Becoming What, Exactly?: Part 36
by Theory Queen
Xander took a short cut through the park, aware that the vampiric activity had been low since the end of school. Nevertheless, he took the precaution of taking out a cross and making sure his stake was where he could reach it. As he neared the band of trees, he heard the sounds of a scuffle. Breaking into a run, he made it past the trees and saw two ugly vampires beating up on... Adam? Xander tensed and prepared to attack.

"Damn, if this one don't look like Angelus!" said Ugly.

Uglier replied, "Yeah, but he's got better posture. All those years of brooding made Angel round-shouldered!" They two of them laughed. Uglier got Adam into a headlock and Ugly bent down to drink.

Xander made his move. He leaped forward, his momentum causing Uglier to fall into his partner, who lost his grip on Adam. He never regained it, but managed a quick look of surprise at the stake protruding from his chest just before he exploded in a shower of ash.

Ugly looked startled. He lunged for Xander, but tripped over the foot that Adam just managed to stick out. He fell at Xander's feet. Xander kicked him in the head, hard enough to knock him out.

"Quick, your stake!" Adam cried.

Xander shook his head. "I let go when I dusted the other one. It's gone now. Are you okay?"

Adam nodded quickly, and looked around. He spied a broken-off branch sticking out from a nearby tree and ordered, "Here, help me!" Together they lifted the vampire high into the air and slammed it, chest first, against the tree. It regained consciousness long enough to clutch the tree in surprise, then turned to dust.

"Tree-hugger!" Xander taunted. He turned towards Adam, who was bent over trying to catch his breath. "Are you sure you're all right?"

"Yeah," Adam said. "I guess in this new body I don't know my own weakness. I thought I could take on both of them." He flashed Xander a quick grin. "Not very manly, I know! Thanks for, uh, saving my life, man."

Xander brushed off the thanks. "Yeah, well, I like to think you'd do the same for me. Listen, just you be good to my Willow, okay?" He shook Adam's hand and left, walking off alone into the darkness. A faint breeze carried his muttered words back to Adam's ears: "That guy always gets the girls I like, and I can't even hate him anymore! I must be sick." Adam smiled and went home.

Giles, refusing to give up on his slayer, called his friend Linda again after a couple of days, and asked her to check out the lounge in the lowest basement. "Please, just go down and see. I've heard from a good source that the slayer might be, uh, living down there, and I'd really like her to come home."

Linda agreed and started down the stairs for the basement. She had worked there for long enough that she knew the way, even in the darkness. She opened the door to the old lounge and flipped on the light. She raised her eyebrows at what she saw.

A petite blonde girl that Linda recognized as the slayer was about to get bitten by a bleach-blond vampire.

"Look out, slayer, he's a vampire!" Linda shouted a warning to the girl.


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