Ros and Lyn noted something was off instantly. For one Xander seemed tied between confusion and being upset. With wide eyes he just seemed intent on not saying a thing and watching with wary eyes.

"He's awake," Giles joined the group pushing them more into the hall, "he awoke but seemed disoritated." Giles turned back around, "He seemed to be confused on where and more worryingly when we are."

The four stood there for a moment trying to mull over what exactly that meant for the young man, lying in the bed. With a sigh Joyce moved forward, the twins and Mr. Giles following behind.

"Jo-Mrs. S," Xander greeted rather awkwardly, upon the woman entering the room.

"Xander, how are you feeling?"

He looked up at the woman and actually started tearing up some, with quick hands he wiped the right side of his face before giving a weird cough, "Ugh," he groaned some, before shooting her a smile, "So where's Buffy?"

"She's with Bonnie," Aunt Joyce said shooting a worried looks too those in the room. The concern only amplified when Xander seemed confused at that response.

Ros pulled out her phone and looked at her tinging phone, wincing at the glares Aunt Joyce and nurse sent her, the nurse going so far as to point out the notice on all the doors, 'Turn off cellular phones!'. Ros quickly turned it off but relayed the message to her aunt, "Bonnie says they're almost here."

He nodded but was apparent he was confused. He sat there for a minute looking at those around him, as if he either had never seen them before or for a very long time. "And Willow?" he asked after a moment, where he focused on Giles now.

Giles eyes widen and everyone else looked worried. "Willow, is uh, still in Sunnydale. I think you were going to do some video thing soon?" Giles stammered, looking to the others in the room for support.

"How long have I been out?" Xander asked warily. One could see that his anxiety and fear were building and it looking almost as if he was just minutes away from ripping the IV from his body and taking off running.

"What do you last remember?" Ros asked sitting down beside him like she had done the night before.

He looked at her oddly, distrust evident in his boyish features, and just below that was a hardness that Ros hadn't expected.

"You had picked us up from the party and we were going to go play pool," she stated, when he didn't say anything, "Remember?"

"We?" he asked, his tone and voice very soothing and withholding emotion.

"You, me and Bonnie."

"Bonnie?" he asked again.

"You're girlfriend Alexander," Giles said with a sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I'm starting to think we should call the doctor in again."

"Where are my parents?" he asked with a sigh.

That gave everyone a definite pause. No one could not stare at the lying down young man.

"Xander!" Bonnie nearly screamed out, running forward and flinging herself onto him with an unusual tenderness. "I am so sorry! I was so worried and you're alive!"

"Buffy!" Xander squeaked, trying to move his head as far away from the brunette beauty on top of him, causing a shocked almost struck look to cross her features. "OH god Buffy! I'm so confused," he took a breath and looked around with worried terror filled eyes, "This isn't real right? A spell or something? Do you think this is a demony thing because this isn't right, this isn't real."

"Xander?" Bonnie asked, hopping off him as if burnt. Tears welling in her eyes as he seemed relieved she removed herself.

"Xander?" Buffy asked as well with confusion.

"Buffy! Is this real?" he asked, pulling the blanket up to his chest, as if trying to save his modesty. He was anxious and scared his hands clutched the sheet with death grip.

"Xander, this is real, but you're scaring those around you."

"This is like some evil demon thing right?"

"What is the last thing you remember?" Ros asked again, a bit more firmly.

He looked at Ros with wide terror filled eyes. "Who the hell are you?"

"Xander," Buffy stated, after a moment unsure on what was going on, he looked up to her with worry and fear in his eyes. "Xander this is my cousin Rosalind."

"Cousin?" he squeaked out.

"Yeah, my mom's youngest sister had the twins."

"Twins?" he asked.

"Rosalind and Gwendolyn," Buffy pointed to the girls. "They're my cousin's and the reason why we moved to Mystic Falls."

"Mystic Falls?" he asked, his brow furrowed in confusion. "Not Sunnydale," he asked slowly his eyes wide but a calculating look seemed to build in them.

"No, we've been here for like half a year now."

"We?" he asked.

"Well," Buffy turned to look at Giles, a pleading look on her face.

"I adopted you," Giles said before awkwardly adding, "son."

"I know I sound crazy to you all but I really just have to huugh?" Xander said after taking a deep breath. "This is insane. You all are insane and I'm in the bed! The Twilight Zone!"

"Breathe, you need to breathe," Ros demanded, sitting on the side of his bed. "I know this is insane, but I think-" she paused and seemed to build up her courage. "How old are you?"

"Twenty-three," he said with wide eyes as he scanned the room. "Buff, you aren't legal are you?" The rest of the room reeled in shock, with Buffy's eyes widening immensely and motioning to herself as if unsure.

"Okay so," Ros broke through, "I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Sunnydale in your world is a crater." Xander gave a nod, Ros took a breath, "Okay so how long ago was that for you?"

"A year."

"Okay, so here is the truth now. That was another universe. One that wasn't so closely tied with this one. In this one Joyce's mother died and her sister's twins needed a guardian to keep care of them. So she came out this way."

"Okay, but why is Buffy young." He asked eyeing her with nervousness, "And where is Dawn?"

"Dawn?" Joyce asked.

Ros gave a sigh, "This is essentially your junior year of high school. Those things haven't happened yet."

"Highschool?" he asked, as he paled some.

"Yep, and because Joyce was able to sell her home and find a well paying job she moved out here instead of staying in Sunnydale." His hands were back to clutching the sheet in a vice like grip. "Now I'm not sure on a lot but as of right now all you need to know is you are safe, and that once you get out you can ask all the questions you want."

"Okay, okay, so this is a hospital?" he asked immediately after

"Yes," Ros answered simply.

"And I am here why?"

Ros turned to search out Bonnie in the fairly crowded room, Bonnie however had tears streaming down her eyes and shook her head no. Ros sighed and turned back to Xander. "We had just left a party, and we were going to go play some pool and eat nachos-"

"I like nachos," Xander interrupted.

Ros smiled and soldiered on, "We didn't even get a few feet from the car when two v-" Ros looked around with worry, "large guys kidnapped us and beat you unconscious. You've been here for a few nights now."

"And you are okay?" He asked with a discerning eye.

"I was held hostage for a reason, and it has seemed to pan out. I was just released this morning from here." She noted his concern and an idea popped into her head. She turned to Buffy, "Can I see your cross? Maybe if we pass it around he'll relax some?"

Buffy nodded and unclasped the necklace Angel had given her last year, Ros took it by the thicker part and dangled the chain over her hand, assuring the cross actually touched her flesh. "Would you like everyone else to do the same?"

"Actually, yeah, that would be great."

"Okay," Ros answered handing off the necklace to Giles, who held it aloft for Xander to see and passed it on. Care must have been in the lobby and it would seem Bonnie was pretty close to vacating the room as well. But everyone grabbed hold of the necklace before Buffy clasped it back around her neck.

"Okay so, there are so many questions, and I get the need for silence right now, so when can I leave."

"Oh Mr. Giles," an older man came in with a clipboard, "And friends," the doctor smiled at the large group. "Well I think I heard my most favorite thing in the world," the doctor looked at his clipboard and hmmed a bit at it. "I love when patients are ready to go."

"So can I Doc?" Xan asked.

"I think we should keep you for one more evening-

Xan made a groan.

"But since visiting hour is almost done, and the morning isn't all too far away I'm sure you can power through."

"So I can leave tomorrow."

The doctor hmmed, before looking up and nodding. "Yes I believe so." He smiled and moved to the foot of the bed, "You'd should probably miss school though."

"School?" Xander squeaked a queasy look crossing his face. "Really school?"

The doctor laughed, "Yes young man, school."

"Really?" Ros asked with pure confusion. The doctor turned to her with confusion. "I just mean he was in a coma for a few days, and he wakes up and is released in less than twenty-four hours?" She could feel Xander glaring at her.

The doctor gave her a smile. "He was taken off a medically induced coma, when the swelling went down and is coherent and seemingly well cared for, there isn't much more modern medicine could do."

"Oh," Ros answered.

"Never stop asking questions!" the doctor ordered with a smile. "But other than keeping an eye on him, I see no reason to keep your strapping young man hostage for longer."

"Strapping?" Ros squeaked.

"Wha?" Xander squeaked as well at the same time.

The doctor smiled and looked at their positions, to which Ros immediately jumped up and away from the bed with a blush on the verge of breaking out. "Well, I shall be checking on you shortly, young man. Be sure to say goodbye to your friends," he stated with obvious mirth, "visiting hours will be closing soon."

Lynnie snorted at her sister, who was mimicking a tomato and making discreet looks to where Bonnie had been. It would seem the teenage girl had gone through too much at the time to really handle her boyfriend having no knowledge of who she was or their past light experiences.

"And Willow is still in Sunnydale?" Xander asked again, causing his 'father' to sigh heavily and bid everyone a goodnight as they all left him to his amnesiac son.

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Ros didn't see Bonnie at the hospital after that, and all she could hope for was that her friend wouldn't try to dodge her at school. The three went back home with no fanfare, Buffy barely waving goodbye as she was staying with Bonnie and Care as agreed.

It would seem that Buffy was troubled by this as well.

Aunt Joyce bid the twins goodnight and went to bed while the twins went upstairs. Ros barely made a few steps toward her room when Lynnie grabbed hold of her and pulled her into the younger twin's room.

"Xander?" Lynnie started the conversation, eyeing her sister severely, "What do you know?"

"I know this is really weird, but I had a feeling," Ros stated as if that was all there was to it.

Not for the first time in her life, Lynnie contemplated how long it would take to strangle her sister to at least unconsciousness. "Okay," she drew out, all the while mentally pleading that her sister would speak. "AND!" she snapped when a full minute went by and Ros only stretched and looked uncomfortably longingly at Lynnie's bed.

Lynnie moved to stand in front of the bed to stop her sister from collapsing onto it, she gave her sister a hard look, imploring the girl to speak.

"Oh," she shook her head as if she were shaking the sleepies away, "right. So I had the strangest feeling he is the Xander from the TV show."

"You just got this feeling?" Lyn asked, irritation simmering.

"Yeah, like, that he was seventh season Xander, but I mean you heard him," Ros stated waving it off, "He's a year from the finale. Which I guess is good because if he wasn't he'd probably still be grieving and that can cause some bad things to occur."

"Bad things?" Lynnie asked.

"Yeah like he could try and lure Anya here and try to make things right with her in a whole love potion bad thing world."

"What are you saying?" Lyn asked, noting that her sister was no longer making coherent statements.

"I'm really tired Lynnie," she stated, giving a yawn again.

"Fine," Lyn said with a heavy sigh, "We'll talk tomorrow after school."

"School," Ros sneered with disgust.

"Yeah, yeah," Lyn stated pushing her sister out the door. "Whatever, goodnight."

"Mmm," Ros answered, stumbling off to her bed. Lynnie took note that it was only ten in the evening and her sister was apparently exhausted.

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Bonnie went to sleep crying. Everything had just hit that sweet spot where tears were the only realistic response. She resolved herself to not shut anyone out, but she knew she couldn't stop herself from being worried and perhaps a bit standoffish. She also knew that she would definitely be visiting Grams more.

Care had helped her that morning, it would seem that her eyes were still puffy and in need of Care's spectacular make-up skills.

That was something that had thrown Bonnie the most, Care. Care was actually more of a friend now than she ever was before. Buffy would of course be Care's best friend but Bonnie didn't feel like a third wheel.

Something she always felt when hanging out with Caroline and Elena. It had always seemed like Care was just Elena's friend, but Buffy seemed to negate Caroline's more offensive behaviors and drew her in, which confused her; when Bonnie was having immense weird guilt jealousy feelings toward the petite super-strong girl.

School was going to start and Bonnie couldn't help but wonder if Ros would be going, or more importantly if Xander was going, she had missed the doctors declaration the night before.

He probably wasn't, but she was sure she could talk Buffy into visiting her- Looker or Minder or whatever Mr. Giles was to her, house. She really had to come to grips on what was going on with Xander and would have to talk to him to do so.

It was actually a good thing he wasn't going to be at school then.

Ros was at school, and though she spent time with Bonnie, she didn't force conversation. In fact she seemed almost reluctant to speak more than necessary. All in all that worked pretty well for her.

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Stefan wasn't exactly babying Ros, but he was a bit more aware of her movements and actions. One of the things he noted, was she was wearing her sister's scarf, and remembered the bruises left by her encounter. He also noted that she wasn't so keen on speaking still.

"Does your throat still hurt?" he asked, walking with her and Lyn to their shared class.

She nodded, but shrugged, as if saying 'Yeah, but I'll be fine.' She gave him a reassuring smile, "I'll be fine, just really tired still."

He nodded, "That happens when the brain loses oxygen for any significant amount of time."

Ros nodded, but put on a brave face. She turned to Stefan again, just before entering the class, "Do you think you could teach me some Italian cooking?"

He compressed a laugh and nodded, "Course."

"Cool," she whispered before going to class.

Stefan followed her and couldn't help but wonder, again, something he had done for over a hundred years now, what goes on in women's heads.

After school the group all met together, Lynnie was the only odd man out as Stefan had football practice, while Bonnie, Buffy and Care all had cheer practice and Ros had volleyball. Deciding it wasn't super cold Lynnie decided to sit and watch the cheerleaders, not wanting anyone to think she was sitting at practice watching Matt or something.

Once everyone's practice was done it was agreed that the entire group minus Caroline-who was going to work on some volunteer work for some other projects; would make their way to the history teacher's house for a much needed conversation.

"Miss Flemming," the two Flemmings turned around with confusion. They saw their English teacher with a tight smile. "Right you're twins," he chuckled to himself, he waved away the group who shrugged and moved a bit away as the twins moved closer to the teacher.

"Yes, Mr. Saltzman?"

"I really only wanted to speak with Gwendolyn, Rosalind," he stated, however, his eyes were fixed on her scarf. "That is a pretty scarf there, though."

"Uh thank you sir," Ros stated with confusion and moving forward to join the rest of the group, leaving Lynnie behind.

"Miss Flemming, I was wondering if you would be willing to offer tutoring to some other students?"

"What?" Lyn asked in confusion.

"Well, Jeremy Gilbert just passed his catch up test and says it's all because of your tutoring. I'd be willing to offer you extra credit for helping."

"Uh," Lynnie stated with surprise.

"I understand it was simply because he was a friend, but his grades have proven how beneficial your tutoring was and I have a whole six classes taught so poorly that some just may not be able to pass this semester."

"I um, I guess?"

"You will?" he asked, a smile on his face.

"Um, I guess," she said weakly.

"Great! I'll start asking some students if they're open for help and have you do one on one's three nights a week?" he asked.

"I think that could work."

"Great!" He smiled and was about to turn around, "I don't mean to be rude, but did you know an Isobel Flemming?" Lyn's eyes widen against her will as her heart skipped a beat. "It's just you look so much like her."

"Isobel Flemming?" she asked her mind going a whirl, "My mother's name was Isobel."

"Mother?" he asked, suddenly looking panicked and a little ill.

AN- Hi guys so sorry for the late update, the New Year and holidays have been crazy. I'm still writing and will go back to posting every other Tuesday. I am so thrilled to have more favs and follows, thank you so much! Once again, it's just me and real world Lyn going through and editing this so I'm sorry for all the errors. Thank you all so much!