I finally got back to reading. Glad to see you have kept this one going. Love the story.

He really needs to coat that thing in silver!

Pour holy water all over it before throwing it. Or inscribe crosses all over the gripping edge. Silver would only help if he was facing werewolves.

Oh wait, that's a legitimate concern in Sunnydale. Thanks for pointing it out. :-)

Awesome.
Also, I see what you did there.

I do that a lot. :-)

Obviously Angelus doesn't read Buffy fanfic. Endangering willow in front on Xander never ends well. And throwing things at Giles' head will only add to his concussion collection. :)

That was one of several scenes in that whole Angelus storyline that bugged me, because he would spend all this effort setting up something stupid, and then he'd just go hide for a week or two. Granted, they were constrained by the weekly nature of the series, but still... I thought Angelus could do something more creative. After all, he knows how people react, and he knows what it will do to Xander if Xander thinks it is his fault that Giles got horribly killed in front of everyone else.

You're a lot more evil when you're writing this story I think... It's Willow... not like he couldn't take the shot.

I think there are other stories where I let my evilness *really* show. People are still complaining about the "Cross Purposes" vignette where Sam went all DCU Evil Scientist. I blame my muse Agatha.

Oooooooh dear.

That's rather unfortunate...

It occurred to me that Angelus might actually be doing something clever, instead of something ruthless and cruel, but stupid.

Ok, on multiple fronts here, that ain't good...

And there is no Soldier Boy memory to help Xander land a cool rocket launcher (which they never used ever again, no matter how convenient it could have been).

Yay for another chapter. Very interesting, the slight changes you made to canon here. Loved the alley fight scene by the way. Short a brutal. Perfect.

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EDIT: Actually, the changes I was talking about were for the meet and greet with Angelus. I don't think Giles was there the first time and there definitely wasn't a chakram.

Actually, we'll never know if the fight in the alley at the bus station is canon or not. In canon, Xander really did get sent to watch the bus station. In the middle of the night. By himself. (What? Were they serious? Send an untrained teenager into vamp-infested areas in the dead of night to watch for... more vamps? Yeesh.) The only thing we learn about his trip in canon is that a four hundred pound wino offered to 'wash his hair'. So I kept that, more or less.

Think Xander did get a good thought on getting rid of the Judge right before Dead Boy showed up, just his luck. How Angelus expects to get away with all the people around him makes me wonder, oh that's right Buffy would let him kill them all before hurting him first. Expect Giles might get hit or glazed if he dodges right, please let's hope they don't fall to pieces if he does get hit hard as that is likely his plan to stall them for the Judge to gain more power. Xander should not blame himself, it is more Buffy's fault if any, but me all know he is take the blame-man.

It would have been a lot worse if Angelus had showed up and had given Xander the chance to spill his plan, at which point Angelus would have realized he needed to kill Xander and Willow immediately, and play psycho games elsewhere.

Exciting and... different.

Things will slowly change, so the big deviations will be much later.

A good bit of semi-AU Xander-centric Sunnydale plot.

In the original, Xander comes back from the bus station and only says that a 400 pound wino offered to wash his hair.

Hahaha you would think he knew better cant wait to see how he gets out of this one ;D

Yeah, he kind of put his foot in it, along with his leg and his internal organs.

So basically, yet another night in Sunnyhell for Xander.

Hahaha, he has the worst luck. Or the best luck, as far as I'm concerned ; it does make things interesting.

You'd think Xander would know better. But then, he doesn't hang out in stupid places ordinarily, unless he's got The Slayer backing him up.

Xander, Xander, Xander... Good to see that depsite all of Xena's influence, you can still be an idiot. I wonder how many of he wino's and drug addicts are demons too...

And I hope that Buffy won't hump Angel this time...

Thanks for writing

If those winos and addicts aren't demons, why haven't they been eaten yet? Do they taste bad? Maybe there's a serious consequence to imbibing from the loaded, since Spike once recounted being steoned after drinking an LSD-using hippie at Woodstock.

As for Buffy, she's already got The Judge... and no Soldier Boy Xander to come up with a rocket launcher. Uh-oh.

I've had a theory that there must be a couple 'women' like that hooker vamp turning guys to keep the sunnydale streets full of male newbies to keep Buffy busy.

It seems like Buffy kills half a dozen vamps every night she's out patrolling. That's a couple thousand vamps a year. Those vamps have to come from *somewhere*.

It's also possible vamps all over the world (or at least all over the US) are saying "go west, young vamp" to annoying recently-sired loser-vamps just to get rid of them. "The streets of Sunnydale are paved with blood, and there's unwary bloodbags walking around unprotected all the time!"

Oh wait, that's actually true.