Dedicated to Xander, may he find the peace he needs

8th Season
Time Travel – Fix It
2nd Season
Taraka
Competent Xander

Twilight’s Last Stand

The survivors of the old gang vs the one known only as Twilight watched as an old companion walked out onto the field. Angel or Angelus they didn’t know. Only that he was in the sun and he had Angelus’ smirk on his face and was taunting them as a way to get his old lover to come out and fight him. To the death, with humanity at stake.
Xander knocked out Buffy from behind before walking out on the field to Twilight’s disdain, until a hidden knife with poison on that Xan was immune too was in Angel’s chest suddenly causing the newly humaned villain to drop to his knees. His own actions were trying to pull the blade out only to find that the full knife was covered in the basilisk poison and it was now not only eating his chest but his hands as well.

Angel, once Angelus, and now Twilight, chuckled at the non-entity that had taken him out of the well-played game. But he still had a card to play and triggered the bomb he carried on him.
Something higher than those who powered him were not happy about and destroyed his master’s over.
Janus, who had watched over his pawn and King sent back the man to be a teen and stop those that would destroy what those higher in the pecking order created for their own power chess games. But this time, Janus allowed his new King to have his old memories to change TPtB’s plans.

With Xander, newly crowned King of Creatines by his school foe named Cordelia, finding himself suddenly in his seventeen-year-old body comforting a Willow who had yet to find her own powers in the world. They were in her bedroom and on her pillow was all of her fish from her tank laying as a warning by Angelus. Xander mumbling nothings into her ear beneath his chin as he comforted her as he also remembered the recent warning he had given to Buffy. That if anything happened to Willow because she had refused to take out Angelus, she would pay. And his mind’s eye’s saw the burning of humanity and the great cities on Earth in the future because she never took him out.
The pyritic victory in the final battle.

After helping Willow give her pets a proper funeral and set her in the library under the Watcher’s view, he headed off to where he knew Spike’s found treasure trove and his ring of protection was, destroying the ring but gathering the chalice he knew the Taraka wanted and would be willing to trade a favor for. All the while gathering to himself other treasures that would set him up for quite a while after trading them on the demon network. Then made his call to a number he knew well and outbid the bastard Spike for the Taraka to work for him instead and take out the last holders of the powers named as The Scourge of Europe.
In return he wanted Angelus’ and Spike jackets with videos of their meeting the great symbol of the cleansing and holy Ra, Sun in the coming morning. And Dru’s doll and video of her same fate. If they got Whistler when he tried to stop it, all the better and he’d like his bowler hat while having a picture of his head on a pike and flayed open to Ra. He paid extra for that particular contract with the gift of Gypsy Menstrual Blood taken unknowingly. Giving over the Tampax Jenny threw away after her recent cycle.

Two nights later he received notice that both contracts had been fulfilled happily and his asked for tokens. The bodies’ ashes turned over to the master’s for Warding with their thanks.
He kept the jackets on dummies he paid especially for and that sat in a climate control unit with the doll that was now exorcised and the fedora on a shelf nearby. Other trophies from his hunts such as the dresses from Sunday’s little group and what was left of the mayor’s car after it had a little mishap with a bomb. And much later, a certain Professor’s teaching book and her TA’s dog tags. The final entry was a Gucci dress that had a bit of burning on it.

If, hanging off of the doll was an old cameo locket that opened and showed bleached hair, with the Slayer no longer being able to grow her brown hair longer than a businessman’s haircut, well he did warn her.

Fin
3/22/2026