A/N: Hey guys I know its been a while, I'm sorry. Please don't hate me for the chapter, I don't know how it is so please be gracious. Hopefully I'll have another chapter up by the Holidays, but there might be a slight chance that it'll be after the holidays because something that is going to asist me with writing the upcoming chapters will hopefully be a present. So once again Thanks for the reviews you guys are the best!
Chapter 10: The Mall
The Hyperion was quiet and everyone stared at her.
Giles took off his glasses and cleaned them. "Cordelia are you sure shopping is a good idea?"
"Why not? We're bored and there's nothing else to do and it may be our last days on earth so we might as well have some fun!" Cordelia said
Giles stared at her. "I'm kidding!" she said.
Buffy shook her head. "I think shopping is a great idea."
Xander nodded. "We never did get to go shopping."
"Good, Willow?" Cordelia asked.
"Uhh, yeah I guess."
"Sounds good to me." Willow also nodded.
"It's daylight." Angel said.
"So we'll take the tunnels." Cordelia said.
"So it's settled then, anyone who doesn't want to come can stay." Cordelia said.
"One question, why shopping?" Dawn asked.
"Because if you guys are going to make it better you need to stay here and if you stay here you're going to need clothes and other things." Cordelia told the teen.
"Oh." Dawn said.
Just then a disheveled-looking Andrew came down the stairs.
"Where have you been?" Buffy asked.
"Sleeping, you have no idea how jet lag from an alternate universe is treating me. What's going on?' Andrew said rubbing his head.
"Shopping." Cordelia said.
"Huh?" Andrew asked.
"We're going shopping." Cordelia said.
"Oh, I want go." Andrew said.
"Get dressed, five minutes, come on move it!" Cordelia called.
"Whoa, she's like captain commando of shopping." Dawn said.
"Tell me about it." Xander muttered.
About thirty minutes later, and lots of bickering the group made it to the mall. "
"It recently became the only mall in L.A., and it's huge. It was built on the grounds of the law firm, Wolfram and Hart and it is said to have lots of paranormal activity happen there." Giles told the group as they walked through the courtyard to the mall that was known as the L.A. mall because no one could come up with a name for it.
"Guess we do get to shopping after all you know since that's what we were planning to do…if Sunnydale hadn't been DESTROYED!" Dawn said marveling at the place.
"Wow…your mall was destroyed? Ours…well it was kind of abandoned and then destroyed." Willow said.
"Ok so I'll take the girls and you guys can well…do whatever you men do." Cordelia said to the group.
"Yes well there is a couple stores in here that aren't just for you woman." Wesley said.
"But our stores are just way better." Cordelia said. She flipped her hair over her shoulder. "Okay…uh Buffy, Willow's, Dawn, and Fred's this way."
Buffy turned to Angel and gave him a quick kiss on the lips before walking with Dawn and Willow to where the other Willow and Fred's and Cordelia were standing.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Xander asked.
"I don't know. Do whatever you do. Unless, you want to follow us and carry our stuff." Cordelia said with a smile on her face.
"No that's okay." Xander turned to the group of men. "Where to?"
"How about we meet with you ladies later?" Giles said.
"Okay." Cordelia said and smiled. "Bye Bye." She waved. She then turned to the girls. "Say goodbye to the boys girls. We've got major shopping ahead of us and something, that's not my visions, tells me that we'll be away from them for awhile."
Dawn looked at Buffy who shrugged and Dawn giggled as they followed Cordelia.
The Girls
The first couple of stores that they passed were fashion deprived and therefore had no reason for the group to go into to. But then they saw a store that made all of the girls shriek and run toward it.
"Oh my god, I thought they closed this down!" Cordy said and smiled as if she were a child on Christmas morning.
"Tell me about it, didn't they have one of these in Sunnydale and then they closed it?" Dawn asked as she stood open-mouthed looking at the clothes and jewelry.
"Oh yeah, I remember that." Willow said.
"What are we waiting for? Let's shop!" Buffy said and all girls ran to the same rack of clothes.
"Oh wow…" Cordelia said looking at a shirt that had an area for the belly button ring to show.
"Cool!" Dawn said and grabbed the shirt but put it back when she saw the look on Buffy's face.
The group turned around and realized that the whole store was filled with things only vampires would wear.
In single file the group walked out each disgusted.
The Boys
"Shopping has never been my thing." Gunn said as they walked around the huge mall.
"Me neither." Xander muttered but stopped when he saw a store that had some "interesting" pieces of clothing inside.
The other Xander chuckled and pulled himself away from the store. "I remember when I was like that."
"You know this whole shopping thing has been underrated for so long." Xander told the group. "It could be you know uh…a good thing and not that thing some of us have dreaded."
"Well, the Sunnydale mall was always a bit boring." Giles said wiping his glasses. "But I have to admit this mall is very nice."
"Giles, gasp! You shop?" Xander laughed.
"Well yes Xander I do have my own hobbies that do not include books and-."
"What?" Xander asked.
"He just saw a starbucks." Giles asked.
"And that excites you?" Xander asked.
"When you haven't seen a good cup of tea in over three months you too would be staring at this place as if it were salvation." Wesley said sarcastically.
"I forgot I'm surrounded by the British." Xander said.
"Hey!" Spike said.
"And Willy-Wanna-Bite." Xander added.
"Ha! That's a good one." Gunn chuckled.
"Ok, can we go now. I am in desperate need for a good cup of tea." Giles asked impatiently.
"Sure." Xander said.
So the group made it to Starbucks.
Both Giles went to get some tea along with Wesley and then they came back to the table.
"You know what I want to know?" Gunn asked looking around.
"What?" Wesley asked.
"The story." Gunn said.
"What story?" Angel asked him.
"Of you guys. You never went into detail about how you all met and everything. I mean sure we know bits and pieces but not the whole story. God knows we have enough time."
"Amen to that." Spike muttered.
Giles took a deep breath. The other Giles sipped his tea. "What do you want to know?"
"Everything. From the beginning."
"Of what?" Xander asked.
"I don't know. You tell us." Gunn said.
"You want everything?" Xander asked.
Gunn nodded.
"From the beginning?" Xander asked.
"Yeah."
"Alright." Xander said. "Well we have enough people from Sunnydale to help out so I guess I'll start."
"It all started I guess you could say when Buffy moved to Sunnydale. That's when we all met. I remember the first night she was there vampires took my friend Jesse and turned him…and I remember I staked him."
"You did?" Gunn asked.
"By accident." Xander said, remembering the night of the Harvest.
"And then you were friends with Buffy?" Gunn asked.
"Yeah me and Willow and Buffy, best friends. We used to call ourselves the Slayerettes." Xander said taking a deep breath.
There was a silence and then Xander said "Remember when we got pledged when we were going undercover in the frat house."
Xander laughed. "Yeah."
"What happened?" Gunn asked.
"Cordelia and Buffy had went to a frat party." Xander explained.
"Cordelia and Buffy were friends?" Gunn asked.
"No." everyone answered.
"They just went together." Xander explained.
"Oh." Gunn said.
"Yeah."
"So what else?" Andrew asked.
An hour later…
"And you left her!" Spike yelled.
"Well in this world you kill her!" Angel growled and the other Angel growled back at Spike.
"You didn't have a relationship in this world!" Angel yelled.
"I KNOW!" Spike screamed.
Everyone else sat around the table. "How long do you think they'll go at it?" Gunn asked.
"It'll take awhile for them to calm down." Xander said looking at his watch.
"Wow…one girl could set them off. They act as if she's the world."
"To them she is." Xander said. "And trust me I've tried to get between them. Nothing works."
It took about twenty minutes to get the three of them to calm down and a trip to liquor, just for looks not taste. By that time the girls were back with ten shopping bags in hand each. Everyone seemed happy to be around each other even though there had been a fight earlier.
The large group walked home seeing as it was dark out and the girls talked about their adventures in the mall. When they got back to the Hyperion everyone was pooped and they all sat around, everyone being too lazy to get up.
Gunn broke the silence of the room. "So you never finished the story."
"What story?" Buffy asked.
"Oh, we told Gunn about us, you the whole thing." Xander said.
"Huh." Buffy said.
"Yeah well they were talking about what happened in this world." Gunn said and he looked at the men. "So…?"
"Well we told you everything. It was hard, painful. A lot of fighting." Xander said.
"Yeah, pretty much sums it up." Gunn nodded.
Buffy turned to Angel who sat next to her by the desk. "Did you have fun today?"
"Yep." Angel said and smiled but Buffy turned to where the other Angel and Xander, Gunn and Giles sat.
"Yeah?" Xander asked.
"Where's Faith?" Buffy asked.
The alternate universe group exchanged glances.
Giles cleared his throat. "We haven't seen Faith since about a couple months after you died."
"Was she in jail?" Buffy asked.
"Yes, but we got her out. We um, we needed a Slayer." Wesley told her.
"And one night she went out looking for you." Giles told Buffy.
"And we haven't seen her since." Willow said.
"And now I guess I'm back." A voice said from the hotel's double doors. Faith attempted to smile at Buffy. "Hey B."