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Chapter 9

Buffy covered her eyes with her hands. "This is not happening!" she said.

"Buffy, you have to believe that this is true. We... We must figure out a way out of here and it is not going to happen if you're on denial," Giles told her.

"I-I wouldn't want to think it's true either, Buffy," Tara said and glared at Willow. "Bu-but we'll figure it out."

"Promise?" Buffy asked and removed her hands off her face.

"Promise," Tara and Giles said at the same time.

"Good," Spike said. "You'll figure it out and I'll sleep."

"It would be better to leave him here, right?" Xander said hopefully. "It's not like we need him around."

"I'd like to leave him too," Willow answered. "But it would mess this universe up so badly... I mean we must get outta her ASAP, 'cause we're messing things up here and in our own universe every second. Who knows how much this trip has already altered them both."

"You're making too much noise!" Spike complained. "Will you just bloody shut up and let me sleep."

"Is messing up universes such a bad thing?" Buffy said. "'Cause I'd really like to leave him here."

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Willow stepped out of the motel. "Right. Gotta get some ingredients. Gotta go home. Gotta find... Oz?"

A man who looked exactly like Oz walked ten feet ahead of her. Willow dropped her list and ran to hug him.

"Oz! You ended up here too!" she said. "How? Did you face the blob monster too?"

"Alyson, hi," 'Oz' said and seemed a little confused. "Um... What's up? Did you just call me 'Oz'?"

Willow backed off. "You're not Oz," she said.

"Hey, Amber's here too! Hi, Amber!" 'Oz' said and waved his hand at Tara who just had just got out of the motel. "Listen, nice meeting you, but I gotta go now. Bye!" The man started walking away.

"Bye..." Willow said quietly.

"Wh-what was that?" Tara asked.

"Oh, it was nothing. I thought it was Oz. But he wasn't Oz," Willow said. "He called me Alyson. He..."

Tara hugged her. "Would you... Would you rather be with Oz.?"

"No!" Willow yelled. "I just... Old memories. You know." She sniffed. "We need to get the ingredients for the potion." She let go of Tara and they walked down the street, hand in hand.

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"How do you know it's gonna work," Dawn asked. "I mean what if it won't do anything?"

"Or, even worse, send us to yet another universe?" Xander asked. "Yay, that'd be fun!"

"I'm not sure," Giles said. "But I hope it'll work."

Buffy sat on the couch. She seemed a little dizzy. "There's no magic in this universe?" she said. "How would it work without any magic?"

"Yes, I mean no, there is magic in this universe. It is just... Just different then the magic in our universe," Giles explained. "The problem is that I never studied other universes and their customs."

"But there are no demons!" Anya said. "No vampires, no demons. Just bad people. Sometimes spirits wander here. Or ghosts. It's rare though."

"Anya, our demony info-girl," Xander said.

"Huh," Buffy said. "I think I like this universe better. Or no I don't. I'm on TV... And I..."

"But does it mean that all we saw is really gonna happen?" Dawn asked.

"Yes. It is going to happen exactly the same way. At least it should. I don't know what's going to happen now that we know it is going to happen," Giles said.

"Well, I'm going to do everything I can so that it won't happen!" Buffy said.

"I don't know," Giles said.

"It always annoys me when you say that," Xander said.

"It could do some serious damage to all the universes if we won't do what we're supposed to do," Giles explained. "But let's not worry about that until we're home."

There was a sudden earthquake. The air suddenly seemed harder to breathe. The door of the room was kicked down by something big.

"A demon!" Anya yelled.