Xander was in trouble. He knew it in the way that he knew that Buffy was the Chosen One, and vampires were bad. Except that Buffy wasn’t exactly the Chosen “one”, and vampires weren’t all bad. So maybe he wasn’t going to be in so much trouble after all.
No, he was in trouble. The big, brooding vampire kind of trouble.
But really, it wasn’t his fault that Angel was all mister sleep the day away vampire! They were in a foreign country for god’s sake, and Xander wanted to explore, see the sights! Okay, so Angel had kind of gotten him to promise that he wouldn’t leave the house, and he’d kind of, sort of, well all the way really, broken that promise.
Still, it was for a good cause! He was, uh, supporting Angel’s homeland! Right! He was supporting the Irish! Go Ireland! Although he’d yet to see so much as a leprechaun and wasn’t that just a kicker. So not fair. All the way in the land of fey, and nothing but big scary slimy demons that came out of nowhere and sniffed him all over.
Yep. He’d been sniffed. What was it with the sniffing? He showered. Daily, in fact. Actually, usually more than that, cause Angel was obsessed with the clean. Xander wondered if it was in part due to their first dalliance back in the shower of his apartment at Wolfram and Hart. Aww. He should start calling it Wolfram and Heart with as mushy as he was being. He couldn’t help it though. Angel brought out the mush in him.
Speaking of Angel and mush, that’s exactly what he was going to be when Angel found out he’d broken his promise and left the house. See, he’d wanted some real Irish food for lunch and had snuck out just long enough to grab a bite and a pint (mmm…real Irish beer was tasty) and then he was coming straight back to Angel’s house. Where could be the harm in that? Oh, but he’d forgotten! He attracted demons like Buffy attracted…wait, he didn’t even want to finish that analogy.
He ran through the back door and immediately stripped off his slime covered clothes. Another promise was about to be broken. See, he’d also promised Angel that he would never, ever attempt to do laundry again. One washing of a dry clean only suit and he’d been relegated to laundry free duty. Which, now that he thought about it, wasn’t so bad after all.
However, he was not going to let Angel see his clothes covered in slime. He wasn’t going to let Angel see him covered in slime either, and wasn’t he just full of smart ideas today. Fortunately, there was now a perfectly usable shower downstairs thanks to Angel’s gazillion dollar renovation of his family home.
Xander scrub-a-dub-dubbed his way through a shower, making sure to wash himself three times for good measure, then stepped out and sort of dried himself off. What? Angel liked dripping Xander, and it could perhaps provide him with the much needed distraction to prevent the big trouble.
He tiptoed his way back to the master suite and prepared to work his magic with Angel. What he was not prepared for was the sight of a slime demon standing in the master suite with Angel. Xander nearly shrieked, and damn it, he thought he’d broken that whole shrieking habit, then slapped his hand over his face, not wanting to see the carnage.
But there was no carnage-esque sounds going on. In fact, things had gotten awfully quiet. Xander opened his fingers just enough so he could peek out through them and catch a glimpse of whatever Angel had done to the slimy one.
Angel and said slimy one were staring at him like he had two heads. Which he didn’t. He hoped. He checked. Nope, only one head and still only two eyes. Whew. Now that he had both of them back, he’d hate to lose one again or add another couple to his collection.
“Xander?”
“Uh, yeah, that’s me.”
“You left the house.”
“Well…”
Angel growled. “Xander…”
“Angel, it wasn’t a fair promise! I was hungry, and there was Irish beer! I’m only human after all!”
Angel laughed, and the slime demon chuckled. And ew, slime demon chuckles were kind of gross sounding. “It’s not funny! That guy slimed me! And all I wanted was beer!”
The slime demon oozed his way towards the door, and Angel escorted him out before turning to Xander. “What am I going to do with you?”
“Uh, show me why I should be a better listener? Preferably without pain, cause really…”
Angel scooped Xander up in his arms and carried him into the bathroom. “Aww, come on Angel. I just showered. Three times.”
“I know. I heard you. And now you don’t smell like me, and I plan on remedying that as quickly as possible.”
Xander’s heart did one of those little flip-floppy things that made him feel all squishy inside. “Wait. Smell like you? What’s that supposed to mean?”
Angel sighed. “Xander, just get in the shower.”
Since Angel was busily stripping off his silky sleep pants, Xander didn’t have an issue complying. Although he still maintained that he was perfectly clean and not in need of another…..ahh, hot water with all the little jets and spigots that were aimed just right.
Angel stepped in behind him and pressed himself to Xander’s back. “You were a very naughty boy.”
“And let me guess, I need to be punished?”
Angel slapped Xander’s ass and purred. “Oh yeah, I’m going to punish you all right. I’m going to fuck you into exhaustion so that the next time I tell you to stay put, you listen.”
Xander grinned. That didn’t really sound like punishment at all. Angel spun Xander around and kissed him, and Xander had another flip-floppy moment. Who’d a thunk that he’d be feeling butterflies every time Angel kissed him? Xander would have done a belly laugh, roll on the floor, snort something out your nose thing if someone had said that to him a few months ago.
But that was before Angel had taken him that first day in the shower. Before he’d had the surgery to repair his eye. Before he’d been kidnapped. Before he realized that he couldn’t imagine being without his vampire. Hey, people changed. It could happen.
As Angel worked his way down Xander’s neck with little kisses and nibbles, Xander thought back on the months they’d had together. The Powers That Be Not Knowing Everything hadn’t planned on Xander coming along and ruining their big “let’s use the souled vampire in a big master plot” plan.
They’d had Lindsey try to take Xander out of the picture, and Angel had nearly gone insane. If Xander had been able, he’d take out the so-called Powers himself. But then again, they had given him the ability to communicate with Angel once they saw the damage that was being done.
By then, though, Lindsey was too far into the plan and working too many sides of the fence. He’d tried to magically trap Angel in this very house, hoping to bind the Powers’ Champion for eternity, thereby preventing them from calling another one. Pfft. Even Xander knew better than that. Sure Champions, like Slayers, are chosen, but no one counts on the humans and demons that stand by their sides and fight with them every step of the way. Xander hated being counted out. It really pissed him off. He may be human, but damn it, he could avert an apocalypse too!
Realizing that Angel had stopped with the kissage, Xander opened his eyes and looked at his vampire. Angel was staring at him, smiling. “What’s going on in that brain of yours? I can practically hear you thinking.”
Xander ran his hand down Angel’s cheek, gathering up the drops of warm water that the shower had sprayed on his face. “I was thinking about all that’s happened. You know, how the Powers shouldn’t count out humans. It’s stupid.”
Angel leaned in and rested their foreheads together. “Yes, it is. But they know better now, don’t they? You taught them that. And because of you, the Oracles and the Senior Partners are working together to keep the balance of good and evil.”
“Pfft. Not because of me, because of you.”
“Now who’s counting out the human? It was you Xander. I fought for you. Went mad for you. Love you.”
Xander got butterflies all the way down to his knees, which suddenly went weak. “Love you, too. But I still don’t think you should keep me from beer.”
Angel laughed and kissed him again. “Then you should keep your promises so that I don’t have to have slime demon guards watching out for you in the daylight.” Xander frowned, then laughed, realizing just how well his lover knew him after all.
Once Xander was thoroughly kissed, Angel lifted him up and Xander wrapped his legs around Angel’s waist and let his vampire use his super strength for another kind of good. Well, great actually. Cause wow. He’d never get tired of doing this with Angel.
Slippery fingers found their way to his opening, and Xander thanked the bathroom designers of the world for coming up with those little handy dandy hanging pump thingies for showers because, seriously, they were great for lube. As long as you didn’t mix up the lube and shampoo. Because lube in your hair? Not so great.
Angel prepped him and then slipped inside, and Xander groaned as he was stretched and filled and completed. He never realized what he was missing until he’d found this with Angel. It wasn’t fucking, hell, it wasn’t even sex, it was binding, nearly a ritual. And for once, Xander didn’t mind making a little magic.
THE END
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kimalis, who has been a great supporter of this series and makes me smile every time she posts or comments. She wanted something for my kink_bingo prompt “wet” and I couldn’t think of a better way to end Haunted than to take it back to where it all began…the shower.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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*kisses you everywhere I can reach and some places I can't*
It's Xangel AND Haunted AND wet. Its goofy sexy Xan and protective!Angel. Love it to bits!!!
*squishes*
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Slime demon guards! **snicker**
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So now it´s over *sigh*! BUT: I love it *mems*!!!
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*hugs*
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PRICELESS!!!!!
Love this!
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*hugs*
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Awwwww Angel/Xander goodness!!! So sweet and yummy!! And I loved it that the slime demon was guarding him! Nice.
Wonderful my darling!!
*kisses and huggles* xoxoxo
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*HUGS* and naughty *SNOGS*
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And I was so excited that you put lube in the shower dispenser! That is such a practical detail that I've never seen another author use. I know I keep one of my dispenser slots filled with my favorite lube! Hmm. Maybe that was too much information... :-)
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I told you a while back that I hadn't read alot of Xangel. Well, I have now - and all because of you *moans and melts at Xangel*. Still lvoe Spangel best, but Xangel is my 2nd.
<3
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