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[NW]
Buffy found Willow in the courtyard, sitting in the sun studying for what looked like Physics. She walked up behind the studious girl and said, "Willow, I was wondering if you could help me."
Willow whirled around shocked, "Oh Buffy, I didn't realize you we're there. Um well what do you want?"
Buffy sat down on the bench beside her and started out calmly, "I just came from the library, and I wanted to talk to you about some books you recently checked out."
"Why were you in the library?"
"It's not important at the moment." Buffy slid closer to Willow and spoke quietly. "You know what books I'm talking about right?"
"You mean the books on." Willow trailed off and looked down.
"Yeh, those books on witchcraft. How long have you been practicing?" Buffy was getting hopeful.
"Only about 3 months. I found this really cool old volume in the back of the library as I was looking for a book on the migration patterns of the dung beetle and it got knocked off the shelf and fell open on the floor. I started looking through it and it was so cool I just had to learn more. But why do you care? Are you in a coven?" Willow was getting excited.
"No, but I need your help. Have you gotten to anything about alternate dimensions yet?"
"I've read a little bit but nothing too exciting. Mainly its just the theory behind them.what does this have to do with you?"
"I think I might be in an alternate dimension." Buffy rubbed her hands together. "But you're right here, how could you be in an alternate dimension?"
"What I mean is, this is an alternate dimension from the one I'm usually in." Buffy sighed and hoped that Willow wouldn't try to put her in an insane asylum.
"Really?! Wow, how is it? What's different? What kind of people do they have where you are from? Am I there? Who am I friends with? Are you still Buffy there? Is it like a parallel universe?" Willow was standing and pacing back and forth in front of the bench, waving her arms and getting generally over excited. Buffy stood up and grabbed Willow by the shoulder. "So I guess you're in."
"Most definitely, I wouldn't miss this adventure for the world. Oh my gosh, I'm having an adventure and I'm not even leaving school!"
Buffy replied dryly, "We don't usually have to."
The two of them walked into the library where Giles was still sitting slightly stunned. He looked up and said, "Hello Willow."
"Hi Mr. Giles!" Willow said cheerfully then she whispered to Buffy, "Does he know?"
"Yes he does, in my world, he's an important part of the gang."
"Really? Do we still call him Mr. Giles?" Willow sat down at the table.
"No we just call him Giles, no 'Mr.' attached."
Willow sighed, "This is all going to take some getting used to."
"We're all going to have to get used to it." Giles commented quietly.
"Okay here's the plan. Willow, Giles you do your research bit, that's what you guys normally do, stuff with books. I usually kill the bad guy and Xander.oh.I forgot about Xander."
"What did I do now?" a voice came from behind Buffy, it was Xander, "I didn't want to miss out on the party. What's up?"
"Not much Xand, we just have to try to find a way to send Buffy back to her own dimension and figure out what kind of demon would do this to her." Willow noted casually.
"What?" Xander was stumped, "Buffy what?.I'm a little lost."
"Join the club." Giles said.
"So what does Xander do in our group thingy?" Willow asked.
"Well, hmm, he usually makes the jokes, gets the doughnuts and cowers in fear.but he really is important to the team!" Buffy ended trying to make it sound better.
"Sounds like me alright." Xander helped himself to a chair, "So what kinds of doughnuts does everyone like?"
"Jelly." Giles replied.
"Glazed with extra sprinkles." Willow smiled.
"I like the chocolate icing ones." Buffy sighed this might work after all.
~*~
[SW]
Buffy sat looking at a yearbook, the picture of her with, Willow, Xander, that boy Oz, and another girl she didn't know. "Who is that?" she asked. "Oh that's Anya. She's an ex-vengeance demon, long story. Actually that one had an alternate universe in it too." Willow looked at Xander, "Perhaps we should ask Anya what we should do. Because it's obvious that this Buffy isn't the Slayer, she doesn't have any of the powers. We are kinda defenseless. What if some uber-evil attacks?"
"Willow I think that may be the point here, some demon has found a way to switch the two Buffys so that we remain defenseless while they attack." Giles looked up from the books he was poring over.
"Well then why haven't the dark forces attacked?" Xander piped up from his corner. "I.don't know." Giles as a force of habit cleaned his glasses and replaced them on his face. "I guess the best thing we can do at this point is to keep up the research and figure out perhaps where our Buffy has gone."
"Oh my god! If she's gone to my world, then she might mess things up! I mean I don't want her ruining any of my clothes!"
Willow and Oz just sighed and Xander retorted, "Well she usually just rips them here or there. Fighting the causal vamp can do that to clothes."
"Oh god! You mean she's going to fight those demony things in my world? Wow, I never knew we had any. I always thought it was a fairy tale."
"You mean you didn't have mass amounts of the class dying?" Giles looked up from his volume.
"Um, no, we're all alive, thank you very much. At least to my knowledge we are."
Giles was getting excited, "This could mean a great many things! If you have a demonless dimension then that means that Buffy wont have anything to fight," Buffy sighed in relief, thinking about her brand new pants. "But that means that you were sent here so that you wouldn't be able to fight. Everyone," Giles turned to the crowd, "lets arm up, we need all the help we can get. We might even have to call in Angel."
"Why do we need him?" Xander started.
"We need him because we don't have a Slayer."
"Oh, right." Xander backed down.
"We don't know when this is going to get out to the demon populace so be on guard, they will come running when they hear our defenses are Slayerless."
"I'm on it Giles. I can create an magickal barrier around the hellmouth and that will at least keep the demons out for a little bit." Willow turned to Oz, "Let's go shopping." Oz sighed and they headed out the door, "We'll be back as soon as we pick up those supplies."
"Buffy you might want to call Joyce and tell her where you will be. It is getting late."
They all turned and looked out the window, it was early evening and the sun was quickly sinking behind the hills in the distance.
"Well what do I tell her?" Buffy asked.
"Just tell her you have Slayer business and you will be home later on tonight." Giles answered casually.
"And she'll understand?!" Buffy couldn't believe it.
"Yes Joyce is quite, understanding for things like this." Giles tried to hide his emotion for Buffy's mother and not quite being able to mask it.
"Oh God, you like my mother?!" Buffy was in shock.
"Why yes I'm quite fond of her." Giles was cleaning his glasses again.
"Well what about your wife? What does she think about this?"
"Wife? I don't have a wife.do you mean what I think you mean?" Giles held his glasses shaking in his hand.
"Well if you mean that you have a wife the answer is yes, maybe you just haven't met her here yet, her name is Jenny Giles. well oh god what was it before? Callends? No, it was argh I can't remember."
"Calendar." Giles supplied.
"Yep that's it! So I guess you know her." Buffy looked up expectantly.
"Yes, we all knew her. She was killed by a vampire several years ago." Giles rubbed his eyes, "This book is so dusty. Please excuse me."
"Oh God, I'm sorry Giles." Buffy looked down.
"It's alright." Giles retreated to his office and sat with his head in his hands.
"Wow Buffy, that's pretty crazy." Xander still stood beside her.
"Yeh I guess so. But there are a lot of crazy things going on now." Buffy turned around and headed back to the table to read more books on alternate dimensions.
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[NW]
Buffy found Willow in the courtyard, sitting in the sun studying for what looked like Physics. She walked up behind the studious girl and said, "Willow, I was wondering if you could help me."
Willow whirled around shocked, "Oh Buffy, I didn't realize you we're there. Um well what do you want?"
Buffy sat down on the bench beside her and started out calmly, "I just came from the library, and I wanted to talk to you about some books you recently checked out."
"Why were you in the library?"
"It's not important at the moment." Buffy slid closer to Willow and spoke quietly. "You know what books I'm talking about right?"
"You mean the books on." Willow trailed off and looked down.
"Yeh, those books on witchcraft. How long have you been practicing?" Buffy was getting hopeful.
"Only about 3 months. I found this really cool old volume in the back of the library as I was looking for a book on the migration patterns of the dung beetle and it got knocked off the shelf and fell open on the floor. I started looking through it and it was so cool I just had to learn more. But why do you care? Are you in a coven?" Willow was getting excited.
"No, but I need your help. Have you gotten to anything about alternate dimensions yet?"
"I've read a little bit but nothing too exciting. Mainly its just the theory behind them.what does this have to do with you?"
"I think I might be in an alternate dimension." Buffy rubbed her hands together. "But you're right here, how could you be in an alternate dimension?"
"What I mean is, this is an alternate dimension from the one I'm usually in." Buffy sighed and hoped that Willow wouldn't try to put her in an insane asylum.
"Really?! Wow, how is it? What's different? What kind of people do they have where you are from? Am I there? Who am I friends with? Are you still Buffy there? Is it like a parallel universe?" Willow was standing and pacing back and forth in front of the bench, waving her arms and getting generally over excited. Buffy stood up and grabbed Willow by the shoulder. "So I guess you're in."
"Most definitely, I wouldn't miss this adventure for the world. Oh my gosh, I'm having an adventure and I'm not even leaving school!"
Buffy replied dryly, "We don't usually have to."
The two of them walked into the library where Giles was still sitting slightly stunned. He looked up and said, "Hello Willow."
"Hi Mr. Giles!" Willow said cheerfully then she whispered to Buffy, "Does he know?"
"Yes he does, in my world, he's an important part of the gang."
"Really? Do we still call him Mr. Giles?" Willow sat down at the table.
"No we just call him Giles, no 'Mr.' attached."
Willow sighed, "This is all going to take some getting used to."
"We're all going to have to get used to it." Giles commented quietly.
"Okay here's the plan. Willow, Giles you do your research bit, that's what you guys normally do, stuff with books. I usually kill the bad guy and Xander.oh.I forgot about Xander."
"What did I do now?" a voice came from behind Buffy, it was Xander, "I didn't want to miss out on the party. What's up?"
"Not much Xand, we just have to try to find a way to send Buffy back to her own dimension and figure out what kind of demon would do this to her." Willow noted casually.
"What?" Xander was stumped, "Buffy what?.I'm a little lost."
"Join the club." Giles said.
"So what does Xander do in our group thingy?" Willow asked.
"Well, hmm, he usually makes the jokes, gets the doughnuts and cowers in fear.but he really is important to the team!" Buffy ended trying to make it sound better.
"Sounds like me alright." Xander helped himself to a chair, "So what kinds of doughnuts does everyone like?"
"Jelly." Giles replied.
"Glazed with extra sprinkles." Willow smiled.
"I like the chocolate icing ones." Buffy sighed this might work after all.
~*~
[SW]
Buffy sat looking at a yearbook, the picture of her with, Willow, Xander, that boy Oz, and another girl she didn't know. "Who is that?" she asked. "Oh that's Anya. She's an ex-vengeance demon, long story. Actually that one had an alternate universe in it too." Willow looked at Xander, "Perhaps we should ask Anya what we should do. Because it's obvious that this Buffy isn't the Slayer, she doesn't have any of the powers. We are kinda defenseless. What if some uber-evil attacks?"
"Willow I think that may be the point here, some demon has found a way to switch the two Buffys so that we remain defenseless while they attack." Giles looked up from the books he was poring over.
"Well then why haven't the dark forces attacked?" Xander piped up from his corner. "I.don't know." Giles as a force of habit cleaned his glasses and replaced them on his face. "I guess the best thing we can do at this point is to keep up the research and figure out perhaps where our Buffy has gone."
"Oh my god! If she's gone to my world, then she might mess things up! I mean I don't want her ruining any of my clothes!"
Willow and Oz just sighed and Xander retorted, "Well she usually just rips them here or there. Fighting the causal vamp can do that to clothes."
"Oh god! You mean she's going to fight those demony things in my world? Wow, I never knew we had any. I always thought it was a fairy tale."
"You mean you didn't have mass amounts of the class dying?" Giles looked up from his volume.
"Um, no, we're all alive, thank you very much. At least to my knowledge we are."
Giles was getting excited, "This could mean a great many things! If you have a demonless dimension then that means that Buffy wont have anything to fight," Buffy sighed in relief, thinking about her brand new pants. "But that means that you were sent here so that you wouldn't be able to fight. Everyone," Giles turned to the crowd, "lets arm up, we need all the help we can get. We might even have to call in Angel."
"Why do we need him?" Xander started.
"We need him because we don't have a Slayer."
"Oh, right." Xander backed down.
"We don't know when this is going to get out to the demon populace so be on guard, they will come running when they hear our defenses are Slayerless."
"I'm on it Giles. I can create an magickal barrier around the hellmouth and that will at least keep the demons out for a little bit." Willow turned to Oz, "Let's go shopping." Oz sighed and they headed out the door, "We'll be back as soon as we pick up those supplies."
"Buffy you might want to call Joyce and tell her where you will be. It is getting late."
They all turned and looked out the window, it was early evening and the sun was quickly sinking behind the hills in the distance.
"Well what do I tell her?" Buffy asked.
"Just tell her you have Slayer business and you will be home later on tonight." Giles answered casually.
"And she'll understand?!" Buffy couldn't believe it.
"Yes Joyce is quite, understanding for things like this." Giles tried to hide his emotion for Buffy's mother and not quite being able to mask it.
"Oh God, you like my mother?!" Buffy was in shock.
"Why yes I'm quite fond of her." Giles was cleaning his glasses again.
"Well what about your wife? What does she think about this?"
"Wife? I don't have a wife.do you mean what I think you mean?" Giles held his glasses shaking in his hand.
"Well if you mean that you have a wife the answer is yes, maybe you just haven't met her here yet, her name is Jenny Giles. well oh god what was it before? Callends? No, it was argh I can't remember."
"Calendar." Giles supplied.
"Yep that's it! So I guess you know her." Buffy looked up expectantly.
"Yes, we all knew her. She was killed by a vampire several years ago." Giles rubbed his eyes, "This book is so dusty. Please excuse me."
"Oh God, I'm sorry Giles." Buffy looked down.
"It's alright." Giles retreated to his office and sat with his head in his hands.
"Wow Buffy, that's pretty crazy." Xander still stood beside her.
"Yeh I guess so. But there are a lot of crazy things going on now." Buffy turned around and headed back to the table to read more books on alternate dimensions.
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