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Chapter Five: Mislead
“What the fuck is this?” Xander sneered, his face was red and he looked pissed. He stared at Buffy and then looked to Angel who looked sad, angry, and curious.
Buffy knew that they didn’t know she was from an alternate universe, or that she wasn’t evil She was shocked to see Xander and Angel working together, even if it was an alternate universe. Even though she knew who they were, she couldn’t help wondering more about them, they might even be evil and still she couldn’t stop herself from asking, “Who are you?” The question hung in the air, and it wasn’t answered. Until Xander started shaking, literally shaking with anger, and he spit out a bunch of curse words that would make rappers envious.
“Who am I? Who the hell are you?” Xander fumed.
“I’m Buffy-.”
“No your not.” Xander interrupted. He looked at Angel. “Is she the first?”
Angel looked at Xander. “I don’t think so.”
Buffy laughed and reached out to touch Xander but he stepped out of the way. “I’m not going to hurt you.”
“Oh yeah? You already hurt us enough, just leave before I kill you.” Xander said.
“Look, I’m Buffy. I’m just not your Buffy. I can prove it.” Buffy told them.
“Oh really? Lets see-.” Xander stopped as Buffy raised her hand.
“Ok…In Sunnydale I died, but you brought me back and one of the only times you two have ever worked together is when Cordelia and I got stuck in the frat house and that big snake was going to eat us. Oh, for Halloween Xander, Willow and I all turned into our costumes. I was an 18-century girl, Xander a soldier and Willow a ghost. We stopped Adam by joining together, Giles, Willow, and Xander and once again me. I got mind-reading powers by my blood mixing with some demon. Willow and I were going to be burned at the stake because our parents “moo” were seeing dead kids or demons. We all had weird dreams featuring the cheese man because we taped into the power of the first slayer! And…do I need to go on more or do you believe me now?”
Xander dropped his weapon and then stared at her neck for a moment, where a cross hung loosely on a chain, and then he hugged her. “Oh God Buffy, is it really you?”
“Yeah, it is.” She said and then wondered what had gone wrong in this world that would have led them to believe that she was the first, obviously she was dead, but what else? After Xander stepped back Angel rushed forward to hug her.
Then he also stepped back and Buffy thought she saw him smiling slightly. She was about to say something when she heard someone in back of her and then heard her name being called out.
“Buffy?”
“Cordelia?”
“Yeah, but not your Cordelia. I’m the Cordelia from this dimension. I know about your mission here, what you’re here to do, because I got a lovely visit from the Cordelia of your dimension. You know I always wondered how it would be if that asshole didn’t-.” Cordelia stopped her talking as she stared, her eyes widened, at Spike who she had not noticed. “Your…evil.” She told him.
“No, got a soul now.” He told her.
She took a deep breath. Then she looked up to the sky. “You didn’t mention this!” she said almost to herself.
“Whatever, I think we should go, meet up with the others. No one else knows you’re here…yet. They will soon though.” She started walking away from the mall. “Oh and that’s a really evil mall. Its really weird though…next to it’s a church!”
“So…you know about us?” Fred asked.
Cordelia shook her head. “Not all of it, I want to hear it though. Should be interesting.” She started walking again. Giving Spike a weary look she said, “Oh and when we get to the hotel, you probably don’t want to let Spike in.”
“Why?” Gunn asked.
“You’ll find out soon enough.”
“Maybe were demons in this world.” Andrew said. They all continued to walk down the street. The more they walked the more disgusted they became.
They had seen more corpses in the last hour or so then Xander had seen in his life. He kept on having the thought that he was in one of those horror movies where there is only a group of people alive. He kept on adjusting his eye patch because it made him think of a character he had seen in a movie like that a while ago.
“Do we get a barf bag for this trip?” Dawn asked,
grimacing at the sight of a rotting body on the floor.
“Sorry, Dawnie.” Willow said pulling the teenager away from the sight.
“That’s ok…. I’ll live.” Dawn replied. Then laughed nervously as she saw a demon impaled on a sword.
“So how do you think we should find things out?” Willow asked.
“Well, what’s there to find out? We know that this is a bloody gory world and it’s probably not safe and we should go home where it is… for now.” Xander said.
“That’s true. But I believe that we are here for a purpose.” Giles told them.
“Is that purpose punishment?” Xander asked.
“No. I just think that we are here to…to make it better.” Giles said.
“And then what? I mean what do we get out of it?” Andrew whined.
“I honestly don’t know.” Giles answered.
There was a silence for a couple of minutes as they kept walking until Andrew said he was hungry and then Willow spoke. “I think we should meet up with Spike, Gunn, Fred and Wesley.”
“Why?” Xander asked.
“A hunch.” Willow told him.
Xander nodded. Then paused. “Ok…but which way to Wolfram and Hart?”
“Not Wolfram and Hart, the Hyperion.” Willow said and pointed across the street to the hotel building.
Buffy let out a sigh of relief. “Angel.” She murmured turning away from Xander and Angel and walking toward her Angel.
“Are you-who’s this?” Angel asked gesturing toward Xander and his doppelganger.
“I believe this is the Xander of this world and the Angel of this world.” She told him as his eyes widened as he saw himself.
“Great.” Xander muttered. “Two Angels.”
“This is-.” Angel started.
“Awkward?” Buffy finished.
“Yeah.”
Just then Angel and Xander’s heads snapped up and they both said, “Ok.”
Angel and Xander looked at each other. “Should we take them to the hyperion?”
“Yeah.” Xander said nodding.
“Wow.” Fred said as she looked at the Hyperion.
“Yeah, it’s different in your reality right?” Cordelia asked as they started walking to the door.
“Well, I think its just we haven’t seen it in a while. We work…worked for-.” Wesley didn’t get to finish speaking because Cordelia jumped in front before Spike could walk in.
“What?” Spike asked trying to maneuver his way around her.
“Like I said before. It’s not a good idea for you to be going in there.” Cordelia said moving in front of him as he tried to get past her.
“Why?” Spike asked.
“Because as soon as you walked in there you’d be dead.” Cordelia answered truthfully staring at him and not blinking once.
“Whatever…I’m going to find Buffy and the poof.” He said and turned around and walked away.
Cordelia’s eyes widened. “Buffy’s not dead?” she whispered.
“Are you sure this is the way to the Hyperion?” Angel asked as he walked beside Buffy.
“We have to do a quick sweep of the downtown area and then we’ll be on our way.” Xander said and stared straight ahead.
Angel and Xander led them into an alleyway and Xander motioned for them to stop. Then he opened a door and stepped back. He turned to face Angel and Buffy. “Usually there are nests of vamps in here.”
Buffy took a step forward and surveyed the area. She looked back toward Xander. “Looks clean to me, maybe they cleared out.”
Angel stepped up beside her and looked around. She looked at him and she shrugged. “Xand I really don’t think any-.”Buffy was pushed forward and the next thing she knew she was falling and then with a thud landed hard on what could only be concrete.
Buffy put a hand up to her head as she tried to see clearly again and shake the dizziness that hit her.
“What-.”
“We’re warning you. Stop. Next time we’ll stake you. You probably won’t recover though. And stop trying to impersonate us, its getting old.” Xander said in a voice thick with hate.
“Oh and Buffy stop pretending you’re her. Next time you come close you’ll wish you never even attempted.” Angel seethed next to Xander.
Xander fired a crossbow a couple times that caught her twice and sprayed holy water all over the door, which would have been two high to reach anyway.
“Goodbye.” Xander said and shut the door.
Buffy tried to stand up but the dizziness hadn’t stopped and she had crossbows sticking out of her in various places.
When did Xander become so good at firing a crossbow? She thought and then realized she probably had a concussion. The people in this world are so nice, she thought before she passed out.
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