Wishing just makes trouble

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Chapter 12

Title: Running is better then dying!
Author: Merkat
Fandom: BTVS/Doom
Pairing: Xander/Reaper
Summary: Xander goes to Willy’s bar after the wedding that wasn’t. He makes a new friend and says something he shouldn’t. Now Xander has to adapt to his new surroundings.

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Xander realized a couple of things as he fell to the ground with Sarge. #1 and least important, he was in big trouble. #2 his god damn ears were ringing! #3 Sarge was a hard man to tackle. As they fell to the ground he winced as Sarge swung his gun toward Xander clipping him in the chin. He ignored everyone screaming in confusion, the meaty elbow in his gut, and the deadly look in Sarge’s dark eyes, as he tried to stand. Tried is the word. His gun strap was being a hindrance and his ankle was throbbing.

As Xander stood, he hit Sarge in the gut with his gun, and stood with a bit of satisfaction as the big man doubled over. Looking toward the Kid worry flashed over Xander’s face. The Kid was on the ground, dark blood pooling around him, with Samantha and Reaper at his side. Loping over to them Xander bombarded Reaper with questions. “Isheok? Whereishehit?! Ishegoingtolive?! CanIdosomething?! Ishe-”

Xander’s mouth was shut by Reaper’s hand covering it, twas very affective in an annoying way. Xander glared at the amused man as he took his hand away. “Two shots hit. But he’s alive. Not life threatening. Any bleeding has stopped. And yes you can help me get him up.”

Nodding Xander hid his blushing face as he grabbed one of Kid’s arms. He looked dazed, his thin face was pale, but he was looking at Xander with amusement. “P-pup how do y-you talk so fast?”

“It’s a talent.”

Kid’s leg was bandaged tight, so was his arm. *How many bullets were fired?* Xander could see some bullet holes along the wall, even in some of the crates, they made an S shape. As Xander supported Kid he was pleased to notice Duke and Destroyer had their weapons trained on Sarge. But the big man didn’t seam to notice. He was too busy giving Xander death glares. As Sarge raised his gun Xander followed his trusty instincts and dived for cover taking Kid along for the ride. Looked like another petty fire fight was going to go off.

“DROP YOUR WEAPONS!!” Xander looked at Pinky as the wheel bound man pointed a hand gun at fully trained and armed soldiers. Fully trained, high strung, armed, soldiers. Xander looked from his hiding place, everyone was staring at Pinky. Each person wore a ‘your not helping you idiot’ looks on their faces.

“I mean it drop your weapons!!! I have no intention to be killed by a MADMAN!!!” Xander sighed, Pinky wasn’t even holding the gun the right way. Xander scoffed. *Would he rather be killed by a sane one?*

“We should throw him into a closet or something . . .” He muttered under his breath.

“Yeah. Good idea . . .” Groaned Kid. “ Can you get off my gun shot leg now?”

Xander jumped up, apologies on his lips, only to snap his jaw closed. He forgot all about saying sorry because he like everyone else was to busy staring at the thing behind Pinky. The tall snarling thing behind Pinky. The huge snarling shadow ate up the distance that laid between it and Pinky effortlessly. Xander’s insides tightened and his trigger finger became quite twitchy. The thing was as fast, if not faster then a vampire minion.

“Oh . . . There’s something behind me, isn’t there?” That’s all that Pinky got out just before the big creature snarled and grabbed the whiny man by the face. Grabbed him by the face like that part of him was the handle of a lunch box. Reaper ran at the creature his gun raised, but the thing used the screaming half man as a club. It swung Pinky back and forth with strength and ease that Xander was sure Buffy would have had a hard time to match. Not that Buffy would ever have used disabled people as clubs. At least Xander didn’t think she ever would . . .

Aiming his weapon he fired and winced when Reaper got clipped in the face by a wheel. Sam was behind Duke, she was hysterical. She was screaming loudly and could be heard over the gun fire. Destroyer, since one of his arms were broken, only had one of Kid’s smaller guns. It wasn’t doing much good since his weapon only ricochets off the electric wheel chair. After swinging Pinky around like a caveman’s club the creature bolted and dragged Pinky away screaming.

“On me!! On me!” Yelled Sarge as he ran after the creature. Destroyer and Reaper were on his tail, though they weren’t as gun hoe, they followed at a calmer professional pace.

“Get Sam!” Reaper yelled at Duke before the man could follow. Sam was by some crates, she looked to be in a bit of shock. Hefting Kid up Xander dragged him in the direction Reaper went. Ignoring Sarge’s orders Xander went right for the nano wall, going through Xander scanned his surroundings. Finding the place safe Xander place Kid against the wall, Kid was unusually silent.

“You ok?”

“Yeah, just feel dizzy. Go help the other’s. All we need is someone else dead.” Xander hesitated. Kid still looked pale and he had dark circles under his eyes. When Xander didn’t move fast enough, he glared at him.

“Go on! I got my gun! I’m not helpless.” He hissed. Xander nodded and left the other man where he sat. Stepping out of the nano wall Xander flagged Duke and a frightened Dr. Grimm inside. Xander stayed close to the wall and had just turned the corner to where the others were, he stopped . . . it was too silent. Creepily silent. Xander had just got to Destroyer’s side when Reaper spoke.

“Listen . . .” Not even taking a breath Xander tilted his head and waited to hear whatever sound Reaper had heard. Shuffling . . . Foot steps . . . mumbling . . . The rustle of cloth. Taking a step closer he was just about to say something when the sounds got louder. Then an inhuman scream rang out. One scream turned into two, then three, then fifteen! A group . . . no a herd of snarling human-ish things came at them full tilt. Everyone started firing at once. But they just kept coming.

“Fall back! Behind the nano wall!!!” Yelled Sarge over the continuing sound of gun fire. Back pedaling fast Xander continued to fire rounds into the growling mass of infected humans. Getting through the nano wall Xander stood in-front of Samantha and the Kid. Reaper, Destroyer, and Sarge stood at the nano wall and fired round after round into the screaming mass. Growling Sarge kicked the closed button and smashed the control console. It sparked.

“The doors not closing!!” Yelled Reaper.

It wasn’t. Patches of the nano wall would open up giving the creature a way to get in. So everyone stood at the wall and fired when an opening would appear.

“Shit! Shit! Shit!!!” Xander said under his breath as he fired his weapon in little bursts. Sam was screaming, more then half of them were hurt, and Xander’s inner beast was snarling to get out. It was at the edge of his awareness, scratching at a mental cage, whining about protecting the pack. Xander was breathing hard. He felt closed in and his fingers were itching to use one of his grenades. He was just about to dive into his pocket for one when Kid yelled out.

“DUKE!!”

Xander’s eyed bugged out as two meaty hands grabbed Duke’s ankles and started to pull him down. “Shit!!”

Xander dived for the floor, his gun in one hand a long knife in the other. Using the momentum of his fall he force the knife hilt deep into the grayish yellow hand. Xander mentally winced as Duke yelled out in pain. The knife most likely cut him pretty good too. Kid pulled out his hand gun and started shooting at the creature through the grate. Shoving the front end of his gun into the grate Xander fired his entire clip. Rolling away from the damaged grate Xander glared at Duke who was at the moment being hugged and babied by Samantha. Well Duke WAS hurt. His foot was bleeding and the other was missing a shoe.

“Damn Xan!! You didn’t have to stab me?!”

Xander glared at the whining man. “Yeah . . . next time I save your bloody life I’ll be more considerate. After-all the monster probably only wanted to invite you out for a drink or something . . . it’s not like it was trying to kill you . . .”

“And god damn it! It took my shoe!! These were my favorite shoe’s man!!” Said Duke as he kicked the grate.

As that was going on Reaper, Sarge, and Destroyer were pumping lead into the monsters that kept coming.

“Fall back!!” Yelled Reaper as their shots started ricocheting back at them. Destroyer helped Kid up and both men limped to the next room. Samantha was wide-eyed and screaming but went unresisting as Duke pulled her along into the next room. Suddenly a pair of large arms shot through the nano wall and grabbed Sarge making the man fall to the ground. The creatures kept coming, some were getting though.

“I’m not supposed to DIE!” Sarge was hanging onto the wall. Only his head and his bulky arms were still on their side of the nano wall. Reaper and Sarge made eye contact then the man disappeared. Shooting at the nano wall, Xander clubbed a creature that got through, using the handle of his gun to cave in the things head.

“Come on Reaper we have to go!!!”

Running ahead Xander didn’t see Reaper stumble or use the wall as a hand hold as he ran. When the man was in, they slammed the door and started stacking boxes, crates, and anything heavy in-front of the door.

“Where’s Sarge?” Asked Duke.

“Gone . . .” Was all Reaper got out as he slid to the ground, his hand over his gut. Sam was at her brother’s side in a second, her own fears forgotten.

“Oh John you’ve been hit . . .”

Blood was gushing out of the man like a water balloon with a hole in it. Pulling out a bandage Xander pressed it to Reaper’s wound. It was soaked in seconds. The man was dying. Reaper was a mess, bleeding from a large gash in the face, blood coming out of his mouth. His eyes were glazed and he was stone cold and as pale as a corpse. Xander felt sick. Reaper’s blood was sticky on his hands, it was all over!

Inside his head Xander was howling with sorrow! He was failing his pack! At the moment Xander was fighting the urge to just roll over and die. He was nothing without the pack. *Whine* Nothing.

Xander looked at Sam. She was calm. Serene almost. Xander was wondering what she was taking because he wanted some. Leader gone mentally and physically, other leader bleeding to death, and flesh-eating people infecting creatures around them . . . XANDER WANTED SOME DAMN SERENITY!!!

And no he wasn’t trying to distract himself from the fact that someone he cared about was going to die. He never even got a chance to tell Reaper he lo . . . Tell Reaper things. He was just about to bitch about that when Reaper grabbed Xander by the collar and pulled him nose to nose with the man. Xander wanted to kick himself for feeling fluttery. The man was bleeding to death, damn it, and he had the gull to blush!!! Mental sickness much!!

“ G-get everyone o-out of here . . . here . . . a-alive.” Reaper panted. Xander nodded and was about to make a joke about butt monkey’s and life stealing all the good things when he noticed a needle heading for Reaper’s arm.

“H-hey this is no time for drugs!! What are you trying to do a-anyway?” Xander ignored the fact that he sounded a bit teary.

Sam gave he a dirty look. “He’s dying. This is C24. It’s from-”

She was startled mid-sentence when Reaper pulled violently from her hold. “NO! No, no!!”

“John it could save you . . . it could save you.” Sam whispered in an almost pleading voice.

Xander felt a little hopeful with a healthy dose of wary. Sure the C24 could save Reaper but it only had a fifty percent chance of positive effects. And even if it could turn Reaper super human . . . would he still be the same man he used to? Would it change him more then physically?

Xander watched the twins make eye contact, he watched the powerful emotions cross their faces. Reaper made a pained noise as Xander pressed more padding to his wound, which seamed to jar him out of whatever zone they were in. “Sam . . . I’ve done some bad things . . .”

Sam smiled. “I know you. You’re my brother.”

“Guys we got to go! Come on!” Said Duke as he limped forward.

“In a minute!” Hissed Xander as he watched Sam inject Reaper with the drug.

“We have to go! Pup! Now!” Yelled Destroyer as he pulled Kid to the other door. The pounding on the blocked door was intensifying and the door was open a crack.

A loud snarl sounded, looking at the door Xander’s eyes widened. He could see fingers. Shit!! “Come on Samantha!!”

Making the blond get up Xander was about to reach for a very still Reaper when he noticed the man wasn’t breathing. Feeling for a pulse Xander took a shuddering breath as a sharp pain flashed in his heart. “Dead . . .”

Standing Xander signaled everyone to move out. “Wait! John!” Samantha gasped out as Duke pulled her along.

“Dead. Come on! We can’t do anything for a dead man!” With Duke in the back and Xander leading the way, they made their trek to the elevator. Killing the enemy seamed hopeless right now . . . Maybe they could blow the building.

“We just going to keep running like this Pup?” Said Duke as he limped along. His ankle hurt like all hell!

“Xander didn’t look at Duke as he spoke. “Running is better then dying.”

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