Sword Of Life

An hour later Blair and Xander had goon over all the paper work that had been left with the lawyers by Joyce so there would be no question of who had legal guardianship. One of the most compelling picas was a letter from her ex-husband saying he never wanted to see her or the girls again and he was filing for a divorce. It was several years old but the fact that he never came to Joyce funeral or asked after his girls showed that he still felt the same. Xander had called him to tell him what had happened and on the off chance of something useful being said he had recorded the phone call and had the conversation transcribed.
Blair had read both the letter and the transcript and started snarling words in a strange language. Xander looked for Willow and Tara in concern. If Blair were casting some sort of spell or curse they would have to deal with it. To his surprise they were both absent and only Spike was listening to what was being said with a huge smile on his face.
“Chopec. I haven’t heard that language in a few years. Not since Dru and I were last in Peru.”
“You speak Chopec?” Blair asked.
“No but Dru does we had a bloody good time there for a few years.”
“Where else have you been?”
“All over Mate. All over.” Spike suddenly got to his feet “I’m going out for a fag.” He strode out of the room his shoulders slumped and Xander and Blair heard the basement door shut behind him. Blair turned to Xander and asked worriedly
“Did I say some thing wrong?”
“Spike and Dru were together for a long time but she left him for some one else he was very upset and I don’t thing he is over her. Or if he is he still hurts to have been abandoned by both his father and he lover.” Xander sat watching the door where Spike had exited unaware of Blair’s curious gaze resting on him.
“You care for him a lot don’t you? Blair asked softly.
“Yeah his part of my pack even if he doesn’t realize it yet.”
Blair just raised his eyebrow at the pack reference for family although it was unusual it was an acceptable term for it, at least in his book.
“Who else is part of this pack?” Blair asked.
“Everyone you’ve meet tonight and Oz, who is away at the moment, are in my direct Group. Then there are Four others who have a link in this part of the pack which mean in total about. Oh I don’t know about one hundred and fifty people who look to me as Alpha and their families. Why?”
“This job is just to help me get through Uni. I’m studying tribal groups in the modern world and your Group is a good example that tribal beliefs and traditions still exists in the modern world that we live in.”
“Cool.” Xander nodded at this and smiled at Blair when you have some time we could get together and I can tell you a little more about it. Maybe you can advise me on some pack matters that have been bugging me lately.”
“I would love to, but as you say we will need more time. Shall we get on with this then?” Blair waved his hands at the rest of the papers in front of him.
“Sure let’s get it over with.”
By the end of the evening just as it was getting dark Blair and Xander had worked there way through all the papers and bank accounts showing Giles had more than enough income to afford to take care of Buffy and Dawn. Blair tolds Xander that it was unlikely that social services would need to be involved in Dawns life and technically Buffy was old enough to look after her self. All he needed to do was meet Giles and he could close the case file on Dawn, they made an appointment for Blair to meet Giles in two days at the magic shop and Blair got ready to leave. After saying good bye to the girls Spike and Xander walked him to the door.
Xander did the host thing and walked Blair to his car out the front of the house.