Chapter 2

Buffy shook dirt off her blouse and stood up.

"What was that?"

Xander had his eyes closed and he snored. Anya slapped him on his face with her hand.

"Ouch!" Xander yelled. "You know, that's not really polite."

Anya hugged her book tighter. "But I'm not in that chapter yet!"

Willow took a step. She hit the wall and accidentally pushed the lights on.

"Yikes!" she shouted. "I mean... Giles?" She looked around. There were people all around her. "Dawn? Tara? Uh..."

"And what's he doing here?" Xander said, disgusted, pointing at unconscious Spike.

"I'd prefer what are we doing here," Buffy said. "And what's here."

Anya walked among the bodies and stepped on Spikes hand.

"Bloody hell! Ow!" he cried. "You?"

Anya smiled brightly and said: "How do you do? I'm Anya Chr..."

"I know that. That's why I said: 'you'!" He rose up and dusted his clothes. "Where..."

"I don't know," Buffy said angrily. "And I don't know why you're here. We were the ones fighting the blob monster."

"Y-you too?" Tara asked. She showed Buffy her coat, covered with slime. "I-I got rid of it. With a spell."

"Great. So there were many blob monsters that sent us in this... Place!" Buffy mumbled.

"I think we're in a house," Willow said.

"Yeah, I'd think so," Xander said sarcastically. "There are four walls, a roof and a floor. I guess that's a house."

Buffy shrugged and walked over to Giles and Dawn. "WAKE UP!" she shouted.

"It's not tea time yet, is it?" Giles murmured. He opened his eyes. "Buffy? Is something wrong?"

"Hell yeah," Spike pointed out. "I'm stuck in here with you."

"Did you by any chance fight a blob monster? Slimy, ugly, smelly? Goin' grrrllll all the time?" Buffy asked.

"Yes, in the matter of fact I did," Giles remembered. "I didn't manage to get rid of it, though. The next thing I noticed I was here."

"Oh, and I did too," Dawn said. "I was with Tara. She was," Dawn looked angry. "Babysitting me. Like I'd need babysitting!"

"Seems like you do," Buffy answered. "With these blob monsters popping in."

Willow noticed something in the corner. "Oh! Look! A computer!" She rushed to open it. "Wait. Um, we were all covered with the demon slime when this happened, right?"

Everybody nodded.

"But my clothes are clean now!" Dawn said. "No dry cleaning, Buff. I don't need babysitting!"

"M-my coat still has slime on it," Tara said.

"Hmm..." Willow wondered. "Would it work the other way around? So that we would get back to Sunnydale?"

"You're suggesting, what?" Spike said. "That we'd cover ourselves with that bloody slime again?"

"I don't think it has enough slime," Giles told.

"But," Willow said. "When this... Happened, I turned the computer on. And we got in here. If we'd just cover that computer with the slime and turn it on, would it help?"

"Worth of a shot," Buffy shrugged.

Willow scraped some of the slime on the computer. She pushed the on- button and... Nothing happened.

"Well," she said. "We tried."

Xander threw himself on a couch nearby. "While we're stuck in here we might as well enjoy ourselves." He took the remote and put on the tv. Anya sat next to him. "What's tv like in here? Aliens?"

There was a boring looking news anchor on the screen.

"No," Anya sighed.

Xander switched the channel and went suddenly pale.

Because on the screen... There was Buffy.