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The Preserve: Evening Patrol

After seeing... No. She's not ready to think about it yet. Her head will just explode.

So instead of any kind of thinking regarding... that subject, Mel just grabs some stakes from her room and heads out on patrol. Looking for a change of scenery, Mel skips the graveyard and heads out to the woods. Something she'd been meaning to do when she got to the school.

Unfortunately navigating a forest? Totally different than navigating city streets. And now she's lost.

Not that she'd admit it.

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One second, Xander had his hand around that snivelly weasel Angelus' throat, and the next, he was....

Where the was he? Besides landing on the grass someplace before he managed to roll up to one knee. In front of a girl.

"What the hell?" he growled at her, like maybe she'd know.

Mel almost fell backwards in surprise. "Whoa there slick. Where'd you come from?"

"Sunnydale. Then a bar." Xander rolled to his feet. "Left the second one a hell of a lot faster."

Mel gave the stranger a grin. "The bar with the zombies? Yeah. I know something about that. Sunnydale, huh? Are you a student around here?"

Xander snorted. "I haven't been in school since I was sixteen." Since he stopped ever looking any older than sixteen. Which was all of two years ago or so, but he thinks he's a big bad vamp, oh yes he does.

"Well doesn't that make you a tough guy," Mel replied with a little smirk. "I don't suppose you know the way back into town?"

Well, no. But hey, he didn't have to tell her that. Plus? There was that whole thing where he still hadn't had breakfast yet.

"What's your hurry? It's a nice night."

"Little cold for me," Mel admitted and maybe a tad on the coy side. "Unless you have an idea on how to make things a little fun in the middle of no where."

Oooh, middle of nowhere. So much more cosy for some things.

Xander's features shifted. "I got some tricks up my sleeve, yeah." He started towards her.

It had been a while since Mel had seen a vamp change his facial features and even though she had fought dozens of vampires in the past year she did something she hadn't done in a long time.

She froze.

"You... You're a..."

Xander moved fast, reaching for her shoulder, grinning fangs right up in her face. "Handsome, handsome man?"

Mel tried to move but something kept her rooted to the ground and prevented her from defending herself.

Something about his face reminded her of-

"No. Stop."

"You don't think I'm hot?" Xander snapped his fangs at her, then licked his lips, tasting his own blood. "I'm wounded, really."

"No, wait, that's you."

He grabbed her by both shoulders and bit down hard on her throat.

Mel gasped sharply as she felt his teeth sink into her neck. The pain and the blood finally snapped her into action as she lashed out and yanked herself away from the vampire.

She scrambled away and tried to run as fast as she could from him.

"See now, I told you we could have a good time. It's always more fun when they run." Xander took off after her, covering ground with demonic speed.

And he probably would have caught her too. Especially since she tripped over a root and fell flat on her face.

Luckily for her there was a guy with green skin and a cross now standing between her and the vampire that was coming at them at top speed.

"Back off sparky," Lorne shouted as he shoved the cross into his chest. "Come Monday you'll regret having her for a snack."

Xander, running full-tilt after the girl, wasn't expecting to play pop-up pinball, and hit that cross hard enough to sear straight through his shirt and start a minor barbecue on his chest.

He fell backwards, shoving it away with his hands, then swatting at his chest as if it was actually on fire. "What. The. [Somewhere overhead, a duck flew past, honking.]"

Mel looked up at Lorne and then at the vampire. "What the ruttin' hell?"

"No need to thank me," Lorne replied with a small eye roll and holding out the cross towards Xander. "Just trying to keep some serious harm from happening this weeknd."

Lorne fixed a strong glare at Xander. "And you young man. I suggest you run off before someone drops a house on you too."

"..." That wasn't Xander looking up at the sky, just in case.

AND THAT WASN'T A FLUCKING DUCK DROPPING SOMETHING IN HIS EYE.

Xander swore, wiped at his left eye with his burned shirt as he got to his feet, and stumbled out of the clearing.

Still swearing, yes.

Dawn really should have known better than to go for a walk alone in the dark before heading back to Molly's room.

She stopped and stared. "Xander?"

Xander flicked his head back at the sound of his name, still wiping at his eye, but the voice wasn't one he knew, and neither was the face. He kept going, away from the demon with the cross.

"Not the one you know, kitten," Lorne said grimly. "He's going to have one hell of a time when he wakes up on Monday. In the meantime you might want to help her back to the dorm."

Lorne nodded over to Mel who was still sitting on the ground and holding her hand against her bloodstained neck.

"Ohmigod, Mel!" Dawn ran over to the other girl and squatted down next to her. "What happened? Do you need to go to the clinic?"

"M'fine. Healing is kicking in." Mel muttered as she struggled to get up. "That asshole bit me."

"Xander bit you?" Dawn had yet another wtf moment in a very long day full of them. She put an arm around Mel and led her back towards the dorms. "C'mon. You'll be safe in your room, and hopefully tomorrow will be normal. I can introduce you to the wonderful world of gauze and holy water disinfectant."

"That was Xander Harris?" Mel asked incredulously as she followed Dawn back. "I don't care what you say Summers. Tomorrow will never be normal."

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