Title: Can I Keep Him? – Part 2
Author: Xanfan
Rating: R
Pairing: X/A
Summary: From a request by stalinvsbear for Autumn with Angel. Xander finds a lost Puppy.
Spoilers: up through season 3 of BtVS.
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.
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Xander kicked a rock down the street. Damn Willow and her stupid magic and stupid soft feelings and
dead fish and ‘don’t-hate-me’ eyes.
“But I couldn’t just leave him there, Xander. When the vampire me came here, she told me how she hurt
him and stuff. And it’s Angel… kind of. I mean, he has a soul, he’s good. I couldn’t leave him there to be
tortured. I just had to bring him here. When he didn’t appear when I did the spell, I thought it hadn’t
worked. But it sorta makes sense that he would show up where he was in the other dimension,” Willow
had babbled when he and Angel had tracked her down at the school to confront her with ‘Puppy’.
After much discussion and a lot of whispered yelling (so as not to upset Puppy with loud noises), they
had decided that the imported Angel would live with the local Angel at the mansion, where Angel could
look after him and teach him how to live in this world, since sending him back was so not an option.
Angel had offered to walk Xander home. So, here he was four blocks from home, being trailed by twin
Angels, one who hated him and one who was scared of him. And both of them looking extremely hot,
something he’d noticed he was starting to notice about guys.
It really sucked that of all the hotness he’d recently noticed, Angel’s hotness was the hotness that stuck
in his head… at night… when he thought naughty thoughts and dreamed sweaty dreams.
Just his luck to lust after a guy who would never lust back, and then, oh look-y there, the guy’s identical
twin, who would also never want Xander.
Being Xander totally sucked sometimes.
As he was turning the corner onto the street where his parents house was, followed by his entourage,
he froze.
“And let the humiliation continue,” Xander muttered under his breath and flinched at the shouting and
sounds of breaking glass that could be heard. Just his luck: the parents managed to stay conscious long
enough to have their screaming-throwing-things match when he had brought an audience.
He turned back to Angel and Puppy and offered an overly bright smile. “So, I can take it from here, you
need to get Puppy back to the mansion anyway, so… see you around.”
Puppy started to wince and whine at the sounds coming down the street and Angel himself started to
growl.
Xander went to pat Puppy on the back to try and calm him down. Puppy flinched, but didn’t pull back
from the touch, even relaxing into it when he realized he wasn’t going to be punished. Puppy stepped
closer and Xander automatically pulled him into a hug, having comforted his other Scoobies many times.
The dark vampire seemed to soak up the comforting attention like a sponge.
Angel took in the sight of Xander comforting Puppy and the violent fight echoing down the street and
made a snap decision. “Xander, I might need some help with… Puppy. Do you think you could come
stay with me for a few days? Help me get him settled in and everything? I know it’s an imposition and all,
but maybe, since it’s the weekend…?”
Xander looked over at Angel, then down the street and back at Angel, not really fooled by the vampire’s
flimsy reasoning, but he really didn’t want to have to deal with his family tonight. “I don’t have…”
“I could lend you some clothes and an extra toothbrush, so we don’t have to go any farther out of the
way,” Angel offered hastily.
He was rewarded with a grateful smile and a silent nod of acquiescence.
Silently, Xander turned his hug into a guiding arm on Puppy’s back and they all headed back in the
other direction, towards Angel’s mansion.
*****
At the mansion they tried to settle Puppy into his own room, but as soon as Angel had gone to bed after
showing Xander to his room, Puppy had snuck into Xander’s room and lain down across the bottom of
the bed. Xander had tried to protest half-heartedly, but he’d been hit with the most pitiful pout that had
ever been seen, so he gave up and covered Puppy with a blanket and settled himself down to sleep. It’s
not like the bed wasn’t obscenely massive enough to more than accommodate them both.
Sometime later Xander was awoken by the sounds of crying and whimpering and… pain. It took him a
moment to get oriented to where he was and find the sound. His heart twinged a bit at the sight of Puppy
at the foot of the bed, curled up into himself with his arms trying to cover his head, as if to protect
himself from someone hitting him.
Xander realized he probably was, in his nightmare, trying to protect himself, probably from vampire
Xander or Willow.
The young man gently reached over and pulled Puppy toward himself and wrapped his arms around the
shaking vampire, petting his head and crooning nonsense comfort words. He tried to maneuver so that
Puppy could hear his heart beat and realize he wasn’t the one who had hurt him.
Puppy eventually calmed down and seemed to come back to himself. When he did, Xander quickly found
himself flat on his back with the vampire looming over him, staring at him.
“What?” Xander asked in confusion.
“Not him?” Puppy asked.
“No, not him,” Xander said sadly.
Puppy seemed to struggle for a moment, as if trying to remember how to speak in complete sentences.
“Haven’t been… touched… without… pain… or hate… in… so… long.”
Xander reached a hand up to pet Puppy’s face.
This gentle touch broke something free in Puppy and he swooped down to capture Xander’s lips in a
fierce kiss. He ran his hands over Xander’s body, trying to feel every bit of the boy at once. The simple
act of comfort from the boy was more compassion than he had received in years. Puppy wanted to feel
something more than pain, more than hurt and fear. He wasn’t sure what he was seeking. He had
received nothing but contempt and agony in so long, but he knew he wanted to feel something, share
something, and he wanted to do it with this human man-child.
Xander was overwhelmed by the intensity of Puppy’s kiss and the frantic touch that was pulling at his
boxers and leaving him exposed. Xander forgot that he shouldn’t be letting the vampire map out his
mouth and search for his tonsils or touch every part of his body with an unrestrained hand. He yelped
when he felt a blunt finger push roughly between his ass cheeks and jerked his head away from the kiss.
Puppy was lost in the feel of the golden skin and taut muscles beneath his hands. He vaguely heard the
boy speaking to him, but the words didn’t register over the need that was pulsing through him, the
urgency to own and possess Xander, who had shown him tenderness.
“Whoa, Puppy, hands, doing new and painful things, ease up, will ya?” Xander said with a grunt. When
Puppy didn’t seem to hear him and didn’t stop his rough exploration, he began to panic and push at him.
Puppy proved unmovable and Xander did the only thing he could think of.
“Angel,” Xander screamed.
Seconds later the door burst open and Angel froze just inside the door.
“I take it this wasn’t in your dreams?” Angel asked roughly.
“Uh no. There was definitely more lube and less pain,” Xander replied, his voice becoming a squeak as
Puppy tried to breach his opening with a dry finger.
Angel quickly grasped that Xander was in real pain and in danger of getting hurt by Puppy’s overzealous
touch.
“Puppy!” Angel growled firmly.
Puppy froze and turned to look at Angel in fear and question.
“Puppy, stop. You’re hurting him,” Angel said.
Puppy frowned and looked down and saw tears leaking from the boy’s eyes.
“I don’t want to hurt him,” Puppy whimpered.
“Then you have to be gentle with him. You have to let him get used to your touch, prepare and teach
his body to take you. I can help you. But you can’t just rush and force, otherwise you’ll hurt and maybe
break him and he won’t want you to touch him anymore,” Angel explained firmly, with a silky, sly
undertone.
Xander ‘eeped’ at Angel’s words, realizing Angel wasn’t going to ‘save’ him.
Puppy pulled his eyes away from Xander’s body and turned pleading eyes towards Angel. “I can’t
remember how to be… gentle. I don’t want to damage him. I want to keep him. Will you show me how to
not hurt him? Can I keep him?”
Angel smiled and nodded. Puppy smiled and turned his attention back to his new toy.
Xander stared at the twin vampires in disbelief. For the second time in his young life, he had been given
to another vampire as a gift by Angel.
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