A/N In the wish universe vamp Xander tells the Master that Cordelia is an old crush. Which means he had a crush on her before he met Buffy.
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"Your creators?" Xander asked. "You have more than one?"
"Warren Mears created me, Johnathan Levinson helped program me." April replied. "I must seek clarification on how to handle this situation. Please do not leave, I will return later." And with that the robot turned and speed walked away.
"She patrols in a sundress." Cordelia muttered.
"And is built like a centerfold. Johnathan and this Warren Mears out did themselves. And I still find it very creepy that she knows where our counterparts are. This Warren and Johnathan are monitoring them somehow, possibly with Magic. I think we need to warn them, those guys could be up to something. I hate to think of Johnathan being involved in something bad."
"Me too. Harmony's so proud of him being a hero, even if it scares the crap out of her." Cordelia returned her sword to the necklace chain. "I think we should find our counterparts and let them know someone's watching them."
"And check them for Magic." Xander decided. "And make sure they're protected, might as well give them the vampires-go-to-Hell spell while we're at it."
"Let's head for the Bronze. I wonder what the calendar date is here is?" Cordelia hooked her arm though Xander's and Xander wrapped his other arm around Dawn's shoulders. "And Dawn might finally get to meet another her."
"'Bout time." Dawn grumbled. "This is the third other Sunnydale I've been to and the only one with another me in it. Everything else seems pretty much the same, same people."
"Well, the last reality might or might not have another me in it." Cordelia pointed out.
"Which would be a bummer for other me." Xander smirked. "No Cordy of his own, I mean the first one Dawn encountered had the good sense to see the possibilities of the Cordelia he knows and this one is too. I would hope that all versions of me get the chance to get to know the real Cordelia Chase under the mask."
It didn't take long for them to reach the Bronze or for Xander to glamour himself before going in to find his counterpart while Cordelia waited outside with the too young Dawn. He spotted their counterparts slow dancing and made his way over to them.
"I need to talk to you two, outside." He told them.
"And you are?" Local Xander asked.
"Someone who knows why you sleep outside on Christmas." He answered, knowing that was a statement that would upset his counterpart, if their lives had been in any way the same. But also knowing he, himself, had only ever told Cordelia about that.
"How?" Local Xander asked angrily.
"Outside, I'll explain there. I'm not here to cause a problem, I promise. Just give me a chance to explain."
"Fine, but it better be a damn good explanation." Local Xander snarled as he and the equally upset Cordelia followed the stranger that had disrupted their date outside. Where they saw Dawn and another Cordelia.
"Dawn? Are you alright, did they hurt you?" Local Xander demanded, hands balling into fists at the thought that someone would hurt Dawn.
"No one's hurt me, I promise." She assured him. "But I'm not the Dawn you know." Xander dropped his glamour.
"I'm you, from another reality." He told the startled local. "We're not trying to cause a problem, we're here accidentally. But we ran into a potential problem just as we arrived and we thought we should let you know about it."
"How did you do that?" Local Xander asked.
"Magic, I used a glamour."
"You can do Magic?" Local Xander frowned. "Does that mean I can do Magic?"
"Sure, if you want to. But we don't really have a lot of time, we're off track and Mrs. Summers and Buffy are waiting for us to get Dawn back. We need to fill you in on the problem we ran into, maybe we should go to Giles' and we can all tell him. Unless you guys use communicators to keep in contact with each other, we do."
"No, it's probably a good idea though. But Buffy does carry a pager. How can we be sure you're us and not another glamour?" Local Xander asked. "Besides what you said inside, I mean."
"Linda Carter was the first woman we ever had a crush on, but Cordelia's the first girl."
"What?!" Both Cordelia's yelped. "You never told me you had a crush on me!" Local Cordelia glared at her Xander. "When was this?"
"It started years ago." Local Xander. "I never thought I had a chance so I never said anything and than there was Jesse, who wasn't afraid to show he had a crush."
"And made me hugely uncomfortable fawning all over me."
"Doofus." Cordelia doped Xander. "Why is this the first time I'm hearing about this crush?"
"I don't know, it hasn't come up before. But we really do need to move this along, I don't like worrying Mrs. Summers and by now she's going to know Dawnie missed her mark again."
"What does that mean?" Local Cordelia asked. "And my car is in the parking lot, we can use it to get to Giles'." She led the way to the parking lot, her Xander beside her.
"It means I have superpowers and I'm trying to control them." Dawn replied. "I wonder if local me does too?"
"Not as far as I know." Local Xander answered.
"Hold a minute." Cordelia turned and looked toward the alleyway. "Damn, there's a vamp down there and I think he's got someone with him." She pulled off her necklace and let the sword expand. "I'll deal with it."
"Magic sword?" Local Cordelia asked. "I should be surprised, but after nearly a year of the wackiness that is Sunnydale, I think I'm kinda numb to it."
"Yes, on the Magic sword." Xander nodded. "It's Dragonfang."
"That name sounds familiar." Local Xander muttered.
"By the way, what's today's date?" Xander asked, as Cordelia reappeared, sliding her retracted sword back onto its chain.
"May 12, 1998." Local Xander answered.
"Huh, so a few months into the past, not as drastic as the last reality. It's last Spring back there."