Addictive Personalities

When morning came, Xander woke up with the taste of whiskey in his mouth. He rolled over and groaned a bit before swating at the alarm clock until he managed to hit the snooze button. //Saturday, why did I set the alarm?// He rolled to the floor and then stood up, for some reason his whole body felt languid and relaxed. "Woah! What happened last night?"

A flash of himself sucking on something hard and tastey had him thinking back. It must have been a really good dream if it left him feeling so. . . "SPIKE!" He yelped as it all came rushing back to him.

The vampire slammed into the room, sleep rumpled and disoriented, "Wha?! Wha' appened?!"

Xander swallowed hard and shook his head, trying to get his eyes to close back to normal size. "I uh. . . dream! It was a dream!"

Spike snorted and flipped him off the left mumbling something about wankers and personal pass times. Xander didn't see the smile that covered his undead roomate's face.

He sat on his bed and ran his hands through his unruley lochs. //I had a wet dream about Spike! A demonic and disturbing wet dream. But it was hot, and I was . . .// "oh Gods what the Hell is wrong with me!" //Spike! Spike's. . . spike! In my mouth!"

He almost ran for the bathroom to wash the dirty thoughts away before he could start wondering why they didn't make him 'feel' dirty. He jumped under the spray and let helf relax, trying to recapture the calm of the morning before the dream'd come back to him. //Dream. I'm just freaking over a dream, while freak worthy, not go-pyscho-over-it freak worthy. I've had wet dreams about guys before, it's just human nature or something. Okay I'm good, I'm calm.//

The phone ringing made him jump so high he slipped and tumbled ou tthe the shower, ripping the curtain down in the process. Stumbling to untangle himself and move at the same time he finally got back to the bedroom. He snatched the phone up quickly, "Harris house of horrors." He managed to joke, even though at the moment it was pretty accurate.

"Xander!" Buffy admonished.

"Hey Buff, what's up?"

"You, finally. You know it's Seven PM right?"

"PM?!"

"Yeah, we stopped by earlier but you were dead to the world so I had Spike set your alarm for 6:45, just so you had time to get up and dressed and here."

//Well that explains why my alarm was set on a Saturday.// "Here? Where's here?"

"The magic box! Don't you remember, we have a research thing going on tonight."

"Oh! Right!." Xander shook his head to clear it a bit, "I'll just jump in the shower and be right over."

"Bring the bleached menace with you okay? We could probaby use him."

"Hey, I'm all for the usage of Spike, and that soooo did not come out the way it was meant to."

Buffy laughed. "We'll see you soon Xander."

"Yeah, sure, cool." He responded and hung up. Dressing quickly he pulled out his wallet and decide that he had enough money to spring for sugary forgive-me treats. He couldn't beleive he'd slept through a whole day and the girls knocking! "Hey Spike! Come on! Scooby time!" He called, trying to sound normal, and grabbed a V8 from the fridge on his way out. Hey! he was healthy guy! It wasn't because he'd mistaken it for a soda, he liked his processed sudo-veggies.

Xander plugged his nose, gulped it down, then ran around his car for a moment to scream, "Gross! Oh Yuck! The veggies! The Horror!" The calmly got inside and drove to work.


Spike watched the boy's antics and grinned triumphantly. He was going to enjoy his new pet.//Perfect! The kid spent all day rebuilding himself inside. Bet he's just about ready fer another feeding. Some well placed comments and good timing should take care o' any problem with the slayer findin' out. Oh yeah, this'll be great fun.// He slid into the car and waited as Xande rpicked up some deserate attempts to bribe affection from his 'family'. //Sad li'l bugger i'nt 'e.// Then they were on there way to Giles'.


:Hey guys! I brought sugery goodness!" Xander laughed as the girls crowded him, glad to get away from their books, be they demonic or schoolistic.

"Xander be mine!" Buffy smiled and edged closer.

"Ah good slayer, you love me only for my chocolate." He lamented comically and then yelped "Hey!" When she snatched the box of donuts from him.

"Don't worry Xander I'll always love you." Willow smiled.

"That's my Wills!"

"'cause I know you always have a hoho on you." She raided his shirt pocket and smiled victoriously.

Xander pouted dramatically and hung his head.

"Xander. . ."

"Don;t tell me G-man, I'll have your undying affection if I brought you bubble tea, right?"

The watcher blinked owlishly, "I was going to ask i fyou'd brough Spike with you."

"Oh."

"However if you Want my undying affection. . ."

Xander rolled his eyes and handed the watcher his tea. "Okay, so even Giles is in on it. Haha. You all done picking on the Xan-man?"

"Never." Buffy grinned and hugged him.

//I must be the only guy on Earth, surrounded by smart and sexy people, who has wer dreams about a snarky, bleached . . ."

"So my little happy meals, what do we have to kill tonight?"

//Menace.//

"You want a Happy Meal, come get your toy prize." Buffy threatened and pulled out a stake.

"Sorry luv, I go fer brunets." Spike scoffed and Xander found himself holding Buffy back, well, getting dragged across the floor trying to hold her back at least.

Giles stepped between the vampire and slayer and smiled at Buffy, "Books."

"But."

"The point of a research party is to research. Go."

Xander gave Giles a greatful look and pulled himself off of the ground with the help of the watcher's offered hand. "So, what are we looking for today."

"Noting really, just researh in general, as always keep a close watch for prohesy's for this year or the conditions of the area."

Xander nodded and got to work.


Spike smirked, //free for all research? Perfect!// He snatched up a familiar book and flipped through it for what he wanted. "Hey rupes. Remember those clans that used to inhance vampires?"

"Inhance? Like a weed demon? Check page 420, one of these guys must have had a sense of humor."

The girls all laughed at that but he caught Buffy flipping ahead to check just in case.

"A-actually, f-four twenty is a modern police code f-for it so it w-wouldn't have meant anything to -th-these people." Tara blushed and answered Xander's grin with a smile.

Giles groaned, "We are not looking for a weed demon, we are not looking for any specific demon. Read. Adn yes Spike I do remember them, they were tools of the vampires of the world, used only because they could enhance a vampires already superior strengths and eventually they could take away the vampire's weaknesses."

Xander froze. This was starting to sound familiar.

Spike grinned, "You watchers killed them all di'n they."

"Of course."

"Didn't take you for the type to agree with the killing of the helpless, you know they were pretty much just humans with an extra feature."

"The watchers of old could not have allowed vampires to run around impervious to sunlight and stakes. It would be like handing out the ring of Amara in mass out of cracker jack boxes!"

"What about the Ksani breeds?"

The watcher blushed.

"What's a Ksani?" Buffy asked, curious as to what could make her watcher turn so red.

"A Ksani was very much a vampire whore." He coughed and rubbed his glasses, uncomfortable with having this conversation with his children.

Spike's grin grew as he saw Xander flinch. //A bit more of this and the boy wont dare to tell them no matter what I do.// "Whore 's a strong word in't, more of a symbiot. . ."

"They bonded with a vampire and ate and took in his. . . uh. . . fluids, to gain protection and imortallity and in return for this relashionship they soul themselves to the vampire body and soul."

"Sis they have souls?" Will was facinated.

"Of course not, they were demons. I was only using a popular turn of phrase, now, we are not here to study the Ksani, they aren't a threat anymore, we made sure of it."

Xander stood shakil, "Uh. . . I'll just. . . . I need to. . . uh. . . I'll be back." He darted out of the room as fast as he could.

"What was that all about?" He was so happy when he showed up."

Willow nodded. "He looked kind of green just now, maybe we should. . ."

"I'll go check on the prat." Spike stood snarrling as if it were a huge inconvenience. "Pro'ly jus' 'ad too much ta drink." He stalked out of the room until he was out of sight, then almost ran to the bathroom. It was going better than he'd planned! "Oi! Puppy boy!" He slipped into the room to find Xander wedged between the sink and the bathtub. "They wouldn't understand you know." the vampire threatened, "No matter how much you love them, or how much they love you, if they find out you;ll just be a demon. A threat to their happy family. Just. Like. Me." He ran a hand over the boy's face and smirked when he jerked away. "No amount of sugar will bring them back to you then. It will be passed what sweets can fix."

"It wasn't a dream."

Spike frowned at the dead sound of Xander's voice, the kid was in shock. "Course not. Think you could have come up with something like that all in yer head?"

"I'm addicted to you."

"Well I am delicious."

Xander pushed passed the demon and stomped back into the main room.

Spike glarred after him, "Shouldn't brush yer master off like that pet." He stood and reached down to rub his jean clad crotch, "Let's make this a more 'public' feeding."