Title: A Day in the Life
Author: Xanfan
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: X/A
Summary: A day in the life of Xander and Angel as requested by Suki_Blue
Spoilers: All of both shows
Warnings: Slash, established relationship
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.
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“What’s a five letter word for ‘Port of Crete’?”
“Canea.”
“Six letter word for ‘Acknowledge anew’?”
“Reavow.”
“Highpoints?”
“How many letters?”
“Seven.”
“Zeniths.”
“Nine letter word for…..”
“Xander, are you even doing any of the crossword yourself?” Angel asked in amused frustration.
Xander pouted at his vampire.
“If you don’t want to help, than why do you keep answering the questions?”
“I didn’t say I didn’t want to help, I just asked…..” Angel started to say before he caught the teasing glint
in his boy’s eye. “Very funny. You were just asking to annoy me, weren’t you?”
“Well, yeah, but I also didn’t know the answers to those ones,” Xander said with a smile.
Angel smiled back; he wouldn’t give up this banter and Xander teasing him for the world, including a
certain blonde slayer.
“You know, you could come over here and sit with me and we could do the puzzle together?” Angel
suggested, setting aside the book he had been unsuccessfully trying to read.
Xander eagerly scrambled onto his lover’s lap, pencil and crossword puzzle in hand. “You know, usually
when you ask me to sit on you, we’re both naked.”
Angel groaned at the lightening bolt of lust that mental image invoked.
“Well we can’t be naked because someone’s best friend is coming over later for movie night.”
Xander pouted. “You don’t want to watch movies with me and Willow?”
“Oh shut up, and show me what we’ve done so far on the puzzle,” Angel said, not falling for his boy’s
teasing this time.
Xander grinned and proudly showed Angel how much he had gotten done.
Angel looked at the first questions and snorted, “Figures you would know that one without help.”
Xander smirked, then looked sad. “Of course, even though you won’t let me say it more than once a
month.”
Angel rolled his eyes; of course Xander would know the answer to the clue, ‘McDonald’s verb’, was
‘supersize’.
As he moved on to the next question, Xander snuggled back against him. Angel smiled into Xander’s
hair, and took an unneeded breath to inhale the man’s unique scent. A scent that he had come to
associate with home, because that’s what Xander had become, Angel’s home.
“You’d think we didn’t have this same conversation every Sunday,” Xander said with a grin as his love
hugged him tighter, then turned his attention back to the crossword puzzle they always ended up doing
together.
*All questions are from the April 30, 2006 “Sunday Challenge” puzzle by Rich Norris.
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