Scorpio's Snippet 
by Danii

Scorpio, Willow, and Tara walked down the hallway to their room, talking as they went.
"And you really have no idea who could have stolen all of your witchy stuff?" Scorpio asked the two witches. 
Both of them shook their heads, and then Willow cocked hers and got an odd look on her face.
'Hey, you two...do you hear something? Like a whole bunch of people talking at once?" the redheaded witch asked, her expression showing her confusion. Both of the others nodded.
"Yeah, and I think it's coming from your room..." Scorpio said, pulling the two of them towards the door. She listened at the door for a moment. "I think at least one of them is Xander..."
The relief was nearly palpable as the two witches 
sighed. It being the Hellmouth, it could have been worse than a rowdy Xander and a few friends. 
"All right then..." Willow said with a smile, pulling out her keys, "Let's just see who he has here, shall we?"
Scorpio and Tara watched as the redhead twisted the keys, then gasped in shock as she opened the door. 
Xanders. Tons and tons of Xanders. Some old, some young, some armed, some not. And a little man in armor, not to mention a woman who looked suspiciously like their friend.
"All right...someone's got to call Danii about this one..." Tara said quietly, causing all the Xanders to turn towards the door. As they did, each and every face turned hopefull, and a roar enveloped the trio at the door.
"WILLOW!!" 
It would have been a rush, except for the fact that the room was so small, none of the Xanders could really move. Willow, after recovering from the blast of sound, looked over the crowd, and found an explanation for the whole thing.
"Our spell books and witchy stuff!" she cried, running forward as Tara followed her. When they got to the spell books (which was easy since Xander, in almost any form, cares about Willow and wouldn't dare be impolite to her, especially when she can help him out), the two witches took in the destruction. 
There was a mixture of blood and gunk spilled on one of the books, and a small sheet of paper, and their goblet was slightly dented from falling. 
"Damn!" Willow shouted, "That was my allowance for a month!"
"I'll get you a new one, Willow..." Tara promised. Then they hugged.
"Hello?" Scorpio said from the door, getting slightly impatient, for while she liked the idea of a whole bunch of Xanders, this was just freaky. Besides, she had to call Danii. The other young woman would just freak when she heard this. And, her mind asked with a little smirk, where were all the Spikes? She wished there were Spikes...
"So what happened here?" Scorpio said, taking charge. 
The female version of Xander (who was rather gorgeous) pointed toward the stained spell books, then at a piece of paper beside them. She then got a rather nervous look on her face, and called one of the other Xanders (this one holding a deadly looking sword) over to talk for her. She whispered into his ear, to which the Xander nodded every once in a while.
"She said that the brown-haired young lady and William
were trying to do a spell, and that it got messed up."
The Xander said with an unsure grin, "We wouldn't
really know. We materialized on the other side of the
room, so we couldn't see anything over the other
Xanders..."
"We?" Willow asked. Then she looked to Scorpio. 
The author shrugged. "Too long to explain, Willow..." Scorpio answered quickly. Then the writer noticed something, "And stop checking out Alexa! Both of you!"
This lead to the two witches turning a nearly 
florescent color of red, not to mention Alexa herself, who slowly made her way to the back of the room. 
"So..." Scorpio asked, getting everyone back into the situation as she slipped Joxer into her pocket (oh, he deserved a nice little PWP with Ares for this little mess...or maybe Strife), "What does the paper say? I think I have a suspicion of who could have caused this..."
Tara picked up the paper, but the name was too blurred by the concoction that had fallen on it. All they could see was a big "D" on the paper.
"Who do you think did it?" Willow asked, still 
thinking about the female Xander...Alexa...agh!
"Well..." Scorpio said slowly, pacing around like a 
detective, "There are only two people I know of who would want that many damned Xanders running around...and I haven't seen either of them today."
"So who!" Tara cried. 
"The only ones who would are insane enough to do this are Danii-"
"All right...I can't even pretend to be surprised by that one..." the redheaded witch said with a sigh.
"And Spike..." 
"Again, not an earth-shattering idea..." 
There was a pause, and then silence. Even the Xanders were quiet. They were curious.
"So what are we going to do about this?" 
Another pause. 
Then Scorpio said with a smile, "How 'bout we each get one of our choice, and then we auction the rest off...I mean, who wouldn't want a Xander?"
The two witches thought this over for a moment, and then nodded. A very good idea indeed.
"Just..." the author added with a grin, "No fighting over Alexa, okay?"
## 
"Move over!" 
"No way, you little git...you got me inta a load of 
trouble! I'm not gonna be nice to you! Not that I'm really nice to anyone..."
"Oh, shove it, Spike..." 
"Oh, I'm not your precious Xander so you're telling me to shove it! Ha! Like you 'aven't got enough of him after this..."
"No, never..." 
"Bint..." 
"Hey!" 
"Bloody moron..." 
"Shut up, Spike...I have my drawing pencil with me...and I can reach it!"
"Well, you weren't very nice to me! Why would I 'ave any consideration for you?"
"Cause I like you..." 
"No you don't!" 
"Do too. After Xander, you're my favorite..." 
"I thought Peaches was your second favorite." 
"One can only take so much angsting, Spike..." 
"Good point, luv." 
"Thank you." 
"Good." 
"Good" 
"Peace?" 
"Well...I have a feeling that we're gonna be on the run for a bit, so I guess so...besides, the things you can do with blood and alcohol..."
"You know it! Got my education straight from Miklos..." 
"Really?" 
"Yup! Honorary Mikie...right after my Knightie ship..." 
"Guess that explains Peaches..." 
"Yeah." 
"G'night, Danii..." 
"G'night, Spike..." 
"Think tomorrow we can spring for an actual hotel 
room? This cave is mighty small..."
"G'NIGHT, LUV..." 
"G'night Spike..."
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END