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Chapter List
- 1-The Strength Behind An Enemy
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Xander and Willow did not move for a full twenty seven
hours. In that time another was making a
move, a move that would lead him to Sylum and a new future. Evan Cortez was a full time cop and part time
PI. He worked almost strictly for Buffy
now. Buffy who had not called him as she
had promised and was missing, Yvette had called him earlier to tell him that
Buffy had never come back to the house.
He was terrified by what that meant.
It also meant that he had to tell his boss and ex-father-in-law that he
needed time off to go to Miami and search for her.

Unlike Buffy Evan knew that not all vampires were evil. He had dealt with several good ones and
hunted only those that were evil, but he also helped Buffy with what she
needed. They had never been lovers,
despite the fact that they had slept together on several occasions. It was his relationship with Buffy that had
led to his divorce from Cassidy. She
refused to believe that there was nothing sexual between them. Evan finally just stopped trying to get his
ex-wife to listen to him.

They had divorced just a few months earlier. Cassidy had not been pleased when Nash had
refused to side with her after the divorce.
Evan respected Nash and loved him like a father; he had been relieved
that Nash believed him about Buffy. It
also helped that Nash had met her. Evan
could still remember that meeting. It
had been on one of Buffy�s shattered occasions.

She had just come from a hunt of seriously insane
vampire. Buffy had been injured, but she
had killed the rogue. Its victims had
been children. She had had a run in with
Spike, but the pair hadn�t fought this time and Buffy had been slightly
disturbed by the fact that Spike had saved her life, especially since she had
tried to kill him just a month earlier.

Flashback

Buffy was shivering in
Evan�s arms and he was rocking her and hugging her gently. They both looked up as the door to Evan�s
apartment opened. Cassidy stopped frozen
in shock and anger at the sight of Buffy in his arms. Nash stepped in the door, with Joe at his
side. Evan said nothing, he just went
back to soothing Buffy and trying to help her stay grounded in reality for a
bit longer.

Cassidy had opened her
mouth to spew what Evan was certain was abuse at him, when Nash touched her
arm. She looked at him and was shocked
by the disapproving look on her father�s face.
She glared for a few minutes and stopped out the door, leaving the three
men alone with a barely coherent Buffy.

�Does she need a
doctor?� Nash asked gently as he went and knelt in front of the pair. Evan tightened his arms around Buffy as she
made a sound of distress.

�She�ll be okay, just
having a bad memory moment,� Evan told him softly.

�We�ve all had days
like that,� Joe said with a gentle smile for the girl who was looking at him
warily. He had seen that same look to
many times in the eyes of survivors, soldiers, and fellow cops. Whatever was going on between Evan and this
girl it wasn�t sexual.

Nash was thinking the
same way and wishing that Evan and Cassidy had listened to him when they first
started dating. He knew the relationship
was doomed from the beginning. They were
too different for it to work. He hoped
that whoever had harmed this little girl was dead and buried. �You take care of her,� Nash ordered
gruffly, before standing and leading Joe out of the apartment.

Nash still asked about Buffy on occasions and Evan knew that
Nash would not have a problem with him leaving once he knew it was for Buffy. As he approached his boss the older man
looked up at him and stood, Nash could see the fear and the anger in his young detective�s
eyes. �What�s wrong Bubba?� Nash asked,
drawing Harvey and Joe�s attention to him.

�Buffy is missing, I know where she was going last and I
have to go help her Nash,� Evan said worriedly.

Nash�s face darkened as he thought of the broken child that
he had met through Evan. �Go find her,
if you need me call.� Evan smiled at him
gratefully and quickly left. He needed
to gather weapons and make travel plans.

~~~~~~

Edward looked to his left, smiling slightly at his
slumbering mate. His Sire had called him
and he had learned that he had a new brother.
He had also learned that the boy was in grave danger. His Sire very rarely called on him to come
back to the fold. Riddick knew that his
work with the school was important. He
and Raphael were a part of something good and needed. The school was a safe place for young
vampires and chosen. A place where those
turned against their will could go to be taught and cared for. Some of his closest friends were vampires
that had been turned against their will.

The Headmaster of the school, Sesshomuro, was a child of the
Ancient. He had founded the school in
1500 to protect younger vampires. When Europe
became to unstable for the school and its students to
be safe Sess had moved the school, students, and teachers to New Zealand and
had started teaching them again. The
schooling was in the tradition of Sire/Childe relations and usually the
students stayed at least ten years, before they had a mentor chosen for them
and was sent out into the world with what they learned. The same was done for the Chosen that chose
to remain within the old ways of the clan.
There were very few that chose to do so.
In Sylum only two had chosen to go on to be chosen in adulthood. Riddick had informed him that both had found
their mates and would one day be turned.
Sess and Inuyasha had not begrudged his need to answer his Sire�s
call. He needed to be there for his new
brother and that meant taking his mate with him.

He didn�t have to worry about his classes being covered; he
also had a duel reason for going. There
were six young vampires that needed to be given the choice of going to the
school. Unfortunately they had been
turned to be child slaves of the leaders of the rogue army and Eric, his
step-father, whom Edward really liked, having talked to him several times; had
informed him that only three of the children would speak to anyone. One was the
out spoken one from a set of twins and the other two were already claimed by
clans and adopted by his Father and Step-father. The youngest of the group Nikko, and the
youngest vampire to ever not choose to be dusted, was the mate of Ron Weasley. The other, Tru, had sworn allegiance to Sylum
and had already made plans to start a job in Miami.

He was worried about them, but he planned to talk to Ron, he
wanted the older vampire to come work at the school and Inuyasha had
specifically ordered him to ask the vampire to come and teach archeology at the
school. He thought that Nikko would
benefit from being around those his age and furthering his education.

~~~~~~

Miami

She stood facing him;
he reached out a hand to her and smiled gently.
�You have to be my eyes and ears, where are you?� he asked gently.

Tears fell down her
cheeks and she turned to her left showing a sign, �I�ll get them to you,� he
whispered and with a pained cry from both of them, he woke.

Elliot�s head snapped up as Xander made a noise. He stood and rushed across the room, when he
reached Xander he placed his hand on Xander�s chest and watched as his young
mate�s eyes flew open the boy screamed in loss once again. This had Elliot lifting him into his arms and
cuddling him close to his chest.

The door to Xander�s room slammed open and the group of
people watched as Xander clung to Elliot gasping out unneeded breaths and
clinging to his mate in desperation.
Through it all Elliot never let go.
Riddick and Eric made their way to the bed and Elliot reluctantly allowed
Eric to take Xander away from him.

The moment that Eric touched him Xander stopped screaming,
but he kept a hand on Elliot. Riddick
reached down and grasped his child�s free hand.
For several minutes Xander just lay dazed and lost in his families
arms. Then he came back to place his
mind had retreated to. Xander didn�t
want to leave Buffy alone, but he knew that he had to gather his thoughts and
get the hunters to his injured friend. �Xander?� Alexx asked gently as she walked towards him.

Xander turned opened his eyes and looked at her. �We need to get everyone together. I have to get to the lab.� Xander said gently pulling away from the men
holding him.

�What, Why? You need to rest, not
work in your lab.� Elliot said angrily.
Xander swayed slightly, but held himself upright.

�Buffy needs us to rescue her; I need to build more dampeners.
� He looked back at Elliot and the older man stood, there was something in
Xander�s eyes, something that confused Elliot.

�She needs us, more now than ever. We have to save her, she�s my sister. I didn�t know, she�s mine,� Xander said distantly,
his eyes clouded over and he swayed again.
�Buffy,� he whispered, tears in his eyes.

�Xander you are not going anywhere until you have fed,�
Riddick said as he stood, �Cloned blood won�t do it this time either, you�ll
need to take it straight from the source.� Xander looked at him wide eyed. He had only fed on a human chosen a couple of
times; mostly he lived on bagged blood and cloned blood.

�He�ll feed from me,� Alexx said in a voice that brokered no
argument. Xander looked at her wide eyed,
and ignored the tone she used.

�I can�t feed off you!� he said anxiously.

�And why not?� Alexx asked with a raised
eyebrow.

�You�re my Mom!� Xander said scandalized, he remembered the
way that the few chosen reacted to the feeding.

The group chuckled gently at his reaction to feeding off of
his mother and Alex beamed at him for referring to her as such. �In that case I guess we should bring in
another chosen.� Elliot said, knowing that no amount of coaxing would get
Xander to feed off Alexx. He was already
uncomfortable with the process as it was.
�What about Armando or Sebastian?� Elliot asked, even though he didn�t
like the two handsome younger men near his mate, Xander did like the two chosen
and had fed off both of them before.

�Armando has the flu,� Eric told him.

�Sebastian it is then,� Alexx agreed, though she was still
amused by her baby�s reaction to feeding off her. She turned and left the room to get the young
chosen.

A few minutes later, both Alexx and Sebastian returned. He smiled warmly to Xander and the pair
conversed softly in French for a few minutes before Sebastian calmly came to
stand in front of Xander. Sebastian
gently pulled Xander into a hug and bared his throat to the smaller boy. Xander leaned up and carefully feed from the man. The group watched and Elliot had to hold back
the urge to growl at the younger man holding his mate. Eric and Riddick
were also watching the pair, but for a different reason, they wanted to make
sure that Xander did not feed to long in his weakened state and hurt
Sebastian.

However, they had no reason to worry; Xander stopped feeding
and licked the wounds closed before they could say anything. As Xander pulled away Sebastian again spoke
to him softly, making Xander laugh softly, before kissing Xander on the
forehead and backing away. Sebastian
looked at Elliot and nodded in acknowledgement, just as he had every time he
had fed Xander. Elliot nodded in return, he liked Sebastian
and Armando both, though he reacted in exactly the same manor each time they
donated blood to Xander. They both knew
it was because he had yet to bond to Xander that he reacted the way that he
did.

Sebastian and Armando were the few of the chosen from the
different clans that had any scientific back ground or experience, because of
this they had been chosen to be the ones to donate blood to Xander. There had been a couple of women, but Xander
had been so uncomfortable touching them that only the two men and Calleigh
could get Xander relaxed enough to feed from them.

Once Calleigh was exposed as Bosco�s mate, Xander refused to
feed from her as well. No one liked the
fact that Xander was still so uncomfortable touching people that he stuck
mostly with bagged and artificial, but some very choice words from Willow made
them realize that it wasn�t going to change and by insisting they would only
make Xander more uncomfortable.

Once Sebastian had left Xander made his way to his closet
and grabbed cloths. �I�m going to shower
then talk to everyone and go work in the lab.
We have to get to Buffy,� Xander told them as he disappeared into the
bathroom. Once the door was between
Xander and the others, Xander turned on the shower and sank to the floor,
letting his tears come. He closed his
eyes and opened his mind, connecting to Willow.

New Orleans

Willow woke in much the same way that Xander did, clinging
to Giles and whimpering out her distress.
She had yet to feed, she could only cling to Giles and wait for Xander
to contact her and let her know he was alright.
Giles, sensing this, did nothing more than hold his beloved close and
whisper words of comfort to her, while John and Gabe watched from nearby. Even though they knew of the connection
between Xander and Willow, and had seen it in use before, the three men were
still baffled by its existence.

They knew the minute that Xander made contact with Willow as
her body stilled and tears fell silently.
Willow�s body jerked once or twice and that worried the watching men,
but after awhile her body stilled again.
It was when Willow began to growl and swear that things got tenser. Especially as her swearing was at the top of
her voice and echoing through the room.
Several members of the house hold stepped in quietly watching Willow as
she continued to speak with Xander. When she stopped swearing and opened her eyes
they all waited tensely.

�Willow?� Giles asked gently.

Willow turned to look at him and spun her body around
clinging to Giles tightly and shivering.
�What has happened Love?� he asked her.

�Livia has Buffy, she turned her.� Willow said before beginning to cry
again. Gabe sank into a chair and
gripped his head in sorrow. After a few
minutes he stood and left the room, ushering everyone else out of the
room. Willow and Giles needed to be
alone for awhile and Gabe needed to contact Nick.

~~~~~~

Las Vegas

Nick sighed as the phone rang and walked over to answer it,
when he saw the number for the manor he snatched it up and turned to look at
Warrick who was also answering his phone.
�Gabe?� he asked.

�Willow has awakened, she told us that Livia has Buffy and
that she has turned her. I am sure there
is more to it, but right now she needs to be alone with Giles.� Gabe told him
sorrowfully.

Nick closed his eyes and had to hold back a snarl of
rage. They were so close to getting
Buffy back and maybe even healing her from what Darla had done, but now? Nick
wasn�t sure they would be able to help her and that hurt him more than he
realized it would.

~~~~~~

Miami

Once Xander had finished talking to Willow he stood and took
his shower. After he was dried and
dressed he walked back into his room and saw that his family was still waiting
on him. Eric was holding a small object
and trying to figure out what it was, while Riddick was watching him. �It�s a flash detonator, the last one I made. I was going to make more, but I promised
Horatio I wouldn�t.� Eric gapped at him in surprise, while Riddick reached over
and carefully took it from his mate.

�You keep it in your room?� Alexx asked dazed.

�I was going to give it to Horatio and ask if he wanted the
other thirty, but I forgot about it.� Xander answered softly.

�I had Sebastian tell everyone that you wanted to talk to
them,� Elliot said into the silence his words left behind, while he mentally
reminded himself to start asking Xander if he was carrying anything from the
lab on him from then on out. Riddick,
Eric, and Alexx were thinking the same thing.

�Thanks,� Xander said and made his way out of the room with
the others filing out behind him. When Xander
reached the main meeting hall he could see a good number of people there. Mostly they were the hunters of the clans and
among them were Seth and Basher. When
Xander saw Basher he looked down, disheartened by the fact that he knew what he
was going to say would hurt the older man.

�Xander can you tell us what happened
yesterday?� Horatio asked gently.

Xander nodded and swallowed thickly. �Buffy, Willow, and I connected
mentally. Yesterday we became one mind,
I�we felt what Buffy felt and we learned what was happening with her.� He paused
to swallow again and began to shake slightly.
�B-Bu-Buffy was taken by Livia�s childer, Livia turned her, she is now one of Livia�s child slaves.�

Cries of anguish and rage filled the room. Basher howled out his pain and Seth, who was
at his side, held onto him. Angel
collapsed into Vachon�s arms as the enormity of what had happened sank in. Sparrow pulled his growling mate into his
arms and tried to comfort him through his pain.

Once the first wave of sound had decreased Kyra spoke
up. �We need to start searching for her,�
she growled out.

�No you don�t, I know where she is.� Xander said softly. The emotions in the room where like an acid
beating against his psyche, but he needed to get it all out before it was too
late. �There is more though, Buffy
showed me something else when she showed me where she was.� This time Xander
looked over to Horatio and to Alexx.

�What is it baby?� Alexx asked.

�One of Livia�s childer was his Sire, when you swore on your
oath you saved Calleigh�s life. They still
have him, but he is broken.� Xander told
her. Alexx swayed and started to fall to
her knees. Only Eric�s arms around her
stopped her fall.

�Oh god what have I done?� Alexx asked tearfully.

�The only thing you could do, they would have gotten to her
in someway. They would have made her
wish she was dead before doing to her what they have done to Buffy and
John. No matter how anyone tried to
protect her, they would have gotten her, I saw it.� Xander told her gently,
tears falling down his cheeks.

�What the hell is going on here? John who?�
Speed asked confused.

Xander lowered his eyes and then whispered, �John Hagen.�
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