Chapter One

Buffy suddenly pulled away from Spike. "Did you hear that?"

"The sound of us snoggin'? Yes. Let's listen to it again."

Buffy turned away from him so he ended up kissing the air in front of her and almost falling over. "Listen." Spike stood next to her, his eyes gazing around the empty crypt. Then he heard it, a faint call from someone. A guy. "It's Xander!" Buffy ran out the door, not giving Spike a second thought.

"Bugger."

"Buffy!" Xander yelled, a flashlight held tightly in his hand.

"Buffy Summers!" Anya called.

"I think there's only one Buffy in this town wandering through a graveyard Anya." He ventured onto the grass and made his way past a few gravestones. "Buffy!"

"Xander!"

He quickly whirled around in the face of the yell. "Buffy?!"

"Xander!" a familiar figure yelled from twenty feet away.

"Buffy! You're alive!" he said as he ran towards her. He lifted her from the ground in a hug when they met. "We've been looking everywhere for you."

"You're all anyone has been thinking about. It was quite irritating actually," Anya said as she approached them.

"Nice to see you too Anya."

"I am glad you aren't dead and residing in some demons intestinal tract."

"Me too."

"Where have you been? You've been MIA for thirty hours," Xander said, answering her mental question of how long they've been gone.

"Actually, me and Spike-" Buffy pointed behind her but she noticed no one was there. "Spike?"

"I knew he had something to do with this."

"No," Buffy started walking back to his tomb, "we were sent to these weird storybook tales by some witch on an ego trip. First we were in Cinderella where all the people were vampires, then we were in Little Red Riding Hood where instead of a wolf it was a Godzilla sized werewolf- Spike!" Finally she caught him walking towards her. "Where were you?"

"Spike. Sad to see you here."

"Xander. Glad to see you kept your lack of humor."

Buffy rolled her eyes and commented, "Be a little more immature you two."

"Moron," Xander replied, accepting her challenge.

"Why are you two holding hands?" Anya asked, as if reminding them they hated each other.

Buffy had a small smile show on her face and she gave Spike a quick glance. "Oh no," Xander said, shaking his head. "Your body was hijacked by an evil… thing and now they're making you do weird stuff so you'll feel horrible later."

"Not exactly."

"Brain washed?"

"No."

"Amnesia?"

"No?"

"Evil?"

"No."

"Then…"

"We just realized some stuff along the incredibly annoying and creepy experience that was the past… however many hours- thirty you said?"

"And that brings you into the red zone on the insane-o-meter?" Xander finished.

"I knew he was gonna be like this," Spike said.

"What, protecting my friend from your demonic possessed body?"

"Excuse me?" Anya said.

"Huh?"
"What's wrong with demonic possession? Hello, ex-vengeance demon."

"Yes, ex. Not still."

"Well let's see if I'm still your girlfriend tomorrow." Anya pushed past him and started to leave.

"Anya, I didn't mean you."

"Well maybe you should think before you say things Xander." She continued out of the graveyard and down the road.

Xander turned back to Buffy and Spike. "You see what he does?"

"This ain't my fault."

"How isn't it your fault?"

"My mouth wasn't runnin' when she got mad."

"But you're the one that made me say it."

"Xander, Spike. Please stop," Buffy intervened.

"He started it."

"Did not," Spike countered.

"Did too."

"Did not."

"Did too."

"Shut up!" Buffy yelled. "Could you act any less mature? You gonna start throwing things at each other now?"

Up on the highest branch of a tree was a woman with short, spikey black hair looking down at the argument below her. "Are you kidding me Lenity? These people are the ones who bested you?" She observed the blonde girl holding an ear of each guy. "I'm deeply ashamed to call you my cousin." She smiled and did a small circular motion with her right hand, ending with a jolt of her pointer finger. A big book, with tainted pages from age, appeared in her hands. "Let's see what we have here for you." She flipped through the pages and nodded at one of the stories. "How about this one?" With a zap from her finger, they were gone.

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Buffy awoke to a bright land, like Wizard of Oz bright. And she was near a quaint little house that was made of stone and wood. She looked down and saw she was in a blue dress with a white apron. "Oh crap." She stood up and walked over to the house. She knocked lightly and said, "Hello?"

"Buffy?" a familiar voice replied.

"Xander?"

"Don't come in here," he warned.

"Why, what's wrong?"

"Just leave the door closed."

"Xander what's going-" she opened the door and her sentence stopped. "Xander?"

"I'm a bunny," he said sadly. He was curled up beside a fireplace that wasn't lit.

Buffy held back a laugh with all her might. "You're the White Rabbit. That's so cute."

"Yes, I can see I'm white and a rabbit."

"No, you're the white rabbit. From Alice in Wonderland."

"Well I don't want to be a rabbit. I want to be a person. And home. In my actual home, not my rabbit home."

"I can't believe this is happening again."

"At least you're a person."

"It always seemed to work out that way. No complaints. Spike though- oh no. Spike?" she said as she left the house.

"Wait for me." He got up and tried to walk but fell on his face. "Oh come on, I have to hop? He gets to run in the movie." He tried one more time and fell on his face. Finally he let out a sigh and hopped outside. "Buffy, could you tell me what- ah!" he screamed when a cat sped after him.

"Spike, stop!" Buffy said. The cat stopped and ran back to her.

"Spike?" Xander hopped over to her.

"That's right mate."

"How come you get to be the Cheshire Cat?"

"Ain't all it's cracked up to be. My legs disappeared as I ran over here."

"At elast you don't have to hop like some stupid… bunny."

"Runnin' on all fours ain't exactly simple."

"I have a cotton ball tail," he said as he pointed to the fluff on his rear end. This made Buffy and Spike give in and start to laugh out loud. "Are you kidding me? Buffy?!"

"I'm sorry Xander, but it's just so funny."

"What's funny about this?" he said as he gestured to his body. This made them laugh harder. "I gotta get out of here. How exactly do we do that?"

Buffy and Spike wiped tears from their eyes. "I don't know how we get out, we just suddenly appear in a new story."

"Well how did you appear home?"

"We broke Lenity's crystal ball."

"There we go. Progress. Let's look for a crystal ball." Xander started hopping down the road. Buffy put down Spike and they followed him.

"Better watch out Xander," Spike said. "Someone might try getting' some of your lucky rabbit's feet."

"Could you not talk Lucifer?" Xander asked.

"As long as you-" He suddenly stopped and started to heave. Buffy and Xander waited and saw a clump of hair come out of Spike's feline mouth. "That's disgustin'."

"Very attractive," Buffy seconded.