Frayed

Xander is feeling useless. But...

This story has been remixed as "Unbowed (The Slayer's Remix)" at RemixRedux.

This story has also been remixed as X-Factorial (the Fray-Adjacent Remix) for GenRemix 2007.

This was written at the behest of Mistral, who wanted the lightening fiction I'd written here, the one about Xander, turned into a full-fledged story. I ended up combining the Xander one and the Buffy one from that collection into one story.