"What the Hell made her think we were vampires?!" The very idea was so offense and shocking that Xander hadn't stopped ranting about it on the walk to the gas station. Cordelia was feeling pretty annoyed herself, both with the assumption and with Xander's ranting. "What could the vampires of this world be like to make her think we're anything like them?!"

"The supernatural must be very open and people pretty accepting to have restaurants serving them blood." Cordelia muttered. "Like Willy's Bar serving demons, only everyone's aware of it."

"That is...bizarre is about the only word I can think of that covers it. Giles is huge on secrecy and how most people can't handle it and in Sunnydale most people are beyond blind to it. And here they serve them blood in a family restaurant. How did it happen? At one time people knew the supernatural existed and they convinced themselves it didn't. Maybe here, that never happened."

"And back to what made that waitress think we were vampires? We still have our summer tans. Vampires can't tan. Can they? Can the vampires here go out in the sun?"

"Well, they might be able to...if they're not demonic. The reason the sun destroys vampires is that it was the first and longest object of worship for humans." Xander explained. "It's the same reason religious icons burn them, the power and belief of faith. But if they're not demons, it might be possible for them to spend at least a little time in the sun."

"Some demons aren't affected by the sun at all." Cordelia pointed out.

"Yeah, I know. Giles would probably happily spend a lifetime studying the differences here."

"There's the gas station, let's get that map, find Buffy and get out of this bizarre world." Cordelia was practically marching toward the gas station.

"Right there with you." Xander agreed. He held the door for her like at the restaurant and again followed her in. It wasn't a large station, just a couple rows of overpriced junk food, emergency supplies and two walls lined with refrigerator units and one clerk who could see the whole store from behind his register. A sign over his head read 'We sell Tru blood.' Good to know. If they actually were vampires, that is.

"How long have you sold Tru Blood?" Xander asked, trying to get a sense of how long the supernatural had been openly known about, without giving away the fact that he knew so little about this world.

"About four years, since just after the Great Revelation, when the vamps came out of coffin." The clerk smirked at his own joke. Not really funny, but the kind of joke Xander might have made. So vampires revealed themselves to the world...and the world accepted them? Why?

"We need a map." Xander told him. "We're kinda lost." Ooh boy, where they lost.

The clerk pulled a folded map out a plastic holder and handed it to him, naming the price. Xander handed him the money and they headed back out. He led the way around to the back of the store and spread the map out on the ground with rocks on the corners to hold it in place.

"It's a map of Louisiana." He commented.

"Never been to Louisiana before, not seeing any need to come back either. Don't they have alligators here?"

"And swamps and giant mosquitos. Or so I've heard." Xander wrapped Buffy's hair tie around the end of a string with a crystal on the end of it and pulsed power through it. The crystal began to move, searching the map for Buffy and landed on - "She's in Shreveport, much bigger city, but the sling ring should be able to get us to within few a blocks of her now that we've got a direction to go in." He stood up and touched the crystal to the sling ring, not something Dr. Strange had ever done in the comics as far as he knew but it should work. It was basically a transfer of information. He drew the crystal away from the sling ring in a circle and a portal opened up.

When the clerk came out to dump some trash into the dumpster he found the map still on the ground, forgotten and just shrugged and tossed it in the trash.

The portal dropped them a few blocks from Fangtasia, though they didn't yet know that and Xander used the crystal to guide them toward Buffy. They stopped and stared when they saw the club.

"Please, gods, tell me she's not in a vampire club!" Xander was flabbergasted...and not really that surprised at the same time. "Buffy and semi tamed vampires."

"Semi tamed?"

"If they're not demonic like the ones from our reality were, they're still vampires and I have no idea if this version keeps their souls. Some of the ones in the comics could. But I see no reason to just trust them and we're not going to be here long enough to find out anyway. But Buff's got a thing for vampires or Angel would never have gotten anywhere with her, she'd never have given him the benefit of the doubt. So if there's a chance the vampires here aren't demonic, she's going to be interested. So it's not really that surprising to find her in a vamp club. What is surprising is Dawn somehow portaling her to a vamp club."

"I see what you mean, on the other hand, you keep saying Magic answers to spoken and unspoken. One of them was thinking this is or somewhere like it, is where Buffy would like to be."

"Probably." Xander shuddered slightly, Buffy's vampire interest was just never not going to be a creepy thing as far as he was concerned. "Well, let's go pry her out of the vamp's hands."

"Or possibly their fangs." Cordelia's joke fell flat as the two headed for the front door of Fangtasia, looking for Buffy. And whatever vampire might have caught her interest.