A power on earth: Enter the dread and horrible...Irving
by twinblade
After lunch several of the new Slayers had gone out with Buffy and Faith as their supervisors. Andrew had begged to come along but instead Giles had recruited him for a look at a used book store. Willow and Kennedy had tagged along. Dawn realized this was a chance to continue hearing her story and found Xander sitting by the pool with Vi and Lena, a new slayer from South Africa. Vi was obviously flirting with Xander but he didn’t notice. Of course her choice in swimsuits was worse than her choice in hats. She was too young for Xander anyway. Lena on the other hand was 19 and built like Faith, but she was unfortunately more interested in swimming than she was in Xander. The two slayers started towards the pool and Xander sat not watching them walk away. Dawn slipped into Vi’s now abandoned chair and made puppy dog eyes at her friend. Finally Xander chuckled and asked her, “where did I leave off?”

Xander woke up to the smell of beef jerky and cheese. Orion had woken up and hit the vending machine at the motel for breakfast. Lucas was busy munching on the treats Xander had smelled, while Orion looked at the rest of the small pile of junk food.

“I was too poor to afford real food I’m afraid,” Orion said as an explanation. Xander knew his junk food however and saw thirty dollars worth on the bed.

“You broke the glass, didn’t you?”

“Yes.” No sign of guilt to be seen. “Tell me about yourself while we eat.” Xander ripped into a pack of powdered doughnuts and started with, of course, Willow. Soon Xander realized he had told this virtual stranger everything about himself, his friends, even his adventures. Orion was a perfect listener. He asked questions during pauses that proved he had been listening and often smiled at the funnier parts of the tales. He had especially found Angel’s nickname amusing.

After Xander was done talking Orion chuckled to himself, “Dead boy,” he said under his breath. “Well I guess I’ll tell you about Callie now.” Xander perked up immediately, this had to be good. “She’s old, way older than the Order itself. Occasionally she teaches me moves by showing me images of herself in other swords she has possessed throughout history. The earliest memory she showed me was of herself in a bronze short sword being used against an demon. Sometimes I wonder if she didn’t orchestrate my escape so she could see the world again.” Orion shrugged and pulled the sword out and started polishing her. “I think she is some kind of spirit of battle but she refuses to elaborate too much on the point.” Xander snickers at the unintentional pun. “But she does have a sense of humor, in fact she always calls me handsome, like it’s my name or something.” Xander looked at the clock and realized he was going to have to jog to get to work in time. Making his apologies to his interesting guest Xander bolted out the door.

‘You could have mentioned your car is parked just down the road.’ Lucas admonished Orion telepathically.

“Yeah, but then I’d have to explain the arsenal inside of it.” Orion countered.

Xander’s night had gone spiraling out of control. Phillip had called in sick, as had Jesse and Mike. Xander looked into the mirror embarrassed by what he saw looking back at him. The black thong was concealed by the tear away leather pants. The specially made shirt had a Victorian look to it, with each lacy cuff and the cravat all attached be a thin strip of Velcro. Jackie had said he danced or he lost his job, and Jackie’s daughter Tina had decided on a Dracula theme for him. Pale skin, dark eyes, wide mouth, he looked perfect to dance to ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper‘, or so she had said as he changed clothes. Ironically she had gelled his hair into a most Angel-esque look to complete the look wished him good luck and goosed him on the way to the office. Little did Xander know, but as the mantra ‘I must keep this job’ was going through his mind, a new face was showing up at the club that night.

Irving was in his best clothes, which unfortunately consisted of a blue silk leisure suit with matching fedora. He figured with this crowd of honeys coming into here to watch these guys shake it, he could find out, at last, what human women found sexy. He was tired of using his powers to control the minds of his victims, a willing bed partner always went down better (or so he had been told) and he was famished. Tonight he would prove to his brothers that he was a tried and true… incubus.

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“Hey!” Xander exclaimed as his lawn chair was lifted and he was dumped into the cool water of the pool. Vi and Lena had gotten out of the pool and snuck up behind the two. Dawn couldn’t help but glare at the red head and the brunette Slayers that had interrupted her story THIS time.

‘Well some play time might be in order,’ Dawn thought as she stripped down to her own bikini. Xander’s eye almost popped out of his head as he saw her saunter over to the side and dive in. She came up for air behind him and as he turned around, splashed him full in the face. Since his mouth was open to say something she caused him to start choking. Lena, who had dived into the pool after the prank on Xander pounded his back to try and get him to breath.

“Lena”.. cough… “Slayer strength”… cough cough “not helpful.”

“Sorry bout that,” Lena said obviously embarrassed.

“Hey no problem,” Dawn answered for the still coughing Xander. “My sis used to wail on him all the time.” Dawn turned her attention back to Xander. “So I get to hear more tonight right?”

“Only if you go put on less revealing clothes right this instant young lady.”



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