14 Ch.14

Later that night Willow ended up waking up to the feeling of laying on a warm breathing cloud. When she opened her eyes she realized it wasn't a cloud and she wasn't clothed.

Looking at her state of undress she moved to get up but was stopped by a stinging pain below the waist. She felt herself to make sure she wasn't stabbed and started to remember last nights events.

Almost having a panic attack, she started get up despite the pain, waking the beds other occupant. Waking up to see his girlfriend was a pleasant experience until he saw her pained panic expression. He sat up and asked:" Are you alright? Do you need me to help with something? "

He got up and went to get her some of his clothes thinking it was her current naked state that upset her. When he came back with shorts on and a pile of clothes for her he helped her into them carefully.

She started to say something then seemed to stop herself. Blushing she let him finish dressing her. When she started to move again all she said was bathroom and he raced off caring her to the toilet.

When she waved him off after setting her down he closed the door behind him saying just yell if you need me I'll be outside to give you some space and privacy.

While Ryan went across the hall to take another shower to wash the sweat off Willow was sitting in the bathroom trying to breathe slowly and avoid another panic attack. She looked around and noticed her purse and shredded costumes on the counter. Reaching inside she found what she was looking for.

Opening her phone she started to call Xander but stopped and decided to call Buffy instead. " Hello summers residents, who may I ask is calling?"

"Hello miss Summers it's me Willow, is Buffy up I need to talk with her?"

" Ah, Willow. Buffy said you might call unfortunately she's with Xander at a book club meeting. You can try there, I'll let her know when she comes back that you called. Is there something else I can do for you until then?"

" Thank you but no, I'll call Xander and see if I can get through. Thanks."Click.

Trying Xander's phone she got an answer on the third ring."Xander Harris speaking, who is this?"

"Xander, it's me Willow, is Buffy there with you?"

"Oh hey, Willow we've been looking all over for you! Giles tracked down some major earthquakes that we thought you were in the center of because of the hulk and sent us to check it out. The place is destroyed and there's pieces of clothes all over the place.

Buffy stopped talking as soon as we got here. So what's the word? What happened?"

"Xander I need to talk to Buffy right now!"

"Ok hold on Will, here she is."

" Hey Will it's me, Buffy, how bad is it from what I'm seeing?"

" Am I on speaker right now?"

" Hold on a sec. There now your not so what am I looking at here?"

" Well Ryan turned into the hulk and smacked superman out of the sky then he jumped to where you are and when inside and killed a bunch of something I can only guess was vampires because when he came back out his hands were covered in dust. Then he stripped us and just when he was about to take me we turned back into ourselves only it was too late as I fell on him. When I tried to get back up I realized it felt good and we ended up having sex right there. We spent the night under the stars making love. When the sun started to rise he ran us to his house at mock one and took him to his room and gave me a bath. It was really sweet seeing him take care of me like that. He put in his bed then did something and came back. He must have taken his shower afterward cause when I woke up he smelled clean. Did you know he's like a warm pillow all soft I thought I was laying on a cloud. Anyway, when I started to panic he got up and dressed me then carried me to the bathroom. And I tried calling you but your mom picked up and said you're with Xander so I called him and now I'm talking to you."

Letting her ramble on Buffy took it all in. When Willow finished all she could say was:" Wow." for the next ten minutes.

Finally, Xander took his phone back saying:" What did you say to Buffy cause I think you broke her?"

"Xander put Buffy back on the phone and snap her out of it."

" Ok, but if she kills me I want you to know my death is on your hands."

Several minutes later she heard Xander scream" Don't kill me I'm just the messenger!"

"Sorry about that Will, it was a lot to take in. Anyway, what do you need me to do?"

"Can you bring me my spare clothes at your place and my bag of toiletries? And maybe just be here?"

" I'm on my way I'll leave Xander at his house and head over with your stuff."

" Thank you bye."

When she was presentable again she managed to walk back to the bedroom and sit down. Moments later, Ryan walked back in fully dressed now and sat beside her giving her a hug trying to comfort her. They sat in silence until Buffy showed up.

When she saw them sitting there she looked at them with the hope that if they could make it passed this bump then she could make it with Angel and all his baggage. When she made herself known to them by knocking on the bedroom door Ryan got up and said:" I'll you to alone for privacy. I'll be downstairs if you need me." leaving both of them to talk about last night.

Ryan tried to keep himself as busy as possible going so far as to call and check on Xander and ask about his day. When he heard that he and buffy spent the day tracking them he paled and hung up without giving an explanation.

Trying to distract himself further he started working on his projects. He sent Lindsey out to explore the damage to the town. The report wasn't so bad.

Much of the demons in the area were either slaughtered or sent packing spike is one of the ladder. Apparently, when the Flash got loose he beat the crap out of the scrappy vampire then dropped him and another crazy female vampire off in Africa.

Saying if you hate the sun so much you should check out the sunrise from Mt.Kilimanjaro and racing off. Surprisingly enough it was Batman that saved the day.

He figured out what was happening and went out to stop it saying that magic wasn't a toy to be played with and that Zatanna wouldn't approve. He hogtied Ethan up and broke the Janus figurehead.

A few hours later Giles showed up and found him like that and proceeded to beat the crap out of him. Batman now turned Oz watched for a while reportedly said:" Huh" and left.

The superheroes far outnumbering the demons and Villans took the town by force. They separated humans turned monsters from the real monsters and destroyed them.

A doctor strange thought quickly and started putting protection spells on all the houses to block out evil and a lot of demons that were not even part of the original group were left stuck outside their homes.

A Jonny Storm went into the sewers and start a flaming inferno killing a lot of demons before turning back and being eaten as revenge. John Constantine ironically blessed the town's water supply so now everyone is drinking holey water. He tried blessing the Hellmouth but failed when time ran out.

Powergirl saved a lot of people from attacks and used her heat vision to burn down several demon nests. She was the one that gathered the heroes in the first place.

Nightwing stopped a few robberies and destroyed a robot serial killer. When all was said and done it was a great win for good.

After receiving the reports he dug in on the patents and ended up with a daunting number of them. Nearly a hundred different patent projects thanks to his time as Bruce Banner. Although he was smart before he lacked imagination and inspiration. Now he had that in spades.

He even got a few medication techniques out of it. Though since it barely helped Bruce control the Hulk he was a bit iffy as to whether they could help him.

Several hours passed and night began to fell. -Damn, I'm glad Halloween fell on a Friday or I'd have to deal with screaming parents. As it is I'm going to end up with a miffed Xander and possibly Giles already.-

As he was thinking this he noticed that Buffy and Willow hadn't come down and started to get worried. He went to knock on the bedroom door but kept stopping himself.

-Perhaps what she needs right now is some girl time. I think I'll leave them to it.- With this thought, he wrote a note telling them he would be back tomorrow and that the house was theirs for the night.

He sent Lyndsey to one of his other houses and went to go meet up with Giles at the library. When he got there he found him in his office reading several books on the Greek myths of Titans. Ignoring Giles look he walked to the offices back shelf and pulled out a canter of aged scotch with two glasses.

Sitting down across from Giles he poured him a glass as well. Three glasses later Giles got up the courage to ask:" So what seems to be the issue that's making you feel the need to get drunk on fifteen-year-old scotch?"

Weary right now he asked:" Can I trust you to keep what I say here confidential?"

Giles took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose saying:" You have my word that whatever you have to say will stay between us."

Sighing he told him of last night's events in as little detail as possible, trying to keep Willows dignity. "So what do you think I should do next? I've probably ruined our relationship. I knew she wasn't ready and when I came down to it I couldn't even control myself! I spent the better part of a million years in isolation getting to know myself and now I don't even know if I ever really did. I should've stopped us the moment it happened. Hell, I shouldn't have even allowed the magic to work on me."

After several minutes of quiet, they finished off the scotch so Giles pulled out a bottle of sherry from inside his desk. When they finished that as well Giles felt inherited enough to answer:" Perhaps you made some mistakes but from what I understand you at least tried to fix them."

Finding a bottle of Kentucky bourbon behind some books on the floor, they continued drinking in silence. Mulling it over Ryan started hating himself more and more. A little while later Angel showed up looking for Buffy.

" Have you seen her? She said she'd be on patrol tonight and I haven't been able to find her anywhere."

Understanding his desperation and looking over to see Giles passed out. Ryan grabbed another glass off the shelf and poured saying:" You can relax she's spending the night at my house with Willow. After last night's events their having an impromptu girls night. Pull up a chair. Seeing as how my other drinking partner is passed out, you can join me. After all, misery loves company. Did you know that there was an old one that called itself misery? I loved to sit there with me and remanice about the days before. Not a really great conversationalist but damned if it didn't try."

Seeing Ryans state and the fact that he was speaking about the old ones, Angel decided to pry for information. Sitting down and taking his own glass he asked:" So what were they like? The old ones?"

Nodding as if to himself Ryan started talking as if without end. Soon enough the sun was almost on the rise. Seeing Angel and Giles passed out he decided to lighten his mood by playing a little prank. He sped over to his house sneaking into the safe and grabbed a certain ring.

He sped back to the library and got to work. Hours later the two started to rouse themselves. Giles woke up with a large migraine to find himself in an awkward position. He was wrapped in Angel's arms, laying across the large book table in the center of the library.

When he heard a cough he looked up to see a very confused and smiling Buffy and Willow. Angel being woken up by Giles sudden movement looked around and shot up patting himself.

Seeing that he wasn't on fire he calmed down. Then remembering his state of half undress he started to freak out. He turned to see Buffy and Willow blushing and started to lose it. " Buffy it's not what it looks like."

Smiling she said:" You mean it doesn't look like you spent the night in my watcher's arms getting all smoochie? Then why are you wearing lipstick kisses all over you and Giles wearing it on his mouth?"

" Buffy I... Ryan!" He growled out.

This time Giles spoke up while rubbing the bridge of his nose:" Yy-Yes quite. Ryan showed up last night and started drinking with me then I must have passed out."

Angel nodded knowing the feeling:" I showed up here looking for you Buffy and he told me to sit down. He started talking about the old ones and how they acted way back when. I used the opportunity to ask some questions I probably shouldn't have and some time later I passed out as well!"

Seeing there current state they decided it was best to seek Ryan out for information. They found him some time later at Xander's house. Xander himself was passed out and wearing Cordelia's catwoman costume.

Trying not to laugh and failing they woke up the duo. When Xander woke up he said:" Ww what's the what? How the heck did I end up as catwoman?"

Ryan not to far away had finally passed out in a recliner with a half empty bottle of booms farm sour apple tucked in his lap, started to wake up as well." Yeah what is it?"

Willow and Buffy were laughing and trying to get ahold of themselves Giles had a rare smile on. Even Angel had a smirk on his face.

When he woke up Ryan tried to make heads or tales of the situation. Then he realized that after his little pranks on his friends he'd proceeded to polish off a couple more bottles before running into Andrew and Jonathan.

He went back to their place and partied until Jonathan left into the back room with several girls that remembered his halloween costume. When Andrew passed out he left him with Angels coat and a monocle on one eye.

He ended up looking like a super villain. Laughing to himself he headed to Xander's still very drunk then proceeded to say bad poetry about a certain redhead being the light of his world. Several hours later he settled on one last prank.

Then in his drunken haze took off his clothes and laid down on the recliner trying his level best to finish his drink before he passed out.

After remembering and finally understanding why they were laughing he went to get up when Willow sat on his lap, covering his lower self from view. Seeing that he wasn't going anywhere for now the others sat down on the couches and asked:" So what happened last night and how did you end up here?"

Telling them:" Well it all started with a drink..."

" And when I got here from Andrews I had gotten it into my head that I was some sort of Shakespeare."

Xander spoke up:" Yeah don't remind me you spent several hours trying to rhyme red hair to your sun and moon..."

Hearing this Willow started to blush and hold him tighter. Feeling this Ryan smiled and continued:" Well when you eventually passed out I figured one last harmless prank for falling asleep on me would do. It helped that you had Cordelia's catwoman costume on hand for some reason."

Now it was Xander's turn to blush. And respond trying to change the topic:" So how did you end up naked in my living room?"

" Ah, that!" Shifting a little Willow blushed a deeper red when she felt a change in his body because of how she was sitting. Something hard was now firmly pressing into her backside." Well, in my firmly inebriated state I'd decided to light the fireplace and go to bed. When I started to look for a place to sleep I must have figured this chair was appropriate because I soon found myself drinking myself to sleep here."

Xander shook his head:" But how did you end up naked?"

Looking at him funny Ryan answered:" I always sleep naked. Don't you as well when your not passed out from drinking. I've done this since the dawn of civilization. Why change now?"

This time Angel finally asked:" So how am I now immune to the sun? I'm still a vampire, I checked."

Smiling this time imagining Angel's reaction he said:" Well that must have been a shock! Haha."

When they didn't answer he gave in:" When I first arrived in town I had Lyndsey collect some magical artifacts that I'd felt were powerful enough to warrant my attention. He found a ring in one of the locations that was mystically able to make a vampire immune to most things."

Giles whispered:" Dear lord."

Angel looked like he'd been slapped silly." But I'm not wearing any ring."

Ryan laughed:" God you're slow today. Fingers can be shopped off easy enough or the ring could be pulled off in a fight. But how would anyone think to check the toes if they're covered in boots. Especially if they don't know to look. Check your right foot index toe."

Laughing at his own genius he watched as Angel pulled off his boot and found a small ring on his toe."Fyi this does not mean we're going steady."

He laughed harder when he saw the look of complicated emotions on Angels face from his words. " Consider it a gift for being such a great sport!"

Knowing the life altering changes he was facing Angel stood up and grasped Ryan's arm saying:" Thank you. You really don't know what this means to me!"

Smiling a little and shaking his head Ryan pulled Willow closer and said knowingly: "Don't I?"

When everyone heard this they blushed and stood to leave the room and give him and Willow some privacy. She got up and said:" It was a nice thing you did there for Angel and Buffy I'm sure they'll appreciate it."

He really looked at her and noticed the necklace he had given her was pure sapphire now. Thinking on what it meant for them he said:" That really was just for a prank I didn't know how far they've come so it doesn't really count as a decent gift. I'm more worried about how your holding up. That was a pretty big step we took and being blind sided by it threw me for a loop. I can only imagine what you must be feeling."

Smiling she kissed him and said:" You won't get rid of me that easily buster."

He moved to get up and get dressed when he heard her moan. Looking down he found that she had shifted to where he was now firmly pressed into the juncture of her thighs and when he moved she felt all of him grind into her.

Looking down he started to feel a familiar dampness between them coming from her. He smiled and said:" I wouldn't dream of it."