i second the plea to continue this story.

Hey Joe. Please continue this.

That was awesome, the last chapter was pure gold as well! Hope to see more in the series when you find time.

Cheers!

One of the things I really like about this story is that you took the time to explain how adding more people to a relationship adds more work and problems. Much more realistic then what I generally run into. I also like the fact that you didn't brush over the illegality of multiple wife marriages and brought out a realistic solution.

Each time (in any of your stories) you do a scene where the parental figures are watching their kids on TV, I can't help but laugh.


...I'm probably gonna rec this story of yours too, but I really need to start conserving them considering how low I'm probably running.

Little known fact: you start with 10 recs and get one more for each month you're a member and leave at least one review. I have 110 recs because I've left reviews in most of the 109 months I've been a member; I've missed eleven months in nine years of being a member, mostly due to illness or school keeping me busy.

I don't remember if I asked this before or if it was already present, so.. Is the outline/sketch in "Tyrian" purple?

Because, like that tagline for review reply alerts says, it would be awesome if it were.

This story was rib-shatteringly funny and kept up the bad quips the entire time! Read it or weep!

I'm gonna have to go with number two. Number one is more beautiful and therefore eliminates herself. Cassie is always complaining that, while not a dog, she feels inadequate compared to her teammates.

Several parts were laugh out loud guffaw funny. Thank you. I needed those. I look forward to more whenever you get to them. *tracked,* of course. :)

nice fic overall, the only thing that nearly made me stop reading was the idea of posting part
in this fic and part in another. I always hate that in comics and that's one of the reason I stopped reading
those.

Edit: Hmm smart?....ok matter of opinion...I'm not reading the other story and won't because frankly I just don't care for it and it nearly made me stop read this story as well. That may be just me, but I find that a huge turn off for another wise good to read fic.

Well, I couldn't post the Kit-side stuff in this story for obvious reasons. And since a lot of people here were NOT reading the other story and then whining at me because they didn't get what was going on when the two crossed over, I came up with that idea as a way of forcing people to do the smart thing and read both stories.

EDIT: To each their own. Again, it is the SMART thing to do considering what I have planned for Kit among other characters, but if you'd rather not know what's going on when her and Dawn and other characters make extensive references to Scary Girls... well, I can't stop you. :)

Thank you so much for this story. Although at the beginning it seemed a bit forced , it improves notably around the 7 or 8 chapter.

I hope that you find the time and energy to restart t working on it soon. BTW, as I my knowledge of the Marvel Universe is seriously outdated, I have to say that I had some troubles following the companion story Scary Girls need love too, but I suppose that it's inevitable.

Well, the first few chapters are dictated for the most part by the nature of the challenge. If you think this is awkward or forced, see some of the other entries that respond to said same challenge.

As for knowledge, Runaways is a rather rare series to know. I just found them perfect to mash up Kit with for the side story, so I went with it. I'm finding people are having issues keeping up with her half to things, though, so Kit will probably leave the team behind soon to adventure elsewhere.

Whuh ?! Not even sure how we ended up here. Apparently my English is lacking in some major departments and I just can't let you misunderstand me like this. So let's try again.

If I somehow managed to insinuate my need to make this an ''almighty Xander'' fic, I apologies. In reality I enjoy it the way it is. You let him be human (no hyena, fishDNA or other hocus pocuses) and kept him on the team, not to mention the enjoyment his current company brings. What I like the most in Xander is his personality, so my request was never about power or the use of uber-skills. Here I copy/paste some quotes from the show...

"I'm warning you, I've been highly trained to put this through your heart. No mercy, no warning."
"I think the whole sucking-the-life-out-of-people would have been a strain on the relationship."
"They say young people never learn anything in high school nowadays, but I've learned to be afraid."
"In other words...'This was no boating accident."
"It's Giles, Hey everyone its Giles....with a chainsaw?"
"Um could we go back to the haunted house? Cause this is freaking me out!"

*O'Toole: ''What are you, retarded?''
Xander: ''No. No, I had to take that test when I was seven. A little slow in some stuff, mostly math and spatial relations, but certainly not challenged or anything"*

*Xander: "Yeah, great knife. Although I think it may technically be a sword"
O'Toole: "She's called Katie"
Xander: "You gave it a girl's name. How very serial killer of you" *

This is what I was talking about, his own way of seeing and expressing things.

-.- Oh for cry out ... Yes I know, it happened in ch.22...it was an example, that's why I didn't use words straight from it.
I don't want to sound like an idiot, but have you actually read your own work ?

¨He doesn't really need to tell the girls how to do their jobs, does he?¨
- *It was becoming increasingly clear that they'd run into something the girls weren't equipped to handle...*
As a 'Watcher' this would be a good time to act, but he keeps on making observations.

¨At this point, Kate and Cassie have been doing it for two years..¨
-*It's their actual hide that makes them hard to hurt, yeah? Not some like, weird mystical force field or something?*
So, she used that tactic against an unknown demon.. hoping it would work ? It would make so much more sense if Illyria answered that question.

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Apparently you made up your mind and nothing I say will make you change it. It's still a great story and I will keep on reading it...

"As a 'Watcher' this would be a good time to act, but he keeps on making observations." Yes. He thinks before making a decision. Tragic, innit?

"So, she used that tactic against an unknown demon.. hoping it would work ? It would make so much more sense if Illyria answered that question."
Again, it's SOP for a Pym-ite and also, when is Illyria ever straightforward or helpful? O_o

EDIT: Reading your other reviews and challenges and such, I get it. You're a Xander fanboy. That's cool. But "let's do Xander Almighty!" isn't really where my mind goes when I do a story involving him. Like, ever. If that's what you're looking for, there are hundreds if not thousands of stories in that vein on this site. Some of them are even Marvel.

None taken, I just wish you have been more specific about the challenge name, that's all. When I Woke Up - now I know and won't be asking noobie questions. You have to agree, I am not the only one who missed it.

Dude, calm down. Not trying to harass you here. I like this story and just trying to figure some things out, but you keep missing the point. Yes, all of those points are true.. when he was a kid over his head and mostly himself to take care of. Now he is a 'Watcher', with slayers under his command. Are you saying that he is the same person he was before all this ?
I didn't mean it to sound ''go kick some demons ass'' heroic, but more of a ironic heroic;
''Slayer; Hei we can't penetrate his skin.. what a bummer.
Xander; Well if we can't make a dent outside, let's make him all fussy inside.
He said offhandedly while looking at Cassie.''
Does this make any sense or am I shooting rainbows ?

Cassie figures that out herself, though, because it's a tactic common to Pym-ites. He doesn't really need to tell the girls how to do their jobs, does he? I mean, they know how to do their jobs. At this point, Kate and Cassie have been doing it for two years and Bekah has the memories of two superheroes who each have about a decade of "on the job" experience.

Wow.. just wow. Most people.. prominent authors.. yeah this conversation will not end well. I apologies for my stupidity.

Wait, untrained ? So let me see if I understood this correctly;
After everything that happened, he didn't even try to learn anything new ?
In a world where mutants exist, where weapons to contain them are been made. He never, in his wildest dreams, imagined a situation where slayer and witches would be powerless against mutant threat ?
Who let him command slayers again and why ?
Or am I missing something...

No offense, but you've been here for a bit over two months. Some of us have been here for over eight years. A certain level of familiarity starts to grow at that point, be it with other members or fixtures of the site such as the infamous WIWU challenge.

As for the second part... oh, was I supposed to develop some complete alternate history for the series and all the characters within Buffy the Vampire Slayer because her Hellmouth is part of Earth-617? And even if I did go and do that... what? This is the man who never thought to buy a gun, take martial arts lessons, or learn how to use a melee weapon beyond blind swipes in canon. What sort of alternate adjustments would he have made for the presence of mutants in his world, when he did so little to prepare for the threats he actually faced on a daily basis? Xander is the everyman. That's the point of Xander. That's the point of Xander in the series and that's the point of Xander in this story. He's not Captain America or Batman or Blade. He's Xander. His girlfriends are the superheroes. He's just some dude who fell ass backwards into a kick ass situation.

O.o Wait is that hostility I feel from your response .. is that even possible ?.?
So I just couldn't leave it be.
Well if it was a challenge then it makes sense, but it wasn't written on the first page the last time I checked. So pardon my blunder.
It is true that it has been a while (but after the whole twilight fiasco who can blame me), but wasn't his main 'shtick' is seeng more than the others and provide 'outside of the box' thinking ? Things he exhibited trough the series while been human; courage, daring and self-sacrifice ... isn't that heroic ? Because you make it sound like he is a waste of space right now.

The story is one of like, fifty responses to one of the longest-running challenges in the history of this site, laid down by the founder and answered by a number of prominent authors. Most people recognize it by now so I don't bother mentioning the challenge anymore.

And again, you seem to be forgetting that he's of dubious usefulness against vampires and demons, both of which are significantly inferior to the powersets you'll run across in the Marvel universe. It's not daring, courage, or self-sacrifice to jump into a superhero battle as an untrained normal person... it's suicidal stupidity.