Hi... devoted lurker here, but I lost a fic and need help
it's a xander-consort fic, where he gets an infection in his leg and nearly dies, spike helps him, and he goes with spike when he realizes that the scoobies didn't respond to his phone calls... he also trains with this demon who is a huge name in martial arts... spike keeps a stable and there is this number-one minion that becomes a sort of confidant of the two...
oh yeah, and xander can read a bunch of demon languages, and starts a small business of sorts, while spike's consort, and sends back a piece untranslated to giles because it's on skin... it's a big suprise when it's him because they think of him as a Zeppo...
It sounds like Ulterior Motives by Yanagi_wa. It can be found here but I don't know if she is finished with it yet so you might have to check her Lj to see if there has been an update. *HUGS* Lady Q
For Ulterior Motives your best bet is ff.net. The story seems to be updated there more often than the authore's site or Spanderfiles. Updates are not frequent, but she has not abandoned the story, so patience will be rewarded.
Ulterior Motives
http://spanderfiles.net/arvs/yanagi_wa/um.html
This takes you to chapter 1.
And here's the story on her website:
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/writerblock/indexes/miscindex.html
Main Page:
http://underwillowstree.net/
But the fic is up to chapter 30, and the updates can be found on her journal first, so find all 30 chapters here:
http://yanagi-wa.livejournal.com/tag/ulterior+motives