Friends Forever
Pairing: Buffy/Xander Buffy/Kane
Friendship
Rating: PG
Author: Shellc
Disclaimer: Buffy belongs to Joss and WWE is
property of Vince
Summary: Xander’s
father visits with a surprise for Buffy
“I can’t believe you thought that was real”
Buffy started laughing at the disgusted expression that Xander
was giving her.
They
had just been watching the last few minutes of Smackdown in her living room
while waiting on
“Come on Xand if
that had honestly hit him he would be out cold now” she pointed at the screen.
“Well
wait until you see all the scars he has on his back” Xander
shot back.
He was talking about his father also known to
wrestling fans as Undertaker. Everyone had always known about it but as he
hardly saw him it was never talked about. He was actually coming to see him
tonight for a visit and since Xander and Buffy were
now dating he had moved in with Buffy so he was staying with them.
He had actually phoned last night to ask if he
could bring someone with him and Buffy had said it was fine.
“Okay let’s just agree to disagree” she kissed
her honey as she stood up and turned the TV off.
“Want to come with me on patrol” she smiled
back at him already knowing the answer.
“You know I can’t deny you anything Lady Buf” he grinned wrapping his arms around her.
“Well lead the way my loyal knight” she
laughed as she flung her coat at him.
“I just think it’s too soon” Cordelia claimed walking into the house with
“Maybe”
“Excuse me?” they turned around to see two men
standing in front of them.
“We are looking for Alexander Harris” the
taller one said.
“He’s not in at the moment but come in anyway”
she said opening the door and inviting them in.
“It’s a slow night” Xander
looked over at his girl who nodded in agreement.
“One more
sweep and we will get home” she smiled taking his hand.
His phone rang and Buffy looked around as he
answered.
“That
was Will” he put the phone back in his pocket
“Dad’s at the house” he took her hand and they
made their way out the cemetery in silence.
“You were right” she said to him.
Xander stopped and looked at her.
“When
you said I ran away instead of fixing my problems, you were right” Xander bent down and kissed her but the next words out her
mouth stopped him in his tracks
“He wasn’t Angelus when I killed him” she
admitted.
“You
chose me baby” he smiled at her before pulling her into a hug.
“So how’s he doing then?” Taker said while
exploring the living room before setting his eyes on
“Is he and his girl
doing well?”
“Okay
actually she’s gave him more confidence” she handed him a mug and placed the
other down on the table for the other guy.
“They help each other then” he asked which
earned a snort from Cordelia.
“She doesn’t
need a bigger ego boost” she wasn’t happy that even when they were together Xander still held a torch for the Slayer.
Kane came back down and picked up the cup. He
nodded a thanks at
“So where are they?” Taker asked.
“Act……”
The couple they were talking about interrupted
“Could
it be any hotter”
“Buf” Kane stood up as the small blonde entered the room.
She
whipped her head up she screamed and threw herself into his arms.
“How…What…How?”Xander stuttered as
Taker shook his head.
He
didn’t know what was going on but this girl had put something on his brother’s
face that he
hadn’t seen for a while – a smile.
Part 2
"Somebody
want to tell me what's going on?" Xander was in
the middle of the living room watching his girl wrapped around his uncle and he
wasn't happy.
"Do you know anything about this?"
he looked over at his dad but was answered with a shrug.
"Nope sorry" he said.
"What
are you doing here?" Buffy was on cloud nine her best friend who she thought
she would never see again was right beside her.
"I'm here with Deadman over there"
Kane motioned over to Taker.
"Um maybe we better explain,” he said
after seeing everybody's faces.
He let Buffy down and sat her beside him on
the sofa. She motioned for Xander to come over and
join them and grabbed him hand as soon s he sat down.
"We
met in LA" Kane explained.
"Remember I left when I found out Chyna had used me?' Taker nodded his head.
"Well I went to LA and met the
Slayer".
"And of course I was there because of Angel"
Buffy smiled sadly but brightened up when Xander gave
her a kiss.
FlashBack
"Anne
will you serve him?" all the waitresses were trying to get each other to
serve the guy that been sitting there for over an hour. Nobody wanted to go near
him.
"Fine"
Buffy answered grabbing the note pad and making her way over to him.
"Hey I'm
Anne can I take your order?" she thought he hadn't heard her at first but
she realized he was looking over the menu.
"He can't read,” she thought to herself.
"How about some Peach cobbler?" she
asked him as he looked up at her.
"Thanks" he growled and put his head
back down.
It was now
the end of the shift and he was still sitting there. All the others had gone home,
as it was Buffy's turn to lock up. She was in the kitchen putting some dishes
away and it gave her the chance to get a proper look at him.
He was at
least 6'8 if not more and he had no hair. He also had faint traces of burn
marks on his face too.
"I've seen worse in Sunnydale"
she said to herself and right away wished she hadn't as everything came
flooding back.
"Look
I don't mean to be rude but I have to lock up" she smiled at him.
He was looking at a piece of paper.
"Can I?' she held her hand out.
He gave her the paper as she sat down. It had the
address of a hotel on it.
"Who
gave you this?" she asked
"It doesn't exist anymore".
"Oh a friend gave it to me" he
looked so depressed.
"Look
you'll probably think I'm mad but you can stay with me for a few days if you
want".
His head whipped up
"See I
need some things done around my apartment and DIY was never my strong
point" she laughed.
To his surprise he actually smiled. "If your sure”.
Buffy still
had some things to do so while she was locking up he went to get his bags. On
the way back he took a shortcut and because he wasn't watching what he was
doing he bumped into someone.
"Don't I get an apology?" he heard
but didn't bother to look up.
"Someone should teach you manners"
he looked at the guy ready for a fight but out of nowhere at least six others
appeared.
He got a
good look at their faces and was worried. They were uglier than he was. There
was no way he could take them and they passed him around like a rag doll
scratching and biting him. Every so often he would hear the words "Freak"
and "Weirdo".
"Are
we having fun boys?" this was a different voice, a female voice.
He looked
up and saw her.
"Slayer" the Master Vampire hissed.
He dropped Kane onto the ground and stalked
over to Buffy.
"Oh my god" Kane prayed to himself
"Don't let them hurt her".
In less
than five minutes she had staked them all. He had never seen anyone move at
that speed before. She walked over to him and bent down as she offered him a
hand. When he touched her she flinched.
"I'm sorry" he stuttered and let go so
he could get himself up.
"What" Buffy didn't understand?
"I didn't mean to touch you" he
replied.
"No no it wasn't that look" Buffy realized what he meant
and turned her hand around so he could see the gash on it.
"You need that seen to" she touched
his neck.
He shivered. It had been a long time since
anyone touched him willingly.
"Your going to have to get over this I'm
a freak complex you have" she smiled at him.
"But I
am" she took his head in her hands.
"I
know monsters and I promise you that you aren't one".
She took his hand "Now lets
go home".
They got
into a routine almost right away. Everynight when
Buffy got home she would help him with some reading and spelling and as he
promised he redecorated her whole apartment.
They were
at a bar one night when Kane finally realized something. Buffy was a beautiful
if not the most beautiful woman he had ever met but she never dated. Sure
plenty of guys asked her but she always refused.
It had
taken him a while but he got out of her the story about Angel and everything
that had happened.
"There's
one thing I don't get though" he said to her one night.
"You say time after time that you felt
nothing when you killed him so why did you leave Sunnydale?”
"Because
there's someone there I really don't want to see. He was right about Angel all
along. He was right about something else too".
"What
do you mean Kitty Kat?" he had called her that one night to annoy her and
it had stuck.
"His name is Xander
and he used to have a thing for me when I first moved to Sunnyd"
she explained.
"But I was so wrapped up in Angel I saw
him as nothing more than a friend and didn't realize until it was too late and
now he's dating someone else".
"You know
what you have to do then?" he grinned at her.
"And what about you Mr. I scare the
demons and you won't face up to what happened either" she flung a pillow
at him.
"Actually
I was thinking of getting back in the ring" that was the last thing she
expected to hear.
"When" she didn't want to know but
had to ask.
"Next week and I think you should go back
to Sunnydale too".
End Of Flashback
"So I have you to thank for
getting me my dream girl unc" Xander snuggled up to Buffy.
"I still can't believe you're the girl he
was talking about" Taker laughed.
The way Kane described her she was this Amazon
but in front of him now was nothing more than a Barbie doll.
"Show him Kitty" Kane laughed.
"With
pleasure" Buffy stood and made her way over to Taker.
He actually had a grin on his face. Buffy used
just over half of her strength and punched him in the stomach. You could hear
his scream at the other side of town.
"What
was that?' Willie had gone out back to put the rubbish into the skip when he
heard the dustbins rattling.
"Frigging
cats" he growled as he went to investigate.
"Willie"
he turned around and it was the last person he was expecting to see.
"You
think you could get me some clothes?”
Part 3
Summary: Buffy is still set in Season 3 but
the WWE timeline has rushed forward to 2001.
“So you sure you’re okay Kitty Kat”, Kane
hadn’t let Buffy away from him since they saw each other again.
“I am actually you were right as usual about
me coming back”, she cuddled more into him. “You think they’re okay in there?”
she pointed to the kitchen where Taker and Xander
were having a father/son chat.
“Yeah they’ll be okay so what you been up to
since you came back?”
“So you are actually doing okay then?” Taker
was watching his son working his way across the kitchen making something to eat
for him and Buffy.
“Better than I hoped” Xander
grinned at his father. “I can’t tell you how long I waited for her and now it’s
like the birds are singing and….” He noticed the look his father was giving him
“I know it sounds corny but if you had waited as long you would know what I
mean”.
Taker shook his head and laughed “I know what
you meant it was the same when I met Sara. Buffy really reminds me of her”.
“How is she anyway?” Xander
handed him a coffee. “Baby here’s a drink for you” he shouted through to Buffy.
“Not to bad actually she still wants me to
quit the ring” he smiled at Buffy as she walked in with his brother. “And I
keep saying no”.
“I still can’t believe you two are related”
Buffy grabbed the mug and sat beside Taker.
“Yes because there is no way I’m as manly” Xander mock pouted.
Grinning Buffy slapped the side of his head
“That’s not what I meant” then kissed him on the cheek. “What I mean is the two
of you act and look so different”.
“Plus Taker has a little more muscle”, Kane
agreed.
“Oh Xander’s got muscle all right” Buffy smiled.
“A little too much information sweetie”, Xander went red, Taker looked as if he was about to through
up and Kane just chuckled.
“You get used to her” he shrugged when the
other two looked over.
Meanwhile at Willie’s
“So has anything else happened while I was
gone” he asked as he put his shirt back on.
“Not really the Slayer disappeared for a few
months but she came back. She’s actually more into Slaying
now. The way things are going soon no-one will be able to stop her plus all the
help she’s getting with the witch now”
“She still stay in
the same place?”
Back at Buffy’s
“A praying mantis” Kane was trying to control
his laughter and Taker had doubled over minutes ago.
“It wasn’t funny” Xander
pouted. “I nearly died”.
“Oh poor Xander
thought your luck was in” Buffy ruffled his hair and kissed him to show she was
just playing around.
He smiled and pulled her onto his lap
“So then” he smiled at Buffy “Somebody in this
room got turned into a rat” he ducked when Buffy tried to hit him.
“No fair” she walked over putting the dishes
in the sink. “And if I remember correctly that was your fault as well Mr
Harris”
“How’s that?” Kane handed her the cup.
“He done a love spell on Cordelia
though it was everyone apart from her fell under including me” she grinned.
“Oh yeah the black coat” he remembered. “And I
turned you down” he said shaking his head.
“That was when Amy turned me actually I never
found out how I got turned back” she said.
“Oh Giles helped me” he explained “We done a
reversal spell”
“Yeah and I came back in front of Oz…Naked”
she shuddered.
“I didn’t know that” Xander
scowled.
“It’s Okay baby he never saw anything. Anyway
that’s when I realized I like you a little bit but I was so obsessed with
Angelus I put it to the back of my mind” she looked away then back at him. “And
I’m all the better for it”
“So that’s when you left?” Taker looked at her
and caught the glance between Kane and Buffy.
“Actually it was a few months after. I had
been flung out of school and I fell out with my mom and I thought it was the
only way”.
They were interrupted when the phone rang and Xander walked over to answer it. “Hello…. Shit…. Okay I’ll
tell her bye” and he hung up.
“That was Willie, Spike’s back” he looked over
at his girlfriend.
“Well we’ll deal when we have to” she shrugged
“And this time I will stake his ass”
Taker choked on his drink “Sorry’
he said “It’s still weird hearing everybody talk about it”
“Anyway how is the WWF?” Buffy asked changing
the story.
“Don’t ask” Taker
spat.
“Austin and Triple H have taken it upon
themselves to make our lives hell” Kane answered for him. “Just because we
tried to throw Stephanie over a banister”
That got a laugh from Buffy and Xander.
“Actually you should come back with us” Taker
answered. “Six man tag with us against them three that would be fun” he
grinned. “You would kick her fat ass”.
“Is she really that bad” Buffy watched Xander get up and walk out the room.
“That and more” he admitted.
The doorbell went and Kane offered to answer
it.
“Actually that sounds like fun and you can
introduce Xander to everyone”
“It’s someone for you Buffy” Kane shouted
through.
She made her way to the door.
“Buffy” and he threw his arms around her.
“What…?” she was stopped from saying anymore
when he kissed her.
“What the hell is going on?” Taker looked
between the pair.
“That’s just what I would like to know?” they
all turned to see Xander walk down the stairs with a
disgusted look on his face.
“Dad, Kane I’d like you to meet Angel” he spat
out
Part 4
Summary: Not that Angel has reappeared where
does that leave Buffy and Xander?
“Angel” Buffy pushed him away. “How are you
here?”
“I don’t know must have something to do with
you” he traced her chin.
“We need to talk you better come in” she then
turned to Xander.
“I need to talk to him alone”
“No Buffy I…
“Come with us” Kane pulled him out the door
“They need to do this”
“Be careful” he kissed Buffy on the forehead
before shutting the door behind him.
She got into the living room and he was
looking around as if he had never seen it before.
“You should sit down for this” she offered hit
the chair.
He obeyed and looked up at her
She sighed and proceeded to tell him every
detail from the last few months from after her birthday right until this
minute.
“I’m so sorry Buffy” he sobbed when she
finished “I didn’t…
“I know it wasn’t you Angel but you have got to
understand we can’t be together anymore
“So we don’t have sex…
“You know that won’t work. Remember how we
used to be with each other”
“And Xander”
She couldn’t look in his eyes
“What’s wrong?”
“I have tried I really have” she started
sobbing.
“Come here” he pulled her to him.
“I just don’t love him I done all I can but…
“So why get with him?”
“When I first came back he did all he could to
help me…
“And you mistook being grateful for being in
love”
“It doesn’t matter” she sat up “I have to make
do. I can’t hurt him not now”.
“I have an idea” Angel looked over at her.
XANDER POV
“What are they doing in there?” he grumbled as
he made a hole in the carpet.
“Xander sit down
your annoying me” Taker sighed.
“Look she needs to sort some things out with
him. Don’t worry” Kane pulled him down beside him as the front door opened and
Buffy and Angel walked out.
She smiled at Xander
“Everything’s fine”
He jumped up and hugged her “Are you sure” he
looked at Angel.
“She’s all yours Xand”
“Actually Angel had an idea” Buffy smiled.
“If it’s okay with you two” she looked over at
Kane and Taker. We could come on the road with you for a few months.
“Cool but what about Sunnydale?”
Taker asked.
“Well between me,
“That’s cool Buffy” Xander
grinned cuddling her into him.
Which was lucky
because that meant he didn’t see the look that Buffy gave Kane when he wasn’t
looking.
Part 5
SUMMARY: Buffy knows she doesn’t love Xander. What will she do?
Notes: Set a month after the last chapter
“You sure you don’t mind doing this Buffy?”
Stephanie Trish looked over at the other Blonde.
Buffy and Xander had
been travelling with the company for a month now.
While Xander was getting bored- Buffy was having the
time of her life-yet more proof that they didn’t belong together.
She had quickly made friends with everybody
including a lot of the men that got Xander jealous.
She tried to do all she could to stop him from thinking that but she was
getting to the stage she couldn’t be bothered.
“Sure so what do I have to do?” she finally
answered
“Well just make sure Stephanie doesn’t
interfere in my fight against Lita” she nodded at the red haired woman standing
beside them.
It was well known that Stephanie hadn’t liked
Buffy since the minute she been introduced. But it wasn’t the Slayer’s fault
that Hunter had taken a shine to her.
“It’s okay we’ll be ringside as well” Matt
came over with Jeff and the blonde put his arm around Buffy.
“Yeah just incase nose boy starts anything”
Lita grinned.
“So is Xander
talking to you yet?” Lita asked
The night before the pair had got into a huge
fight over when they would be going back to Sunnydale
“Unfortunately” she noticed a figure across
the hall “Look I’ll see you in a while okay” and made her way over to him.
“Maybe she’s with the wrong one after all”
Jeff cuddled into his girlfriend.
Trish nodded her head in agreement
“Hey you” she smiled as she walked over to him
“Hey Kitty Kat” he grinned and pulled her into
a hug not caring who saw.
“We still renting that DVD tonight”
“Sure is Xander
coming?”
The smiled left her face “We’re still not
talking” she shrugged
“Buf you ready
honey?” Trish shouted over
“Look I gotta go see
you tonight” she gave him another hug before catching up with the others
“What’s going on?” Taker was watching the
match from behind the curtains.
Stephanie had got involved but so had Austin,
HHH, Vince and Shane
It had been a set up. Lita and Trish had been
thrown out the ring courtesy of Vince. The Hardyz
were getting the crap kicked out of them by Austin and Shane.
Leaving Hunter to
grab an unsuspecting Buffy from behind.
“No offence babe” he whispered in her ear “I’d
still do you but gotta save face”
She couldn’t move and she saw Stephanie
walking over to her holding the Women’s Title and a microphone.
“This is what you get when you take something
that doesn’t belong to you” she smirked and raised the belt to hit Buffy across
the head with it.
It wouldn’t move. She turned around to see
Kane glaring down at her.
“Hunter” she screamed but he had already let
go of Buffy and was half way up the aisle.
Austin and Shane tried to save her but were
stopped by Taker’s music and him coming down the ramp.
He picked up Buffy and brought her over to
Kane.
Stephanie used this as her chance to get out
the ring but doing so she fell flat on her face.
“I told you McMahon’s once before” Taker
picked the Microphone up “Nobody messes with my family” he let it drop and he
and Kane took her back up the ramp to his music.
She didn’t want to but they took her home.
Looking back now it was the best and the biggest mistake she had ever made.
When they got through the door Xander was waiting for them
“I can’t believe I’ve been so stupid,” he
yelled at her.
“What’s wrong?” she tried to calm him but he
shrugged her off.
“You’ve been distant ever since you came back”
he looked at her.
“And watching tonight I think I finally know
the reason why”
“And that is?” Taker asked grabbing a beer
before he sat down
“It wasn’t Angel she was still hung up on at
all”
She couldn’t look him in the eyes
“It was him” he pointed at Kane
“What” “What” Kane and Taker said at the same time
“It was obvious the look she gave you tonight
man”
“Xander you are so
far off the mark” Kane denied it.
“I can’t believe this” he went through to the
bedroom and grabbed his case off the wardrobe
“Where are you going?” Taker stalked in after
him
“Home” he glared at his uncle
“He took what clothes were in his dresser and
stormed out the house slamming the door after him
All this time Buffy just stood there
“You have to do something Buffy” Taker looked
down at her
“I can’t” she followed him out the door
“He was right” she followed her ex-boyfriend
out the house
Leaving Taker and Kane stood there in stunned
silence
Part 6
SUMMARY: Now the truth is out, what happens
next?
“She didn’t mean it Xander”
“Yes she did you don’t know her like I do or
maybe you do actually?” he glared at him
They were all sat in Xander’s
basement discussing the events of last night.
“She’s just confused because I helped her”
Kane was trying to justify the outburst
“Buffy may be a lot of things but confused
isn’t one of them”
“Have you talked to her since last night son?”
Taker asked
“I can’t I’d make a fool of myself” he sighed
“I’m not blaming you Kane it’s just that it’s
a surprise is all”
“Your telling me” he
replied
“So she wasn’t at school today?”
“No
“Look I have to go to see Giles I’ll see you
later on”
He said his good-bye’s and left
“So did you have a clue then?”
Kane looked at his brother
“No” he shook his head
He was telling the truth. Taker knew that- he
could see it in his brother’s eyes
“She’s been nothing but trouble since she
turned up” he tested the water
“Nothing more than a little bitch”
“Don’t ever call her that again” Kane growled
at him
“Case for the prosecution rests” Taker said
“No she’s like a sister to me”
“I’m not saying you do love her Kane but
something has to be done”
“But what about Xander?”
“It will hurt him to begin with but he can’t
be with someone who doesn’t love him”
“Where are you going?” he shouted to Kane as
he made for the door
“I have to find her”
He went to the one place nobody expected her
to be
“Hey Angel can I
speak to Buffy?”
“Sure come in”
“We need to talk” he looked over at Buffy
“I guess we do”
Angel gave them some privacy for them to sort
their problems out
“When?’
“Did I realize?”
He nodded
“When I saw you in the house a few weeks ago”
“Ok…
“I think you should leave”
“What?” that stopped him in his tracks
“If you hadn’t have come back this would never
have happened”
“You’re blaming me?”
“Yes I am and myself Xander deserves better”
“So that’s it nothing more to talk about”
“Nope”
She got up and walked away leaving him sitting
there
“You got everything?”
He was yelling to his brother who was walking
out the house
“Yeah just let me leave a note for Xander”
The pair of them had decided to leave after
all that had happened. It was the only way they could try to fix this problem
“Don’t need to”
They turned to see Xander
standing beside him with a bag
“Nothing left for me here and what better way
to live then travel with my good old dad”
“Good” Taker smiled offering his hand then
pulling him into a hug
“What it’s meant to be”
They got in the car
“She isn’t coming”
Kane turned to Xander
who had just said it
“When Buffy has her mind set you know
yourself”
“Guess your right” he sighed getting into the
car and starting the engine
“Never thought it would end like this though”
SIX MONTHS LATER
“This place is massive”
“Yeah I guess it is” Buffy smiled at her best
friend
The Blonde was doing somersaults
They were at Xander
and Torrie’s wedding
And it was the first time she had seen him since that day in Sunnydale
“Buffy, Will” Xander
grinned when he saw them
“Hey Xand” Buffy
accepted the hug
After he had got away from Sunnydale
Xander had realized he hadn’t loved Buffy not the way
he thought he did. He was in love with the idea of being in love with her and
then Torrie came into the picture and the rest was history.
The wedding march started
“I’ll see you in a little while” she smiled
taking her seat with
The wedding was brilliant. Lita and Trish were
bridesmaids with Taker as best man. She knew Kane was there but she still hadn’t
laid eyes on him yet and she was dreading it.
“Buffy” Taker walked over with a glass of
champagne
“Hey beautiful day” she smiled
“Mmh”
“I need to talk to him”
“Here’s the hotel number. He refused to come
when he found out you were coming”
“I’m sorry…
“Don’t be sorry just fix it okay Buffy?”
“What…
He was speechless when he saw who was at the
door
“We need to talk” she barged past him into the
room
“I’m sorry about all that happened” she sat on
the bed
“What?”
“I realized something after you left”
“Which was?”
“Please sit down Kane”
He done as she asked
“You were right I didn’t love you I think it
was just that I felt I needed to have somebody”
He kept staring at her
“And because Xander
wasn’t the one I thought it was you”
“I do love you Buf
but not in that way”
“I know that now” she moved over beside him
“I thought I needed somebody beside me to
prove myself”
“So you’re back with Angel then?”
She started laughing
“What’s so funny?”
“He moved to LA a few months back “
“Why?”
“He thought because of what happened I would
run back to him again and when I didn’t he realized we were over”
“Xander said Cordelia’s in LA”
“Yeah they’re a couple actually they suit each
other better than we ever did”
“So are you dating anybody?”
He put an arm around her starting to feel the
bond they had coming back
“No and it’s staying that way. I’m just
concentrating on the Slaying just now. Learning more about it”
“So we’re back to being friends then” she
cuddled into him
“Friends Forever” he smiled kissing her
forehead.