Classification: Fantasy / Sci-Fi (I'm totally ripping off "The Lion The Witch and the Ward Robe" and "Sliders)
Spoilers: None. You should have all seen the different seasons of Angel and Buffy.
Summary: A teen from the real world completes his collection of Buffy and Angel DVD sets and when he places Angel season five on the shelf it opens up twelve magical doors to the Buffy and Angel universe. He can enter each one, one by one and participate in the heroes greatest battles. But only if he can survive the wait.
Coupling: I'm going to flirt a little with Dawn, who will be in all seven chapters about Buffy.
Feedback: Please do, this will be my most ambitious fan-fiction yet, and hopefully I'll actually write all twelve chapters. (P.S.) Look for my other story ""Magical Midnight" and its up coming sequel which should be written by July 19th.
Distribution: Meh I don't care, post it, print it, read it to your kids at bed time just give me credit.
Title: The Twelve Doors Chapter Title: Prelude Place and Time: Portland Oregon Wal-Mart 11:46 p.m.
"I'm not opening the box until midnight Charlie. No Matter how long you sit and drool." Laura was taking her time. She was filling in for Leigh while he was on break.
That was Charlie's job during the days he worked. But tonight was Tuesday. One of his two nights off. He was there though. Waiting on the new releases. Used to new release came out on Mondays. But for some reason, the powers that be decided to change it Tuesday nights.
"Come on Laura. You know I'm going to buy it. You can't let me hold it till mid-night."
"Nope. Them's the rules. At midnight I open the glass case and Angel Season Five is yours. Till then , you can sit and stare."
Fourteen excruciating minutes later and it was his. Season Five of Angel. The last DVD set of the Buffy verse collection. And it was going directly on his shelf. He would have loved to watch it that night. Sit home. Crack open a pint of cookie dough ice cream and sit in heaven for 22 hours. But he had made plans.
The Oregon chapter of The Monster Inc Fan Club was meeting in a week and a half for a fifteen day convention at, of all things a local church gymnasium the fifteen days were going to be filled with Buffy and Angel episodes, trivia games, karaoke contests, costume contests. They were even going to reenact scenes from Once More With Feeling.
All of the members of the club add sworn an oath not to watch season five of Angel and season seven of Buffy. He had broken part of the oath by watching season seven of Buffy. From what he heard from his in his conversations with his friends most of the others had broke that part of the oath as well.
But he swore to him self that he would not to break that part of the oath as he headed up the stairs to his apartment. The DVD sets was going directly on his shelf. It was going to fit perfectly too.
It was crazy, the DVD set was going to fit so snug. It wasn't going to be too tight, but there wasn't going to be any extra space on the other side. It was like the DVD set people and the people who had built his DVD tower had collaborated so that it fit perfectly.
Sliding open his door he stepped into his apartment and turned on the light. His room was a haven of Geekdom. Action figures on shelves all over the place. Framed comic books and movie posters hanging on the walls. Even his bathroom was decorated in a Batman motif.
Best of all was his DVD Towers. He had been collecting DVD sets since television producers realized that they could make money by selling completes seasons of shows to devoted fans at extreme prices.
Buffy was the first DVD set he had ever bought. Now he owned at least twenty DVD sets some complete, some almost complete some were shows that had been canceled early and the television producers had released the shows on DVD with the episodes that had never been aired.
Buffy was his crowning achievement it was arguably one of the best shows ever produced. And Sat at the top of his DVD tower. Pulling Angel season five from the Wal-Mart bag, Charley tore the plastic packaging from it. He held his breath as he slid it in next to the rest of the DVD sets.
"Perfect," Charlie whispered to him self as he stared at the DVD collections.
He was still wearing his black leather trench coat. He had worn it to the store despite that fact that it was early March and the weather wasn't even close to cold. He'd worn it for the look. Which was why he bought it in the first place. It was one of his few big purchases. Most people thought he had bought it because of Keanno Reeves and those stupid Matrix movies. But no. It was because of Angel.
Well Angel and Spike. It was easier to make him self look like Spike. Die his hair platinum blonde, dress in all black from his shit kicking boots on up to his black leather trench coat. His red cotton button up the only splash of color.
On the other wall, across from his television set was his bulletin board. Somewhat reminiscent of Principle Wood's in season seven the two bulletin boards were set on hinges and held closed by a pin at the bottom. Pulling the pin he swung the doors open and stared at his weapons.
It was no where near the collection of weapons that Angel, Buffy or even Principle Wood had but some of them were very similar.
He had four throwing axes. Exact replicas of the ones that Willow uses on Glory near the end of season five, and you can clearly see a pair in Principle Wood's weapons cabinet. Two wooden baseball bats, one with the end sawed into a point, for a use as a blunt object or a stake which ever the occasion called for. The other was a normal bat, with a fish hook like the one the killer wears in "I know What You Did Last Summer." wired to the end of it. (Xander uses one like it in Becoming Part One)
There were various knives and daggers and even a sword or two. But the prize of the collection was his double ratcheting stakes. Those were home made, not bought in some cheap replica store. Those were designed by him, based off a really bad photo in his Angel The Case Files volume 1, not meticulously pieced together by hired workers in some factory. As far as he knew, aside from the mutant enemy prop department. He had the only working set.
Taking them out of the case, he flicked his wrist, snapping them into the armed position. Hearing a noise behind him he turned around. There was a light shinning brightly from his DVD tower.
"What the hell."
There was no light in his DVD tower, the Buffy and Angel DVD sets sat so far back in the shadows that he had to strain his eyes to tell what they were. Yet there it was, a light shinning brightly from the very corner of his Buffy shelf. Like a door barely cracked open.
He cautiously stepped over too the Tower. Slowly reaching his hand out, he grabbed Buffy Season One to pull it from the tower. A jerk, something pulling him from behind his navel (I'm totally steeling from J.K. Rowling here.) and he was no longer in his apartment.
A library. He was in a library. An oddly familiar one too. He'd never been here him self, that was for sure but he certainly recognized it. Suddenly he hears voices.
"It can't be. You've got to be reading it wrong."
"I've checked it against every volume I have. It's real."
"Some Prophecies are dodgy. Mutable. Buffy her self has thwarted them time and again. But this is the Pergamum Codex. There is nothing in here that does not come to pass.
"Then your reading it wrong."
"I wish to God I were. But its very plain. Tomorrow night Buffy will face the master and she will die."
It all became perfectly clear. Charlie knew where he was. He knew this place. This was the Sunny Dale High library. The men talking were Rupert Giles and Angel, and in a days time. Buffy Summers would face her final battle….
…To Be Continued…