Reality

Author's note: This isn't completely correct with the Buffy universe time line, but just bear with me. This is taking place sometime during the sixth season. I am changing a few elements to fit my story and the episode 'Normal Again' never happened.

Second Author's note: Hey, this is to everyone who is reading my other story, 'Harder Than It Seems'. I promise that I will put out the next chapter soon, it's just that right now I'm having a writer's block but I will work on that!

Summary: What is real and what is not? In the world of Buffy, there are monsters and vampires and apocalypses and many other things, but what if the scoobies found a way to our world? What would happen?

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Buffy characters or anything else mentioned in this story.

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Chapter One

The Cat's Eye

"Okay, are we ready?" Xander asked as he put down the fourth candle down in the sandy circle.

"Nope, not yet, we need the Cat's Eye." Willow replied, looking around Buffy's living room.

"Cat's eye? Eww." Buffy replied, looking a little disgusted. "Why do we need eyes from a kitty? I think they look kind of cute in the live cat's head."

Willow giggled. "No, the Cat's Eye is an amulet."

"Oh."Buffy said, a little embarrassed.

Spike chuckled. He was leaning against a wall watching the three scoobies. He held up the amulet for all to see. "Got it, won this beauty at a poker game." He said, twirling the amulet by it's chain. The amulet was a red jewel and in the center of it was a bright yellow-green and black cat's eye that gleamed when it caught the light. Willow took the amulet out of the vampire's hand.

"You won it at a poker game?" Buffy said.

"Yeah, I did, so what? You can start thanking me now." The vamp replied, crossing his arms. Hell, no matter what he did, would he ever get any gratitude from the act?

"Ok, I'm ready now." Willow said, sitting in the middle of the circle, interrupting their bickering. Buffy started to say something to Spike but stopped and took her place just outside of the circle.

"So why are we doing this again?" Xander asked, shooting a glare at Spike.

"Because the Watcher's council claims that there is going to be another apocalypse in London, and they need the slayer for some reason. Why couldn't they have called Faith?" Buffy said grumpily.

"Because she's in jail. Don't worry, Dawn's with Tara and Anya, she'll be fine." The redhead said.

From off to the side, the scoobies heard a annoyed sigh. "Can we get this transportation spell on the road already? I'm not getting any older you know." Spike said, getting off of the wall.

Xander scowled. "Why are you going anyway?"

"Because we need him." Buffy said. Spike grinned at her but Buffy looked down at the candle in front of her. Her friends didn't see their little exchange.

Xander started to say something but Willow stopped him. "Spike's right, we need to get going, we don't have much time. That's why we didn't take a plane."

Spike grinned at Xander who just glared back.

"Alright Red, what do we do?" Spike said, turning to the witch.

She gestured to the candles and picked up one of them. "Everybody has to sit down near one of the candles." The three gathered around the circle and sat down. To Buffy's dismay, Spike sat next to her, and Xander sat on her other side. Willow remained in the middle of the circle they had made. "Good, now pick them up and light them." Willow said picking up the box of matches. Spike pulled out his silver lighter and lit his candle and passed it to Buffy who used it to light hers while Xander and Willow used the matches. When all the candles were lit, Xander put the box outside of the circle and Spike took his lighter back from Buffy and put it in his pocket. Willow made sure all the others were ready before she began to chant in what Buffy thought was ancient Sumarian, but she wasn't sure. Willow glanced down at the book in her lap she was reading from and then passed it to Buffy. Earlier Willow had told them all that they would all have to read a small part of the spell. Otherwise it would not take them all to London, or the field outside of Giles home to be specific. Willow and he had talked about this and even though Giles was uncertain about them doing a transportation spell, he agreed that it was the fastest way as they couldn't really spare any time. Buffy couldn't see why the stupid Watcher's council hadn't caught onto the prophecy anytime sooner. Every time there was a apocolapse in Sunnydale she and the gang caught onto it sooner than this, but at least she would be able to go to London. That would be fun.

Buffy read her part of the spell and passed the spell book onto Xander. Willow had told them how to pronounce the words so that they wouldn't mess up the spell but Buffy still had a little trouble. Willow gave her an encouraging smile so the slayer thought she did fairly well. Willow winced a little as Xander spoke but he passed it on to Spike-who rolled his eyes. To everyone's surprise, he spoke it better than Buffy or Xander.

Xander shifted slightly and the television turned onto a commercial sponsoring something in Denver, Colorado.

Willow jumped a little bit and Xander pulled out the remote from underneath him. 'Xander!' Willow mouthed angrily. Spike rolled his eyes again and continued chanting. As Willow had said earlier, once they started the spell they couldn't stop or speak anything but the spell. 'Sorry' Xander mouthed back. 'Turn it off!' Buffy mouthed, Xander turned off the sitcom and put the remote down. Spike finished his part and passed the book back to Willow. He couldn't stop grinning and Xander elbowed him. Willow finished the spell and closed the book. As soon as she did the candles went out.

Nothing happened.

They sat in the darkness for a minute.

"Is that it?" Xander said.

"Xander!" Willow yelled.

"What? It didn't work anyway." Xander said.

"Yeah, and it's your bloody fault." Spike said.

"My fault!"

"If you didn't turn the tv on with your butt-"

"Well soorrry! It's not like I meant to!"

As they bickered they didn't notice as the television started to glow softly.

Willow sighed. "It's alright, we'll just start again." She said.

Then the tv glowed brightly, enveloping the room.

As suddenly as the light appeared, it disappeared, taking with it the four people in the room. The extinguished candles, spell book and Cat's Eye amulet fell to the floor.

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Sorry it's so short but I thought this was a good place to end the first chapter. So what do you think? I would love to hear what you think. Reviews would be wonderful. Reviews help me write, especially good ones.