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Date Posted: 06:33:00 07/26/02 Fri
Author: UHC more fanfic
Subject: Re: The New Adventures of Buffy and Xander (chapter 2)
In reply to: UHC (fanfic) 's message, "The New Adventures of Buffy and Xander (repost chapter 1)" on 06:30:17 07/26/02 Fri

TITLE: (Pilot Episode) (2/4)
SERIES: The New Adventures of Buffy and Xander
AUTHOR: Joanne W
EMAIL: britgirl_99@y...
SUMMARY: It's the new adventures of Buffy and
Xander!!!
RATING: PG14
DISCLAIMER: Um… none of these characters are mine
(damn shame really - if they were you'd definitely see
a lot more of Xander in leather) - everyone/thing
belongs to their respective TV show creators/producers
etc.
SPOILERS: If you're up-to-date you'll be fine. Mild
for seasons 1,2,3,4 but fairly big for season 5 of
BtVS.
ARCHIVE: Oh, go on. I'll let you have it.
AUTHORS NOTES:
1. Set after 'Crush' but before 'IWMTLY'.
2. Having decided that the Key didn't match any of
her outfits, Glory went back to her own dimension and
became editor of her own fashion magazine.
3. British spelling. *_*'s indicate word emphasis
and //_//'s indicate direct character thoughts.

FEEDBACK: Why the hell not?

===========================

Both Buffy and Xander stood and stared at the building
infront of them.

"Buffy… is this your dream or mine?" Xander said
finally.

"Xander… I've got the horrible feeling this isn't a
dream"

"I was so hoping you weren't gonna say that"

Buffy looked at him "What the hell has happened here?"

"In what sense?" Xander asked as he slowly turned
around "The fact that Sunnydale High isn't a pile of
rubble or that fact that we seemed to have swapped
night for day"

"Kinda both" Buffy took a few tentative steps away
from Xander and towards the edge of the road that
separated them from the school "I mean first off, I'm
about to deliver you to your ex-demon lover and then
you suddenly go all white and blue and then we're
*here*"

Xander stepped up beside her "You went all white and
blue too" he told her "Scared the crap outta me"

"Ditto" Buffy began to walk slowly along the path,
still looking at the school. Shortly she came to a
stop and faced Xander who had followed her "We should
figure out a way to reverse this"

Xander just looked at her "You only just realised
that?"

"Hey" Buffy said indignantly "If you're so smart why
don't you just tell me what the hell we're supp…"
Buffy trailed off when she caught sight of her
reflection in the darkened window of the car parked
beside them "…osed to… do"

Xander watched Buffy with a slightly puzzled
expression when she walked up to the window and peered
at herself in it. "Vain much Buff?"

Buffy touched her hand to her cheek and began prodding
at her flesh, pulling her face about. Then she put
one hand to her hair and began tugging gently at it.

"Buffy what the hell are you doing? I'm sure we've
got more important things to worry about than whether
your lipstick is smudged"

"Xan… shut up" Buffy straightened up and looked at
him. She spread her arms out a little to the side
"Xander, what do I look like to you. *Who* do I look
like *to* *you*?"

"What? Buffy-"

"*Xander* I'm *serious*. Please, who do I look like?"

"You look like you Buff. Same as always"

Buffy pointed to the car window she'd been looking
into "Then why does my reflection look like somebody
else?"

"Huh?" Xander went to look at what Buffy was pointing
at. And then he caught sight of himself "Nya-aghhh"

"Exactly"

"Holy crap!" Xander went through the same motions that
Buffy had; prodding at his face and touching his hair.

"Now I *know* I don't like this" Buffy touched her
hair again.

Buffy's reflection showed her to be a pretty, bright
blue eyed girl about sixteen years old with dark
brown, almost black hair that was about the same
length as Buffy's. Her reflection was wearing the
same clothes as Buffy had been previously - a blue
tank top, a black denim jacket and boot cut black
jeans.

Xander reflection showed him to be a tall blond haired
guy, about seventeen, with green eyes and better than
average looks. He was also wearing the same clothes
he had been before - a green shirt over a white
T-shirt and slightly baggy blue jeans.

"This is very, very wrong" Xander said numbly "I wanna
go home. I was supposed to be having wild monkey sex
with Anya. I was *not* supposed to be *here* and-and…
*this*" he pointed at his reflection.

"Y'know, you look familiar" Buffy said, "But I don't
think you went to Sunnydale High. I think I did
though"

"Stop with the *you* Buff!" Xander said "*That* is not
*me* and *she* is *not* *you*"

"Xander" Buffy took hold of his arm firmly "Stop it.
You're not helping"

"Sorry" Xander looked a little chagrined "You'd think
I'd be a little more used to the freaky stuff by now"

"It's OK Xander" Buffy gave him a small smile "Look,
we just need to find out what's happened to us and how
we make it back to normal"

"Totally with you on that one" Xander replied "And we
do that how?"

"Well…um…" Buffy looked towards the school and her
eyes widened a little "I know. We could ask Giles"

"Uh huh. And tell him what exactly?"

Buffy crossed her arms infront of her chest "I don't
see you having a better idea"

Xander sighed "OK. To Giles it is" He began to follow
after Buffy but as soon as she was about to cross the
road over to the school she stopped suddenly.

"Wait" she said and grabbed Xander's arm "What if
Giles isn't here?"

"Why wouldn't he be here? It's obviously a school
day" Xander gestured to the students that milled
around the school "He should be at work right?"

"I know, but" she shrugged helplessly "What if he
doesn't work here *yet*?"

"Then I'd say we're screwed"

"Well… yeah, but I mean" Buffy looked around "*When*
is this?"

"Ohhh…" Xander trailed off in realisation "I see your
point" Xander looked at the students "Well…judging by
the cars and the clothes and *nya-aghhh*"

"What?" Buffy's head snapped back around to where
Xander was pointing. Her eyes widened "Oh. My. God"

"Nyh huh" Xander swiped a hand down his face "That's
us"

The couple looked on as they saw a slightly younger
looking version of both of them meet at the steps that
led up to the entrance of the school. They were
almost immediately joined by Willow and Oz who were
holding hands.

"Is that *us*?" Buffy asked weakly "Oh my god" she
paused "What was I thinking wearing that skirt"

"It must be senior year" Xander said as he watched as
Cordelia walked up beside his younger self and take
his hand.

"This can't be…" Buffy said. She shook her head,
trying to shake off the weird feeling "What makes you
think its our senior year?"

"Willow's hair"

"Oh" Buffy tilted her head to look at Xander, she
tried to maintain her cool as much as she could,
although she knew that Xander would be able to see
underneath it "Do you remember signing up for time
travel?"

Xander shook his head "I'm still hoping I'm going to
wake up" he said and shared an understanding look with
Buffy.

Buffy watched the younger versions of herself, Willow,
Oz, Cordelia and Xander go into the school building
"This is why I want a normal life" she mumbled to
herself before she started off across the road.

"Well at least we know Giles is here" Xander said and
began to head off after Buffy "And I'm with you too.
It's moments like this that make me wish I did live
somewhere else"

Xander caught up with Buffy and they walked together
through the school entrance and into the main hallway,
trying to be an unobtrusive as possible.

But Buffy quickly found herself being grabbed by the
arm. She spun around and faced the person who had
hold of her and was about to glare them away when the
girl let go of her and beamed at Buffy happily.

"Hey Maria, didn't you hear me calling you?" the girl
asked, her eyes then flicking towards Xander who stood
just behind Buffy and proceeded to raise an eyebrow
"And since when are you hanging with this drop out?"

Buffy faltered "Um, s-since about this morning" Buffy
plastered a smile on her face "Hey, I know. Why don't
I just meet you for lunch and I'll tell you about it
then, 'kay?"

Without waiting for an answer Buffy grabbed hold of
Xander's arm and herded him off quickly towards the
library.

"OK, so at least we know I have a name" Buffy said as
they walked as quickly as they could manage in the
hallways that were slowly becoming more crowded "Fat
lot of good it does me though"

"And apparently I'm not cool enough for 'Maria' to
hang about with" Xander muttered "Story of my life"

"We're here" Buffy stated "Come on" Buffy grabbed his
arm and pulled him into the library.

"Hey" Xander called out "Anybody here?"

Buffy went over to Giles' office and tried the handle
"It's locked" Buffy peered through the window and into
the office. There was an open book on the desk and
one of Giles' tweed jackets was hanging up on a hook
just inside the door "He's been here though"

Xander headed up the steps to the stacks "Giles!"

"I don't think he's here Xander" Buffy said as she
joined him "We'll have to wait"

"Screw that" Xander said determinedly. He turned to
the bookshelf behind him "There's *got* to be some
stuff that we can check out for ourselves"

"Ooh good thinking" Buffy walked over to another
bookshelf and began scouring the titles "But, um, what
sort of stuff should we be looking for? We don't even
know what happened to us?"

"I can tell you that" an unfamiliar male voice said
from behind them.

Both Buffy and Xander turned around to see a man
standing by the book check out counter. He was in his
late twenties, athletic and good looking, short dark
hair with minimal blond highlights, eyes hidden behind
a pair of sunglasses. He was dressed in a close
fitting burgundy jumper and charcoal grey chinos and
smart black shoes. In his hand he held a small back
box.

"Excuse me?" Buffy asked, narrowing her eyes "Who are
you?"

"Names Sean" the guy said, pushing his sunglasses up
onto his head, revealing hazel eyes "And you can stop
looking in the books. I seriously doubt you're going
find anything that's going to help"

"And you know this how?" Xander asked, giving Sean an
apprehensive look "No, wait don't tell me. It was in
the latest issue of 'GQ' wasn't it?"

"And I can see you're going to be a laugh a minute on
this gig" Sean sighed despairingly. He looked at
Buffy "I can tell you both what happened" Sean then
looked between them "Why you're both not… quite
yourselves"

Both Buffy and Xander exchanged glances with each
other before looking back to Sean. They had nothing
to lose by listening to what he had to say.

"All right" Buffy said, giving him her no-nonsense
look "Spill"

Sean paused for effect. "You leaped"

=========

tbc...

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