Title: Time Turned Backwards
Author: Caliadragon
Spoilers: Indigo on Buffy and latest episode of Angel.
Category: AU Crossover
Pairings: Xander/Graham, Doyle/Oz, Spike/Angel
Rating: PG 13 - NC 17
Warnings: Character Deaths, Angst, Slash, Violence
AN: Answer to my own What If Challenge. What if Buffy confided in Xander what
happened between her, Wood, Spike and Giles. What if she told Xander
everything that was said. And what if those words began to plague on him. I
don't remember the name of the episode, but I remember that the big eye thingy
said that Buffy, brought on the first evil herself. This will go AU after
Indigo. Fred calls back to tell Willow that Cordy has been corrupted by the
first. This is the last step for Xander, he sees everyone around him falling
apart.

Part one of the challenge is that Xander knows magic. Secretly he has been
learning it since Buffy's resurrection. He preforms a revelation spell that
tells him the exact moment that awakens the first and what it was that made
Buffy lose hope.

Part two: The Spell reveals that Buffy loses hope after Riley leaves town. She
really did love him and was unable to express it. Buffy was suppose to call on
Angel and the LA gang for help, but pride prevented it.

Part three: Knowing the truth Xander preforms a spell that turns time backwards
back to just after Adam's defeat. Xander must keep Riley and Graham in town
and bring Angel and Crew there. In the midst of performing the spell Xander
brings with him a savior and a unifier: Doyle.
How you put this all together is up to you, but here's the spell.

Chapter 2:


Xander stood outside of Spike's crypt and wondered how he was going to get the
vampire to come with him without actually hurting the other man. Looking over
at Doyle they both shrugged. Doyle made shooing motions and Xander sighed then
knocked on the door of the crypt.

Spike sighed as he heard the whelp finally knock on the door. Unlike the
others the boy actually knocked on the crypt instead of just barging in. It
was just one of the many things he liked about the boy. Not that he would ever
actually admit it. Though he did wonder who the other human with Xander was.

Finally he called, "Come in whelp, before some beastie decides ta eat ya!"
Spike heard snickers coming from outside the door and the whelp's rueful
laughter. a few seconds later Xander and a man that Spike thought was dead
walked through the door. "Oi! Whelp what's with the dead man look alike?"



Doyle rolled his eyes in exasperation. "Your humor hasn't improved any since
the last time I saw you Spike."



Spike raised an eyebrow, "I thought you were dead."



"I was, now I'm not." Doyle told him.



Xander chuckled again and walked over to Spike. "I need you to come stay at my
place for awhile. Doyle will go with you. There's a Passions marathon on that
you can watch." Spike's eyes widened and he wondered for a moment if something
was wrong.



"Why? Somethin wrong?" Spike asked figuring there was no other reason for the
whelp to want him around. Especially after the Adam incident.



Xander sighed and thought for a minute. Should he tell Spike the truth?

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