"You can't keep coming to me with problems." Natalie fussed as she healed the very badly injured Slayer from another reality. "My power is supposed to be used to help my charges or innocents caught in the crossfire, not on healing people from other realities. Not that I don't feel for them, I do, it's just our reality has to be our priority and you can't just pop over whenever you have a problem."

"I know." Xander sighed. "And maybe we are taking advantage of you and I'd apologize for it, but I'm not actually sorry. Both Charlie and this Faith needed help and neither their reality nor ours has whitelighters, whoever was responsible for creating you guys originally didn't have that bright idea in either of our realities. Charlie can help keep peace between the Reetu and humans in his reality, he's unique and needed and Faith doesn't deserve what's happened to her. She dies and evil wins, she lives and she can do considerable damage to evil."

"Both of which are primarily why I agreed to help." Natalie growled.

"You sure it doesn't have anything to do with your marshmallowy center?" The local Xander, witch of the Warren line and half brother to the visiting Xander, teased his whitelighter. "You were an Army medic in WW II, Nat, you died trying to help people. You can be a stickler for the rules and a pain in the ass when you're waking me up at six in the morning to make me run laps to keep fit, but I know you do it because you care and are doing everything you can to make sure I live as long as possible fighting evil, which is why I don't complain too much."

"Sooner or later I'm going to catch you sneaking a Twinkie and then we'll see how marshmallowy my center is." The whitelighter grumbled.

"Do you think this Twilight guy is a problem in our reality?" Local Cordelia asked. "What should we watch out for?"

"Crazy Slayers and ensouled vampires and reckless witches." The visiting Cordelia answered.

"Well, Angel didn't get reensouled here." Local Cordelia started listing off the differences. "Willow couldn't make the curse work, she couldn't draw energy and nothing offered her a deal. Angelus hasn't come back from Hell, Natalie's been guiding Willow, as well as Xander and neither are being reckless and our Buffy and Faith aren't crazy. Although if Faith hits on Xander again, I might have a case of justifiable homicide." Local Cordelia mock glared at her friend, who smirked back at her.

"It's weird seeing another me." Local Faith examined the face of her counterpart. "And know that in different circumstances that could have been me."

"I'm wondering if taking her back to her original reality is a good idea." The visiting Xander mused. "That Buffy and Willow are not her friends and both have a lot of baggage where she's concerned. That Giles is torn between Buffy and feeling bad about how he treated this Faith, but he's going to prioritize Buffy, he always does and his own guilt over the Cruciamentum will make him overcompensate with Buffy anyway. The Council can't be trusted there anymore than it can in our reality. And we can't leave her here because there's already a Faith here. The Stargate reality is out because Maybourne's people will no doubt find her a tempting target and she can't fight being shot with one of those zats they've taken from the Goa'uld. That leaves the Justice League reality, where she at least has one person who did try to help her."

"Is that why you kept the original comic book?" His Cordelia asked. "Because you were thinking it was a good place for this Faith to go?"

"No, I had two reasons for keeping it." He answered. "One, do you really think that Willow will just give up trying to 'save' that Xander? And in doing so could possibly piss off whoever sent them there in the first place?"

"Knowing how stubborn our own Willow can be? No." Cordelia agreed. "I don't see her giving up and the second reason?"

"I'm hoping to see Batman's, Wonder Woman's and Superman's reactions to my gifts in there." He smirked. Both Cordelias shook their heads and the local Xander and Faith were smirking along with him.

"Those comics aren't showing up here." Local Xander grumbled. "I checked, it would be so neat to see me and Cordy or a version of us anyway, in the comics. Working with the Justice League, getting to know people that have been heros and inspiration to so many worlds."

"Makes me wonder," Local Faith looked thoughtful. "are we stories somewhere? Inspiring stories or cautionary tales as Jeeves would say."

"Who knows." Natalie dropped her arms as she finished healing the visiting Faith. "But it is possible, there's a theory that some extremely creative people are actually psychic to a degree and may 'see' through others or their own counterpart's eyes into other realities. Somewhere out there in an ever expanding multiverse there may be a reality where our adventures are inspiring or at least entertaining people. Might be interesting to see how they see us."

What's that phrase 'be careful what you wish for, you might just get it'? And Loki and Coyote aren't the only gods of mischief around...