Sword Of Life

Spike sat on his bed drinking his blood thinking over what Xander had said, or more importantly what he hadn’t said.
Frowning he realized that Giles couldn’t have been on patrol with Xander because he was in LA trying to find Angel to tell him about Buffy’s death which meant Xander had gone on patrol alone.
“Stupid boys going to get himself killed” Spike muttered angrily to himself and got up and went upstairs to confront Xander. Not finding him in the kitchen he walk over to the garage.
Once in the garage he could hear voices from upstairs. He froze as he recognized one of the voices. It was Buffy’s.
{What the fuck?} Spike thought in shock.
Slowly he crept up the stairs and slipped in to the room. Scrunching down he realized that the voice was coming from the Buffy bot he watched as Xander ordered the bot to go to the magic shop and moved over to his computer and sat down.
He was about to get to his feet and talk to Xander when he heard some one coming up the stairs. Pulling back into the shadows he watched as a young man with dark hair entered the room carrying a box.
“Alpha,” the man said as he put the box on a workbench “Hey Alpha”
{Alpha? What the hell?} Spike frowned as he watched the man walk across the room.
Xander continued to ignore the man as he read his way through a file on the computer the man shook his head and walked up behind Xander and put his hand on his shoulder.
Xander spun round in his chair and the man stumbled back with his hands raised.
“Shit Tor you startled me.” Xander put his crossbow back on the table and rubbed his face with his hands “What are you doing here?”
Tor pulled up a chair and sat down.
“Was in the area thought I would drop off your order, it came in as I was shutting the shop and you did say it was important.”
“That’s great thanks Tor”
“Did you know that…” Tor said frowning at Xander.
“Yes” Xander cut him off.
“Do you want me to deal with it?”
“No I do it, just keep it in mind will you.”
{What are they talking about?} Spike wondered to himself.
“Sure, We set up the meeting as you asked the vote was in your favor” Tor said smiling “The children will all be there, will the others be there?”
{Vote? Meeting? Children? What children? What the hell are you up to Whelp?} Spike was getting more concerned with what he was hearing.
“No just the two of us,” Xander leaned back in his chair
“We own the site now and all your orders were implemented, Ronda took care of her end of things today, we’re all ready to go.” Tor reached into his pocket and handed over a piece of folded paper. “The last of the equipment came in today and was moved on to the second site.”
{Oh work stuff} Spike thought in relief.
“Kyle got the information you wanted off the computers we retrieved the other day but it could take a few months to come up with a solution. Are you sure you want to do this?”
“We have to try, its wrong not too. All five of us know what it feels like to be caged. If we can come up with an answer not doing it would make us no better than them.”
{Ok so maybe this isn’t about work.}
“Well you’re the boss” Tor stood and walked over to the door “I’m heading off we’ll see you Friday at the meeting, if you need us just call.”
Tor left and Xander turned and sat staring blankly at the screen Spike silently got to his feet and started to leave he was going to have to call the Watcher and tell him that something was wrong with his Xander.
Suddenly Xander started talking and Spike froze.
“Spike if I catch you listening in on a privet conversation again I will be very upset and will be forced to feed you pigs blood only for a month” Xander said turning around in his chair.