Lost
Portalkeeper87
A/N: This is the answer to an anonymous challenge I received lately. I'd like to say that before last week, I did not know who the heck "Buffy" was or why she'd want a job that included "slaying." I've seen about seven episodes of the show, which were disconnected and from various seasons, checked out www.tvguide.com's various little bits on Buffy (including the summaries of the first 100 episodes), and read numerous fanfic pieces and found various little tidbits on the show. Some details might be slightly inaccurate, due to the numerous discrepancies in the works of different authors.
Lastly, as the person who sent this challenge probably knows (I bet I can guess who did it, one of the people at the evil lunch table), I like vampires, just not the kind that goes "poof" with a simple little stake.
Okay, warnings aforementioned, proceeding with the story…
Disclaimers: I don't know why people bother with these. This is fanfiction! If any fanfic writers were fortunate enough to own any of the characters, they wouldn't be writing fanfics!! *calming down from insane frenzied mania* Just for the record, I don't own anyone except Alexis.
Rules of the Challenge:
A self-insertion fic. At least the following characters have to be included: Buffy, Willow, Xander, Angel, Spike, and Giles. Self-insertion character must develop a crush on one of the aforementioned characters. You can't kill off all the characters. There MUST be something resembling a plot.Chapter 1—Writer's Block
Hey, I'm Alexis. And I'm sitting at the computer, bored out of my mind. Bored, and extremely frustrated. I had just received a most random e-mail this morning, about some challenge or other one of my wacky (in a good way) friends sent.
I have to write a Buffy fic! And I know basically nothing about the subject. I've caught a few episodes, sure, but they didn't clear much up. I know there's another slayer named Kendra, Buffy is in love with Riley and Angel, and this really creepy-looking person plays with dead birds and dolls. Didn't quite catch her name.
I sit here like an idiot, wondering why Xander doesn't like a dog named Spike and why weeds grow indoors while Buffy and someone else are in the midst of heated passion.
Wondering and wondering, I fall asleep.
***
"She's waking up."
"Well, who the hell is she and why is she here? What went wrong this time?"
That's all I heard, the voices. And then I felt my body resting on a cold surface, like a lump of dead weight. And then I stared directly into a redhead with very large anxious eyes.
"Hi," I said brightly. The girl smiled and helped me up. I looked around at the place as the feeling that something wasn't quite right settled in my stomach. I was apparently in some kind of bookstore. No wait, not bookstore, library. Some antique library with a lot of books. It looked oddly familiar…
"My name's Willow," the redhead stammered, then gestured toward the dark-haired boy standing behind her. "And this is Xander."
Those names were slightly familiar, but I couldn't quite place their faces. These people looked older than me, more like seniors than people in my grade.
"Um, I'm Alexis," I said shyly. "Could you tell me what I'm doing here in…well, wherever here is?"
Xander shot an accusatory look at Willow. She looked a little embarrassed and stared at the floor.
"Well, Alexis," he said, "welcome to Sunnydale."
***
Sunnydale? That sounded familiar, too. But I still couldn't quite place it.
"That's very nice, Xander, but what am I doing here?"
Willow slowly raised her hand, like she was in class. "I can explain…I think."
I looked at her as she took a deep breath. "Well, I was sort of ex—"
The door swung open. "Giles, can you tell me more about the prophecy? What's supposed to happen with the inter-dimensional portal? What evil demon do I have to push through it?"
A somewhat smaller blond girl had walked in with a guy that looked like the librarian of this crazy place. He looked to be in his forties and wearing a vest and glasses.
The girl stopped short upon seeing me. "Who's this?" she asked instantly.
I couldn't say a word. I recognized her! She was Sarah Michelle Gellar!
"I-I can explain," Willow said hesitantly. "I th-think it was my spell."
The actress rolled her eyes. "Another screwup."
"You're Sarah Michelle Gellar," I blurted out. "Can I have your autograph?" Although I didn't watch many of her shows, I still knew that Sarah Michelle Gellar was a pretty big celebrity. On the cover of almost every magazine I had ever read.
"Excuse me?" she replied, looking me up and down skeptically. "I'm Buffy."
Of course! She played Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer! How ironic. I can't think of material for my fanfic, now I'm on the set of Buffy.
"Yes, but that's your character," I said. "You know, the part you play on the show?" Blank stares from all around. I searched for cameras, stage crew, anything.
Nothing.
"Listen," she said, getting up in my face, "I don't know who you are or what you're doing here, but let's get one thing straight. My name is Buffy, Not Sarah."
"What about Freddie? You're what, engaged? Married? I didn't keep up with all the news, but will you at least admit to that?"
She sighed and rolled her eyes. "I'm Buffy, you're nuts. I have no clue who this Fred or Sarah is."
And then it clicked. "This is a dream," I said out loud. "It's just a very, very strange dream. Someone pinch me, please."
I shut my eyes tightly, waiting to awake. "Oww!" My eyes opened and I looked at Willow. "What did you do that for?"
"You said to pinch you?"
I sighed and rubbed my arm. "So much for the dream theory."
The girl who said she was Buffy began to talk. "I'm sorry if you think you're dreaming. But apparently you're not. So can you clue us in on who you might be?"
"Um," I began, not sure how to start. My mind was reeling. Apparently Buffy was real. As well as Sunnydale, where the Hellmouth attracted very real demons for her to slay. "Well, my name is Alexis."
"And?" the man Buffy had called Giles asked with a British accent.
"And I'm currently 15. I live in New Jersey and I just started watching the show. For material so I can accept this challenge and write a fanfic."
"All the way from the East Coast," Willow mused quietly.
"What show?" Xander asked curiously.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's very interesting, and mostly pretty funny, too. Although I wouldn't have started without one of my friend's challenges. Usually not that interested in shows were people slay vampires."
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" Buffy asked in shock. She stared at Giles. "She knows I'm the Slayer."
She turned to look at me again. "You know I'm the Slayer. How?"
I took a deep breath. "Well, where I come from, you, all of you, are just characters on a show I just started watching. It's about the life and adventures of Buffy as she slays so-called 'evil' vampires and demons with the help of her friends, mysteriously known as the 'scoobies'. Which is really ironic as the actress that played Buffy also played Daphne in the Scooby Doo movie."
A momentary silence filled the room after my babbling ceased.
Willow took a deep breath. "I think I know what happened."
We all turned to look at her.
"I-I was trying to make life a little easier for Buffy, with all the stress lately. So I tried a s-spell. And brought Alexis from another dimension."
It took a little while to process that information.
Giles broke the silence with a glance at his watch. "Oh my, you children had better be getting back home. It's late, and I don't want your parents to worry."
Xander left first, Willow following quickly. Something about parents, curfews, and being grounded.
I looked questioningly at Giles.
"Oh, stay the night with Buffy. I have a lot of work to do."
I looked back at the Slayer. "Giles!"
He looked back at her. "Look at it like it's another duty as Slayer."
She groaned and walked toward the exit, stopping at the door. "Well come on," she said to me.
I uncomfortably followed her home in the dark.
TBC
A/N: Feedback, please! Tell me what parts I got right or wrong! And any suggestions for requirement # 3? Please, some ideas!!
