Family

By Danu40k

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~ooOoo~

Xander read the news about the explosion and fall of the Watchers Council and panicked; Travers was dead, Giles was dead, many of the potentials were dead, and the timeline was screwed.

He calmed down and thought; with the timeline basically destroyed, that meant that his younger self, Willow, and Jesse weren't safe and that meant a rescue op.

He went into his room to summon Hallie.

~ooOoo~

Xander paced in the library while Sirius, Remus, and Harry watched. He had told them what he had done, and while they weren't happy about it, they could understand where he was coming from and were waiting with him for the others to show up with Hallie.

Soon a light appeared and out stepped Xander's Willow, Giles, Buffy, and Spike; though Spike paused till Xander told him he was invited, then he stepped in as well.

Willow was 5'4" and 120 pounds with red hair that went down to her shoulder blades; she wore a white peasant blouse with blue flowers on it and a flowered broomstick skirt with lightly heeled boots.

Giles was 6' and 180 pounds with a bit of a belly starting but Xander felt that a little exercise could remedy that, he had brown grey hair that was cut short and blue eyes. He was wearing a collared shirt with a jacket that wasn't tweed for a wonder, and Levis.

Buffy was 5'3" 110 pounds with bleached blond hair, although from the looks of it she was letting her blond locks grow out and showing brown; she wore a tight backless shirt with long skirt and go-go boots.

Spike was 5'9" and fighting trim. He was bleached white hair with a scar over his left eyebrow and a cockney accent.

He was wearing his standard trench coat and t-shirt with Levis and boots.

Xander was happy to see that Tara was with them and so was Oz and several of his pack.

Tara was 5'4" and 118 pounds brown hair down to her shoulder blades and is wearing a matching outfit to Willow's.

Oz was 5'5" and 120 pounds with tie-dye hair and henna on his hands and arms along with bracelets, he is wearing a t-shirt and jeans along with boots.

The light widened for a moment and they belongings showed up including Giles' library and then dimmed and went out leaving them behind.

Willow took one look at Xander and squealed running to him and hugging him for all she was worth with Buffy not far behind.

Giles smiled as he took in the scene while Spike and Oz and Oz's pack looked around.

Willow let go and then poked Xander in the chest; "you left without saying goodbye or even leaving a note buster that is NOT allowed." Buffy was nodding her head to show she agreed, "If it wasn't for Hallie we wouldn't have known what happened to you at all!"

Xander lowered his head; "I'm sorry, when Hallie came up to me I wasn't in a fit state and when she told me that my cousin needed me I didn't think about anything or anyone else and well…"

Willow gave him another hug, then let go and looked at him seeing the tiredness that this new war was creating, but at the same time the love he had for his family; "next time think ok?"

Xander nodded and then introduced everyone to each other with Oz introducing his pack to the group as well.

There was his mate Amber, her brother and second in command Trevor Abrams, his mate Yvonne, Castor Allaway, his mate Robin, Mike Bloodworth, and finally his mate Cathy

Amber was 5'3" 115 pounds with blue hair and green eyes; she wore three earrings in her left ear and two in her right as well as a nose ring and an eyebrow piercing. She was wearing patchwork jeans and a grey t-shirt with tennis shoes.

Trevor was 5'6" and had no piercings though his hair was vivid red with white tips; his eyes were green against his tanned skin. He was wearing Levis and a dragon design t-shirt with boots.

Yvonne was 5'4" with black hair and black/brown eyes; she was black Irish and proud of it. She was wearing a red polo shirt with tan pants and loafers.

Castor was the oldest at 30 and had the laid back grace of the rest of the group. He was 5'8" with grey eyes and blond hair. He was wearing a collared shirt with Levis and boots.

Robin was the mother hen of the group and the healer as well, having studied healing from childhood with her clan and then again in Tibet; she was 5'6" and big boned and muscled as well as big personality allowing her to make sure you obeyed her when she was healing you (or at least not argue with her)

Mike was the hunter of the group and the quietest if that was possible; he was 6' and 200 pounds of muscle. His job was to see to it the pack had meat while his wife Cathy's job was to see to the rest of the table and they worked seamlessly together

Cathy was 5'5" and currently 5 months pregnant, not that she let that get in the way of doing her job. She knew her husband and Robin had seen the wolf Remus and between the three of them they could get him back in shape and healthy, that, along with the rest of the pack helping to get his wolf under control, and he could lead them to the rest of the wolves on the island; women, children, old folk, back woods folk, basically all the folk who weren't hot heads and heading off to fight with the bad guy in Bosnia. Just the sort they needed to make things work in their favor.

~ooOoo~

Xander had everyone sit around the fireplace while the house elves put their things in their rooms and put Giles books away (Xander had to explain house elves to the group so they wouldn't confuse them with demons), once drinks and snacks were served, Xander, with help from Sirius and Remus, began to update the Scooby's as to the currant problem.

~ooOoo~

"I can see why you are worried," Giles told Xander and the group as he took off his glasses to clean, "Honestly I don't remember a Kruft in our timeline so he must only be in this one, and with the destruction of the Council…" He pinched the bridge of his nose for a moment and then put his glasses back on.

Xander took a sip of his firewhiskey; "Well," he began, "It's not all bad news, the Russians are bringing in the magical troops to fight. Seems they take a dim view of Kruft, this latest stunt reminds them too much of Grindelwald and they want to nip him in the bud before he can start another world war."

At the curious looks from his friends Remus explains Grindelwald and WWII to the group getting a pissed off Willow since he was Hitler's right hand man Himmler in disguise.

~ooOoo~

Dinner came and with it more talk about what had been going on, this time from the Scooby's; turns out the Hellmouth had closed with the death of Glory and Dawn so all they had been doing for the last several months was cleaning up. When Hallie had come to them telling them of the war and the Council's demise they had eagerly packed up and said their goodbyes to Angel and crew and left.

Now they were just waiting on Hallie to bring the younger version of Xander and Willow as well as Jesse from this realm's Hellmouth so they could make sure they were safe.

Hallie was also going to see to the Mayor so he couldn't add to the problem later since there were many who hated Kruft and his allies including D'Hoffryn.

If demons became known there would be hunts not only of demons harmful or friendly but of humans which could turn into war and he wasn't prepared for Armageddon

~ooOoo~

The next morning, on their way to breakfast, they all heard a noise and headed to the library where they saw a bright light and stepping out of the light came young Xander, Jesse, and young Willow followed by Hallie.

"That was so cool," bounced young Xander with Jesse and young Willow bouncing and looking around beside him.

Older Xander smiled at them and opened his arms to encompasses the entire building, "welcome to Potter Manor in the UK. I am an older version of Xander and as far as everyone here is concerned young Xander's older cousin, next to me is Willow and again younger Willow's cousin, and then there is Giles, Oz, his pack, whom I'll let him introduce, Sirius, Remus, and my cousin nephew Harry. Xander you're related to him through me."

Young Xander nodded and looked at everyone memorizing faces while Willow bounced around looking at the library and Jesse kept an eye on her to make sure she was safe.

Older Xander then looked at Hallie and she nodded, the mayor and Sunnydale were taken care of.

Older Xander clapped his hands together; "so who wants breakfast?"

End Chapter 27