TITLE:                    Mine: Here, There, Anywhere

AUTHOR:                Zo

PUBLISH DATE:      October 4, 2004

URL:                       http://www.warriorsandlovers.com

EMAIL:                   zoso37ba@gmail.com

TIMELINE:              Post The Gift

SUMMARY:              Buffy didn’t die when she jumped through the portal but instead was sent to an alternate dimension?  A dimension where Vampires and humans coexist and share power and Slayers are not breed to kill Vampires but to mate with them.

PAIRING:                B/Aus, W/O

RATING:                 NC-17

AUTHOR’S NOTE:    Okay this one is way out there, a little silly and probably a little stupid. But I had fun writing it and I hope you have fun reading it!

 

 

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Chapter One

One Large Leap

 

 

She stared out over the opened portal the white and blue lights shining brightly over her world.  It seemed to beckon her, calling her name with promises of peace and serenity.  She leaped off the platform her arms spread wide her head held high.  She closed her eyes and waited for the feeling of oblivion to fill her.  She waited for the feeling of lifelessness to fill her.  She waited to feel the cushiony softness of landing on a cloud.

 

THUMP “Oww!  Okay no soft comfy cloud not really what I was expecting.” 

 

She opened her eyes and a sharp pain radiated through her head. She felt the back of her head; she was definitely going to have bump there. 

 

She stretched her back and looked around at her surroundings and into a pair of familiar green eyes.  She stared into the face of her best friend, she looked the same but her hair was as white as snow.

 

“Will?  What’s going on, where are we?  What the hell happened to your hair?”  She slowly got up.

 

“Buffy? Buffy Summers?”

 

She took a step closer “Will are you feeling alright?  What happened?  One minute I’m saving the world the next I’m here on this cold floor and you have white hair, which by the way, is not a bad look for you.”

 

Buffy turned around and looked at the room it was very dark and earthy toned and it had warm glow from all the candles that were lit.

 

“Oh ah thanks.  Look you have to listen very carefully to me ok?”  Willow waited for the slayer’s attention.

 

Wiping away at the dirt on her pants “Yeah sure as long as you tell me how I ended up here.”  She looked around at her surroundings. “And where exactly here is.”

 

Willow smiled at her; she had fire inside of her.  Her aura screamed power and compassion she was definitely The One.

 

“I understand your confused so I’ll try to explain as simply as possible.”

 

Buffy thought that confused was actually an understatement for how she was feeling at that moment. “Good because you know me I like to keep things simple…usually.”

 

Willow took a deep breath and began to try to explain things to the Slayer. “Buffy I am Willow Rosenberg but not the Willow Rosenberg that you know.”

 

“Exsqueeze me?” 

 

“You see I’m the Willow Rosenberg from this dimension.  You know the Willow Rosenberg from your dimension.”

 

Buffy held up her hands to stop Willow “Whoa hold up…” Her eyes were slits as she took a step closer to the witch “are you telling me that I didn’t die and that I somehow ended up in another dimension?  Is Anya behind this?  Oh when I get my hands on her…”

 

Willow was shaking her head “No Buffy listen it’s not exactly like that.”

 

“Then please explain it and quickly...” she started to rub her temples “I’m getting a headache.”

 

“Ok see this...” Willow waved her arms around the room “is another dimension, a different one then your own.  It’s similar to what happened when Anya switched things around a couple of years ago.”

 

Once again she held up her hands “Wait a minute, if you’re not the Willow I know and this is another dimension then how do you know about that.”

 

She smiled happily at the Slayer “Oh I’ve been watching you.”  She walked over to a black wall and mumbled some words that sounded like hickely dickely micky to Buffy.  A window opened out of nowhere and smoke filled the opening. Buffy took a step closer to it and cautiously peered into the window. After the smoke receded she saw all her friends and they were crying over the still body of a blonde headed girl.

 

Buffy’s hand flew to her mouth and she inhaled sharply “Holy shit that’s me!”

 

“Yup pretty cool ah?”  Buffy looked at her like she was insane. She had the goofiest smiled on her face and she seemed to be totally thrilled with what was going on.

 

“You see I’ve been watching you through this window since you were called.  I watched all your greatest battles you are the most powerful slayer ever in your world.  So when I saw what was happening I stepped in before you fell completely through the portal and brought you here…I saved you.”

 

Buffy just looked at her, she couldn’t have heard her right “Saved me?” 

 

Willow happily shook her head waiting for the praise of thanks.

 

Okay I did hear her right. “YOU SAVED ME!  I didn’t want to live anymore Willow that’s why I jumped.  I want peace and serenity!  I DO NOT want to be alive in another world where it’s filled with heartache and loss.” 

 

Willow didn’t know what to say, this was not the reaction she was expecting. “But….”

 

But Buffy continued with her tyrant “But you…” pointing an accusatory finger “you think you saved me!  Just who the hell do you think you are playing with people’s lives like this?”

 

“Please…just...just let me explain.” Willow sputtered out.

 

Buffy pinned her with a hard glare “Explain now and it better be good.”

 

Buffy stood there arms crossed waiting to hear her explanation “Our world is different then yours.  Here Vampires and humans have coexisted peacefully for hundreds of years.”

 

She rolled her eyes “So your world is all peachy keen, wonderful.  Then what the hell do you need a Slayer for?”

 

“I’m getting to that.  You see centuries ago The Watchers Council came across the Book of Nahajam, which prophesied the coming of a child, The Destroyer.”

 

Buffy snorted, “Yeah like that kid’s not going to have issues growing up.”

 

Willow frowned at her sarcasm and but continued with her tale “The child will be the product of The Champion and The Chosen One, or vampire and slayer. This child would be the first in the creation of a new race; a race of vampire and human hybrids that would one day battle the greatest evil.”

 

Why did she feel like she was repeating herself “Hold it.  Since when can vampires have children?”

 

“Well that was always what was believed.  I mean how could a body that is dead produce life?  But The Watchers Council believed in this prophecy.  They met with the leader of the vampire world and a pact was formed.  There would be no more killing each other and they would work together to make sure that this prophecy came true.”

 

She couldn’t believe she was actually going to ask this but here it goes, “So what actually is the prophecy?”

 

“What do you mean?” Willow was perplexed by the slayers question.

 

Buffy sighed, “Well in my experience there is always more to a prophecy then at first glance. I mean so it talks about a child who would be the product of a vampire and slayer, so what, there’s got to be more to it then that.”

 

Willow pondered that because she had never actually thought of that, could there be more to it then what they were always told.  “Oh ummm…I don’t know that is all that any of us have ever heard.”  She shook her head, “No that’s all there is too it.”  She sounded very sure of herself but Buffy knew there was more to it then that and she knew that with her luck, she’ll find out at the worst possible time.

 

Willow continued her tale “So the pact was created and the Council stopped training Slayers to kill.  And breed them to mate.”

 

Buffy stopped her pacing and spun around fixing Willow with an incredulous look of shock “What?”

 

“Slayers in this world are breed to mate with Vampires not kill them, with the hope that one of them will be the one that will produce the child.”

 

Was that vile rising in the pit of her stomach? “Okay serious headache now.  Still not clear on how a vampire can have a kid.”

 

“It is believed that Slayerblood is the key to conception.” She said so matter-of-factly.

 

Buffy started pacing “Okay so you have a world full of slayers that aren’t baking anything in the oven, what makes you think that I’m any different?”

 

“Because you are different, you were trained to kill vampires.  You have fought many battles with evil and have won.  You have shown compassion and love in the face of sacrifice and heartache.  You, simply put, are the Greatest Slayer to ever live in any dimension.”

 

Is that a compliment? “Thanks, I think.  So what you brought me here so I can fuck some vampire and get knocked up?”

 

Willow had never looked at it so coldly but she figured that was about right “Um…basically yes.”

 

Buffy was flabbergasted “You are out of your mind!  There is no way in hell that I’m sleeping with a vampire.”

 

“You did it once before.”  Willow guessed that was the wrong thing to say when a hand was slapped across her mouth and she couldn’t speak.

 

Buffy’s eyes were slits of ice as she looked back into Willow’s frightened green orbs “You will not speak of that to me again…EVER!  That was a personal moment in my life, very personal and very private.  How did you even know…” she removed her hand from Willow’s mouth and she remembered the window “you WATCHED…what are you some kind of pervert?”

 

Willow’s eyes bulged out of her head, “Hey I’m not a pervert!  I’m just trying to save my world certainly you of all people can understand that.”

 

She turned away agitated that her life seemed to be on national TV.

 

Willow was desperate to make her understand “Buffy believe me it wasn’t like that I only watched so I could understand you and learn about you. So I could see if you are the One.  And you are. There is no doubt in my mind.”

 

“Yeah well I doubt it.” This was a lot to take in and her head was spinning.

 

“I know this sounds like some sick joke to you but everything I tell you is true and you must prepare yourself for what you will see or rather what you won’t see.”

 

Buffy thought that at this point there probably wasn’t much that could shock her anymore “What do you mean?”

 

“Your dimension and ours are different in the sense that humans, all humans, knew that vampires and demons existed.  The Watchers Council was created to lead the humans in the war against them.  They had the knowledge and the means to fight them.  Thousands upon thousands of humans and vampires were killed during the course of the war.”

 

“Well it’s war, causalities are expected” Like me she thought sadly.

 

“Without going into too much detail I guess what I ‘m trying to say is that pretty much everyone that you knew in your dimension, they never actually existed here.”

 

“Ah?”

 

“The war lasted a thousand years Buffy, many humans that would have produced offspring died. So they never married, they never had children. So people like Xander and Anya, Parker and Scott never existed here.”

 

Buffy was actually thankful about that. She had enough of dealing with everyone else’s problems and didn’t want to be bothered with them anymore. Plus it looked like she had her own massive problems to deal with.

 

“A few humans did survive however and so the race was not wiped out, and of course finding the prophecy helped too since the pact was created not one human has died from a vampire. The Council then called forth the power of the First Slayer and with her magic’s they endowed some of the remaining humans with the powers of the Slayer.”

 

“If the war ended why create more slayers?”

 

“Because The Book of Nahajam foretold that the mother of The Destroyer would be The Chosen One, a slayer.  So the council changed some of the remaining humans to slayers to increase the chance of the prophecy coming true.”

 

“Why am I not surprised.” The Council it seemed controlled everything even in this dimension.

 

Buffy looked at Willow, “So what are you? I get no slayer vibes off of you.”

 

Willow smiled proudly “I’m the White Wicca I am neither vampire nor slayer.  The Council and The Master needed my…”

 

“What? Did you say Master?” A chill went through her.

 

“Yes the Master.  And yes it is the Master that you killed years ago.”

 

Buffy started rubbing her eyes again she couldn’t believe this was happening to her.  The Master!  This was all too much and she decided that she had enough.

 

“Look you know what I don’t really care and I don’t want to know.  I want you, White Wicca, to send me back.  To Heaven or Hell I don’t really care just send me back.”

 

Willow spoke softly because she felt bad for what she did, but she had no choice. “I can’t do that Buffy your soul is now tied to this dimension you are basically here to stay.”

 

“No I’m not staying here.”

 

She started to walk to the door one way or another she was getting the hell out of here.  She had served the Powers for years always giving and never receiving anything but heartache in return.  There was no way she was staying here.  She wanted her sanctuary.  She wanted it to end.

 

“Witch do you have my potion?”  Spike came barreling in and bumped into Buffy.

 

“Well what do we have here?”  He eyed Buffy up and down taking note of her trim figure and honey blond hair.  “A new apprentice Willow? “  He stepped closer and smelled her she didn’t smell human she smelled like…”Slayer?  What’s this a new slayer?  Are you trying to hide her?”

 

Willow frantically ran in front of Buffy “No Spike I’m not trying to hide her she just got here.”

 

Buffy had enough of his “And now she’s leaving.”  She started to walk away again when Spike grabbed her by the arm.

 

“Hold up Slayer I think I’d like to taste a little bit of you.”  His faced morphed to that of the demon and he moved closer to take a bite.

 

Willow stepped in to stop him, he couldn’t do that it was against the rules. But before she had a chance to do anything Buffy took matters into her own hands.

 

She looked down at his hand on her arm “Fuck off Spike I don’t have time to deal with your bullshit.” She flung him across the room where he landed with a thump in the corner.

 

Spike was not used to being denied by a Slayer and he found the thought a little titillating “Shit witch where did you find that one.”

 

Buffy continued out the door, with Willow calling out to her.

 

“Buffy wait I have to take you to Giles.”

 

She stopped in mid stride “Giles?  Giles is in this world too?”  She hopefully asked.  Finally a mind of reason, surely Giles would tell her what’s going on.

 

“What do you mean world?” Spike asked perplexed. “Just where the hell did you find this Slayer?”

 

Willow exasperated with his questions “Spike shut up.”

 

She walked up to Buffy “Buffy listen Giles is in charge of the Watchers Council I have to take you to him.  So he can explain.”

 

“Alright fine, take me to the head cheese.”

 

Willow ran over to her cabinet and threw a bottle at Spike “Here Spike, use it sparingly.”  She then took Buffy by the arm and dragged her out of the room.

 

Spike sitting on the floor watched them leave.  “Mmmm a delicious morsel for the taking I can’t wait.”

 

 

 

Chapter Two