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A/N: Hey all. I know. It's been a summer. Literally. We're all partied out now and full of new ideas - like format. We're going to a story form. We thought it would make it easy for other people to read and it also allows for us to add character details that we couldn't have before. Try it on for size. If you don't like it . . .well there's this thing called a "review button" it works just like the Customer Service area. You have questions. We'll have answers. TTFN.

WRONG LIFE

Meghan and Jessica begin to leave the bath room. Meghan walks off to her room.

"Um, Meghan?"Jessica asks.

"What?"

"Where's my room?"

"Oh right, you've never been in there before. Now, when I first got here, I landed on my bed in Dawn's room," Meghan explains as she leads the way to Jessica's room and opens the door. "If you need anything, I'm over there." Meghan points to her door.

"Alright. Goodnight."

"Night."

Meghan walks off to her room and Jessica walks into Buffy's. She looks around curiously. She's never been in there before. She'd seen it plenty of times on TV, but she was now really there. It wasn't like a set. It was a real room. She glances at the things on the dressers and desks. Then she looks at a picture of her, Xander and Willow. It flashes to them all being dead. Jessica freaks and runs to Meghan's room. Jessica flips on the light, and Meghan groans.

"What do you want?"Meghan asks, tired.

"Something really freaky just happened,"Jessica explains.

"Which means we're in a new episode,"Meghan says as she sits up. "Yay. What freaky thing just happened?"

"This picture of me and Xander and Willow changed. We were all dead."

A pensive look forms on Meghan's face.

"So what episode are we in?"Jessica asks impatiently.

Meghan realizes what's going to happen and quickly gets up. She grabs Jessica's arm. They hear something break. Meghan leads her to Jess's new room.

"Hurry! Get in bed and pretend to be asleep!"Meghan commands.

Jessica runs to the bed, and Meghan quickly hides just seconds before Willow and Tara open the door. They look in and then close it again. Meghan sighs. She gets up and motions for Jess to follow her. They walk to Willow and Tara's door.

"What are we doing?" Jessica forms the words with her mouth but doesn't actually speak.

Meghan puts a finger to her mouth and then her hand to her ear. Jessica does the "oh" nod.

"Okay, what in the frilly heck is going on?"Willow asks Tara.

Meghan walks away and back into her room. Jessica follows.

"So what episode?"Jessica asks.

"After Life. The second, After Life, with the spirit that got created because of the spell. It's late and we can talk about it later. Whatever you do, don't say what you know about this episode out loud. Remember what Xander did?"Meghan explains.

"Yeah, I loved that part,"Jessica says with a smile.

"That's nice, but I don't want to breathe fire so we'll kick it's ass tomorrow and everything will be fine,"Meghan says as she crawls into bed.

"Everything?"Jessica asks.

Meghan takes a moment to remember the fact they aren't in the right dimension.

"We'll talk about that after we've removed another demon from the world. Good night."

"Night."

Jessica walks to the door and turns off the light.

The next day Meghan walks down the stairs. Willow sees her.

"Hey, Dawnie, where are you going?"Willow asks.

"Huh?"Meghan asks startled. She didn't know that Willow was already up. "Oh, I was going to go shopping for a present for Buffy before she wakes up. I think she's going to be out for a while. She's still drained from last night."

"Yeah. Well, don't stay out too long. Xander and Anya are coming over."

"Right. Bye, Willow,"Meghan says as she walks out the door.

"Bye."

Jessica wakes up. She gets dressed and begins to walk around looking at things more closely now. She arrives at the kitchen and pours herself a cup off coffee. She continues looking around and ends up going out the front door and walks around back. She sits to watch the discussion going on.

"Very bad. Very, very, very bad. Bad,"Xander says as Anya rubs his back.

"He's all traumatized,"Anya tells the group.
"Well, whatever it is, it's not the, the traditional haunting, because i-it's not limited to one specific place, and there's not, you know, a dead person,"Willow reasons.
"Not any more,"Tara points out.
"I bet it's a hitchhiker,"Anya offers.
"A hitchhiker?"Xander asks confused.
"Um, standard way to travel through dimensions. Uh, some demon-thing sees someone moving between worlds, and grabs on for the ride,"Anya explains.
"You mean like, some hell-beastie rode in with Buffy? Like ... we're responsible for this?"Willow tries to clarify.
"Assume crash positions,"Tara commands.
"I think we shouldn't've brought Buffy back. I knew it was going to end badly. I should've said something,"Anya says mostly to herself.
"Okay, fine, but ... what are we gonna do? I mean, I'm feeling the need for some vigorous doing, you know?"Xander informs them.
"It's okay. We, we just kill the beastie and then all is good. We're rolling in puppies! ... Right?"Willow says, offering the normal answer to their every problem - violence.
"Can we do that? Kill it?"Xander asks.

"Yay! Killing things,"Jessica says from her seat on the ground.

They all look over at her in surprise. Jessica just sits there in jeans and a shirt, holding a coffee mug.

"What?"Jessica asks.

"Buffy! You're not supposed to be up,"Willow says.
"How, how are you feeling? Are you okay?"Tara asks with concern.
"I'm fine. So what do I get to kill?"Jessica asks with a grin as she gets up and walks over to them.
"The demon you brought back from Hell with you,"Anya tells her.

Willow gives her an angry look.
"Uh, huh,"Jessica says confused.
"It's not like she's making it sound,"Willow begins to explain. "A little haunting-type stuff. Boo-scary, everything's normal."
"You shouldn't worry about it,"Tara comforts her.
"Oh right! I remember now!"Jessica says, remembering the episode.

Jessica is silent.

"Buff?"Xander asks.
"Oh yeah, last night ... the photographs of us changed,"Jessica says, covering up.
"How did they change?"Tara asks.
"We were all dead in the pictures. Then they were fine again. I though I was just going crazy."
"Well, maybe you are. Going crazy. From Hell."Anya offers.

Willow give Anya another angry look.

"No. You're fine,"Anya adds with a fake scoff.
"You are. And Buffy, we're, we're so glad,"Willow tells her.
"Yeah. This thing, this haunting thing, we'll fix it, and then we'll still have you back, which is ... it's so important,"Xander jumps in following Willows lead.
"Yes,"Willow confirms.
"It's wonderful,"Tara sums up.

"Guess we have to do research now huh?"Jessica asks.

Meghan walks out the back door.

"Hey what going on?"Meghan asks as if she doesn't already know.

"Just talking, Dawnie,"Willow tells her.

"Alright. Hey Xander. Anya. How are you guys?"Meghan asks.

"Good,"Xander says with a fake smile.

"Absolutely peachy,"Anya adds.

"Right,"Meghan says.

"We should be going now to do research, shouldn't we?"Willow suggests.

"Right,"Tara says.

"Alright let's go to the Magic Box,"Anya says.

All move to leave all except Jess and Meghan.

"Are you coming, Buffy?"Willow asks.

Jessica glances at Meghan. Meghan shakes her head "no".

"No. Not yet. I wanted to talk to Dawn,"Jessica says.

"Oh, okay. You do your sister bonding thing,"Xander says. "You can swing by whenever."

"Will do,"Jessica assures them.

They leave. Meghan and Jessica sit down in the now vacant chairs.

"I can't keep doing this. Pretending to her is so hard,"Jessica complains. "So wise one, how- no better yet when- are we getting home?"

"Anytime in between now and the series finale,"Meghan says quickly.

"What?"Jessica asks unbelievingly.

"I kind of didn't want to tell you this, but there is no way around it."

"Tell me what?"Jessica asks almost at the point of yelling.

"Okay, so I went searching around on my first day here, while you were in the grave. I thought the remote had landed somewhere near me, but I checked my whole room over a few times. I didn't find it. Then I combed through the whole house. It wasn't here. Then today I told Willow I was going to go shopping, but I went back over to the grave and checked it out. Jess, it's gone. I've looked everywhere, and the only thing I can tell you is that we're not going home anytime soon."

Jessica's face goes into reality check mode. "Then we'll have to tell Giles. He can do research and find a spell."

"Like he's really gonna believe us,"Meghan points out.

"He will."

"He will?"Meghan ask unbelievingly.

"When we watch the show we get to see things that not all of the characters get to see. You remember every detail of Buffy so you can tell him a bunch of things about him that Buffy and Dawn wouldn't know and then he'll have to believe you."

"That's a good idea, Jess."

"That's why I'm the leader."

"Whatever."

Later that night Jessica and Meghan are alone in the Summers' living room.

"Are you going to go patrolling?" Meghan asks.

"Should I?" Jessica asks in response.

"It would keep up the appearance that you are Buffy. Plus you could kick some demon ass," Meghan answers.

"Fine," Jessica says as she gets up off the couch.

"Mean while, I will do some research on what happens later in the season," Meghan says following her friend.

"Really?"

"Yes."

"How are you supposed to do that?"

"If Passions exists on both sides then so must all of the web sites!" Meghan exclaims triumphantly.

"Good luck with that."

"And you, don't get hurt. If you die, and I get back, what would I tell your mother?"

"You could make something up," Jessica suggests.

"GO!" Meghan yells.

"Fine. Fine!" Jessica says opening the door. "I'm leaving now. Happy?"

"Very."

Jessica shakes her head and walks out. Meghan walks to a laptop on the dinning room table. She turns it on and then logs on to the Internet. She waits.

"Come on. Come on. I'm stuck in hell and I want to go home!"

The computer beeps indicating that she is online.

"Yay!"

Meghan types furiously on the keyboard.

"What?!?! Where's when you need it! Okay, we'll Google."

There is further mad typing. There is a knock at the door. Meghan sighs and then goes to answers it. Behind the door is Xander.

"Hey, Dawnie. Buffy never stopped over at the Magic Box. Just wanted to make sure things were alright."

"Everything's fine. Buffy went out patrolling."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I'm going to go talk to her. You keep the doors locked."

"Will do."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Xander turns and leaves. Meghan returns to the computer. She looks over the results of her search.

"They're all gone!"She yells in desperation.

Her head falls and she screams in defeat. Xander looks back at the house, wondering if the strange noise came from Dawn.

Jessica is patrolling out in the cemetery. She punches the vampire and he falls to the ground.

"When will you vamps learn? I'm the slayer and you always end up as dust?"She asks him as she stakes him.

There is the noise of a branch cracking. Jessica turns around to face the new threat with her stake at the ready.

"Wait! No slayage required!" Xander yells as he raises his hands.

"Xander? What are you doing out here?"

"Wondering what the hell you're doing out here."

"I'm the slayer. I'm slaying. You on the other hand are acting as food on a silver platter."

"Okay. Not so easy prey now that I have the slayer protecting me. And, yes, I know you are the slayer and that you do slay, but should you really be out here so soon? You know after everything?"

"You got any better ideas?"

"We could go get ice cream. I'll even pay," Xander offers.

Jessica thinks a minute. "Okay."

The doorbell rings at the Summers residence. Meghan growls and leaves the computer and answers it. It is Spike.

"What are you doing here?"Meghan asks.

"Came to check on you and the sis,"Spike says.

"Would everyone just stop worrying about us? We're fine. So you can go,"Meghan says quickly.

She begins to shut door on him. Spike stops her from doing so. Meghan looks up at him in confusion.

"Hold on just a minute! We were so friendly less than a week ago, and now you're shutting me out?"Spike asks.

Meghan realizes that "Dawn" use to have a crush on Spike, and that he had been watching her all summer. Like Jessica, she would have to change for the sake of her part. Meghan pulls door all the way open and gestures for him to come in.

"That's what I thought,"Spike says as he steps into the house with a smile of triumph. "So where's the sis?"

"Patrolling,"Meghan answers as she closes the door. After a short pause she adds, "duh."

"Not even a day and she's back at it. Well, I guess I'll just to have to wait until she comes back then, won't I?" Spike says as if it were the most logical conclusion in all of human history.

Meghan sighs, and then remembers to act Dawn-ish.

"I guess,"She says in a cheerful Dawn-ish manner.

Jessica and Xander are now walking down the darkened streets, each with an ice-cream cone in their hand.

"So how are you, Buffy?"Xander asks.

Jessica looks at him.

"I'm fine,"She says wondering what he means.

"I was afraid you'd say that. Buffy, we pulled you out of hell and left you to dig yourself out of your own grave, for which I cannot apologize more. You keep saying you're fine, but you don't act like it, Buffy. I'm worried about you. We all are. We want to make sure that you are okay. You've been through a lot, but it's nothing we can't deal with together. Do you get what I'm trying to say?"

"You're worried about me?"

"Yeah, Buff."

"That's nice of you."

"Buffy -"Xander says in a tone of "don't avoid the question".

"Okay. I'm not alright. This world is . . . different for me now."

"Different, how?"

"Different as in...everything. It's like, I got so used to...to where I was and then suddenly I get yanked back here. And now I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing and don't know where I'm supposed to be going and sometimes I just wanna scream and close me eyes and hope that when I open them I'm back where everything makes sense. Nothing here makes sense. Except this."

"What?"

"Ice cream. You. Being with my friends again."

"We're glad you're back too."

"Thanks."

"Anytime. Don't you feel a little better now that you've got it out in the open?"Xander says as he hugs her with one arm.

"Yeah, I do,"Jessica says with a smile.

They looked up to see that they were at the Magic Box. Xander moves to walk in. He notices that Jessica doesn't follow.

"Are you coming, Buffy?"

Jessica looks at the others through the window while they research. It's as close as she'll ever get to watching them like she had when she watched them on TV. She can't walk in to the Magic Box just yet.

"No. I've got another cemetery to check out, and Dawn's home alone,"She said as her excuse.

"All right. Well, I'll see you later then,"Xander said.

"Yeah,"

Xander smiles and walks in. Jessica looks on for another moment before turning around.

"Where's the nearest demon?"She asks herself as she walks off into the night.

Back at 1630 Revello Drive, Spike and Meghan are in the dinning room at the table. Spike is dealing out cards. Meghan is doing a drum roll on the table. She flings up her hands as the last card is dealt. There are two piles of chips. Spike's considerably lower than Meghan's.

"Why do you do that?"Spike asks.

"What? The drum roll?"Meghan asks as she picks up cards and sorts them. She looks up at Spike with a smile. "For good luck."

"Right,"Spike says sarcastically.

They throw in chips into a pile at the center of the table.

"How many?"Spike asks.

"Two."

She discards her cards and collects the ones Spike just tossed her. He deals his own. They place their bets.

"You had better have gotten some good cards because if not this pile's mine,"Spike warns her.

"You're bluffing, and I'll call,"Meghan says confidently.

"Fine. What do you have?"

"Two pair,"Meghan says with joy as she lays down her cards.

Spike smiles.

"Straight,"He says as he lays down his cards and begins pulling at the pile.

Meghan is shocked, but smiles as she remembers something.

"Take off your coat,"Meghan commands him.

"What?"Spike asks, caught off guard by the command. He regains reality. "No."

"Take it off,"Meghan says again.

"I'm not going to take off my bloody-"Spike begins as he flings his arm around. Two cards fly out of his sleeve. "coat,"Spike finishes.

Meghan gets a serious look on her face.

"You are like eight times my age and you had to cheat to start winning?"Meghan asks.

Jessica walks in the door.

"I heard voices. Did Willow and Tara-,"Jessica begins. She looks in the dinning room. "Oh . . . Spike."

"'Lo. Dawn and I were just playing some poker,"Spike explains.

Jessica gives a disapproving look.

"It's not like he took me to play kitten poker,"Meghan counters

Jessica laughs a bit, but quickly straightens up because of Spike's presence. Spike just realizes what Meghan said and turns on her.

"How did you know that I . . . wait, that's a good idea,"Spike says.

"Well, it was nice to see- well, um, yeah. Spike, it's a school night, and Dawn needs to get to bed, so bye,"Jessica says.

"I need to talk to you for a minute,"Spike says to Jessica.

Spike looks at Meghan, who doesn't move.

"Alone,"He adds.

Meghan still doesn't move. Spike gives up and walks to the door.

"I'll be out here waiting,"He says as he closes the door.

"What should I do?"Jessica asks Meghan.

"Go out front, hear what he has to say,"Meghan suggests as she stands up. "Whatever you do, don't act like you or the season six "you"-"Meghan does air quotes- "either."

"Why do I have to do all the hard stuff?"Jessica whines.

"You are the Slayer,"Meghan says with mock graveness as she walks past Jessica to the stairs. She goes up the stairs and yells,"Night, Buffy!"

Jessica groans and walks outside. Spike is sitting on the steps smoking a cigarette. Jessica walks past him to stand facing him and the house. She crosses her arms.

"What the hell do you want?"Jessica demands.

"To talk to you,"Spike says calmly.

"About what?"

"I know what it's like to dig yourself our of your own grave. Done it myself."

"That's great."

"You're probably not going to be yourself for a while. It's a huge ordeal."

"Is that all you wanted to tell me?"

"You should know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but ... after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again ... do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ... (softly) Every night I save you."

"Lot of good it did."

Spike finally gets pissed off and stands to leave.

"I know you've been acting weird. Resurrection does that to a person. I just wanted you to know that you aren't the only that's been acting strange."

"What are you taking about?"

"Dawn. She's been really different lately. I just wanted you to know that I'll keeping my eyes on her for you."

"Whatever."

"Night, Buffy."

Spike walks off into the night.

"Bastard,"Jessica says before she storms off back into the house.

Meghan is shaking Jessica.

"Jessica, get up,"Meghan commands.

"I don't want to go to school today."

"School is a long way from here, Jessica. We're in Sunnydale."

Jessica looks at her confused and then shoots up in her bed.

"Oh my god!"

"God had nothing to do with this,"Meghan tells her. "Don't worry. I freaked out my first few mornings, too. You wake up thinking you are at home safe in your bed. Then you open your eyes and remember."

Jessica and Meghan are silent for a moment. They are both home sick.

"What did you get me up for?"Jessica finally asks.

"It's dawn."

"You got me up to tell me that?"

"No. We have to get Giles and Spike and head over to the Magic Box, now."

"Alright."

Jessica gets up out of bed.

At the Magic Box, Tara and Xander are looking out the window.

"It's getting light out,"Xander states.
"I like sunrise better when I'm getting up early than when I'm staying up late, you know? It's like ... I'm seeing it from the wrong side,"Tara tells him.
Nervously, Xander asks, "Hey, Tara, this is probably crazy ... but Spike got me to thinking. This spell we did ... it's having consequences, isn't it? I mean ... it sure seems like it. And I was just wondering ... did you know that this might happen?"
"No!"Tara barks out.
"Do you think ... could someone have known?"Xander asks with even more caution.

"Willow is a talented witch, and she would never do anything to hurt anyone,"Tara retaliates.
"I know, I know, huh? (raises his hands) Backing off quickly, hands in the air. (sighs) I just meant-"Xander is cut off.
"Thaumogenesis!"Willow yells through the Magic Box.

They all run to congregate around her.

"She's possessed!"Anya exclaims sleepily.

"I'm not possessed. I-I think I figured it out. This demon, i-it's not a demon we let out. It's, it's a demon that we made,"Willow explains from the book.
"We made a demon? Bad us,"Xander chimes in with his usual sarcasm
"Thaumogenesis is when doing a spell actually creates a being. In this case it was like, a, a side-effect, I guess. Like a price,"Willow continues.
"What?"Xander asks.
"Think of it like, the world doesn't like you getting something for free, and we asked for this huge gift. Buffy. A-and so the world said, 'fine, but if you have that, you have to take this too.' And it made the demon,"Willow rephrases.
"Well, technically, that's not a price. That's a gift with purchase,"Anya points out."Why can't we see it? I mean, all we see is us doing stuff,"Xander asks.
"Well, I, I think it's out of phase with this dimension. Like, its consciousness is here, but, but its body is caught in the ether between existing and not existing,"Willow tries to clarify.
"It doesn't have a body, so it's borrowing ours. I-it borrowed Anya..."Tara starts realizing what is happening.
"Or, or it's manifesting copies of them, like, like it did when Buffy came at us..."Willow follows Tara's lead to conclusions about the demon.
"It's using them to do stuff. To scare us, attack us,"Tara further explains.
"So we need to uncreate it, right? We need to send it the rest of the way out of our world,"Xander offers.
"Uh-huh. Except that ... it's linked to the spell. So, if we sent it away ... it would be like the spell doesn't exist. Like it never happened,"Willow explains slowly.
They all realize what that would mean.

"There has to be another way,"Xander says shortly.
"There's always another way, Xander. Don't worry."Tara comforts him.

Willow has turned back to her book.

"Wait. Wait. Hold on,"Willow says as she smiles.
"What? Why are you smiling? That's inappropriate,"Anya informs her.
"Because it's temporary,"Willow tells them.
"What is?"Xander asks still confused.
"The demon. I-it's gonna dissipate. The only way for it to survive on this plane is if it were to kill the subject of the original spell,"Willow

"It would live if it killed Buffy?"Tara asks.
"That's not gonna-"Willow begins.

Meghan, Jessica, Spike, and Giles burst through the door.

"Stop whatever you are saying! It will hear you!"Meghan commands.

Xander lifts his head and we see that his eyes are white.

"Too late,"Jessica says.

"Thanks for the tip,"The demon in Xander's body says.

Xander collapses to the floor. Again we see the little bulge move across the floor toward a wall.

"Well, that's just great!"Meghan yells as she leads the entering group further into the Magic Box.

"What happened?"Giles asked.

"The demon I told you about just figured out how to make itself whole again,"Meghan says. "Okay. Willow, Tara, you two start the spell to give it a body. Anya, Xander, help me clear off this table. Je - Buffy try and draw the thing to you and away from the spell. Spike, Giles, we'll need some weapons to kill this thing when the spell is finished."

Jessica, Spike, Giles, Xander, and Anya do not move.

"Why are we doing a spell to give it a body?"Giles asks.

"So we can kill it,"Meghan says in a rush.

"Spirits can't do no harm,"Spike points out.

"Aren't you listening? This thing just figured out how to make its self permanent. It'll be trying to kill Buffy any second here. If we don't give it a body she can't kill it before it kills her!"Meghan yells at them.

"Alright. Spike?"Giles asks.

"Coming,"He says shortly.

Spike and Giles walk to back room.

"Why do we have to clear off the table?"Anya asks.

"Tara and Willow are going to need some room to do the spell,"Meghan explains losing her patients with them.

"Fine,"Anya says.

Xander and Anya take the books off the table. Willow and Tara walk over to table with supplies. Giles and Spike re-enter room with weapons.

"I have a question,"Jessica tells Meghan.

"What?"Meghan asks.

"How do I-"Jessica is cut off.

Spike with an ax lunges at Jessica and pins her to the floor with the handle of the ax across her throat.

"Never mind,"Jessica says. "This is gonna be fun."

Jessica/Spike fight begins. Giles attempts to help. Anya, Xander, Willow, and Tara stare.

"Don't just stand there! Do the spell!"Meghan yells.

Willow and Tara begin spell. The spirit body hops to everyone except Jessica (because she is the other part of the spell), Willow and Tara (because they are doing a spell). As it hops everyone has to get to regroup to figure out which person it's in. (this is funny to watch) Willow and Tara finish the spell. The demon spirit is ripped out of Anya's body and has a body of its own. Jessica walks over to it with ax in hand, smiles and decapitates it.

"Whose turn is it to bury the body?"Jessica asks.

They all glance around at each other, out of breath.

"Remind me why I agreed to get up early on a Saturday,"Jessica tells Meghan.

Jessica and Meghan are walking around in Sunnydale.

"You're the one that came up with the idea to tell Giles. Remember, oh-fearless-leader?"Meghan tells her.

"I don't recall saying it had to be Saturday morning,"Jessica points out.

"It was today or tomorrow because I have to go to school on the weekdays. It was in the morning because that's when the sun is up."

"What does the sun have to do with anything?"

"Well, Spike is suspicious of us, remember? If it's daylight he can't follow us around and overhear things he shouldn't hear."

"Correction. Spike is suspicious of you."

"Me? Why is he suspicious of me?"

"How the hell should I know?" Jessica takes a look around. "Do you even know where you are going?"

"Yes."

"I think we've passed this street before."

"Well, I had to remember where I was going. The one and only time I was over at Giles, I was running from the graveyard with Spike in the middle of the night."

"You mean to tell me you've been leading me in circles?"Jessica demands as she stops the both of them.

"Yes."

"Oh my god. Let's just go back now."

"No."

"Why the hell not?"

"Because we're here."

Jessica looks at her confused. Meghan points behind Jessica. There is the door to Giles's apartment.

"Oh."

They walk up to it and Meghan knocks. Giles answers the door.

"Hello, Buffy, Dawn. What are you doing here?"Giles mostly asks Jessica.

"We wanted to talk to you,"Meghan says.

Giles looks at Meghan strangely because it is out of character for "Dawn" to take the lead. Giles moves so they can enter.

"Wow. It looks really nice in here,"Jessica says.

Meghan continues walking to the living room area.

"It hasn't changes since you, well, you know,"Giles says.

Giles and Jessica follow Meghan in the living room area. Meghan begins pacing - her thinking mode.

"So what did you want to talk to me about, Dawn?"Giles asks.

"That's just it,"Meghan says to herself.

"What?"Giles asks confused.

Meghan stops pacing and with a breath pulls herself togther.

"Giles, you may want to sit down for this. It's a bit complicated, what I'm about to tell you,"Meghan tell him.

"All right,"He says as he sits. "Now, what is it?"

"Um, the other night you asked me how I knew what was going on and how Willow did a spell, remember?"Meghan begins.

"Yes, I remember. You came here to explain?"Giles sums up for her.

"Yes. Um, you see, I knew what was going to happen because I saw it,"Meghan says slowly.

"You have visions now?"Giles asks alarmed.

"No. I saw it on TV,"Meghan clarifies.

"What?"Giles asks more confused.

"I am screwing this up so bad. Jessica, you want a swing at it?"Meghan asks her friend.

"Jessica? Who is Jessica?"Giles asks.

"That would be me,"Jessica says raising her hand. "Sure."

Meghan begins pacing again as Jessica claims the spotlight in order to explain this to him.

"There is once concept you have to know first,"Jessica opens up. "We're(she points to herself and Meghan) not Buffy and Dawn. We're Jessica and Meghan and we're from a different dimension where this is just a TV show."

Giles begins laughing. Meghan and Jessica share a "what is that all about" look.

"That is a great joke, but it's not going to work on me. You can't make me seriously believe that this is all just a TV show,"Giles says.

"Actually, that's exactly what we want you to help us with. We want you tell help us get home, Giles."

Giles just laughs again. "Yes, I'll help you . . .um, Jessica,"

"I told you he wouldn't believe us,"Meghan says.

"You were right, Dawn,"Giles tells the girls.

"Time for phase two. Giles, do you know how on TV shows you get to see things that the other characters don't?"

"Yes. Irony. The audience knows something the characters don't. It's a classical devise. Even Shakespear used it."

"Okay, I didn't need the English lesson, but you know what it is. If we could tell you things about you that Dawn and Buffy couldn't possibly know, would you believe us then?"

"Maybe,"Giles says.

"Take it away, Meghan,"Jessica says.

"Why do I have to do it?"Meghan asks.

"Because you remember all of the details,"Jessica points out.

"Fine,"Meghan acquiesces.

Meghan stops pacing and sits down on the coffee table across from Giles. Jessica wanders around the apartment looking at things.

"You're serious about this?"Giles asks.

"Yes. Now let's start from the beginning, shall we?"Meghan says.

"That seems like a logical place to begin,"Giles says.

"Okay- first season. Buffy knocked you out so you wouldn't go after the Master. I think 'I defy prophecy,' were your exact words."

"Buffy could have told you that,"Giles points out.

"Yes, she could have. Second season you were dating Jenny Calendar. She talked about rules of dating and you were like 'oh, so this is a date!'"

"Buffy could have overheard,"Giles says.

"Then in the third season you slept with Joyce twice on the hood of a cop car after you robbed a store for a coat she liked and beat up a cop."

"Buffy could read minds . . ."Giles rationalizes.

"Oh and the third season was home of one of my favorite quotes!"Meghan suddenly takes on a British accent. "Oh, don't you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead! Bloody Americans."

"I was in the car alone - "Giles whispers beginning to believe.

"Until you were attacked by zombies,"Meghan fills in. "And in season four you got drunk with Ethan and he turned you into a demon. You had to ask Spike for help. In the end you wanted to go watch the military boys 'handle' Ethan."

"Buffy could have told you,"Giles says, switching back to nonbeliever again.

"But could she have told me that in your dream with the first slayer, you were at the Bronze singing on stage about your current predicament and asking Willow and Xander not bleed on your couch because it was just steam cleaned?" Meghan asks singing, 'steam cleaned' as he did.

"You know what I dreamt!"Giles says bewildered.

"Yeah. Do you believe us know?"Meghan asks.

"Tell me something else that you shouldn't know,"Giles asks.

"Well, season five - during the Dracula episode - you fell into a pit with the three Weird Sisters. Riley had to save you and you lost your shoe."

"This isn't possible -"Giles gets up and begins pacing furiously. "You can't know -"

"What? That you killed Ben?"Meghan asks.

Giles stops dead. He holds his breath and stares at her.

"I did kill Ben,"Giles confesses.

"You wanted to go back to England because of a conversation you had with the Buffybot,"Meghan says softly.

"Dear Lord! You aren't Dawn."

"That's what we've been trying to tell you!"Jessica yells.

They both look at her. Giles composes himself.

"What did you say your names were again?"Giles asks.

"She's Jessica and I'm Meghan,"Meghan tells him. "It's nice to meet you."

"Hi, Giles,"Jessica says.

"Hello. I'm just a bit off after all this,"Giles apologizes.

"Giles we just want to go home. We figured you'd be the one to talk about that,"Meghan explains.

"How did you get here in the first place?"Giles asks.

"Well, you see, there was this magical remote that sent us through the TV,"Jessica tells him.

"Sarcasm. You should get along well with Xander,"Giles says offhandedly.

"She's being serious, Giles,"Meghan tells him.

"Oh! And where is this . . .magical remote?"Giles asks.

"We don't know. We can't find it,"Meghan informs him.

"Well, we should start with a locator spell,"Giles says walking to the bookshelf in research mode.

"I'll get some candles,"Jessica says.

Meghan rolls her eyes.

Giles sits on the floor surrounded by candles. Meghan lights the candles, and Jessica stands waiting by the lights.

"I really think that one of you should be performing the spell. You were the last to touch it,"Giles explains.

"We would if we knew Latin or had any magical powers, but sadly we don't. Jess, lights,"Meghan says.

Jessica switches off the lights. Giles begins to chant in Latin. Wind blows through their hair and disturbs the candle flames. Jessica looks at Meghan. Meghan feels that is oddly familiar. Without warning, the apparition of a demon appears in front of Giles, knocking Meghan to the floor.

"Do you think you can summon me?"The apparition yells.

The apparition disappear. Jessica throws on the lights. Giles stands on unstable legs. He nearly falls, but Jess catches him.

"What was that?"Giles asks.

Jessica shakes her head. "Meghan, do you know?"

Meghan sits up. The look on her face is distance, remembering something.

"Meghan?"Jessica asks again. "What is it?"

"It's The First,"Meghan says slowly.

A/N: Ha! Aren't you happy? Anyway. I promise to have the next up within a week. All it needs it some editing. Until then, you can review. Please?