buffyversetop5 | 5 recs where Xander is paired with someone other than Spike.

5 recs where Xander is paired with someone other than Spike.
I know, why would anyone write a non-Spander fic, but the stories are actually good, and yes, three are by the same author. I really like them!

1) The Carpenter and the Wood by justhuman
Xander/Mr. Pointy. Funny as all get out!

It wasn't a nefarious booknapping plan. It was much more like a jellybelly-napping plan. Giles kept a stash in the middle drawer of his desk.

2) Object Lesson by linman
Based on JustHuman's The Carpenter and the Wood, this version focuses more on the negative consequences.
Xander/Giles/Mr. Pointy

The witches in the illustration were grouped around a man, and from the looks of it they were trying to kill him by making him come to death. Some revenge, Xander thought. Xander could think of many worse deaths—had seen many worse deaths—and happies were hard to come by, so to speak. So he shrugged and undertook to follow the instructions with the nearest bit of wood—a stake from the arsenal in the book cage.

3) Dr. Squidlove's New York. Xander is 37. Divorced. Two kids. 4000 miles from Sunnydale and his hellmouth childhood. Also, straight. Only someone forgot to tell Giles. In fact ... where the hell is Giles?
Xander/Giles

"I didn't fall down the back of the couch," Giles retorted, snottily. "I got caught in another world. Another dimension. I was tracking a Hewarth demon, and I stumbled right into its world."

It took Xander a minute to realise that was the end of the story. "You've been trapped in another dimension for sixteen years?"

"Yes," Giles said, and he didn't add 'you imbecile' but it came through loud and clear, "though it was little more than a month, as I experienced it. I came back, and it wasn't 2002." He rubbed his temple. "I knew time would likely have passed differently, of course, and I had a very real fear that my return could be much, much later. Decades may have passed, generations, perhaps, so I'm actually somewhat relieved that it's only been... sixteen years."

Wow. Things like that didn't happen in Xander's world anymore. "Where were you? How did you... How did you get back?"

Giles shook his head. "I stole the magical key back from the demon I'd followed in and located a portal. Did none of you wonder where I was?"

No. They just figured he'd let go, and wasn't coming back. Or so Xander figured. It wasn't like they'd ever talked about it.

"Christ." The curse sounded alien from Giles. He looked away, jaw working. "I imagined you all would assume I was dead, not that you'd simply not care that you never heard from me again."

"I didn't not care, Giles. I was mad as hell. You left, and it wasn't a demon that dragged you out of Sunnydale, so you can't blame us for thinking you kept right on going."

4) Items May Shift In Flight by Dr. Squidlove
Giles/Xander; sex on a plane; public sex

5) And Yet by Dr. Squidlove
It's only Giles/Xander in Giles' head.
Giles, remembering his Ripper days, thinks of things he won't allow himself to do to Xander.