"Oh come on, it's a little funny." Xander said as he shook his cuffed hand against the table the other end was attached too.

"We got arrested. For trying to steal a murder weapon from a crime scene." Cordeila ground out. "I didn't even get arrested when we stole that rocket launcher from the army base."

Through the one two way mirror looking into the interview room, detectives Morris & Trudeau gave each other a look.

'Rocket launcher,' Morris mouthed.

Detective Andy Trudeau just shook his head and turned back to peer through the mirror.

"To be fair, the guard on duty was more interested in us having sex while looking at all the weapons."

"Yeah, interested in me. The pervert." Queen C sniffed.

"Yeah," Sunnydale's #1 class clown said with a grin, "but it made it easy to load up all the ammo and the pistols too. Who knew these guys would be Johnny on the spot for one stabbing?"

"You should have! I thought this whole thing was your passion, besides gawking at Alyssa Milano & Shannen Doherty's braless tits as they 'save the world.'"

Looking sheepish now, "I thought we had more time. I'm really going to have to re-watch everything before we pop in."

"But it 'is' funny," Xander said before nudging his girlfriend with his shoulder, "how many murders and missing persons have we walked away from scot free and we get pinched over this?"

"Well, at least it's not going on my record or anything. How would I explain this to my daddy's lawyer?" Despite herself, Cordeila's lips were quirking upwards.

"See! Besides, we didn't even kill her. So we'll just hang out till time runs out and try again." All in all, Xander wasn't having a terrible time.

As many times as Buffy & Giles had been pulled into interview rooms just like this over the years, this was his first. And even if it wasn't 'real' the novelty of it all was kind of cool.

"No, I don't believe you two are going anywhere anytime soon." Andy finally said, as he and detective Darryl Morris walked through the interview door. They'd been planning on letting the suspects sweat….but apparently that wasn't happening.

"Neato, Lethal Weapon knockoffs." Cordy snarked.

Xander snorted, "sorry," not expecting the look of outrage on the detectives faces. The cheerleader's quip-fu was strong.

"Do you have any idea what kind of trouble you two are looking at? We have you two at a crime scene, standing over a dead woman, holding the murder weapon. Did I miss anything?" Andy asked his partner.

Darryl just nodded, "that about covers it."

"Lame. Is there a fast forward button anywhere?"

"Come on, Cor. They're just doing their jobs." He said before giving his butt a little wiggle in his seat, it was like being in an episode of NYPD Blue.

"Their jobs don't matter. Do we really have to wait the whole time in here? We're going to miss everything."

"Are you two crazy? We have you dead to rights. There have been a string of occult murders and you two were found standing 'over' the latest victim with the bloody knife in your hands!" Andy said before slamming down a folder onto the table the scoobies were cuffed too.

"Now I want you to explain all this….witch stuff, candles, herbs, ceremonial knives."

"Athame. They're called athame. Do they not have google here?"

"This level of nerd interest in Charmed is sooo not a turn on." Cordeila said while rolling her eyes.

"I just want them to use the right words. This script is really lack luster."

"Oh, you think this is all a joke?" Andy fumed, "is this funny to you?" He opened the file and started slapping crime scene photos down.

"These people are dead."

"Completely dead? Or just a little dead? Because I swear I saw one breathing."

"It was a pilot. You can't expect their A-games." The lone female scooby said, bored while she flipped through the pictures.

"Actually, the pilot had a completely different actress playing Phoebe."

"Why am I dating you again?"

"Knock off the comedy bit! I want answers, and neither of you are going anywhere till I get them. What's the witch angle? Why kill them with a ceremonial dagger? Are you Satanists?"

"My money's on psycho's." Darryl put in his two cents.

"…I swear we had this conversation already," she quipped.

"Can I get a coke?" At his girlfriends look he continued, "what? I'm getting thirsty and we have like forty minutes to kill."

~~~

Appearing back in Xander's basement.

"Okay, that was kind of cool."

"See!" Xander said with enthusiasm. "I was not expecting the sisters to bail us out and demand answers about the killings."

"Playing the role of watcher, without the ugly tweed, was a nice turn of events. Too bad they cursed the guy before we could shank him."

"Exactly! We got to do the whole bit, 'you are witches, magics real, warlocks want to date and then kill you,' and warlock Jeremy's powers are very cool up close. We gotta go again." He was practically on a sugar high.

"You have to actually re-watch the episodes before we pop in. This guess work isn't getting the job done." But she wasn't too discouraged, and his happiness was infectious.

"Fine, fine. We'll put the tape in a regular VCR. But I'm sure I've got the gist. Murder, detective angry pants giving a lot of exposition, Phoebe shows back up, spookiness with the book of shadows, everyone has powers, hijinks occur, big fight scene."

"Didn't need a blow by blow, what we need is the timing. How long between the scenes? And why were we in the episode so long? I thought these things were like forty minutes, tops." She took a seat on the couch while Xander looked for his old VCR.

"Well, if we aren't in any of the scenes they'll continue like normal. But once we're interacting then they become…I dunno, normal time wise."

"Meaning?"

"Okay, its like this….the sisters are all in the manor, but then one of them has to go to Quake or any other location, the episode has a cut to scene. But if we're with them, we're with them the whole time. Getting into their car, driving to the location, traffic, the whole bit. It lengthens everything."

"Oh," she checked her watch," but it's still been less then an hour."

"Yeah, out 'here'. Normal time in the real world stays that way. It just seems like a lot more time passes when we're in the show. Pocket dimension rules I guess."

"Having trouble?" She asked him, watching as he went through box after box.

"I guess my parents through out the old VCR."

"So back to guess work..-hey! What the hell!" Cordeila Chase jumped up when she noticed she was missing something under her skirt.

"Wha…whats wrong?" Xander looked around, trying to pinpoint the danger.

"My…eh….my panties are missing."

"What?!"

"Shh…keep it down, the last thing I need is to explain that statement to your wino father," she smoothed down her skirt, "after the fight with warlock Jeremy, Piper let me use the shower and borrow a pair."

"Why would you need to borrow panties?" He said, his eyebrows reaching towards his hairline.

"Sooo not the point, but they got torn when the badguy made that wind tunnel in the attic. The 'point' however is WHERE'S MY PANTIES?!"

"Calm down, Cor. I assume you threw the torn pair in the trash while we were there?" At her nod he continued, "and you were wearing Piper's extra pair. But that's the thing, when we leave the episode we can't keep things that aren't in us. Its why when we eat a meal there, we don't hop out hungry."

"That's a stupid rule."

"I didn't make it. But it is why we haven't jumped into a Star Wars movie so I could take a lightsaber. It just vanishes."

"But how do you know we'll even be able to keep whatever powers we get from there?" She questioned, still trying to push her hemline down.

"I've tested that one, and not just with pizza. I put a quarter I got from an ep in my mouth, and when I popped back out it was still there."

"Gross, but I guess it works then."

"Yeah. After we get witch powers, we've got to hit a pirate movie or something. Gold coins & gems are on the to-do list."

The implications of that made her eyes widen, "we're gonna be rich! Well, you're going to be rich. I'll be richer."

"Yep! Now, do you want to borrow a pair of my pants before we do this?"

"As if, I'll go commando before I wear your ugly jeans."

"Truly the heart of appreciation, Cor."

"Just don't get us arrested again, the WB's lame excuses for Riggs & Murtaugh were totally the worst part of the episode."