Title: Our Past or another One?
Author: Indra Leigh
Rating: FR13
Crossover: BtVS and Avengers / Marvel Universe
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Marvel Universe / Avengers
Summary: Meeting the Howling Commandos
Timeline/Setting: Set about a year after Chosen and during Captain America the first avenger. Occurs the day after Xander and Dawn’s arrival.
Author's notes(if any): nope. It’s fanfic…. Cue hand waving for ages and dates of characters.
“If we are in the past we could do really well investing in companies.” Xander said leaning against Dawn as they sat on a bench across dead end of a hallway from Steve.
“I studied languages not money and investing. Stark could help with that I bet.” Dawn grumbled quietly trying to think of some way to determine if this was their past or a similar dimension’s past.
“Stark?” Steve asked able to hear them talking.
“In our history you worked with Stark and he went on to build a massive company.” Xander explained. “Do you work with a Stark?”
“Yes.” Steve answered seeing Xander perk up he continued, “Rose is her name.”
“Well that’s one for not our past. Our Stark was a guy named Howard.”
Watching Steve as Xander moped Dawn started to smile. “He’s totally named Howard right?”
“He is but he’s also very well known. Just because you know his name doesn’t mean we trust you.” Steve said looking at them and seeing a relationship between them that was similar to what he shared with Bucky.
“We heard you had visitors.” Think of the ladies man and he appears. Bucky called out walking up with all of the Howling Commandos.
Excited to meet the Howling Commando’s in any world Xander perked up until he felt Dawn slowly get tense. “What is it?”
“They were out at a club last night and someone didn’t like it when Monty explained something. There was a fight that was your team against the whole room. You were having a fist fight until someone grabbed a piece of the broken mirror and got your forehead with it. It heals up to look like the time the barbed wire got you that time you went fishing in the pond on the farm next to yours.” Dawn said remembering a story she heard as a kid.
“And my hat?” Dugan asked very curious since Peg said these two had been keep apart from everyone sine before they went out and he hadn’t told anyone exactly how he got the cut on his head.
“Your sweetie girl Buffy gave it to you.” Dawn answered feeling Xander go still next to her.
“You can do it, Tim.” Dugan said standing right in front of Dawn as she looked up at him.
“You can do it, Tim. Figure it out.” Dawn finished what he started saying.
“Cap I say we trust them. I’ve never met her but I think we should trust them.” Dugan said looking from them to Steve.
“How do you know about Agent Carter?” Steve asked.
“I studied her in school. Read everything I could find about her.” Xander said smiling.
Later in a room with two cots Xander and Dawn were getting ready to sleep when Dawn exclaimed, “You have a crush! You read everything you could find and did more than what your study partner made you do!”
Xander grinned, “I got to meet her and she was nice to me. So Mrs. S. wasn’t high on pain medicine when something was picked?”
“Nope. It was her mom’s first. Now how we can help out while we figure out how to get back home?” Dawn said taking off her shoes.