Dark Xander: Nobody Never Gets to Heaven; Part 4/?

[liz_marcs]

Today was MarcsMom's Unbirthday (yesterday being her Birthday), so I ended up hanging around the ol' homestead for a bit. By the time I scraped the thin ice off my car, dodged people driving either at 90 mph or 15 mph on the highways, and made it home, I was mentally exhausted and not up for another round of playing dodge-'em with people who've

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[lmzjewel]

I'm sorry to hear about your driving experience. Bad weather driving isn't much fun. Heck! considering the amount of goofballs on the road good weather driving isn't much better.

I really loved the Buffy and Xander reunion. That he didn't understand why she would want to see or have anything to do with him and the fact that he wanted to run and didn't want her to see him like that and as a vamp. A very good Buffy and Xander moment in that situation. Plus I have a feeling with Buffy by his side any baby slayers and watchers with any sort of itch to slay him are going to have to rethink that plan.

Looks like Xander definately broke Kennedy in good and the Daddy kink was definately very well thought out. I also like how the whole thing made him sick now that he has his soul back. I can also see the common sense reason Xander would want to do that (break her) because he definately would need her broken to control her. And a slayer/vamp is definately something someone would want to have under control. Since she could be just as dangerous to him as she could with the rest of the population. Tactical well thought out plans was something that his friends... I don't think noticed often but something that Xander was actually very good at. Anyway, I'll definately be looking forward to the next chapter of this.

LMZ

[liz_marcs]

Buffy has a boatload of other issues that she has to deal with, so it's still down to Faith and Spike playing Xander's bodyguard. The good news is that they knew it would happen going in. The bad news is they didn't take into account that someone who'd actually been affected by Xander's psycho days might be mulling revenge.

The reasons for Xander breaking Kennedy are...well...complicated. Definitely the issue of control is at play, but there are other issues that are less clear-cut.

The whole point of soulless vamp Xander is that without all his human baggage, he can make use of devious impulses without guilt. Hence, his ability to get to Slayers and Watchers, his ability to attract victims, and his ability to break down Kennedy to the point where she's in a twisted co-dependent relationship with him.