." Buffy reassured her friend.

"You always did keep your promises, didn't you, Buff?" Xander jumped down from an above tree branch.

Willow ran to her friend. Her first mistake. "Xander? Where the hell have you been? Willow shouted at Xander.

"I've been going through some changes." Xander smiled at his best friend.

"What kind of changes? The last time we saw you was last week in the library. You wanted a spell to keep Angel out of your room. What changed?" Buffy asked, keeping her stake in hand. She was, after all, on patrol.

"That night, Angel came to my house just as I walked in. He told my mom we'd slept together. My parents beat the shit out of me, and threw me out. Of course, Angel was waiting for me. And so was Spike." Willow and Buffy both gasped, and asked him to go on.

"They took me to their place, and tortured and raped me." Willow burst into tears. Buffy couldn't speak. "Of course, that was after they did this." Xander vamped in front of them.

***

Angel and Spike were watching the scene unfold between their Childe, and his ex-friends, from a safe distance. But not too far so they couldn't help Xander if he needed it. Which he didn't. Angel laughed as his boy backhanded the Slayer, and then turned onto Willow.

***

Ignoring the screams from the red head, Xander placed his hands on Willow's head, preparing to snap her neck. Mere seconds before Xander was going to kill Willow, Buffy kicked Xander in the face, sending him spinning, crashing into a bench.

The sight of Xander being beaten by the Slayer was enough to send Angel and Spike into action. They ran from their hiding spot, and ran to Xander's side. Buffy and Willow ran at the sight of the oncoming vampires.

"Can you move? Is your leg hurting?" Angel asked, hurriedly. Xander nodded his head, indicating that his was hurting like hell.

Spike started to raise Xander by grabbing his arms, and Angel followed suit, giving him support. Silently, they made their way back to the mansion.

***

A month later

"Whoa. D�j� vu." Buffy muttered, trying to take the attention away from actually having to revise for finals.

"Really?" Willow, sitting next to her, in what was unofficially her class room since Ms Calendar had been killed, asked.

"Yeah, I have the perfect memory of the pencil rolling off.." Buffy let her pencil roll off the desk, and bent down to retrieve it. She also found a floppy disk.

"Oh hey. You dropped this." Buffy handed the floppy to the red head.

"It's not one of my mine. Must be one of Ms. Calendar's."

"This feels morbid." Buffy stated.

"I've been through her things already." Willow tried to comfort her friend. She knew Buffy took Jenny's death personally. She could of stopped Angel.

"Does that make it less morbid, or you really morbid?" Buffy joked.

"I had to! To teach her class!" Willow exclaimed.

"Relax Will, I was making with the funny." Buffy laughed.

The computer screen displayed the contents of the floppy, and Willow clicked on the icon of a program she didn't recognise.

"Did that say restoration?" Buffy asked, not expecting a reply.

"Oh boy." Willow muttered, as she pressed the Print button, and ran with Buffy to the library.

***

"You don't understand. The gypsies originally cast the spell on Angel. It will be very difficult to do what you're saying." Giles took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes.

"But not impossible, right? It can be done?" Buffy asked frantically.

"Well, I suppose. Certain things will have to be added. A picture of Xander maybe. Or something that belonged to him. A ring, or an item of clothing. Something like that should do it." Giles sighed. "But this ritual will take more knowledge about the black arts than I can claim."

"I think I can work this. I mean, I can try. I've been researching the Wicca religion, and spells, and stuff, and I think I might be able to do this." Willow looked towards her friends for reassurance.

"Willow, that would put you in a lot of danger. You might not be able to stop the forces that would take over you." Giles tried to let Willow down gently.

"I don't want you in any danger, Will." Buffy jumped in.

"And I don't want danger. But it's Xander, y'know? I need to do this for him." Willow looked back at her friend, who nodded back, giving her blessing to do the ritual.

***

"We need to train you more. Now the Slayer knows that you're a vampire, she'll be looking for you. So, we'll train you." Angel tried to cheer his Childe up, who had been depressed since he lost his first fight against the Slayer. It worked.

"You mean it? You'd do that for me?" Xander's eyes lit up.

"Of course we would. Your our boy, and we love you. You know that, right?" Angel looked at his Childe intensely.

"Well, no. But I do now." Xander leaned forward and kissed his Sire.

"Hey! Don't I get one?" Spike walked into the secluded room within the mansion, a smile playing across his face.

"Of course you do, Sire." Xander put on a fake smile, trying to please his blond Sire. Sire number 2, Xander called him. Everyone paled in comparison next to Angel, Xander thought. Xander leaned into kiss Spike.

Angel broke them up, and moved them both to the garden to begin the training.

***

The smell of incense filled the air of the school library. Chanting began from the main table.

"Not dead, nor not of the lving, Spirits of the Inter Regnum, I call." Willow chanted.

***

A few blocks away from the school Buffy was patrolling. The arrival of Kendra meant that she could patrol and watch for Xander to show, if he would.

"You didn't think I wouldn't show, did you?" Xander appeared from behind a headstone.

"I was beginning to wonder, actually." Buffy took out Mr. Pointy, the stake Kendra had given her ten minutes ago.

"Gosh, Buff. I'm really going to miss you. I'm leaving, you see. Not until I kill you, of course. But then I'll be leaving with Angel and Spike. And I'll really miss these meetings." Xander smirked.

"Can we please fight?" Buffy tensed, stake ready.

Xander ran at her, launching a kick at her head. Buffy dodged to the site, and punched Xander in the midsection. Xander backhanded the Slayer, sending her, stunned, to the ground. Standing over Buffy, Xander growled, now in full vamp face. Buffy kicked him in the groin, and jumped to her feet.

"Bitch! That fucking hurt!"

Buffy ignored the insult and continued to try to land a punch on Xander, and failed. Xander matched her blow by blow.

***

"Gods, bind him. Cast his heart from the... evil... realm." Willow was running out of breath. Suddenly Willow started ahead, and then sharply looked up, eyes glowing.

"Lasa orbita sa fie vasul care-i va transporta, sufletul la el." Willow's voice was deep, and seemed to be coming from all around the room.

***

Xander kicked Buffy in the face, and then dropped to the floor and used his legs to make the Slayer lose her balance. Buffy fell to the floor. Her head hit the ground hard, and she blacks out for a few seconds. Xander moves in, and begins to growl. His fangs penetrate Buffy's neck.

***

Willow was staring ahead, at nothing in particular.

"Acum! Acum!" Willow screamed.

***

Xander's eyes glowed bright, and he collapsed on Buffy, who had just come around. Buffy pushed Xander off, and jumped up, stake still in her grasp.

"Buffy? Where am I?"

*****
tbc