DISCLAIMER: See first chapter. That one was funny, and I don't have any time to create another just as funny. Anyway, if you don't know, they belong to Joss, not me or my partner in crime.

A/N: Hey all! Here it is the moment you've been waiting for when you find out more of what in the hellmouth is going. R&R. Ideas, thoughts, questions, comments, and even flames are welcome. We get satisfaction from knowing that people took the time to read it. And now . . .

MORE THAN BARGAINED FOR

Meghan jumps off the bed quickly and ends up falling to the floor.

MEGHAN: Ow!! (then in a whisper) No.

She thinks for a moment and jumps to her feet.

MEGHAN: No. No. No. No. No! It hurt. It hurt! No. I'm dreaming. I'm not really in Dawn's room. I'm just gonna close my eyes and when I open them I'll find myself on the basement floor.

She closes her eyes and then slowly opens one. She shuts it again and then clicks her heels together three times chanting, "there's no place like home." She opens her eyes again to find she hasn't left. She sighs.

MEGHAN: Okay, Meghan. Use your logic. We can reason all this out. So first question. What am I doing in Dawn's room? Second question: How did I even get here anyway? Okay. Jess and I were fighting over UPN or FX. Then... the remote broke. Then the crazy repair man showed up and gave us a new one. The remote ... THE REMOTE! So I guess Jess won. Only I'm not just watching UPN. I'm in it. Right. Now, where the hell is she? If the remote brought me here, it should have brought her here too.

She looks at her watch, a clock by the bed and out the window. It is nearly eight in the morning. She cautiously begins to walk out of the room, just waiting to hear the scream of the first person to see her.

MEGHAN: I wonder what Dawn would think if she found a stranger in her room.

She hurries out of Dawn's room and into the hall. She hears voices in the kitchen.

MEGHAN: Okay. Let's see. I'm in the house and it sounds like Willow and Tara and maybe Jessica down stairs. Hey. She's probably asking them for help. I guess Jessica won. Looks like we're in the sixth season.

WILLOW: (in the kitchen) Dawn? Hurry up! You need to eat before you go to school.

Meghan races down stairs. She should help Jessica with her story. Jessica is behind a large stack of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Willow and Tara looked up at her and smile. Meghan smiles back, confused as to why they were smiling instead of questioning her about who she was.

TARA: Here's some juice and pancakes are on the way. Funny shapes or rounds?

MEGHAN: What? (She is confused)

TARA: Funny shapes or round pancakes?

Tara begins making the pancakes anyway.

MEGHAN: Wait a minute.

Meghan looks over at Jessica. Her eyes are wide with shock. It wasn't Jessica. It was a robot. The Buffybot, that looked like her friend.

WILLOW: Are you alright, Dawnie?

They continue making breakfast. Meghan was suddenly reminded of Pleasantville. She had entered Hellsville. It dawns on her.

MEGHAN: (whispering to herself) Dear god, Jessica's dead and . . . I'm Dawn!

Xander walks in the back door.

XANDER: House of chicks, relax. I am the man and I have a tool. Tools. Lot of tools in my, uh, toolbox. Ah, sandwiches. Excellent. Men like sandwiches.

Buffy(JESSICA)bot hands Xander a pile of sandwiches. Meghan can only watch in shock at the scene before her eyes.

WILLOW: Help yourself, really.

TARA: Oh. I forgot to un-start her.

WILLOW: So what brings you here so early, your macho-ness?

XANDER: Brought that soldering iron you wanted for Buffybot's tune up.

TARA: You got funny shapes.

Tara puts the pancakes on Meghan's plate. All she can do is stare at them. Meghan tries to think. She figures she'll just play along until she has more time to think about what's going on. The phone rings. Meghan remembers that she has lines to say.

JESSICABOT: I'll get it.

WILLOW, TARA, & MEGHAN: NO!

MEGHAN: (from memory) It could be my dad. He said he'd call today.

JESSICABOT: I'll just say hello. He's my biological ancestor.

Willow answers the phone.

WILLOW: Hello. Hey Anya.

Everyone goes back to what they were doing while Willow talks.

WILLOW: Really? That's fantastic. Uh, Anya found that thing for tonight.

XANDER: Oh yeah? Great.

WILLOW: And you're her sweet cookie face.

XANDER: I go by many names.

MEGHAN: What's tonight?

TARA: Just a Scooby meeting. Spike will be here with you.

WILLOW: Um, Buffybot maybe you should let the machine, the other machine, let the answer the phone from now on.

JESSICABOT: Is my phone manner not correct?

TARA: Oh. It's perfect. It's just we can't take the chance that Mr. Summers might talk to you and know something's wrong.

XANDER: If he thought the real Buffy was gone he could take Dawn away.

There is a pause until Meghan remembers the line.

MEGHAN: And I want to stay here with you and Willow and Tara. Understand?

JESSICABOT: I do. I want you to stay here as well. You're my sister.

The bot hugs Meghan. Meghan is disturbed by this because she's being hugged a robot that looks like her best friend and also think it's her sister. The rest give her sad looks.

XANDER: So. Excellent. We're agreed. Sit your robo-self down so we can get to work. Need to fix up those fighting skills pronto.

WILLOW: Actually, we have bigger worries than her fighting skill today.

TARA: Way bigger.

XANDER: I guess. Depends on how highly you prize punning.

WILLOW: I'm serious, Xander. Buffybot is about to face her most dangerous challenge ever.

Buffybot and Meghan are walking down the street to her school. Meghan is just walking idly as she has no idea where the school is at. As they walk Meghan constantly turns to the Buffybot that looks amazingly like her friend Jessica. Finally Meghan stops. Buffybot continues walking. Buffybot sees that Meghan had stopped. She walks backward a few steps. Looks at Meghan. Meghan turns to Buffybot and starts poking her face.

BUFFY(JESSICA) BOT: Is there something wrong? Do I need maintenance?

MEGHAN: I don't think so. I'm just trying to figure out if your really real or not.

BUFFY(JESSICA)BOT: Oh. (pauses) Is that the answer to the 'If we want her to be exactly she'll never be exactly I know the only really real Buffy is really Buffy and she's gone' who, knock-knock joke?

MEGHAN: What? Oh, um, no. That wasn't even a knock-knock joke.

They continue walking.

BUFFY(JESSICA)BOT: You know what Dawn? I think I'm going to like going to your building of education.

Meghan shakes her head and continues walking. Buffybot and Meghan finally arrive at school and are in a class room with a teacher talking. Meghan is not really paying attention. Buffybot stands and starts to talk. Meghan then remembers what happens next.

MEGHAN: (softly and at the same time as Buffybot) School is where you learn.

Buffybot sits back down and the teacher continues. Buffybot once again prepares to speak.

MEGHAN: (softly and at same time as Buffybot) I helped make lunch today.

Meghan then points to the other parents who when are pointed at talk. She then slouches in her seat and groans.

Anya and Giles fight over a statue in the Magic Box. Xander yells at them, then Anya yells at Xander for not telling the about the fact that he still hasn't told them that they are engaged.

Willow is at the base of the stairs brushing her hair. Tara is putting on a coat. It is night.

WILLOW: Dawn!

Meghan appears at the top of the stairs and runs down.

MEGHAN: What?

WILLOW: Spike isn't here yet but we have to get going, alright? He should be here in a few minutes.

MEGHAN: Great. (Sarcastically chipper, Willow doesn't notice.)

TARA: We shouldn't be gone that long, but we want to make sure your safe.

MEGHAN: Could everyone just stop worrying about me? I'll be - (opens the door to let them out and finds Spike about to knock) fine?

Meghan and Spike just stare at each other. Meghan still a little out of orbit by the change in reality. Spike stares because he sees there is something different about "Dawn".

WILLOW: You're late.

SPIKE: I know. Ran into a vamp.

Meghan is silently staring at Spike throughout this. We're unclear as to her emotions at this point.

TARA: We have to go now or we'll be late.

WILLOW: Right. See you later.

Spike nods and then shoves Meghan when she doesn't say anything.

MEGHAN: Oh right. Bye.

Willow and Tara exit. Spike shuts the door behind them.

SPIKE: What's with you today, bit?

MEGHAN: Nothing much. Just, you know, tired.

SPIKE: Homework?

MEGHAN: Huh?

SPIKE: Do you have homework?

MEGHAN: Oh, um, a little. There was that parent-teacher thing today.

Meghan and Spike stand there not talking and not moving.

MEGHAN: You know what? I'm thirsty. I'm gonna go and get something to drink. Then I'm gonna go upstairs and do my homework. You just go do what you do.

Both Meghan and Spike walk off silently and quickly in different directions.

The Buffybot encounters the vampire that finds out that it is only a machine.

Willow, Tara, Anya, and Xander talk about bringing Buffy back to life.

Spike is siting on the couch. Meghan is walking down the stairs. Spike hears her.

SPIKE: So how did the bot do today?

Meghan stops dead in the hall. She looks over at him and then leans on the doorway.

MEGHAN: She said some stuff that sounded a little weird but my teacher loved her. She wanted to make it national Buffy day.

SPIKE: Makes sense.

MEGHAN: It does?

Meghan comes over to sit on the couch, curious.

SPIKE: Yeah, she responded to Buffybot because a robot is predictable, boring. Perfect teacher's pet. That's all schools are, you know. Just factories, spewing out mindless little atomatons. Who go on to be very valuable and productive members of society and you should go, 'cause Buffy would want you to.

There is a long pause when Meghan does not fill in what Dawn had said. Instead she thinks of a question that's bothered her since season six.

MEGHAN: Spike, can I ask you a question and you promise you won't get mad at me or anything and you'll be honest with me?

Spike doesn't say anything.

MEGHAN: Why did you stay? I mean last year the only reason you stayed was because you liked Buffy and she's gone now. I know you don't like the rest of us, and you've got the until the end of the world to do anything you want. Why did you decide to stay here with a bunch of people you don't like? Don't go on about your promise. I know there's got to be some other reason besides that.

SPIKE: What makes you think I don't like you?

MEGHAN: Come on, Spike. I told you to be honest. You can't really like staying here and babysitting a teenage girl?

SPIKE: Okay when did you start getting so worried about me?

MEGHAN: It's just that a lot of things have been bugging me this summer. There's been a lot of questions floating around in my head. I need to get them answered.

SPIKE: I guess questions are meant to be answered.

They fall silent.

MEGHAN: Well?

SPIKE: Well, what?

MEGHAN: Why are you here if you don't like us?

SPIKE: It's not that I don't like you. You and I just really don't have a lot to say to each other. We don't have that much in common.

MEGHAN: How do you know? You've never asked.

SPIKE: I've seen your room.

MEGHAN: So what? It's just a room filled with things that have accumulated over the years. You haven't seen my mind.

SPIKE: That's true, but what's your deal? Why's this important to you?

MEGHAN: It's just that -

Meghan thinks a moment trying to tell him why she's asking these questions, without telling him that she was from the other side of the TV.

MEGHAN: I haven't really begun to accept things and I think that I need to. Finding something else to think about except the obvious would help me try and move on.

SPIKE: Did you do some self analysis last night or what?

MEGHAN: I'm being serious. I have to accept and move on. That's what those "coping with loss" books say.

SPIKE: Did they say you had to do it right now? Don't you think you should accept and move on when your ready to?

MEGHAN: What if I don't ever?

SPIKE: I don't think anyone ever totally accepts and totally moves on. That tragedy is still a part of them, and it always will be.

MEGHAN: You know I didn't think we could ever just talk about things, like we did just now.

SPIKE: Neither did I.

MEGHAN: Isn't it weird -

The door opens. Willow and Tara walk in. Spike and Meghan jump up off the couch.

WILLOW: Thanks for watching her, Spike. Could you come by again tomorrow?

SPIKE: Yeah, I'll watch the 'bit.

TARA :It means a lot to us, you doing this.

SPIKE: No problem.

WILLOW: I'm going to bed. Night Dawn, Spike. (Willow goes up stairs)

TARA: I think I'm going to follow her. You'll lock up after Spike leaves right?

MEGHAN: Will do.

Meghan and Spike watch as Tara goes up the stairs after Willow. Spike picks up his coat and puts it on. He and Meghan walk over to the door.

SPIKE: Guess I'll be seeing you tomorrow night.

MEGHAN: Guess you will.

SPIKE: Night, bit.

MEGHAN: Night, Spike.

Spike opens the door and walks out it. Meghan leans her head on the door watching him go.

MEGHAN: Tomorrow . . .what's tomorrow?

The Jessica-bot walks up to the door. She's been beaten up.

MEGHAN: Oh! Right!

Meghan lets the Buffybot in and closes the door.

Giles trains the Jessica-bot and the vampire tell the demon about the slayer-bot. Willow gets the last ingredient for the Buffy raising spell. They all meet and the Magic Box. They find that Giles has left.

All the Scoobies are at the airport and have just caught up to Giles. Everyone says their little goodbyes. Tara holds up the monster and says "grrrr, arg". Meghan then gets a sense of realization on her face and Giles comes to hug her goodbye.

MEGHAN: Giles, can I talk to you separately?

GILES: I don't see why not.

Meghan leads him off to the side.

MEGHAN: Do you think this is far enough for them not to hear us? Duh, only a few feet and they can't hear you.

GILES: What are you talking about?

MEGHAN: Giles you can't go.

GILES: Why not?

MEGHAN: Because it would be a waste of money.

GILES: Dawn, I am leaving Sunnydale. There is no point in my staying.

MEGHAN: Sure there is. Just because Buffy's not here right now doesn't mean that I and the others don't need you.

GILES: I'm flattered that you need me, but I am still going. And what do you mean Buffy's not here right now? Dawn she's -

MEGHAN: What? Dead?

Boarding signal.

GILES: I have to go now.

MEGHAN: No you don't!

Meghan grabs that ticket from his hand and begins ripping it to pieces. She tosses it to the ground then begins stomping on it.

MEGHAN: See? Now you can't go.

Meghan and Spike are in the house, it is night.

MEGHAN: You don't have to baby sit me. It's not like I can't take care of myself.

SPIKE: Buffy told me to take care of you.

MEGHAN: Buffy . . .

And then she remembers. She looks at her watch. It's almost midnight.

MEGHAN: (jumps up) Oh my god! They're doing it now!

SPIKE: Doing what?

MEGHAN: Call Giles and tell him to stay in his house. I'll get the shovels and we'll go.

SPIKE: Go where?

MEGHAN: Oh, you don't know. There are some demon Vikings who are heading here right now. Tell Giles to take cover.

SPIKE: And we are going to do what? Hit the demons on the head with the shovels?

MEGHAN: Just do it! (Walks out the back to get shovels)

SPIKE: Bloody hell!

Giles hangs up the phone. He goes to a weapons chest and pulls out a blanket, an ax, and a bottle of whiskey. Willow and the gang are running off in the woods. Jessica wakes up in the grave and begins to claw her way out. Meghan and Spike are walking into the woods around Buffy's grave.

SPIKE: What the hell are we going to do?

MEGHAN: (noticing the broken urn and motorcycles) Looks like it's already been done. Jessica . . .

Meghan runs to Buffy's grave and starts digging frantically. Spike looks on in shock at what she is doing. The two demons that had been after the Scoobies returned. Spike kills them and returns to watching Meghan dig. After a certain point, Meghan hears a noise. She tosses her shovel to Spike who is knocked backwards by it. Meghan gets on her knees and is digging with her hands. She helps Jessica up out of the grave. Spike is still laying on the ground opposite the gravestone and is in shock. Meghan and Jessica are on opposite sides of the grave.

JESSICA: What the hell kinda remote was that? (dusting herself off)

MEGHAN: The kind that transfers us to Buffy-land. (points at Spike who is still on the ground)

JESSICA: Oh, hello. Why was I in a grave?

MEGHAN: You had to watch UPN didn't you?

JESSICA: If you would have just let me have the remote . . . wait what season are we in?

MEGHAN: Sixth, only I've already destroyed it. Giles didn't go to England!

JESSICA: Okay, makes sense. (looks at grave)

MEGHAN: Yeah, well, remember what happens later on in the season? (with an eye nod at Spike)

JESSICA: (jumps back and screams) That will not happen (glares at Spike)

MEGHAN: He's not the enemy right now. We have to save Willow and the others from those demons.

JESSICA: Oh.

Spike gets up, staring at Buffy/Jessica in disbelief and with his mouth wide open.

MEGHAN: Can you handle that?

Jessica looks at Spike and seemingly out of nowhere hits him. Spike spins to ground, and Jessica cackles.

JESSICA: I think I can handle that.

MEGHAN: Spike and I'll go to Giles and get some weapons.

JESSICA: Okay, cool.

MEGHAN: How can you be so calm about this?

JESSICA: Too many fanfics.

MEGHAN: We're wasting time! Go!

Jessica runs off. Meghan helps Spike up. They grab one of the over turned bikes and begin to get on.

SPIKE: Hold on just one minute here.

MEGHAN: What?

SPIKE: How did you know about Buffy and the demons?

MEGHAN: I know a lot of things about the future.

SPIKE: Yeah like what?

MEGHAN: That my knowing it, is going to completely change it. Now let's get to Giles. Jes- Buffy, is going to need some help.

Jessica is wandering down the streets of Sunnydale. She finally meets the first demon.

Jessica: Hello ugly. (hits him and then smiles) This is gonna be fun.

Xander and Willow are still in the woods. Tara and Willow arrive at the Magic Box. Giles is in a corner, with a blanket over him holding the bottle of whiskey with the ax right next to him. Jessica is hitting the demon along with witty comments such as: "This is more fun than it looks on TV." Tara is doing the spell to help Willow and Xander out of the woods. Giles is still huddling, looking around suspiciously. Spike and Meghan open up his door. Giles screams and throws the blanket over him.

More demons show up by Jessica.

LEAD DEMON: Kill her!

JESSICA: That's original.

Jessica begins fighting the leader. Spike, Meghan, and Giles are loading up with weapons. Jessica is fighting. Meghan, Spike, and Giles show up on the scene as Jessica breaks the neck of the last one.

Meghan: (throws down an ax) I hate always being late!

Giles and Spike are still in silent shock as they walk up to the door of the house. Jessica and Meghan are talking as if Jessica hadn't been dead all summer, mostly about cover stories. They walk in the door. Xander, Anya, Willow, and Tara are all in the living room and are also shocked to see "Buffy" alive and well.

JESSICA: What's up?

XANDER: Buffy, you're back.

WILLOW: It worked! I knew it would! (hugs Jessica)

ANYA: Hey, we didn't screw it up.

GILES: (to Meghan) Can I talk with you in the kitchen?

Giles and Meghan walk into the kitchen while the gang converse. Spike lingers in the hall, listening in on Giles and Meghan's conversation.

GILES: How did you know that she was going to come back?

MEGHAN: She didn't just come back. Willow did a spell.

GILES: Willow did what?!?!

MEGHAN: Just don't call her an amateur when you talk to her about it. She'll really want to hurt you for that later on.

GILES: When did you start seeing the future?

MEGHAN: Okay. I saw the future, but not in the way you think.

GILES: Explain it to me.

MEGHAN: I can't. I could, but I probably shouldn't. What we've done up until now has probably already changed things. For good or worse, I don't know.

GILES: So you're not going to tell me anything about the future?

MEGHAN: Nope. Wait. We have to stop Willow. She's heading down a bad path. One the whole world doesn't want her on.

Giles looks at her with confusion.

MEGHAN: After we change it, I'll tell you about it.

Meanwhile, Jessica is in the living room with the Scoobies.

JESSICA: Does it always feel like a Tuesday here?

They all look at her strangely.

JESSICA: (to Xander) You look taller in real life.

Jessica walks around the room looking at pictures of Joyce, Meghan, and herself.

WILLOW: How are you feeling?

JESSICA: Fine. You?

ANYA: We just brought you back from the dead and all you feel is fine?

JESSICA: Well, I am a little hungry, maybe a bit tired.

TARA: There doesn't seem to be any obvious side effects.

Jessica is wandering around biting her nails.

WILLOW: (with pride) None at all.

ANYA: How did you get out of the coffin?

JESSICA: Meg- Dawn dug me out.

XANDER: How did she know about it?

JESSICA: She found out about the spell.

Giles and Meghan reenter. Spike is not far behind them.

WILLOW: Oh.

Giles gives Willow a disapproving look. Meghan walks over to Jessica, grabs her arm, and starts dragging her up the stairs.

MEGHAN: Well, now that we have all had a fun-filled night, can we get some sleep?

WILLOW: That's a good idea.

Willow and Tara follow Jessica and Meghan up the stairs. Tara and Willow head to their room. Jessica goes into the bathroom to clean her wounds. Meghan sits at the top of the stairs and watches the others as they leave. Spike, the last out the door, looks up at Meghan and glares at her. Meghan waves, and Spike walks out the door. Meghan gets up and walks to the bathroom to help Jessica out. Jessica is fooling around with many band aids as Meghan enters.

MEGHAN: Why didn't you just take the first aid class?

JESSICA: Shut up. (pause) Help.

Meghan wraps her wounds for her.

JESSICA: What's going on?

MEGHAN: That remote thing-y, as I said, zapped us into Buffy-land. Like in 'Pleasantville'.

JESSICA: But everything here is not in black and white.

MEGHAN: Funny. But everything here is covered in vampires.

JESSICA: Oh yeah. I forgot about them.

MEGHAN: One just left our- Buffy's house - and you forgot? And speaking of Spike, I think he's figured out that something's up . . . besides you.

JESSICA: What makes you think that?

MEGHAN: He kept asking me how I knew you were coming back. Giles, I told him part of the story . . . damn his vampire hearing! Spike heard what I said and now he's freaking out!

JESSICA: We just have to go with it until we find a way home.

MEGHAN: And only Giles can help us with that.

They go to exit the bathroom. Spike in tree looking in the window. Both Jessica and Meghan stop and turn around at the door. Spike falls out of the tree. They shrug and walk off.

THE END . . .for now

THANKS & EXCUSES: Hey all, sorry this one took forever. You see proms had to be attended, apocalypses averted, and lost floppy disks had to be found. Not to mention the fact things had to be written and edited. Like I wrote above any kind of R&R is welcome. If you are confused let us know. We'll make it more clear. Thanks to Freezyboncoolipants for our first & only review. We love you lots!!! It kept the search for the floppy disk on.

A/N 2: Hey, I have been dreading working on this for a very long time. I feel like I've accomplished something now that this is posted. Also, the line "I think he's figured out something's up ... besides you." was not meant to be sexual innuendo. I meant that she was up from the grave. I felt compelled to explain that simply because "Jessica" had read it and had a very strange reaction - a loud WHAT? followed by much laughter. Okay, I'm done now. I won't say when the next post will be because I honestly have no idea.