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A/N: Wasn't going to use this one and I just can't help it now. The Walking Dead. Totally in love with it. Like huge love. The characters from that show will be: Rick, Lori, Carl, Glenn, Daryl, Carol, Andrea, Maggie, Herschel, Beth, T Dogg, Patricia and Jimmy. That's it. Those are the ones I'm using.
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Faith turned back and yelled, "Yo, Little D, do your thing girl!"

The young brunette at the gaping white hole lifted her hands and her eyes glowed an eerie green. Both men gasped as a bubble of green energy seemed to reach out and encircle the entire farm thrusting everything into silence, the wind dying down. The surge of energy was heard with a dampened sonic boom, and the inhabitants of the farmhouse began to exit onto the porch.

"Wow, it's never sounded like THAT before," the teenaged girl stated after she lowered her hands. "But it's totally up and we're totally protected!"

Buffy just shook her head. "Sorry about that. Guess we should expect some slight differences depending on where we go… Let me introduce my girls since everyone's decided to join us… Again, I'm Buffy, I guess I'm in charge of this here shindig… my second there is Faith," she pointed to the opinionated Bostonian and then began to point out the other Slayers. "Kennedy, Rona, Vi, Nora, Caridad, Rachel, Brittany, Tina, Christie, Helena, Ayane, Kasumi, Ziva, Emily, JJ, Remy, Denise, Juliet, Bliss, Rosa, Mia, Kensi, Temperance, Michelle, Maxine, Grace, Kate, Alexis, Elena and Cherise," she finished. "And we've got Willow and Dawn at the portal."

"What's a portal," the little boy blurted out.

Buffy grinned at the little guy. She'd been spending a lot of time with Jack lately. "A portal is like a doorway, and that one leads home… to our home." His face wrinkled in confusion, and she about melted. "You are pretty darned cute." Buffy had to stop before she got ahead of herself. She could already see him playing with the other kids, but there was no guarantee these people would come back with them. She turned her attention back to the man in charge. "Where we're from this…" she motioned to the bodies of the zombies," has only been happening for a few weeks. But it's different. We know in our reality it was caused by an offshoot of the military; a rogue military branch. In our world not very long ago demons walked the Earth, and we," she motioned the women around her, "well, we were the people who were tapped to deal with that problem. Mystical warriors Chosen to fight the darkness. Vampires, demons, monsters… We're called Slayers… Vampire Slayers once upon a time. There's a whole long story to it, but I'm really not the one to tell it, I have stuffy British man who gives that," She gave them all a small smile. "When this outbreak occurred… and these creatures rose… all the demons… monsters… vampires, they all disappeared. We don't know why."

"Where we're from, they're just gone, yo," Faith added. "Now the monsters we fight are these zombie bastards and the Initiative pukes who caused this new war, not that we seen many of them." She sneered.

"The Initiative is the military offshoot," Buffy explained. "We've been rescuing survivors. From our world, and a few realities that people with special abilities have led us to. We have a very special and safe haven back home. We have doctors. We're growing vegetables; we have cows and chickens, and a place the monsters can't get in, and we have plenty of room for more people."

"Why are you so interested in helping a bunch of strangers," this came from an old white haired man standing off to the side of Rick.

Buffy looked to the haggard man. There was a quiet strength to the man that she respected. "I've been fighting monsters and saving people since I was fifteen years old… One of my Seers saw you… She saw this attack tonight and if we hadn't come it wouldn't have ended well… If I could have even saved one of you I would have come through that portal alone."

"Even before I was Called as a Slayer I was an FBI Agent," the blonde, JJ, spoke. "We help people."

"It's what we do," Emily agreed.

"You said you got people with special abilities, and somethin' about a Seer… what the hell's a Seer," Daryl asked bluntly.

"A Seer is a person who has visions… normally of the future, or of things happening in the present that way we can change them. We currently have three Seers. We have a Psychic, someone who can touch things and know something about that object, have a few Healers… let me tell you those are a real blessing along with our doctors, we have some Superheroes… that was a crazy trip…" Buffy ignored the look of disbelief on their faces, "and we have some Witches and Wizards… and of course the Slayers."

"Wizards and witches, like Harry Potter," the little boy asked.

All of the Slayers looked at the boy with wide eyes, and some gasped. Buffy's mouth dropped open. "You know who Harry is?"

"It's a kids' book," the woman who stood behind the boy, her arms encircling him protectively answered.

Faith started snickering, "Hehehehehe."

"Faith," Buffy admonished. "It would seem that there's some cosmic joke. We saved Mr. Potter and friends in an alternate reality."

"Their bad guy made my Xander green," Tina drawled out in annoyance, drawing some disbelieving looks from the natives.

"This can't be real… " a young Asian man was muttering. "We all died… or we're hallucinating…"

"I know it all seems highly unbelievable," a teenaged brunette girl stepped forward. "My name's Rachel. Buffy saved me and my friends a little over two weeks ago. We'd just finished singing at a Glee club competition and we'd holed up in our high school after coming under attack from those zombie-like creatures. We were going to be over run… One of our teachers, another student and our principal had turned into… those things… Brittany and I managed to destroy them," her eyes were so earnest, her words rang with truth. "They'd broken through the glass doors and we'd managed to get onto the roof of the school. We were in Ohio… Dawn opened a portal from the hotel in Colorado and saved us… I know you're probably standing there wondering how in the world can any of this possibly be true, but please let us help you. We've all lost so much in this wretched new world, and we need each other…" Rachel stopped talking as thoughts of her Dad and Daddy entered her mind, and Brittany moved up wrapping an arm around her shoulders.

Buffy squeezed the younger girl's hand. "Rachel lost her parent's to the creature's two weeks ago," she told the new people softly. "To be perfectly honest, we do have some self serving reasons for wanting you to come back with us. Not only would we know you were safer than if you stayed here, but we have kids without parents there…" she shrugged, and saw some realization begin to dawn. "And babies. There were some visions of hospitals with infants, and now we have babies without parents, and heck, who couldn't use help raising babies," she gave them a bittersweet smile. "These days I think we have a little bit of everything at the Haven…"

"I want to go with you," a woman with extremely short hair blurted out and stepped forward. She was in her mid thirties, but her face was worn and haggard. "Even if they decide not to go, can I come?"

"Of course," Buffy told her.

"I'm Carol."

"It's nice to meet you Carol. I'm glad to have you."

"Carol…"

"No, Lori, this is what I want… I lost Sophia… I lost my BABY… and this world has nothing… their world might have monsters too, but it sounds safer than here, and they saved us… they saved us when they didn't have to… had NO reason to at all. That means something, or at least it should."

The little blonde, pale and sickly stepped forward as well. "I… I'm sick, but I want to go too… but I'm sick."

Buffy looked at the girl. "We have Healers, Sweetie… I'm not leaving you behind."

"But what if I've got this sickness…" a tear rolled down her cheek.

Buffy turned to Bliss, "Go get me Tim or Sarah, okay?"

The girl gave a jaunty salute and disappeared through the portal.

Buffy reached out and took the girl's hand without fear. "I'm not gonna worry. I'm getting a Healer so you won't worry, okay?"

The girl relaxed slightly, and looked back at the older man. "I'm sorry, Daddy. I wanna go. I'm so scared here… all the time… I wanna go."

"This farm's been in my family for generations," he murmured.

Temperance Brennan had moved somewhat closer. "It's common for someone to place importance in familiarity and generational property ties. Society has always lived with those kinds of codes, however something that my partner has been pointing out recently… what good is a farmhouse that's been in your family for generations if there's no family here to leave it to? We're not staying at our current dwelling long term; only through the winter. Right now we're already starting to plan our next move. We want a nice big area, farm land, large multifunctional living quarters, a convention center, land where we can plant, farm, and raise cattle… You can always build another farmhouse for your children and grandchildren. We are the future now," she finished quietly.

Maggie watched the blonde comfort her sister and the brunette talk to her father. Glenn clutched her hand tightly. "Can you really heal my sister?"

Buffy looked at the strong woman for responding, "Yes, we can."

"You heal my sister, I'll go with you." She looked to Glenn as if to dare him to disagree but only saw acceptance and loved him even more.

"Shit, you kill Walkers like that all the time, and you got food where you at, I'll sign up right now," Daryl told the women, running a hand over his face. He was dead tired of death and constant vigil. A few of the women snickered.

There was movement at the portal and Bliss stepped back through along with a slender man with curly brown hair in his mid thirties. He stared at everything with fascination, and would have tripped if Bliss hadn't caught him.

"Sorry, sorry, this is my first alternate reality," he told everyone jovially.

Buffy sighed, "Dr. Hodgins… Bliss, Tim and Sarah were busy?"

She shrugged, "You asked for a Healer, I brought you a Healer. Tim and Sarah were with Gibbs."

"Ah," enough said thought Buffy. "Ok, Jack Hodgins, this is everybody."

"I'm Beth," the little blonde said. "I'm sick."

Jack smiled. "Hi, Beth, as Buffy so eloquently introduced me, I'm Jack, and I'll be your Healer today. Won't hurt a bit." He reached out and took both of her hands into his own. The people from the porch began moving forward, whether out of mistrust or to see what he was doing he didn't know. A warm white glow began to spread from his hands, up her arms and through her body. Beth gasped and began to smile.

"Wow," she murmured.

After several moments Jack finally pulled away. "Good as new."

"I feel…" she blinked. "I feel amazing… I feel better than ever." And she looked great. Her color was back and she was no longer trembling. "Thank you."

"What now," he asked excitedly.

"Back through the portal to home," Buffy commanded.

"What," he lost his grin.

"You heard me."

"But I just got here," Jack whined. "Can't I look at some bugs or something? Dr. Brennan's here…"

"What you wanna go lookin' at bugs fer," Daryl sneered.

Jack looked at the man and gaped, "Did…" he pointed.

"Yes we know," Buffy agreed, and turned her attention to Daryl. "Dr. Hodgins is an entomologist. He studied bugs and forensics in his job before the end of the world. They fascinate him…" she shrugged. "It takes all kinds."

"Fine, I'll go, but only because Angela will KILL me if I got killed here," he told her before heading back to the portal.

They watched him go, the Slayers shaking their heads.

"CRAZY man logic," Faith muttered.

Before he got to the portal he turned to face them. "I feel I should mention," he began. "She had a virus running through her blood, and I'm fairly certain if she'd passed away she'd have turned into one of those things littering the ground…"

"Good to know," sarcasm edged Buffy's words. "And you were waiting to tell me…"

"I just thought about it," he exclaimed. "I theorized that if Beth had the virus it's plausible that the others are carrying the virus as well. I'm going to get the other Healers together. When you bring them through we'll do a sweep on them and make sure they're all good and healthy."

"Smart plan, Doc," Faith approved.

Jack rolled his eyes. "I AM a genius," he quipped before stepping back through the portal.

The people on the porch had been muttering, and Rick addressed Buffy, "I think we've all agreed. We want to come with you, if you're sure you can take us."

Herschel spoke also, "Can I take my horses… and cattle?"

"Yes, sir," Buffy gave them all a radiant smile, and all the women looked pleased. "We're beyond sure. We can help you pack!"