Xander lay there in the dark with his arms around her naked body, not believing that this had truly happened. He could hear the slow deep breathing that spoke of her sleep. He wondered how she could sleep. He wasn’t sure if he would be able to sleep this whole week, but he wasn’t going to wake her either. He leaned to look over her shoulder as he lifted the blankets slightly, then he pinched himself on the other arm. he thought. He almost laughed out loud as the "Trojan Man" theme started playing in his head. They had come so close to actually doing it that he thought he might explode. But he worried about whether he would be good at it or not. He wondered if he would measure up to the others. now that was a thought he didn’t want to have.
Just then, his door opened. "Hi mom!" He practically yelled, waking Cordelia. "I was really tired so I thought I’d sleep early tonight."
Luckily, his back was to the door, so his body shielded Cordy from his mother’s line of site. Also, thankfully, she didn’t try to turn on the light.
"OK, Xander, but next time you make a mess in the kitchen, I expect you to wash the dishes," she said. "By the way, is Cordelia over tonight?"
They both took in a sharp breath. "Um, why do you ask?"
"Well, her car is outside, and her jacket is in the living room. She isn’t still here is she?" she asked.
"No. We had some ice-cream, and she didn’t feel well, so I drove her home, and she let me hold onto the car for the night. So I can drive her back in the morning." He was surprised at how well this was coming out. "I guess she just forgot her jacket. I’ll take it with me in the morning."
There was a long pause, during which he spotted her purse on the chair next to his bed. Hopefully she wouldn’t see that.
"OK, I don’t think I like her letting you drive her car. But I still can’t figure out what you see in her after all those stories you and Willow have told me over the years. She just doesn’t seem like a nice girl, and you deserve a nice girl," she said as Cordy pinched his arm, hard.
As he tried not to yell from the pinch, he tried to think of how to get out of this mess. "She is nice, mom. I’ve just got to get some sleep though. I have to get up earlier than normal, if I’m going to pick her up. Good night, mom."
"Good night, Xander. You be careful driving that car, and try to keep it down in the morning, you woke me up singing in the shower yesterday," she said and shut the door.
"Singing in the shower?" Cordy said barely containing a burst of laughter.
"Oh my God, that was close," he said and lay back flat on the bed. "I think I’m shaking."
Cordelia rolled over to face him, and lay across his side. "You are shaking," she said and kissed him. He stopped shaking immediately and returned the kiss.
Willow screamed as she saw the vampire hit Oz, and she saw Oz fly backwards onto the ground. He wasn’t moving. Willow know that she was safe inside the van, but she couldn’t watch this vampire attack Oz. She looked around the van and outside trying to decide what to do. It looked like the vamp was alone, and that Buffy was not around. She figured that Buffy, at closest, was a good ten blocks away at the school, but was probably a bit farther the other way at the cemetery.
The vampire looked at her through the window of the van then moved quickly over to Oz for a snack. Oz was definitely knocked out.
Out of the corner of her eye, Willow saw what she needed. Oz had a small stack of stakes in the back of his van. She was already carrying a cross, but that might not be enough to scare away this vamp. She climbed to the back of the van and grabbed one, then threw open the side door and ran around to where the vamp and Oz were, but they were both gone.
