Alex poured herself a cup of tea, "I'm still not sure this is a good idea."

Harry closed the freezer then walked over and sat down opposite of Alex with his ice cream bar. "Why not? You heard the nymph explain what we're up against. Evil has been cheating for thousands of years."

"It's still cheating." She took a sip of her mint tea.

Harry shrugged, "We're already cheating the system. We've got one of the plane jumping rings already thanks to Willow giving it to my ranger character."

"I'm glad that she did, it means we don't have to summon a greater demon and cause ourselves problems."

"True. Either way, we're going to abuse the hell out of the Deck of Many Things and the Deck of Destines as soon as we finish this time loop and can set up another loop. How is this any different?"

"You're talking about custom building an army using the Halloween spell on someone then copying them."

Harry said, "Yep, then I'll turn the copies into cards and we can bundle them up into a unit and duplicate the whole deck using the mirror. If we set things up right we'll be able to have a couple of dozen trained warmage soldiers that are more than happy to raid demon dimensions for fun and profit."

Alex sighed, "We really should consider 'creating' some higher end anti scrying magical items if we're going to start raiding demon worlds."

Harry said, "There are a couple of good anti scrying items in Third Edition."

Alex snorted, "I'm just surprised that the computer had a bunch of different editions of Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games in PDF format."

"I'm not, Ginny is almost as much of a geek as you are."

"You know this is going to change things, right?"

Harry looked his sister in the eyes, "Maybe the nymph is wrong but maybe she isn't. The world that 'should' have happened? It doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me. I'm tired of self important 'god like' creatures running the show. They're running a delaying action at best. Maybe we can't destroy all the evil in the world but we can certainly crack some heads and make it a heck of a lot harder for evil to operate here."

Alex said, "I'm in if we can get some better anti scrying devices. I want our forces to strike like a pack of titans and vanish like the wind."

Harry said, "That's the plan."

"So how do we start?"

"We start coming up with a team layout while we have time. Then once we get back I'll work on duplicating the evil Thea's card a bunch while you work on making the costumes for them. Then we dress them up and use the mirror on them after the spell hits."

Alex said, "That means someone is going to have to not dress in a costume."

Harry shrugged, "We can probably talk Sirius into doing that part. I know Tonks wants one more run through but Sirius seemed fairly happy with what he already has."

Alex said, "Or we could dress as characters where doing the evil to good flip on people is their job. That would give us one last run through and the mind arts would be something they would need to do that job well."

"That works for me."

Alex said, "Good. We can dress a couple of the Kreachers up as magical item thieves to snatch some of the magical items from Third addition and Pathfinder."

Harry asked, "What are you looking for?"

Alex smirked, "Pathfinder has an interesting version of the deck of many things. Mostly though I just want a couple of versions of the deck around so that we can get the maximum benefit out of them."

Harry shook his head, "Even with a luck potion the chances of getting five good cards off those is unlikely. Hell, I'm not sure that a luck potion can actually influence them."

Alex shrugged, "That's what time loops are for."

Harry laughed, "You're going to break the world."

Alex said, "It's already broken, I'm just trying to make sure that my side wins." She figured that using 'magic' prison bracelets on Kreacher as part of his costume could keep him from using magic to escape once they copied him.

"Let's go take another look through the computer to see if there are any must haves."


The nymph assistant looked at her boss and asked, "Are you really going to let them have the anti scrying magic items?"

Janus said, "Of course, they won't be any protection against me but they should help against everyone else." Considering he was planning to reclaim most of the energy for the costumes and that the gang copying stuff didn't steal energy from him, he was quite willing to help the group out if it meant that he could call on them later for the odd jobs. Having powerful servants that owed you was great. Having powerful associates that no one knew were connected to you was even better.

"You're having too much fun with this."

Janus grinned, "What's not to like? One of my favorite girls got a large power boost out of it which should allow us to make some permanent changes without weakening our overall position or even reducing your power by a significant margin."

"Easy come, easy go." The nymph asked, "What are you thinking for costumes?"

Janus said, "I want you to swap out Cordelia's costume for a nearly identical costume. I think she'll appreciate the accounting, acting and modeling skills that comes with the costume. I also need a ghost costume given to Kendra. No sense putting all this work into helping Faith if she doesn't end up a Slayer."

"Anything else?"

"I need an Iron Man costume delivered to Warren Mears."

"Not to question your sanity but are you sure that's wise?"

"He's heading down a dark path, some of the upstart demons are bragging about it. I'm hoping that Stark's morals and skill with the ladies will keep him from going as crazy as he's supposed to." The mouth on the 'back' of his head said, "Also if he should happen to be flying and do a face plant from a couple of hundred feet up, no real loss."

"That might solve some issues."

Janus said, "I also need you to deliver a Stargate uniform to Harmony Kendall."

"Why?"

"Because I want someone on hand to play with alien devices when the aliens come for Earth and Harmony's personality is expendable."

The nymph said, "True. How long until they reset things and the other me appears?"

"It shouldn't be too long." Janus smirked as a second copy of the nymph appeared. "See."

The second nymph smiled when she saw herself and Janus, "It worked."

The slightly older Nymph smirked, "Of course it did little sister."

The younger nymph smiled at her older 'sister' then asked, "Did anything interesting happen after I left?"

"Not particularly, we were just discussing costume ideas."

Janus said, "I'd also like someone to deliver a costume to Daniel Osborn." He snapped his fingers and conjured a black and crimson electric guitar as well as a couple of boxes filled with the other costumes.

The younger nymph girl asked, "What is it?"

"One part Elvis Presley and one part the Werewolf Lord goes down to Georgia and beats the devil. You should hurry if you want everything in place."

The older Nymph said, "I'll drop the guitar off and hand the ghost costume off if you want to deal with the rest."

The younger nymph said, "Sure, then we can give Faith her present."

Janus made shooing motions, "Go, I've got to do some design work on the spell since I don't want innocents hurt." Technically that wasn't part of the invocation he was answering but Ethan hadn't put a restriction on targets for the monsters. He had no real issues having his fake monsters attacking real monsters or scaring people without hurting them.


Tara looked at the mirror and adjusted her plastic ears, "Are you sure about this?"

The Tara in the mirror said, "I am. I've got some skills that should help."

"I trust you."

Willow walked in to Tara's room and noticed the girl in a black silk dress that looked very nice, "Trust who?"

Tara smiled, "I'm just thinking out loud. How's your costume coming?"

Willow held up her black latex costume in one hand and her black half face mask and plastic knife in the other. "I got the mask and the knife from Ethan's and Alex was nice enough to conjure the bodysuit."

Tara asked, "Do you need help with the zipper?"

"Thanks, it's in the back which means it's probably a pain to put on."

Tara smiled as she watched Willow strip out of her clothes so that she could pull her costume on. She still missed her mother but at least she had cute friends. "No problem. What are you going as?"

"I'm going as the Black Fox, she's a costumed vigilante witch, ward breaker and thief who only steals from criminals. She's also an enchanter for an L.A. based superhero team in her other identity."

Tara laughed, "You're a naughty girl. Supplying a group of superheroes with magical gear and stealing criminals blind in your off time."

Willow grinned, "Just a little bit. Maybe once we have time you can find out how naughty."

Tara said, "I'm sure that Jane would love to help."

"Sounds good to me." She started working on pulling the costume on.


Cordelia frowned as she noticed a strange gold ring with a cat design in her jewelry box, it had purple amethysts for eyes, "I don't remember buying you but you're perfect." She slid the ring on then headed downstairs to call Harmony.

The younger Nymph smirked as Cordelia put on the 'blessed' ring then left. 'That should derail things for the stupid Powers.' She smirked as she teleported to Harmony Kendall's room with her box and a set of military fatigues and dog tags.

Harmony giggled as she gazed at her reflection. "This is going to be great."

She twitched as she looked at the naked girl with a brightly colored unicorn head mask, 'Dear gods that's garish, I should probably just knock her unconscious and dress her in the outfit then grab a drink or five but she looks so happy.' She briefly considered just dressing her in the military stuff and leaving the unicorn head on then realized that Janus would probably complain considering he had left specific orders for her. 'I can always see what happens on someone else.' She cast a sleeping spell on Harmony and caught her before she fell. She hauled her onto the bed then pulled off the stupid looking unicorn mask and set it on the table, "I'm doing you a favor."

She smiled as she pulled the fatigues pants on Harmony. She frowned as she realized that Janus hadn't conjured a shirt for the girl, "I guess she doesn't need the shirt." She put the jacket on her then slipped the dog tags over her head. She walked over and searched through Harmony's drawers for a bra that she could stuff. She smirked when she found Harmony's squishy plastic dildo in the top shelf under some underwear, "I really shouldn't but hey I'm sure he'll forgive me for having fun." She picked up a bra, a couple of socks and the dildo then walked over to Harmony. She licked the dildo then carefully slid it inside of Harmony's pussy. She used a spell to keep it there until someone took it out. She slipped the bra on Harmony and stuffed the bra with some socks, "I'm not sure if that's permanent but it's amusing."

She gestured at the door and locked it so that no one would walk in and ruin things before the spell hit. She teleported to where Warren had his Sith Emperor costume and swapped it with the Iron Man suit in her box after using a marker to add the words 'Kenobi as a fake Jedi emperor' to the robes. "I've got a much better use for this outfit." She smirked as she wrote a note for Warren, "Sorry dude, I stole your costume because I screwed up my Iron Man suit and it doesn't fit. It should fit you. Tucker." She stuck the note on the suit then teleported to Tucker's house to plant the 'Sith' Emperor costume.


The older nymph scowled as she appeared inside a prison cell. She was glad that she could make herself invisible as she really didn't want any record of her being here to be recorded. She looked at the two prisoners, one was a drug addict murderer and the other was a rapist that in the normal course of events would get released in a month and get sent back in three months after raping a young lady he ran into at a club. She reached out carefully and slipped a red plastic ring on the rapist's finger without waking him. She whispered, "You're a Red Lantern, your ring is critically low but you've found your target and you have just enough time to kill him and before you die." She figured she had just enough time to plant something on each of the members of Dingoes Ate My Baby before she had to meet up with her duplicate to have fun with Faith. She smirked as she teleported out of the prison and back to Sunnydale.


Warren scowled as he walked in and looked at the costume, "What the hell?" He smirked when he saw the note. "I guess he'll just have to forgive me for combining Marvel and DC considering he stole my costume. This is way better anyways." He twirled the cheap plastic Green lantern ring he was wearing. "This might actually work better than the Green Emperor. At least Stark is a cool hero that isn't above making money."


The younger nymph smirked as she slipped a plastic gun into Snyder's coat pocket. She put several plastic larger guns in his desk drawer then teleported off to see Faith.


Faith looked at the two very cute identical naked nymphs that had just appeared out of thin air, "Twins?"

The younger nymph smirked, "Something like that."

"Here." The older Nymph smirked as she handed Faith a costume.

Faith looked over the bikini and silver armbands, "What are these?"

"They're your Faith Stark apprentice Amazon shaman costume."

The younger nymph smirked, "One part combat training, one part beach vacation and three parts orgy with us."

The older nymph said, "This is the last run through so you're probably going to want to behave yourself this time."

Faith smiled, "You're so very naughty."

The younger Nymph smirked, "Yes we are."

The older nymph thought, 'Sorry about your father Faith but it's better if he dies in prison.'


Brigadier General Samantha Carter groaned as she woke up, "What the hell?" The first thing she noticed was that she didn't recognize where she was, the next was that she had something stuffed in a place that she probably shouldn't if she didn't recognize where she was, the next thing she noticed was that she wasn't wearing a shirt though she was wearing her favorite jacket and an unfamiliar bra. She reached down and removed the dildo from where it was and dropped it on the unfamiliar bed next to her. She looked around as she buttoned up her pants. 'I'm going to kill someone. This looks like a child's room.' She got up and stopped cold as she looked in the mirror and realized that she was a teenager or at least that she looked like she had when she was a teenager. "Crap."

She walked over to dresser and searched until she found a white undershirt that looked like it would fit. She took off her jacket and the pulled the shirt on then put her jacket on, "It's a little short but I'm not walking around without a shirt." She stopped as she saw a picture of her on the dresser with some unfamiliar people next to her that were apparently supposed to be her parents for whatever nightmare she had landed in. "That's not right." She glanced around, "If this is some alien trying to recreate my childhood bedroom you failed completely." She frowned as she saw the paper unicorn head sitting on the nightstand. "Weird."

A female voice from outside the door said, "Cordelia called earlier. She wanted to know where you are." The doorknob rattled, "Why is the door locked?"

Sam grabbed the dildo off the bed and stuffed it in the dresser then walked over to the door and opened it. The woman looked like the photograph which probably meant that she was supposed to be someone important in this scenario. She didn't remember any virtual reality tests or weird missions being scheduled. Then again she didn't really get to go on missions these days either, 'I might as well play along for now.' She said, "I must have hit it by accident."

"I thought you were going as a unicorn for Halloween?"

Sam guessed that at least sort of explained the ugly unicorn on the nightstand, "I decided to try something a little more practical."

"Cordelia called earlier, she wanted to know where you were. You should get going if you want to get to the party."

"What party?"

"You didn't say, are you feeling okay honey bear?"

Sam was starting to wonder about other possibilities than virtual reality. Maybe someone had cloned her or transported her somewhere and set up a strange scenario for some reason. Either way, looking around the area might help her figure out what was going on. "Oh right, that party. I'll see you later."

"Don't be too late." The adult that she still didn't have a name for left.

She walked over to the closet and looked for some shoes only to notice that her feet were too large for the shoes. 'This is a horrible reproduction.' She finally noticed a pair of pink rubber boots stuffed in the back of the closet that looked a little larger than everything else. 'Jack would be laughing his ass off if he could see this.' She checked the size on the boots, "That should work." She walked over to the dresser, grabbed a thin pair of socks, pulled them on then put the boots on.

She walked over to the purse that was sitting on the vanity and fished a wallet out of it. She opened the wallet and looked at the picture, 'Harmony Kendall. My face but none of the details are right, I haven't been that short in years.' She looked at the three hundred dollars in the wallet, 'That gives me a couple of options.' She put the wallet in her pocket then headed out of the bedroom and walked down the stairs. 'Sooner I'm out of here the sooner I can figure out what the hell is going on.'


Dawn Stark scowled slightly as the shock absorbers took the weight as she landed on pavement from twenty feet up. "Fucking portals." She took a step back as something nasty and furry launched itself at her. She brought her suit's mechanical arm up and grabbed the creature out of the air. "Dog boy." She tossed the creature into a car, "Stay down."

Cordelia hissed as she came around the corner and saw the large mechanical exoskeleton. "Crap."

Dawn turned and scanned the rather cute naked cat girl, "You can talk?"

Cordelia's cat ears twitched, "Of course I can talk. I was heading for modeling gig then bam everything went to hell."

"Do you want a lift?"

Cordelia shook her head, "No but I would love some company."

Dawn asked, "Do you know where the Slayer is?"

Cordelia said, "Buffy should be at her house or at the mansion."

"Excellent. Please take me there."

Cordelia hoped that she wasn't making a mistake as she took the stranger to Buffy.


Spike stared at a glowing green guy in armor, "What the hell?"

Tony Stark said, "Any last words fiend?"

"Sod off and I'm going to kill you."

Tony Stark used his Power Ring to cut the vampire in half with a glowing green axe, "So be it."

Spike had enough time to say "Shit.' before he dusted.

Obi-Won Kenobi raised his red lightsaber as he looked around, "I sense great evil coming from the center of town."

Anakin Skywalker or rather his devilishly handsome genetically improved clone raised his purple lightsaber, "Then we shall vanquish them."

Obi-Won sighed, "Right..." He wasn't sure what the hell was wrong with Anakin but at least could still fight. Maybe he could have the droids take a look at him when he got out of this crazy backwater town.

Tony said, "Let's go." He was just happy that his sensors could tell the difference between the fake monsters and the real ones.


"Sir, I'm getting reports from all over. Monsters with strange powers are killing every demon they can find. Willy's bar is on fire, several other demon bars have also been torched."

The Mayor sighed, he had just gotten off the phone with a contact at the police station that said that half of his loyal officers were dead thanks to a deranged lunatic that was dressed as a comic book vigilante with way too much firepower for comfort. "Call the fire department. Stay inside for now. I'll put some people on it." He hung up then called a couple of demon mercenaries he knew to be in the city and directed them to deal with the magic he could feel in the middle of town.


George Lehane had barely woken up when his crazy cellmate had skewered him up the ass with a glowing red spear. His scream turned into a gurgle as the spear pieced his lungs.

Razorlord turned his hatred on the other inmates, killing and slaughtering people until his ring flickered and died. He collapsed and died as the fire died that was pumping his burning blood.


Ethan stared in surprised as after half an hour the bust of Janus exploded on its own. "What the hell?"

Janus's voice whispered in his ear, "Some rather nasty people are after you, you might want to flee while you can. I want you alive for our chat about recklessly endangering innocents."

Ethan sighed, "Bugger." He rushed over to his bag with his supplies and started searching for a cloaking spell that would let him get out of town without being killed.


Sam stared at what looked like some type of mechanical exoskeleton walking down the street with a naked cat girl that looked a bit like one of the pictures in the room where she woke up. 'I might as well see where they go.' She started following the two of them at a distance. She wasn't sure what weapons the exoskeleton was armed with but she was hoping they would lead her somewhere where she could figure out something. That and they looked like they could take care of themselves which is something that she wasn't actually all that sure of right now considering the strange creatures running around.


Harry groaned as he looked around at the warehouse where they had set a bunch of things up. There were dozens of house elf heads stacked in piles. There were over a hundred piles of loot stacked up against the far wall. There were also bundles of wizarding cards stacked on a table. One side of the warehouse was covered in a pool of blood. Harry threw up, then wiped his mouth with the back of his sleeve. "That was a horrible plan."

Alex used her wand to vanish the vomit and a fair amount of the blood in the room. "The worst yet..."

Kreacher shivered, "Kreacher will be good, Kreacher will not use bad words."

Harry flicked his wand and covered the mirror with its cover.

Alex scowled as her mind revisited the process their costume selves had used to farm the loot. They had set things up before the spell hit by duplicating the evil Thea's card three times, then they had dressed the evil Theas in costumes. One of them was an evil naughty nurse from the same school that Buffy's character had graduated from, one was an evil battle mage, one was an only slightly evil demolitions witch and the last was a close combat sword wielding battle mage. Then they had set up the Mirror of Opposition and dressed the various Kreachers in different thief outfits complete with their various 'fake' treasures, everything from Decks of many things to stat boosting magical books from third Edition to some very broken and fun potions from second Edition Dungeons & Dragons.

The spell had hit then their costume selves had started farming magical items, cards and house elf heads. Harry had levitated the evil Theas back and forth while she transfigured the duplicate Theas into cards. The worst part was that after they had created a decent sized group of Thea combat cards, they had torched the original vampires, tied one of the 'good' Kreachers to a pillar then brought in the rest of the bound Kreacher thieves and took turns levitating them in front of the mirror while the other would kill one of the Kreachers at random, stack the loot and head then stick the survivor to the pillar and grab a different Kreacher to copy and kill. After they had finished copying all of the Kreachers they had started back through the collection so that they could get a very nice collection of loot. She shivered as she tried to shake off the feeling of satisfaction that killing Kreacher had brought the other her.

She glanced at the mirror that lead to a mirror world where they had tossed the bodies. "We should probably clean up the rest of the mess and haul the loot back to the mansion for sorting."

Harry looked at Kreacher, "What do we do with him?"

Alex said, "If I remember right, he's actually a good Kreacher."

Kreacher stared at Alex, "Kreacher is good, no kill Kreacher."

Alex said, "So long as you're good."

Kreacher nodded enthusiastically.

Harry said, "You're free to apparate out of your bindings and help us safely move the loot back to the mansion."

"Kreacher is happy to help."

Harry sighed as he resolved to be nicer to this version of Kreacher.


Ginny was just happy that they had managed to get all of the children back to the school safely, "How are you feeling?"

Buffy flopped down the couch in the mansion and said, "I'm not sure if I should be more disturbed by Snyder being useful or by the memories of my character."

Xander said, "Snyder being useful with the grenade that he tossed at the vampire pack."

Willow shook her head, "If it makes you feel better, you can just attribute it to his Halloween soldier personality."

Giles said, "I'm going to."

Sirius said, "Speaking of soldier memories, how did we do for combat skills?"

Buffy said, "I've got plenty of combat skills or at least the start of combat skills, I'll have to see how well they work in real life."

Xander asked, "What did you dress as?"

"I decided to continue my previous character and add three years of special dueling training by Dumbledore, a Watcher Council trained magic user and an alternate Bellatrix Black."

"Are you insane?"

"Pretty much yeah. I picked a Bellatrix from a world where a Death Eater had killed her sister back in school. She's even crazier when she's not a death eater. England in that world doesn't have a death eater problem anymore because of her." She shivered as she 'remembered' Bellatrix's quest to destroy every last blood traitor that had followed Riddle. She looked at Xander, "What about you?"

Xander said, "Much the same, I decided to add more sword training with Arthur and magic training with Merlin and his dragon."

Alex frowned as someone rang the doorbell a few times rather insistently, "I'll get it." She walked over and opened the door. She blinked as she noticed large mech and a naked cat girl that looked a lot like Cordelia, "What the hell?"

Cordelia asked, "I don't suppose you have something I can wear?"

"Cordelia?"

"Duh."

Alex said, "I'm sure I can find something. Who is your friend?"

Cordelia said, "She said that she was looking for the Slayer to prevent an apocalypse."

Dawn pushed a button and pushed on the chest piece so it opened enough that she could slip out of the mech. "Aunty Alex."

Alex raised an eyebrow at the glowing teenage girl that was a multicolored collection of energy, there was a fair bit of nature energy, some bright red energy, some blue energy and a lot of green energy that she couldn't identify, "What are you?"

Dawn smiled, "I'm Dawn Stark and I'm from the future."

Alex snorted, "Is this where you tell me to come with you if I want to live?"

Dawn shook her head, "Nope. I'm sort of running from hell on Earth. Trust me, you really don't want to go to the world I just left."

Alex stepped away from the door, "Yeah..."

Cordelia walked in and stopped once she saw Xander, "You didn't tell me Xander was here."

Xander stared at Cordelia, "You make a very nice cat girl."

Harry walked into the living room after checking on the green rod and finding it broken, thankfully everyone had gone into things knowing that they were going to break it but he wasn't all that happy about something else having the power to ignore the safe's wards and break the green rod without his knowledge. He was going to have to toss up a couple more wards next time, "How come she's still a cat girl?"

Dawn stepped in and looked around, "Is Faith here?"

Giles asked, "Who?"

"The Slayer?"

Buffy said, "That would be me."

Dawn shook her head, "I mean the other Slayer... I missed my jump time didn't I?"

Harry said, "It's Halloween 1997."

"That would explain the strange creatures running around."

Hermione waved her wand and conjured a robe on Cordelia.

Cordelia said, "Thank you."

Alex frowned as she spotted another figure hiding outside, "Whoever is outside trespassing should know that we're armed. You're standing against the side of the mansion."

Sam sighed as she walked to the door with her hands up, "Don't shoot."

Cordelia asked, "Who the hell are you?"

"Brigadier General Samantha Carter."

Harry pulled out his telepathy necklace out of his pocket and put it on.

Willow said, "You look a little young to be in the armed forces let alone a general."

"I'm not sure how I got here or how I got reduced in age."

Harry frowned as Sam's thoughts showed that she believed what she was saying, "She's not under a concealment spell or anything. There are fading traces of magic on her but I'm not getting much more than that. She's got some magic potential but I don't think she's actually done much if any training."

Sam asked, "Magic?"

Harry gestured at Sam and levitated her off the ground, "Yeah, magic. Call it advanced science if you want. She believes what she's saying and can I see your license?"

Sam pulled the wallet out and opened it up the pictured looked like a different blonde haired girl, "Okay, that's weird."

Cordelia said, "Hey that's Harmony's wallet. Where did you get that?"

Sam said, "It was in a purse in the room I woke up in. The first time I looked at it, it looked like my face."

Harry asked, "How long ago was that?"

"Twenty minutes maybe?"

Harry said, "That would put it during the Halloween spell..."

Buffy looked at Dawn, "How come none of your switched back when the spell ended?"

Dawn asked, "Why would I swap back when the spell ended? I wasn't wearing a costume."

Cordelia shrugged, "I'm not sure why I didn't switch back. Hopefully someone can fix it. Maybe it will wear off." She glared at Sam, "What did you do to Harmony?"

Sam said, "Nothing, I woke up on her bed. Her mom said some girl called then I left. I didn't recognize her but she apparently recognized me. Though judging from the picture on the license I'm guessing that might not be the case anymore."

Harry pulled the telepathy necklace off, "Your brain is running a thousand miles a minute. As far as I know this isn't a simulation but of course we'd tell you that if it was."

"Assuming that my brain isn't being read by a computer how do you know that?"

"Magic, specifically a mind reading necklace."

Cordelia stared at Harry, "You can do that?"

Harry looked at Sam, "Yeah. Take a seat and we'll see if we can help you figure out where to go from here."

Buffy looked at Dawn, "Who is the other Slayer?"

"Faith Stark. She was called on Halloween 1997 so you might not know about her yet."

Buffy said, "This has to be a trick or something."

Harry said, "I'm fairly sure that she wasn't lying."

Cordelia said, "If it helps, I'm still me plus a bunch of acting knowledge and modeling knowledge, oh and accounting as well."

Willow frowned, "I thought you got your costume at party town?"

"I did."

"Then you shouldn't have had any changes."

Alex said, "A dollar says that it had something to do with the magic cat ring on your finger or the fading traces of the Halloween spell on your costume."

Cordelia took off the cat ring frowned when nothing happened. "Apparently not." Her long black tail curled around her leg.

Alex held out her hand, "Let me get a closer look please."

Cordelia said, "It's mine, just so you know." She held it out.

"Looks like protection and maybe jumping now that I'm looking at it. You might as well wear it."

Cordelia put her ring back on. "Okay."

Sam sighed, "You're telling me that magic is real?"

Harry said, "At least in this world and several others." He flash teleported across the room. "You might as well just call it magic until we can do some tests and prove it one way or another."

Sam stared back and forth between where Harry had been and where he was currently standing, "Can I sit down?"

Alex gestured toward the couch, "You probably should. Tell us what you remember, then we'll explain what we know." She looked over at Dawn, "The same goes for you."

Dawn shrugged, "Okay. It stared when Mom had sex with a nymph."