Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews on part 1. This is a record for me, the second part out this soon!

Please review, I want more reviews! The plot thickens a lot in this part. Enjoy!

Chapter 2- Putting Two and Two Together

Dawn gaped at Buffy and Angel. Before they could say another word she just shut the door. She turned around and sank down against the wall.

How was it possible? How was...then Dawn got an idea. She closed her eyes and thought back to the last thing she remembered before she got to the land of dancing Taras and her sister making out with her not-so-forbidden love. Ok, I put on the necklace, she thought. Then I said...

"I just wish everything was back to normal," she whispered.

"Dawn? Are you still there?" her sister yelled from inside.

"Already gone," Dawn yelled back, walking away. Then after that there was that flash of light, I screamed, and then I was on my bedroom floor. She stopped dead in her tracks. "Oh, no," she moaned. She must be in an alternate dimension, the kind that Anya always talked about.

But which one? She thought as she entered her room. Maybe it's the land without shrimp that Anya mentioned. That would be alright, I don't like shrimp anyway. But she knew that it was something way bigger than that.

She thought of the differences she had noticed so far. The furniture wasn't broken, her stash of stolen stuff was gone, Tara was acting...well, almost carefree, someone was getting engaged, and Buffy and Angel were kissing.

"Maybe if I find more differences, I can figure out what this dimension is," she said. She paused as she realized that then she would need to find a way to get home.

"First things first," she said to herself. She looked around her room. Most things were the same. Then she noticed something.

She walked over to the corner. "Oh my God," she said. It was her diaries, the whole stack of them, starting when she was only 7.

"But I burned these," she thought, gently touching the top one. She thought of the painful time and shook her head. "Concentrate on the task at hand, Dawn," she said, realizing she sounded like her guidance counselor. Sitting down on the bed, she picked up the top diary and began to flip through. Automatically she noticed a big difference.

There were no references to anything supernatural. Nothing about a demon they had had to fight, nothing about Buffy being a slayer....nothing about Buffy coming back.

Maybe in this dimension she never died, Dawn thought. She was beginning to have an idea. Not sure what to make of it, she decided to do a little more research. She pulled out the second diary from the top, the last one she had ever written in, in her own dimension anyway. She flipped to the point where all the bad stuff had happened.

Nothing. Not one reference to the Key. Not one reference to her whole life being a lie.

"Because here maybe it isn't," she whispered. She put the diary down. It was all beginning to make sense.

"Maybe in this dimension....there are no vampires," she said quietly. "Maybe here we all just lead normal lives."

She thought about it for a second, and it began to make perfect sense. Angel and Buffy could be together if he was human. And it would explain Giles not being here. What need would there be for Watchers if there is no evil?

She began to smile. Maybe being here wouldn't be so bad after all. Then she remembered that Buffy must be panicking back home. But maybe the time is different here, like when Angel went to hell. Maybe I'll only be here a few days, but when I get back Buffy will be old and wrinkled. Or maybe things go faster here and I've really only been gone a few seconds. Maybe I'll get back before anyone misses me.

But she strongly doubted that. She bit her lip when she realized that upon returning home she would have to explain how she opened the portal in the first place. She winced when she realized how Anya would react to all the stuff she'd nabbed from the Magic Box.

Before I officially freak out, let's make sure I'm right, she thought, heading downstairs.

She pushed through the party-goers until she reached the desk in the living room. She opened the drawer where, in her dimension, Willow and Tara kept some spellbooks and stuff. Just bills.

Oh my God. If there really aren't any vamps or demons here, how am I going to find something that can tell me how to get home?

Just then Buffy and Angel walked down the stairs, interrupting her thoughts. Everyone began to clap.

"There they are! We were beginning to think you ditched your own engagement party!" Tara said. Dawn blinked.

Buffy smiled. "Of course not! I actually wanted to make a special announcement now." Everyone grew quiet and looked at Buffy. Tara switched off the music. Buffy smiled and turned to her sister.

"Angel and I still don't know when the wedding is going to be. But I would still like to ask my sister Dawn to be my maid of honor when that day comes." Dawn felt tears come to her eyes.

For a moment Dawn forgot that this wasn't her real home. "I would be honored," she said.

Buffy grinned and hugged her sister. After a moment they broke apart. Dawn noticed it was dark outside. Looks like I'll have to wait until tomorrow to try and get some answers. Although she still had no idea where she would actually get them.

"Well, aren't we going to party any more?" Buffy said with a smile. Angel leaned in and wrapped his arms around her waist. Dawn smiled at them. It was...comforting to see them happy.

Tara turned the music back on, even louder than before. Everyone started dancing again. Buffy turned around and shared a long kiss with Angel. Dawn started heading for the stairs, then stopped. I'm here in a dimension where everyone is happy. I may as well enjoy it, at least until I can find a way home. Smiling, she walked into the crowd and starting dancing. She would sort everything out in the morning.

Vampire Dimension

"Giles, this is impossible. It seems easy enough to open a portal, but it would be impossible to pinpoint which one Dawn is in." Willow slammed the book closed. They had been sitting in the Magic Box reading over every book on dimensions for over three hours now, and they were still no closer to bringing Dawn home. Tara reached over and touched her arm.

"It's okay. We're going to get her back," Tara said, as confidently as she could manage.

Anya looked up from the book she was reading. "Willow's right. There are thousands of dimensions, and without specific rituals it is impossible to open one to a specific place. It doesn't help that we don't even know which one Dawn is in," she said.

Giles cleaned his glasses for about the fifteenth time that day. "When Buffy gets home, we will come up with a plan to rescue Dawn."

Willow pouted. "I sort of hoped that we would maybe have her home before Buffy got back. But I didn't realize how complicated this stuff was." She looked at the clock. "It's after midnight, she should be back soon." There was a brief pause. "I wonder what happened with Angel."

"Hopefully nothing," Xander commented. "The last thing we need is him all 'grr' again."

At that moment Buffy walked in the door of the Magic Box. She forced a smile. "Hey everyone." Everyone just looked at her sadly. She instantly knew that something was wrong. "What happened?"

Giles stood up and walked over to Buffy. He chose his words carefully. "Shortly after you left, Dawn went up to her room." He paused. "A few minutes later, I heard a scream, and when I went to check on her, she was gone." He paused again. "We believe she was taken through a portal."

Buffy paled. "What? I mean...how? A portal to where?"

"Those are all very good questions that we can't find the answers to," Anya chirped.

Buffy's heart was beginning to race. "Well, what do we know so far?"

"We were looking for a way to open another portal to the same place, but so far we can't find any way of pinpointing where it will open, especially because we don't know which dimension she's in," Willow said. "But I promise, we will find a way."

Buffy started pacing. "Okay, I'm going to call Angel." She headed for the phone.

Giles followed her slowly. "Do you think that's the best idea?"

Buffy didn't even look back. "It's all we have. Plus, Angel told me that last spring Cordelia was taken through a portal, and Wesley figured out a way to get her back." She began to dial. "I'll tell Angel to bring Wes. If they leave now, they can make it here before sunrise."

Meanwhil,e Willow was just sitting there. "Are you okay baby?" Tara said quietly.

Willow looked at Tara with fear in her eyes. "Tara, I'm scared. I'm scared that I'm not going to be able to get her back for Buffy."

Tara stroked Willow's hair. "It's not all up to you. We are all working together. And I know that we are going to get Dawnie back." She sighed and gazed off into space. "We have to."