Backfire - Spander Files

Angel got up and headed toward the bedroom to finish getting dressed.
Xander turned around and shouted after the vampire, “Oh, and pops…I’m gonna be
needing an allowance. Got me a girl that needs pampering.”
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Girlfriends and Boyfriends
Xander was exhausted. Funny thing. He thought it would be the sex that would
eventually wear him out. Spike. Angel. New touchy-feely places with Cordy. But,
in the end, it was the talking that laid him out.
By the time he and Angel got settled into their new apartment on Sunday afternoon,
he was crashed out on his own (private!) bed, replaying all the conversations he had
had that week.
Talking with Angel was easiest. He still felt no real emotional connection with the
vampire, even though their sex had gotten better. It was finally something that he
could enjoy and not dread when he started to feel the pull.
There had been an ongoing fight this past week over the fact that Xander refused to
tell Angel where Spike was. The vampire’s argument was that it was dangerous for
the Sunnydale populous and it was dangerous for Xander. He was having to explain
to Angel that he trusted Spike not to kill him, without actually using the words
“trust” and “Spike” in the same sentence. The elder vampire was getting
increasingly frustrated that Xander couldn’t give him a solid enough reason for
keeping Spike’s hideout a secret.
And now that Xander had some time to himself to ponder, he was trying to come up
with a plausible reason for himself. And he supposed that he could come up with
many different scenarios that might be the reason, but in the end, he figured that he
knew. Even if it was a bit of a scary thought.