Title: Written In The Stars, Part 19 – Xander’s Friend
Author: Xanfan
Rating: R/NC-17 for future chapters
Pairing: m/m
Summary: SLASH. Xander and Spike become friends after Spike gets the chip, they are both hurt and
Dru rescues them and brings them to Angel to heal.
Spoilers: BtVS up through season 4 and Ats 1st season. I may however take some liberties with the
exact timeline, so, any season from either show is fair game.
Warnings: SLASH
Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective
owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way
associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is
intended.
Original Challenge: Spike has been chipped and taken in by the Scoobies. Just as he and
Xander are beginning to become friends something their both hurt and it’s up
to Angel to save and care for them. The twist is its Dru that saves them
and brings them to Daddy.
A/N: I may make take some liberties with timelines from both shows. And Anya was just a onetime thing.
Also, Cordy has a spare room. And the Hyperion thing happened earlier than the blowing up thing,
because I need a place to house all these people, so I can pull them out to play with them at my will.
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Cordelia peered through the peep hole of her front door, stepped back with a frown, then looked
through it again.
“Who are you?” she called through the door.
“Cordelia Chase? I’m Riley, Riley Finn, ma’am. I’m a friend of Xander’s. Angel sent me over to pick you
up for our shift of Xander-sitting at the hospital.”
Cordelia frowned, realized she had frowned twice in the span of a couple of minutes and frantically
touched the space between her perfectly shaped eyebrows to make sure she hadn’t caused a line to
form, then relaxed when she felt no pesky lines forming. Then she gave a little shriek of rage.
“I’m not a ma’am, don’t call me ma’am. Do I look like a ma’am?” Cordelia shouted on the verge of
hysterics.
A slight cough (that better not have been from amusement) was heard through the door.
“I wouldn’t know ma…miss. I can’t see you through the closed door, but I don’t think you sound like a ma’
am at all. I was just saying that as habit, I’m sorry.”
Cordy looked suspiciously out the peep hole again to see if the large man crowding her front stoop was
making fun of her. She decided he wasn’t and opened the door.
Then she bit her tongue to prevent the words, ‘Hello saltier goodness,’ from spilling out. Instead she
opened the door in silent invitation and smirked when it took the muscle bound giant of a man a moment
to realize that he wasn’t getting a verbal invitation. She also swallowed a groan at the little rush she got
when he grinned bashfully at her before crossing the threshold.
She gave a moment of prayer to god and goddess alike to save her from the charms of Buffy-ruined
men and closed the door.
“Sorry about that, I’ve had a rough couple of days on top of the whole ex-boyfriend showing up almost
dead and all. I had a callback this morning and they told me I was too old to play a teenager. I’m still a
teenager, and I’m too old to play one? I know for a fact some of those WB shows have twenty-eight year
olds playing sixteen, so how am I too old to play a teenager? Do you want anything to drink? I have
water and diet coke. Or…okay, I just have water. Guess I drank the last diet coke, unless it was Spike,
but I don’t really see him as a diet coke drinking kind of guy, unless he mixed it with blood, which is just
too gross to think about, really. So, water?”
Riley stared at the brunette goddess in front of him. “Uh…is the babble a Sunnydale thing, or did you
guys learn it together just to confuse people?”
Cordelia stared back at soldier-boy for a moment, then laughed.
“I think it’s a Sunnydale thing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t go away when you leave. It’s a nasty habit that
haunts you your whole life,” she said with a slight smile.
Riley nodded at the seeming truth of that statement.
“So, water?”
“What? Oh, no thank you, I’m fine,” Riley replied.
Cordelia turned to grab her bag. “So Xander’s friend, not Buffy’s boyfriend?”
Riley looked at her in confusion.
“You introduced yourself as Xander’s friend, instead of as Buffy’s boyfriend. Why?” Cordy asked.
Riley looked down at his feet as he blushed slightly.
Cordy was so busy trying not to think about how cute he was when he blushed, that she missed his
muttered answer.
“I’m sorry, what was that?”
Riley cleared his throat and spoke a little louder and clearer. “Tara and I aren’t exactly claiming our
girlfriends at the moment. We’d rather just focus on Xander right now, so…uh, yeah.”
Cordelia smirked. “Let me guess: Trampy-the-vampire-layer and Wimpy-the-wannabe-witch didn’t even
notice their so called ‘best friend’ was missing and are lashing out with the annoyance to cover it up?”
Riley winced a bit at the ‘vampire-layer’ comment, but smirked back at the rest. “Not to mention the fact
that Joyce, Dawn, Tara, Graham and I all noticed, as did Oz, who wasn’t even in town, and they didn’t.
Oh, and Angel ripped them both new ones at their bratty behavior. Buffy pouted about Angel being
‘mean’ to her for hours.”
“Heard about it all night and morning, huh? I bet Tara did too.”
Riley nodded. “Tara and I ended up sharing a room because neither of us wanted to listen to the
whining anymore.”
“Shared a room with Tara?” Cordy asked with a raised eyebrow.
Riley blushed again. “She’s into girls and I really respect her, she’s one of the nicest people I know, I
would never take advantage of the situation, especially not with her.”
“Relax, I’m just kidding.”
Riley nodded.
“So who’s Graham? Wait, is he the one that Xander…”
“That Xander what?” Riley asked with a suspiciously clueless expression.
Cordy gulped. “Oh, look at the time, shouldn’t we be going?”
Part 20
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