Chapter 2: Who called the meeting?



After Giles and the others seeing she was not a vampire (since she wore the cross Angel gave her around her neck) they seemed to accept Buffy was well...Buffy. She was about to tell them about the demon in the park when Giles inturrepted her.

"Buffy how did you get here...I mean h-how did you..you were dead."

"Would you quit saying that! I'm right here I'm not dead." Buffy said as everyone eyed her cautiously.

"Buffy we...I saw you die." Xander, who now spoke for the first time since he had seen her arrive, said.

"Okay rewind, first I go to the Bronze to meet you two." she says looking at Willow and Xander before continuing, "On the way to the Bronze I see this pool of light in the park, I fight this demon, come to see you." she says looking at Giles, "And to my surprise everyone is here and telling me I'm dead."

Willow spoke up first "Meet you at the Bron... but was inturrepted by Giles "A pool of what"?

"Light, a big swirling light...looked like a tunnel or something when the demon knocked me or rather us into it."

"Wait a minute the demon knocked you into this light?"

Buffy looking back at Giles "Yeah, but no worry I'm fine only a slight headache".

"A-And this demon, what did he look like?" Giles asked removing his glasses from the bridge of his nose.

Buffy shrugged "Your typical yellowish demon, ugly, three eyes."

Giles seemed to go on alert after she described the demon "Three eyes, one on his forehead that glows?"


Buffy looking surprised "Yeah, how did you know?"

"Because, that is what killed you-ahh-Buffy and nearly killed Xander." Giles said.

"Giles I'm right here...yes me and the demon fought, but he got away and I'm fine, besides Xander was here with you." Buffy said looking back and forth between Giles and Xander (the ladder seeming to look down when she looked at him).

"Buffy this tunnel you talked about, was it blue?" Giles asked while going into his office.

"Yeah, Why?" she asked.

Giles coming out of his office with a book of somekind, scimming through it and when finding what he was looking for handed the book to Buffy. "Is that the demon?"

To his question she looked on the page "Yep thats him, three eyes and all."

Giles seemed uneasy and was acting as if he was holding something back.

"Giles spill! This is no time to hold back on me." she said.

Giles looking at her, knowing what he was about to say would hurt Willow and Xander just as much as it hurt him when he figured it out himself.

"Buffy I-I think you should sit down for this." After she and the others sat down at the table he continued, "Buffy I think when you were knocked into that tunnel of light as you called it, you
were thrown into another reality, ou-our reality." He said.

"Okay Brain overload, what do you mean YOUR reality?"

Giles looking at the group, who all looked like they had questions, "Well about two weeks before Buffy...Our Buffy (Hearing him say our Buffy creeped Buffy out and it seemed to unsettle Xander
too) was killed she told me about a demon she fought with three eyes, and how it opened this blue light out of nowhere and dissapeared into it. The night she was..." He trailed off for a minute before continuing, "She told me she was going to go on patrol with Xander and said she would report anything she found the next day. About one in the morning I got a phone call at my house and it was the hospital. They said they had a teenage boy who was asking for me by name. When
I got there Xander was badly beaten and told me about the demon attacking them and it killing Buffy."

Buffy not knowing what to think or say, could see Willow and Oz taking it all in stride, but Xander seemed to be in another place, almost as if he was reliving it.

"Well-uh-If this is not my reality then how do I get back to my reality?" Buffy said looking at Giles.

"Well I-I need to research more on that, but this demon seems to have the ability to open portals between alternate realities, but only on the night of the full moon so we should have awhile to prepare before the next full moon."

Buffy looking at Giles "Why only on the full moo..then she cut herself off and screamed "Oz!" To which everyone jumped, alarmed by her sudden outburst.

"What about me?" Oz asked.

"Why aren't you tied up or in the cage?" To her question everyone looked at her like she had two heads.

To this Xander finally commented "Why, is that a fantasy of yours?" he said grinning.

She threw the book that Giles had given her at Xander, hitting him right in the stomach to which he grunted and rubbed where the book hit him and said, "It sure does feel like my-ou-our Buffy."

She ignored his comment and looked at Oz "You mean you're not a werewolf?"

Oz just shook his head and replied a simple "No."

Willow now spoke up "In your reality Oz is a werewolf?"

Buffy replied "Only three nights a month."

Hearing this Giles said "Interesting, how...(but he was inturrepted by Buffy) "Giles I know you love talking about this kind of stuff, but I'm beat I need some...(Giles finished for her)"Rest..yes, I think we all could use some rest its been a long day we'll continue
this in the morning."

Getting up Buffy said "Right, well as soon as I get home I'm...(Giles inturrepting her again) "Buffy I-I'm afraid you can't go home, your mother thinks your dead..I-I mean her Buffy is dead it would be too much for her to handle, she would have too many questions."

"Oh..where...then where I'm I going to sleep?" she said looking at Giles who was about to answer when Xander cut him off "You could crash at my house."

Nobody seemed taken back by Xander's offer except Buffy who said, "O-Okay."
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