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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Finally the hero of his own story]]
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4	''Heart and Eye'' is a completed WhatIf ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fanfic that explores what might have happened if Xander travelled to Los Angeles after Season Seven. He is still depressed over losing Anya and disillusioned with the Scoobies (especially Buffy and Giles). He ends up working for Angel at Wolfram and Hart as Wesley's assistant and attempts to rebuild his life.
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6	Link found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9402413/1/Heart-and-Eye here.]]
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9	!!Tropes:
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11	* AllJustADream: Xander's conversation with Willow turns out to be nothing more than the product of heavy painkillers and and a ''serious'' amount of justified bitterness and anger at the Scoobies.
12	* BadassNormal: The inspiration for this story (as revealed by the author in the epilogue) was that despite having no supernatural powers (one of the only two characters in the main cast), Xander was the only character in the core cast to ''never'' stop fighting. Buffy and Giles both left at different times and Willow turned evil and left afterwards, but Xander always stayed no matter how crappy his life was.
13	%% * BrokenPedestal: Giles becomes this for Xander after the latter has enough of being constantly overlooked or ridiculed.
14	* CasualKink: Harmony indicates that she wants to be handcuffed during sex at one point.
15	%% * CatapultNightmare: Willow has one when she has a dream that might hint about the return of Xander.
16	* DeadGuyJunior: Wesley and Fred name their baby daughter Alex after [[spoiler:Xander dies]].
17	%% * {{Determinator}}: While Xander was always this in the show, here it is turned up to eleven.
18	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Xander]] attempts this after [[spoiler: Harmony's]] death. Angel catches him with a pistol and after a fist fight, he manages to talk him down.
19	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: After twenty-seven chapters of simply being a re-telling of ''Angel'' with the cast of ''Buffy'' in it, the story takes a sudden change of direction when they [[spoiler: get transported to another dimension that turns vampires back to humans with souls.]].
20	* HeroicSacrifice: After killing the resurrected [[spoiler:Jesse, Xander's]] heart gives out due to an overdose of adrenaline combined with a massive injury to the chest that he received three weeks before.
21	%% * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Jesse seems to revel in this trope when he captures Dawn [[spoiler: ... or so he thinks]]
22	%% * LittleBlackDress: Harmony wears one with lace off screen during her first real date with [[spoiler: Xander]].
23	* PrecisionFStrike: In a (usually) profanity free story, Xander finally snaps at the hallucination of Buffy and the gang.
24	%% * RunningGag: Xander getting hit in the head or poked in the eye and his violent, over the top reactions to it.
25	%% * SlapSlapKiss: Harmony and Xander ''LIVE'' this trope.
26	* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: The epilogue heavily implies that [[spoiler: Dawn]] never lets go of her feelings for [[spoiler:Xander]], even after [[spoiler:his]] death.
27	%% * WhamLine: "Hi Willow, it's Xander. I need your help."
28	%% ** "Why don't you ask her yourself?"
29	%% * WholeEpisodeFlashback: Chapter Twenty acts like one while juxtaposed with scenes in the present.
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