Normal Again.Again
Summary: What would have happened if Buffy hadn't gone back to Sunnydale to save her friends? What if she had stayed in what she thought was real?
Disclaimer: Yes, I own it all.Yes, I am also a liar!
A/N: I've been thinking about this for the past few weeks, and I finally got some time 2 write it down, hope yas enjoy, speas review!
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A/N: Okay so Buffy doesn't face herself in this chapter. She will soon enough.
Chapter 7: Bring Me to Life
"I'll get it!" She yelled, sliding herself off the couch, throwing the remote down in her spot and walking to the door. Dawn Summers flipped her hair over her shoulder and pulled down her pajama top to met her matching pants. It was seven o' clock and Dawn was almost ready, except for her clothes to go to the beach with Xander and Anya. She opened the door: It was Angel with a blanket over him and a girl she'd never seen before. "Come in." She waved her arm toward the inside of the house. The youngest Summers quickly closed the door and Angel took the blanket off of him and handed it to the girl who folded it a little and then sat it down a small table beside the door.
"Hi Dawn, is Willow here?" Angel asked politely.
"Yeah just a sec." Dawn smiled, she turned toward the stairs. "WILLOW ANGEL IS HERE TO SEE YOU!" She yelled. Seconds later the Wiccan redhead stood at the top of the stairs.
"Angel? I thought you weren't coming until tomorrow. Where's Buffy?" She asked with a hint of worry in her voice.
"It's okay Willow. This is Trina, the one you were talking to on the phone. We decided we should come here and talk about what we should do." Angel explained to the witch.
"Actually Willow, I think it shouldn't be up to us, it's her lives. Angel and I kinda agreed she should decide what she wants to do." Trina told her.
"Why don't we go sit down and talk?" Willow said, leading the pair to the living room. "I totally understand where you are coming from, but what if regular Buffy wouldn't make the same choice as Slayer Buffy?" Willow asked, sitting down in an armchair while Trina closed the blinds and she and Angel sat onto the couch.
"But if she's happy the way she is, shouldn't we let her stay that way?" Trina asked the witch.
"But since she doesn't remember the Slayer side of her life how wouldn't she know that she would or wouldn't want that?" Willow asked in reply.
"This is getting complicated." Angel sighed. Trina and Willow nodded in agreement and the three of them turned their attention to Xander and Anya who were walking loudly down the stairs. Xander had on his swimming trunks and a white t-shirt and Anya was wearing her bikini top and a wrap around Hawaiian print skirt.
"Hello strange people what are you doing here?" Anya asked bluntly when they arrived at the bottom of the stairs.
"Ahn, this is Angel and, who are you?" Xander said joining her at the bottom of the staircase.
"Trina the vampire Slayer." She replied looking in the couple's direction. "We're here to talk about Buffy." She explained to their confused faces.
"Okay then." Anya said, then looking at Xander. "Can we still go to the beach?" She whispered not so quietly.
Xander looked into the living room at Willow and Dawn. "Go ahead, just come back soon." She said, granting them permission. Dawn ran down the stairs from her room where she changed, kissed Willow on the forehead and grabbed her beach bag and followed Anya out to the car.
Xander looked at Angel and Trina, then back at Willow, "Call me if you figure anything out." He said, picking up his keys and closing the door behind him.
"Know what? I'm tired of telling people what I think. It should be up to Buffy no two ways around it. So I'm gonna call her now and tell her that, and if she wants to be put back together I know just the people to tell me how to do it." Trina stood up and pulled her cell phone out of her low-rise jeans pocket.
"Trina, wait. You brought me all the way out here in the middle of the morning to call Buffy when you live with her?" Angel raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry Angelcakes." She mouthed as she held the phone up to her ear as she listened to it ring.
Willow looked at Angel, surprised. "Angelcakes?"
"I don't know what it is with Slayers these days." He shrugged, then smiling and looking back up at Trina.
"Hey baby is Buffy around?" Trina asked Royce, who answered the phone.
"Again I ask where the hell are you?" He reminded her of the words he said to her before she left without any.
"Sunnydale. I need to talk to Buffy this is important." She restated, beginning to grow impatient.
"Trina, you could have told me where you were going."
"Royce, you know that I love you but don't make me hurt you when I get home, so let me talk to Buffy."
"Not gonna win this one am I?"
"Nope."
"Hang on a second." Royce sat the phone down by the base and Buffy picked it up seconds later.
"Hello?"
"Buffy, it's me, Trina. We need to talk."
"That's what Royce said, yeah."
"Well if he didn't tell you, Angel and I are in Sunnydale."
"I thought we were all going to go like with togetherness."
"Sorry Buff, I thought things would make more sense away from my friends, you and L.A."
"Does it?"
"Well actually it did, and it's up to you."
"But how am I supposed to know?"
"Look that's our only problem that I just discovered the answer to. You don't know Buffy, you won't, you can't. Just do what your heart is telling you, two of you or not it's always been the same, apparently." Trina winked at Angel.
"How's about a trip to the beach?"
"Huh?"
"We need some girly time, I can bring you your stuff and we can meet in the middle. Come on Slayer girl, we need some best friend time." Buffy pleaded.
"I agree. Meet me at the beach after the L.A. exit and 20 miles before the Sunnydale exit. Drive my car so I'll notice you. Meet me there in 2 hours and bring my black bikini with my black boyshorts with the pink tie belt and the black bandanna flip-flops."
"Okay, so I'll see you then. Bye." Buffy hung up. Trina did likewise and looked at Willow and Angel who were giving her a surprised look.
"What?" She asked, putting her cell phone back in her pocket. "I'll talk to her about it okay?" She rolled her eyes at Angel and punched his arm playfully.
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Buffy was wearing a light pink bikini top with matching boyshorts and pink tinted sunglasses with white flip-flops. She sat on her big pink beach towel with her big denim beach bag sitting on one of the corners to keep the towel from blowing away in the beachy breeze. She leaned over and pulled out a bottle of sunscreen and started to rub it on her legs, she had been waiting on Trina for about ten minutes, but then again Trina always had a problem leaving people because she talked a lot. Buffy stood up and began to rub sunscreen on her stomach.
"Hey, you need help with that?" A deep voice came from behind Buffy as she tried to rub sunscreen on her back. Buffy turned around seriously hoping it wasn't a demon and was happily surprised to see it wasn't. It was a guy, a very hot guy. He was pretty tall, muscular, kinda long-ish brown hair, and the most amazing green eyes.
"Uh, sure." Buffy smiled, "Thanks." As he rubbed the sunscreen on her back she felt kind of dazed but when he was through Buffy turned back around. "Buffy Summers." She introduced herself.
"Lindsey McDonald." He smiled. "Do you want to go get a hot dog or something?" He asked, looking into her eyes.
"Well actually I'm waiting on a friend, but she's good she'll find me." Buffy smiled. The pair started walking toward the hot dog stand a little way down the beach. They started a casual conversation about where they were from and stuff like that when they heard a yell for Buffy behind them.
Buffy and Lindsey turned around to see Trina still wearing her all black Von Dutch outfit. "Hey Trina, this is Lindsey we were just going to go get a hot dog." Buffy smiled.
Trina laughed, "You. Wanted to take **my** friend? What the hell are you doing here?" She growled at Lindsey.
"Don't worry Gunn, all in good time." He smiled. Buffy looked at him, confused before he took her hand and they both disappeared.
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A/N: Thank you for your interest and compliments. Just so you know Trina is getting paid for helping out Wolfram & Hart. Royce's family is rich and Chuck is also paid by Wolfram & Hart for extinguishing demons. Hope that explains it. And I really don't know if there is a beach there, I live on the east coast so I really don't know. Again WHEEE with the cliffhangers!!! Please review. XOXO Charlize
Next Chapter: Buffy & Lindsey are on a different plane as he tries to convince her to stay the way she is, but another familiar face tries to go back to the way things were.
Summary: What would have happened if Buffy hadn't gone back to Sunnydale to save her friends? What if she had stayed in what she thought was real?
Disclaimer: Yes, I own it all.Yes, I am also a liar!
A/N: I've been thinking about this for the past few weeks, and I finally got some time 2 write it down, hope yas enjoy, speas review!
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A/N: Okay so Buffy doesn't face herself in this chapter. She will soon enough.
Chapter 7: Bring Me to Life
"I'll get it!" She yelled, sliding herself off the couch, throwing the remote down in her spot and walking to the door. Dawn Summers flipped her hair over her shoulder and pulled down her pajama top to met her matching pants. It was seven o' clock and Dawn was almost ready, except for her clothes to go to the beach with Xander and Anya. She opened the door: It was Angel with a blanket over him and a girl she'd never seen before. "Come in." She waved her arm toward the inside of the house. The youngest Summers quickly closed the door and Angel took the blanket off of him and handed it to the girl who folded it a little and then sat it down a small table beside the door.
"Hi Dawn, is Willow here?" Angel asked politely.
"Yeah just a sec." Dawn smiled, she turned toward the stairs. "WILLOW ANGEL IS HERE TO SEE YOU!" She yelled. Seconds later the Wiccan redhead stood at the top of the stairs.
"Angel? I thought you weren't coming until tomorrow. Where's Buffy?" She asked with a hint of worry in her voice.
"It's okay Willow. This is Trina, the one you were talking to on the phone. We decided we should come here and talk about what we should do." Angel explained to the witch.
"Actually Willow, I think it shouldn't be up to us, it's her lives. Angel and I kinda agreed she should decide what she wants to do." Trina told her.
"Why don't we go sit down and talk?" Willow said, leading the pair to the living room. "I totally understand where you are coming from, but what if regular Buffy wouldn't make the same choice as Slayer Buffy?" Willow asked, sitting down in an armchair while Trina closed the blinds and she and Angel sat onto the couch.
"But if she's happy the way she is, shouldn't we let her stay that way?" Trina asked the witch.
"But since she doesn't remember the Slayer side of her life how wouldn't she know that she would or wouldn't want that?" Willow asked in reply.
"This is getting complicated." Angel sighed. Trina and Willow nodded in agreement and the three of them turned their attention to Xander and Anya who were walking loudly down the stairs. Xander had on his swimming trunks and a white t-shirt and Anya was wearing her bikini top and a wrap around Hawaiian print skirt.
"Hello strange people what are you doing here?" Anya asked bluntly when they arrived at the bottom of the stairs.
"Ahn, this is Angel and, who are you?" Xander said joining her at the bottom of the staircase.
"Trina the vampire Slayer." She replied looking in the couple's direction. "We're here to talk about Buffy." She explained to their confused faces.
"Okay then." Anya said, then looking at Xander. "Can we still go to the beach?" She whispered not so quietly.
Xander looked into the living room at Willow and Dawn. "Go ahead, just come back soon." She said, granting them permission. Dawn ran down the stairs from her room where she changed, kissed Willow on the forehead and grabbed her beach bag and followed Anya out to the car.
Xander looked at Angel and Trina, then back at Willow, "Call me if you figure anything out." He said, picking up his keys and closing the door behind him.
"Know what? I'm tired of telling people what I think. It should be up to Buffy no two ways around it. So I'm gonna call her now and tell her that, and if she wants to be put back together I know just the people to tell me how to do it." Trina stood up and pulled her cell phone out of her low-rise jeans pocket.
"Trina, wait. You brought me all the way out here in the middle of the morning to call Buffy when you live with her?" Angel raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry Angelcakes." She mouthed as she held the phone up to her ear as she listened to it ring.
Willow looked at Angel, surprised. "Angelcakes?"
"I don't know what it is with Slayers these days." He shrugged, then smiling and looking back up at Trina.
"Hey baby is Buffy around?" Trina asked Royce, who answered the phone.
"Again I ask where the hell are you?" He reminded her of the words he said to her before she left without any.
"Sunnydale. I need to talk to Buffy this is important." She restated, beginning to grow impatient.
"Trina, you could have told me where you were going."
"Royce, you know that I love you but don't make me hurt you when I get home, so let me talk to Buffy."
"Not gonna win this one am I?"
"Nope."
"Hang on a second." Royce sat the phone down by the base and Buffy picked it up seconds later.
"Hello?"
"Buffy, it's me, Trina. We need to talk."
"That's what Royce said, yeah."
"Well if he didn't tell you, Angel and I are in Sunnydale."
"I thought we were all going to go like with togetherness."
"Sorry Buff, I thought things would make more sense away from my friends, you and L.A."
"Does it?"
"Well actually it did, and it's up to you."
"But how am I supposed to know?"
"Look that's our only problem that I just discovered the answer to. You don't know Buffy, you won't, you can't. Just do what your heart is telling you, two of you or not it's always been the same, apparently." Trina winked at Angel.
"How's about a trip to the beach?"
"Huh?"
"We need some girly time, I can bring you your stuff and we can meet in the middle. Come on Slayer girl, we need some best friend time." Buffy pleaded.
"I agree. Meet me at the beach after the L.A. exit and 20 miles before the Sunnydale exit. Drive my car so I'll notice you. Meet me there in 2 hours and bring my black bikini with my black boyshorts with the pink tie belt and the black bandanna flip-flops."
"Okay, so I'll see you then. Bye." Buffy hung up. Trina did likewise and looked at Willow and Angel who were giving her a surprised look.
"What?" She asked, putting her cell phone back in her pocket. "I'll talk to her about it okay?" She rolled her eyes at Angel and punched his arm playfully.
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Buffy was wearing a light pink bikini top with matching boyshorts and pink tinted sunglasses with white flip-flops. She sat on her big pink beach towel with her big denim beach bag sitting on one of the corners to keep the towel from blowing away in the beachy breeze. She leaned over and pulled out a bottle of sunscreen and started to rub it on her legs, she had been waiting on Trina for about ten minutes, but then again Trina always had a problem leaving people because she talked a lot. Buffy stood up and began to rub sunscreen on her stomach.
"Hey, you need help with that?" A deep voice came from behind Buffy as she tried to rub sunscreen on her back. Buffy turned around seriously hoping it wasn't a demon and was happily surprised to see it wasn't. It was a guy, a very hot guy. He was pretty tall, muscular, kinda long-ish brown hair, and the most amazing green eyes.
"Uh, sure." Buffy smiled, "Thanks." As he rubbed the sunscreen on her back she felt kind of dazed but when he was through Buffy turned back around. "Buffy Summers." She introduced herself.
"Lindsey McDonald." He smiled. "Do you want to go get a hot dog or something?" He asked, looking into her eyes.
"Well actually I'm waiting on a friend, but she's good she'll find me." Buffy smiled. The pair started walking toward the hot dog stand a little way down the beach. They started a casual conversation about where they were from and stuff like that when they heard a yell for Buffy behind them.
Buffy and Lindsey turned around to see Trina still wearing her all black Von Dutch outfit. "Hey Trina, this is Lindsey we were just going to go get a hot dog." Buffy smiled.
Trina laughed, "You. Wanted to take **my** friend? What the hell are you doing here?" She growled at Lindsey.
"Don't worry Gunn, all in good time." He smiled. Buffy looked at him, confused before he took her hand and they both disappeared.
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A/N: Thank you for your interest and compliments. Just so you know Trina is getting paid for helping out Wolfram & Hart. Royce's family is rich and Chuck is also paid by Wolfram & Hart for extinguishing demons. Hope that explains it. And I really don't know if there is a beach there, I live on the east coast so I really don't know. Again WHEEE with the cliffhangers!!! Please review. XOXO Charlize
Next Chapter: Buffy & Lindsey are on a different plane as he tries to convince her to stay the way she is, but another familiar face tries to go back to the way things were.