Ch.31

Life goes on as they say and when it came to Buffy's birthday, Dawn and I went shopping. We got her a jacket and I killed a bunch of demons for a pair of orbs we both presented to Buffy. The jacket she liked and she only had a question mark for the orbs. I told her to grab them and try them out which she did.

They worked until she squeezed and broke them upon the unexpected boost. I grunted and told her they'd given her Glory level strength and invincibility only now they were broken. She was a bit sad so I waved a hand over the orbs and turned back the clock as it were. They reformed and Buffy set them down before kissing me.

I chuckled while telling her there was lingerie upstairs with a pair of handcuffs. She ooh'd in my ear saying there could be outfits involved for this reward. I swatted her rear lightly and told her to enjoy her party before I steal her away. She hugged Dawn and shoo'd me away to get drinks.

Spike showed up with Clem the demon and gave Buffy a half eaten box of chocolates. Buffy tossed the chocolates in the trash and told them to enjoy the party. I passed out Jell-O shots and turned on the stereo. Dawn asked what they listened to in my reality's earth so I put on my suit before interfacing with the stereo.

The suit made them shocked as I lowered the hood and told them it was space capable and made of the same material as my skin plus proto-adamantium and a carbon graphene composite. I typed up the songs list on a crystal pad, took it off and put the suit away, handing the crystal pad to Dawn saying. "Be careful with that. It controls a set of satellite weapons that could vaporize this town from orbit."

She nearly dropped it asking. "Really?"

I snorted lightly. "No. But everyone's faces right now are worth your nearly breaking it."

She scowled while I laughed as Buffy huffed and smiled. Dawn put on Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran. I danced with her to it, showing her how we did it there and after she knew the steps Buffy joined the fun. Then Move Your Body by Sia came on and the moves changed.

Heathens by Twenty One Pilots played while we calmed down with drinks and cake. When the party wound down, Buffy and I slipped away to tryout the lingerie I got her. She loved the black and red teddy and slept in it in my arms afterwards when I agreed we were lovers like I'd been with Natasha and the others.

She slept soundly with a smile on, satisfied both physically and mentally apparently because my old self had left the self cleaning condom here so we had access to it for us. My answer had been the mental part no doubt adding to her happiness. Weeks passed before her ex boyfriend Riley showed up with a wife while hunting a demon. We traced the nest back to Spike and blew up his crypt because the demon's eggs there could wipe out a town fast.

Riley was happy that Buffy was happy. He threatened me though and nearly died for it. Buffy told me to let it go and I apologized because I had animal instincts and didn't respond well to threats. I told him being as old as dirt from the time where demons ruled the world sort of made one savage or drove them into a drooling mess.

He said he could respect that before saying he only meant that I shouldn't hurt her is all because she was a good person. I shrugged telling him I wasn't good or a person if he believed the myths and legends so I'd best be better for her then. He smiled, agreeing before getting a ride by black copter after I handed him a cellphone and told him of the Ten Rings.

Next came Xander and Anya's wedding where Anya asked me not to kill the guests until after the reception. She still wanted money, but she wanted things to go perfectly as well. I said I wasn't the leader of the Ten Rings anymore and I followed Buffy's lead here so I wasn't going to kill anyone so long as she didn't put me in awful formal clothes.

She agreed to a tux and let it be before worrying about the rest of the shit a wedding involved. I much preferred the Asgard way, a feast, vows and wedding announcement all in one go. No preparations needed but then that would be too easy apparently. Buffy looked at the wedding happily until an asshole ruined it, Xander bailed and Anya was a wreck.

Xander came back after a while, saw Anya and Spike in the magic shop in person when I told him where she was and suggested flowers and nearly killed Spike. Buffy saved Spike for Xander's sake and I got drunk with Xander to help him ease his pain. Buffy hadn't slept with Spike so I didn't dust him myself. Willow and Tara got back together or so Dawn's happy squeals indicated, not that I couldn't smell it myself.

Tara found the cure for the werewolves that were magically turned and not demonically so we were able to send it to Atlantis to be replicated and passed around. Unfortunately the spell she did to combined the magic and science of it all backlashed and sent Willow off the deep end hungering for more dark magics. She became unstable and drained the magic shops books for magic before killing Rack and coming after the most powerful magic source she knew of, me.

Giles came back and stopped her from draining the massive power in me by sealing her with borrowed power. When she escaped she drained him of the borrowed magic and decided to destroy the world with a demon statue on the coast. I…sent Xander. I told him that if he can't stop her I'd have to kill her to save the world. I told him force wouldn't do it so he had to help her remember who she was under all the power.

He succeeded while I recovered and Buffy asked if I was alright. I nodded and tossed a watch to Giles. It turned into my suit and healed him where he lay. I grunted. "He'll be fine now and I'll recover. She took a lot, but I'm hardly going to die from it. If it were that easy I'd have died eons ago."

Buffy huffed, saying she still worried about me. I chuckled and pulled her into my arms. "Then let me ease your worries."

Giles spoke up. "Can I be dead now? Or just blind?"

I scoffed and Buffy helped him up as the suit retracted and flew to my hand. He said he was quite fine actually and felt marvelous. He said his vision was perfect as well and I grunted. "Chi. Basically pure life energy. It'll wear off after a while but your wounds will have fully healed and all physical damage with it. It can't cure your eyesight as it's a genetic condition, but for a day or two you'll feel like a million bucks."

Anya complained about the shop and I shrugged. "There's nothing I can do about the books except pay for them. As for the destroyed parts-"

I held up a hand and tapped each of them as the rest of the shop turned green. It was repaired before I stopped using time magic which shorted out. I grunted. "That's all the power I had from the infinity stones in me. If I wear or use them it invites the wrath of the gods and while I'd survive, you all won't. Looks like I'm a plain fighter now cause magic here is boring now that I know it all. Well, that and it was ripped from me the last time I had it in me."

I used my inhuman portal to bring Willow, Tara and Xander back to the shop. Giles took Willow and Tara to Devon to meet a coven of all female witches for the summer. In the meantime we had lives to live and all summer to do it. Xander's construction job took on restoring the old high school which I'm told is a bad thing.

Spike had left town and soon word came to me that the slayer line was under attack while the vampires had all been turned into humans and the werewolf packs were slowly being found and broken from their curses. Even Niklaus had lost his power and while still a lunatic, he was no longer a werewolf or vampire so his old curse broke as well. I asked Eleanor to protect the slayer potentials and save them even if the watchers die.

Many already had and it was costing the watchers council big time even if they didn't show it outwardly. I told Buffy what was happening and told him of the people without eyes or tongues attacking the slayer line. She said it sounded familiar before calling Dawn down saying she was going to be late for school and Xander was here.

Xander showed us the overlay and we saw the new principal's office was right over the hellmouth. Dawn asked. "So my new Principal's evil?"

I grunted. "Not necessarily. The design shows it was intentional but Buffy said the old library was the work area for their group so he could be a demon hunter looking to protect the world, albeit foolishly alone. Or…he could be evil, yes."

Dawn shrugged and Buffy said she'd find out which it was. I kissed her before saying I had some sleep to catch up on because repairing and upgrading the house had taken some effort and I was exhausted. She lingered on the kiss saying that if nothing happened she'd come home and join me. Dawn made an eww face and said we were being gross.

Xander said they had to go so I released Buffy and headed to bed while Buffy gave Dawn a phone to call us if, no, when danger comes at the school. I woke up a few hours later to Buffy saying she got a job at the school helping out as a councilor of sorts. She laid down in my arms saying the school needed money and from what she could tell the principal was a good guy so she'd promised to speak with me about donating money as well.