Shattered 3

Inside, a low chuckle rumbled. I think we should keep him.

Of course you think so! Wouldn´t be so bad though. Might be fun.

The growl that answered them was merely an annoyance.

Oh shut up, you don´t want anyone! Two hours is a commitment to you!

How is the Other?

Hid, well hid. Confused. Things are changing. It might be time to withdraw him. He is no longer needed.

I´m fond of him.

As am I. But he was created for one purpose, to protect us from...

Him?

Everyone. Everything.

I still don´t want him to go.

You all exist by my will. You all exist as protection. You are an extension of me. And if necessary, I will reabsorb you all.

"Oz are you sure?" Willow asked, so pale she seemed to glow. "I mean... that can´t be right!"

Oz nodded sadly. "´Fraid so."

Giles gaped. "I–I–don´t know what to say! I mean, Xander?"

"Could he be possessed again?" Tara asked. "Like you were talking about before?"

"YES! That has to be it! I mean, Xander! He, he, wouldn´t DO this! He isn´t like that! He´s so normal and everything. I mean... he isn´t crazy!" Willow babbled. "I´ve known him for so long and he isn´t violent!"

"Be that as it may we must find him and stop him before he harms anyone else. Then we can help bring him back to normal!" Giles said. "Now, Spike wanted Xander to rest, get away from it all...does anyone have any ideas as to where that could be?"

They all looked at one another before shrugging.

Giles sighed. "I was afraid of that."

Tara rubbed her arms. "You don´t think Spike could be in danger do you?"

Willow shook her head. "Nah, he´s...Spike!"

"Xander is human, Spike...chip." Tara said.

Willow gasped. "I didn´t think about that."

"Perhaps a scrying spell is in order?" Giles grabbed a jar off of the shelf. He flinched as he heard a crash behind him. He turned just in time to see papers flying to the floor as Willow pushed things off the table. "Willow?"

"I´ll clean it later! AFTER we save Spike and Xander!"

Xander smiled as he threw his duffle bag on the small couch as Spike turned on a lamp on the table. "Nice. How long have you had the place?"

He glanced at the blacked out windows of the small cabin and nodded. The entertainment center belied the rustic appearance of the small hide–away. He gently fingered the CD selection noting the various titles. Spike opened the refrigerator under the bar and took out a small container of blood.

Spike shrugged. "Had it when I first came to Sunnyhell."

"Why do you live in a crypt then?"

"A man has to keep his reputation! Besides, if you lot knew I had means..." Spike shrugged. He broke out in a grin. "What do you think?"

"I think its great! Nice, cozy...secluded." Xander´s voice purred as he pulled Spike to him.

Spike´s chest reverberated in response to the sound coming from Xander. The light in his eyes contradicting his words, "I don´t remember saying I was a part of the deal, pet?"

"I don´t remember asking." Xander said as he pushed at Spike´s coat then pulling it off in one quick movement.

"Aggressive little thing, aren´t you?" Spike wrapped his arm around Xander´s waist.

"Nothing little about me." Xander growled as fangs descended. He snapped them once before he attacked Spike´s throat licking and nipping his way across the collarbone, tasting the flesh and finding it good.

Spike gasped as he felt the tip of one sharp fang slice through the soft skin. Xander flicked his tongue over the small cut tasting the rich blood. "Getting a bit ahead of yourself!" Spike tried to pull away only to find himself firmly held.

"I don´t think so!" Xander´s eyes glowed in the half–light of the single lamp. He growled low in his throat as he slowly moved them both across the room. "Does this place have a bed?" Xander hissed.

Spike began to struggle against the grip on him. "Let me go, wanker!"

"I don´t think so." Xander murmured bracing one arm around Spike´s waist and grabbing the back of Spike´s head. He caught the mouth with his own, prying it open with an insistent tongue. Xander felt Spike´s fangs descend and cut through, piercing his tongue. He smiled against Spike´s mouth and chuckled just before biting Spike´s lip. He kissed Spike again deeply, smearing their blood between them. Slowly Spike relaxed in Xander´s grip.

Xander pulled back, stroking the blond hair of the other man as he purred softly. "Let go, you have nothing to worry about. No one to judge you. It is only you and me, us, and we have all agree to you."

Spike blinked slowly. "Us? Who exactly is US?"

Xander pulled him close again and kissed him softly on the temple. "We are...us. We are Xander."

Spike tried to pull back again. "Okay, what is going on?"

Xander licked his lips slowly. "We aren´t sure what we really are. A changeling perhaps. Exchanged for the real Xander at his birth maybe? We are no longer sure."

Spike stopped struggling and stared at Xander before breaking into a smile. "Oh! You´re BARMY! THAT I can handle! Got loads of experience with that!"

Xander pushed him gently to the couch before kneeling in front of him. "We were strange. Even as a small child, a baby actually. It angered and frightened the Harris family. The father was distanced from us and the mother loved us but was still scared. It created a wall between the husband and wife. They sensed something was wrong. We did things that weren´t normal. We would invade their dreams; drain them, almost to the point of death. We didn´t mean to, we couldn´t control it! And then the father would get angry. He knew it was us. He would beat us... tell us to stop. He wanted us to be normal! So we tried. Xander was created to be normal. We became Xander. We hid within him and he protected us all. The father was content and left us alone. But his marriage was already unhappy and he fought constantly with the mother."

Xander slowly rubbed Spike´s legs as he spoke, his voice becoming hypnotic. "We would have completed our lives as Xander Harris, normal, average guy. But then the slayer came to town, and we were dragged back into that which was NOT normal. And Xander, average guy, couldn´t deal with it all the time. The original us became aware again. He created a new version to deal, based on the hyena spirit. It could protect us from that which would hurt us physically. It would come out in fights, mostly. But it was impulsive."

Spike bit his lip lightly. "It killed Anya? That faint animalistic scent?"

"We take on the aspect of whatever personality is in charge." Xander grinned. "She, did not like Anya, considered her weak! And she has never been one for commitment."

"She?" Spike breathed.

"She. When Xander was taken over by the hyena spirit he was taken over by the Alpha. The females lead hyena packs. The only female the hyena personality had ever considered mating with was the slayer, because she was the only female strong enough to consider. Weaker females are, culled."

"So when Anya struck Xander..." Xander continued.

"The hyena in you decided it was time for the bint to die." Spike nodded.

Xander laughed. "Now you get it!"

"The next to be born was me. Being around all you vamps all the time...it was only natural that eventually I would take on certain...traits. I dealt with the less than pleasant thoughts. The evil, naughty thoughts." Xander grasped Spike´s leg hard bruising them.

"Truth is the original, that allows us to be, is a bit of a vampire. We have looked around, we think we are Incubi." Xander rubbed the denim under his fingers. "We feed off sexual energy. We discovered it years ago, we made Willow want us, and we invaded her dreams, took her energy and in the end almost ruined her relationship with Oz, doomed as it already was."

"Well, yeah wondered about the whole, Oz and you thing...considering she is gay." Spike placed a hand over Xander´s. "So? You say all of you want me?"

Xander nodded. "Yeah, well except the hyena. She is a bit of a love´em and leave´em type. But don´t worry, the rest of us want to keep you."

Spike swallowed. "Keep me?"

Xander nodded again and smiled. "Keep you, love you, and adore you. Make you scream!"

Xander wrapped his arms around Spike´s waist, pressing his head against his chest. "Hunt with you, bring you pain, bring you pleasure, bring you victims, kill for you, and then bathe in their blood! Then lick it off of you slowly until you cum..."

Spike moaned as Xander teased him through his shirt. Teasing the taunt nipple with sharp teeth.

"Oh you do know how to sweet talk, don´t you, pet?" Spike panted.

"I know how to do lots of things!" Xander sniggered. "And we want to show you...ALL!"

"I have a feeling being with you is going be like being with a harem!" Spike laughed.

"Well it certainly won´t be dull." Xander pushed Spike backward onto the couch.

"You´re a wicked thing, aren´t you?" Spike pulled off his shirt. "Just do me a favor, luv? No talking to the stars!"

"No problem, I just talk to my selves."

The candles flickered in the near silence. Willow held the string tightly between her fingers, suspending an oval mirror over the water. The soft cadence of the foreign tongue she spoke was a comfort to those sitting beside her. Slowly she dipped the mirror into the water. As she removed the mirror quickly it began to glow. Holding the mirror over the map she looked deeply into the reflection as the glow began to disappear. Finally only one tiny area glowed within the depths of the mirror. Willow compared the mirror version to the real version and picked out the area with her finger. "There, they are there!"

Giles marked the map. "Its in the woods. We will have some difficulty finding it."

Willow grabbed the map and pulled Tara after her. "We have to hurry. Spike could be in danger, and Xander needs help."

Oz pulled on his jacket. "Maybe I can pick up their trail."

Xander held Spike´s wrists in one hand as he reached down to grab the stiff erection, pumping it slowly as Xander scraped his fangs across Spike´s neck. "Make you mine!"

Spike squirmed under Xander thrusting into the cruel hand that promised so much but just wasn´t enough. "Please!" Spike gasped.

"Please what?" Xander asked licking the crimson beads of blood that fell like tears from the tiny cuts.

"Please..." Spike pushed himself against Xander´s naked body.

Xander released his wrists and the weeping cock and grabbed Spike to his chest, lifting him off the bed and into his lap. Reaching up he wrapped his fingers into Spike´s hair and pulled his head back even as the other hand found its way around Spike´s waist. Sparks appeared behind Spike´s eyes as Xander buried sharp fangs into the tender flesh of his throat, drinking deeply. Warmth spread throughout his body, shocks of pleasure flooding him as shivers wracked his frame. His eyes felt weighted, heavy, and began to close as he felt the room begin to spin, only for them to fly open as he felt the sharp sting of scratches down his back.

Xander pulled back and grinned, red staining his lips, turning them glossy before capturing Spike´s in a bruising kiss. Feverishly he explored the mouth under his, mapping out every part, stroking the other´s fangs before cutting his own tongue purposely. Sharing blood between them. Xander´s own hardness rubbed against the bare skin of Spike, straining for more.

Breathing hard Xander forced himself to back away from Spike for a moment. Swallowing hard, he pushed the blond vampire´s shoulders onto the bed before lowering himself down to Spike´s solid member. Capturing some of the saltiness upon his tongue, he swirled it around the purple head. His tongue teased the slit, dipping in and out, flicking the crown with quick licks as one hand cupped the heavy balls. The other teasing the opening to Spike´s body, the room that had been spinning for Spike began to tilt. Spike reached out and grabbed Xander´s shoulders.

Xander lifted and turned his head kissing one of the hands on his shoulders. Spike blinked bleary eyes at Xander. "What is happening?"

Xander smiled, "No worries, babe. Told you, I don´t feed like a normal vamp. Just lay back and relax!"

Dropping his head again, he swallowed the straining flesh in one smooth move as Spike cried out.

Hands rubbed and kneaded the muscular shoulders, as Spike unconsciously began to purr. Xander chuckled as he felt and listened. Spike began to buck under him, thrusting into Xander´s mouth. Xander grabbed the pale hips tightly into his hands leaving blossoming bruises on the flesh, sending Spike over the edge. Xander pulled away and watched the spurts with a smile. "That´s a good boy, Spike!"

Spike panted hard. "Can´t breathe!"

Xander shook his head. "You don´t have to. You´re body is trying to trick you. It remembers the feeling... that is all. Ignore it. It can´t hurt you!"

Xander crawled up Spike´s body and nuzzled the long neck. "Babe, you are the best of all worlds. I can feed from you all I want and I won´t kill you! I can keep you!"

Spike fought to bring his body back under control. "You´re the Incubus, aren´t you?"

"First and foremost! I give the others their power. I can be whatever I want to be, I let them be what they are!" Xander brought Spike into a deep kiss ending all of Spike´s struggles.

Xander reached down and smeared the slick cum with his fingertips before reaching further down to the puckered hole. "Just relax. Remember, you don´t have to breathe, you aren´t being choked!"

"It should be right HERE!" Willow yelled.

Beams of light cut the darkness as they waved their flashlights around. Birds took flight as the light fell on them. Small animals ran for cover.

Oz made a noncommittal grunt as he leaned against a fallen tree.

"Apparently, we seem to be lost." Giles said lightly taking the map from Willow´s fingers. He turned the map around and looked at it with his flashlight. He consulted the sky several times as well as looking at the trail signs.

Tara rubbed at her arms briskly. "Willow? Did you remember to take in to account the mirror´s reflection?"

Willow spun around and stared at Tara before grabbing her head. "ARRRRGHHHHHH!"

Giles looked over his glasses. "I´ll take that as a decided...No..."

Willow ripped the map from Giles hands and folded it over. She then took a safety pin from her clothes and poked the map through the old mark. Opening it once more she compared. "There, we need to go there!"

Oz glanced at the map and moved his light. "There is the trail we need to take."

"I just hope they are all right!" Willow muttered as she jogged to the trail, followed by the others.

Spike collapsed onto the bed, asleep before he even hit the pillow. Xander gave him a quick peck on the forehead. "Aw, wore out my little vampire. That will NEVER do, I need to keep you healthy and strong! I´ll go get you...breakfast!"

Spike muttered something in his sleep. Xander smiled and kissed his head again. "Oh, you are the cutest evil vampire I´ve ever MET! A true nummy treat!"

Xander found his clothes quickly pulling them on as he walked to the door. "Stay right there! I´ll serve you breakfast in bed! Now, I KNOW I saw someone camping nearby...!"

Tara sat down on a tree stump rubbing her ankle. "Willow, maybe if you calmed down, and thought about it, you could focus better!"

Oz prowled around the edge of the clearing quietly. "There was someone here recently. I don´t know who, but Xander was here at some point. But I can´t be sure if he was just crossing the path or if he was here with someone..."

Giles studied the map carefully. "I think if we just follow this ravine here...we will...wait, you say Xander was here?"

Willow bounced up from where she had been leaning against a tree. "Could you follow it?"

"I think so, we could try. I don´t think we could get MORE lost than we already are." Oz said, beginning to move.

"Wait, I´m so tired, Can´t we please wait her for a second?" Tara pleaded.

"Indeed, we are all tired. We´ll just wait, a moment." Giles said sitting down.

"I´m quite positive we´ve seen this tree before." Giles said.

"No, we haven´t!" said Willow.

"No, I´m quite sure, we´ve seen this tree before." Giles knocked on the tree. "Yes, quite sure!"

"NO! We HAVEN´T!" Willow yelled.

Giles opened his mouth and Tara touched his arm, she shook her head quietly.

Oz and Tara shared a look between them and sighed. "Perhaps we should try that direction?" Oz said pointing to his left.

"No! We need to go right! The map says to go RIGHT! WE ARE GOING RIGHT!"

"What´s this?" Spike blinked as he opened his eyes. He was weary to the bone but the feeling was pleasant. He felt content and a little curious as he eyed the struggling man tied with a rope that Xander was dragging into the room.

"Breakfast in bed!" Xander said throwing the bound man across the bed as Spike quickly moved his legs. "He was camping nearby, you need your strength for tonight."

"Tonight?" Spike asked casually watching the stranger struggle on the bed. The man grunted and groaned as he fought to get away, scratches covered his face and his clothes were ripped in many places.

"We have to leave. We can´t stay. The others know, they are near here, so we all need to leave. We want you to come with us Spike." Xander said leaning down and kissing him softly. "Please?"

Xander took Spike´s hand in his own, stroking it with his fingers. "Be with us?"

The tied human attempted to roll off the bed; Xander grabbed him before punching him hard enough to snap his head back. The man slumped forward unconscious.

Xander took Spike´s hand again and held it to his face. "Let me take care of you?"

Kissing the hand, Xander stood up. He pulled ´breakfast´ up onto the bed and tilted the man´s head back. "It won´t hurt, if he´s already dead!" Xander twisted the man´s head until it snapped. Spike grinned as he held his arms out for his present.

Giles sat down with a huff as they stopped. "I think we are walking in circles!"

"That is IMPOSSIBLE!" Willow said. "We can´t be!"

"We are!" Tara said pulling Willow close. "We are, baby! I don´t know how, but we´ve been walking in circles all night!"

Oz nodded as he sat down. "I smell Xander´s scent, but it is like, all over and I can´t figure out the trail!"

Willow collapsed to the ground, tears in her eyes. "I don´t understand!"

Giles stood up and pulled her by the hand. "We´ll just keep trying!"

Xander arranged the man neatly on the bed as Spike watched nearby. Spike lit a cigarette and smoked it as Xander looked back at him and asked. "Ready?"

"Yeah, I´ll miss this place." Spike sighed looking around him.

"Do you have everything you want?" Xander asked picking up the jugs of gasoline.

"Yeah, all in the car. Ready to go! Where to first, luv?" Spike asked smiling.

"Oh, how about you pick!" Xander grinned spilling the gasoline all over the room.

"I know this perfect little place in England that all of you would simply LOVE!" Spike said walking out of the room.

"Wait out in the car! I´ll be right there!" Xander called out.

In seconds a small explosion rocked the house and Spike could hear the roar of flames. Xander ran to the car and climbed in. "Now, that was a rush!"

Spike wrapped an arm around Xander´s shoulders as he turned the steering wheel with the other. "Where did those friends of yours go? I thought you said they were nearby?"

Xander smiled. "They were...I never said they were awake."

Willow sat up slowly; blinking the sleep from her eyes she heard the crackle of flames. "Xander?"

The others sat up and followed as Willow ran ahead. "XANDER!"

Oz and Tara held her back as the small cabin fiercely burned, black smoke rolled into the cold night sky. "NO! If he´s in there it is too late!"

Tara held Willow tightly in her arms as Giles swallowed hard. "I don´t understand..."

"I just don´t understand." Giles said again.

Oz shook his head slowly. "I don´t think we are meant to."

The roar of flames covered Willow´s crying as rain began to fall quietly.

And on a quiet highway two beings laughed as they sped onto their new lives.

=End Shattered=

The Challenge:

Who am I? –Xander, unknown to the others, has MPS (Multiple Personality Syndrome) caused by his parent´s abuse, among other things. Now that he has left his parents behind, he starts developing the disease, with just a small bit of Hellmouth mixed in.

The End

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