Alexander

“This is weird.” Xander stated, slowly running a hand through Alex’s hair. It was a little while after the mind blowing sex and Xander was lying on his bed with Alex draped across his chest as if Xander was some sort of large pillow.

“It’s a mating bond.” Alex noted, pulling the bed’s blankets up over their naked bodies. “There’s nothing else that compares to it.”

Gently Xander touch the claim marks on Alex’s neck, which drew a whimper of pleasure from the long haired man. Alex blinked slowly and gazed up at Xander, who had found himself unable to tear his eyes away from the scars on Alex’s necks.

“You will bare them… if you want to.” Alex remarked, nuzzling closer to Xander.

“But they’re your mates.” Xander frowned when Alex laughed at his statement.

“No, they are our mates.” Alex smiled up at Xander, looking very much like a kicked puppy. “You will come with me… won’t you?”

“How could I stay here?” Xander asked, hugging Alex to him before allowing his eyes to close. With Alex in his arms, feeling safe and love, Xander fell asleep.

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The next evening Alex and Xander found themselves walking towards Spike’s crypt. Xander was carrying his worldly possessions in a backpack, while Alex was wearing the clothes he’d shifted realities in and a jacket he’d borrowed from Xander. He’d shifted realities in his typical outfit, one that was common for Consorts of High Ranking Vampires. Soft cloth pants, which resembled dressy sweat pants and a lose shirt with delicate embroidery around the neck and the ends of the sleeves. Xander’s jacket was rough blue denim, which should have clashed horribly with Alex’s other clothing… but somehow Alex managed to look somewhat regal to Xander’s eyes. As the two walked through the cemetery Alex seem to be entirely focused on braiding his hair, following close behind Xander, he finished braiding at roughly the same moment that the two young men arrived at the crypt.

Spike had gotten his De Soto out of wherever it had been stored and parked it next to his crypt. He was sitting on the hood, smoking as he waited for the two younger men. “You coming?” Spike asked, looking at Xander, who nodded and placed his backpack in the back seat of the car. “Good.” Spike smirked, throwing his cigarette to the ground and stomping it out before moving to open the car’s door for Alex and Xander. The three piled in and with only a quick stop to run over the Sunnydale sign (which had Alex laughing for hours) the three were off, en route to Los Angelus.

Alex and Spike spent most of the ride singing along to whatever tapes and CDs Spike had, while Xander silently watched, a smile on his face. However, when they were just outside of LA, Xander felt a powerful shiver run through his body, causing him to look over at Spike and Alex, who seemed to have experienced the same shiver.

“It’s the mating bond.” Alex explained, looking at the road ahead. “Our bodies are recognizing that our mate is here, that we are all together.”

“What if Angel doesn’t want us?” Xander asked, wrapping his arms around himself although he wasn’t cold.

“He wants us.” Spike stated, not taking his eyes off the road. “Angel and I suspected that that you were our mate.” Xander’s eyes widened as Spike continued. “That’s why I came back to Sunnyhell. Angel wanted me to look after you.”

“My arrival just confirmed what Angel and Spike already knew.” Alex remarked, leaning on Spike’s shoulder and looking back at Xander. “Don’t worry.”

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At the same time that Spike, Alex and Xander were entering LA, Angel was sitting, alone, in the lobby of the Hyperion. He’d sent his crew home when the shiver raced over him and he realized that his mates were nearby.

Now he was just waiting for Spike to arrive with Xander. He’d know that the young man was their mate from the moment he’d met the Slayer’s follower. Angel was sitting in the lobby of his hotel, staring at the doorway and trying to resist the urge to stand up and pace back and forth.

Just when Angel thought that he couldn’t wait any longer, the doors of the hotel suddenly opened, revealing Spike, who was followed by… Angel blinked in confusion and hushed the dirty little voice in his head… two Xanders? One looked like the Xander he knew, with an atrocious Hawaiian shirt and short hair. The other had long hair done in a single braid and was wearing simple but expensive looking clothing, which had obviously been handmade… this long haired Xander also had two vampiric claim marks, one on either side of his neck.

“Sire.” Spike’s voice was respectful for once and he dropped to his knees in front of Angel, tilting his head to one side. Angel knelt down and bit into Spike’s neck, drinking deeply of his child’s blood. Spike whimpered in pleasure as Angel pulled back, but not before offering his wrist for his childe to drink from.

Spike drank deeply of his sire’s blood as he noticed the two Xander’s talking with each other. Curious, he waited until Spike pulled back before asking the question that was at the forefront of his mind. “Two Xanders?” he asked, a slight Irish accent creeping into his speech.

“Actually the long haired one is called Alex.” Spike noted, motioning for the two mortals to step forward. “Alex is Xander, but from an alternate dimension…” Spike trialed off and turned to Alex, motioning for him to continue the story.

“My dimension was collapsing. The Powers That Be owed us a favor, and they agreed to take one person out of the dimension… to save one person.” Alex sighed and looked down at the ground, his eyes heavy with unshed tears. “They chose me.”

Angel’s eyes drifted down to the claim marks. “And your mates?” he asked, one hand gently touching the bite mark on the right side of Alex’s neck, trying to contain his rage at seeing that someone else had marked the beautiful young man.

“In my Universe they were called Angelus and William.” Alex smiled softly as Angel’s hands touched his claim marks.

“Four mates…” Angel laughed, running a hand over his face. “Is anything in my life normal?” Alex smiled and Xander laughed upon hearing this.

Angel breathed in and froze, his vampiric senses picking up a smell humans couldn’t really detect. Spike raised his scared eyebrow, telling his sire he also smelled the scent. Both Angel and Spike glanced at Xander and Alex, with raised eyebrows. Xander instantly blushed bright red as Alex smiled shyly, looking at the other man out of the corner of his eyes.

“Couldn’t wait for us, could you?” Spike asked, smirking at the two identical men. Xander took a step back, extremely embarrassed. He was stopped by Alex’s gentle hand on his shoulder, urging him forward. Alex stepped forward so he was standing in front of Angel, who stared deeply into Alex’s eyes, as if he could read something within them…

Xander watched as Angel and Alex stared at each other, a smile slowly growing on Angel’s face. Angel reached out and took Alex’s hand in his own. “Follow me.” Angel said to Spike, who had placed one hand on Xander’s back and pushed him slightly to get the human going.

The group made their way up the stairs, lead by Angel, away from the lobby and up through the old hotel, passing several empty rooms until they reached one which was well kept and repaired. Xander and Alex both gasped at the large painting that was hung on the wall above Angel’s bed.

The painting depicted William, his hair was long and blowing in the wind. He was looking back over his shoulder at the painter, his eyes shinning as brightly as the moon and stars in the night sky. It was only after looking at the painting for a few seconds that the viewer realized that, in the picture, William was leaning against a window still, and he was unclothed.

“Angel… it’s beautiful.” Xander whispered. “I knew you could draw… but I didn’t know you were that good.”

“I can’t wait to draw you two.” Angel smirked, drawing Alex into a warm hug and kissing him gently as Spike did the same to Xander.

“But there something else that needs doing right now…” Spike smirked and Angel laughed before slowly moving down and biting into Alex’s neck, on top of the old claim mark.

Alex whimpered and Xander stared at the scene in front of him… until he was distracted by Spike biting into his neck. Xander cried out, his eyes closing in pleasure as Spike drank from him, momentarily forgetting that anyone else was in the room.

Xander’s eyes opened in confusion when Spike’s teeth withdrew from his neck, and the arms around him changed. He looked up to see that Spike was now holding Alex, while he was being held by Angel. “My turn.” Angel whispered against the other side of Xander’s neck, before biting down.

Xander wasn’t sure when he blacked out, he only knew that suddenly he was waking up, curled up against Alex, who also seemed to be waking up as Spike and Angel talked over the two woozy mortals. “What was that?” Xander asked, hands moving to touch his scared neck.

“First step in the mating bond.” Alex explained, looking up at Angel, who was kneeling behind him.

“First?” Xander blinked.

“Second part’s the fun one.” Spike licked Xander’s ear as Xander watched Angel’s hands run over Alex, mirroring what Spike was doing to Xander.

Xander blushed as Spike’s hands began to remove his clothing, while Alex was helping Angel along. “What…” Xander whimpered as Spike found a practically sensitive part of his body. “What about your soul?”

“Wesley found a way to make sure I never lose it…” Angel smiled as Spike flicked Xander’s nipples, drawing a loud moan from the mortal. “I can now be as happy as I want to be.”

Xander moaned as his clothing was removed and he found himself on his side, looking over at an equally naked Alex. Xander’s eyes went wide as he was pressed against his double, as Spike prepared him. Whimpering, Xander clung to Alex, desperately kissing the other human as the two were made the filling of a vampire sandwich.

Xander screamed into Alex’s mouth as Spike thrust into him, and Angel wrapped a hand around the mortals’ erections, holding them together as the two quivered in pleasure. Xander’s eyes rolled back into his head as he screamed in pleasure --- quickly reaching his peak and feeling Spike climax. Xander and Alex lay against each other, falling asleep curled up together. Neither human felt their vampiric lovers pull some blankets over them before laying down to sleep, still looking very much like a vampire sandwich with human filling.

TBC

Author’s Note: Basically the foursome is a couple that loves another couple. So the “couples” are (dominant/submissive) Angel/Alex and Spike/Xander. A dominant will almost always be dominant (Example: Angel and Spike will only bottom for each other, so they will always dominant Alex and Xander.) I hope this makes sense… feel free to ask me any questions about how the relationship works.