Zoey Cabot finds herself in an alternate universe where her favorite TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is reality.

This happens in 2010, seven years after the Scooby Gang destroyed the Hellmouth. The comics didn't happen.

CHAPTER ONE - GETTING ROPED INTO THE BUFFYVERSE

18 year old Zoey Cabot went over the text she was assigned to read for her biology class – again. The words just didn't make sense to her at all and she didn't understand the context and the foreign words. She felt tired and exhausted.

It had been a rough week for Zoey. Her boyfriend had dumped her, she had had two exams to study for this week, Senior Year was driving her crazy and her parents were in the middle of a divorce. She had recently turned 18, but didn't feel all that adult. Sometimes she just wanted to escape from the mess that was her life, throw away all her problems and do what she wanted to do.

But she couldn't, Zoey knew that. She took another sip of coffee. OK, she said to herself, you can do this. Just concentrate. But she couldn't get herself to do so. Her thoughts were somewhere else. What was it, anyway? What was it that she wanted to do?

Since she was a little kid, Zoey had always wanted to be a doctor. She had wanted to save lives. And she definitely had the brains for it. Except that lately Zoey had thought about what her life would be like after she graduated. She would get a job, maybe have a good career, maybe get married and have kids, then retire and then die. And that was it? That was her life? That was all?

Maybe I should just start a company, she thought, something cool. Who needs this crap anyway?

She dropped her pencil, stood up and walked into the kitchen. She was craving chocolate.

Her mother was there looking at a cake in the oven.

"You made cake?" Zoey asked.

"Yeah," she nodded.

"Why?"

The Cabots weren't a family that had home-baked cake every now and then. There had to be some kind of occasion.

"No reason."

"No reason?" Zoey furrowed her brow. "We never make cake for no reason."

"Exactly!" Zoey's mother wiped the sweat off her forehead that the hot oven had caused. "We should make more cake for no reason. Or have a barbecue sometime."

"Wow." Zoey sat down at the table. "So you're going to the I'm-getting-divorced-so-that-means-I'm-going-to-change-who-I-am-phase."

"The what?" Zoey's mom laughed.

"I read about it in gossip magazines. You know, women cutting their hair after a divorce and stuff… But the thing with the cake, that's a new one."

Mrs. Cabot sighed. "I'm sorry we're doing this to you."

"Oh, I'm glad we're having cake."

"You know what I mean." She smiled. "Thanks for handling all of this so well."

She nodded. "Yeah, no problem. Um, I gotta go. I have some more stuff to do for school."

Zoey went back to her room. Though she seemed to be quite OK with the divorce, she didn't like to talk about it.

She looked at her school stuff, and then shook her head. She didn't get it anyway, so what was the point! She looked into her shelves and sat down in front of her DVD collection.

Maybe Buffy the Vampire Slayer would cheer her up. It was her favorite TV show. Her older cousin had showed her some episodes a few years back and Zoey had immediately gotten addicted. She took out the Season 7 box and decided to watch the very last episode of the show. Buffy telling Spike she loved him almost brought her to tears every time she watched it.

After the episode ended, Zoey watched the credits. She was too tired to stand up and take the DVD out of the player. Or was it something else? All she knew was that she wasn't able to stand up.

After the credits ended, something odd happened. The screen was black, but somehow Zoey felt drawn to it. She got closer to it. Suddenly she heard voices. It sounded like Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who had played Buffy.

"We don't –" The voice stopped. "I was there yesterday. I'm telling y–"

Zoey understood snippets of a dialogue. She could also hear the voices of the actors that had portrayed Willow, Xander and Dawn. What episode was this?

Suddenly, the four of them appeared on her screen. They looked different that on the TV show though. They looked older. Zoey was confused. What was this? Some kind of feature? Why had she never seen it before?

And the next thing Zoey knew was her standing in the same room with the four characters.

...to be continued! Stay tuned to find out how Zoey reacts to entering the Buffyverse...