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Joe Lawyer

If you think you're somehow being tracked then moving about randomly is a very good idea, as it can throw off the people following you. Plus Niagara Falls is one of the things I'd go see if I was in America.

Its not the Traveller that's running interference, what's messing the PTBs is that their centuries long plans have been wrecked. I see the PTBs as big picture thinkers who are used to seeing people as pawns, so when someone comes along and derails things they don't know how to cope. Their confusion is why they are only sort of trying to fix things, they aren't sure they can sort it out, they might just make things worse for themselves.

No the team can get their hands on advanced weapons. I plan for the group to visit many universes once they have settled down in Sunnydale, which will a separate story as this one ends when they met Faith, and they could end up getting their hands on many interesting things.

That was another reason why I started at season 1 it let me change Buffy. Her not dying and then not hooking up with Angel should allow her avoid a lot of the emo stuff.

Iskandr

The fan fic 'A wrong turn at Ingnam' was the main inspiration for that part of my story.

I am finding it easier to write smaller chapters in groups than larger chapters. Its less pressure on my imagination and its allowing to me cover a lot of ground quickly. Which is important now because the story is over one hundred thousand words and I am still not at the end.

DanielAlvarado

The prophecy says something along the lines of that the Slayer would die at the hands of The Master and he would rise from his mystical prison. Which is what happened in the show, Buffy was for a short time dead as her heart had stopped beating.

Which is pretty straight forward a Slayer has to die at the hands of the Master, to make things worse that prophecy is the Pergamum Codex and Giles states that what is written in that book comes to pass, so there's no wiggle room.

There's also a bit about the Anointed One leading the Slayer into hell but that's not in the codex and that means its more flexible. However taking him out won't go and make the prophecy invalid.

The only way around it I can think of is that because Buffy dies at the hands of the Master in the Wishverse then the prophecy is actually a foretelling of something that takes place in what becomes an alternate time line. If so then the Master can be killed in a rather anti-climatic way.

As for the Old Magic, he just hasn't learned about it yet. There's a lot of other things diverting his attention.

Slayer Gothic - Buffalo

Restaurant. Buffalo New York.

"I still can't read French" Buffy said as we all looked through our menus "Can any of us?"

While I knew a few words, and I could introduce myself in French I wasn't having much luck, and since we were now close to the Canadian boarder my inability to speak the language of France might be a problem as it commonly spoke in Canada.

"I know a lot of Spanish" Fred said "So if we went to a Mexican restaurant we wouldn't be having this problem".

As much as we all adored Fred, as she was lovable, none of us could stomach more Mexican food, there was nothing wrong with the stuff, we just needed a change. I knew this was true of everyone, other than her, as they all had groaned when Winifred had just spoken.

"We'll end up snails and frogs legs" moaned Amy.

I doubted that as if needs be I would just ask a waiter what the chef's specials were in English.

"Sorry" I said to my girls "I thought somewhere fancy would be a nice change of pace".

We'd driven from directly from Colorado to Buffalo New York, stopping only to refuel the RV and to pick up supplies, as such none of us had been eating very well. Still the trip had been somewhat productive as while I'd drove the motor home my girls had put their heads together and figured out a way to make Marcie visible using a magical amulet that could store many kinds of spells.

Actually that wasn't totally correct. She wasn't visible per say because the amulet contained a glamour spell, so people were really seeing a glamour of Marcie. The cool thing about having the spell in the amulet was that if she took it off she was invisible again and so could still do the whole spying thing.

"Well we all to get dress up" said Tara "That's fun".

I found it amazing how many changes of clothes my girls had managed to fit into one RV. It had be some sort of physics bending power that all women possessed, like how they could fit so much into a tiny handbag.

"So should we make a run for it?" I asked the girls "or I could bribe the waiter to bring us something English speaking people can eat".

Hearing that made Buffy laugh.

"That's what he did in Vegas" she then told the other females at the table "Before we had to deal with the gangster vamp".

Her saying that reminded me of the news I'd heard on the radio and read about in the papers that concerned Las Vegas. Until recently I had thought that Sanguine had pranked us, but now I understood that it had been part of something much bigger.

Dusting Vinny the Vampire had been just one of the events that had somehow led to the different gangs of Vegas going to war with each other. It wasn't something that resulted in the National Guard being called in, but the police had been having hard time keeping the peace because behind the scenes a lot of crooks were trying to kill each other.

I had no idea what the Daedric Prince of Debauchery was getting of it, and while it was the job of a Slayer to protect humans from supernatural beings I had no intention of taking on Sanguine, that guy was far too powerful to face and I had nothing that would even hurt a god.

However it wasn't Sanguine that really worried me, as he was trickster and while he could be destructive he wasn't evil like Molag Bal or Dagon. If either of those two princes came here then I would get scared. My only hope was that either the PTBs or the Senior Partners would somehow prevent those daedric princes from acting.

If they didn't then this world might be merged with a plane of Oblivion or we could end up with Oblivion gates popping up all over the place, and there would be no way to hide those events.

My trail of thought came to an end when the waiter came over. I slipped him a twenty dollar note and asked him to bring us something nice but not too exotic for both dinner and dessert.

As soon as the waiter was gone I saw Buffy tense, and I started to feel as something wasn't right.

"Vampire" I muttered.

As of yet I didn't know where the leech was, however I knew there was one around somewhere close. A subtle thing, maybe the way they smelled or moved, had registered somewhere in my brain and that had alerted me. Buffy had sensed it sooner than me so I figured the vamp might be closer to her.

"I've got a stake in my purse" Amy whispered.

As for me I had a gun on me, however I wasn't going to open fire in the middle of a crowded restaurant, because a side from the risk of hitting a civilian, I didn't want any police attention.

"Me too" Fred said softly "and a knife".

I knew that Buffy also had a stake because she never went anywhere without one.

"Over there" Tara said while gesturing "the girl's human and the guy is the vampire. His aura is all about death".

I saw Buffy gaze narrow in on her prey.

"You guys stay here" she said "Its just one vamp. I'll go to the RV get my sword and be waiting for them outside when they leave".

I stood up, intending to deal with the leech myself, however I stopped when Buffy looked at me.

"Relax, its one vamp. I can deal with him" she insisted "You've been driving a lot you're not a your best".

She was right about that so I let her go, and the rest of us spent the next few minutes just sitting at the table waiting for her to get back.

We didn't wait long as the vampire came flying through the window followed by Buffy, who now had her sword, which she used to decapitate the vamp when the creature tried to stand up.

Naturally every single person in the restaurant was now staring at the Slayer.

"There can be only one!" she declared loudly before running out into the night.

I got the sense then that it was time to leave.

(Line Break)

Hotel. Buffalo New York.

After booking into another hotel, this one far away from the restaurant. My girls and were hanging out in the room I'd rented for myself, and we were waiting for room service since we'd had to miss out on dinner.

The room had two beds, but only I was lying down, everyone else was either standing up, sitting on the other bed, or lying on the floor for some reason. Which was very disappointing as none of my girls were wearing much under their bathrobes and I'd been hoping to see some flesh.

"Why quote the Highlander movie?" I asked Buffy as Amy and Tara put up the wards "I just have to know".

Since we couldn't go around defacing the walls of all the rooms we stayed at whenever we stayed somewhere nice we put up pieces of paper that had the symbols on them. As long as it was done correctly we remained hidden and that allowed us take off the clothes that had the same symbols sown into them.

"It just popped into my head" she told me "and I like that movie".

That seemed to be the end of that, but only because the food had arrived and that started a feeding frenzy which didn't end until everything edible had vanished from sight.

After that I laid down again, and began flipping through channels for something good to watch.

"What's this?" Fred suddenly asked me.

To my horror Winifred was holding one of my notebooks, which was bad because they sometimes contained stuff I didn't want other people to read, however I soon relaxed when I remembered that the books with the really personal stuff, things that would expose me a big fat fibber were in my house back in Sunnydale. The notebook she held contained bits of information I'd jotted down about my girls, nothing that couldn't be explained by me knowing things from a universe ahead of this one in time.

"Just some notes" I told her "Things I jotted down when making my plans. "One of which was saving you".

That wasn't what she cared about.

"Look at this," she said, opening the book to a spot that mentioned Marcie being unseen "quantum mechanics does not work that way".

It took me a moment to figure out what she meant. I'd stated in my notes that Marcie becoming invisible was due to reality being defined by our perception of it. Because no one saw Marcie they had stopped seeing her.

Although to be fair it had actually been Giles who had come up with that theory in th show. I had agreed with it due the fact that no magic spell had been able to make her truly visible again that supported the idea that the source of her condition was not supernatural in nature. I knew from my study of the mystical forces that anything caused by magic could be reversed or countered with the right spell.

"That's a gross misinterpretation" she chided me "Seriously, where did you learn about physics?".

I had to admit the truth, the look on her face compelled me.

"High school" I answered,

Fred sighed.

"I should have guessed" she then said "But that's no excuse for being stupid. Did you really think that Marcie would become visible again if enough people started to acknowledge her existence?".

In truth I had, and when I nodded Fred became very upset.

"You are not having sex again until you prove that you have at least rudimentary grasp of physics" she then said "and I'll tutor you on the more advanced stuff when we get back to Sunnydale. I think home schooling would be better for you. I know you need to learn about demons and magic, but knowing science will help too".

There was a small flaw with her plan.

"I have a harem" I pointed out "You can't deny me sex because I'll just get it from someone else".

That was when I found out that my girls had united against me. They didn't need to say anything, the way they didn't look at me told me everything.

"And I thought I was in charge here" I moaned.

That was when someone other than Fred spoke.

"You'll need home schooling if you want to go to college with me" Tara said "I mean you did promise to send me to UC Sunnydale, and to look after me so you have to go".

I had promised that. Although I hadn't thought it would mean actually going to college I'd assumed that I'd simply pay for everyone's eduction while giving them somewhere nice to live.

"UC Sunnydale could be fun" Amy commented.

I sighed.

"Next time I make a deal with a girl I'm forcing her sign a contract" I decided "That way no one will be able to rope into things".

Fred moved to sit on the bed next to me.

"I'll write a contract up" she offered "and don't worry I'll make sure it gives you the right to have sex with all of us as long as you fulfil your promises".

That sounded good to everyone.

"But for now you have learning to do" Winifred said as she straddled my lap "Listen up and I'll have sex with you".

Given that she was only wearing a tank top and panties I was already poking her through my jeans, and since she moved about while lecturing me it was a chore to listen, but somehow I managed it. My penis demanded that I do so.